Daughters: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection To Let A Wonderful Daughter Know That She Is Always In Your Heart

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Having a daughter is like having your very own ray of sunshine. Her smile can light up a room, and never a day goes by that you don't want to see her.

This exceptional collection brings together the wises, dreams, and tremendous pride every parent feels for a daughter. In words that will tug at your heartstrings and give rise to a rainbow of memories, it is a beautiful expression of love that every daughter will cherish.

Blending ancient techniques and modern art, the handmade mulberry paper chosen for the cover and end sheets of this book is environmentally friendly and created exclusively for Blue Mountain Arts. The innovative, cut-out designs, expressive colors, and embossed pages ensure that every book is absolutely unique and of the finest quality.

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Guns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle is about women guerilla fighters in the Zimbabwean National Liberation war (1965-1980). It provides an examination of the plethora of representations of women who joined the struggle for national independence and contributes to a feminist understanding of Zimbabwe and African history and politics.

Most previously published accounts about women's roles in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle have tended to focus on their "feminine" or "natural" roles as mothers or alternatively on the post-independence concerns expressed by women in Zimbabwe. Both of these views have ignored and excluded women's actual experiences of guerilla fighting.

Guns and Guerilla Girls is the first text to both challenge the representations of "women as warriors" and provide a space for women ex-combatants in Zimbabwe to re-present their past and their histories. The text is also original in its aim to create a dialogue within postcolonial discourse in order to facilitate understanding and healing vis-à-vis women's war time experiences.

The book deals specifically with the case of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, and provides an in-depth analysis of the different experiences women have of war when they take up arms to fight for their nation and liberation. The text allows women to describe their own history while providing a detailed analysis of the history of the struggle from a gendered perspective.

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Great overview of several obscure wars

elementary introduction

Liberation? Perhaps. Freedom? Perhaps not.

Wars of National Liberation (Smithsonian History of Warfare) (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
Daniel Moran
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ASIN: 0060891645
Release Date: 2006-05-02

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Although the twentieth century is now best remembered for two world wars, in the future it may be at least equally well-known for its profusion of little wars against great opponents. The trend began long before mujahideen took up arms against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. From China and Vietnam to Palestine, Algeria, and Ireland, Daniel Moran explores the nationalist insurgencies that have characterized much of recent warfare.

Vivid maps detailing the wars and photographs from the front lines.
A thorough chronology of the wars of national liberation, from the Chinese Civil War to Vietnam.
A look at the guerilla tactics that have changed the face of modern warfare.
An epilogue discussing the current situation in Afghanistan.

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Great overview of several obscure wars.......2006-12-08

We've all read books and seen TV documentaries about the Vietnam and Korean Wars. What I found interesting in Moran's "Wars of National Liberation" were the smaller, non-American wars that I wouldn't ever think of reading an entire book about. Think these wars were insignificant? Moran weaves them all into the familiar history of the Cold War and explains their impact on the 20th Century. Read about Mao's China, the French experience in Vietnam, the French in Algeria, the British departure from India and the creation of Pakistan, the continent-wide problems of Africa and South America, and the three Arab-Israeli wars. The photos are numerous and interesting and the maps superb. The book also includes a chronology from 1945 to 1975 leading to these wars as well as brief biographies of the key players in each conflict. All-in-all a great introduction to several conflicts that you may end up wanting to learn more about.

elementary introduction.......2006-12-08

nice pictures, no remarkable insights. very short chapters on various wars. perhaps the best thing about the book is the bibliography.

Liberation? Perhaps. Freedom? Perhaps not........2002-01-09

In "Wars of National Liberation," Daniel Moran sets out to change the way we think about many of the wars that have characterized the world stage since the end of World War II. "War since 1945," he writes, is a "category that would have to disappear some day." The title of this interesting and insightful history is Moran's candidate for a new categorization.

When I first glanced through this 224-page volume, I was struck by its thoroughness. Moran, whom I have heard speak at the Naval Postgraduate School where he is a professor, provides the reader with 23 illustrative maps, a convenient reference chronology from 1945 to 1975, biographical notes on key personalities, and a list of suggested further reading.

Space limitations preclude an in-depth examination of the wars Moran discusses, but his work is comprehensive. The major geographical areas featuring wars of national liberation in the 30-year span covered by Moran include China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Algeria, Africa and South Asia, Latin America, Israel, and Vietnam. Moran concludes with a brief discussion of historical wars in Afghanistan.

Moran points out that the term "national liberation" is a revolutionary slogan, "designed to conceal sordid truths. It served," he continues, "to hurl back into the face of the oppressor the idea of the nation, which Europe invented, and the ideal of liberty, which the West cherishes above all others in politics, while deflecting attention from the methods and interests of the liberators themselves."

