124 Results for : emigrated
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Qaddafi's Point Guard: The Incredible Story of a Professional Basketball Player Trapped in Libya's Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min
A Nigerian native who emigrated to the United States at age 11, Alex Owumi's exploits on the basketball court earned him a college scholarship to Georgetown University. Undrafted by the NBA, Owumi pursued his basketball dream overseas, eventually signing with Al-Nasr of Libya, a state-run athletic club privately funded by the family of Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi. Owumi's tenure with Al-Nasr was interrupted by the Libyan uprising and resulting civil war. Imprisoned in his Benghazi apartment for more than two weeks with no food, phone, Internet, or hope, Owumi wondered whether he would make it out of Libya alive. Despite his weakened condition and the dangers lurking in the city, he was able to escape Benghazi and flee the country. Smuggled to a refugee camp in Egypt, he was, much to his surprise, contacted by an Egyptian team seeking his services. And so, in a bizarre, storybook ending, Owumi finished the year by helping lead the team to an unlikely league championship, earning league MVP honors in the process. Qaddafi's Point Guard is a book about hope and longing, conflict (cultural, political, and military), and ultimately, triumph - to overcome obstacles and survive against the most desperate odds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neal Ghant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015476/bk_adbl_015476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Air, Peter Huchthausen and Gary Shteyngart, Hörbuch, Digital, 47min
Authors Peter Huchthausen and Gary Shteyngart on this edition of Fresh Air. Peter Huchthausen is the author of K19: The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine. The true story of a barely averted catastrophe aboard the nuclear powered submarine has been adapted into a film of the same name starring Harrison Ford. Huchthausen served as technical director on the film. On July 4, 1961, the sub was taking part in a military exercise in the North Atlantic. A pipeline in a reactor's cooling system ruptured. In a race against time, the crew worked to improvise a repair. Until now, the story has been kept secret. Huchthausen is a retired US Navy captain who served as naval attachi in Moscow from 1987 to 1990. The movie opens nationwide on July 19, 2002. Gary Shteyngart's debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, is receiving critical acclaim. The main character of the book, like Shteyngart, is a Russian-American Jew who emigrated to the US as a child. In a New York Times Magazine cover article, Daniel Zalewski wrote, "Gary Shteyngart has rewritten the classic immigrant narrative - starring a sarcastic slacker instead of a grateful striver. And after all his parents have done for him!" (Broadcast Date: July 2, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020702/rt_whyy_020702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pissing on the Pissoir: Studies in World Art, Book 132 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 10min
Dr. Glyn Thompson’s digital book, Duchamp’s Urinal? The Facts Behind the Façade, at first tends to make the heart sink. "Do I really want," one tends to ask oneself, "to learn this much about the trade in porcelain sanitary wares, as it existed in the United States during the second decade of the 20th century?" Dr. Thompson has done his homework, and he is insistent that you should do it too. "No skipping over the chapter-and-verse, boy, in search of something a bit racier."Some of the facts are, however, sufficiently racy in themselves. The urinal, or Fountain, as it is now officially called, turns out not to have been the work - or wheeze - of Duchamp himself, but that of a mad German baroness called Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Her biographical details are almost too good to be true. Her maiden name was Plötz (as in "I’m just going to plotz here and wait while you do the shopping."). She was born in Swinemünde (you can read that as "swine mouth") in Pomerania, and studied art in not-yet-infamous Dachau, near Munich. Baron Leopold von Freytag Loringhoven was her third husband, whom she married in New York in 1913, having emigrated in America in 1910. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Van Riper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106586/bk_acx0_106586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fathers and Sons, Hörbuch, Digital, 288min
Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life and how being a father has changed since the time of his father and grandfather. In Fathers & Sons, Richard looks back at his own family to illustrate just how far British men's relationships with their sons have moved.Richard's grandfather had a childhood of almost unimaginable betrayal and sadness. His family abandoned him as a child to older relatives and emigrated without telling him. He grew up in a miserable situation and without any positive parenting role models yet managed to marry and have a son of his own. Richard's father was aware of his own father's discomfort and occasional frustration and anger, and grew to understand that this was due to his upbringing. He remembers no affection, or endearments from his dad and was packed off to a desolate boarding school in an echo of his own father's betrayal. In a bucking of the family trend, Richard's mother, a Canadian, introduced more loving and demonstrative relationships which Richard has continued with his own son and step-sons.Both a family story and a wide-ranging look at Britain's evolving social character, Fathers & Sons is a uniquely honest and touching exploration of how our familiesboperate. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Madeley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001696/bk_sans_001696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Rights of Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min
