Author: Elisabeth Baehr
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443891541
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Just prior to the federal election of 2007, the Australian government led by John Howard decreed the “Northern Territory National Emergency Response”, commonly known as the Intervention, officially in reaction to an investigation by the Northern Territory government into allegedly rampant sexual abuse and neglect of Indigenous children. The emergency laws authorised the Australian government to drastically intervene in the self-determination of Indigenous communities in contravention of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Far from improving the living conditions of Indigenous Australians and children, the policies have resulted in disempowerment, widespread despair, criminalisation and higher unemployment. The Intervention and subsequent political measures have led to heated controversies and continue to divide the Australian nation. They have revived the trauma of the past—including of the Stolen Generations—and have substantially damaged the process of reconciliation. Fourteen essays by scholars from Australia and Germany examine (historical) contexts and discourses of the Intervention and subsequent policies impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007 from the perspective of diverse academic disciplines including history, sociology, law, Indigenous studies, art history, literature, education and media studies. They invite readers to engage in the debate about human rights, about Indigenous self-determination, and about the preservation of Indigenous culture.

Author: Heather Gilion
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1607998718
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.

Author: Lynden S. Williams
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475989601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 617

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Two young Americans meet in Ecuador and share a short period of love and adventure. He is a Korean War vet suffering Post Traumatic Syndrome; she is a strong girl that firmly believes she can sort out his problem and send him on his way cured. But his problem will not be solved quickly, and their love and adventures in coastal and Amazonian Ecuador are beyond anything she has ever experienced. She realizes quickly that their love and adventures are just an intermission from real life and time is not on their side; but for a short period the clowns dance. The book is in alternating first person and third person chapters. The first person chapters present a passionate account of the male protagonists desperate yearning for her love; the alternate third person chapters provide background on both the male and female characters from their perspectives, allowing the reader to understand the earlier experiences and trauma in their lives, including his combat experiences in Korea, and her intense need to assist and heal lifes victims.

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307820386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.

Author: Vernel Bagneris
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681592
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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One Mo' Time features a group of performers at a New Orleans Club in 1926, as they put on an evening of vaudeville, ragtime and blues!

Author: Terry C. Johnston
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553572822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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The time of the mountain man is coming to an end, but some—like Titus Bass will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin wilderness in the American West starring the king of the mountain men, Titus Bass. A new dawn was rising over the vast, once uncharted territories west of the Mississippi. And for the original trailblazers like Titus Bass—bold, resourceful men who dine on buffalo meat, trade in beaver pelts, and live among the warrior bands—the world will never be the same. Traveling with his wife and infant daughter, Bass heads north into Crow territory. But what should have been a joyous reunion with his wife’s people turns to tragedy when Bass’s family is kidnapped by the warring Blackfoot. A deadly outbreak of smallpox, brought west by the white man, threatens both Indian nations with annihilation. And another kind of epidemic—this one of greed—brought by two powerful, profit-hungry trading outfits will determine the fate not only of free trappers like Titus Bass . . . but the destiny of the entire nation. Praise for Terry C. Johnston “No one does it better . . . one of the great frontier historical novelists of our generation.”—Tulsa World “Terry C. Johnston is an authentic American treasure.”—Loren D. Estleman

Author: Raechel Myers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433688980
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Born out of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of women who Raechel and Amanda have walked alongside as they walk with the Lord, She Reads Truth is the message that will help you understand the place of God's Word in your life.

Author: Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330543
Category : French prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Presents an anthology of some of the prose and prose poems of 19th-century France. This reader sets these prose experiments in their cultural and historical context, and provides notes to elucidate references and allusions.

Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448129672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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‘Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones... Hilarious’ Glamour Meet Butterfly – loveable socialite, avid party-goer, inspired shopper and unwittingly acute observer. Of course everyone thinks her life is perfect but having to contend with a conniving mother-in-law, a husband who doesn’t like parties, and a circle of friends who bring new meaning to the word competitive, Butterfly thinks her life is far from enviable. And as she lurches from crisis to crisis, trailing Jimmy Choos and pearls of wisdom along the way, it seems she might have a little more on her plate than she’s first realised... Wicked, irreverent and hugely entertaining, The Diary of a Social Butterfly gives you a delicious glimpse into the parallel universe of the have-musts.

Author: Ethel M. Dell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Greatheart" by Ethel M. Dell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.