Wild flowers of Malawi

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This book provides everything you'll ever need in a guide book. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the islands' history, culture, flora and fauna, and, above all, the people. Incisive evaluations: From Crete's great archaeological sites to volcanic Santorini, from cosmospolitan Corfu to peaceful Aegean islets, it's all here. Detailed, cross-referenced maps: All sites are clearly highlighted and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels, restaurants and phone numbers you'll need.

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Not a useful travel guide.......2005-02-16

Writing about the Greek Islands is not a simple matter of going there, taking some pictures, and drafting a brief description of the place. This is due in part to the unique nature of the Greek Islands, which are a very diverse and complex collection of locations, cultures, landscapes, and even climates. There are significant logistical concerns because getting to some of these islands can be tricky. And there's also the fact that, while some places cater to package tourists and are overrun with people during certain times of the year, others are far more remote and peaceful. Sadly, this book fails to capture any of these important themes, much less convey them in the kind of detail necessary to make a useful travel Guide. People headed for the Greek Islands should do some more research and find a better guide than this one. Your efforts will pay off in the form of a very enjoyable trip if you bring the right tools with you.

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Corfu Insight Pocket Guide

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 981234604X

Corfu Insight Pocket Guide (Insight Pocket Guides)

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Corfu Insight Pocket Guide (Insight Pocket Guides)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9814120324

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GREEK ISLANDS
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Harrap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K5MNR8

Insight Greek Islands (Insight Guide Greek Islands)

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Good-looking but hard to lug

Insight Greek Islands (Insight Guide Greek Islands)
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0134706269

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Good-looking but hard to lug.......1997-05-19

Insight's City Guides combine stunning photography with literate text and a smattering of basic travel information. The Insight Venice guide is worth adding to your bookshelf, but its practical advice is getting a bit long in the tooth and its heft makes it less than ideal as a take-along guide. - Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co

Insight Guide Greek Island (Greek Islands, 3rd ed)

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Insight Guide Greek Island (Greek Islands, 3rd ed)
Jeffery Pike
Manufacturer: Insight Books Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0887291392

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One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Greek Islands. This 320-page book includes a section detailing the history of the Greek Islands, 14 features covering aspects of the area's life and culture, ranging from bouzouki music to the art of seduction, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many marvellous photographs and 14 maps.

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Rhodes Insight Guide (Insight Pocket Guide)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9814120359

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GREEK ISLANDS
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Harrap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K5THFO

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Greek Islands
APA Publications, Hans hoefer, karen Van Dyke Insight Guides
Manufacturer: APA Publ.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UVEY74

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Charades on Desolation Row

Highly recommended

The Hole in the Flag--Trevor Landers

The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
Andrei Codrescu
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0688088058

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Charades on Desolation Row.......2006-11-21

When I visited Romania for a month in 1979, I saw a beautiful green land of geese and flowering apple trees, ghostly old Transylvanian hill towns where each charmingly-warped house had eyes. Ham, cheese, mamaliga (polenta) and tsuica marked my days and the warm reception by Romanian friends gave me memories forever. But even then, before the Dracula-Leader went totally bonkers, Romania bore Orwellian overtones. Charades ruled the roost. Bookstores sold stuff that nobody wanted to read. Shoe stores sold footwear that nobody wanted to buy. The news wasn't new. "Friendship with all countries" meant that everyone was suspect. The gypsies lived in junkyards on real desolation rows. Pollution covered the territory of a `people's republic'. How glad I was that I had not been born Romanian. When, over ten years later, the "Romanian Revolution" occurred, I was both glad (Dracula had met his silver bullet) and horrified, when I heard that perhaps 60,000 people had been killed.

Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian exile in the USA, felt a great burst of hope. His country would get out from under at last. He rushed, full of memories and dreams, back to Romania with an National Public Radio team. THE HOLE IN THE FLAG is the poetic, humorous, well-paced memoir of what he found, how he'd left it, with bits on adjusting in America, his old classmates, and his family. At first the reader shares all the stories, the rumors, the excitement, the sounds of battle. Later, in cooler times, Codrescu, like the rest of the world (or those who paid attention), realized that he'd been had. The charades had not stopped. Romania had gone through yet another one. Was it a revolution ? How many had actually died and who had killed them ? Who were the new leaders ? How did the leader die ? What was Russia's role in all this ? When I returned to Romania in 1996, my friends, now deeply disillusioned, raised all these questions and supplied a few depressing answers. With both eyes open and equipped by Romanian life with a large supply of cynicism, Codrescu re-writes the story of the "Revolution" in the latter half of his book. This is top reporting, top writing. Only a poet could write about Ceausescu's Romania and the state of mind it created, because words might fail anyone else. I could easily give the book five stars for writing, but have given it four because, sadly, it is dated now. Perhaps readers will not find the events so relevant, but as a look at human nature, it will never go out of style. I doubt if Bob Dylan had ever seen or thought about Romania, but to quote him is to sum up the feeling you'll get from THE HOLE IN THE FLAG.