Moran argues that while in some cases a war of national liberation has resulted in a new national identity where society lives in freedom, more often the result has been to replace one form of despotism with another. And the "liberator" of tomorrow may not necessarily have to find a former Western colonial power to take on.

Given the recent horrific events in the American homeland, this is a timely work. It is not for the reason of the War on Terror that "Wars of National Liberation" is timely, but for the inference one draws that wars of national liberation are likely to continue.

And where might the next such wars occur?

Present-day Palestine gives a clue. But one is forced to think more about those states, many artificially constructed by victorious powers in the West, that describe the Middle East, and from which al Qaeda and similar terrorist groups have drawn recruits and funding - funding from the very states whose governments may be toppled in the next "war of national liberation."

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In 1960 revolutionaries in South Viet Nam created the National Liberation Front, a political and military organization committed to overthrowing the Saigon government and liberating Viet Nam south of the seventeenth parallel. The role of the NLF during the war has been hotly debated, with officials in Washington claiming from the outset that the NLF was merely a puppet of Hanoi. Based on over a hundred interviews with former Communist cadre and high ranking Party officials as well as extensive archival research in Viet Nam, Robert K. Brigham's is a definitive work that provides a focus on the NLF not found elsewhere. It contributes greatly to our understanding of the Viet Nam War and encourages a reassessment of that conflict.

Brigham assesses the impact of the NLF's diplomatic strategy on the conduct and outcome of hostilities, explores the origin and pursuit of its policy objectives, and defines its true relationship with North Viet Nam. He contends that the NLF's success in convincing the world that it was independent of Hanoi was critical in upsetting the political and military balance in South Viet Nam and frustrating the U.S. war effort. In addition, he argues that differences in goals among Communists--building socialism in the north, liberating the south--resulted in disagreements over responses to American intervention, and he shows how these differences entered into foreign relations and seriously undermined revolutionary efforts.

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Excellent view of the NLF's foreign policy during the war........1999-04-21

One of the least known aspects of the Vietnam War was the National Liberation Front's foreign policy during its struggle against the American and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1960-1975). Now, Bob Brigham has remedied this deficiency with his cogent, well-crafted volume detailing the NLF's careful dance between the world's major powers as they struggled for independence. Bob Brigham, one of the lst American scholars to effectively utilize Vietnamese sources in Hanoi, presents a full and convincing picture of how the NLF skillfully crafted an approach to world opinion that won them support and aid during the war. One of the best new works on the war and really fills a void for those of us who teach.

Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa)

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Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa)
International Conference on the Zimbabwe Liberation War (1991 Univers , Ngwabi Bhebe , and T. O. Ranger
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Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa)
Terence Ranger , and Ngwabi Bhebe
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ASIN: 0435089722

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This book looks at the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and its aftermath.

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Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa)
International Conference on the Zimbabwe Liberation War (1991 Univers , Ngwabi Bhebe , and T. O. Ranger
Manufacturer: James Currey
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War by Other Means: National Liberation & Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60

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War by Other Means: National Liberation & Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60
Carlyle A. Thayer
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War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60

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War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60
Carlyle A. Thayer
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Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

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Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
Terence O. Ranger
Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr
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In this work of grave beauty and searing powerone of the most widely praised pieces of investigative reporting to appear in recent yearswe follow 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devils Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it, a place that for hundreds of years has stolen mens souls and swallowed their blood. Only 12 of the men made it out.

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The Devil's Highway - a must read!.......2007-08-26

As a long-time resident of Tucson I was fascinated and horrified by this book. I thought that I knew a lot about "entrants" and the problems of our southern border but this book really opened my eyes. Such a complicated issue!

The book is well-written, absorbing, amusing, informing and very readable. Anyone who is at all interested in our immigration and border policies, or who has an interest in the desert and borderlands, should by all means read this book! Or, read it just because you like a good (true) story.

Urrea's Masterful Narrative.......2007-06-13

Touching story about everyday life at the border.

The Rabbit.......2007-02-20

Once upon a time, there was a rabbit and he was rather licious. lol...Good review...Don't strangle the chickens or choke them.

