Download or read book Home Upriver written by Martha A. Zierden and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home is Upriver written by Brian Harwin and published by New York, Macmillan. This book was released on 1952 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixty Miles Upriver written by Richard E. Ocejo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles Upriver tells the story of how Newburgh started gentrifying, describing what happens when White creative professionals seek out racially diverse and working-class communities and revealing how gentrification is increasingly happening outside large city centers in places where it unfolds in new ways. As New York City’s housing market becomes too expensive for even the middle class, many urbanites are bypassing the suburbs and moving to smaller cities like Newburgh, where housing is affordable and historic. Richard Ocejo takes readers into the lives of these newcomers, examining the different ways they navigate racial difference and inequality among Newburgh’s much less privileged local residents, and showing how stakeholders in the city’s revitalization reframe themselves and gentrification to cast the displacement they cause to minority groups in a positive light. An intimate exploration of the moral dilemma at the heart of gentrification, Sixty Miles Upriver explains how progressive White gentrifiers justify controversial urban changes as morally good, and how their actions carry profound and lasting consequences for vulnerable residents of color.
Download or read book Meanwhile Upriver written by Chatura Rao and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yamini-di helped me to begin writing she too is writing her story 'some rivers flow into each other even before they reach the sea, ' she says 'at times they cross paths underground let's trace the points where our lives met' in the by lanes and ghats of kashi, or banaras, yamini's and shiva's stories unfold fat, sharp-tongued yamini is thirty-eight and unmarried by day she teaches maths in school at night she leaves her obese self behind and takes to the skies, light as a bird in her dreams, dancing in the air above the ghats with the love of her life the ghat is also where shiva, now eleven years old, was found abandoned by his adoptive father, the charismatic and ambitious sadhu bhyom baba growing up in baba's ashram near dashaswamedh ghat, shiva eavesdrops on the conversations of sadhus as they pass through the ashram, and hopes to someday find his mother among the women thronging the ghats one day, yamini meets duncan, a researcher, who unlocks the romantic in her and suddenly she feels like the person from her dreams, light and loved in another part of the city, shiva is chosen to enact the role of chhota hanuman in the ramnagar ramlila there he befriends the shy, quiet shantanu, who plays the part of janaki, ram's wife against the backdrop of the lila, where political battle lines have been drawn by the city's rival ashram factions, the final horrific truth about shiva's life is revealed, and his story merges with yamini's meanwhile, upriver is about two outsiders struggling to find the courage to swim upriver, till an unforeseen connection brings them together resonating with the sights and sounds of an ancient place in the heart of modern india, this remarkable debut novel tells a story that is at once poignant and captivating.
Download or read book Country and Cozy written by Robert Klanten and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning away from traffic-choked streets and onto meandering country paths, urban residents increasingly are choosing to take up residence in greener pastures. Quiet and quaint, the countryside comes with its own pace of living - and depending on where you are, its own regional flair. Country and Cozy opens doors and pulls back the floral curtains to reveal a more characterful approach to interior design and decoration. Whether it's a converted outhouse in the south of France, a Latin American Finca, or a whimsical English cottage complete with a thatched roof, Country and Cozy showcases a series of beautiful country homes and illustrates how their inhabitants have created breathtaking living spaces that make the most of rural life.
Download or read book Upriver written by Michael F. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.
Download or read book 1 DOWN 4 UP written by Cathy Formusa and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uplifting journey of visionary fiction encourages readers to find solace and inspiration in the beauty of self-exploration and the pursuit of personal freedom. Joan's summer of adventures await beyond the confines of her comfort zone to uncover layers of self-discovery and growth. Humor, joy, and grace punctuate the narrative of this novel catered to the young adult within us all. 1 Down 4 Up goes beyond the physical realm, teaching techniques and guiding Joan—and by extension, the audience—towards a richer understanding of life's challenges and triumphs.
Download or read book At Home on an Unruly Planet written by Madeline Ostrander and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem written by Brent Douglas Galloway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.
Download or read book Louisiana Women written by Janet Allured and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state and showcases how these women affected its history.
