Download or read book Queens Without Crowns written by Amina Mohamoud Warsame and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roles of women in Somaliland are changing. The eruption of the civil war in Somalia in 1988 was a turning point in the history of the Somali people. In the aftermath of the war and amidst ongoing changes, the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland is rebuilding itself, and is making a slow but remarkable social and economic recovery. In this process the women are playing an important role. The purpose of this study has been to identify and document the changing roles of women in Somaliland, and to analyse its implications for family dynamics and peace building.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Why Kings and Queens Don t Wear Crowns written by Princess Märtha Louise (daughter of Harald V, King of Norway) and published by Publications International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Prince Olav wants to play in the snow and ski just like the other children, but every time he leaves the palace something bad happens to the crown on his head, and the king and queen are not amused. What's the little prince to do? This delightful story by Princess Martha Louise of Norway is based on the childhood of her grandfather King Olav V. In 1905, Norway's union with Sweden was peacefully dissolved and Norway needed to find a new royal family. That's where this story begins...
Download or read book Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City written by Maria Ridda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, ‘gateways’ to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which ‘the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.’ As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a ‘discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.’ Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing ‘coloniality of power.’
Download or read book The Teacher s Theme Or Jesus Only A Series of Addresses to Senior Sabbath School Scholars written by Josiah Goodacre and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Queens written by Kendare Blake and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this must-read prequel to Kendare Blake’s New York Times bestselling Three Dark Crowns, the queens’ origin story is revealed. It’s a pre-crown lowdown of Fennbirn’s ruling class. Mirabella, Arsinoe, and Katharine weren't always scheming to murder each other. They weren't always surrounded by rival foster families, each swearing to have their best interests at heart. And they weren't always afraid of being unexpectedly attacked—by one of their own sisters, no less—in a way that could cost them their last breath. They used to be together. Just three sisters. Alone in a glen. This is the story of the three queens—after they were born, before they were separated, during the time when they all lived together, loved each other, and protected each other. Even as children, their personalities were starting to emerge—Mirabella was the responsible eldest; Arsinoe, the wild spitfire; and Katharine, the obedient youngest. It’s also the story of the day they were torn apart, and the several years that follow. From birth to eleven years old, this is a rare glimpse of the queens' lives…before they were at stake. Don't miss any of the Three Dark Crowns books, including Five Dark Fates, the thrilling conclusion to the series! Want to read more about Fennbirn’s history? Check out The Oracle Queen, the tragic story of the legendary last Queen with the gift of sight!
Download or read book The Walking Doll written by Robert Henry Newell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woodlore written by John Carlo Retutas and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here comes the songs of the Mother, earthbound melodies woven together like a storm in spring. Hear them—the storytelling trees, the struggling soil of old, the loving leaves above the breaking branches, and the wailing creeks that dried its throat out of grief. See them, in this parade they made for you. The folklores they whispered, and the feet that they welcomed. The love they proclaimed, and the fall that tormented them. The mourning they did the next morning, lamenting what once was unbeknownst to death and eternal history. A disco ball with pieces containing their own shape and reflections of what is born in the past, lives in present, and will linger in the future. A beautifully broken pieces of mirror puzzled together to reflect not only one reflection of emotion, and who owns them, but a manifold of it. The wonder, the misery, the bliss, the pain, and the eruption sang by you, or someone you know. By someone you will know, someone you want to know, someone who wants to know you, and someone you don’t know and don’t want to know at all. Out there, rivers became seas and seas grow into oceans; ships sinking and sailing, limbs swimming and drowning. But a shore of mercy will appear, with thousands of sleeping seashells to tell you once you wake them, to sing to you once you knew—you’ll be out of the woods. With your gathered woodlore, you transform.
Download or read book The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies written by Lauren Dundes and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of 15 articles, contributors from a wide range of disciplines present their analyses of Disney movies and Disney music, which are mainstays of popular culture. The power of the Disney brand has heightened the need for academics to question whether Disney’s films and music function as a tool of the Western elite that shapes the views of those less empowered. Given its global reach, how the Walt Disney Company handles the role of race, gender, and sexuality in social structural inequality merits serious reflection according to a number of the articles in the volume. On the other hand, other authors argue that Disney productions can help individuals cope with difficult situations or embrace progressive thinking. The different approaches to the assessment of Disney films as cultural artifacts also vary according to the theoretical perspectives guiding the interpretation of both overt and latent symbolic meaning in the movies. The authors of the 15 articles encourage readers to engage with the material, showcasing a variety of views about the good, the bad, and the best way forward.
