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Book These Dividing Walls

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  • Author : Fran Cooper
  • Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
  • Release : 2017-05-04
  • ISBN : 1473641551
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book These Dividing Walls written by Fran Cooper and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . . SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home 'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us What building doesn't have secrets? How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour's doors? On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend's empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room. In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banker takes up a dark and malicious new calling. Before he knows it, Edward will find himself entangled in their web, and as the summer heat intensifies so do tensions within and without the building, leading to a city-wide wave of violence, and a reckoning within the walls of number 37. With a sultry heat to rival A Year in Provence and all the sharp perception of Leila Slimani's Lullaby, These Dividing Walls is a beautifully written and eye-opening novel about the Paris we don't see. 'It'll open your heart and mind. It certainly did mine' The Pool 'An unforgettable and unexpected portrait of Paris' Hannah Rothschild *********** What readers have said about These Dividing Walls: 'Totally engrossing - it was a magical pleasure to lose myself in these people's world each night' 'The quality of the writing in These Dividing Walls is never short of exquisite' 'This is an outstanding debut novel from an author to watch' 'A delightful glimpse into the lives of a group of people one hot and fearful summer'

Book These Dividing Walls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fran Cooper
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2017-05-04
  • ISBN : 1473641551
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book These Dividing Walls written by Fran Cooper and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . . SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home 'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us What building doesn't have secrets? How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour's doors? On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend's empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room. In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banker takes up a dark and malicious new calling. Before he knows it, Edward will find himself entangled in their web, and as the summer heat intensifies so do tensions within and without the building, leading to a city-wide wave of violence, and a reckoning within the walls of number 37. With a sultry heat to rival A Year in Provence and all the sharp perception of Leila Slimani's Lullaby, These Dividing Walls is a beautifully written and eye-opening novel about the Paris we don't see. 'It'll open your heart and mind. It certainly did mine' The Pool 'An unforgettable and unexpected portrait of Paris' Hannah Rothschild *********** What readers have said about These Dividing Walls: 'Totally engrossing - it was a magical pleasure to lose myself in these people's world each night' 'The quality of the writing in These Dividing Walls is never short of exquisite' 'This is an outstanding debut novel from an author to watch' 'A delightful glimpse into the lives of a group of people one hot and fearful summer'

Book The Surviving

Download or read book The Surviving written by Devin Downing and published by Devil Down Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt and Rose are now full-fledged members of the guard, yet their futures have never been bleaker. Despite Titan's resurrection spell, Antai is comatose with no signs of waking. The healers have tried everything, and Rose is beginning to lose hope. She needs someone to trust, but the king is more suspicious than ever. Matt is also growing desperate. His mom is on the brink of death, and he hasn't even begun to learn how to heal her. He must find a teacher fast or risk losing the only family he has left. Meanwhile, the Holy One is closer than ever. The laborers speak of his arrival, and they have the evidence to prove it. A string of murders erupts throughout the city, even permeating the palace walls. Nowhere is safe, and it's only a matter of time before the Holy One unleashes his full power. Soon, it will be a battle for survival.

Book Walls

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  • Author : Marcello di Cintio
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2013-08-19
  • ISBN : 1593765657
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Walls written by Marcello di Cintio and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live against a wall? Travel to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks Arizona’s migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the protests against Israel’s security barrier. From Native American reservations on the U.S.-Mexico border and the “Great Wall of Montreal” to Cyprus’s divided capital and the Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand what these structures say about those who build them and how they influence the cultures that they pen in. He learns that while every wall fails to accomplish what it was erected to achieve – the walls are never solutions – each wall succeeds at something else. Some walls define Us from Them with Medieval clarity. Some walls encourage fear or feed hate. Some walls steal. Others kill. And every wall inspires its own subversion, either by the infiltrators who dare to go over, under, or around them, or by the artists who transform them.

Book Walls

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  • Author : David Frye
  • Publisher : Scribner
  • Release : 2019-08-27
  • ISBN : 1501172719
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Walls written by David Frye and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)—walls—and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as “informative, relevant, and thought-provoking,” we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed—to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves—rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “provocative, well-written, and—with walls rising everywhere on the planet—timely,” Walls gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.

Book A Future without Walls

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  • Author : T. Richard Snyder
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2021-01-19
  • ISBN : 1506466044
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book A Future without Walls written by T. Richard Snyder and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Future without Walls offers a comprehensive and complex analysis of Othering, while unveiling the connections between our divisions and the roots, forms, and consequences of the walls that have been erected. It also offers concrete steps forward to help us dismantle these walls. In A Future without Walls, T. Richard Snyder draws upon his half-century of activism in the struggle for justice and weaves analysis, prescription, and personal story throughout. Racism, extreme nationalism, xenophobia, gender abuse, bullying, and religious intolerance are all on the rise globally. Walls that many thought had been torn down are now being rebuilt. Those people who are different, and even those who differ, are treated as Other. A Future without Walls is a lamentation for the tragedy of Othering and a clarion call for justice. The dividing walls are more than a problem calling for a quick fix. They are embedded in both our history and our current culture and demand fundamental transformation. Snyder analyzes the entangled fabric of Othering: its history, roots, various forms, and inevitable violent consequences. Countering this tragedy are the voices of activists, mystics, scientists, philosophers, and theologians--black and white, indigenous and cosmopolitan, Christian, Jew, and Buddhist, female and male--each of whom urges us to embrace rather than exclude. This universal moral imperative is a call to action. A Future without Walls offers paths to healing and transformation, drawing on both individual and collective actions that have made a difference. Walls that have been erected can be dismantled. And while success is not inevitable, failure to act only guarantees disaster.

Book Democratization of Indian Christianity

Download or read book Democratization of Indian Christianity written by Ashok Kumar Mocherla and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. In the light of both ongoing and, also to some extent, foregone sociopolitical and theological challenges confronting Indian Christianity, this book invokes the need to democratize Indian Christianity in terms of its theology, liturgy, teachings, practices, resources, leadership roles, and institutional power relations/sharing by keeping contemporary “social realities” of Indian Christians at the core of its approach and discourse. It explores internal challenges – of caste, class, gender, and regional contestations – and external forces of communalism and majoritarianism confronting Indian Christianity today. Further, it underlines the importance of dignity, equality, fraternity, freedom, and responsibility emerging at an organizational level through strong mechanisms of deliberation, decision-making, and execution. A major contribution to religious studies in India, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially Christian theology, South Asian studies, politics, and sociology.

Book Tourism and Political Change

Download or read book Tourism and Political Change written by Richard Butler and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is a vital tool for political and economic change. Calls for boycotts by tourists of countries reflect the huge impact that tourist activity and the tourism industry has on political change.

Book The Excavations of San Giovanni Di Ruoti

Download or read book The Excavations of San Giovanni Di Ruoti written by Alastair Small and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supreme Court

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  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1172 pages

Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Engineers  Society of Western Pennsylvania

Download or read book Proceedings of the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania written by Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Botany for Degree Students  Pteridophyta  Vascular Cryptogams   Multi Colour Edition

Download or read book Botany for Degree Students Pteridophyta Vascular Cryptogams Multi Colour Edition written by Anil Kumar and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Degree Level Students

Book Concrete

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  • Author : Harvey Whipple
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book Concrete written by Harvey Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Man who Walked Through Walls

Download or read book The Man who Walked Through Walls written by Marcel Ayme and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ...

Book Palisades Dam and Powerplant  Constructed 1951 1957  Palisades Project  Idaho

Download or read book Palisades Dam and Powerplant Constructed 1951 1957 Palisades Project Idaho written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: