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Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Uvin, Peter, PUBLISHER: Zed Books, Burundi recently emerged from twelve years of civil war. In this book, ordinary Burundians, farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships with each other and the state. Young men, in particular, often seen as the cause of violence, talk about the difficulties of living up to standards of masculinity in an impoverished and war-torn society. Weaving a rich tapestry, Peter Uvin pitches the ideas and aspirations of people on the ground against the assumptions often made by the international development and peace-building agencies. This groundbreaking book on conflict and society in Africa will have profound repercussions for development across the world.

A Way of Life, Disrupted

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scorgie, Bert, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, This story is to illustrate how life changed over eighty years, how the Second World War changed peoples lives for ever. How technology keeps producing new ideas that makes life easier but not neccesary making the world a more friendly place to live in. I have tried to show people that life was not always about mobile phones and personal computors. The characters in the book are based on people that I grew up with having spent my early years living on a croft experiencing the hardships that went along with that era and way of life.

Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vayrynen, Raimo / Gaffney, Patrick / Demars, William E., PUBLISHER: Kumarian Press, * Offers strategies for conflict transformation, based on a "conflict prevention toolbox," which deals with all aspects of the conflict cycle* Burundi and Macedonia make powerful case studies"Breaking Cycles of Violence" studies how the international community, working with local partners, can effectively pinpoint key breaking points and target resources for societies at risk of violent conflict.This book provides policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students with a framework for recognizing and tackling the complexities of internal and intrastate conflicts in order to avert violence and mass human suffering. It presents guidelines for using early warning indicators to assess the causes of conflict; using preventative action to contain it; and using multidimensional strategies to rehabilitate societies through the cycle of post-conflict peacebuilding.

The Legend of Blue Jacket

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spradlin, Michael P. / Himler, Ronald, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, He was only sixteen when the Shawnee Indians took him from his home. But he wasn't captured. He went "willingly." And, after many years of proving his bravery in battle against the colonists, he was named war chief of the Shawnee. His name was Blue Jacket. Here, told in riveting narrative and stunning, historically accurate illustrations, is the incredible story of a white boy who spent the first sixteen years of his life among white settlers and the rest of his life fighting them.

A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zweig, Connie, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, In A Moth to the Flame, the first novel about the life of the Sufi Poet Rumi, based on original sources in both Farsi and English, we discover the key moments that shaped his genius. Although this story happened a long time ago, during another time of war between Islam and the West, this tale of an individual life fully lived is the tale of every life. In the tradition of Siddhartha or The Last Temptation of Christ, his story is the mythic story of the human soul. We watch his faith tested, and we witness his meeting with the beloved which overturned his world and led, eventually, to his union with God. For centuries Rumi has remained alive in the hearts of millions around the world. His story, as told in this novel, burns like a torch of inspiration for us all.

Need-Fire

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gibson, Becky Gould, PUBLISHER: Bright Hill Press, Poetry. NEED-FIRE is a sequence of letters and monologues from people connected with double monasteries in seventh-century England. The dominant voices are those of Hild, her kinswoman and successor Aelfflaed, and Ely's abbess Etheldreda. Little is known of these women; the poems begin where history leaves off. "From the moment of Hild's (Abbess of Whiby) birth to years after her death, NEED-FIRE charts the journey of one woman's extraordinary life. It never stumbles in its commitment to the story. In one poem a sparrow flies through a house 'So with the life of man/ of what goes before/ of what comes after.' Blood, water, fire, birds, beds, hunger, cold-the words burn like the shepherd's fires, incantations against dark and despair, the new G-d coming to replace the old"--Liz Rosenberg.

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Spin Us a Dream

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Potter, Charlotte, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Charlotte has a deep compassion for those who suffer. It is this compassion that drives her to share many stories from her life and the lives of those around her. She includes references from the Bible to support her source of strength in the tragedies of life. Her story of physical death in , Godas loving hand and her battle through the road to recovery are included. She has also included stories of loneliness and ridicule as she struggled most of her life to find love. She does find the true love she was searching for after forty-plus years of pain and suffering. This book is bound to touch the lives of those who read it.

An XL Life: Staying Big at Half the Size

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Big Boy, PUBLISHER: Cash Money Content, Growing up homeless, fatherless and facing more than a few problems with gang violence and issues of self-worth, Big Boy managed to rise to the top of the hip-hop world and west-coast radio scene. For 33 years of Big Boy's life size didn't matter. As he reached the pinnacle of broadcasting he just kept piling on the pounds, and claiming award after award in radio. Right around this time he stepped on the scale and it read "510" pounds, celebrities took bets that he couldn't drop the weight. Choosing to put his career first, even when his life was on the line after opting for a radical surgical procedure, Big fought through the greatest struggle of his life. In this book the joke song-singing, crank call-making, celebrity interviewing, wise-cracking, all around hilarious, humongous black dude behind the wildly popular morning radio program Big Boy's Neighborhood" shares everything he lived through and learned along the way.

