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Claymore Straker novels volume 3
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu's newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the shattering events that led to his dishonorable discharge and exile, 15 years earlier. It was 1980. The height of the Cold War. Clay is a young paratrooper in the South African Army, fighting...
Author
Publisher
Eres Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Christophe Maides has conquered Cwmdu and the flaxen-haired woman bred of the valley. The mountains that surround his new home pose no threat, nor does Morgan Cwmdu whose venom has tormented his beloved wife, Caryl Gernant, for months yet he cannot conquer the dreams torturing his nights and separating him from the only woman he has ever loved.With the appearance of three hunters, Christophe is catapulted into a past life he has striven to forget...
Author
Publisher
Patty Ann
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dreams do come true. The year 2014 held the record for roller coaster rides. After being estranged too long, the year started off with a farewell letter to my adult kids. I surrendered and was done. But, my mother had a better plan. Several months later she passed. Her funeral was the first time I had seen my kids in 4 years. Certainly it was not easy for any of us at such an emotion event. But in just 6 hours of that day it was amazing what transpired....
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors a " from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations a " have confronted...
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Language
English
Description
What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
Author
Language
English
Description
What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
10) Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: Migration, Language, and Politics
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization generally and multicultural policies more specifically. The chapters in this book are grouped in three parts: theories, language, and migration and they explicate details of multiculturalism in the Asia-Pacific, largely focused on Japan, but including cases that extend beyond...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Moving stories of American immigrants and their journeys
In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them.
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Language
English
Description
The authors tell how they grew up in China, met in India and were reunited in England and Japan. They share their discovery of the key to reconciliation between China and Japan.
Digging deep into their personal histories and borrowing freely from their understanding of the world, the authors offer a reflection that seeks to absorb the still-resounding messages, meant for humanity as a whole, of Hiroshima and Nanjing. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian and...
Author
Publisher
Patty Ann
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This 4-pack is a must read for every parent AND adult child that is approaching- or is in the midst of an estrangement arrangement. Coping strategies, getting support, exploring options to life choices, and all topics concerning estrangement are discussed openly. From beginning to end read one woman's unforgettable journey to discover impossible dreams do come true.Estrangement is one of the largest growing segments known as the "Silent Epidemic"....
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors – from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations –...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In this interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's famous phrase, the president of the National Constitution Center profiles six of the most influential founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives and how it became the foundation of our democracy.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
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