Author: Richard Poplak
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
ISBN: 9780143050445
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Boet,"said Kevin, "there's a jazz somewhere down by the assembly hall where okes can do what they smaak, and I hear from reliable sources that it's lekker down there." Like most children of the 1970s and 1980s, Richard Poplak grew up obsessed with pop culture. Watching The Cosby Show, listening to Guns N'Roses, and quoting lines from Mad Max movies were part of his everyday life. But in Richard's country, South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also just a part of everyday life. It was, as Richard says, "a different kind of normal." Ja, No, Man articulates what it was like to live through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Richard's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life. A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.
Ja, No, Man!
Author: Richard Poplak
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
ISBN: 9780143050445
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Boet,"said Kevin, "there's a jazz somewhere down by the assembly hall where okes can do what they smaak, and I hear from reliable sources that it's lekker down there." Like most children of the 1970s and 1980s, Richard Poplak grew up obsessed with pop culture. Watching The Cosby Show, listening to Guns N'Roses, and quoting lines from Mad Max movies were part of his everyday life. But in Richard's country, South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also just a part of everyday life. It was, as Richard says, "a different kind of normal." Ja, No, Man articulates what it was like to live through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Richard's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life. A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
ISBN: 9780143050445
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Boet,"said Kevin, "there's a jazz somewhere down by the assembly hall where okes can do what they smaak, and I hear from reliable sources that it's lekker down there." Like most children of the 1970s and 1980s, Richard Poplak grew up obsessed with pop culture. Watching The Cosby Show, listening to Guns N'Roses, and quoting lines from Mad Max movies were part of his everyday life. But in Richard's country, South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also just a part of everyday life. It was, as Richard says, "a different kind of normal." Ja, No, Man articulates what it was like to live through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Richard's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life. A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.
Ja, No Man
Author: Richard Poplak
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143527002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Ja, No, Man is an eerily familiar portrayal of the life of an ordinary white South African growing up during Apartheid-era South Africa. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Poplak's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life. A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143527002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Ja, No, Man is an eerily familiar portrayal of the life of an ordinary white South African growing up during Apartheid-era South Africa. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Poplak's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life. A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.
From "Superman" to Man
Author: J. A. Rogers
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819575534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The first book from “a tireless champion of African history,” a novel that “challenged the theories that Blacks were inferior to whites” (New York Amsterdam News). Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work from the Harlem Renaissance, this novel—first published in 1917—is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a train speeding to California, serviced by an African American porter named Dixon. On board is a United States senator from Oklahoma, a man obsessed by race who makes no attempts to hide his prejudice. Unable to sleep, the politician encounters Dixon in the smoking car, and thus ensues a debate about religion, science, and racial equality . . . “A bold discussion novel in which a cultured, well-travelled, black Pullman porter is drawn into a debate with a white passenger, a Southern senator, on the question of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon and the inferiority of the Negro.” —The Guardian “A genuine treasure. I still insist that From ‘Superman’ to Man is the greatest book ever written in English on the Negro by a Negro and I am glad to know that increasing thousands of black and white readers re-echo the high opinion of it which I had expressed some years ago.” —Hubert Henry Harrison “A stirring story, faithful to truth and helpful to a better understanding and feeling.” —Prof. George B. Foster, University of Chicago
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819575534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The first book from “a tireless champion of African history,” a novel that “challenged the theories that Blacks were inferior to whites” (New York Amsterdam News). Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work from the Harlem Renaissance, this novel—first published in 1917—is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a train speeding to California, serviced by an African American porter named Dixon. On board is a United States senator from Oklahoma, a man obsessed by race who makes no attempts to hide his prejudice. Unable to sleep, the politician encounters Dixon in the smoking car, and thus ensues a debate about religion, science, and racial equality . . . “A bold discussion novel in which a cultured, well-travelled, black Pullman porter is drawn into a debate with a white passenger, a Southern senator, on the question of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon and the inferiority of the Negro.” —The Guardian “A genuine treasure. I still insist that From ‘Superman’ to Man is the greatest book ever written in English on the Negro by a Negro and I am glad to know that increasing thousands of black and white readers re-echo the high opinion of it which I had expressed some years ago.” —Hubert Henry Harrison “A stirring story, faithful to truth and helpful to a better understanding and feeling.” —Prof. George B. Foster, University of Chicago
Whitethorn
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Courtenay captures the life of a child and the life of a nation.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Courtenay captures the life of a child and the life of a nation.
Man Overboard
Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501110802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Roger McGeary, a brilliant software engineer, has gifted himself with an upscale cruise in honor of his fortieth birthday. When he falls to his death from the balcony of his stateroom suite, the incident is quickly declared a suicide. Only his maiden aunt, a tough-as-nails woman who runs a race horse refuge refuses to take case closed for an answer and turns to Ali Reynolds at High Noon Enterprises to look into the situation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501110802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Roger McGeary, a brilliant software engineer, has gifted himself with an upscale cruise in honor of his fortieth birthday. When he falls to his death from the balcony of his stateroom suite, the incident is quickly declared a suicide. Only his maiden aunt, a tough-as-nails woman who runs a race horse refuge refuses to take case closed for an answer and turns to Ali Reynolds at High Noon Enterprises to look into the situation.
