Download or read book Nubia written by Omar Hakim Diggins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nubia gives us a story of growth, struggle and overcoming personal odds. its relatable in every sense to modern times in a way that confirms that from ancient to current times the human struggle has been constant. it gives hope to us all that if pushed we will have the strength to push back and persevere.

Download or read book Being Amani written by Annabelle Steele and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been over a year since that night and Amani hopes that starting all over again will help her move on from the past. So, when she moves to a new city, Amani wants to focus on her new life, her best friends and the boy she's been crushing on but everything is falling apart and Amani finds herself looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Can Amani confront the ghosts of her pasts so she can become the girl she's always wanted to be?*Contains sensitive issues that some may find triggering. Being Amani by Annabelle Steele is the first book to be published by Hashtag BLAK, a new imprint, supported by an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant, publishing diverse & inclusive books. Hashtag BLAK committed to first publishing two Black British authors and has signed three books for release in 2021. For more information: www.hashtagblak.co.uk

Download or read book Amani Haki Yetu written by Adam Hummel and published by Partridge Publishing Africa. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 30, 2007, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of Kenyas presidential election. Within minutes of this declaration, rioting erupted across Kenya, from the coast of the Indian Ocean to the banks of Lake Victoria. These riots lasted two months, claiming the lives of nearly 1500 Kenyans, and leaving more than half a million internally displaced. Hostility to this extent, not seen in Kenyas modern history, illustrated the divisive nature of Kenyas tribalism, and left an entire generation questioning whether Kenya would once again become one of Africas most peaceful nations. Realizing the role they had in ensuring a peaceful future, Kenyas youths, who comprise a majority of the population, began to lead, and grassroots organizations soon began to materialize throughout Kenyas countryside. This book details the efforts made by one such group of Kenyan youths who, together with a young Canadian, came together with the goal of helping to build a sustainable peace in Kenya. It details the background to Kenyas 2008 post-election violence, the early efforts leading to the formation of the Youth Ambassadors for Peace, and steps taken to engage both the potential and ability of those who wish to help. Through youth empowerment and the belief that diversity creates strength, these Kenyans demonstrate the power of a small group of thoughtful and dedicated individuals, united by their desire to find peace before Kenyas next elections are held in March 2013.

Download or read book The Haunting Of Forest Lane written by Katie Vaughan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five college freshmen purchase their first home together, it's nothing like they imagined it would be. A house built in the 1800's of course it had creaky floors, and pipes that dripped and needed some TLC. Although what about demonic spirits and being haunted by these spirits not only while you're awake but also in your dreams. As time goes on it becomes more evident they're not safe there or anywhere. Relationships will be tested and friendships will be on the line. Will they make it out alive, or will they forever be trapped in the Forest Lane house?

Download or read book Craving the World written by Eileen Sanchez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Marisa Torres starts her freshman year eager to fi nd love at the University of Northern Illinois. Will Matthew, an up-and-coming Christian apologist, who opens up her eyes to his radical world view, be the one? Or can Pedro, a spiritual thinker, who meets most of her expectations of a boyfriend, fi ll her need for love? In the end, both young men offer her what she has always wanted, but Marisa decides to ask herself what is it she really needs?

Download or read book Hekla s Children written by James Brogden and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient evil lurks just beneath the surface of our world in this splendidly dark horror tale inspired by ancient folklore, history, and mythology—for fans of Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden. A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned—Olivia—starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she’d been. Questioned by the police but released for lack of evidence, Nathan spent the years trying to forget. When a body is found in the same ancient woodland where they disappeared, it is first believed to be one of the missing children, but is soon identified as a Bronze Age warrior, nothing more than an archaeological curiosity. Yet Nathan starts to have horrific visions of the students, alive but trapped. Then Olivia reappears, desperate that the warrior’s body be returned to the earth. For he is the only thing keeping a terrible evil at bay . . .

Download or read book Giorgio Armani written by John Potvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring 35 years of creative output, this richly illustrated book offers an unprecedented look into Giorgio Armani?s unique aesthetic, corporate and cultural strategies. More than any other designer, Armani best represents the global success of the ?Made in Italy? label. His impact is palpable not simply in women?s fashion and red carpet glamour, but is also inseparable from the evolution of the menswear industry. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes thoughtful and provocative chapters exploring: the evolution of the man?s suit; boutique culture in a global reality; the influence of Orientalism; the designer?s ambivalent relationship with the fashion press; the business of vertical branding; the use of the evening dress to construct the house?s history; power dressing for the modern woman; the relationship between textiles, film and the contours of masculinity; the continued dialogue with early twentieth-century aesthetics; as well as the spaces and bodies of the theatre of fashion. The first holistic and critical investigation of one of the most influential fashion houses in the world, Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses is a must read for anyone interested in the history and theories of fashion.

