Download or read book The Bolivian Girl written by Christoffer Petersen and published by Aarluuk Press. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an American Special Forces unit finds a mute young woman in a remote target location in Bolivia, they are forced to fight to get her to safety, while trying to uncover her identity and her true purpose. The Bolivian Girl is the first in a new series of hard-hitting military action thrillers from the author of Seven Graves, One Winter and the Greenland Crime and Thriller series of novels and novellas. If you like your action adventure stories to hit hard and fast then you'll love The Bolivian Girl, a tense and bullet-drenched uncompromising action thriller.
Download or read book Women Talking written by Miriam Toews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.” -Margaret Atwood, on Twitter "Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism, and, above all, forgiveness." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
Download or read book Prosodies written by Sónia Frota and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology of a given language. The papers deal with a wide range of subjects, from intonational prominence and prosodic phrasing to the acoustic properties of segments and features. Prosodies significantly broadens our knowledge of languages and dialect varieties that as yet have not been carefully investigated such as Cairene and Lebanese Arabic, Catalan including Central Catalan and the insular dialects of Majorcan, Minorcan and Alguer Catalan, Galician, Italian, various dialects of Portuguese (Standard European, Northern European, and Brazilian Portuguese), and different varieties of Argentine Spanish as well as Peninsular Spanish. However, well-known West Germanic languages, English, Dutch and German, have not been neglected. Many of the contributions are the first account of the phenomena addressed in the language(s) under consideration thus bringing new data to light. Moreover, most papers take a cross-linguistic or cross-dialectal view favouring a better understanding of language similarities and differences, as well as of language variation and change. This approach is crucial in the case of neighbouring languages/varieties and is an important contribution to the development of language typologies. And as is characteristic of the series, the research presented in Prosodies cover laboratory approaches as well as theoretical investigations.
Download or read book The Bolivian Girl A Hard Hitting Special Forces Action Thriller written by Christoffer Petersen and published by Bolivian Girl. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an American Special Forces unit finds a mute young woman in a remote target location in Bolivia, they are forced to fight to get her to safety, while trying to uncover her identity and her true purpose. The Bolivian Girl is the first in a new series of hard-hitting military action thrillers from the author of Seven Graves, One Winter and the Greenland Crime and Thriller series of novels and novellas. If you like your action adventure stories to hit hard and fast then be sure to pick up The Bolivian Girl today, to be the first to get boots on the ground in this tense and bullet-drenched uncompromising action thriller.
Download or read book Let Me Speak written by Domitila Barrios De Chungara and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1978, this classic book contains the testimony of Domitila Barrios de Chungara, the wife of a Bolivian tin miner. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila describes the hardships endured by Bolivia's vast working class and her own efforts at organizing women in the mining community. The result is a gripping narrative of class struggle and repression, an important social document that illuminates the reality of capitalist exploitation in 1970s Bolivia. Domitila Barrios de Chungara was born in 1937 in the Siglo XX mining town in Bolivia. She became politically active in the 1960s and, in 1975, participated in the UN International Women's Year Tribunal in Mexico. In 2005 she was nominated alongside 999 other "Peace Women" for a collective Nobel Peace Prize.
Download or read book Coca Cocaine and the Bolivian Reality written by Madeline Barbara Léons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on the Latin American country most affected by it, Bolivia.
Download or read book Let Me Speak written by Domitila Barrios De Chungara and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time-worn classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship—from within the mines of Bolivia Let Me Speak! is a moving testimony from inside the Bolivian tin mines of the 1970s, by a woman whose life was defined by her defiant struggle against those at the very top of the power structure, the Bolivian elite. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila Barrios de Chungara describes the hardships endured by Bolivia’s colossal working class, and her own efforts at organizing women in her mining community. The result is a gripping narrative of class struggle and repression, an important social document that illuminates the reality of capitalist exploitation in the dark mines of 1970s Bolivia and beyond. Twenty-five years after it was first published in English in 1978, the new edition of this classic book includes never-before-translated testimonies gathered in the years just before the book’s translation. Let Me Speak picks up Domitila’s life story from the 1977 hunger strike she organized—a rebellion that was instrumental in bringing down the Banzer dictatorship. It then turns to her subsequent exile in Sweden and work as an internationalist seeking solidarity with the Bolivian people in the early 1980s, during the period of the García Meza dictatorship. It concludes with the formation of the Domitila Mobile School in Cochabamba, where her family had been relocated after the mine closures. As we read, we learn from Domitila’s insights into a range of topics, from U.S. imperialism to the environmental crisis, from the challenges of popular resistance in Latin America, to the kind of political organizing we need—all steeped in a conviction that we can, and must, unite social movements with working-class revolt.
Download or read book Bolivia written by Robert Pateman and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its existence, Bolivia has witnessed prosperous times and difficult times. Its people are diverse and take pride in their customs. Today, Bolivia is a unique and interesting place to visit and study. Complete with vivid photographs and detailed information, this book examines Bolivias history, people, geography, languages, culture, and much more.
