Author: Dakuquian Kush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781450206952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the suburbs to the ghetto , from smoking cracking to drug kingpin to almost life in prison for a crime that I committed.
The Land of the Burnt Face People
Author: Dakuquian Kush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781450206952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the suburbs to the ghetto , from smoking cracking to drug kingpin to almost life in prison for a crime that I committed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781450206952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the suburbs to the ghetto , from smoking cracking to drug kingpin to almost life in prison for a crime that I committed.
The Land of Burnt Faces
The Land of Burnt Faces
Author: John Buchholzer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A study of the habits, customs and religions of the back country of Ethiopia.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A study of the habits, customs and religions of the back country of Ethiopia.
Burnt Books
Author: Rodger Kamenetz
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307379337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—and the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience. Rodger Kamenetz has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more aware he became of unexpected connections between them. Kafka was a secular artist fascinated by Jewish mysticism, and Rabbi Nachman was a religious mystic who used storytelling to reach out to secular Jews. Both men died close to age forty of tuberculosis. Both invented new forms of storytelling that explore the search for meaning in an illogical, unjust world. Both gained prominence with the posthumous publication of their writing. And both left strict instructions at the end of their lives that their unpublished books be burnt. Kamenetz takes his ideas on the road, traveling to Kafka’s birthplace in Prague and participating in the pilgrimage to Uman, the burial site of Rabbi Nachman visited by thousands of Jews every Jewish new year. He discusses the hallucinatory intensity of their visions and offers a rich analysis of Nachman’s and Kafka’s major works, revealing uncanny similarities in the inner lives of these two troubled and beloved figures, whose creative and religious struggles have much to teach us about the Jewish spiritual experience.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307379337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—and the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience. Rodger Kamenetz has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more aware he became of unexpected connections between them. Kafka was a secular artist fascinated by Jewish mysticism, and Rabbi Nachman was a religious mystic who used storytelling to reach out to secular Jews. Both men died close to age forty of tuberculosis. Both invented new forms of storytelling that explore the search for meaning in an illogical, unjust world. Both gained prominence with the posthumous publication of their writing. And both left strict instructions at the end of their lives that their unpublished books be burnt. Kamenetz takes his ideas on the road, traveling to Kafka’s birthplace in Prague and participating in the pilgrimage to Uman, the burial site of Rabbi Nachman visited by thousands of Jews every Jewish new year. He discusses the hallucinatory intensity of their visions and offers a rich analysis of Nachman’s and Kafka’s major works, revealing uncanny similarities in the inner lives of these two troubled and beloved figures, whose creative and religious struggles have much to teach us about the Jewish spiritual experience.
Dreamland Burning
Author: Jennifer Latham
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316384941
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316384941
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
A History of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia
Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia
Author: Richard A. Lobban
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative shapes the overall history and leads to the main body of the work in the form of a cross-referenced dictionary. The descriptive entries cover the main features of the region in the various periods that are key not only to Nubian events, but also to the important interactions they had with Egypt to the north. Nine appendices and an extensive bibliography conclude this work. Lobban has been teaching Nubian studies in undergraduate classrooms for thirty years, and this book is a product of his hands-on experiences as well as extensive anthropological fieldwork and travel in Sudanese and Egyptian Nubia.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative shapes the overall history and leads to the main body of the work in the form of a cross-referenced dictionary. The descriptive entries cover the main features of the region in the various periods that are key not only to Nubian events, but also to the important interactions they had with Egypt to the north. Nine appendices and an extensive bibliography conclude this work. Lobban has been teaching Nubian studies in undergraduate classrooms for thirty years, and this book is a product of his hands-on experiences as well as extensive anthropological fieldwork and travel in Sudanese and Egyptian Nubia.
Not Out of Africa
Author: M. Lefkowitz
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872965044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872965044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Astounding Revelations
Author: Francis H. Buzzacott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective
Author: Benjamin Bowser
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803949546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Bowser, is a unique and valuable resource for students and scholars of race relations. The book's contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds, including anthropology, classics, sociology, political science, communications, and history. They examine racism and anti-racism through the historical and cultural lenses of different world settings, including Europe, South America, Africa, America, and the Caribbean.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803949546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Bowser, is a unique and valuable resource for students and scholars of race relations. The book's contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds, including anthropology, classics, sociology, political science, communications, and history. They examine racism and anti-racism through the historical and cultural lenses of different world settings, including Europe, South America, Africa, America, and the Caribbean.