Download or read book Once Only the Swallows Were Free written by Gabrielle Gouch and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after Gabrielle Gouch left her native land, Transylvania, communism collapsed and the author returned to Romania from Australia to visit her half-brother Tom who told her stories about his life under communism. Though the story is factual, the author uses her strong eye for detail and the techniques of fiction to create this engaging and thought-provoking account about ordinary people in turbulent times. These sad and funny tales are interleaved with the story of the rest of the family from which Tom became estranged. This memoir portrays the exodus of Jewish families from Romania and their arrival in the Promised Land, a dream come true for some but a shock for others. It explores issues of identity, disability, emigration and family relationships against a background of the major political events of the time from a perspective that challenges some accepted views.
Download or read book The One written by Alex Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Miles sat on the low stone seawall feeling wholly restored. To what exactly he had been restored, he couldn't say. He only sensed that he had felt like this before-light and content and nothing more. If he tried to picture something more, then he would surely see a world of sorrow and doubt. There was none of that here, not now. The view was everything and everything was the view. From here he could only move on, to some kind of summit, a climax coming his way. . . .
Download or read book Certain Fragments written by Tim Etchells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between performance and play? Between performance and technology? Between performance and death? Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be Britains most brilliant experimental theatre company (Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells unique and provocative voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. And as in his theatre-making so in his book: with Certain Fragments Etchells disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic, and intellectual work. The book is an exciting and radical fusion of story-telling and criticism. It also makes available, for the first time, four seminal Forced Entertainment texts by Etchells.
Download or read book Hack written by Melissa Plaut and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her late 20s, Plaut decided to honor a long-held secret ambition by becoming a New York City taxi driver. With wit and insight, she recreates the crazy parade of humanity that passes through her cab and shows how this grueling work provides her with a greater sense of self.
Download or read book The Corruption Notebooks 2006 written by Jonathan Werve and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption is everywhere. Countries worldwide, from the richest to the poorest, are infected by it. But things are never quite as they seem, and no two countries suffer from corruption in the same way. The Corruption Notebooks are stories told by local journalists of how countries are struggling daily to rein in graft and protect the public interest. The authors are among the world's best journalists, examining the politics of their home countries as no one else can. The Corruption Notebooks are a product of Global Integrity, an award-winning network of researchers and journalists working to provide independent insights into corruption and governance issues worldwide. Formally launched in 2006, Global Integrity has field staff in over 70 countries.
Download or read book The First Law written by Kristoffer Schmarr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man wondered what would happen if he left everything he knew and went out to try something completely new in a foreign land. These are the stories of his life while working and traveling all over the world. You can't help but learn about him as you progress through the pages, but you might unexpectedly learn a bit about yourself as well. Ebook also available: http: //www.lulu.com/shop/kristoffer-schmarr/the-first-law/ebook/product-21004156.html
Download or read book THE STEWARD The Expanded Box Set written by M. D. Ironz and published by Professorial Holdings. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STEWARD is an epic contemporary tale in which folklore and fantasy enmesh with physics and forensics. This expanded box set includes Volumes 1 through 4 of the series (Domaine Delafaire, Realms of Possibility, Alas The Best Laid Plans, and Storm Haven).
Download or read book Practicing Positive CBT written by Fredrike Bannink and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Positive CBT: From Reducing Distress to Building Success reveals a new therapeutic approach that combines traditional CBT with Positive Psychology and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. By shifting the focus of therapy from what is wrong with clients to what it right with them and from what is not working to what is, Positive CBT creates a more optimistic process that empowers clients and therapists to flourish. Increases client motivation and collaboration; allows therapeutic outcomes to be achieved in shorter timeframes and in a more cost-effective way Covers theory and applications, and provides a wide range of stories, exercises and case studies The author has a uniquely broad knowledge and experience as a therapist and trainer of CBT, PP, and SFBT
Download or read book The Admirable Carfew written by Edgar Wallace and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Carfew finds himself on Ambassador Greishen's special train, then on a steamer to Ostend. At 3.00 a.m. Gregory Carfew gets an urgent telegram. On the quay at Ostend Felix flees and Gregory steps forward to introduce himself...
Download or read book The stray written by Alessio Chiadini Beuri and published by Tektime. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vitriolic thriller full of action and caustic jokes set in a New York corrupted by sin, hunger and organised crime in the 1930s. The death of Elizabeth Perkins seems to be a case already solved: the body found in the house, no sign of robbery, a husband who lost track of him. But there is something that does not convince Mason Stone, private investigator and former police officer. A box of matches, a past that is struggling to emerge and a mysterious suitor are just the ends of a tangle that becomes more and more tangled every time the truth seems to come closer. Stone will be forced to fight against an entire city, against a New York corrupted by sin, hunger and organised crime, in a vortex of violence that grows tighter and tighter around him, like the coils of a snake. Translator: Simona Casaccia PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Download or read book Choreographies of Resistance written by Tarja Väyrynen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community and belonging..
Download or read book Kin written by Dror Burstein and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emil, the unwanted child of two young parents, is adopted by Yoel and Leah, a childless couple. Yet, as the years pass, it becomes clear that Emil doesn't bear much resemblance to the parents who've loved and raised him. Is his name the only thing his real parents have left him? Kin traces the movements of Emil and his four parents as they walk through the same city, nearby but apart, searching for each other in the faces of passersby; until Yoel, now old, becomes determined to do the impossible: return his grown son—a lonely man approaching middle age—to his birth parents. In prose that is both minimal and subtly off kilter, acclaimed Israeli novelist Dror Burstein introduces us to an Israel that is as peculiar, and poignant, as Donald Barthelme's America: ranging from an apocalyptic future to the petty annoyances of daily life, from shifting continents to tiny heartbreaks.
Download or read book The Parade written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this "darkly funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.
Download or read book Haywire The Best of Craig Brown written by Craig Brown and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times ‘The most screamingly funny living writer’ Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.
Download or read book Hong Kong written by Stephen Coonts and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Cuba, Stephen Coonts once again combines masterful storytelling with a frighteningly plausible scenario set in one of the world's most volatile hot spots. This time, however, for Admiral Jake Grafton the stakes will be chillingly personal. Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is an old friend from those days, Tiger Cole. The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Tiger Cole is right in the middle of the action. When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. Drawing on the skills of CIA operative Tommy Carmellini, in order to save his wife Jake Grafton must figure out who he can trust-both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future-and make sure the right side wins.
Download or read book Cry Palestine written by Said K Aburish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cry Palestine provides a unique perspective, a glimpse into the world behind the intifada from both the Palestinian and Israeli points of view. Said K. Aburish was born in the West Bank village of Bethany and lived there until he was fifteen. He has a large number of relatives and friends who still live on the West Bank, many of whom,