Download or read book Mirage written by Somaiya Daud and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A refreshing and unique coming-of-age story...a beautiful and necessary meditation on finding strength in one’s culture.” —Entertainment Weekly, Top Pick of the Month “A YA marvel that will shock breath into your lungs. If you loved The Wrath and the Dawn and Children of Blood and Bone, Mirage will captivate you.” —The Christian Science Monitor “This debut fantasy has what it takes to be the next big thing in sci-fi/fantasy.” —SLJ, starred review “Immersive, captivating.” —ALA Booklist, starred review In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated home. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place. As Amani is forced into her new role, she can’t help but enjoy the palace’s beauty—and her time with the princess’ fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death.

Download or read book Armani Archives Social Dynamics Edition written by Arman Chowdhury and published by ArmaniTalks. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Armani Angels written by Jasmin Oliver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armani Angels--Sinead, Frankie, and Marina--are busy, busy, busy with designs, jobs, and parties. As the girls' first year in fashion school comes to an end--after they have questioned everything from clothes, to boys, to jobs--they've learned they can always count on each other.

Download or read book Snake Hips written by Anne Thomas Soffee and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being dumped by her boyfriend, the author returns to Richmond and takes up belly dancing.

Download or read book How to Murder Your Life written by Cat Marnell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America—and that’s all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a “doctor shopper” who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything—anything—to sleep. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school—and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell’s amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. From the Condé Nast building to seedy nightclubs, from doctors’ offices and mental hospitals, Marnell “treads a knife edge between glamorizing her own despair and rendering it with savage honesty.…with the skill of a pulp novelist” (The New York Times Book Review) what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can’t say no. Combining “all the intoxicating intrigue of a thriller and yet all the sobering pathos of a gifted writer’s true-life journey to recover her former health, happiness, ambitions, and identity” (Harper’s Bazaar), How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

Download or read book Graphic Showbiz written by Nanabanyin Dadson and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Just Some Thoughts that Changed My Life written by Sarika Amani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there something wrong with the way we are living? We are fatigued and miserable because we are in a constant state of comparison and competition. Life is not about proving anything to anyone, even to yourself. It’s a long journey with twists and turns, hills and valleys, and some straight roads. This book is a collection of thoughts that will provide you with constant companionship, telling you that you are not alone in this journey, and a constant guide when you feel disheartened and lost. This book is not a promise but an effort that might make your journey pleasurable and smooth.

Download or read book The Lure of Hope written by Michaela Stockey-Bridge and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in India. By chance, the author’s fieldwork began around the same time NSW legislation in Australia extended its ban on commercial surrogacy to include overseas arrangements. Not long after returning from fieldwork in India, the Home Ministry of India changed the conditions of entry for intending parents (IPs) traveling to India for a surrogacy arrangement. From November 2013 IPs would have to apply for a medical visa, and could only obtain a medical visa for surrogacy if they had been married for at least two years. In 2016 the Indian Surrogacy (regulation) Act was introduced, commercial surrogacy was banned and foreigners were no longer able to enter into surrogacy arrangements in India. India was the first among a trail of ‘pop up’ reproductive destinations including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, Cambodia and Laos. This book captures a moment in the recent history of the emerging global ‘surroscape’.Alongside the detailed account of the experiences of parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis of regulatory systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in Australia and India. With the authors archival research in the UK she further analyses the regulation of surrogacy with cross cultural comparison of the relatively longer history of surrogacy regulation in the UK. Reproductive technologies and the many options these create are ahead of the law and while the law struggles to keep up we have a rich field of investigation. What do different regulatory systems tell us about how we see society, children, women’s bodies, reproduction and fecundity, kinship and family formation?

Download or read book Lords of Fashion written by Tibor Michaels and published by Tibor Michaels. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did they do it? The story of Milan’s top-notch clothing designers, from ambitious beginners to global celebrities. The behind the scene stories, tales, failures and succeses that turned young stylists into fashion moguls. A captivating and authentic portrait of a closely guarded world, detailing its rules, rulers and their capital city: Milan. From ready-to-wear to haute couture, from chiffon blouses to biker jackets, from jersey dresses to leggings and from pre-fall collections to red carpet fever. Lords of Fashion takes readers on a fascinating journey across runways and drawing rooms as it follows a talented generation’s rise to fame and success. Two hundred pages with over a hundred photo-illustrations.

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