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Author: Sudeepa Nair
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Tara lives in the rustic mountain village of Jomo, where the villagers have banned the internet after a terrible tragedy. Amidst financial difficulties, Tara inherits a substantial uninhabitable forest land on the mountain. However, a multinational corporation with a benign facade arrives at Jomo with an ulterior motive. Tara is pressured to sell the land and seeks help from her friend, GK, to find her long-lost uncle, Nilaav, who has an equal share in the inheritance. But where is Nilaav? And why is a technology company interested in the mountain? Idyllic wilderness clashes with addictive consumerism to protect a mountain village.

Author: Christina Crook
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550925725
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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After giving up the Internet for a month, a writer shares how we can all learn from her experience and rethink our relationship with the digital world. There’s no doubt that technology has overrun our lives. Over the past few decades, the world has embraced “progress” and we’re living with the resultant clicking, beeping, anxiety-inducing frenzy. But a creative backlash is gathering steam, helping us cope with the avalanche of data that threatens to overwhelm us daily through our computers, tablets, and smartphones. The Joy of Missing Out considers the technologically focused life, with its impacts on our children, relationships, communities, health, work, and more, and suggests opportunities for those of us longing to cultivate a richer on- and off-line existence. By examining the connected world through the lens of her own Internet fast, author Christina Crook creates a convincing case for increasing intentionality in our day-to-day lives. Using historical data, typewritten letters, chapter challenges, and personal accounts, she invites us to explore a new way of living, beyond our steady state of distracted “connectedness.” Most of us can’t throw away our smartphone or cut ourselves off from the Internet. But we can all rethink our relationship with the digital world, discovering new ways of introducing balance and discipline to the role of technology in our lives. This book is a must-read for anyone wishing to rediscover quietness of mind, and seeking a sense of peace amidst the cacophony of the modern world. Praise for The Joy of Missing Out “Crook’s book does a marvelous job of examining where we’ve gone awry and how we might begin to take ourselves and our lives back, while acknowledging the reality and importance of our wired world.” —Dr. Susan Biali, MD, Psychology Today “Offers thoughtful consideration of how online communications have evolved, as well as the value we place on being ever present in a digital world, often to the determinant of personal space and quiet time. Through practical examples and directions, Crook champions developing healthier habits for a more mindful online experience.” —Lori A. May, Portland Book Review

Author: Esther Slade
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452037469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Set in Washington, DC and the US island territory of St. Croix, Tithe of Blood is the coming of age story of Hope Taylor. Growing up in Contentment, a small, close-knit community in St. Croix, Hope is a feisty, energetic, beauty who develops an early interest in public service. In high school, she is valedictorian and president of her senior class and voted most likely to succeed by her peers. One thing is clear--her political aspirations have no limits. When Hope arrives on the Howard University campus in Washington, DC her freshman year, she meets and falls in love with Wes Carter, a former Army Sergeant. Hope's ambition is equaled only to Wes' and the relationship is doomed. Later, when she gets the coveted White House intern position, she meets the political insider Trent Williams. After a brief courtship, Hope marries Trent in a lavish ceremony in St. Croix. All of Contentment attend the wedding and cheer their beloved daughter. Hope is not aware that on the surface Trent appears to be a successful attorney and political advisor to Washington's elite, but underneath he is a functional manic depressive with dark secrets from his childhood. It is not long before Trent's deteriorating mental condition endangers her life and she becomes a victim of his psychotic, violent episodes. Hope has a choice to make. She can choose to seek help or continue the charade in order to prevent a public relations nightmare and jeopardize her political career. Her choice will forever change her life and the lives of the people around her. Tithe of Blood is written with bluntness as it follows the timely political and emotional journey of Hope Caryn Taylor.

Author: Dickson M. Mwansa
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493141244
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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This collection contains nine most important works written and performed between 1973 and 1989. Three of the plays won first positions in national drama competitions (The Cell, The Family Question, and The Headmaster and the Rascals). Subsequently, The Family Question was performed in Detroit and published in Chicago by Bedford publishers. The Cell has been reviewed in various journals and books, Father Kalo commissioned by the Ministry of Health and John Hopkins School of Medicine was a campaign play against the spread of HIV and AIDS. Themes that preoccupy the author include alienation for returnees from the diaspora in Europe and the USA, power and its corrupting influences, ethnicity and with its offshoots of overdependence and nepotism, and intricate relationship encompassing HIV/AIDS, love and marriage. They are multilayered plays variously classified as tragic comedies, allegories, satires, characterised by high sense of humour.

Author: Eamon Blake
Publisher: Eamon Blake
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Throughout the ages heroes have come and gone, yet a common thread weaves its way through their tales - the battle between good and evil. None exemplifies this more than what the four Messengers of the Gods and their formidable guardians have to face during their journey of eighteen hundred years. Jacob - Walk of the Messengers - is the second book in an exhilarating series of five. It tells the story of the messengers, tasked with spreading Jacob's message, all in the hope of assembling the mightiest army ever known, all while travelling through the centuries and reaching all corners of the globe. Will they survive the relentless attacks by the forces of Hell? Will they succeed in the task set for them? Will Jacob keep his promise and intervene when all seems lost?

Author: Sylvia Mosime
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0956153909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Pulane loves him. He does not love her. She tried all the angles to nail his heart. However, there is this one thing about Mark; he likes money, and heaps of it, his biggest manipulative weakness. So she figures if she can only hatch a plan that will bring in the money, then finally she would get to his heart. But how? Dean, ready to settle down is desperately looking for the right woman. She whores herself into his heart, pruning him until he is her perfect pawn in her moneymaking plan. She then drops Dean, grab the millions and elopes with her long-time lover, Mark. But Mark is still Mark - the same rat and even more of a cheat than before. But she loves him too much to give him up, so glumly she accepts her fate - feeding on the crumbs of his heart. Of course, the world comes crushing around Pulane as Dean steps from the dark shadows of her past, and Mark falls for someone else. But she refuses to take that lying down, she feels she has every right to his heart...

Author: Elizabeth Watkins
Publisher: Britwell Books
ISBN: 9780952895206
Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851098488
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 3231

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The most comprehensive and up-to-date student reference on the Cold War, offering expert coverage of all aspects of the conflict in a richly designed format, fully illustrated to give students a vivid sense of life in all countries affected by the war. ABC-CLIO is proud to announce the latest addition to its widely acclaimed legacy of historical reference works for students. Under the direction of internationally known expert Spencer Tucker, Cold War: A Student Encyclopedia captures the vast scope, day-to-day drama, and lasting impact of the Cold War more clearly and powerfully than any other student resource ever published. Ranging from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War: A Student Encyclopedia offers vivid portrayals of leading individuals, significant battles, economic developments, societal/cultural events, changes in military technology, and major treaties and diplomatic agreements. The nearly 1,100 entries, plus topical essays and a documents volume, draw heavily on recently opened Russian, Eastern European, and Chinese archives. Enhanced by a rich program of maps and images, it is a comprehensive, current, and accessible student reference on the dominant geopolitical phenomenon of the late-20th century.

Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101908149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy concludes. We've traversed the interlocked conspiracies of the decade and are there for the wind-up and swan songs. Blood's A Rover takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago has spawned chaos. There's a punk-kid private eye in L.A. He's clashing with a mob goon and an enforcer for J. Edgar Hoover. There's an armored-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. There's bad voodoo in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Amidst it all is a revolutionary, Joan Rosen Klein. The kid P.I., the mob goon, and Hoover's enforcer love her unto death. Blood's A Rover gives us the private nightmare of public policy on an epic scale.

Author: Sebastian Junger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668050854
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.