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Author | : Christopher Nolan |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781559705110 |
Minnie O'Brien reflects back on her long life in rural Ireland and her struggle to hand her farm over to her youngest son.
Author | : Beulah W. Russon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1997-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780832873683 |
Author | : Vaddey Ratner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849837619 |
A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1994-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780824815844 |
An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.
Author | : Mike Shanahan |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1603587144 |
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.
Author | : Jane Lasswell Hoff |
Publisher | : Jane Lasswell Hoff |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1545388369 |
This informative, fun-to-read guide takes the reader on a tour of the fifty trees of Banyan Drive in Hilo, Hawaii. Each tree is accompanied by a story of the amazing person who planted it. Princesses, movie stars, famous athletes, explorers, presidents and more - they lived in an era when Hilo, and the world, was on the brink of monumental change. The book includes a map and short history of the Waiakea Peninsula, including Liliu`okalani Gardens, Coconut Island (Moku`ola), Reed's Bay, the Hilo Breakwater and Kanakea, the Ice Pond.
Author | : Mike Shanahan |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1783522372 |
"Irresistible" - Literary Review Fig trees have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways: they are wish-fulfillers, rainforest royalty, more precious than gold. Ladders to Heaven tells their incredible story. They fed our pre-human ancestors, influenced diverse cultures and played a key role in the birth of civilisation. More recently, they helped restore life after Krakatoa's catastrophic eruption and proved instrumental in Kenya's struggle for independence. Figs now sustain more species of bird and mammal than any other fruit – in a time of falling trees and rising temperatures, they offer hope. Theirs is a story about humanity's relationship with nature, as relevant to our past as it is to our future.
Author | : David Mosse |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520273494 |
“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age
Author | : Sheldon J. Segal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003-01-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780195348286 |
Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results. Today, even as fertility rates decline on a global scale, relentless increases in population and other population-driven factors threaten not only the food supply, but also the stability of entire regions of the world. No single individual has contributed more to our understanding of scientific matters related to human population than Sheldon Segal has. Pioneer in contraceptive research and developer of Norplant, Segal has orchestrated many of the international clinical trials of new contraceptives in the last quarter century. In this one volume Segal examines how population factors impact critical scientific elements of human affairs: contraception, family planning, environmental degradation, climate change, food and fresh water supply, and the threat of newly emerging diseases. As we follow Segal from meetings with heads of state and foreign ministers through to his impassioned, grassroots efforts to secure suitable funds for impoverished countries, we gain a behind-the-scenes perspective on how individuals and nations juggle humanitarian and scientific concerns with political agendas. Informed at every turn by Segal's keen intelligence and humane values,Under The Banyan Tree skillfully blends engaging narrative with history and analysis, providing a dramatic and all-encompassing portrait of this most basic of human concerns.
Author | : MONABI MITRA and SOUMEN MITRA |
Publisher | : Joydhak Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2024-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book documents the history of Government House and Barrackpore Park along with a photographic series of its present day restoration.