Citizens of Two Worlds
Author : Charles Bray Williams
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Baptists
ISBN :
Author : Charles Bray Williams
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Baptists
ISBN :
Author : John Mastenbroek
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9789490119652
In this book the brothers Henk and Samuel Otte follow in the footsteps of their great-grandfather Rev. Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, an influential Dutch Protestant minister who in 1939 went to the United States to give emigrant members of his church encouragement and support. The result is a visual road trip to the towns, families, churches and farms that Kersten visited, with accompanying archive pictures and diary entries.
Author : Mike Duncan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1541730321
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830. From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.
Author : Mohammad Ata-Ullah
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1839740310
Citizen of Two Worlds, first published in 1960, is the autobiography of Mohammad Ata-Ullah (1905-1977), Pakistani doctor, mountaineer, and philosopher. Born into a Muslim family, Ata-Ullah is an example of a worldy human being who treated Christians and Hindus with respect and as brothers. After studying medicine in Lahore and London and becoming a doctor, Ata-Ullah served as an officer in the British India Army and traveled widely, working in central India, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and Muscat, and witness to the bloodshed between Muslims and Hindus in India. With the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Col Ataullah become the first Director of Health Services of Azad Kashmir, and went on to work in Japan and Korea with wounded United Nations troops. The book closes with a dramatic description of his participation in the 1953 American Expedition to K2, the world's second highest mountain, and as a member of the successful Italian ascent in 1954.
Author : Swami Rama
Publisher : Lotus Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788190100496
This concise collection of teachings serves as a practical guide that leads towards inner experiences of divinity that further one towards attaining the goal of life.
Author : Gordon Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780899850009
Author : Roxana Saberi
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061965289
“Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.” — Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Between Two World is the harrowing chronicle of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment in Iran—as well as a penetrating look at Iran and its political tensions. Here for the first time is the full story of Saberi’s arrest and imprisonment, which drew international attention as a cause célèbre from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and leaders across the globe.
Author : Mohammad Ata-Ullah
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781293760819
Author : Eli Elinoff
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824888154
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the northeastern Thai city of Khon Kaen. Based on ethnographic and historical research conducted since 2007, Citizen Designs describes how residents of Khon Kaen’s railway squatter communities used Thailand’s experiment in participatory urban planning as a means of reimagining their citizenship, remaking their communities, and acting upon their aspirations for political equality and the good life. It also shows how the Thai state used participatory planning and design to manage both situated political claims and emerging politics. Through ethnographic analysis of contentious collaborations between residents, urban activists, state planners, participatory architects, and city officials, Eli Elinoff’s analysis reveals how the Khon Kaen’s railway settlements became sites of contestation over political inclusion and the meaning and value of democracy as a political form in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Elinoff examines how residents embraced politics as a means of enacting their equality. This embrace inspired new debates about the meaning of good citizenship and how democracy might look and feel. The disagreements over citizenship, like those Elinoff describes in Khon Kaen, reflect the kinds of aspirations for political equality that have been fundamental to Thailand’s political transformation over the last two decades, which has seen new political actors asserting themselves at the ballot box and in the streets alongside the retrenchment of military authoritarianism. Citizen Designs offers new conceptual and empirical insights into the lived effects of Thailand’s political volatility and into the current moment of democratic ambivalence, mass urbanization, and authoritarian resurgence.
Author : R. F. Ellen
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521345668