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Author : John Murphy
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781600344114
Murphy, founder of Kind Road Mission in Odessa, Ukraine, presents a practical manual on finding God and His perfect plan for every individual's life. (Christian)
Author : Suzy Hansen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374712440
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Author : Rick Deighton
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9781602661882
Deighton challenges readers to expand their knowledge, deepen their faith, and apply prayer to their daily life. (Christian)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Deaf
ISBN : MINN:319510007080088
Author : Manfred Wolf
Publisher : Manfred Wolf
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9780595524235
Is it time to negotiate with bin Laden? Is lying about sex ever-or perhaps often-a good idea? To what extent do religion and culture shape the ways in which we communicate? What is the mysterious syndrome called CHOIS, with which many long-time pessimists suddenly find themselves diagnosed? Delve into this intriguing collection to find out the answers to these questions, and many more.In Almost a Foreign Country, a collection of columns, articles and aphorisms, Manfred Wolf brings his unique perspective to bear on a broad range of aspects characterizing our current reality and the way we live now. From love and the relationships between men and women to time and aging, from current political and social issues to the ever-changing face of language-Wolf tackles them all, often combining humor with a sharp, somber perception of the issues that concern us all. His point of view is always unflinching, original, and unapologetic.Manfred Wolf is a university professor, a widely published writer and a world traveler who has spent time in several very different cultures. Almost a Foreign Country provides its readers the unique opportunity to spend some time in his company and enjoy the many pleasures of his experience, wit, and always fascinating opinions.
Author : George Blaustein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190209223
What has it meant to be an Americanist? What did it mean to be an Americanist through fascism, war, and occupation? Nightmare Envy and Other Stories is a study of Americanist writing and institutions in the 20th century. Four chapters trace four routes through the mid-twentieth century. The first chapter is the hidden history of American Studies in the United States, Europe and Japan. The second is the strange career of "national character" in anthropology. The third is a contest between military occupation and cultural diplomacy in Europe. The fourth is the emergence and fate of the "American Renaissance," as the scholar and literary critic F.O. Matthiessen carried a canon of radical literature across the Iron Curtain. Each chapter culminates in the postwar period, when the ruin of postwar Europe led writers and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to understand America in new ways. Many of our modern myths of the United States and Europe were formed in this moment. Some saw the United States assume the mantle of cultural redeemer. Others saw a stereotypical America, rich in civilization but poor in culture, overtake a stereotypical Europe, rich in culture and equally rich in disaster. Drawing on American and European archives, the book weaves cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic history, with portraits of Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, David Riesman, Alfred Kazin, and Ralph Ellison. It excavates the history of the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization, where displaced persons, former Nazis, budding Communists, and glad-handing Americans met on the common ground of American culture. Others found keys to their own contexts in American books, reading Moby-Dick in the ruins. Nightmare Envy and Other Stories chronicles American encounters with European disaster, European encounters with American fiction, and the chasms over which culture had to reach.
Author : E.A. Madden
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781462021451
What if we could turn back the clock to a time when jobs were plentiful, when tax revenue was high, and when people could look forward to retirement? E.A. Madden asks these questions and explains where our leaders went wrong and why they abandoned the middle class. His how-to guide provides step-by-step strategies to bring U.S. prosperity back to all its citizens, not just a chosen few. In a book packed with solutions to todays problems, youll discover: a convincing history of events that led to the nations current political and economic problems; the economic policies of former presidents; strategies to restore general prosperity and preeminence in the world; simple actions to bring jobs back to the nation. This book is for anyone concerned about his or her job and the future of the country. Written with nonpartisan candor and a dry wit, this how-to guide provides an assortment of ideas to help the country. It all begins with realizing that Its the Jobs, Stupid. http://www.itsthejobsstupid.com
Author : Valentine L. Krumplis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466929319
The Repair Manual for Uncle Sam and America is written to cut through the infinite mass of psycho-babble that has been thrown at the American people for decades. Thousands of books and articles have been written to analyze our problems, yet with all that verbiage we have not fixed anything. Today we are broke and in debt, we have wasted our wealth on needless wars, our drug problems have not abated, our prisons are overcrowded, illegals mooch off our system, our health care system is broke along with our Social Security, we are in trouble and there is no more American Dream. Our government does not understand globalization and we are loosing jobs because of it. Our politicians are stalemated along party lines and nothing is done to benefit the people. This Repair Manual points out our greatest dangers and offers simple rational, logical solutions to fix the problems. At one time America had a great world image, a great economy, it was a land of opportunity for everyone, where is all that now? Today we must start to fix it, restore it because the road we are on today will lead to anarchy and then to a totalitarian socialist state. Americans must become informed and involved in our political system because without their help our politicians will take us down the same path we are on, leading down
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293106585353
Author : Margaret Clelland Bender
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820325864
This volume brings together work by linguists and linguistic anthropologists not only on southern varieties of English, but also on other languages spoken in the region. The contributors, who often draw from their own involvement in language maintenance or linguistic heritage movements, engage several of the fields’ most pressing issues as they relate to the southern speech communities: tension between linguistic scholarship and linguistic activism; discourse genres; language contact; language ideology; and the relationship between language shift, language maintenance, and cultural reproduction. Acknowledging the role of immigration and settlement in shaping southern linguistic and cultural diversity, the volume covers a range of Native American, African American, and Euro-American speech communities. One essay explores the implementation of “dialect awareness programs” and the ethics of the relationship between researchers and North Carolina’s Lumbee and Ocracoke communities. Another essay focuses on a single Appalachian community to explore the interplay between linguistic variables commonly associated with Appalachian speech and others commonly associated with African American speech. Other essay topics include Creek language preservation efforts by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the history of language contact and linguistic diversity in the Carolinas, and the changing relationship between English and Mvskoke in Oklahoma. Also covered are the stereotypes, varied realities, and language ideologies associated with Appalachian speech communities; the mobilization of dialect by Cajun English speakers for creating humor, expressing solidarity, and setting boundaries; and the creative use of academic and religious discursive models in the construction of Melungeon and Appalachian Scotch-Irish discourses and identities.
Author : E.E. "Doc" Murdock
Publisher : H.O.T. Press Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780923178239
Writers have been writing about war since the siege of Troy, but few, if any, have captured the first-person experience of war as deeply as My Vietnam War. Set in 1967 (the deadliest year of the Vietnam War), this memoir-style novel depicts the psychological journey of a young man whose carefree days of studying philosophy at the university are ended by the draft. The story follows him from his initial rear-echelon assignment in Saigon, where he falls for a mysterious storytelling bar girl, to his eventual posting at an isolated front-line firebase in one of the deepest parts of the Vietnam jungle. While recovering from a leg wound (he is hit by a piece of bone from a fellow soldier who stepped on a booby trap mine), he becomes the assistant medic and sees the horrors of war close up. The experience begins his steady spiral down into PTSD. After he is seriously wounded, he ends up back in Saigon where, after an old friend from Arizona gets him involved in the underground drug trade, the mysterious bar girl may be his only hope for salvation. It is a powerful story, well-written, with vivid detail that you will never forget.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Science
ISBN : OSU:32435022760102
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295802545
Celebrates Pacific Northwest literature through interviews in which 22 authors discuss their work and the region's influence on it. Authors include Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Tom Robbins, Gary Snyder, and Denise Levertov. Two interviews have been added since the publication of
Author : George Augustus Sala
Publisher : London : Tinsley Bros.
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004951896
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Deaf
ISBN : UVA:X004925474