City of Sacrifice: Violence from the Aztec Empire to the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carrasco, David L., PUBLISHER: Beacon Press, At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice, Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.

The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Koofi, Fawzia / Gourhi, Nadene / Ghouri, Nadene, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose to become the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker. Here, she shares her amazing story, punctuated by a series of poignant letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip--letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan. Her story movingly captures the political and cultural moment in Afghanistan, a country caught between the hope of progress and the bitter truth of history.

African Arts & Cultures

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Chanda, Jacqueline, PUBLISHER: Davis Publications, Celebrate the diversity and beauty of cultures in sub-Saharan Africa through a study of their art. Examine the traditional role of art in all facets of life -- the rites of passage, religious rituals, farming and daily existence. Conveying political, social, and economic themes, these works of art are visual proof of the cultural distinctiveness of the different African peoples.

A Bird of Passage: The Story of My Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lang, Otto, PUBLISHER: SkyHouse Publishers, This legendary skier gives a firsthand account of his colorful life and his impact on the world of skiing. One of the well-known "ski pioneers", Lang directed the famed Sun Valley Ski School. He is also famous for his film direction and photography.

Doors of Possibility: The Life of Emmeline Tanner

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Major, Susan, PUBLISHER: Lutterworth Press, The story of the educationalist and headmistress of the Roedean School, recording a period of intense change in girls' secondary education in England.

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Fencing the Sky

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Galvin, James, PUBLISHER: Picador USA, From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West. Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This lyrical first novel--long-awaited by the many admirers of James Galvin's "The Meadow"--is nothing less than the story of the disappearance of the American West.

Violence Prevention in Low- And Middle-Income Countries:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Planning Committee for a Workshop on Vio / Institute Of Medicine, PUBLISHER: National Academies Press, The current state of science in violence prevention reveals progress, promise, and a number of remaining challenges. In order to fully examine the issue of global violence prevention, the Institute of Medicine in collaboration with Global Violence Prevention Advocacy, convened a workshop and released the workshop summary entitled, "Violence Prevention in Low-and Middle-Income Countries." The workshop brought together participants with a wide array of expertise in fields related to health, criminal justice, public policy, and economic development, to study and articulate specific opportunities for the U.S. government and other leaders with resources to more effectively support programming for prevention of the many types of violence. Participants highlighted the need for the timely development of an integrated, science-based approach and agenda to support research, clinical practice, program development, policy analysis, and advocacy for violence prevention.

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The Greening: Story of the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cook/Weber, PUBLISHER: Beacon Hill Press, Compassionate ministries in the Church of the Nazarene have brought new life to stricken people and places in our world. This book is the story of how this ministry is 'greening up' a few blighted areas of this world. Paper.

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Atwood, Margaret, PUBLISHER: Canongate Books, The story of Penelope -- as told by herself. In The Odyssey, Penelope -- daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy -- is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood's dazzling retelling of the old myth is as haunting as it is wise and compassionate, as disturbing as it is entertaining. With incomparable wit and verve, she gives the story of Penelope new life and reality. "Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local--a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than The Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumours circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids. The Maids form a chanting and singing Chorus which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of The Odyssey: what led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids; and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself. --from Margaret Atwood's Introduction to The Penelopiad "From the Hardcover edition.

Kenya

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tomkinson, Michael, PUBLISHER: Michael Tomkinson Pub., In "Michael Tomkinson's Kenya", 194 color illustrations beautifully capture the incredible wildlife and the eclectic mix of peoples and cultures of Kenya while the text tells the story of a country almost mythical in its history and grandeur.

Story of My Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jay McInerney, PUBLISHER: Grove Press, NA

Going After Cacciato

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Brien, Tim, PUBLISHER: Broadway Books, "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote "The" "New York Times" of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.

Allison's Story: A Book about Homeschooling

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lurie, Jon / Dallinger, Rebecca, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group, A series of photographic essays, Meeting the Challenge demonstrates how young people facing a variety of special challenges make the adjustments their situations require. Each book tells the story of one child's day-to-day life, from the child's point of view. A strong supplement for school counseling programs.

The Making of a Made Man: A True Story, My Story, the Whole

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shabazz Born Allah, Born Allah, PUBLISHER: Outskirts Press, Shabazz Born Allah (The Bazz), has faced many unfortunate life experiences. Fortunately he found ways to turn those adversities, into talents that help as well as entertain others. In his first book (The Trials of a Made Man) was published by Outskirts Press. The book chronicled two of his most pivotal and life altering years. In which time, The Bazz would find his voice, purpose and peace of mind

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