The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
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The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Sort of Books
Release Date : 2006-06-04
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society written by Chris Stewart and has been published by Sort of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. You'll cringe with Chris as he tries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again... In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.
A Parrot In The Pepper Tree
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Sort of Books
Release Date : 2002-06-06
A Parrot In The Pepper Tree written by Chris Stewart and has been published by Sort of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloë, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love, their amazement at Chris appearing on the bestseller lists . . and their shock at discovering that their beloved valley is once more under threat of a dam. A Parrot in the Pepper Tree also looks back on Chris Stewart's former life - the hard times shearing in midwinter Sweden (and driving across the frozen sea to reach island farms); his first taste of Spain, learning flamenco guitar as a 20-year old; and his illustrious music career, drumming for his school band Genesis (sacked at 17, he never quite became Phil Collins), and then for a circus.
Driving Over Lemons
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Sort of Books
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Driving Over Lemons written by Chris Stewart and has been published by Sort of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge. It would be enough to send most people straight back home. But Chris and his wife Ana are made of stronger stuff - and besides, they have sunk all their savings into their farm, El Valero, and buying a flock of sheep. So there is no turning back. Life gets tough, but it also gets good. Driving Over Lemons is that rare thing - a funny, insightful book that charms you from the first sun-lit page to the last. And one that makes running an Andalucian mountain farm seem like a half-decent career move. It has been a major bestseller both in Britain and Spain.
Driving Over Lemons
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Driving Over Lemons written by Chris Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with categories.
Driving Over Lemons
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Driving Over Lemons written by Chris Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Alpujarra Region (Spain) categories.
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The Last Days Of The Bus Club
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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Sort of Books
Release Date : 2014-06-04
The Last Days Of The Bus Club written by Chris Stewart and has been published by Sort of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero we find Chris, now a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch for visiting British chef, Rick Stein; discovering the pitfalls of Spanish public speaking; and recalling his own first foray into the adult world of work. Yet it's at El Valero, his beloved sheep farm, that Chris remains in his element as he, his wife Ana and their assorted dogs, cats and sheep weather a near calamitous flood and emerge as newly certified organic farmers. His cash crop? The lemons and oranges he once so blithely drove over, of course.
Jam N And Halal
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Author : Christina Civantos
language : en
Publisher: Amherst College Press
Release Date : 2022
Jam N And Halal written by Christina Civantos and has been published by Amherst College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary Spain reflects broader patterns of globalization and has been the site of tensions between nationalists and immigrants. This case study examines a rural town in Spain's Andalucía in order to shed light on the workings of coexistence. The town of Órgiva's diverse population includes hippies from across Europe, European converts to Sufi Islam, and immigrants from North Africa. Christina Civantos combines the analysis of written and visual cultural texts with oral narratives from residents. In this book, we see that although written and especially televisual narratives about the town highlight tolerance and multiculturalism, they mask tensions and power differentials. Toleration is an ongoing negotiation, and this book shows us how we can identify the points of contact that create robust, respect-based tolerance. "This is a book that is both a personal account and a rigorous academic study. It is a model for the kind of engaged humanistic work we are now beginning to see as a hallmark of the post-theory moment, and one that remembers the hard lessons of ethnographic fieldwork as well as the challenging foundational work from philosophically-tinged theory." --Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University "Filled with rich descriptions and interwoven personal anecdotes of both Civantos and her interlocuters that complement scholarly analysis." --Jessica R. Boll, Carroll University
Mind In Society
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Author : L. S. Vygotsky
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Mind In Society written by L. S. Vygotsky and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Psychology categories.
The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky’s important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English. The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotsky’s relevance to modern psychological thought.
Society And Economy
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Author : Mark Granovetter
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-27
Society And Economy written by Mark Granovetter and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Business & Economics categories.
A work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology, this first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas stresses that the economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities but is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and constraints as religion, science, politics, or law.
Inhuman Conditions
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Author : Pheng Cheah
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Inhuman Conditions written by Pheng Cheah and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human that underwrite our understanding of globalization. Cheah asks whether the contemporary international division of labor so irreparably compromises and mars global solidarities and our sense of human belonging that we must radically rethink cherished ideas about humankind as the bearer of dignity and freedom or culture as a power of transcendence. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and cultural studies to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes them with proliferating formations of collective culture to reveal the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism. Cheah also proposes a radical rethinking of the normative force of human rights in light of how Asian values challenge human rights universalism.