Home Is Not Here
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Home Is Not Here
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Author : Wang Gungwu
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Home Is Not Here written by Wang Gungwu and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with History categories.
Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own. In this volume, Wang talks about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. He was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents’ orientation was always to China. Wang grew up in the plural, multi-ethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya (now Malaysia). He learned English in colonial schools and was taught the Confucian classics at home. After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya. Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.
Home Is Where We Are
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Author : Wang Gungwu
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2020-12-09
Home Is Where We Are written by Wang Gungwu and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-09 with categories.
No Home For You Here
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Author : Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2020-03-01
No Home For You Here written by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-01 with Political Science categories.
No Home for You Here is a memoir of a life lived in the shadow of Ronald Reagan. Raised in rural Ohio, Adam Theron-Lee Rensch tells the story of a millennial trying—and failing—to leave behind the shame of growing up poor in the middle of nowhere. Interweaving personal narrative and political criticism with recent social and political history, No Home for You Here shows how the interrelationship of class, culture, and identity stifles working-class solidarity by constructing an imagined cultural divide that those in power use to maintain the status quo. With one foot on each side of this division, Rensch moves between the flat horizon of the Midwest and the densely populated streets of the city, bearing witness to the tragic effects of a precarious free-market economy on family and friends. Rather than wallowing in despair, however, No Home for You Here is a timely, passionate call for class consciousness in an era of economic crisis and staggering inequality.
Hard Choices
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Author : Donald Low
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Hard Choices written by Donald Low and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Social Science categories.
Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of political consensus that ordinary democratic arrangements cannot produce, and that the country's success requires a competitive meritocracy accompanied by relatively little income or wealth redistribution.But the policy and political conundrums that Singapore faces today are complex and defy easy answers. Confronted with a political landscape that is likely to become more contested, how should the government respond? What reforms should it pursue? This collection of essays suggests that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country's policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the very consensus that enabled Singapore to succeed in its first fifty years.
From Here To Home
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Author : Marie Bostwick
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Books
Release Date : 2016-04-01
From Here To Home written by Marie Bostwick and has been published by Kensington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Fiction categories.
A successful quilter worries about a new rival—and a newly independent son—in a novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Between Heaven and Texas. Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet, quirky charms of Too Much, Texas to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown--and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented co-host and color consultant, and happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell's new boss hopes to attract a different demographic--by bringing in a younger co-host. What Holly Silva knows about quilting wouldn't fill a thimble, but she's smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, and Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful… "Marie Bostwick is my go-to author…always powerful, inspiring, and uplifting." –Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A brilliant storyteller." --Las Vegas Review-Journal
We Shall Not Be Moved
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Author : Tom Wooten
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-08-07
We Shall Not Be Moved written by Tom Wooten and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Social Science categories.
As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing story of the community leaders who stepped into this void to rebuild the city they loved. From a Vietnamese Catholic priest who immediately knows when two of his six thousand parishioners go missing to a single mother from the Lower Ninth Ward who instructs the likes of Jimmy Carter and Brad Pitt, these intrepid local organizers show that a city’s fate rests on the backs of its citizens. On their watch, New Orleans neighborhoods become small governments. These leaders organize their neighbors to ward off demolition threats, write comprehensive recovery plans, found community schools, open volunteer centers, raise funds to rebuild fire stations and libraries, and convince tens of thousands of skeptical residents to return home. Focusing on recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoods—Broadmoor, Hollygrove, Lakeview, the Lower Ninth Ward, and Village de l’Est—Tom Wooten presents vivid narratives through the eyes and voices of residents rebuilding their homes, telling a story of resilience as entertaining as it is instructive. The unprecedented community mobilization underway in New Orleans is a silver lining of Hurricane Katrina’s legacy. By shedding light on this rebirth, We Shall Not Be Moved shows how residents, remarkably, turned a profound national failure into a story of hope.
If You Lived Here You D Be Home By Now
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Author : Sandra Tsing Loh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1998-09-01
If You Lived Here You D Be Home By Now written by Sandra Tsing Loh and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Bronwyn and Paul are a couple stranded at a "temporary" stop on their inevitable way to Hollywood glamour--in a house that is so ugly, so frayed, so...brown that it's almost cool. But just as the Bohemian life is wearing painfully thin, their fortunes change, catapulting them out of the world of practical problems and into the world of ethical ones.
If You Lived Here You D Be Home By Now
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Author : Christopher Ingraham
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-09-10
If You Lived Here You D Be Home By Now written by Christopher Ingraham and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Social Science categories.
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “With humor and insight, [the author] writes of relocating his family from Washington, DC, to rural Minnesota.” —Publishers Weekly This is the hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America.” Like many young couples, Chris and his wife, Briana, were having a hard time making ends meet as they raised their twin boys in the East Coast suburbs. One day, Chris—in his role as a “data guy” reporter at the Washington Post—stumbled on a study that would change his life. It was a ranking of America’s 3,000+ counties from ugliest to most scenic. He quickly scrolled to the bottom of the list and gleefully wrote the words “The absolute worst place to live in America is (drumroll please) . . . Red Lake County, Minn.” The story went viral, to put it mildly. Among the reactions were many from residents of Red Lake County. While they were unflappably polite—it’s not called “Minnesota Nice” for nothing—they challenged him to look beyond the spreadsheet and actually visit their community. Ingraham, with slight trepidation, accepted. Impressed by the locals’ warmth, humor, and hospitality (and ever more aware of their financial situation and his torturous commute), Chris and Briana eventually decided to relocate to the town he’d just dragged through the dirt on the Internet. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now is the story of making a decision that turns all your preconceptions—good and bad—on their heads. In Red Lake County, Ingraham experiences the power of small-town gossip, struggles to find a decent cup of coffee, suffers through winters with temperatures dropping to forty below, and unearths some truths about rural life that the coastal media usually miss. It’s a wry and charming tale—with data!—of what happened to one family brave enough to move waaaay beyond its comfort zone. “Ingraham deals with a number of fundamental issues: health care, schools, social life, and, of course, the extreme cold of northern Minnesota . . . Throughout, Ingraham writes with the conviction of one who has found—as least for him—tranquility and truth.” —Kirkus Reviews
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The World Book Encyclopedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
An encyclopedia designed to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and high school students.
Letters Home
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Author : Jennifer Wong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Letters Home written by Jennifer Wong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.