Written in the late 18th century as a reply to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy. A vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government, it defended the dignity of the common man in all countries against those who would discard him as one of the “swinish multitude.” Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the working classes. Employing direct, vehement prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all of which were considered, at the time, to be dangerous and even seditious issues. His vast influence is due in large measure to his eloquent literary style, noted for its poignant metaphors, vigor, and rational directness. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, liberal, intellectual, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Great Britain, he emigrated to America at the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin just in time to promote the American Revolution with his pamphlet Common Sense. Later, he was a great influence on the French Revolution. He wrote The Rights of Man as a guide to the ideas of the Enlightenment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004856/bk_blak_004856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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History Of The Descendants And Connections Of William Montgomery And James Somerville
History Of The Descendants And Connections Of William Montgomery And James Somerville ab 19.99 € als Taschenbuch: Who Emigrated To America From Ireland In The Opening Years Of The Nineteenth Century (1897). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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An Arab Israeli man, back in Jerusalem to see his estranged father, narrates "a novel about just how sad, fractured and tricky cultural identity can get" (Seattle Times). Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever. Sitting by his father's hospital bed, the memoirist begins to remember long-buried traumas, the root causes of his fallout with his family, the catalyst for his marriage and its recent dissolution, and his strained relationships with his children-all of which is strangely linked to a short story he published years ago about a young girl named Palestine. As he plunges deeper into his memory and recounts the history of his land and his love, the lines between truth and lies, fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. Hailed as "an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight" (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein Award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents a masterful novel about the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives and their histories.- Shop: buecher
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The Gilpin family from Richard De Guylpyn in 1206
The Gilpin family from Richard De Guylpyn in 1206 ab 9.99 € als Taschenbuch: in a line to Joseph Gilpin the emigrant to America with a notice of the West family who likewise emigrated. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Ireland to the Wild West: A True Story of Romance, Faith, Tragedy, and Hope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
Born in 1846 in Ireland at the start of the "Great Hunger", James Kinnier Wilson emigrated to Philadelphia to start a new life at 17 years old.After his life took a dramatic turn, he found himself attending Princeton and then a college in Scotland, where he met Agnes Hately, the talented daughter of a famous figure in the Scottish "Disruption" - the emergence of the Free Church of Scotland.Agnes and James, now newlyweds, crossed the dangerous Atlantic and settled in rural New Jersey. While there, Agnes wrote intimate letters home about her children, the people around her, the church, and the dangers of endemic disease.Called in 1878 to the Wild West to found churches and to farm, Agnes again revealed in detail the conditions of her life on the frontier and her impressions of American women, cowboys, servant girls, church-goers, and provides some never before seen detail to what is called the "Last Indian Raid in Kansas".In Ireland to the Wild West, Marcus Paul uses these letters penned by Agnes to take listeners on a journey through Agnes and James' engagement, marriage, dangerous travels, and their arrival and life in America.Through her letters, a treasure trove for historians, readers will gain a unique insight to that time period and will find an engrossing and inspiring story of romance, faith, tragedy, and hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hanon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191271/bk_acx0_191271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Girl in Translation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life--like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition--Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant--a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grayce Wey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001460/bk_peng_001460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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