Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

Twists & turns in the world's roads to oil and golf ....

This book takes you there

* World cultures; people and places tourists do not typically see

*Oil business risk and wildcat wells

*Rebels, jungle, desert and offshore

*Golf in strange places; even if your caddy speaks no English

"JR Ewing in Dallas, Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood--fictional oil men live over-sized lives. David Allard lived a life in oil but the glamour was different--early morning shifts on a rig in the South China Sea, a handful of...

In 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. -That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high school and college growing up as the eldest daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. I felt so special. I felt included. I felt more like a teenage girl than when I actually was one. But mostly, I felt so American.-

Since then Hwang has participated in more than ten Cowboys Cheerleader tryouts, becoming a fixture at the annual auditions. Besides loving competition, pushing her limits, and...

The Ancestors is the story of three generations of first daughters who were born after the abolition of slavery and possessed egos that were not compliant with the expected and largely accepted subservient role of women within the humble but chauvinistic environment in which they lived. The spirit of the era is captured as the biopic depicts simple sub-cultural lifestyles with fixed superstitions, parallel belief in God and the occult and unique language. Life experiences are simpathetically and humorously echoed during separate journeys of survival and eventual triumph.

Kidnapped from his village in Congo, Africa...Makandal survived the middle passage and suffered under the brutal whip of the French slave masters in the most profitable colony in the world, Saint Domingue. He would escape the plantation and start one of the most effective rebellions in the 18th century. His quest to free all the enslaved people on the island struck fear in the hearts of the French slave masters. His story has seldom been told, until now.

In the 1960s and '70s, a wave of Indian immigrants came to North America, each with eight dollars in their pockets. How did they become one of the most educated, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic immigrant groups ever to assimilate?

Here, at last, are their stories--told in their own words. From technology innovators to community activists, these seventeen energetic, unstoppable immigrants worked tirelessly to effect change in both India and North America. Some founded tech start-ups that revolutionized the way technology was designed and how data centers operated. Others devoted...

Freedom without Justice is a compelling story of ex-inmate Chol Soo Lee's wrongful incarceration and the actions he took to survive years in prison, while political activists fought to win his retrial and freedom. It is at once a captivating chronicle of his life, a trenchant description of how prisons produce the very behaviors they purport to punish and prevent, and a poignant remembrance of an important chapter in Asian American history following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act.

At the age of twelve, Chol Soo immigrated to the United States from South Korea to reunite...