Little Mo's Legacy

2001 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Cindy Brinker Simmons
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 016/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Little Mo's Legacy by : Cindy Brinker Simmons

Download or read book Little Mo's Legacy written by Cindy Brinker Simmons. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The record books say that Maureen Connolly may have been one of the greatest women's tennis players ever. This is an inspirational story of how a daughter recovered from grief and through the lessons she learned from her mother, is able to fully celebrate life. Through Cindy's stories, everyone will learn simple lessons of encouragement, motivation, and love. This is a story about the legacy left to Cindy Brinker Simmons by her mother. Through her work and Christian beliefs, Cindy has worked with dozens of people needing assurance and support during challenging times.

Legacy

2018-07-31 Fiction

Author : Whiti Hereaka
Release : 2018-07-31
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Legacy by : Whiti Hereaka

Download or read book Legacy written by Whiti Hereaka. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent. At the same time that Riki tries to make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.

Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

2015-04-28 Social Science

Author : Dr Helen Walasek
Release : 2015-04-28
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 887/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage by : Dr Helen Walasek

Download or read book Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage written by Dr Helen Walasek. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage. It prompted an urgent reassessment of how cultural property could be protected in times of conflict and led to a more definitive recognition in international humanitarian law that destruction of a people’s cultural heritage is an aspect of genocide. Yet surprisingly little has been published on the subject. This wide-ranging book provides the first comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the destruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s cultural heritage and its far-reaching impact. Scrutinizing the responses of the international community during the war (including bodies like UNESCO and the Council of Europe), the volume also analyses how, after the conflict ended, external agendas impinged on heritage reconstruction to the detriment of the broader peace process and refugee return. It assesses implementation of Annex 8 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, a unique attempt to address the devastation to Bosnia’s cultural heritage, and examines the treatment of war crimes involving cultural property at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). With numerous case studies and plentiful illustrations, this important volume considers questions which have moved to the foreground with the inclusion of cultural heritage preservation in discussions of the right to culture in human rights discourse and as a vital element of post-conflict and development aid.

Dancing Down the Barricades

2024-11-26 History

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Release : 2024-11-26
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Dancing Down the Barricades by : Matthew Frye Jacobson

Download or read book Dancing Down the Barricades written by Matthew Frye Jacobson. This book was released on 2024-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.

The Last Lecture

2010 Cancer

Author : Randy Pausch
Release : 2010
Genre : Cancer
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 504/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Last Lecture by : Randy Pausch

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Popular eBooks

Little Mo's Legacy

Legacy

Dancing Down the Barricades

The Last Lecture

You may also like...