Author: PEDRO ARTURO ROJAS ARENAS Publisher: PEDRO ARTURO ROJAS ARENAS ISBN: 6500726693 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 172
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Here is a reading of the Colombian and South American reality, with its clashes over the application of methods and practices based on essentially materialist ideologies, which occurred in the 50s, 60s and 70s, with the author Pedro Arturo Arenas experiencing many of the social challenges, concepts and spirituality of that time. “Love in times of war” offers a panoramic photograph of the transformations that took place in Latin America, especially from the end of the 1950s onwards, a period of great social changes and full of illusions, many of which ended up dragging entire populations into especially youth, to embark on a quest for collective justice, but which in the end led to immense frustrations and tragic results in some countries. The unrestricted exercise of doctrines and dogmas, both on the left and on the right, finally produced an increase in social and economic disparities evident in many parts, stimulating and intensifying class struggles, such as the emergence of resistance movements. peasant and working class, urban guerrillas and other forms of violence, without achieving their goals. Without adequately responding to the aspirations of collective justice, such ideologies deepened the abyss between poverty and wealth, producing even more greater apathy, hopelessness and disillusionment in the hearts of the impoverished and anguished masses in countless parts of the planet. The search for a more just social order continued to lead Pedro Arenas through tortuous paths and intellectual clashes until, after a long and arduous journey, he found himself disenchanted with the political practice of members of supposed socialist organizations, realizing then the limitations of ethical and spiritual nature of the cited movements, especially in the daily interrelationships of the members of these organizations that, in turn, ignored or despised the evident religiosity of the Colombian peasants. With the new possibilities, a new world opened before his eyes, when he reunited with his old friend Gabriel Branco, through whom he learned about the Bahá'í teachings. Upon investigating the subject more deeply, he was led to conclude that such teachings constituted an incomparable social and spiritual project of a magnitude never before imagined. Leaving behind his past as a union and political activist, Pedro Arturo was now seeking new horizons of understanding, reaching the conclusion that social and political transformations are incomplete, unless they advance concomitantly with a deep spiritual transformation, and that the way to establish a new order in human affairs requires the use of new means and methods. From those new teachings emerged the understanding that conflict resolution can take place through methods of consultation and dialogue; that humanity cannot continue to be sacrificed for the maintenance of certain outdated postulates; that the sole purpose of legal norms as well as political and economic theories is the protection of the common interests of all peoples; that love for the homeland, although legitimate, needs to give way to a broader loyalty, that is, to love for humanity as a whole and, as a consequence, for the concept of world citizenship. That all kinds of prejudices need to be abandoned; that new institutions need to be erected; that the recognition of ethnic, climatic, historical, idiomatic and traditional diversity, thoughts and customs, can help to promote “a broader loyalty, a greater aspiration” that contemplates the uniqueness of humanity; that the maintenance of order can be sustained by a “single code of international law”, by an Executive and a Parliament and a World Supreme Court; that the Cause of Peace can be achieved through a binding treaty, with inviolable and clearly defined clauses, fruit of a broad global consensus. Inspired by these principles and a clear vision, Pedro Arenas rose to promote these teachings, traveling and supporting local Bahá'í activities and institutions in Colombia, where he learned about the exciting experience and fieldwork of the Rural University – FUNDAEC and the Ruhí Institute. Served as a Bahá'í pioneer in El Salvador, Central America, during a period of great uncertainty and conflict between the army and the FFLN; collaborated in activities to promote the Institute of Bahá'í training in indigenous areas on the borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru, as well as dedicated a brief period of his life in the archipelago of Cape Verde, on the African coast, and later - now back to Brazil – in the region of Northeast, where he established himself as a Bahá'í pioneer – working as a professor linked to the Rio Grande do Norte State University. Finally, Pedro Arturo dedicates the last chapters and some accompanying texts to remembering relatives and friends, both from the oldest and most recent times, dedicating to them lines of recognition, affection and high esteem, all as a reflection and demonstration of his love and ample thanks to the Beloved of his heart, Bahá'u'lláh, for guiding him and enabling him to reach a height of achievement and joy. The whole story is told with the enthusiasm of one who was an active protagonist and is testimony to the personal transformations experienced by the author under the influence of Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation. This young Colombian seeker, like many others of his age and generation, was galvanized by the overwhelming strength and foresight of the Bahá'í teachings and still continues untiring in his efforts in the challenging task of contributing – each in a humble way and according to his abilities – in the construction of that new order advocated by Bahá’u’lláh.
Author: Adrienne Chinn Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008501599 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 486
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The Internationally Bestselling Author of The English Wife ‘Beautifully epic, romantic & rich in detail’ #1 & USA Today bestseller Lorna Cook ‘Sweeping and evocative’ Rosanna Ley Three sistersThe Great WarThe end of innocence...
Author: Lara Marlowe Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1801102538 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 490
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The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and captivating' Irish Times 'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy, adventure, and excitement' Janine di Giovanni 'A superb account of the life and work of the best reporter I have ever known' Patrick Cockburn When Lara Marlowe met Robert Fisk in 1983 in Damascus, he was already a famous war correspondent. She was a young American reporter who would become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife and friends, occasionally angry and estranged from one another, but ultimately reconciled. They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.
Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson Publisher: ISBN: 9780615901817 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 326
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In this emotionally powerful WWII drama, children's book writer Natalie Lucas looks to her faith in God to help her beloved Jewish niece Mila escape the approaching Nazi menace in Hungary. Natalie's twin sister, the celebrated poet and professor, Anna Lucas, has succumbed to early-onset dementia, making the situation even more unstable for Natalie and Mila. Natalie and Anna's personal and professional relationship provides an interesting subplot whch focuses on the foundations of sisterly love. In the meantime, surrounded by violence and the threat of capture, Natalie must find a safe way out of the country for Mila. She eventually turns to her teenage sweetheart, Deszo, a Professor whom she rejected in order to marry her true love, Max. The past love triangle between Deszo, Natalie and Anna adds further complications; however, Deszo may provide Mila with her only chance of escape. As Natalie and Deszo are thrown together by their mission to save Mila, their love for one another is re-ignighted. After the Nazis learn of Deszo's assistance to the Jews, he and Natalie are brutally interrogated by a Nazi officer who has been following their activities, and their lives are in danger. After many doubts as to who in their community is friend or foe, the novel culminates with a heart-wrenching conclusion which provokes questions of loyalty, family and above all-faith. Author's Note: Love in a Time of War is a re-telling of Mrs. Tuesday's Departure, my first novel. LOVE as the title suggests contains both a romance and the happy ending that readers told me they wanted. It is with great happiness that I am able to provide both in this story.
Author: Amal El-Mohtar Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534431012 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
Author: Lynsey Addario Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525560033 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 274
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“Spectacular . . . a majestic collection that captures the drama of everyday existence in war zones around the world. . . . There is no disputing the impact of this revelatory collection.” —BookPage From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist and MacArthur Fellow Lynsey Addario has spent the last two decades bearing witness to the world’s most urgent humanitarian and human rights crises. Traveling to the most dangerous and remote corners to document crucial moments such as Afghanistan under the Taliban immediately before and after the 9/11 attacks, Iraq following the US-led invasion and dismantlement of Saddam Hussein’s government, and western Sudan in the aftermath of the genocide in Darfur, she has captured through her photographs visual testimony not only of war and injustice but also of humanity, dignity, and resilience. In this compelling collection of more than two hundred photographs, Addario’s commitment to exposing the devastating consequences of human conflict is on full display. Her subjects include the lives of female members of the military, as well as the trauma and abuse inflicted on women in male-dominated societies; American soldiers rescuing comrades in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, and Libyan opposition troops trading fire in Benghazi. Interspersed between her commanding and arresting images are personal journal entries and letters, as well as revelatory essays from esteemed writers such as Dexter Filkins, Suzy Hansen, and Lydia Polgreen. A powerful and singular work from one of the most brilliant and influential photojournalists working today, Of Love & War is a breathtaking record of our complex world in all its inescapable chaos, conflict, and beauty.
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Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and evocative diary. Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942 is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. Vibrant and engaging, Olivia’s diary reveals her frustrations, fears, pleasures, and self-doubts. She records her mood swings and tries to understand them, and speaks of her lover (a married man) and the intense relationship they have. As she and her friends and family in New Scotland Yard are swept up by the momentous events of another European war, she vividly reports on what she sees and hears in her daily life. Hers is a diary that brings together the personal and the public. It permits us to understand how one intelligent, imaginative woman struggled to make sense of her life, as the city in which she lived was drawn into the turmoil of a catastrophic war.
Author: Julie Berry Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0147512972 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 481
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A New York Times bestseller! Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, a critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love. Hailed by critics, Lovely War has received seven starred reviews and is an indie bestseller. Author Julie Berry has been called "a modern master of historical fiction" by Bookpage and "a celestially inspired storyteller" by the New York Times, and Lovely War is truly her masterwork.
Author: Leslie Maitland Publisher: Other Press, LLC ISBN: 1590515706 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 512
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On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.” Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love. Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
Author: Anuja Chauhan Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9352644131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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'Why do they call you Baaz?' 'It means falcon,' he replies solemnly. 'Or bird of prey. Because I swoop down on the enemy planes just like a Baaz would.' Then he grins. The grey eyes sparkle. 'It's also short for bastard.'1971. The USSR-backed India-Mukti Bahini alliance is on the brink of war against the America-aided Pakistani forces. As the Cold War threatens to turn red hot, handsome, laughing Ishaan Faujdaar, a farm boy from Chakkahera, Haryana, is elated to be in the IAF, flying the Gnat, a tiny fighter plane nicknamed 'Sabre Slayer' for the devastation it has wreaked in the ranks of Pakistan's F-86 Sabre Squadrons. Flanked by his buddies Raks, a MiG-21 Fighter, Maddy, a transport pilot who flies a Caribou, and fellow Gnatties Jana, Gana and Mana, Shaanu has nothing on his mind but glory and adventure - until he encounters Tehmina Dadyseth, famed bathing beauty and sister of a dead fauji, who makes him question the very concept of nationalism and whose eyes fill with disillusioned scorn whenever people wax eloquent about patriotism and war...Pulsating with love, laughter and courage, Baaz is Anuja Chauhan's tribute to our men in uniform.
Author: PEDRO ARTURO ROJAS ARENAS
Author: Adrienne Chinn
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Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
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Author: Lynsey Addario
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