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| Author | : Carlos Pereda |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2018-11-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004385150 |
This book offers an account of exile in terms of the perspectives of morality, politics, literature, anthropology, and history. It also explores the moral implications of exile and how it connects to the meaning of life.
| Author | : C. M. Keefer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2013-07-26 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781622293698 |
| Author | : Cynthia Kaplan Shamash |
| Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2015-09-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 161168806X |
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home in Baghdad, where most of their belongings had been confiscated and the door of their home sealed with wax. They moved in with friends and applied for passports to spend a ten-day vacation in Istanbul, although they never intended to return. From Turkey, the family fled to Tel Aviv and then to Amsterdam, where Cynthia's father soon died of a heart attack. At the age of twelve, Sanuti (as her mother called her) was sent to London for schooling, where she lived in an Orthodox Jewish enclave with the chief rabbi and his family. At the end of the school year, she returned to Holland to navigate her teen years in a culture that was much more sexually liberal than the one she had been born into, or indeed the one she was experiencing among Orthodox Jews in London. Shortly after finishing her schooling as a dentist, Cynthia moved to the United States in an attempt to start over. This vivid, beautiful, and very funny memoir will appeal to readers intrigued by spirituality, tolerance, the personal ramifications of statelessness and exile, the clashes of cultures, and the future of Iraq and its Jews.
| Author | : Marc Robinson |
| Publisher | : Harvest Books |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 1996-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780156003896 |
| Author | : Mavis Gallant |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2003-11-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781590170601 |
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.
| Author | : Andreas Kluth |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2012-01-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1101554193 |
A dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure, through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals. The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents made-on the battlefield and elsewhere in life-offer lessons about responding to our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were more than 2,000 years ago. A big new idea book inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the truths behind triumph and disaster in our lives by examining the decisions made by Hannibal and others, including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton, and Paul Cézanne-men and women who learned from their mistakes. By showing why some people overcome failure and others succumb to it, and why some fall victim to success while others thrive on it, Hannibal and Me demonstrates how to recognize the seeds of success within our own failures and the threats of failure hidden in our successes. The result is a page-turning adventure tale, a compelling human drama, and an insightful guide to understanding behavior. This is essential reading for anyone who seeks to transform misfortune into success at work, at home, and in life.
| Author | : E. J. Patten |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442420332 |
On the eve of his twelfth birthday, Sky, who has studied traps, puzzles, science, and the secret lore of the Hunters of Legend, realizes his destiny as a monster hunter.
| Author | : Jennifer Steil |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525561811 |
A "novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia"--
| Author | : Claus-Dieter Krohn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Johnson was one of the first to recognize the need for action to prevent Hitler's destruction of the German intellectual tradition. He sought out many of the best European scholars of the day and brought them to the newly created University in Exile in New York. There, the refugees framed as intellectual problems the social and political experiences that had so disrupted their lives and careers. They examined the cultural roots of fascism, the bureaucratization of Western societies, and the prerequisites for a historically and morally informed social science. In the field of economics, the exiles developed theoretical concepts and models that came to be instrumental in the formation of New Deal policies and that remain relevant today.
| Author | : Alex Nava |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2013-06-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0271063300 |
In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate later representations in the Baroque age, and ultimately enters the twentieth century with the emergence of so-called magical realism. In telling the story of wonder in the New World, Nava gives special attention to the part it played in the history of violence and exile, either as a force that supported and reinforced the Conquest or as a voice of resistance and decolonization. Focusing on the work of New World explorers, writers, and poets—and their literary descendants—Nava finds that wonder and exile have been two of the most significant metaphors within Latin American cultural, literary, and religious representations. Beginning with the period of the Conquest, especially with Cabeza de Vaca and Las Casas, continuing through the Baroque with Cervantes and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and moving into the twentieth century with Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Ángel Asturias, Nava produces a historical study of Latin American narrative in which religious and theological perspectives figure prominently.
