The Haunted Tropics
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The Haunted Tropics
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Author : Martin Munro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Haunted Tropics written by Martin Munro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fiction categories.
"Every island of the Caribbean is the site of a deep haunting. Before Columbus, the various indigenous peoples - the Arawaks, the Caribs, the Tainos - lived in relative harmony with the land, the sea and each other. Everything changed in 1492: the Amerindian people quickly were decimated, their presence erased by disease, wars and overwork. These are the Caribbean's oldest ghosts, almost invisible in history yet still present in the form of place names, fragments of language, ancient foods, and pockets of descendants speckling the islands. . . ."Given the history of the Caribbean, it is not surprising that much of the region's literature bears a haunted quality: ghosts are everywhere, be they of the Amerindians, the African ancestors, the slaves, the planters, the indentured workers, the victims of dictatorships, foreign invasions and natural disasters, or the modern exiles. To a large extent, Caribbean fiction in general is a collection of ghost stories, tales of haunted people, memories and places. . . ."This book brings together some of the region's leading contemporary authors, from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean, as well as the United States andCanada, and constitutes a unique, transcultural anthology in which living authors evoke the dead, the undead and the dying, the ghosts that haunt their experiences and their works as modern writers of the Caribbean."--From the introduction by Martin Munro
Forgotten Lands Volume 05
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Author : Joseph Douglas Elmhirst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06
Forgotten Lands Volume 05 written by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06 with categories.
Volume 05 of Forgotten Lands is examining the colonial origins that are still at work within and around the Caribbean today. We're also considering the context of these matrixed layers of identity and the reality of our own displacement in the current post-globalized world. How might today's coloniality of power present itself in your region and how do you address this in your practice?
Tales From The Torrid Zone
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Author : Alexander Frater
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-02-25
Tales From The Torrid Zone written by Alexander Frater and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-25 with Travel categories.
Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the Torrid Zone is rooted in Alex Frater's birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu where his father ran its hospital and his mother, in her front garden, built its first school. From this obscure South Seas group he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since – dines with a tropical queen in a leper colony, makes his way across tropical Africa (and two civil wars) in a forty-four-year-old flying boat, delivers a new church bell to a remote Oceanian island and visits scores of countries to learn about their history, politics, medicine, flora and fauna (including the remarkable role of the coconut in tropical life). But, as becomes plain, the torrid zone is not just a geographical phenomenon, it’s also a state of mind. The result is a witty, entertaining and immensely readable book from a fine storyteller.
The Geography Of Bliss
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Author : Eric Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-10-30
The Geography Of Bliss written by Eric Weiner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Travel categories.
What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
Population Politics In The Tropics
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Author : Samuël Coghe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Population Politics In The Tropics written by Samuël Coghe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Medical categories.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, 2014.
Tropics Of Haiti
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Author : Marlene L. Daut
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-17
Tropics Of Haiti written by Marlene L. Daut and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with Social Science categories.
A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about ‘race’ affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.
Tropic Of Football
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Author : Rob Ruck
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Tropic Of Football written by Rob Ruck 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 2018-07-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award “Everything that’s rousing and distressing about block-and-tackle football is encompassed in Tropic of Football. . . illuminating.” —Newsday How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players—from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota—for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots—high school and youth travel program—are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good at football—their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image—makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries. Award-winning sports historian Rob Ruck travels to the South Seas to unravel American Samoa's complex ties with the United States. He finds an island blighted by obesity, where boys train on fields blistered with volcanic pebbles wearing helmets that should have been discarded long ago, incurring far more neurological damage than their stateside counterparts and haunted by Junior Seau, who committed suicide after a vaunted twenty-year NFL career, unable to live with the demons that resulted from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Tropic of Football is a gripping, bittersweet history of what may be football's last frontier.
The Green Turtle Mystery
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Author : Ellery Queen
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-03-10
The Green Turtle Mystery written by Ellery Queen and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
To rescue a friend’s pet turtle, Djuna must solve the riddle of a haunted house His new shoeshine box under his arm, boy-sleuth Djuna is looking for customers when he meets a young reporter named Socker Furlong. Socker assigns Djuna and copyboy Ben Franklin to investigate a haunted empty house. Djuna, Ben, and Ben’s pet turtle are having a lot of fun creeping around outside—until the place turns out not to be so abandoned after all. Djuna sees people inside the house, and when he knocks, a young girl answers the door—only to slam it in his face. Djuna and Ben run for help and are halfway down the block when Ben notices that his turtle is missing. To get him back, they will have to crack the mystery of the haunted house, no matter what ghosts may stand in their way. Ellery Queen is one of the world’s finest detectives, but his adventures are nothing compared to the Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Stories. Join Queen’s apprentice, Djuna, and his trusty Scottie, Champ, on adventures filled with danger, suspense, and thrills. The Green Turtle Mystery is the third book in the Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Stories, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Different Drummers
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Author : Martin Munro
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-07-16
Different Drummers written by Martin Munro and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Munro argues in an informed and imaginative way that greater attention should be paid to the recurring sonic elements of black cultures in the new world. Different Drummers provides profound insights into the importance of rhythm as a marker of resistance and a dynamic facet of everyday life across Caribbean literatures and in African American music."—J. Michael Dash, New York University "Munro takes us on a fascinating journey through the music of poetry and the poetry of music, beautifully tying together the cultures and literary texts of a range of Caribbean societies."—Laurent Dubois, author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France
Ghosts In The Schoolyard
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Author : Eve L. Ewing
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-02-05
Ghosts In The Schoolyard written by Eve L. Ewing and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-05 with Education categories.
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.