"Now at midnight, all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do.
They they bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene,
Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping from Desolation Row."
*with one minor change

Highly recommended.......2006-01-08

A most entertaining, witty, colorful, yet intelligent, articulate, and realistic account of the 1989 Romanian Anti-Communist Revolution. I highly recommend this book to anyone with the sligthest interest in the topic.

The Hole in the Flag--Trevor Landers.......2003-02-08

It was about 2.25 am in the morning when I finished Codresacu's riveting memoir The Hole in the Flag which I found poignant, fey, hopeful and insightful. Sometimes I read a book which demands that it be devoured voraciously and this book falls into that category.

For me, the Romanian revolution is still a cause of some mystification, but it is clear that it was more orchestration than spontaneous uprising. The current controversy with Mircea Dinescu and the debate over the availability of Securitate files, many of which have been pilfered and doctored no doubt. I found my discussions with locals in 2001interesting but wondered whether the divisiveness was a smoke screen yet again. Codrescu's is a reflective and analytical look at Romania just after the Revolution, and his own struggle to comprehend and make sense of the maelstrom that followed is one of the strengths of the work. At turns, banal, burlesque, and brilliant the book is skilfully written and will appeal as much to the general reader as it does to the Romanianists. I heartily recommend this book.

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Excellent book of narratives

Narratives of Exile and Return (Memory and Narrative)

Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0765808242

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Excellent book of narratives.......2002-08-08

In Chamberlain's use of ethnographic narratives, she shows how her informants reveal a deep attachment to the idea of "place," through one's familial ties, through relationships and kin systems, and through an extended sense of "belonging." For women, the impact has been doubly hard-leaving the homeland requires leaving connections to children, parents, and loved ones that the "solitary, single male" migrant does not face: "Women's migration was likely to be a more permanent, more searing experience for those left behind..." (p. 104). For both women and men, however, "the decision to go, the logistics of leaving were not isolated, individual events but the result of collective action. The family, for instance, through loans, through material support, through child care, enabled and supported the migration of its individual members" (p. 93). This community support allowed for a strengthening of the ties to the home community and the expectation of "return." But "return" carries with it the expectation of "success" for the individual and the community.

Book Description

It is often claimed that we know ourselves and the world through narratives. In this book, Robert D. Newman portrays narrative engagement as a process grounded in psychoanalytic theory to explain how readers (or listeners or viewers) manage to engage with specific narratives and derive from them a personal experience.
Newman describes this psychodrama of narrative engagement as that of exile and return, an experience in which narrative becomes a type of homeland, beckoning and elusive, endlessly defining and disrupting the borders of a reader's identity. Within this paradigm, he considers a fascinating variety of narrative texts: from the Jim Jones episode in Guyana to Freud's repression of personal history in his story of Moses; from a surrealistic collage novel by Max Ernst to the horror films of Alfred Hitchcock; from the works of James Joyce, Ariel Dorfman, Milan Kundera, and D. M. Thomas to the tales of abjection in pornography.
Transgressions of Reading is itself an engaging work, as interesting for its provocative readings of particular works as for its theoretical insights. It will appeal to readers from all fields in which narrative plays a crucial role, in the study of film and art, modern and contemporary literature, popular culture, and feminist, psychoanalytic, and reader response theory.

Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return.

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Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return.
Robert D. Newman
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M3VU8G

Narratives of Exile and Return. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Narratives of Exile and Return. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Ramon Grosfoguel
Manufacturer: Commission for Racial Equality
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00098CO84
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published by Commission for Racial Equality on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 767 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Narratives of Exile and Return. (book reviews)
Author: Ramon Grosfoguel
Publication: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: Commission for Racial Equality
Volume: v24 Issue: n3 Page: p583(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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The exile's return;: Or a narrative of Samuel Snow, who was banished to Van Dieman's Land, for participating in the Patriot War in Upper Canada, in the year 1838

