Unbreakable Threads

Author : Emma Adams
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760637181
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbreakable Threads written by Emma Adams and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds. 'Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to wear thin in this place. He needs surgery for a chronic shoulder injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Kabul. Like the others in detention with him, he faces an uncertain fate, and years in limbo. Most of the people in the centre have already had their spirits broken.' When psychiatrist and mother of three Emma Adams travels to Darwin as an observer of conditions for mothers and babies in the immigration detention centres there, she expects the trip to be confronting. What she doesn't expect is to return to Canberra consumed by the idea that she must help a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied Hazara boy from Afghanistan - Abdul. The premise was simple: Wouldn't any teenage boy be better off staying with a family rather than locked behind a wire fence? In this brutal and bureaucratic system, freedom was a hopeless dream. Emma and Abdul's connection, and her fight to get him out and provide him with an Australian home, a family and a future, forms an important testimony in Australia's appalling treatment of asylum seekers. Their story is a beacon of hope and humanity.

Author : Charles Eugene Anderson
Publisher : Mad Cow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters of the World, Unite! written by Charles Eugene Anderson and published by Mad Cow Press. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where magic and inequality intertwine, two unlikely heroes rise to challenge the status quo. Finnian Hooffellow, a witty faun philosopher, and John Everett, a dashing human revolutionary, embark on a quest to unite the oppressed magical beings of the Whisperwoods against their tyrannical elven overlords. With a band of misfits by their side—including a mischievous goblin, a fierce pixie, and a poetic troll—Finnian and John must navigate treacherous political landscapes, forge unlikely alliances, and confront their own doubts to ignite the flames of revolution. Blending whimsy and social commentary, "Monsters of the World, Unite!" is a genre-defying tale that will make you laugh, think, and believe in the power of unity. Join Finnian and John on a hilarious and heartwarming journey as they fight for a better world—one pun at a time. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and The Princess Bride, this delightful novel is a must-read for anyone who believes that even the most unlikely heroes can change the world.

Author : Paul Forman
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814293113
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics written by Paul Forman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of physics in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis has become famous as the first argument in favor of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular for its demonstration of the historical connection between the culture of Weimar Germany — known for its irrationality and antiscientism — and the emerging concept of quantum acausality. At the 2007 international conference in Vancouver, Canada, leading historians of physics discussed the implications of the Forman thesis in the historiography of modern science. Their papers collected in this volume represent a cutting-edge research on the history of quantum revolution.

Author : Norman Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain written by Norman Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change. “A chronicle of lives of unwavering dedication. Now in their 80s, labor and civil rights activists Norman and Velma Hill recount more than six decades of struggles, triumphs, and frustrations in their tireless work as ‘crusaders for democracy.’... An inspiring joint memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews When Velma Murphy was knocked unconscious by a brick thrown by a man from an angry white mob and was carried away by Norman Hill, it was the beginning of a six-decade-long love story and the turmoil, excitement, and struggle for civil rights and labor movements. In Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain, the Hills reflect upon their more than half a century of fighting to make America realize the best of itself. Through profound conversations between the two, Velma and Norman Hill share their earliest memories of facing racial segregation in the 1960s, working with Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph, crossing paths with Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. They also reveal how they kept white supremacists like David Duke from taking office, organized workers into unions, met with Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and continued to work tirelessly, fighting the good fight and successfully challenging power with truth.

Author : Laura Schroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648979
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Invisible Thread written by Laura Schroff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.

Author : Craig Foster (Filmmaker)
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0358664756
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underwater Wild written by Craig Foster (Filmmaker) and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South Africa, without wetsuits or oxygen tanks. Craig had dived this way for years, including alongside the octopus that inspired My Octopus Teacher. In Ross, he found a kindred spirit, someone who also embraced the ancient methods of acclimating his body to frigid waters, but whose eyes had not yet adjusted to the transcendent wonder Craig saw each time they dove. In the heart-wrenching stories that make up this unforgettable book, we swim alongside Ross as he grows from skeptic to student of the underwater wild. And in the revelatory marine science behind the stunning photos, we learn how to track sea hares, cuttlefish, and limpets, and we witness strange new behaviors never before documented in marine biology. We realize that a whole world of wonder, and an innate wildness within us all, emerge anew when we simply observe. "--publisher's website.

Author : Jian Shijiu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1647622581
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martial Supreme with Devouring Arts written by Jian Shijiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lin Feng, who had a blood feud, obtained the Devouring God Technique and opened up a path of invincibility. He barged into the Demon Region and the War Temple, fighting off the Hundred Races and Heaven's Pride. He massacred countless mighty sects, swallowing up all existences and traversing the entire universe!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.2B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2200 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000398102
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist' and existential traditions, epitomised by his now legendary debate in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger, over the question "What is the Human Being?" The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich, creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally "symbolic animals", placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three volumes, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together, the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in previous English editions, this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and a thorough index.