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The Gate
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Author : E. Johannes Soltermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Gate written by E. Johannes Soltermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Spirituality categories.
The Gate
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Author : Natsume Soseki
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2012-12-04
The Gate written by Natsume Soseki and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-04 with Fiction categories.
An NYRB Calssics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sōsuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament. This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by one of Japan’s greatest writers. At the end of his life, Natsume Sōseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.
The Banana Tree At The Gate
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Author : Michael R. Dove
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Banana Tree At The Gate written by Michael R. Dove and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
The "Hikayat Banjar", a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system, standing on its head the prevailing view of resource-poor and economically marginal tropical forest dwellers. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. This success is based on the development of a "dual" household economy, with distinct subsistence- and market-oriented sectors, which has historically made these "smallholders" extremely competitive with the large-scale, heavily capitalized, state-supported plantation sector. Dove sheds new light on the nature of smallholders and in particular their relationship with the global economic system. He demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. His analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. The ubiquitous but historically inaccurate emphasis on isolation and resource-poverty disguises that the overweening characteristic of these communities is their political marginality and that their greatest want is not to be uplifted economically but to be empowered politically.
The Gate Of The Giant Scissors
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Author : Annie Fellows Johnston
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-05-23
The Gate Of The Giant Scissors written by Annie Fellows Johnston and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-23 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie Fellows Johnston
Stoning The Keepers At The Gate
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Author : Lawrence N. Blum
language : en
Publisher: Lantern Books
Release Date : 2002
Stoning The Keepers At The Gate written by Lawrence N. Blum and has been published by Lantern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
In Stoning the Keepers at the Gate, police psychologist Lawrence N.Blum, Ph.D.looks at the role of law enforcement in modern times and argues that, while bad cops need to be rooted out, blanket condemnation of the police threatens the very liberties that make such condemnation possible, as well as the safety of the American public in their homes and lives. Blum argues that the enormous stresses officers experience--from violent physical attack to unrewarded or miusunderstood acts of heroism--require special understanding, an understanding that is often missing from police departments themselves. Blum provides a unique insight into the dynamics, practices, and activities within police agencies that influence police officers' actions, and that often hide the real sources of police behaviors that are thought of as faulty, insensitive, or inappropriate. A passionate call not only for understanding but a reappraisal of whose actions are scrutinized within and outside of police agencies, police accountability, and the nature of policing itself in the twenty-first century. Stoning the Keepers at the Gate is a dynamic and fascinating analysis of the role of law enforcement today.
Barbarians At The Gate
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Author : Bryan Burrough
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Barbarians At The Gate written by Bryan Burrough and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Business & Economics categories.
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal. The Los Angeles Times calls Barbarians at the Gate, “Superlative.” The Chicago Tribune raves, “It’s hard to imagine a better story...and it’s hard to imagine a better account.” And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.
Closing The Gate
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Author : Andrew Gyory
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Closing The Gate written by Andrew Gyory and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicians sought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers' demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, they claimed instead that working people would be better off if there were no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyory argues, national politicians--not California, not organized labor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motive force behind the era's most racist legislation.
Opening The Gate
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Author : Lily Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Opening The Gate written by Lily Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Central Hawke's Bay District (N.Z.) categories.
The Gate Of The Pacific
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Author : Bedford Pim
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-04-28
The Gate Of The Pacific written by Bedford Pim and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
The Gates Of Heaven
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Author : Curt Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Release Date : 2004-09-07
The Gates Of Heaven written by Curt Benjamin and has been published by Astra Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-07 with Fiction categories.
The evil sorcerer Markko has sworn to capture the last of Prince Llesho's brothers. If Markko succeeds, Llesho will not be able to save Thebin, or reopen the Gates of Heaven. As murder and dark magic threaten Llesho's alliances, he realizes his only chance lies in finding his brothers first. So begins a desperate hunt that will lead the prince from the slave market to a sea voyage fraught with perils, and an incredible discovery about the sorcerer who seems bent on his destruction.