Visions in Gray
Author: F.C. Woody
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105938727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Visions in Gray is a steamy, coming of age fiction which reveals the sexually charged experiences of young Scotty Cooke, a disillusioned new-hire of a Fortune 500 corporation who shakes off suffocating guidance for the fulfillment of his own desires. Winding up in Sarasota, Scotty falls in with an odd grifter. The two men rack up numerous experiences, some sizzling with sex, some funny, some within and some without this little, beach-laden town on the west coast of Florida. During his supposed summer of fun, Scotty learns the most costly lesson of his short life when he fails to protect the one he loves most from his destructive friend. The result is a conclusion which leaves Scotty caught up in a whirlwind of emotion and in eminent danger.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105938727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Visions in Gray is a steamy, coming of age fiction which reveals the sexually charged experiences of young Scotty Cooke, a disillusioned new-hire of a Fortune 500 corporation who shakes off suffocating guidance for the fulfillment of his own desires. Winding up in Sarasota, Scotty falls in with an odd grifter. The two men rack up numerous experiences, some sizzling with sex, some funny, some within and some without this little, beach-laden town on the west coast of Florida. During his supposed summer of fun, Scotty learns the most costly lesson of his short life when he fails to protect the one he loves most from his destructive friend. The result is a conclusion which leaves Scotty caught up in a whirlwind of emotion and in eminent danger.
Dancing in No Man’s Land
Author: Brian Jennings
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1631467751
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Are you tired of the conflict all around you? It happens over and over again. A political argument with a friend, a fight about racial issues on the internet, a disagreement with a coworker—at the first sign of conflict, we flee to a bunker with people who think like us and attack everyone else. We feel safe there, but it’s killing us: killing families, friendships, civility, and discourse. Our fractured world desperately needs a different way: people who will speak gently, value truth, and think clearly. Dancing in No Man’s Land is a rallying cry, a life-giving and practical journey into the way of Jesus that will revolutionize how you view conflict. You can choose to speak both truth and peace in the midst of war. You can step out of our bunkers and into no-man’s land, where only brave souls tread. It may look like you’re dodging cultural landmines. But you might just be learning how to dance.
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1631467751
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Are you tired of the conflict all around you? It happens over and over again. A political argument with a friend, a fight about racial issues on the internet, a disagreement with a coworker—at the first sign of conflict, we flee to a bunker with people who think like us and attack everyone else. We feel safe there, but it’s killing us: killing families, friendships, civility, and discourse. Our fractured world desperately needs a different way: people who will speak gently, value truth, and think clearly. Dancing in No Man’s Land is a rallying cry, a life-giving and practical journey into the way of Jesus that will revolutionize how you view conflict. You can choose to speak both truth and peace in the midst of war. You can step out of our bunkers and into no-man’s land, where only brave souls tread. It may look like you’re dodging cultural landmines. But you might just be learning how to dance.
Unruly
Author: Ja Rule
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062316192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison—and reveals the man beneath the legend. Unruly is two stories that offer one complete picture of a man and his world: the angry, fatherless rapper, Ja Rule who was “raised by the streets”; and Jeffrey Atkins, the insightful, reflective father and loyal husband who learned the hard way how to be a good man. Filled with never-before-revealed anecdotes and sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Unruly shows the determination that it takes to become a man in today’s society. Ja Rule considers the lack of role models for many young black men today—a void that leads to bad choices and the wrong paths. Recalling his youth, he illuminates the seductive pull of the streets and the drug dealers who were his earliest role models. Jeffrey Atkins offers practical wisdom—reflection, growth and hope learned first-hand as an inmate, father, husband, and community role model. He speaks fondly of men who inspired Unruly—the inmates he met in prison whose misguided ideas of masculinity landed them behind bars—and Louis Farrakhan who mediated the televised encounter with Ja Rule’s adversary, 50 Cent. Unruly is a compelling, personal look at the duality and conflicts that arise in the African-American male psyche from a man who has enjoyed breathtaking fame and suffered heartbreaking misfortune.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062316192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison—and reveals the man beneath the legend. Unruly is two stories that offer one complete picture of a man and his world: the angry, fatherless rapper, Ja Rule who was “raised by the streets”; and Jeffrey Atkins, the insightful, reflective father and loyal husband who learned the hard way how to be a good man. Filled with never-before-revealed anecdotes and sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Unruly shows the determination that it takes to become a man in today’s society. Ja Rule considers the lack of role models for many young black men today—a void that leads to bad choices and the wrong paths. Recalling his youth, he illuminates the seductive pull of the streets and the drug dealers who were his earliest role models. Jeffrey Atkins offers practical wisdom—reflection, growth and hope learned first-hand as an inmate, father, husband, and community role model. He speaks fondly of men who inspired Unruly—the inmates he met in prison whose misguided ideas of masculinity landed them behind bars—and Louis Farrakhan who mediated the televised encounter with Ja Rule’s adversary, 50 Cent. Unruly is a compelling, personal look at the duality and conflicts that arise in the African-American male psyche from a man who has enjoyed breathtaking fame and suffered heartbreaking misfortune.
Documents in Mycenaean Greek
Author: Michael Ventris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107503418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
In this second edition of Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Chadwick examines how the study of the subject has expanded since 1953.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107503418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
In this second edition of Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Chadwick examines how the study of the subject has expanded since 1953.
和英語林集成
Author: James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description