Author: Mary John
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781853023682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Some of the papers included in this collection were first presented at the "World Conference on Research and Practice in Children's Rights : a Question of Empowerment?" held at the University of Exeter in September 1992.
Children of the Revolution
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771076312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
By Canada's premier, bestselling crime fiction writer, the twenty-first book in the much-loved Inspector Banks series, now a television series on PBS, for readers of Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into higher gear.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771076312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
By Canada's premier, bestselling crime fiction writer, the twenty-first book in the much-loved Inspector Banks series, now a television series on PBS, for readers of Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into higher gear.
Children of the Revolution
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448163560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448163560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C. Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store into the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with his friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life seems on the verge of change...
Children of the Revolution
Author: Robert Gildea
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. "Children of the Revolution" follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. "Children of the Revolution" follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.
The Revolution is for the Children
Author: Anita Casavantes Bradford
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961152X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961152X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Child of the Revolution
Author: Wolfgang Leonhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Children in Charge
Author: Mary John
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781853023682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Some of the papers included in this collection were first presented at the "World Conference on Research and Practice in Children's Rights : a Question of Empowerment?" held at the University of Exeter in September 1992.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781853023682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Some of the papers included in this collection were first presented at the "World Conference on Research and Practice in Children's Rights : a Question of Empowerment?" held at the University of Exeter in September 1992.
Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756672546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
From computers to the natural world, help your child find out everything they need to know about anything with this fact-packed Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia. They'll find over 500 articles arranged from A-Z on subjects they need to know about, all illustrated with dramatic photos, cut-aways, charts and maps. The encyclopedia has been fully revised to include recent scientific breakthroughs, space missions and discoveries, as well as political, social and ecological changes, so your child can keep fully up-to-date with what has been happening in the world. Plus, they'll be able to discover more about subjects using more than 5,000 fully-vetted and regularly updated internet links. Perfect for projects or just for fun, this is the ultimate illustrated family encyclopedia.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756672546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
From computers to the natural world, help your child find out everything they need to know about anything with this fact-packed Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia. They'll find over 500 articles arranged from A-Z on subjects they need to know about, all illustrated with dramatic photos, cut-aways, charts and maps. The encyclopedia has been fully revised to include recent scientific breakthroughs, space missions and discoveries, as well as political, social and ecological changes, so your child can keep fully up-to-date with what has been happening in the world. Plus, they'll be able to discover more about subjects using more than 5,000 fully-vetted and regularly updated internet links. Perfect for projects or just for fun, this is the ultimate illustrated family encyclopedia.
Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong
Author: Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317475062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317475062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.
Child Workers in England, 1780-1820
Author: Katrina Honeyman
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754662723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A major contribution to studies in child labour, this book explores the contribution of child workers and the particular importance of the parish apprenticeship system to early industrial expansion.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754662723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A major contribution to studies in child labour, this book explores the contribution of child workers and the particular importance of the parish apprenticeship system to early industrial expansion.
Victorians and the Case for Charity
Author: Marilyn D. Button
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.