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A Stranger In Your Own City

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Author : Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-03-14

A Stranger In Your Own City written by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with History categories.

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. “An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq…Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad…offers an overdue reckoning with a broken history.”—Declan Walsh, author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State “A vital archive of a time and place in history…Impossible to put down.”—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present? A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraq’s history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a new country; who experienced the horror of having their home fragmented into a hundred different cities. When the “Shock and Awe” campaign began in March 2003, Abdul-Ahad was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a reporter for The Guardian and elsewhere, chronicling the unbuilding of his centuries-old cosmopolitan city. Beginning at that moment and spanning twenty years, Abdul-Ahad’s book decenters the West and in its place focuses on everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, citizens blown sideways through life by the war, and the proliferation of sectarian battles that continue to this day. Here is their Iraq, seen from the inside: the human cost of violence, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. A Stranger in Your Own City is a rare work of beauty and tragedy whose power and relevance lie in its attempt to return the land to the people to whom it belongs.

Strangers In The City

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Author : Li Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001

Strangers In The City written by Li Zhang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.

Strangers In Their Own Land

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Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2018-02-20

Strangers In Their Own Land written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Political Science categories.

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.

Stranger In The Shogun S City

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Author : Amy Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-07-14

Stranger In The Shogun S City written by Amy Stanley and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with History categories.

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).

The New Koran Of The Pacifican Friendhood Or Text Book Of Turkish Reformers In The Teaching And Example Of Their Esteemed Master J Morata By J Vickers

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Author : Jaido MORATA
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861

The New Koran Of The Pacifican Friendhood Or Text Book Of Turkish Reformers In The Teaching And Example Of Their Esteemed Master J Morata By J Vickers written by Jaido MORATA and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.

A Stranger S Journey An Isekai Adventure Trip To Renew The World 3

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Author : Karen Parker
language : en
Publisher: MoreAudiobooks
Release Date : 2024-12-07

A Stranger S Journey An Isekai Adventure Trip To Renew The World 3 written by Karen Parker and has been published by MoreAudiobooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-07 with Fiction categories.

In a realm where the whisper of leaves carries ancient secrets and power flows through the earth's roots, a new ruler rises from the shadows of the forest. Here, in a kingdom forged from the wilderness itself, alliances are as fleeting as the morning mist, and survival demands more than mere strength. With a deep connection to the mystical forces of the forest, our hero must tread the dangerous path to sovereignty, balance the delicate politics of rival clans, and master the raw, untamed magic that permeates the land. In the midst of battles that reshape the fabric of nature, a dynasty is born of resilience and an unwavering will to survive. This epic narrative weaves the strands of destiny and power into a story in which every heartbeat is a brushstroke in the great painting of a kingdom's rise.

The Plough The Loom And The Anvil

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855

The Plough The Loom And The Anvil written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Agriculture categories.

Commercial Review Of The South And West

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Author : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855

Commercial Review Of The South And West written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Industries categories.

Plough The Loom And The Anvil

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855

Plough The Loom And The Anvil written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Agriculture categories.

Gentrification In Contemporary Fiction

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Author : James Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2025-05-15

Gentrification In Contemporary Fiction written by James Peacock and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Literary texts, so adept at revealing the experiences and emotions of individuals within communities, are also important vehicles for exploring the complex relationships between individuals and the wider social, economic and political forces that lead to urban transformations including gentrification. These complexities are best revealed, this book argues, by proceeding from a forensic examination of characters' domestic buildings and spaces. Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification.