Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607342278
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
Bamboo Promise
Author: Vicheara Houn
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458202232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up as the sheltered and privileged only child of a wealthy, prominent Cambodian family. In her young life, she was oblivious of the impoverished lives of the underclass in Cambodia, and of the politics and world events that were sweeping her and her country toward one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. The rich Cambodian culture and all the competing Western influences are vividly displayed in her descriptions of her life with her father as he tries to mold her into a highly educated and independent woman who still exemplifies all the virtues of the idealized, traditional Cambodian woman. The political tides that enveloped Southeast Asia in the 1970s began to become real to Vicheara when her fathers responsibilities in the Lon Nol government caused him to personally negotiate with a group of Khmer Rouge insurgents, including inviting them to a dinner at his home. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot - the monstrous leader of the communist guerrilla organization transformed Cambodia, the country of his birth, into a Prison Without Walls. This was one week before the fall of Saigon, Vietnam. This extreme form of radical communism eliminated religion, culture, currency, personal property, hospitals, schools, the banking system, and every other vestige of modern urban life. They committed class genocide against Cambodians educated urban citizens through starvation, execution, and forced labor. Nearly half the population of Cambodia died in the four years that followed, many in the Killing Fields, and as Toul Sleng Prison, the slaughterhouse in Phnom-Penh. When Vicheara, near death from starvation, staggered out of the Pol Pot Time in 1979, she was alone, an orphan, a stranger in a world forever changed. The Cambodia of her childhood was gone as were most of her family and friends. Her journey through horror, privation and humiliation finally led her to the United States in 1984.
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458202232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up as the sheltered and privileged only child of a wealthy, prominent Cambodian family. In her young life, she was oblivious of the impoverished lives of the underclass in Cambodia, and of the politics and world events that were sweeping her and her country toward one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. The rich Cambodian culture and all the competing Western influences are vividly displayed in her descriptions of her life with her father as he tries to mold her into a highly educated and independent woman who still exemplifies all the virtues of the idealized, traditional Cambodian woman. The political tides that enveloped Southeast Asia in the 1970s began to become real to Vicheara when her fathers responsibilities in the Lon Nol government caused him to personally negotiate with a group of Khmer Rouge insurgents, including inviting them to a dinner at his home. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot - the monstrous leader of the communist guerrilla organization transformed Cambodia, the country of his birth, into a Prison Without Walls. This was one week before the fall of Saigon, Vietnam. This extreme form of radical communism eliminated religion, culture, currency, personal property, hospitals, schools, the banking system, and every other vestige of modern urban life. They committed class genocide against Cambodians educated urban citizens through starvation, execution, and forced labor. Nearly half the population of Cambodia died in the four years that followed, many in the Killing Fields, and as Toul Sleng Prison, the slaughterhouse in Phnom-Penh. When Vicheara, near death from starvation, staggered out of the Pol Pot Time in 1979, she was alone, an orphan, a stranger in a world forever changed. The Cambodia of her childhood was gone as were most of her family and friends. Her journey through horror, privation and humiliation finally led her to the United States in 1984.
Bamboo People
Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607342278
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607342278
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
Grass
Author: Estados Unidos Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Grass in the nation's life; grass in the ten regions; grass in the charts and tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Grass in the nation's life; grass in the ten regions; grass in the charts and tables.
Grass
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper
Author: Jack W. Hayford
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418518735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This best selling book has been completely revised and expanded with new author insights and stories on each of the Promise Keeper's seven promises. Men will find practical ways to deepen their Christian walk with encouraging chapters from Bill Bright, James Dobson, Gary Smalley and Luis Palau and many others.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418518735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This best selling book has been completely revised and expanded with new author insights and stories on each of the Promise Keeper's seven promises. Men will find practical ways to deepen their Christian walk with encouraging chapters from Bill Bright, James Dobson, Gary Smalley and Luis Palau and many others.
Inventory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Plant Inventory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Water the Bamboo
Author: Greg Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935313618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935313618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The Great Bamboo War
Author: Benjamin K. Paplham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312904186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Brutus the Panda King is thrust into a perilous adventure to save the Animal Realms.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312904186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Brutus the Panda King is thrust into a perilous adventure to save the Animal Realms.
Yearbook of Agriculture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description