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History of Paradise
Author | : Jean Delumeau |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Paradise |
ISBN | : 0252068807 |
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Explores the conviction that paradise existed in a precise although unreachable earthly location. Delving into the writings of dozens of medieval and Renaissance thinkers, from Augustine to Dante, this title presents a study of the meaning of Original Sin and the human yearning for paradise.
The True History of Paradise
Author | : Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-05-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307755599 |
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It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica–the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, is dead. The country’s state of emergency leaves no time to arrange a proper funeral. Even Jean’s mother, Monica, who hadn’t spoken to Lana in more than a decade, cannot fully embrace her grief. The tragedy only underscores Jean’s need to leave an island that holds no promise of a future. Her harrowing journey to freedom across a battered landscape takes Jean through a terrain of memories: of her childhood, with a detached mother at odds with an adoring father, of her complex bond with Lana, and of the friends and lovers who have shaped and shared her days. Epic in scope, The True History of Paradise poignantly portrays the complexities of family and racial identity in a troubled Eden.
Milk of Paradise
Author | : Lucy Inglis |
Publsiher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781447286103 |
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'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans – our willingness to experiment; our ability to become addicts; our pursuit of money. This book tells us more than about opium; it tells us about ourselves.' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ‘The only thing that is good is poppies. They are gold.’ Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain – and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is a farm-gate material that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today’s synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.
A Long Way to Paradise
Author | : Robert A.J. McDonald |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780774864749 |
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The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.
Mapping Paradise
Author | : Alessandro Scafi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000116110044 |
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Alessandro Scafi's fascinating account looks at the perception of world geography and the place of paradise within that. Central to this discussion are the key debates, prevalent from the Renaissance, about faith and reason, theology and philosophy and paradise both as an internal and external reality.
Paradise
Author | : Kevin Rushby |
Publsiher | : Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : IND:30000111496505 |
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Offers the story of the human quest for perfection. This work traces the belief in paradise, taking in an array of characters, particularly from within Christian and Islamic cultures. It carries the reader through the delights of the botanic gardens and Utopian dreams of 17th century Europe, and to terrible events such as the Holocaust and the atrocities of modern religious extremism.
Tastes of Paradise
Author | : Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 067974438X |
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From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
This Is Paradise
Author | : Kristiana Kahakauwila |
Publsiher | : Hogarth |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780770436254 |
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Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.