[PDF] Buried Communities eBook

Author : Kurt Fosso
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791459591

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Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Author : Elliot Jaspin
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0465036376

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the secret history of racial cleansing in America

Author : Anthony Aveni
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596439130

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A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 142992389X

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Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic—lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 bce, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost—buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of the wild king Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. The Buried Book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its deciphering in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist who created a sensation when he discovered Gilgamesh among the thousands of tablets in the British Museum's collection. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself. Damrosch reveals the story as a literary bridge between East and West: a document lost in Babylonia, discovered by an Iraqi, decoded by an Englishman, and appropriated in novels by both Philip Roth and Saddam Hussein. This is an illuminating, fast-paced tale of history as it was written, stolen, lost, and—after 2,000 years, countless battles, fevered digs, conspiracies, and revelations—finally found.

Author : Robin Merrow MacCready
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780142411414

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Winner of the Edgar Award! Careful planning and constant control is Claudine's protection. Order is her weapon. She's long buried her own needs and dreams to cover for her alcoholic mom. But when Mom suddenly disappeares-another alcoholic binge-seventeen-year-old Claudine finds herself all alone, and a much darker reality emerges from beneath years of angry denial and enabling behavior. And as the truth comes closer to the surface, Claudine must dig for the answers she's always worked so hard to cover up.

Author : Ken Wylie
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1771600284

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On January 20, 2003, at 10:45 a.m., a massive avalanche in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia struck three members of two guided backcountry skiing groups and buried them. After a frantic hour of digging by those still standing, an unthinkable outcome became reality: seven people were dead. The tragedy made international news, splashing photos of the seven dead Canadian and US skiers on television screens and newspaper pages. The official analysis was that guide error was not a contributing factor in the accident. This interpretation was insufficient for some of the victims’ families, the public and some members of the guiding community. Buried is the assistant guide’s story. It renders an answerable truth about what happened by delving deep into the human factors that played into putting people in harm’s way as well as the peace that comes from accountability and the personal growth that results from understanding.

Author : Kurt Fosso
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791459607

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Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Author : Alexia Salvatierra
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493435019

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This book demonstrates how two overlooked ministry models--base ecclesial communities of the Global South in the late 20th century and hush harbors of the US Deep South during antebellum times--offer proven strategies for the 21st-century church and contemporary social movements. These ministry models provide insight into the creation and sustenance of vital Christian community, particularly for those seeking indigenous culturally-rooted models, and show how to and show how to integrate vibrant Christ-centered faith and mission with world-changing social justice and political action. The book includes on-the-ground stories from multiethnic communities, a foreword by Robert Chao Romero, and an afterword by Willie James Jennings.