An Everyday Tragedy in the Southwest.......2006-11-11

As a resident who has lived in Yuma, Arizona for the past nine years and read the daily paper and watched the nightly news giving scant details about one or two bodies found here or there, presumed to be those of "illegals" -- Urrea brings to the reader the faces and lives of the human beings behind the numbers. I often think of the deceased that are briefly mentioned in these news blurbs and wonder where they came from, whom they have left behind and what dreams of theirs did the desert kill? And is the desert what really killed them? Or was it some errant Border Patrol agent or a frustrated and pissed off Minuteman? Just what are they so pissed about, anyhow?
Regarding the immigrants and their motivations for leaving their beloved behind for the north, Urrea certainly answered some of my questions. No, America, they are not all criminals, drug runners or people out to get your top jobs! They just want to make enough to feed their families and if they're lucky, save enough to buy a little building material for a house or to start up a small business. I have yet to hear any of my friends or acquaintances get excited about applying for jobs in agriculture or plucking chickens!
This book should be recommended reading for our government leaders, the INS, and ALL law enforcement agencies - they might just be able to figure out a plan for immigration reform! Just be sure to read the interview of Mr. Urrea in the Reading Group Guide at the end of the book -- the numbers (profits) will amaze you. As this book painfully demonstrates, fences are not going to do anything but make death in the desert an even more certain fate for crossers.
Thank you, Mr. Urrea, for giving the world a clear and concise picture of what is really going on in our corner of the country and our part of the globe, for that matter. As I drive along I-8 going to either San Diego or Phoenix and offer my usual prayer for those who have died so close by, I can promise that the names of Edgar, Abraham, Jose and Reymundo will not be forgotten. I will even have a prayer for Mendez.

Great personal view of immigration.......2006-11-02

Urrea brings us up close and personal by sharing the real lives of those who risk crossing the border and the Border Patrol officers that try to stop them. A painful story, well told.

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The Devil's Highway : A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OU25YU

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A hungry red-tailed hawk sits near a fence post and devours his catch.Out of nowhere a poacher's arrow pierces his body, seriously injuring him and leaving him to fend for himself. This is the courageous true story of Arrowhawk-an endangered bird of prey who, with sheer determination and will, survives eight weeks in the wild with a poacher's arrow through his thigh and tail. Stunning illustrations capture his remarkable journey from peril and rescue to eventual freedom.

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Touching story with a good lesson.......2006-07-04

My son and I enjoyed this book tremendously. He has read it on his own quite a few times but the effect is so different when we read it together. The story is touching and at one point, I could see my son winced in pain (the part when the hawk was shot). He felt really sorry for it and was so delighted to know that it is alive and well again. Great story, good lessons within.

Beautiful book -- touching true story.......2004-06-05

This is a beautiful book. The true story of this magnificent bird's struggle to survive will touch the hearts of children and adults who are nature lovers. Great artwork!

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A beautiful story
very touching!
Angelo
Lovely story, but a little sad at end
Another Caldecott contender from Macaulay

Angelo
David Macaulay
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From the creator of The New Way Things Work, Castle, and Black and White, comes a poignant tale of a very curious friendship. Angelo is an old Italian craftsman who restores facades of Roman buildings. Sweeping away feathers and twigs left "by generations of thoughtless pigeons" one day, Angelo comes face to beak with his nemesis. This pigeon isn't looking so good, though, and in spite of himself, Angelo takes her home and brings her back to health, grumpily commenting, "Mamma mia! I restore walls, not pigeons." It's not long before this lonely old man grows attached to the bird, though, and makes a touching, lasting gesture to her in the final hours before his death.

David Macaulay's unusual story is funny and touching, if jarring at times, as when the narrative makes inexplicable leaps with no transition. He uses his familiar illustrative style to greatest effect in depicting the clutter of Roman rooftops and close-ups of crumbling walls and sculpture's toes. Also lovely are the images of twigs and feathers that frame the book, scattered even across the dedication and copyright pages. (Ages 6 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the faade of a once glorious church. There, among the sticks and feathers, he discovers a wounded bird. Angelo becomes the bird's reluctant savior. As the church nears completion, Angelo begins to worry about the future of his avian friend. "What will become of you? Where will you go . . . where will you . . . live?" he asks her. Through his artistry as a master craftsman he answers the questions for his humble friend and assures that he, himself will not be forgotten.

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A beautiful story .......2007-07-20

I saw an exhibition of David Macaulay at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, in July 2007 and was totally in awe of his talent. He is such a fantastic Illustrator and has a wonderful sense of humor. Until then I did not know anything about him, but after the exhibition I went to Amazon and bought 6 of his books. In addition to his brillant architecture/construction books like Castle, Mosque, Pyramid, and fascinating technical "how to" books ie. The New Way Things Work, he's also written some amazing stories for kids. This is one of them and I really love this one:

The story is about the friendship between old Angelo, who works on restoring the outside of an old church in Rome, and a pigeon, that he rescues. Angelo reluctantly warms up to the pigeon as he nurses her back to health. But soon he embraces and enjoys their one-of-a-kind and caring friendship as the pigeon, called Sylvia, decides to stays with Angelo. We accompany this unlikely couple for many months, through various seasons, as Angelo is finishing his work at the church. We witness cute and silly little scenes as Angelo plays the pigeon's favorite music and holds headphones to her ears during her convalescence, Sylvia and her pigeon friends dancing in front of Angelo during lunch to cheer him up. However, Angelo is becoming weaker and weaker and we feel with Sylvia as she shows great concern for his health and well being. Although Angelo eventually dies, the story ends on a happy note: the pigeon continues to live in a special nest that Angelo created for her out of stucco at the top of the church and David tells it with lots of humor and great sensitivity.

