Shadows Over Baku
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Shadows Over Baku
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Author : Karina Yesayeva Khachatorian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Shadows Over Baku written by Karina Yesayeva Khachatorian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with categories.
Karina Yesayeva Khachatorian is an Armenian who grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Baku, Azerbaijan, part of the USSR. However, underlying tensions between the Armenian population and the Azerbaijanis erupted into violence.
Shadows Of Empire
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Author : Laurie Jo Sears
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1996
Shadows Of Empire written by Laurie Jo Sears and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia. Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re-envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought--and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture. Shadows of Empire will appeal not only to specialists in Javanese culture and historians of Indonesia, but also to a wide range of scholars in the areas of performance and literature, anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, and postcolonial studies.
Shadows On The Past
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Author : Leger Grindon
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1994-06-21
Shadows On The Past written by Leger Grindon and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-21 with History categories.
Studying popular Hollywood films from Gone With the Wind to Reds and such distinguished European films as La Marseillaise and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, Leger Grindon examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past. The historical fiction film is characterized by a set of motives and, Grindon argues, deserves to be considered a genre unto itself. Appropriation of historical events can insinuate a film's authority of its subject, veil an intention, provide an escape into nostalgia, or direct a search for knowledge and origins. Utilizing the past as a way of responding to social conflicts in the present, Grindon shows how the genre promotes a political agenda, superseding the influence of scholarship on the public's perception and interpretation of history. In the series Culture and the Moving Image, edited by Robert Sklar.
The Hidden Kingdom
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Author : Ian Beck
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
Release Date : 2011-10-06
The Hidden Kingdom written by Ian Beck and has been published by Oxford University Press - Children this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A pampered prince who has to give up everything he has ever known. A warrior-like girl who has promised to carry out her duty at any cost. An obedient young servant with a mission to complete and an icy chill in his heart. As ancient demons rise around them and conspire to destroy their world, only these three people can defeat the evil which threatens to engulf them. But to do so they must first find a way to survive in the bitter, snowy lands where they are banished, and discover how to work together despite their differences. Only then will they be able to raise the secret armies of the hidden kingdom and fight for a new future together.
Angel My Angel
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Author : Lindsey M. Yik
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-12-30
Angel My Angel written by Lindsey M. Yik and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-30 with Fiction categories.
An angel, named Ikumi, travels to Earth to perform noble, kindhearted deeds in order to gain her wings and become Queen of the realm her family rules. On Earth, she must face her nemesis, the demon princess, Akako Setemoto and her brother, Hisoka. But what happens when Hisoka, the prince demon, begins to romance Ikumi; and the spirited, yet idiotic boy, Akatsuki, jealously guards her with his life? Will Ikumi’s destiny unfold and will she ever find true love?
Forever Dusk
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Author : Jocelyn Adams
language : en
Publisher: Entangled: Embrace
Release Date : 2016-02-08
Forever Dusk written by Jocelyn Adams and has been published by Entangled: Embrace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Fiction categories.
A new adult romance from Entangled's Embrace imprint... A love for the ages...but will it survive the final test? Since their last battle, life for the Mortal Machine—the secret-society that protects Earth and its inhabitants from dark outside forces—has become almost...normal. For everyone but Addison. The evil she’s imprisoned in her soul has begun eating away at her sanity, and despite her soul mate Asher’s efforts to hold her together, it’s causing painful and terrifying delusions. Consequently, nobody believes Addison's warnings that Marcus, their old enemy, has returned. When Marcus threatens Asher and the Machine, she agrees to find what he seeks—a treasure that, in his hands, could be deadly. If she relies too much on Asher, she knows he’ll likely imprison her, if only to preserve what's left of her deteriorating mind. But if she fails this final test, Earth will fall. So Addison is forced to distance herself from her love, to prevent the life she wants with Asher from being over before it truly begins.
The Book Of The Baku
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Author : R.L. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2021-06-15
The Book Of The Baku written by R.L. Boyle and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Fiction categories.
A Monster Calls meets The Shining in this haunting YA dark fantasy about a monster that breaks free from a story into the real world. Sean hasn't spoken a word since he was put into care. When he is sent to live with his grandad, a retired author and total stranger, Sean suddenly finds himself living an affluent life, nothing like the estate he grew up in, where gangs run the streets and violence is around every corner. Sean embraces a new world of drawing, sculpting and reading his grandad's stories. But his grandad has secrets in his past. As his grandad retreats to the shed, buried at the end of his treasured garden, The Baku emerges. The Baku is ancient, a creature that feeds on our fears, and it corrupts everything it touches. Plagued by nightmares, with darkness spreading through the house, Sean must confront his fears to free himself and his grandad from the grip of the Baku.
From The Shadows
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Author : Robert M. Gates
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-12-20
From The Shadows written by Robert M. Gates 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 2011-12-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Written by a former director of the CIA, this is the story of America's and the agency's role in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United States waged against communism worldwide. Ever certain that the fifty-year struggle with the Soviet Union was indeed a war, Gates makes candid appraisals of Presidents, key officials, and policies of the period. Among his disclosures are: how Carter laid the foundations for Reagan's covert wars against the Soviets; CIA predictions of a conservative coup against Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union; CIA and KGB "black operations" against each other; the secret relationship between Pope John Paul II and the Soviets; and three secret CIA-KGB summits. From the Shadows is a classic memoir on the career of a CIA officer at the center of power during a time when the threat of global annihilation informed America's every move.
Willa
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Author : Cory Wheeler Mimms
language : en
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Willa written by Cory Wheeler Mimms and has been published by Black Rose Writing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
After tragedy disrupts her life, Willa escapes her grief by venturing into fantasy. But she soon wakes Baku, a creature whose sole purpose is to devour the threads that tie dreams to reality. With the beast in pursuit and her new friends, Benny and Hadley, helping her, Willa is thrust into adventure. To overcome Baku, she has to find the only person who ever faced the monster and survived, a reclusive old woman who lives high in the mountains. This coming-of-age story contains moments of comedy, but it ultimately deals with overcoming fear and loss. Willa is about a young girl returning to the United States after having lived her whole life on military bases overseas. It is a discovery of a home she has never seen, and the realization that she can build the world she wants to live in.
Dances In Deep Shadows The Clandestine War In Russia 1917 20
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Author : Michael Occleshaw
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Dances In Deep Shadows The Clandestine War In Russia 1917 20 written by Michael Occleshaw and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with History categories.
In 1917 the world was turned upside down by a popular uprising in Russia followed by a Bolshevik coup d'état. Suddenly the socialist revolution was underway. Capitalism was morally and materially exhausted by war, and history seemed to be on the side of communism at last. But as Michael Occleshaw brilliantly shows the clash between communism and capitalism was never as clear-cut as later historians claimed. Far from putting their faith in historical inevitability, the Bolsheviks were shrewd and flexible operators. They used an alliance with the Kaiser's Germany to protect their infant regime and to destroy domestic challengers. The British, French and Americans, meanwhile, actively sought to cooperate with the new government. Occleshaw's wealth of fresh information deepens and enriches our understanding of this crucial period in world history. From the secret negotiations among the Bolsheviks and the capitalist powers, to Britain's plans for a separate Cossack state, he reveals a history darker and more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.