Robert Nichols Bücher

Schiesssport, Wurftaubenschiessen, Trapschiessen, Skeetschiessen, Wettkampf, Sportgerät.

For centuries Pashtuns from the Peshawar Valley and today's Pakistan-Afghan borderlands have circulated throughout the sub-continent and the Indian Ocean region. This interregional history of migration and mobility in the modern period from 1775 to 2006 follows Pashtun individuals and communities as they left homelands and responded to colonial and post-colonial opportunities and challenges in eighteenth century Rohilkhand, nineteenth century northern India and Hyderabad, Pakistan after 1947, and the Gulf region from the nineteenth century to the present. Pashtuns in permanent or temporary diaspora were transformed by the range of possible social consequences as they circulated in South Asia and the greater Indian Ocean region, variously experiencing degrees of assimilation, integration, sustained ethnic self-awareness, and, increasingly, notions of "national" identity. Pashtuns in home villages and in distant locations exhibited personal initiative and agency even as they were affected by wider European imperial policies, national and interregional political competition, and the evolving pressures of an expanding world economy. This work illuminates the history of Pashtuns and Pakistan and offers insight into how Asian regional populations have been integrated into, and often subordinated by, the dynamics of contemporary globalization.

The Total Planet Food Co-op has been vandalized, leaving a chaotic scene of scattered food items. The culprit is suspected to be the Beast, a half-bear, half-ram creature rumored to take human form. Suspicions fall on various characters, including Chuck, a disgruntled co-op member, and Mr. Belfast, the churchgoing manager of a rival store. One character even suggests the Beast might symbolize Capitalism itself. In this collection, the author presents a familiar yet unsettling version of America. In rural Vermont, Mr. Goss finds a utility bill that includes a surcharge for the murder of Nicaraguan villagers, prompting a grim reflection. A Midwest bus station serves as a refuge for countless displaced individuals, while a remote Maine coast is suddenly filled with corpses from a chemical disaster. Nichols' moral outrage is conveyed with subtlety, as characters face the absurdities and grotesque realities of life with a bewildered acceptance akin to Kafka's Joseph K. These stories illustrate a world where the privileged cannot escape the suffering of others, revealing a hidden reality that is poignantly measured, much like Mr. Goss's sensitive electric meter.