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Erica E. Hirshler, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, James Finch, Pamela A. Parmal; Text written by Paul Fisher, …
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Storytime With 11 Community Workers is a spirited and engaging
story that uses repetitive language and rhymes to teach career
education to children under age 8, as well as the value of sharing
compromise and non-violent conflict resolution.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Smallworld Dominic Green Fingerpress, 2010 Fiction; Science
Fiction; Adventure; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Science Fiction /
Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science
Fiction / High Tech
A strangely captivating novel from Hugo-nominated author Dominic
Green. Mount Ararat, a world the size of an asteroid yet having
Earth-standard gravity, plays host to an eccentric farming
community protected by the Devil, a mechanical killing machine,
from such passers-by as Mr von Trapp (an escapee from a penal
colony), the Made (manufactured humans being hunted by the State),
and the super-rich clients of a gravitational health spa
established at Mount Ararat's South Pole.
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic
backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between
interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime
minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall
apart, and a runaway general makes policy in the field. As the
media accuse Western soldiers of barbarity and a region slides into
chaos, the armies of God clash on an ancient river and an
accidental empire arises.
This is not the Middle East of the early twenty-first century.
It is Africa in the late nineteenth century, when the river Nile
became the setting for an extraordinary collision between
Europeans, Arabs, and Africans. A human and religious drama, the
conflict defined the modern relationship between the West and the
Islamic world. The story is not only essential for understanding
the modern clash of civilizations but is also a gripping, epic,
tragic adventure.
"Three Empires on the Nile" tells of the rise of the first
modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British
Empire of Queen Victoria. Ever since the self-proclaimed Islamic
messiah known as the Mahdi gathered an army in the Sudan and
besieged and captured Khartoum under its British overlord Charles
Gordon, the dream of a new caliphate has haunted modern Islamists.
Today, Shiite insurgents call themselves the Mahdi Army, and Sudan
remains one of the great fault lines of battle between Muslims and
Christians, blacks and Arabs. The nineteenth-century origins of it
all were even more dramatic and strange than today's headlines.
In the hands of Dominic Green, the story of the Nile's three
empires is an epic in the tradition of Kipling, the bard of empire,
and Winston Churchill, who fought in the final destruction of the
Mahdi's army. It is a sweeping and very modern tale of God and
globalization, slavers and strategists, missionaries and
messianists. A pro-Western regime collapses from its own
corruption, a jihad threatens the global economy, a liberation
movement degenerates into a tyrannical cult, military intervention
goes wrong, and a temporary occupation lasts for decades. In the
rise and fall of empires, we see a parable for our own times and a
reminder that, while American military involvement in the Islamic
world is the beginning of a new era for America, it is only the
latest chapter in an older story for the people of the region.
This is the story of what happens when a liberal minded Prime
Minister is caught between two sets of fundamentalists, one
Islamic, the other Christian. It could be a tale of our time. But
this is actually the story of Islam and the Empire on the Nile c.
1869. In the late 19th century the river Nile became the setting
for the first major encounter between the West and Islam in the
modern era. In an extraordinary collision between Europeans, Arabs
and Africans, three empires rose in the space of thirty years. In
the climax of this drama, played out in a remote part of the Sudan,
we see the rise of the British Empire to its most glorious heights,
but also the seeds of its fall. The personalities are legends:
William Gladstone, General Gordon, Winston Churchill and General
Kitchener. Yet this is a story also told through the eyes of the
outsiders - a missionary, a slave trader, a palace clerk and an
ordinary soldier. Using never before transcribed material from
newly translated government papers in Cairo and Khartoum, Green
will tell both sides of the story, using his acclaimed skill as a
story-teller so that the effect is that of an old photo album whose
recurring characters and themes carry a wide sweep of time and
events, and tells the story of a time when good intentions became
compromised, finally giving way to realpolitik, and how on such
changes of attitude empires rise and fall.
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