Restless Valley
Title | Restless Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Shishkin |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300185987 |
This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan). Here are the stories of two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters who may be villains, heroes, or possibly both. Restless Valley is a gripping, contemporary chronicle of Central Asia from a veteran journalist with extensive experience in the region. Both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have struggled with the challenges of post-Soviet, independent statehood, and both became entangled in America’s Afghan campaign when the United States built military bases within their borders. Meanwhile, the region was becoming a key smuggling hub for Afghanistan’s booming heroin trade. Through the eyes of local participants—the powerful and the powerless—Shishkin reconstructs how Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have ricocheted between extreme repression and democratic strivings; how alliances with the United States and Russia have brought mixed blessings; and how Stalin’s legacy of ethnic gerrymandering continues to incite conflict today. “The weird, the strange, the corrupt, and the grand are all evident . . . [Shishkin] relentlessly pursues and then tells the stories of the most corrupt and powerful and also the most sincere and admirable characters who inhabit these mountains.” —Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books
Restless Valley
Title | Restless Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Shishkin |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300184360 |
DIV A reporter’s vivid account of Central Asia’s wild recent history—violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrupt /div
In a Valley of this Restless Mind
Title | In a Valley of this Restless Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Muggeridge |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Restless Devices
Title | Restless Devices PDF eBook |
Author | Felicia Wu Song |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0830851143 |
We're being formed by our devices. Unpacking the soft tyranny of the digital age, Felicia Wu Song combines insights from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and theology as she considers digital practices through the lens of "liturgy" and formation. Exploring pathways of meaningful resistance found in Christian tradition, this resource offers practical experiments for individual and communal change.
Restless
Title | Restless PDF eBook |
Author | William Boyd |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408835185 |
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
In a Valley of this Restless Mind
Title | In a Valley of this Restless Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Davies |
Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
In this collection, her second, Hilary Davies demonstrates again the ferocity of imagination that characterised her first, The Shanghai Owner of the Bonsai Shop (1991). Her interrogations of faith and friendship bring to life, in a language strikingly rooted in the physical world, spiritual concerns that span centuries. There is a moral seriousness in these poems which confronts doubt and fear, and survival itself, asserting at all times an unsentimental belief in the redemptive power of the human capacity to love. This is particularly so in the two main sequences, which recreate the lives of the cave dwellers in prehistoric France, and the doomed love affair of Abelard and H�loise.
Restless Hearts
Title | Restless Hearts PDF eBook |
Author | Marta Perry |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2009-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1426845731 |
A search for her roots brought midwife Fiona Flanagan to Pennsylvania Dutch country—and made her wonder whether she should turn back. The area's mixture of Amish and English culture confused her, and her first encounter with local police chief Ted Rittenhouse didn't help. he'd thought she was breaking into her own office! Despite the misunderstanding, Fiona could see that Ted's tough-as-nails exterior hid a kind soul—one caught between two worlds, seeking a place to belong. She felt the same, but trusting him with her heart would require the biggest step of faith she had ever taken.