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The Places in Between

2006 History
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Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Places in Between by : Rory Stewart

Download or read book The Places in Between written by Rory Stewart. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's 2002 journey by foot across Afghanistan, during which he survived the harsh elements through the kindness of tribal elders, teen soldiers, Taliban commanders, and foreign-aid workers whose stories he collected along his way. By the author of The Prince of the Marshes. Original. 20,000 first printing.

In-between Places

2005 Literary Collections
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Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 856/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis In-between Places by : Diane Glancy

Download or read book In-between Places written by Diane Glancy. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a map you decide to call a book. A book of the territories youÕve traveled. A map is a meaning you hold against the unknowing. The places you speak in many directions." For Diane Glancy, there are books that you open like a map. In-between Places is such a book: a collection of eleven essays unified by a common concern with landscape and its relation both to our spiritual life and to the craft of writing. Taking readers on a trip to New Mexico, a voyage across the sea of middle America, even a journey to China, Glancy has crafted a sustained meditation on the nature and workings of language, stories, and poems; on travel and motion as metaphors for life and literature; and on the relationships between Native American and Judeo-Christian ways of thinking and being in the world. Reflecting on strip mines in Missouri ("as long as there is anything left to take, human industry will take it") and hog barns in Iowa (writing about them from the hogs' perspective), Glancy speaks in the margins of cross-cultural issues and from the places in-between as she explores the middle ground between places that we handle with the potholder of language. She leaves in her wake a dance of words and the structures left after the collision of cultures. A writer who has often examined her native heritage, Glancy also asks here what it means to be part white. "What does whiteness look like viewed from the other, especially when that other is also within oneself?" And in considering the legacy of Christianity, she ponders "how it is when the Holy Ghost enters your life like a brother-in-law you know is going to be there a while." Insightful and provocative, In-between Places is a book for anyone interested in a sense of place and in the relationship between religion and our stance toward nature. It is also a book for anyone who loves thoughtful writing and wishes to learn from a modern master of language.

The Prince of the Marshes

2007-02-01 Political Science
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Release : 2007-02-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Prince of the Marshes by : Rory Stewart

Download or read book The Prince of the Marshes written by Rory Stewart. This book was released on 2007-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.

All the Places We've Been, All the Places We're Going

2021-02-25
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Release : 2021-02-25
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Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis All the Places We've Been, All the Places We're Going by : John Cei Douglas

Download or read book All the Places We've Been, All the Places We're Going written by John Cei Douglas. This book was released on 2021-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, wordless graphic novel about feeling lost . . . and trying to get back to the place where you think you should be. What happens when you're trapped in the darkness, in emotional pain and turmoil? How can you make your way through that anguish and find joy again? In wordless black-and-white illustrations, John Cei Douglas empathetically shows the struggle to communicate how things feel when we get lost, and the wrenching loneliness that comes with mental-health struggles. His poignant images show a woman, sad and alone, as she drifts powerlessly across a vast and empty universe . . . till she finds her way home. A quietly beautiful meditation on the seemingly endless paths we wander just to be able to return to where we think we should be, All the Places in Between is a comforting reminder that you're not alone on your journey.

Can Intervention Work?

2011-08-15 Law
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Release : 2011-08-15
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 206/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Can Intervention Work? by : Rory Stewart

Download or read book Can Intervention Work? written by Rory Stewart. This book was released on 2011-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Stewart ("The Places In Between") and political economist Knaus examine the impact of large-scale military interventions, from Kosovo to Afghanistan.

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