Author: John Chalmers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0980432146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Disillusioned with Australia, a wounded spirit travels to Asia looking for wisdom. Jaded with love he wanders through the bars in Bangkok and meets a woman who confronts and awakens him. He continues his wandering and receives a series of blessings that eventually lead him back to where he began. There he finds illumination.
Author: John Chalmers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0980432138
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Western Australia is in the middle of the greatest minerals bonanza in history. People are flocking there from all over the world to strike it rich. They stay in hostels in Perth while they are looking for work in the desert. The hostels contain the nicest collection of misfits on earth. Come and join the fun as these internationals live out their daily dramas in public in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Author: John Chalmers
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Searching for love in Asia? You will find all the same problems you find wherever you are already. If you do no heed my advice, you may profit from reading a book about a man who did just that. You may be surprised by what he actually found.
Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783607416
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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'An unforgettable, unmissable book for the new global feminist.' The Times 'All the men I did get to know filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.' So begins Firdaus's remarkable story of rebellion against a society founded on lies, hypocrisy, brutality and oppression. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus struggles through childhood, seeking compassion and knowledge in a world which gives her little of either. As she grows up and escapes the fetters of her childhood, each new relationship teaches her a bitter but liberating truth – that the only free people are those who want nothing, fear nothing and hope for nothing. This classic novel has been an inspiration to countless people across the world. Saadawi's searing indictment of society's brutal treatment of women continues to resonate today.
Author: Karl Edward Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: Eluned Gramich
Publisher: Parthian Books
ISBN: 1917140037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award 'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' – Mark Cocker As precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery. '"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read... short but perfectly formed... absolutely perfect.' – Justin Albert 'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye... precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable...' – Tony Brown 'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach... [Gramich's] embracing of... cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability... suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' – Wales Arts Review
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Gen Doy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857712209
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud's "Gravida", Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures, the fetishistic play between veiling and revealing and the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's movement on fine art practice. Yet she also finds and focuses on the draped body now in places like Algeria and Kosovo where drapery's connotations are no longer those of purity and civilized elegance but of barbarism, poverty, and savage death.
Author: Thomas K. Carpenter
Publisher: Black Moon Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Ignorance is bliss, unless the world is out to kill you... An investigation into a strange cauldron and a dead thief in Ben Franklin's parlor leaves Katerina Dashkova, Russian princess in exile, as the main suspect. With her memory damaged and Ben Franklin missing, Kat must navigate the treacherous waters of American politics to solve the mystery while ominous rumblings threaten to drag the country into a new war.
Author: Thomas K. Carpenter
Publisher: Black Moon Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Revolutionary Magic Exile. Princess. Thief. After years of running from the Emperor of Russia's assassins, Ekaterina "Kat" Dashkova has finally found an unlikely home in Philadelphia under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin. When a mid-level government official is found wandering colonial Philadelphia without his clothes—and his last two years of memories—Ben and Kat suspect otherworldly forces at work. Neither of them know that a dark revolution lurks beneath the veneer of civilization, ready to unleash its malevolent magic unless Kat makes a grim sacrifice. A Cauldron of Secrets Ignorance is bliss, unless the world is out to kill you... An investigation into a strange cauldron and a dead thief in Ben Franklin's parlor leaves Katerina Dashkova, Russian princess in exile, as the main suspect. With her memory damaged and Ben Franklin missing, Kat must navigate the treacherous waters of American politics to solve the mystery while ominous rumblings threaten to drag the country into a new war. Birds of Prophecy Katerina Dashkova must die. When Warden Simon Snyder seeks Kat's help to solve a bloodless murder, she becomes entangled with a prophecy that predicts her death on the Winter Solstice. The investigation turns an old friend into a dangerous enemy, complicates loyalties, and creates a mystery so deep that Kat will have to expose herself to ultimate betrayal to solve it. Even if she does, the question remains: Can she save Philadelphia from an ancient evil? The Franklin Deception When Thomas Jefferson's longtime companion is murdered with dark magic, Katerina Dashkova and Ben Franklin must find the killer before the war-hungry Federalists learn the truth and use it to maneuver America into a war with Russia. Unfortunately, the unknown assassin isn't the only one causing trouble: a certain rusalka with a magical hold on Kat's future has made an impossible demand that will test her loyalty to her new country to its very limits.
