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I don't know how many forwards start out as a letter, but I figured
it would be the best way to get your attention. I'm sure many of
the books you've read and have added to your collection on
Philadelphia history and local greats have had excellent insight to
the workings of our fair city. But every story has a side story
that often has as much or more importance to the outcome of that
story... Many heroes never get their 15 minutes of fame and are
forgotten in the shadows of the decades. My father has had many
adventures that are not in this book, and that still need to be
heard. My dad has a way of giving you just enough information and
just enough humor that when he finally finishes his shorts, you
just yearn for more. Maybe one day he will enlighten us with all
the rest of his experiences that have made him a great man and made
me want for such greatness.
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Homo detritus (Paperback)
Stephan Gladieu; Text written by Wilfried N'Sonde
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R895
R710
Discovery Miles 7 100
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Behind the bars on her window, Rosa Maria dreams of sunshine, love,
calm, and leaving the city where she lives with her family. She
suffers her father's beatings, hides her femininity behind
shapeless clothing, and pines for the beautiful Jason as she awaits
her opportunity to flee. Meanwhile, her older brother is found dead
in a nearby parking lot, and the neighborhood explodes in a riot
against the police. Rosa Maria resolves to act before she is
devoured by family intrigues and despair. Wilfried N'Sonde's
powerful voice creates a palpable sense of the absence of hope and
the social and racial isolation that pervade the Paris projects,
even as he never abandons the expansive capacity of individuals to
dream of better lives beyond a seemingly hopeless reality.
A nameless young man lives in the housing projects outside of
Paris. When he was a child, his parents moved with him from the
Congo to France, hoping in vain to escape poverty and violence. His
best friend, Drissa, is in a psychiatric hospital and now Mireille,
his girlfriend, the woman with whom he has shared his childhood and
hopes, has left him to reconnect with her Jewish roots in Israel.
During a night out to drown the pain of his heartache, there is a
fight with a policeman, the policeman dies, and the young man is
arrested and taken to jail. Between police beatings and abrupt
interrogations, his memory becomes his sole ally to escape from the
exiguous space in which he is confined. Half-conscious and
delirious, he reflects on his journey from the land of his
ancestors to his life in the projects with Drissa and Mireille. In
The Heart of the Leopard Children, N'Sonde explores the themes of
love and pain, belonging and uprooting, desire and fear-all with an
implacable and irresistible accuracy. Wilfried N'Sonde's first
novel awakens the reader with an urban symphony of desire and lost
love, attuned to the violence that accompanies the struggle for
social ascension and a sense of belonging, and the paralyzing
sentiment of betrayal that inhabits a young man caught between
traditions and cultures. Awarded the Prix des Cinq Continents de la
Francophonie and the Prix Senghor for the originality of his work,
the author captures the sounds, rhythms and pleas of a young man
who pulls on the alarm from his prison cell to warn against the
multiple barriers of confinement that risk the future of certain
sectors of French youth today.
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Internet of Vehicles. Technologies and Services Towards Smart City - 5th International Conference, IOV 2018, Paris, France, November 20-22, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Andrzej M J Skulimowski, Zhengguo Sheng, Sondes Khemiri-Kallel, Christophe Cerin, Ching-Hsien Hsu
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Discovery Miles 13 850
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International
Conference on the Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2018, which took place
in Paris, France, in November 2018. This year's theme was
"Technologies and Services Towards Smart City". The 21 papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named:
IoV communications and networking; IoV clouds and services;
vehicular modeling and simulation; and vehicular security and
privacy.
What are the limits of empathy and forgiveness? How can someone
with a shameful past find a new path that allows for both healing
and reckoning? When Clovis and Christelle find themselves
face-to-face on a train heading to the outskirts of Paris, their
unexpected encounter propels them on a cathartic journey toward
understanding the other, mediated by their respective histories of
violence. Clovis, a young undocumented African, struggles with the
pain and shame of his brutal childhood, abusive exploits as a child
soldier, and road to exile. Christelle, a young French nurse, has
her own dark experiences but translates her suffering into an
unusual capacity for empathy, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
Christelle opens her home and heart to Clovis and presses him to
tell his story. But how will she react to that story? Will the
telling start Clovis on a path to redemption or alienate him
further from French society? Wilfried N'Sonde's brave novel
confronts French attitudes toward immigrants, pushes moral
imagination to its limits, and constructs a world where the past
must be confronted in order to map the future.
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Borders (Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Andre; Text written by Wilfried N'Sonde
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R844
Discovery Miles 8 440
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Internet of Vehicles. Technologies and Services Toward Smart Cities - 6th International Conference, IOV 2019, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 18-21, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Sondes Kallel, Kun-Chan Lan, Zibin Zheng
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R1,532
Discovery Miles 15 320
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on the Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2019, which took place
in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in November 2019. The 23 papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101
submissions. The papers focus on providing new efficient solutions
with digital intervehicular data transfer and overall
communications. Yet, IOV is different from Telematics, Vehicle Ad
hoc Networks, and Intelligent Transportation, in which vehicles
like phones can run within the whole network, and obtain various
services by swarm intelligent computing with people, vehicles, and
environments.
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