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Author : Greg Masse
Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis And Then Came Peace by : Greg Masse
Download or read book And Then Came Peace written by Greg Masse. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world teeters on the edge of global war, one man is chosen to forge a new peace for humankind
Author : Greg Masse
Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis And Then Came Peace by : Greg Masse
Download or read book And Then Came Peace written by Greg Masse. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world teeters on the edge of global war, one man is chosen to forge a new peace for humankind
Author : Albert Jaern
Release : 2011
Genre : Norway
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Book Rating : 070/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis And Then Came the Liberators by : Albert Jaern
Download or read book And Then Came the Liberators written by Albert Jaern. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about me and mine during the war years but that is the way it had to be. . . . I hope that this journal can serve as a journal for many others. Most of all, I hope that the younger generation will find something that they will always remember about tyranny and oppression."--from the foreword by Albert Jærn, 1945 Albert Jærn captures in words and woodcuts the atrocities and indignities Norwegians witnessed during their country's five-year-long occupation by Hitler's forces from 1940 to 1945. Jærn worked as a book illustrator for Aschehoug, a well-known publishing house, where he also produced the cover art for some 500 books. As in this wartime diary, Jærn favored block cuts of wood or linoleum. In simplified lines and surfaces, free of affectation or exaggeration, he captured the point he wished to communicate and managed to make something new each time. Keeping this wartime journal put Jærn in great personal danger. He scrupulously hid this work away in a secret safe, which despite repeated Nazi raids and ransacking of his home, went undiscovered by the occupiers. After peace came to Norway in 1945, the notes and woodcuts were published by Ekko Forlag, which had been shut down by the Nazis during the occupation. Jærn published his diary in the hope that his countrymen would never forget their ordeal. He wanted Norwegians to remember their own confusion and fear as well as the enemies' tyranny and oppression. The book, translated into English for the first time, is a documentation of the occupation and an appreciation of Jærn's artistry and bravery.
Author : Margaret Roach
Release : 2011-02-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 023/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis And I Shall Have Some Peace There by : Margaret Roach
Download or read book And I Shall Have Some Peace There written by Margaret Roach. This book was released on 2011-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Margaret felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her weekend house upstate in an effort to lead a more authentic life by connecting with her garden and with nature. The memoir she wrote about this journey is funny, quirky, humble--and uplifting--an Eat, Pray, Love without the travel-and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away from it all.
Author : Juliana Barr
Release : 2009-11-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 73X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by : Juliana Barr
Download or read book Peace Came in the Form of a Woman written by Juliana Barr. This book was released on 2009-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.
