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Stealing Van Gogh
On the surface, the transaction was quite ordinary, In 1961, Yale University accepted Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Night Café and twenty-two other pictures as a bequest from Stephen Clark, wealthy heir to the Singer Manufacturing Company fortune and Yale alumnus. How the painting arrived at this point and what has taken place since is a fascinating and enlightening tale that stretches over all or parts of three centuries. ISBN-13:9781515257912
Misadventures in West Africa: Sierra Leone
Adapting to cultural changes. Doing business with a different set of rules. Dealing with political bullying and backroom dealing. Finding solutions to impossible situations. Taakor Tropical Hardwood Ltd. made a huge investment in the timber industry in Sierra Leone, only to be blocked at every turn. Misadventures in West Africa gives the reader a glimpse of what it is like doing business and interacting with the people of Sierra Leone.The author tells stories that are humorous, touching, candid, and frustrating. His personal experiences working to help keep a company alive and to provide a future for hundreds of people.Finally, in the end, with everyone turned against them, to help slip across the border into Liberia to salvage the business.
Uprooting Cancer. Take Back Your Health: Time For Your Victory Dance!
Currently, the common treatments for cancer are radiation and chemotherapy, for which we are extremely grateful as choices. For many patients, these are our only choices because they are what most doctors have as modalities of treatment. But cancer is only the symptom, the fruit, the effect, the manifestation. If the roots are not taken out, sooner or later the fruits will show up again. So then, what are the root causes of cancer?
In this book, the author addresses what are the main roots of cancer and how to uproot them. This is done in a simple, understandable, and holistic way involving our Spirit, Soul, and Body.
But the author does not stop here. From her 25 years of ministry, research, training, and personal walk, she gives practical, important pointers to guide readers in forming their personal “Re-set”: how to build a new, vibrant life of “True Health” in all areas of their Spirit, Soul, and Body.
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
A balanced, sensitive study of the history of comfort women in Singapore during World War II.
“Comfort women” or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War, and has become the term generally used in English to discuss the subject. The role of comfort women in the Japanese empire during World War II remains an important and emotional topic around the world. Most scholarship concentrates on Korean comfort women, with less on their counterparts in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and even less on Southeast Asia. That gap persists despite widespread knowledge of the elaborate series of comfort stations, or comfort houses, that were organized by the Japanese administration across Singapore during the Occupation from 1942 to 1945. So why, the author asks, did no former comfort women from Singapore come forward and tell their stories when others across Asia began to do publicly in the 1990s?
To understand this silence, this book offers a detailed examination of the sex industry serving the Japanese military during the wartime occupation of Singapore: the comfort stations, managers, procuresses, girls, and women who either volunteered or were forced into service and in many cases sexual slavery. Kevin Blackburn then turns from history to the public presence of the comfort women in Singapore’s memory, including newspapers, novels, plays, television, and touristic heritage sites, showing how comfort women became known in Singapore during the 1990s and 2000s. Bringing great care, balance, and sensitivity to a difficult subject, Blackburn helps to fill an important gap in our understanding of this period.