Author: Sherrie Miranda
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507837016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In a conscious effort to heal from harm inflicted by rape, then an abortion, and her mother's lies about her closest relations, Shelly Dalton Smith travels to war-torn El Salvador. Unwittingly used by someone she trusts to implement a mission too dangerous for anyone to complete, she captures shots of her host family, and listens to their secrets and lies, which reveal her mother's deception is not so different from that of others, including her own. Witnessing the death of an American journalist, and listening to harrowing accounts of refugees who watched the massacre of their families, tears Shelly apart. So she turns to an American fighting with the guerrillas. He teaches her a passion for living she has never known. When he dies in combat, Shelly can no longer bear the pain, and wonders whether it is possible to accomplish her mission. Secrets and Lies in El Salvador exposes death and destruction at every turn, but also validates the power of love, and embodies the gift of hope.
Secrets and Lies in El Salvador
Author: Sherrie Miranda
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507837016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In a conscious effort to heal from harm inflicted by rape, then an abortion, and her mother's lies about her closest relations, Shelly Dalton Smith travels to war-torn El Salvador. Unwittingly used by someone she trusts to implement a mission too dangerous for anyone to complete, she captures shots of her host family, and listens to their secrets and lies, which reveal her mother's deception is not so different from that of others, including her own. Witnessing the death of an American journalist, and listening to harrowing accounts of refugees who watched the massacre of their families, tears Shelly apart. So she turns to an American fighting with the guerrillas. He teaches her a passion for living she has never known. When he dies in combat, Shelly can no longer bear the pain, and wonders whether it is possible to accomplish her mission. Secrets and Lies in El Salvador exposes death and destruction at every turn, but also validates the power of love, and embodies the gift of hope.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507837016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In a conscious effort to heal from harm inflicted by rape, then an abortion, and her mother's lies about her closest relations, Shelly Dalton Smith travels to war-torn El Salvador. Unwittingly used by someone she trusts to implement a mission too dangerous for anyone to complete, she captures shots of her host family, and listens to their secrets and lies, which reveal her mother's deception is not so different from that of others, including her own. Witnessing the death of an American journalist, and listening to harrowing accounts of refugees who watched the massacre of their families, tears Shelly apart. So she turns to an American fighting with the guerrillas. He teaches her a passion for living she has never known. When he dies in combat, Shelly can no longer bear the pain, and wonders whether it is possible to accomplish her mission. Secrets and Lies in El Salvador exposes death and destruction at every turn, but also validates the power of love, and embodies the gift of hope.
Changing Minds
Author: Ann Jurečič
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000, Ann Jurečič documents the work of five paradigm-shifting essayists who transformed American thought about urgent political issues. Rachel Carson linked science and art to explain how pesticides threatened the Earth’s ecosystems. Hannah Arendt redefined “evil” for a secular age after Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. Susan Sontag’s interest in the intersection of politics and aesthetics led her to examine the ethics of looking at photographs of suffering. Joan Didion became a political essayist when she questioned how rhetoric and sentimental narratives corrupted democratic ideals. Patricia J. Williams continues to write about living under a justice system that has attempted to neutralize race, gender, and the meaning of history. These writers reacted to the stressors of the late twentieth century and in response reshaped the essay for their own purposes in profound ways. With this volume, Jurečič begins to correct the longstanding dearth of scholarly studies on the importance of women and their political essays—works that continue to be relevant more than two decades into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000, Ann Jurečič documents the work of five paradigm-shifting essayists who transformed American thought about urgent political issues. Rachel Carson linked science and art to explain how pesticides threatened the Earth’s ecosystems. Hannah Arendt redefined “evil” for a secular age after Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. Susan Sontag’s interest in the intersection of politics and aesthetics led her to examine the ethics of looking at photographs of suffering. Joan Didion became a political essayist when she questioned how rhetoric and sentimental narratives corrupted democratic ideals. Patricia J. Williams continues to write about living under a justice system that has attempted to neutralize race, gender, and the meaning of history. These writers reacted to the stressors of the late twentieth century and in response reshaped the essay for their own purposes in profound ways. With this volume, Jurečič begins to correct the longstanding dearth of scholarly studies on the importance of women and their political essays—works that continue to be relevant more than two decades into the twenty-first century.
