The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce

The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce PDF Author: Alexander Dyce
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce

The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce PDF Author: Alexander Dyce
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Recollections of Seventy Years

Recollections of Seventy Years PDF Author: Bishop Daniel A. Payne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781490496764
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Recollections of Seventy Years

Recollections of a New England Educator, 1838-1908

Recollections of a New England Educator, 1838-1908 PDF Author: William Augustus Mowry
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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The History of the High School of Edinburgh

The History of the High School of Edinburgh PDF Author: William STEVEN (Head Master of George Heriot's Hospital.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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The History of the High School of Edinburgh

The History of the High School of Edinburgh PDF Author: William Steven
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Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Recollection of Men and Things at Washington, During the Third of a Century

Recollection of Men and Things at Washington, During the Third of a Century PDF Author: Lawrence Augustus Gobright
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Memories of Merry Wakefield

Memories of Merry Wakefield PDF Author: Henry Clarkson
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Category : Wakefield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough

The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough PDF Author: Margaret Loughborough
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761849033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Margaret Cabell Brown's Recollections, written in 1911, provide a woman's perspective on the Civil War. While her husband enlisted in the Confederate Army, Margaret worked for the Confederate government in Richmond. This diary is not about battle and glory, but rather details the realities of life during the Civil War

Wasted

Wasted PDF Author: Elspeth Muir
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925095134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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In 2009 Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother, Alexander, finished his last university exam and went out with some mates on the town. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing, and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River below. Three days passed before police divers pulled his body out of the water. When Alexander had drowned, his blood-alcohol reading was almost five times the legal limit for driving. Why do some of us drink so much, and what happens when we do? Fewer young Australians are drinking heavily, but the rates of alcohol abuse and associated problems—from blackouts to sexual assaults and one-punch killings—are undiminished. Intimate and beautifully told, Wasted illuminates the sorrows, and the joys, of drinking. Elspeth Muir is a Brisbane author whose writing has appeared in the Lifted Brow, The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One, Griffith Review, Voiceworks and Bumf. She is a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland. ‘Deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, Muir’s debut book is among the best long-form explorations of how and why some Australians drink alcohol to excess...It is a striking work and among the strongest debut books I have read.’ Australian ‘Intricately crafted...An intimate portrait of a grieving family and a nation unable to reconcile itself to the harmful effects of its drinking culture...Reminiscent of writers such as Chloe Hooper and Helen Garner...This book will help you think critically and compassionately about those who seek solace in alcohol.’ Books + Publishing ‘Wasted barrels headfirst into the alcohol-soaked heart of Australia to report on our fraught love affair with drinking.’ Liam Pieper ‘There is no lapse in urgency in Wasted; this conversation is a crucial one to have. Five stars.’ Good Reading ‘The prose style of this unheralded writer...is so achingly beautiful and assured, Helen Garner might be pleased to hand her the keys to the creative nonfiction kingdom and ride off into the Carlton sunset.’ Saturday Paper ‘[Muir] gifts readers gorgeously evocative passages which convey a depth of emotion...Wasted is a haunting read.’ Readings ‘Elspeth writes beautifully and honestly, documenting the shocking loss...in such heartbreaking circumstances.’ Mamamia ‘[Muir] concludes of her brother’s death, “What a waste of a life that was.” Yet by determinedly documenting the drinking culture that coddled him, she has opened vital new lines of enquiry into our duty of care towards drinkers. It’s a tragedy, but now, not entirely a waste.’ Lifted Brow ‘Interweaving brilliant reportage with memoir, Wasted delves into Australia’s complicated relationship with alcohol...Timely and eye-opening.’ Canberra Weekly ‘The strongest new Australian voice I’ve come across this year.’ Readings, Our Favourite Books of 2016 (so far) ‘Wasted is a book that every New Zealander and Australian needs to read...If I had my way, I’d give this to everyone in their last year of high school, and their parents too.’ Booksellers New Zealand ‘Elspeth Muir’s memoir begins after her younger brother’s night of heavy drinking culminates with him jumping from a bridge and drowning in the Brisbane River. Her handling of the subject is, by turn, heartbreaking, evocative and, in parts, refreshingly weird, and her assured voice makes this a sobering read.’ Best Non-Fiction Books of 2016, Readings ’This devastating personal story of loss and grief is also an unflinching examination of the damaging drinking habits of young Australians, and of a society that not only permits, but encourages them.’ Junkee

Christianity in India

Christianity in India PDF Author: Robert Eric Frykenberg
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191544191
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Robert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present. As one out of several manifestations of a newly emerging World Christianity, in which Christians of a Post-Christian West are a minority, it has focused upon those trans-cultural interactions within Hindu and Muslim environments which have made Christians in this part of the world distinctive. It seeks to uncover various complexities in the proliferation of Christianity in its many forms and to examine processes by which Christian elements intermingled with indigenous cultures and which resulted in multiple identities, and also left imprints upon various cultures of India. Thomas Christians believe that the Apostle Thomas came to India in 52 A.D./C.E., and that he left seven congregations to carry on the Mission of bringing the Gospel to India. In our day the impulse of this Mission is more alive than ever. Catholics, in three hierarchies, have become most numerous; and various Evangelicals/Protestant communities constitute the third great tradition. With the rise of Pentecostalism, a fourth great wave of Christian expansion in India has occurred. Starting with movements that began a century ago, there are now ten to fifteen times more missionaries than ever before, virtually all of them Indian. Needless to say, Christianity in India is profoundly Indian and Frykenberg provides a fascinating guide to its unique history and practice.