Portable Roots
Title | Portable Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Sivasankari |
Publisher | Pustaka Digital Media |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2018-11-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This book was born from my experiences in the IOWA International Writing Program and my innumerable trips to the US. During the 20 years between 1970 and 1990, was conscious of the stormy changes engulfing middle class Indians there. These edcuated families had migrated after the 60's to the Promised Land for reasons of their own. During their long, successful journeys, they were stopped short by the problems facing their teenage children, particularly their daughters. Ini (which in Tamil, means 'Hereafter') – written in 1993 – is about the dilemmas they faced. Ini was roughly translated by Mr. M.M. Subramaniam, living in the US, so that his teenaged daughter could read it. ‘Ini' evolved into Portable Roots... through an interesting collaboration with my friend of many years, Rekha Shetty. Her sociological insights into the changing lives of the Indian Diaspora, have resulted in this transcreation of my original work. - Sivasankari
Portable Roots
Title | Portable Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2014-06-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443861758 |
Bicultural individuals often articulate the themes of rootlessness, identity formation, cultural dissolution, and “home”, and reframe them into theological questions. Bicultural individuals who have spent their formative childhood years living in, and interacting with, two or more cultures can be found in immigrant, refugee, transnational, missionary, borderland, and hybrid communities. This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development. In particular, Portable Roots: Transplanting the Bicultural Child underscores the contextual and religious nature of development. By focusing on identity formation in children and adolescents who have grown up in more than one culture, the parameters of stage theorists such as Erik Erikson are expanded. Three samples of children of missionaries formed the initial research population. The children were raised in boarding schools, mission schools, and international schools – settings which have been likened to a hybrid or third culture or interstitial space. These original three samples first articulated a phenomenon of “rootlessness” that sent the author on an investigative journey spanning three decades. After interviewing many persons with portable roots, the study’s last sampling in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2012, articulated what was needed for the end of this quest: how transplanted roots thrive in terra firma.
A Portable Cyclopaedia; Or, Compendious Dictionary of Artis and Sciences, Including the Latest Discoveries. By C.T. Watkins, A.M
Title | A Portable Cyclopaedia; Or, Compendious Dictionary of Artis and Sciences, Including the Latest Discoveries. By C.T. Watkins, A.M PDF eBook |
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Pages | 890 |
Release | 1810 |
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Flora domestica, or The portable flower-garden, etc. By Elizabeth Kent. Largely compiled from material supplied to the author by Leigh Hunt
Title | Flora domestica, or The portable flower-garden, etc. By Elizabeth Kent. Largely compiled from material supplied to the author by Leigh Hunt PDF eBook |
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Pages | 516 |
Release | 1825 |
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The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow
Title | The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow PDF eBook |
Author | Laurens Van der Post |
Publisher | Daimon |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 3856305408 |
Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist... the list goes on and on. His extraordinary curiosity, his love for the small and the great, and his tremendous feeling and concern for his surroundings and all that they included, set him travelling the lands and the waters of the world, a messenger in search of meaning. He touched and inspired many along the way, some of whom are to be found in the pages of this book. A true man of his time, Sir Laurens was born in 1906 in the interior of South Africa, served in the British forces during World War II, including three-and-a-half years in Japanese captivity, and lived and worked since that time in London, where he died just after celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 1996. 'The Rock Rabbit and The Rainbow' was originally conceived as a Festschrift, or gift collection of writings, for Sir Laurens by several of his friends and then evolved into its present form, which includes numerous original contributions by Sir Laurens himself.
Relativity and Its Roots
Title | Relativity and Its Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Banesh Hoffmann |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780486406763 |
Entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory trace development from basis in geometrical, cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, plus work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, others. 1983 edition.
the country gentleman's magazine
Title | the country gentleman's magazine PDF eBook |
Author | simpkim marshall & co |
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Pages | 460 |
Release | 1871 |
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