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The exile's return;: Or a narrative of Samuel Snow, who was banished to Van Dieman's Land, for participating in the Patriot War in Upper Canada, in the year 1838
Samuel Snow
Manufacturer: Snead & Cowles' steam press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Narrative of James Murrells' ('Jemmy Morrill') seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland: And his life and shipwreck and terrible ... Murrells' rescue and return to civilization

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Narrative of James Murrells' ('Jemmy Morrill') seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland: And his life and shipwreck and terrible ... Murrells' rescue and return to civilization
Edmund Gregory
Manufacturer: Printed by E. Gregory
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Narratives of Exile and Return
Mary Chamerlain
Manufacturer: New York: St. Martin;s Press, 1997,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMEP9G

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On a summer night in 1963, in the town of Lodi, New Jersey, two policemen were shot to death in the Angel Lounge, a local bar, by two bar patrons. One of the killers was shot by police in New York City two days later; the other, Thomas Trantino, turned himself in and was imprisoned. He remained incarcerated for almost 40 years--the longest-serving prisoner in the New Jersey penal system--until his release early in 2002.

The murder of the policemen in the Angel Lounge remains one of the most notorious crimes in New Jersey history, yet there has never been an in-depth examination of the case--until now. New York Times reporter David Stout takes readers inside the crime: from the close-knit community that was shattered by the killings--and will never forget them--to the courtroom where Thomas Trantino presented evidence that would keep him locked up for decades. Stout introduces us to the victims and to their families, who were determined that Trantino should never go free. And he allows us to hear Trantino explain why he felt he deserved to be paroled, despite the enormity of his crime.

As they trace Trantino's tortuous path from death row to freedom, readers will be forced to confront their own attitudes about crime, punishment, and America's criminal justice system.

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A Balanced Perspective.......2007-07-22

This book is a must for anyone who is interested in the controversial case of Thomas Trantino. Trantino was convicted, in February 1964, of the brutal, senseless killings of two, Lodi, New Jersey, police officers the previous summer. Initially condemned to death by electrocution, Trantino's sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment, and he bears the dubious distinction of having served more time behind bars than any other prisoner in the Garden State. The author obviously did his homework, read the trial transcripts, and interviewed many close to the case, including relatives of the slain officers. This story is presented in an objective, unbiased way, and Mr. Stout even puts to rest the horrifying (and, thankfully, false) allegations that the officers had been forced to commit sex acts before they were shot. There were at least two minor inaccuracies I picked up on - Trantino's associate, Frank Falco, was a product of Manhattan's Lower East Side, not Brooklyn, and he had two sons by different women, not a daughter - but, for the most part, I found "Night of the Devil" a compelling read which is definitely on the money.

You won't put it down!.......2003-06-08

This book is riveting. Once I started reading it, it was impossible to stop. Mr. Trout really brings the reader into the story. Even though the events happened over 30 years ago, you feel as if you are there. David Stout is a real journalist. He brings the story to life, he is fair and balanced in his reporting. I highly recommend this book if you have any interest in crime, punishment and what's right/wrong with "justice" in America.
My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

The Ultimate Crime.......2003-05-19

Most of us have views about the efficacy of societal imposition of the death penalty for ultimate crimes such as murder or high treason. David Stout's Night of the Devil will will take you on the forty-year journey of a convicted murderer of two police officers, from the crime through the laborings of the state and federal judicial sytems, as they lurch through the particulars of this case and through the general evolution of our society's unsetteled position over the imposition of the ultimate sanction.

Written by a veteran reporter and author of several mystery novels, this story is thoroughly researched, dispassionate, and riveting. The author is from the old school: present the facts so that the reader can gain insight and form their own opinions. Mr. Stout writes in a clear, highly-paced, engaging manner. Few readers are likely to put this book down for long.

The Night of The Devil by David Stout.......2003-03-23

I am the sister of Gary Tedesco, the policeman that was murdered and so for me reading this story was very difficult. With that being said, I believe David Stout wrote this story with a great deal of compassion for all the family members and friends that will be forever changed as a result of this horrific crime. If you want to read a true account of the story that has been in the news for 39 years then I would suggest reading this book. David really did his homework.Everyone who believes hard criminals should be released into society again, should read the results of what allowing these two murderes into society time after time did to two innocent lives and the families and friends their lives touched. The two men who murdered them should never have been out of prison in the first place but one is now walking the streets with us again. The policeman got the death sentence and the families got the life sentence.

Night of the Devil The Untold Story of Thomas Trantino and the Angel Lounge Killings

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Night of the Devil The Untold Story of Thomas Trantino and the Angel Lounge Killings
Stout David
Manufacturer: Camino Books Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UE5NLC

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