Download or read book Landings written by Jenny Pattrick and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and evocative, this is a moving novel of a unique time and place from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collection, from Samuel Blencoe, trying to forget his past life as a convict, to the hoteliers at Pipiriki, the nuns at Jerusalem, the Maori families, the Chinese market gardener and the farmers, like Danny and Stella, trying to tame the wild bush. There's also Bridie, the strange, silent girl, who haunts the banks of the river where the accident occurred that robbed her of her mind. Like the tributaries that trickle down the mountains and join the mighty river, so the lives of these people come together in this vivid and moving tale of a stunningly unique place.
Download or read book Crimson Rose written by M. J. Trow and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When small-time actor Will Shakespeare is arrested for murder, Kit Marlowe must find the real killer in this “intricately plotted” Elizabethan mystery (Publishers Weekly). March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born. Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night when a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, is struck dead by a musket ball fired from the stage. The man who pulled the trigger appears to be a bit player named Will Shakespeare. Convinced of Shakespeare’s innocence, Marlowe is determined to find out what really happened. When a second body is found floating in the River Thames, it becomes clear that Eleanor Merchant’s death was no accident, and that something deeper and darker is afoot. “Fans of the series and of Edward Marston’s amusing Elizabethan theater mysteries, featuring Nicholas Bracewell, will enjoy Kit Marlowe’s part in the drama at the Crimson Rose.” —Booklist
Download or read book On the Rim of Empire written by Philip Peter Russo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though taking place against the background of the colorful and turbulent years of the American Revolution, this is primarily a tale of espionage and betrayal. Within the fabric of the earth-shaking events of those times, the author has interwoven a set of characters who could have credibly existed, but who are, of course, pure fiction. What is not fiction was George Washington's shrewd, efficient, and amazingly effective use of his secret service during the long struggle for American independence. Even so, events were to prove that at times mere chance weighed in at the right time and place to aid in the birth of this new and very different nation; one that a future great president would call "the last best hope of mankind".
Download or read book Log Home Living written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Log Home Living is the oldest, largest and most widely distributed and read publication reaching log home enthusiasts. For 21 years Log Home Living has presented the log home lifestyle through striking editorial, photographic features and informative resources. For more than two decades Log Home Living has offered so much more than a magazine through additional resources–shows, seminars, mail-order bookstore, Web site, and membership organization. That's why the most serious log home buyers choose Log Home Living.
Download or read book Private Property written by Paule Constant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tiffany Murano’s parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and loves. Behind the walls of the Convent of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, Tiffany, whom readers met in Paule Constant’s award-winning first novel, Ouregano, leads a life cut off from the world, a life of immutable and ironically secular ritual. She finds solace only in visits to her grandmother’s nearby farm, which becomes a sanctuary, paradisial in its isolation. But it is only a matter of time before this magical world is threatened. Based loosely on Constant’s own experiences, Private Property is at once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters.
Download or read book Son Rivers Dawning Waking Words and Dreaming Cantos the Ultimate Reality Series written by Greg Perry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a journal of awakening
Download or read book Knowing the Day Knowing the World written by Lesley Green and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World reconsiders the dialogue between formal scholarship and Amerindian ways of knowing. Beginning and ending with a public archaeology project in the region, the book engages head-on with Amerindian ways of thinking about space, time, and personhood. Demonstrating that Palikur knowledges are based on movement and a careful theorization of what it means to be present in a place, the book makes a sustained case for engaging with different ways of knowing. It shows how this kind of research can generate rich dialogues about nature, reality, and the ethical production of knowledge. The structure of the book reflects a gradual comprehension of Palikur ways of knowing during the course of field research. The text enters into the ethnographic material from the perspective of familiar disciplines—history, geography, astronomy, geometry, and philosophy—and explores the junctures in which conventional disciplinary frameworks cannot adequately convey Palikur understandings. Beginning with reflections on questions of personhood, ethics, and ethnicity, the authors rethink assumptions about history and geography. They learn and recount an alternative way of thinking about astronomy from the Palikur astronomical narratives, and they show how topological concepts embedded in everyday Palikur speech extend to different ways of conceptualizing landscape. In conclusion, they reflect on the challenges of comprehending alternative cosmologies and consider the insights that come from allowing ethnographic material to pose questions of modernist frameworks.