Download or read book The Illegal Dance written by Vicky Borda Oviedo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, Ana, a young Bolivian middle class girl, is sent to Europe, having had an unexpected and interrupted pregnancy. Ana`s parents see her departure from her country and boyfriend Rafael, a young activist of the Socialist Party, as the only way forward for her.At nineteen years old the young girl arrives in Sweden, at the house of her Uncle Hector, a political exile from the Bolivian dictator General Hugo Banzer. One night, a month after Ana has arrived in Sweden and while celebrating the imminent departure of Uncle Hector back to Bolivia to become a senator for the newly elected Socialist Party, the family learn there has been a coup d`etat. That same night Ana's father calls Hector from La Paz to tell him of the dramatic situation facing the country and pleads with his brother not to return. He also tells Ana to stay in Sweden because of the dangers of a country in turmoil. "The University is closed, there is nothing you can do here," he says. A few months later her father suggests Ana should study in England, which obediently she does. Once in London alone, and without speaking a word of English she faces a series of misfortunes, many of them with painful consequences. While trying to overcome her difficulties, Ana meets other immigrants also struggling to make a living. One night out of the blue, a complete stranger makes her an illegal proposal. Twenty six years later, she returns to Bolivia where the political events are becoming very exciting. Ana then decides to seek out Rafael. He reveals a hidden truth related to Ana`s parents. The book is full of unexpected events and stories of a girl alone in London.Attachments areaClick here to reply or forward
Download or read book Digital Giants written by B.D. Curtiss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Giants is a cyber-punk noir set in Denver. Detective Ken Burkheart must unravel a mysterious robbery of the CyberBank in Cybercity. But not all is as it seems in this digital world especially when the protagonist is at a constant Rocky Mountain high.
Download or read book Choice written by Karen E. Bender and published by MP Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and political debate has been hijacked by pundits and name-callers, Choice joins the discourse with an assortment of candid voices in an effort to humanize the debate about reproductive rights. In addressing a wide range of women’s choices — from using birth control to taking the morning-after pill, from adopting a child to putting a child up for adoption, from having an abortion to bringing a pregnancy to full term — 'Choice' explores the complexities inherent in every reproductive decision. Including twenty-four honest, heartrending essays from established writers such as Francine Prose, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Pam Houston, Ann Hood, and Sarah Messer and emerging talents such as Kimi Faxon Hemingway, Stephanie Anderson, and Ashley Talley, 'Choice' will allow you to truly understand the meaning of the word “choice” — regardless of what side of the debate you stand on.
Download or read book Recollections of an Ill fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil written by Neville B. Craig and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Modernism written by Pelagia Goulimari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While celebrating the centenary of the “annus mirabilis” of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory. Out of the figures, narratives and concepts they have developed, a less universal, more global, decentred, context-specific, interconnected modernism emerges. In “after modernism” the meanings of “after” include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected genealogies and intertexts—“high” and “low,” yet offering unacknowledged ontological, epistemological, conceptual and figurative resources. How have artists of the Global South negotiated the hierarchical division of art capital into Western high art vs. Global-South culture? Modernity’s location has been the Western metropolis, but other origin stories have been centring slavery, colonialism, the nation-state. If modernity did not originate once, why not multiple and still-to-come modernities? Instead of a universalizable Western modernity vs. local non-Western traditions, the contributors to this book discern multiple modern traditions. Rather than reifying their heterogeneity, the authors tunnel for lost transnational connections. The nation-state and the citizen have together defined Western modernity and the “civilized.” Yet they have required the gender binary, gender and sexual normativity, assimilation, exclusion, forced migration, partition, segregation. In-between the public and the private, humans and the natural world, this book explores a multiple, relational modern subjectivity, collectivity and cosmic interconnectivity, whose space is indivisible, entangled, ever folding and unfolding. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Angelaki.
Download or read book The elementary structuring of patriarchy written by Menara Guizardi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile’s northernmost city). As protagonists of transborder mobility circuits, these women are intersectionally impacted by different forms of social vulnerability. With a feminist anthropological perspective, the book investigates how the boundaries of gender are constructed in the (multi)situated experience of these transborder women. By building a bridge between classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary debates on transnational and transborder mobility, the book invites us to rethink structuralist theoretical assertions on the elementary character of family alliances.
Download or read book Pennsylvania s Amazon Princess Railroad written by William Lawrence Adams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Bolivia, as it existed prior to the termination of the war with Chile in 1882, had an area of 597,271 square miles, exclusive of the territory of El Chaco, claimed alike by Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. The population, though never carefully determined, was estimated by the best Bolivian authorities as two and a half million, and of this, about half consisted of savage and domesticated Indians. In other words, a population about equal to that of the State of Massachusetts occupied a territory three and a half times greater in area than that covered by our ten New England and Middle States combined. During the colonial days of South America, Bolivia was a part of Peru, having been subdued and annexed by Hernando, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, and in 1559, it was formed into the Audiencia of Charcas, or Upper Peru. "The haughtiest of all the old Spanish Conquistadores," says a prominent writer, "settled in the country and clustered their titled families around its ten thousand open silver-mines." slogan: Keep Faith in Self and, Have Fun Trying W. L. "Gunny" ADAMS
Download or read book Missionary Pioneering in Bolivia written by Will Payne and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