Beautifully illustrated, this story tells of enduring love. Simply heartwarming, touching, uplifting. A delight to read to your kids, but I bet, you yourself will want to read it again and again and again.

very touching!.......2007-06-09

A very touching story. It reminds me the words in Bible,"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails."

It's an excellent storybook for readers of all ages!! I gave this book for my students to read and they loved it very much.

Angelo.......2007-03-08

Its such a simple sweet story--of the relationship of the old man and the pidgeon--still so old world in feeling and simplicity about a friendship!!! It made me shed a tear!!! Brenda Momente NYC

Lovely story, but a little sad at end.......2005-03-04

All of David Macaulay's books are wonderful, and this is no expection. One note of caution, though...I teach elementary school and read this book to a number of students. The story deals with death at the end, and this lead to some sad comments and discussion. Should be prepared to talk about death or loss of a loved one. This is would be a perfect book to deal with that topic.

Another Caldecott contender from Macaulay.......2002-06-22

Each day at work I have to read the new picturebooks that have been proccessed. I dislike few of them. I enjoy most of them. I love very few of them...especially on first perusal. "Angelo" is one of the very few.

It's the story of the unlikely friendship between a master plasterer (Angelo) and a pigeon he dubs Sylvia. He finds her wounded on the ledge of a building he is restoring & takes her in despite his negative opinions of birds. (The pigeon hospital bed he rigs up for her is wonderful). She flies off after convalescing...only to return when he needs companionship to see him to the end of his last great job. In thanks, he creates a tribute to her...a tribute only he could create & one only a pigeon could appreciate.

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Fidget is a young peregrine falcon eager to try out her newly feathered wings. She and her brother, Echo, have been raised in an incubator until their eggs hatched by a caring falconer, and are now living in a cozy nesting box. The falconer, one of many w

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Fidget's Freedom.......2006-09-21

The lucky child who picks up this book will be delighted. The simple prose tells a story based on actual projects to release young laboratory raised peregrine falcons into the wild. Illustrating and clarifying this environmental story are remarkable illustrations by a gifted Russian illustrator, Vadim Gorbatov. The combination of Stacey Patterson's story and Vadim Gobatov's illustrations creates a fascinating and exciting book. Parents and teachers will find it a welcome addition to their libraries.(Marie Basl Patterson, retired children's program director in public library)

Fidget's Freedom by Stacey Patterson.......2006-09-16

As you leaf thru ea page to discover the magnificant wonders of Fidget's Freedom captures your wonder to continue turning the pages to find out how Fidget was discovering her time to fly and create her own adventure knowing that she was now responsible for her food and her own protection.
Fidget' Fredom will keep the "mystery" to the end and prove how she was a "peregrine falcon.".
Fidget's outstanding art work by "Vadim Gorbatov" from Russia will never leave your mind for his work is so natural & real.
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High atop a cliff. . ........2006-09-13

. . .in a nesting box provided by unseen hands, peregrine falcon chick Fidget vies with her brother Echo for quail, escapes the clutches of a golden eagle, and finally gathers strength and courage to soar to freedom. The simple, skillfully told story is enriched by luminous watercolors that portray the peregrine with both breathtaking realism and gentle humor. An uplifting tale for nature lovers of all ages.

Endangered Penguins (Earth's Endangered Animals)

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Endangered Penguins (Earth's Endangered Animals)
Bobbie Kalman , and Robin Johnson
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Margot Theis Raven
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ASIN: 1585362611

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Challenger, an American bald eagle, is this countrys most popular winged mascot. He was blown out of his nest as an eaglet and taken in by humans. After several failed attempts to release Challenger back into the wild, he was taken to the American Eagle Foundation. It was there that trainer Jim Cecere recognized the rare opportunity to work with an uninjured eagle that had imprinted on humans. He knew Challenger, as a free flying bald eagle, a sight few Americans actually witness, could become an ambassador bringing attention to the plight of these beautiful birds. Readers will recognize Challenger from the appearances he has made ranging from such varied venues as the White House and the 100th Anniversary of National Wildlife Refuge System, the Pentagon and the Olympic Torch Ceremony. In addition Challenger has flown at the World Series and the 100th Anniversary of Flight at Kitty Hawk. Challenger has also appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, the Disney Channel, and Animal Planet.

Peregrine Falcon: Saved from Extinction! (Animals Under Threat)

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Peregrine Falcon: Saved from Extinction! (Animals Under Threat)
Mike Unwin
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High Ridge Gobbler: A Story of the American Wild Turkey

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High Ridge Gobbler: A Story of the American Wild Turkey
David Stemple
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