Download or read book Displacement Economies in Africa written by Amanda Hammar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced. At the same time there is a problematic lack of attention paid to the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation. In this highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the authors reveal the paradoxical effects, both intended and unexpected, that displacement produces, and that manifest themselves in displacement economies. An important contribution to a topic of growing scholarly and policy interest.
Download or read book The Ages of the Black Panther written by Joseph J. Darowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, and his most iconic adventures are analyzed here. This collection of new essays explores Black Panther's place in the Marvel universe, focusing on the comic books. With topics ranging from the impact apartheid and the Black Panther Party had on the comic to theories of gender and animist imagery, these essays analyze individual storylines and situate them within the socio-cultural framework of the time periods in which they were created, drawing connections that deepen understanding of both popular culture and the movements of society. Supporting characters such as Everett K. Ross and T'Challa's sister Shuri are also considered. From his creation in 1966 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee up through the character's recent adventures by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze, more than fifty years of the Black Panther's history are addressed.
Download or read book The Gender Imperative written by Betty A. Reardon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states. The book deepens and broadens current security discourses, encouraging serious consideration of alternatives to the present global security system that functions to advantage state security over human security, a system the contributors perceive to be rooted in the patriarchal nature of the nation state. This second edition will be of interest to academics and students of gender studies, women’s studies, international studies, development studies, human rights, security studies, peace studies and peace education.
Download or read book The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems written by Steve Turner and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life. This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.
Download or read book Three Dark Crowns written by Kendare Blake and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller * New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Best Book of the Year Fans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood will devour Three Dark Crowns, the first book in a dark and inventive fantasy series about three sisters who must fight to the death to become queen. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose…it’s life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins. The last queen standing gets the crown. Don't miss Five Dark Fates, the thrilling conclusion to the series!
Download or read book Mission Under Scrutiny written by J. Andrew Kirk and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Christian mission in a world post-everything? This volume is a masterful rethinking of the problems and prospect of the Christian vocation to mission in light of the whole checkered legacy - religious, philosophical, colonial, and economic - of modernity.Kirk draws on his considerable experience of worldwide mission and his expertise in modern Western thought to throw light on all the most burning questions, such as: What kinds of mission initiatives are appropriate today? Is it legitimate to invite adherents of different religions to follow Jesus? What role have Christians played in advocating violence, and also in being agents of peace and reconciliation?
Download or read book Cold Fire The Circle Opens 3 written by Tamora Pierce and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in an extraordinary fantasy quartet by acclaimed fantasy author Tamora Pierce.Daja and Frostpine expect to spend some peaceful weeks with old friends in Namorn. But things begin to go awry as soon as they arrive. First Daja discovers that their hosts' twin daughters are mages. Then mysterious fires begin to blaze across the frigid city. Daja works with Bennat Ladradun, to locate what seems to be a serial arsonist. Daja's magic saves the city from going up in flames, but nothing and nobody can save her the disappointment of learning that the arsonist is someone close to her own heart.
Download or read book Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa written by Kimani Njogu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays on songs and politics in the region of Eastern Africa and beyond. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, world views, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa.
Download or read book The Future of Reason Science and Faith written by J. Andrew Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith. Kirk contributes to the current debate about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture, exploring controversial issues concerning the notions of modernity and post-modernity. Repositioning the Christian faith as a valid dialogue partner with contemporary secular movements in philosophy and ethics, Kirk seeks to show that in 'post-Christian' Europe the Christian faith still possesses intellectual resources worthy to be reckoned with. This book's principal argument is that contemporary Western society faces a cultural crisis. It explores what appears to be an historical enigma, namely the question of why Western intellectual endeavours in philosophy and science seem to have abandoned the search for a source of knowledge able to draw together disparate pieces of information provided by different disciplines. Kirk draws conclusions, particularly in the area of ethical decision-making, from this apparent failure and invites readers to consider Christian theism afresh as a means for the renewal of culture and society.
