Stories Without Borders

Stories Without Borders
Author: Julia Sonnevend
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 019060431X

In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. Focusing on the Berlin Wall and on subsequent retellings of the event in a variety of ways - from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall installed in global cities - Sonnevend discusses how certain events become built up into global iconic events.

Friendship without Borders

Friendship without Borders
Author: Phil Leask
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789206561

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

Kingdom Without Borders

Kingdom Without Borders
Author: Miriam Adeney
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830893938

The twenty-first century has opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate news brokers of the West. Layered as it is with countless personal and corporate stories of remarkable faith and witness, it nevertheless lies ghostlike behind the newsprint and webpages of our print media, outside the camera's vision on the network evening news. Miriam Adeney has lived, traveled and ministered widely. She has walked with Christians in and from the far reaches of the globe. As she pulls back the veil on real Christians--their faith, their hardships, their triumphs and, yes, their failures--an inspiring and challenging story of a kingdom that knows no borders takes shape. This is a book that coaxes us out of our comfortable lives. It beckons us to expand our vision and experience of the possibilities and promise of a faith that continues to shape lives, communities and nations.

Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration
Author: George Butler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536217751

"Resisting his own urge to walk away, award-winning artist George Butler took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of remarkable pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects--migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia--shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and war, and of venturing into the unknown in search of jobs, education, and security. Whether sketching by the hospital bed of a ten-year-old Syrian boy who survived an airstrike, drawing the doll of a little Palestinian girl with big questions, or talking with a Masai herdsman forced to abandon his rural Kenyan home for the Kibera slums, George Butler turns reflective art and sensitive reportage into an eloquent cry for understanding and empathy."--

The Happiest Refugee

The Happiest Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459616057

The bestselling, laugh-out-loud, reach for your hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.

A Country Without Borders

A Country Without Borders
Author: Lalita Pandit Hogan
Publisher: 2Leaf Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1940939585

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven, evoking a home no longer accessible. A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS is an invaluable collection for all who are interested in cultural remembrance and meditations that reflect postcolonial poetry, and to students reading South Asian literature and culture.

Literature from the Axis of Evil

Literature from the Axis of Evil
Author: New Press
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1595582053

A collection of stories and poems by contemporary writers from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and other countries the United States considers enemies that have been translated into English.

Parenting Without Borders

Parenting Without Borders
Author: Christine Gross-Loh Ph.D
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1583335471

An eye-opening guide to the world’s best parenting strategies Research reveals that American kids lag behind in academic achievement, happiness, and wellness. Christine Gross-Loh exposes culturally determined norms we have about “good parenting,” and asks, Are there parenting strategies other countries are getting right that we are not? This book takes us across the globe and examines how parents successfully foster resilience, creativity, independence, and academic excellence in their children. Illuminating the surprising ways in which culture shapes our parenting practices, Gross-Loh offers objective, research-based insight such as: Co-sleeping may promote independence in kids. “Hoverparenting” can damage a child’s resilience. Finnish children, who rank among the highest academic achievers, enjoy multiple recesses a day. Our obsession with self-esteem may limit a child’s potential.

Mercy Without Borders

Mercy Without Borders
Author: Mark Zwick
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809146895

After living in El Salvador and witnessing the cost of the political violence and economic hardship there, Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego. Mercy Without Borders tells the story of the beginnings of the Catholic Worker in Houston, a city that has become a destination for waves of refugees from Mexico and Central America. Over the years, they have received the poor, the weary, and the destitute, seeing only the face of Christ regardless of immigration status. In addition to sharing their stories of Casa Juan Diego and many of its guests, the Zwicks analyze some of the causes of the economic imbalances that result in destitution south of the U.S. border, in countries where people toil in factories for little or nothing, only to see the fruits of their labor shipped to the affluent north. Why would these victims of injustice not seek a better life for themselves and their children? Book jacket.