Author : Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1996-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The second book in the epic quartet of novels known to some as the Buru Tetralogy. This vivid story of awakening follows the main character from This Earth of Mankind as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustices in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s.
Author : Charles Leslie Glenn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815314698
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Maggie Black
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
FROST (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143034464
Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author’s own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade these tales, there is present throughout a profound sense of compassion—an extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.
Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141908823
Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.
Author : United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211514667
Adoption is one of the oldest social institutions. Nevertheless, adoption still raises highly emotive issues because of its fundamental implications for the familial ties. This publication provides a solid foundation for furthering research on child adoption and, more specifically, on the demographic factors that shape the demand for and the availability of adoptable children. The focus of this report is on the nexus between adoption policies and trends at the national and global levels. Understanding adoption policies and their origins is all the more important today because, as adoption has become global, inconsistencies among the legal principles and traditions regarding adoption in different countries are increasingly coming to the fore.--Publisher'sdescription.
Author :
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9280645552
The State of the World's Children 2011: Adolescence - An Age of Opportunity examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal stage. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers, both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that investing in adolescents' second decade is our best hope of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world.
Author : Sara K. Dorow
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0814719724
This book is an ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program.
Author : Kit Kelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136248943
This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations including Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Norway, America, Italy, Great Britain, Iceland, Africa, Japan, South Korea, India, Sweden and Greece. The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as coinciding with the historical rise of children’s literature, while stateless or diasporic nations have frequently formulated their national consciousness and experience through children’s literature, both instructing children as future citizens and highlighting how ideas of childhood inform the discourses of nation and citizenship. Because nation and childhood are so intimately connected, it is crucial for critics and scholars to shed light on how children’s literatures have constructed and represented historically different national experiences. At the same time, given the massive political and demographic changes in the world since the nineteenth century and the formation of nation states, it is also crucial to evaluate how the national has been challenged by changing national languages through globalization, international commerce, and the rise of English. This book discusses how the idea of childhood pervades the rhetoric of nation and citizenship, and how children and childhood are represented across the globe through literature and film.
Author : Aitza Haddad Nunez
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category :
ISBN :
Law doesn't need to be complicated. However, it is! In addition, ignorance of the law doesn't exempt from responsibility. So why is the law not included as part of the primary education process in this country?Friendly Law wants to change this dynamic as a means to break with the school to prison pipeline, and with many other social injustices and inequalities. And by buying this book, and integrating law as part of a kid's learning process, you can be part of the change too! The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) requires education to enhance the cultural identity, language, and values of the child from which community it emerges. UNESCO suggested in its recommendation on participation in cultural life in 1976 the following: "culture is not merely an accumulation of works and knowledge which an elite produces, collects and conserves in order to place it within the reach of all... [Rather], the concept of culture has been broadened to include all forms of creativity and expression of groups or individuals."Although the United States has signed the UNCRC, it is the only United Nations member state that is not a party to it. However, Friendly Law believes that as the leader of the free world, main driver of both democracy and globalization, and primary guarantor of the current global system, the United States should make a greater effort in making sure the people of the nation knows and understand their rights. Especially the children of the nation! And with this book, we can begin the process!*Proceeds from the book will be used to help Friendly Law to continue working on it's mission and vision.
