Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven children, but six of them are illegal so they could not go to university, could not take a job, go to the doctor, or marry, or even buy a train ticket. Zhao Min from Guangzhou first learned about the concept of a sibling at university, in her town there were no sisters or brothers.With the Chinese government now adapting to a two child policy, Secrets and Siblings outlines the scale of its tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so it also challenges many of our misconceptions about family life in China, arguing that it is the state, rather than popular prejudice, that has hindered the adoption of girls within China.At once brutal and beautifully hopeful, Secrets and Siblings asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults.
Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven children, but six of them are illegal so they could not go to university, could not take a job, go to the doctor, or marry, or even buy a train ticket. Zhao Min from Guangzhou first learned about the concept of a sibling at university, in her town there were no sisters or brothers.With the Chinese government now adapting to a two child policy, Secrets and Siblings outlines the scale of its tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so it also challenges many of our misconceptions about family life in China, arguing that it is the state, rather than popular prejudice, that has hindered the adoption of girls within China. At once brutal and beautifully hopeful, Secrets and Siblings asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults.
Toimittaja Mari Manninen kyllästyi lukemaan ja kuulemaan mitä villeimpiä käsityksiä journalistisen median toiminnasta. Ja katselemaan median vaivaantunutta kiemurtelua yleisön aiheellistenkin huolien edessä.Tässä kirjassa Manninen kertoo nyt 30 vuoden toimittaja-kokemuksellaan, miten asiat oikeasti ovat.Kirjan luettuasi tiedät, kuka päättää, mistä jutut tehdään. Tajuat, millä pelisäännöillä toimittajat toimivat. Tiedät, ovatko he oikeistolaisia vai vasemmistolaisia (vastaus voi yllättää). Ymmärrät klikkiotsikoinnin syvät syyt ja seuraukset. Oivallat, millaista journalismi oikeasti on verrattuna vanhoihin aikoihin, joihin haikaillaan. Ja hahmotat, millaisella vedätyksellä sinuakin yritetään saada journalismin tappajien jengiin.Mari Manninen on työskennellyt maakuntalehdistä aikakausilehtiin ja puoluelehtiin, iltapäivälehdistä talouslehtiin ja televisiouutisiin. Valtaosan urastaan hän on tehnyt Helsingin Sanomissa. Mannisen teos "Yhden lapsen kansa" sai Finlandia-palkinnon.
For a thousand years in the land of Chaimara, all females have been born with the right to be Keepers of their world. But for Mari in the village of Chadrons, this power remains dormant. Until a mysterious Storyteller emerges from the desert, giving her a fragment of the ancient Ilmat-Mor and setting her on a dangerous journey to reach the mountains of Dromgorden. At first her guardian Marta goes with her, warning Mari her life is in peril from the armies of the Joraghi, who are searching for her because their commander Yarok-Mas is obsessed with the Ilmat-Mor and its absolute power and the fragment of it now in Mari's keeping. Dreams haunt her of flames rising up from an abyss. A vision comes to her of riding like the wind on horseback with her long-lost brother Liam and a hundred warriors as red clouds of explosions fill the night sky. Pressing forward through the unfamiliar world of Chaimara after Marta leaves her, Mari faces alone the unknown, for time and place shift without warning. People cross her path, some intense and frightening, some comic, others strange, all of them with a hidden purpose and message for her. And there come the Shapeshifters, who lurk in the shadows, ready to betray her, knowing the Joraghi will pay a good price for their knowledge. To her great joy, Mari encounters a small group of rebels when she reaches a sanctuary in the Dromgorden mountains and finds Liam and the brave poet-warrior Starfayl. She joins forces with them when she discovers they intend to rescue her mother from Yarok-Mas and retrieve the other half of the Ilmat-Mor. As she fights for the fate of her world, Mari begins to understand the true power of the Storyteller's gift and of the destiny that is now her own to wield. If you enjoy epic fantasy adventures filled with magic, mystery, and high stakes, then you won't want to miss MARI. MARI was a finalist in the ListenUp Audiobook contest.
