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Love In The Shadows Of Apartheid, Vol 3, Inge
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Inge meets Theo being forced to leave South Africa and falls in love with him. He visits her father, Olaf, in Sweden and she accompanies him on his next visit to Montreal, only to find Theo ready to marry Sharon. Nevertheless, he still makes the effort to set her up to be a fashion designer in California. Her business thrives, but she remains unfulfilled and still craves Theo's love. Then Sharon is murdered, which breaks Theo's heart and he seeks refuge from his pain on the Bushvelt farm of his family. Inge follows Theo back to the Bushvelt to comfort him. They bond afresh and settle near Reno, Nevada to develop new technologies for Olaf, while she continues her clothing business in partnership with Jackie Cochran, celebrated for holding the world speed record for women pilots. Under the care of an English nanny, their offspring thrives while the nanny morphs into becoming Theo's personal assistant. The chief of the native tribe living on the Bushvelt farm passes, and Theo and Inge rush down to show their respects at his funeral. A group of white supremacists try to assassinate Theo who thwarts their attempt and is again reminded of the hatred extremists feel towards him. The children prosper and after the birth of their second son the whole family flies down to visit the Bushvelt, which captivates the them. Theo and Olaf's enterprise prospers, causing Theo to spend more time abroad. Inge gives birth to their fourth and last child and puts her clothing design business on hold to concentrate on raising the children, punctuated with annual Bushvelt visits. With each visit there is less animosity towards Theo in the country for his opposition to racial discrimination. Business expands and leads them to hire a chief executive to manage their research institute. He is ably assisted by Susan who ultimately marries him. With her offspring becoming self-sustaining, Inge explores reconstituting her fashion business which she accomplishes. On one of her return flights from Los Angeles at the Carson City airport she collides with a freight airplane and is mortally injured. Totally distraught, Theo again seeks solace in the Bushvelt, with his daughter, Annie, to administer to his emotional needs. She discovers that his first great love, Teresa, is also widowed and contrives with the help of her daughter, Rebecca, to bring them back together. Both parties recognize their original bond as key to their emotional lives and enthusiastically embrace the overt match-making of their daughters.
Finding Your Way To Heaven Without A Smartphone
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In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races.
The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle .
Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us.
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Review from Don Burness, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College
Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema
Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone.
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About the Author - Joe Obidiegwu was born in 1967, in the vibrant town of Onitsha, located in southeastern Nigeria. At age seventeen, he left Nigeria for America where he attended Franklin Pierce University, and Virginia Tech for graduate and post-graduate studies respectively. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he teaches a philosophy based class at a Montessori school
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Keywords Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
The Future Of Post-human Visual Arts: Volume 1
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Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, "people under 60, raised on television remember by what they see [F]ilm and television are really the language of today"? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted with an opposing view by Camille Paglia, who wrote that "the visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images." (TE 2013a) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), the visual arts (in relation to techniques and spirits) are neither possible (nor impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe. Needless to say, this questioning of the opposing views on the visual arts does not mean that the study of techniques and spirits is useless, or that those fields (related to the visual arts)like drawing, cosmetics, manicure, painting, landscape, calligraphy, photography, digital art, computer technology, advertisement, graphic design, filmmaking, fashion, sculpture, architecture, and so onare unimportant. (WK 2013) Of course, neither of these extreme views is reasonable. Instead, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of the visual arts in regard to the dialectic relationship between techniques and spiritswhile learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the ephemeral theory of the visual arts) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters. This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about the visual arts in relation to techniques and spirits from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
Native American Place Names Of Rhode Island
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This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Rhode Island cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. What was the Narragansett territory is closely aligned with the current boundaries of the state of Rhode Island. The significance of the word Narragansett is ""at the little point"" or ""island.""
The Nature Of Party Government 2000
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The Nature of Party Government examines relationships between governments and supporting parties on a comparative European basis. The book does so at the level of principles: there is a major conflict between governments, which should govern, and parties, which being representative, wish to shape the way governments operate. The book studies relationships empirically as well: it shows that they occur on three planes, appointments, policy-making and patronage and assesses the extent of two-way influence, from parties to governments and from governments to parties.
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