BLACKBURN, KEVIN & KARL HACK.:War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore.
- signiertes Exemplar 2017, ISBN: 9789971695996
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Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2012. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. Stated First Editio… Mehr…
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2012. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 365pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. From the Powell's Indiespensable signed first edition book club with custom slipcase and original packing slip from Powell's book club laid in.ABOUT THIS BOOK:Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his country's first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people. As tensions mount between the Hutu and Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream that running might deliver him, and his people, from the brutality around them.Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Naomi Benaron has written a stunning and gorgeous novel thatthrough the eyes of one unforgettable boy explores a country's unraveling, its tentative new beginning, and the love that binds its people together.(Publisher)., Algonquin Books, 2012, 3, Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2007. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. [12], 318, [4] pages. Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program. Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine from 1962 until his death in 2017, and was a correspondent for the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel television program on HBO. He wrote 18 books, nine of them novels. A member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, Deford was six times voted National Sportswriter of the Year by the members of that organization, and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. In 2012, Deford became the first magazine recipient of the Red Smith Award. In 2013, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, was presented with the William Allen White Citation for "excellence in journalism" by the University of Kansas, and became the first sports journalist ever to receive the National Press Foundation's highest honor, the W. M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism. His 1981 novel Everybody's All-American was named one of Sports Illustrated's Top 25 Sports Books of All Time and was later made into a film of the same title. Sporting News describes Deford as "the most influential sports voice among members of the print media" and GQ simply calls him "the World's Greatest Sportswriter." Of this book Hall Of Fame Mike Schmidt states "The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece, like The Natural and Field of Dreams; the difference is the plot and the characters depict the true inside world of baseball. Frank Deford writes like he played in the majors for ten years. If you have a passion for baseball, this is a must read." Derived from a Kirkus review: Sportswriter and NPR commentator Deford tells an intriguing tale about a baseball-team manager, his moody superstar and their moral dilemma. After decades of good, hard, largely unrecognized work in the trenches, Howie Traveler has finally gotten what he deserves: He's managing the Cleveland Indians. And he's doing the pretty good job he always knew he could do. But his golden opportunity is about to evaporate after two years of laying the foundation for a league championship. Jay Alcazar, the Indians' superstar, the muscle in the team's lineup, has gone off the tracks. The gorgeous, gifted Cuban is about to get hit with a rape charge, and straight-shooting Howie, who genuinely likes the slugger and has worked hard to earn his trust, holds Jay's fate in his hands. Howie saw Jay's accuser trying to leave the ballplayer's room and saw Jay pull her back and slam the door, but rape doesn't make much sense to Howie or to anyone. Jay is such a star and so handsome that he never wants for voluntary companionship or sexual satisfaction. He has only to lift an eyebrow, even in a year like this one, when he's off his stride. The manager, a very canny and very honest guy, is stumped. He knows he was hired to keep Alcazar happy and motivated, he knows that he's about to be replaced by someone who can motivate the outfielder to resume his winning ways, and he knows that he's never going to get a chance to manage a team if he gets fired. But rape? How can you wink at that? What he needs to know is why Jay spent a year distracted from his championship form. It all has to do with the circumstances surrounding the player's birth and subsequent removal from the Socialist Paradise, but Jay seems unwilling to save his own skin. Or Howie's. A compelling story enhanced by Deford's great, conversational writing style., Sourcebooks, Inc, 2007, 3, Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2012.. Maps, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 459 pages, index, bibliography, notes, paperback. Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya's jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation would last three and a half years, until the return of the British in September 1945. How is this period remembered? And how have individuals, communities, and states shaped and reshaped memories in the postwar era? The book response to these questions, presenting answers that use the words of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, British and Australians who personally experienced the war years. The authors guide readers through many forms of memory: from the soaring pillars of Singapore's Civilian War Memorial, to traditional Chinese cemeteries in Malaysia; and from families left bereft by Japanese massacres, to the young women who flocked to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, dreaming of a march on Delhi. This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory. They also offer a deeper understanding of the searing transit from wartime occupation to post-war decolonization and the moulding of postcolonial states and identities. ., NUS Press., 2012., 0<