Hear My Testimony
Author: María Teresa Tula
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896084841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. She gains international recognition as a human rights activist through her work in CO-MADRES, the Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador.
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896084841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. She gains international recognition as a human rights activist through her work in CO-MADRES, the Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador.
The Secret Life of Families
Author: Evan Imber-Black
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307423352
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets are--how they are used and abused, their power to harm and heal. In this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand: The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy What to tell--and not to tell--young children How to safely confront a family "zone of silence" Why adolescents need to have some secrets--and where to draw the line The effect of "official" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing What to consider before revealing an important secret And much more Filled with moving first-person stories, The Secret Life of Families provides perspective on some of today's most sensitive personal and social issues. Giving voice to our deepest fears and to our power to overcome them, this is a book that will be talked about for years to come.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307423352
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets are--how they are used and abused, their power to harm and heal. In this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand: The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy What to tell--and not to tell--young children How to safely confront a family "zone of silence" Why adolescents need to have some secrets--and where to draw the line The effect of "official" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing What to consider before revealing an important secret And much more Filled with moving first-person stories, The Secret Life of Families provides perspective on some of today's most sensitive personal and social issues. Giving voice to our deepest fears and to our power to overcome them, this is a book that will be talked about for years to come.
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
Author: Amanda Izzo
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813588499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential groups, the Young Women’s Christian Association of the USA, an interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational social movements, women’s history, and religious studies, as she traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian women’s reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired social movements.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813588499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential groups, the Young Women’s Christian Association of the USA, an interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational social movements, women’s history, and religious studies, as she traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian women’s reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired social movements.
CounterSpy
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Puzzles and Words
Author: David Astle
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743311036
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A madcap collection of puzzles and word stories from puzzle nut and TV's Dictionary Guy, David Astle.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743311036
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A madcap collection of puzzles and word stories from puzzle nut and TV's Dictionary Guy, David Astle.
Decentering International Relations
Author: Doctor Meghana Nayak
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848139160
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Decentering International Relations seeks to actively confront, resist, and rewrite International Relations (IR), a heavily politicized field that is deeply centered in the North/West and privileges certain perspectives, pedagogies, and practices. Is it possible to break the chain of signifiers that always leads IR studies back to the US and its European allies? Through engagement with a variety of theories (ranging beyond the usual 'mainstream' versus 'critical/alternative' binary), and conversations with scholars, activists, and students, the authors invite the reader to participate in an accessible yet provocative experiment to decentre the North/West when we learn, study and do IR. In particular, they examine how the pressing issues of 'human rights', 'globalization', 'peace and security', and 'indigeneity' are simultaneously normative inventions meant to sustain particular power structures and sites for insurgent and subversive attempts to live IR at the margins. Selbin and Nayak have written a remarkable and provocative re-envisioning of a globally important subject.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848139160
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Decentering International Relations seeks to actively confront, resist, and rewrite International Relations (IR), a heavily politicized field that is deeply centered in the North/West and privileges certain perspectives, pedagogies, and practices. Is it possible to break the chain of signifiers that always leads IR studies back to the US and its European allies? Through engagement with a variety of theories (ranging beyond the usual 'mainstream' versus 'critical/alternative' binary), and conversations with scholars, activists, and students, the authors invite the reader to participate in an accessible yet provocative experiment to decentre the North/West when we learn, study and do IR. In particular, they examine how the pressing issues of 'human rights', 'globalization', 'peace and security', and 'indigeneity' are simultaneously normative inventions meant to sustain particular power structures and sites for insurgent and subversive attempts to live IR at the margins. Selbin and Nayak have written a remarkable and provocative re-envisioning of a globally important subject.
Data Book, Latin America
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Data Book Latin America: Middle America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description