Den unga snickardottern Mari är full av glädje och förväntan när hon anländer till marknaden. I dimman mellan karuseller och gnällande positiv möter hon den spännande Johan Tång. Hon blir hänförd och inleder en klassresa i livet som många andra arbetarkvinnor gjort före henne. Vid giftermålet möter hon helt nya seder i hennes nya släkt och hon börjar fundera på om det verkligen är samma Johan hon har gift sig med. Han är så annorlunda. Mitt i besvikelsen är Mari stark och beslutar sig för att skapa sig ett eget liv. Resultatet blir ett oerhört starkt porträtt av en arbetarkvinnas liv och villkor. -
Tämä on Marin ja hänen perheensä tarina. Kirja kertoo hyväksikäytöstä ja siitä mitä se saa aikaan. Kannen kuvassa pääkallon sisältä tuleva käärme kuvaa sitä kuinka uhri ei pääse irti. Käärme on vielä kuoleman takaakin elävä ja voimallinen. Se luo mörköjä uniin ja vaikuttaa tiedostamattoman kautta uhrin elämään. Hänen ylitseen saa kävellä.Kirjailija on julkaissut aiemmin satukirjoja. Tämä on ensimmäinen aikuisille suunnattu teos.
From Pura Belpr Honor-winning author Adrianna Cuevas comes Mari and the Curse of El Cocodrilo, a new middle grade novel about a young Cuban American girl who must fight to break a curse of bad luck set upon her by El Cocodrilo when she rejects her family's traditions.If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes.Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than sneering words at school: a curse of bad luck from El Cocodrilo. At first, it's just possessed violins and grade sabotaging pencils, but once El Cocodrilo learns that he becomes more powerful with each new misery, her luck goes from bad to nightmarish as the curse spreads to her friend Keisha.Instead of focusing on Mari's mariachi band tryout and Keisha's fencing tournament, the pair, along with their friend Juan Carlos, are racing against the clock to break the curse. But when Mari discovers her family's gift to call upon their ancestors, she and her friends will have to find a way to work with the unexpected help that arrives from the far corners of Mari's family tree. Only will it be enough to defeat El Cocodrilo before he makes their last year of elementary school the worst ever and tears their friendship apart?
The broad spectrum of the Mari documents provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into Early Israel, the Bible and Biblical Hebrew. The present volume utilizes these possibilities to obtain a new perspective on Early Israelite times. In 1936, a French archaeological expedition to Mari, the capital of a kingdom on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, began uncovering a vast archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets. This huge corpus of Old Babylonian documents, mostly from the Mari palace - a unique royal complex of the eighteenth century BC - is slowly revealing a vivid picture of Mesopotamia at the time when the Israelites were in their earliest formative stage. One most fascinating facet of the archives is the light they shed on the early phases of Israelite socio-history. Indeed, the Mari archives now comprise the prime extra-Biblical source for this period, for they reflect a West Semitic population analogous to the so-called `Patriarchs'. The broad spectrum of the Mari documents, from exotic prophecies to political intrigue, provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into Early Israel, the Bible, and Biblical Hebrew. The present volume utilizes these possibilities to obtain a new perspective on Early Israelite times.
Mari Westin, an irrepressible, well-bred 18th century English girl, rebels against the restraints of her times. She seizes opportunity wherever life leads her and whatever it throws at her:From gentrified upbringing, to forced labor in the colonies; From heroic rescue, to arranged marriage in the Caribbean; From early widowhood, to romantic fulfilment in the new United States, thanks to what literally was the sweetest deal of the American Revolution."Mari's Way - Romance and Revolution" is an intriguing trans-Atlantic mix of truth and legend, characters real and imagined, time and place, firmly based on historic fact.
Cu cartea de față "Mari filosofi evrei", autorul israelian Saul Leizer nchide o importantă trilogie - o revizie a stării de spirit a poporului evreu, din negura timpurilor și p nă azi, n epoca modernă. Citind despre destinele și viața unor mari g nditori, filosofi, oameni politici, teologi sau oameni de știință, cititorul descoperă o magnifică istorie a unui neam care și-a clădit DNA-ul plec nd de la alfabet, scris, cultură, credință monoteistă... toate bazate pe o organizare socio-morală fără egal. Au precedat volumele "Minți evreiești sclipitoare", urmat de "Despre mari politicieni evrei" produse la Editura SAGA, ntr-un relativ scurt interval de timp. Din recenta carte despre filosofie și cei care au plantat pietrele de hotar ale acestei ndeletniciri ale minții, se desprinde o concluzie inevitabilă filosofia este un studiu care pleacă de la capacitatea de mirare a omului, care n final caută să răspundă ntrebărilor care l frăm ntă, cu un mesaj creator și inovativ. Editura SAGA 2019.
