Author: Jerry Van HookPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
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The United States of Cush
Author: Jerry Van HookPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The information about the book is not available as of this time.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Author: Bonnie G. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 0195148908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2710
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.
Dr. Archer
Author: Ek, Mack BrownPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The book is about law and order, corruption and how they can be viewed from diverse cultures. The antagonist, Dr. Archer, who knowingly brought evil to his compatriots was celebrated on his return to his country. The audacity to get what he wants remains unchecked throughout the book. His misdeeds catch up to him, however, and soon after Archer finds himself running from all the pains he has caused. The protagonist, Teresa Goldberg, travelled from her home country, the USA, to capture the perpetrator of evil that occurred in her homeland and brought him back to face justice. “Doctors can cure or kill their patients; so are the politicians, they can keep bad laws or make and obey good laws for the betterment of the electorate." "This fiction is laced with setups, sex and crimes ranging from the common man to power brokers in the society." About the Author Ek, Mack Brown is originally from Nigeria. He is an attorney in both California and New York. He and his wife have two sons. They reside in Van Nuys, California.
Ill Winds Blowing Across a Troubled Sea
Author: Mark M. McMillinPublisher: Hephaestus
ISBN: 0983817987
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
In the early 1600’s, with Dutch power and prestige on the rise, the Dutch form the world’s first publicly-traded corporation whose purpose is to break Portugal’s trade monopoly in the Far East. Led by the mysterious and ruthless Gentlemen Seventeen, the Company has its own armies, its own ships and has the power to wage war, annex territory and make laws. In the New World life is better than fair for Mary - until grim misfortune finds her. A freakish wave during a monstrous storm off the coast of Florida sweeps her overboard and she is lost. Mary’s plucky, protégé Elizabeth - headstrong, full of Spanish fire and raw ambition, but also very young - assumes command. With prospects dwindling in the West Indies following Mary’s death, Elizabeth pledges Mary’s ships and men to the Company and agrees to sail to the Spice Islands in the East Indies for nutmeg, mace, cloves and pepper - cargo more valuable than gold. When Elizabeth exceeds her authority and ventures to Portuguese-held Macau, she is introduced to a powerful Chinese merchant named Féng Wú - and to the plentiful opium served liberally at the House of a Thousand Pleasures. When Elizabeth is later betrayed a ship is lost and the crew is slaughtered. As Elizabeth falters Mary, having survived her misfortunes, returns. When Mary learns that the Company has seized her ships and men because of Elizabeth’s foolishness, she must agree to sail into war alongside the Dutch to free them. Once she fulfills her obligations to the Company, Mary will sail on to Macau where she will introduce herself to the men who murdered her crew... “… [P]aced like an adventure movie, filled with sea battles, colorful bit players, and double crosses … a rousing, sprawling yarn about two indefatigable pirate women.” - Kirkus Reviews
A Family Living Under the Sahara Sun
Author: Ruth LongPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462868347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Here we have the story of a father and mother who went to Niger, West Africa with two small children in 1950, and over the next nine years had four more children - Roland was number one, Lance followed, and then there were Cheryl, John, Suzanne and Pamela. All six children were raised on the southern edge of the Sahara desert with dad and mom, Dr. Burt and Ruth Long. Galmi, Niger, West Africa was their home. One by one they left to go to our SIM missionary kids school in Jos, Nigeria, but always came home to Galmi for the holidays. Dr. Long was the founder and first doctor of the Galmi Hospital in Niger. -You will read about early struggles and later victories. The text was taken from letters sent home to family and kept by Ruth's sister, Frances, who .saved them all and returned them to us when we retired. The last few chapters deal with our return trips to West Africa in our retirement years. There were two trips to ELWA, Liberia, one trip to Chad, three trips to Nigeria and three trips back home to Galmi, Niger.
Stolen Heroes
Author: Myriam N. OnyeaborPublisher: Sage Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Cynthia O'Leary, an American of Irish-descent and daughter of a World War II veteran from Cedarville, Utah, sets off in the early 1960's on a Peace Corps mission to Africa. She is armed with only one weapon, her big heart. She wants to change the world for the better. She is assigned to teach in an enchanting little college town in West Africa called Utofia. This historical novel paints the world of an emerging young African nation and its European country clubs. It is a love story, a political drama, a struggle for women's rights, as well as a venture into the comparative social psychology of European and African peoples.
A Geography of Jihad
Author: Stephanie ZehnlePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110675366
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
This book addresses the Jihad movement that created the largest African state of the 19th century: the Sokoto Caliphate, existing for 99 years from 1804 until its military defeat by European colonial troops in 1903. The author carves out the entanglements of jihadist ideology and warfare with geographical concepts at Africa’s periphery of the Islamic world: geographical knowledge about the boundary between the “Land of Islam” and the “Land of War”; the pre-colonial construction of “the Muslim” and “the unbeliever”; and the transfer of ideas between political elites and mobile actors (traders, pilgrims, slaves, soldiers), whose reports helped shape new definitions of the African frontier of Islam. Research for this book is based on the study of a very wide range of Arabic and West African (Hausa, Fulfulde) manuscripts. Their policies reveal the persistent reciprocity of jihadist warfare and territorial statehood, of Africa and the Middle East. Stephanie Zehnle is Assistant Professor (JProf) of Extra-European History at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität). Her work on African and trans-continental history includes research on the history of Islam, human-animal relations, and comics in Africa.
Michigan Quarterly Review
Author: The Brothers' Oath
Author: Eigege EjigaNjànsí
Author: Kenneth IgiriPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452090866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
In this book, Njns, the main character, is a young boy who returns to his family and the real world after inadvertently dabbling into the occult through an encounter with his supposed Spiritual Guide. Being previously assumed dead, he now stands in the middle of a long spiritual battle for his own soul between his family and the occult. Maureen, Njns's Aunt, finally gets him out of the occult but not before he establishes his own order.