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Book The Two Islands and what Came of Them

Download or read book The Two Islands and what Came of Them written by Thomas Condon and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Two Islands and What Came of Them

Download or read book The Two Islands and What Came of Them written by Thomas Condon and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. THE DEVELOPMENT THEORY. [ Lecture delivered in Portland, February, 1883-] INTRODUCTORY. "Reasoning apriori, we assume that organisms, both plant and animal, have been created by development from pre-existent forms, because it agrees with the general course of nature. All the events in geology, as in physics and astronomy, being due to the operation of natural laws, it is reasonably supposed that the production of all the species of plants and animals from original simple forms, like the monera or bacteria, have been the result of natural law. The study of the early forms of life found in the Paleozoic strata; the laws of the succession of types; the correlation existing between the development of the individual and of the members of the class to which it belongs; the parallelism between the formation and the differentiation of the land masses of the globe and the successive extinctions and creations of plants and animals; all these facts, notwithstanding the imperfections of the geological record, and the fact that many of the older forms of animals were nearly as much specialized as those now living, tend strongly to prove that on the whole the world as it now exists has been the result of progressive development, one form coming generically from another; the animal and plant worlds constituting two systems of blood relations rather than sets of independent creations."--Dr. Packard's Zoology, pp. 671-2. EVOLUTION. The doctrine of theistic evolution, that is, the doctrine that declares evolution to be God's process of creation, is now taught by all the higher colleges of our country. Among its teachers it enrolls the names of Dr. McCosh of Princeton, to represent the Presbyterians; Professor Dana of Yale, to...

Book Two Islands and a Boat

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  • Author : Donald McMenamin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781987768664
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Two Islands and a Boat written by Donald McMenamin and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an easy to read yet deceptively challenging introduction to ideas and practices from narrative therapy. Through text and picture, it describes life as a series of journeys from one island to another - as migrations of identity towards what is valued. With clear explanations and helpful illustrations, this book explores how re-writing the stories of our lives can powerfully help us get where we are wanting to go.

Book Orphan Island

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  • Author : Laurel Snyder
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 0062443437
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Orphan Island written by Laurel Snyder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

Book Imperial Intimacies

Download or read book Imperial Intimacies written by Hazel V. Carby and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.

Book Familiar Stranger

Download or read book Familiar Stranger written by Stuart Hall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.

Book History of the Philippine Islands

Download or read book History of the Philippine Islands written by Antonio de Morga and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronimo Balli, in Mexico City.

Book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine  Or A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction  Equipment  Furniture  Machinery  Movements  and Military Operations of a Ship     to which is Annexed  a Translation of the French Sea terms and Phrases

Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction Equipment Furniture Machinery Movements and Military Operations of a Ship to which is Annexed a Translation of the French Sea terms and Phrases written by William Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine  Being a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction  Equipment  Machinery  Movements  and Military  as Well as Naval  Operations of Ships  with Such Parts of Astronomy  and Navigation  as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators

Download or read book A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine Being a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction Equipment Machinery Movements and Military as Well as Naval Operations of Ships with Such Parts of Astronomy and Navigation as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators written by William Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage Round the World  Between the Years 1816 1819

Download or read book A Voyage Round the World Between the Years 1816 1819 written by Camille de Roquefeuil and published by London : R. Phillips. This book was released on 1823 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Voyage and Discovery which was Made in the South Sea     Under the Command of Alvaro de Menda  a as General

Download or read book An Account of the Voyage and Discovery which was Made in the South Sea Under the Command of Alvaro de Menda a as General written by Gomez Hernandez Catoira and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons

Download or read book Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons written by Kippis and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World  Vol  1 7

Download or read book The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World Vol 1 7 written by James Cook and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having received my commission, which was dated the S5th of May, I768, I went on board on the 7th, hoisted the pennant, and took charge of the sliip, which then lay in the basin in Deptford Yard." - this is the beginning of the journal in which the legendary captain and discoverer of Australia and New Zealand described his adventures. The book contains the descriptions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, which resulted in the complete round-the-world expedition. Captain and his team were the first Europeans to meet the indigenous people of Australia and Oceania. Captain Cook took a great interest in the locals' style of life and customs. Thus, the book doesn't just present an account of one of the most daring sea expeditions in history but also impressions of the pioneering encounter of seamen with the people of unknown races.

Book Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century  Rediscovered Accounts  Volume II

Download or read book Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century Rediscovered Accounts Volume II written by Sandhya Patel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring on further exploration, annexation and ultimately colonisation of the pacific territories in the space of only a few decades. This series will present new sources and primary texts in English, paving the way for postcolonial critical approaches in which the reporting, writing, rewriting and translating of Empire and the ‘Other’ takes precedence over the safeguarding of master narratives. Each of the volumes contains an introduction that sets out the context in which these voyages took place and extensive annotations clarify and explain the original texts. The translated accounts of voyages undertaken by foreign vessels abounded in an era when they encouraged not only competitive geopolitical initiatives but also commercial enterprises throughout Europe, resulting in a voluminous textual corpus. However, French merchant-seaman Etienne Marchand’s journal of his voyage round the world in 1790-1792, encompassing an important visit to the Marquesas Archipelago during his first crossing of the Pacific, remained unpublished until 2005 and has only now been made available in English. The second volume of this series comprises an annotated translation in English of this document.