Voices from the Plain of Jars
Author | : Fred Branfman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fred Branfman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fred Branfman |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299292231 |
Previous ed.: New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Author | : N. Lombardi |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1780996713 |
What would you do if you found that the bones and ashes you were given by the Air Force were not the remains of your loved one? Dorothy Kozeny, a 64-year-old widow from a small town in Ohio, after getting no answers from the relevant authorities, decides the only thing to do is to go to Laos herself to search for the truth concerning her son's fate. In 1990, accompanied by a trusted Laotian called Kampeng, Dorothy travels deep into the mountains of rural Laos, attempting to trace her son's path through inhospitable terrain, an unforgettable trek that provides her with a rewarding, often humorous, and at times frustrating, cross-cultural experience. All clues lead her to a mysterious figure, an alledged CIA operative left over from the war, living in a remote and hostile area deep in the jungle. The second part of the book traces the life of this enigmatic character hiding in Laos, the two main characters linked through Dorothy's son. ,
Author | : Robert D. Lupton |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-07-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830833269 |
Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.
Author | : Paul Yoon |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501154044 |
From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.” Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world. Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.
Author | : Suzel Reily |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226709418 |
Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predominantly of low-income workers, the folias reenact the journey of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and back to the Orient, as they roam from house to house, singing to bless the families they visit in exchange for food and money. These gifts, in turn, are used to prepare a festival on Kings' Day, January 6, to which all who contributed are invited. Focusing on urban folias, Suzel Ana Reily shows how participants use the ritual journeys and musical performances of the folias to create sacred spheres distinct from, yet intimately related to, their everyday world. Reily calls this practice "enchantment" and argues that it allows the folia communities to temporarily make the social ideals of mutual reciprocity and equality embodied in their religious beliefs a reality. The contrast between their ritual experiences and the daily lives of these impoverished workers, in turn, reinforces the religious convictions of these devotees of the music of the Magi.
Author | : Jane Hamilton-Merritt |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253207562 |
Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.
Author | : Howard Zinn |
Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1456610856 |
Zinn's compelling case against the Vietnam War, now with a new introduction. Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's stands out as one of the best--and most influential. It helped sparked national debate on the war. It includes a powerful speech written by Zinn that President Johnson should have given to lay out the case for ending the war.
Author | : Tyrell Haberkorn |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299314405 |
Following a 1932 coup d’état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Tyrell Haberkorn’s deeply researched revisionist history of modern Thailand highlights the legal, political, and social mechanisms that have produced such impunity and documents continual and courageous challenges to state domination.
Author | : Caleb E. Finch |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-01-21 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0128131039 |
Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lungs that has been related to chronic exposure of air pollution from fossil fuels. Risk areas of study include childhood obesity, brain damage associated with air pollution, increased risk for autism in children and dementia in older adults. In humans and animals, air pollution stimulates chronic inflammation in different organs, and genetic vulnerability to air pollution is being recognized, particularly for carriers of the Alzheimer risk gene ApoE4. Connects environmental pollution research to the human aging process Raises new issues relevant to the controversies on air pollution and global warming, challenging assumptions that lifespan will continue to increase in the 21st Century Examines the burden of air pollution to disadvantaged populations, with anticipated greater impact in developing countries which rely on fossil fuels for economic development in future decades