Author: W. George Lovell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029279293X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Though a 1996 peace accord brought a formal end to a conflict that had lasted for thirty-six years, Guatemala's violent past continues to scar its troubled present and seems destined to haunt its uncertain future. George Lovell brings to this revised and expanded edition of A Beauty That Hurts decades of fieldwork throughout Guatemala, as well as archival research. He locates the roots of conflict in geographies of inequality that arose during colonial times and were exacerbated by the drive to develop Guatemala's resources in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The lines of confrontation were entrenched after a decade of socioeconomic reform between 1944 and 1954 saw modernizing initiatives undone by a military coup backed by U.S. interests and the CIA. A United Nations Truth Commission has established that civil war in Guatemala claimed the lives of more that 200,000 people, the vast majority of them indigenous Mayas. Lovell weaves documentation about what happened to Mayas in particular during the war years with accounts of their difficult personal situations. Meanwhile, an intransigent elite and a powerful military continue to benefit from the inequalities that triggered armed insurrection in the first place. Weak and corrupt civilian governments fail to impose the rule of law, thus ensuring that Guatemala remains an embattled country where postwar violence and drug-related crime undermine any semblance of orderly, peaceful life.
Author: Denis Faubert
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9782894641750
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Gerald M. Phillips draws on his twenty-five-year, five-thousand-client experience with the Pennsylvania State University Reticence Program to present a new theory of modification of “inept” communication behavior. That experience has convinced Phillips that communication is arbitrary and rulebound rather than a process of inspiration. He demonstrates that communication problems can be described as errors that can be detected and classified in order to fit a remediation pattern. Regardless of the source of error, the remedy is to train the individual to avoid or eliminate errors—thus, orderly procedure will result in competent performance. Inept communicators must be made aware of the obligations and constraints imposed by deep structures that require us to achieve a degree of formal order in our language, without which our discourse becomes incomprehensible.
Author: William George Lovell
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
ISBN: 9781896357386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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"A Beauty That Hurts tells the tragic and epic story of Guatemala in the modern period. Beautifully written, it is a work of sustained research, human warmth, and frank analysis describing grim realities."
Author: Mary Stolze
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595125093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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As a little girl, Sandy Trapiletti's life was turned upside down by her mother's family. As a woman, she took control of her own fate as Khalua Trapiletti, Super-Model. Tempted by the underside of fame, Khalua slips into a life she is ashamed of... until she is rescued by Zach Westmoreland. Live Khalua's story as she tells it to two strangers trapped with her in an elevator following a deadly Los Angeles earthquake.
Author: Diane Williams
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 1938073088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories—a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire—are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling—the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
Author: Goetamu
Publisher: Digital Entertainment株式会社
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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It's beautiful! It's Healthy! But probably a little bit questionable... Just like how she adores the beauties, the essay mangaka Goetamu also wants to work out to become like them! From the exciting SM gym to a painful breast massage parlor, enjoy her comical and interesting storytelling that made you all want to try all these "bizzare" stuff too!
Author: Xiao Erduo
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647963516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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Since Yue Yanzhi was not considered to be from the Valley of the Crescent Moon, as it happened that the Emperor had ordered that they must definitely find the people from the Valley of the Crescent, Yue Yanzhi sneaked out. On the way there, she met the handsome Liu Yanfeng and found out that he had a story in his heart, so she went to sleep with him. Yue Yanzhi, who had always admired Yue Yulan and Yue Xue Fu, went to the capital to find her. However, Yue Yanzhi was already together with Liu Yanfeng. The people in the palace, on the other hand, were making things difficult for her. Even he could not protect her, but they were protecting the people in the valley, regardless of everything else.
Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031264017X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Sheriff Dan Rhodes is called to The Beauty Shack, where a young and pretty girl has been found dead, bashed over the head with a hairdryer. While he investigates, Rhodes must also deal with the theft of copper and car batteries, not to mention a pregnant goat terrorizing the town.
Author: , Zhenyinfang
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648571786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
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The War God of rebirth is a beauty
Author: Alex Josey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814893552
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
