Elizabeth Choy: Her Story (2020 Edition - PDF)
Title | Elizabeth Choy: Her Story (2020 Edition - PDF) PDF eBook |
Author | Danny Jalil, Zaki Ragman |
Publisher | Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9811706956 |
On 15 November 1943, the Japanese would approach Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi. ‘You are allowed to meet the husband we arrested,’ they said. ‘You can even bring him a blanket for his prison cell.’ However, what she thought was an innocent visit would turn into almost 200 days of unimaginable horror and lasting psychological scars. In this all-new graphic novel adaptation, find out how Elizabeth Choy grew to become the person who would endure such an experience, and into the larger-than-life hero we know today. How did she end up on the tiny island of Singapore, when her childhood home was in the lush forests of North Borneo (now Sabah)? What was her role in the community before and during the Japanese Occupation? How did she survive her internment at the hands of the Japanese? Through this book, readers would get a glimpse into the tenacious and compassionate character that was Elizabeth Choy. She was not just a war heroine, but also a respected community leader, beloved teacher and a mother. She was someone that truly deserves to be admired.
Sacred Guardians (2019 Edition - PDF)
Title | Sacred Guardians (2019 Edition - PDF) PDF eBook |
Author | Aydeel Djoeharie, Alan Bay |
Publisher | Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9811707154 |
A sudden invasion by a powerful demon threatens ancient Southeast Asia and the whole world. Dev, a mythical and immortal being from the island of Tumasik, must now race against time to gather the five chosen by the Sacred Guardian Spirits in order to fight this terrifying threat. Follow Dev on his epic quest to different areas of the region as he attempts to gather the Sacred Guardians, who would become the last hope of mankind.
Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2020
Title | Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2020 PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Jones |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1440354936 |
The best resource for getting your fiction published! Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2020 is the go-to resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 39th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. Each listing includes contact information, submission guidelines, and other essential tips. This edition of Novel & Short Story Writer's Market also offers • Interviews with bestselling authors N.K. Jemisin, Min Jin Lee, James Patterson, and Curtis Sittenfeld. • A detailed look at how to choose the best title for your fiction writing. • Articles on creating antagonistic characters and settings. • Advice on working with your editor, keeping track of your submissions, and diversity in fiction.
Ancestral Feeling
Title | Ancestral Feeling PDF eBook |
Author | Renie Chow Choy |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334060907 |
The language of heritage permeates Scripture, encouraging Christians to approach church history like a family history. But the notion of ancestry also constrains the world’s Catholics and Protestants to trace their confessional descent from Europe, rendering them perpetual latecomers in the historical chain. "Ancestral Feeling" systematically diagnoses the postcolonial problems generated by an ancestral outlook. But, applying critical theories in cultural studies to the study of church history, the book experiments with ways that the Western Christian inheritance can awaken the memory of one’s own ancestors. Writing a personal reflection on her family’s history in British-ruled Hong Kong, Renie Chow Choy engages autobiographically with England’s ecclesiastical art, architecture, music, and literature, in order to affirm her attachment to a heritage normally associated with English national identity. For global and immigrant Christians brought into a relationship with English Christianity by colonialism but are bypassed by its history, this book makes a bold declaration: England’s Christian heritage is also our story.
Women Heroes of World War II
Title | Women Heroes of World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn J. Atwood |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2019-08-06 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1641600098 |
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages to the Resistance. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work—sabotage, weapons transference, and assassinations. Soviet pilot Anna Yegorova flew missions against the Germans on the Eastern Front in an all-male regiment, eventually becoming a squadron leader. In these pages, young readers will meet these and many other similarly courageous women and girls who risked their lives to help defeat the Nazis. Thirty-two engaging and suspense-filled stories unfold from across Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, the United States and, in this expanded edition, the Soviet Union, providing an inspiring reminder of women and girls' refusal to sit on the sidelines around the world and throughout history. An overview of World War II and summaries of each country's entrance and involvement in the war provide a framework for better understanding each woman's unique circumstances, and resources for further learning follow each profile. Women Heroes of World War II is an invaluable addition to any student's or history buff's bookshelf.
Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards
Title | Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Hwang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Emergency management |
ISBN |
Wild Blue Media
Title | Wild Blue Media PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Jue |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2020-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478007540 |
In Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived. By recentering media theory on and under the sea, Jue calls attention to the differences between perceptual environments and how we think within and through them as embodied observers. In doing so, she provides media studies with alternatives to familiar theoretical frameworks, thereby challenging scholars to navigate unfamiliar oceanic conditions of orientation, materiality, and saturation. Jue not only examines media about the ocean—science fiction narratives, documentary films, ocean data visualizations, animal communication methods, and underwater art—but reexamines media through the ocean, submerging media theory underwater to estrange it from terrestrial habits of perception while reframing our understanding of mediation, objectivity, and metaphor.