Author: Sharon Carroll Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527535665 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 371
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This collection of essays highlights the power of the story, especially as told by those living an international life. What compels them to share their experiences? What have they experienced? What have they learned? In this time of tensions across the globe, rapid technological change and extensive migration, there is compelling value in learning through storied experiences. This volume explores the concepts of identity, change, equality, ethics, citizenship, family, feminism, community, faiths and values, advocacy and charity, systems, and languages. These movements are contextualized through a storied approach, adopting social exchange theory, identity theory, and globalization and internationalization movements as frameworks. This book will appeal to academics, ethnographers, practitioners, graduate students, educators, and researchers.
Author: Ignacio Corona Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739118214 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 260
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Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects and reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization. "Hybridity," "postnationalism," "transnationalism," "globalization," "diaspora," and similar buzzwords have not only informed scholarly discourse and analysis of music but also shaped the way musical productions have been marketed worldwide in recent times. While the construction of identities occupies a central position in this context, there are discrepancies between the conceptualization of music as an extremely fluid phenomenon and the traditionally monovalent notion of identity to which it has historically been incorporated. As such, music has always been linked to the construction of regional and national identities. The essays in this collection seek to explore the role of music, networks of music distribution, music markets, music consumption, music production, and music scholarship in the articulation of postnational sites of identification.
Author: Sarah Silverwood Publisher: Gollancz ISBN: 0575095318 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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'Sixteen's an interesting age: not quite a fully grown man, but not a kid either. Anything is possible when you're sixteen.' Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of rules. He spends alternate years at two very different schools and now he's tired of the constant lies to even his best friends, to hide the insanity of his double life. Neither would believe the truth! But on his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is killed, stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that's disturbingly familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into an extraordinary adventure. Through the Doorway in Fin's London, a hole in the boundaries of Existence, lies another London - and now both are in grave danger. For the Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the worlds together. Because of the Knights' actions, a black storm is coming, bringing madness with it. Fin may be just 16, but he has a long, dark journey ahead of him if he is to rescue the Storyholder and save Existence!
Author: Ryan Allaby Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595407374 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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Do you want to be the hero of your very own adventure? Then Wrath of the Behemoth: An Adventure Quest Game Book is for you In a mysterious and barren land, a great evil has been unleashed in an effort to seize control of one of the world's vast continents. The Behemoth's wrath has destroyed crops, turned people's lives into nightmares, and robbed the kingdom of its powerful secret treasure, the Ice Crystals. You have been asked by the great King of Drachna to save the realm from the Behemoth and return the Ice Crystals to their home. Now saturated with wickedness, the land you travel is rife with treachery. You will need to be strong, smart, and even a little lucky as many devious beasts will attempt to foil your plans. Your mystical quest will take you across a great diversified landscape and engage you with many challenges and decisions every step of the way . until you ultimately face the supreme evil. Will you succeed in returning the Ice Crystals, or will the fiendish Behemoth triumph?
Author: Gohar Davtyan Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3710839645 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 78
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"To the Mother Goddess of the World" is a story based on real events from my various trips throughout Asia. It is a recollection of my adventures in part and an inspiring story of a young woman reclaiming power in her life and answering the call of wanderlust after getting out of an unhappy relationship. Throughout her two-and-a-half-month journey, Aella visits breathtaking natural wonders, witnesses architecture of human ingenuity, gains new perspectives, and encounters true love.
Author: Tejaswi Kolli Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1646787250 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 174
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Poetry for me is A man in love, art in the museum Asking a young girl not to daydream, but she dreams anyway I read in the old books that the very existence of human is an illusion, let it be So, I have built sandcastles, told my mother that I have counted all the stars, Planted rose-bush seeds in winter and saved it for spring I believe people are good and evil lives undercover And all that is love I will tell you about how my love is eternal, how all my dreams came true How magic is for real, I promise my poetry is not a song You must give me your time, both of us need to talk TRULY MADLY DEEPLY.
Author: Stephanie Landsem Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1496450450 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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“Immersive, enchanting, and gripping, In A Far-Off Land is do-not-miss historical fiction.” —Patti Callahan, NYT Bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis It’s 1931 in Hollywood, and Minerva Sinclaire is on the run for a murder she didn’t commit. As the Great Depression hits the Midwest, Minerva Sinclaire runs away to Hollywood, determined to make it big and save the family farm. But beauty and moxie don’t pay the bills in Tinseltown, and she’s caught in a downward spiral of poverty, desperation, and compromise. Finally, she’s about to sign with a major studio and make up for it all. Instead, she wakes up next to a dead film star and is on the run for a murder she didn’t commit. Only two unwilling men―Oscar, a Mexican gardener in danger of deportation, and Max, a too-handsome agent battling his own demons―can help Mina escape corrupt police on the take and the studio big shots trying to frame her. But even her quick thinking and grit can't protect her from herself. Alone, penniless, and carrying a shameful secret, Mina faces the consequences of the heartbreaking choices that brought her to ruin . . . and just might bring her back to where she belongs.
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