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January 31, 2024

Duke of Deception Memories of My Father

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Free Download Geoffrey Wolff, "Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father"
English | 1990 | pages: 275 | ISBN: 0679727523, 0394410521 | EPUB | 4,5 mb
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman – a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.

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January 30, 2024

Persianate Selves Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism

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Free Download Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism By Mana Kia
2020 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1503610683 | PDF | 3 MB
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.

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January 26, 2024

Palestine Memories of 1948 Photographs of Jerusalem

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Free Download Palestine Memories of 1948: Photographs of Jerusalem by Chris Conti, Altair Alcantra, Isabelle Lavigne
English | February 28, 2020 | ISBN: 1843916568 | 256 pages | MOBI | 26 Mb
Seventy-one years ago, in 1948, the Nakba-the "catastrophe"-overturned life in Palestine, forcing three-quarters of Palestinians into exile, depriving them of their land, their homes, their belongings. Today, those who can bear witness to that period are becoming rare. From different social backgrounds, 19 men and women remember the coexistence that prevailed in Palestine, the war, the exile, as well as the strength and resilience which they had to muster to adapt to new realities. Life stories expressed in the first person are accompanied by black and white portraits where each look questions the coming generations. For every Palestinian, Jerusalem is charged with symbolic meaning, of identity and of remembrance, the more so because it has become inaccessible to most. The city is made the focus of a compilation of color photographs presented for a contemporary look, between shadow and light.

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January 23, 2024

Sea of Memories (Never Forgotten Series Book 4)

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Free Download Kelly Risser, "Sea of Memories (Never Forgotten Series Book 4)"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B014EPBL36 | EPUB | pages: 259 | 1.0 mb
Sometimes, we reach the end of a story and realize there is more to be told. This is the case with Sea of Memories, a collection of novellas set in the world of Never Forgotten. Fans of this series will not be disappointed!

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January 19, 2024

The Cowshed Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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Free Download Ji Xianlin, Zha Jianying, "The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution"
English | 2016 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 1681376571, 1590179269 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, a professor of Eastern languages, is persecuted by lecturers and students from his own department. His home is raided, his most treasured possessions are destroyed, and Ji himself must endure hours of humiliation at brutal "struggle sessions." He is forced to construct a cowshed (a makeshift prison for intellectuals who were labeled class enemies) in which he is then housed with other former colleagues. His eyewitness account of this excruciating experience is full of sharp irony, empathy, and remarkable insights into a central event in Chinese history.

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