A Time It Was

Author : Karen Manners Smith,Tim Koster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509273

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Time It Was by Karen Manners Smith,Tim Koster Pdf

What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock.

Author : David Antin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243057

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I Never Knew what Time it was by David Antin Pdf

"The poems in this volume are unforgettable. Richly funny, elegiac, philosophical, contentious, filled with astonishing stories and bizarre characters—some of the finest writing by today's most compelling poet."—Gerald Bruns, author of The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics "These talk poems bring the reader face to face with a great mind. I could hardly bring myself to put the book down."—Hannah Higgins, author of Fluxus Experience "Just keep talking, like they say, and with luck and genius maybe you'll get to be like extraordinary David Antin. Not only was he there, wherever—which is a very large place indeed—but he can tell you just what happened. I must believe it's all in knowing how to listen."—Robert Creeley, author of If I Were Writing This "For thirty years now, David Antin has been producing fascinating meditations that he calls ‘talk poems.’ Beginning in actual talk, they take their textual form from strenuous thinking about a given set of puzzles or problems, tackling "ideas" via narrative networks, as poignant and profound as they are hilarious. The situations are always taken from everyday life, but the mode is one of intense defamiliarization. In these, the most recent of his ruminations on time, space and human fallibility, Antin shows himself, once again, to be our truest philosopher-poet."—Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein’s Ladder "David Antin has been one of our savviest cultural critics for over four decades. In i never knew what time it was Antin takes us on a voyage through his mind. Get on board for a lively and insightful trip."—Irving Sandler, art critic, historian, and author of A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir

Author : Donato De Renzis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794871809

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It was a time where no time could be lost by Donato De Renzis Pdf

In his mind, then, small cracks opened, from which ancient images emerged, perhaps lost in the mass grave of those fragments of mem ories thrown there, randomly and confused with others, buried in the cemetery of lost memories. As it happens when a ray of sunshine penetrates from the dormer window, to break through the walls of the darkness of a dusty attic, so the darkness of that mass grave was pierced by the dazzling reflection of a glow of memory, which raised the dust of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years past, that eternity had deposited there. ?Perhaps it is these ? he thought ? that appear in those strange dreams without meaning, where it happens that the door of the mass grave of those confused fragments opens and come out like the gusts of the winds of Aeolus, enclosed in the wineskin....

Author : Philip S. Salisbury
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493196036

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A time that was? by Philip S. Salisbury Pdf

"The author worked and vacationed in Liberia and West Africa from 1962-1964. The author kept a diary of most of his stay. This book reveals the day-to-day life of a Peace Corps volunteer as well as the experiences of students and villiagers. The experiences are both diverse and unexpected. Reading these diaries results in a fair perspective on the volunteer's life and times. Furthermore, it provides many insights into Liberia, Americo-Liberian culture, life up-country, or life in the interior. This book carries the reader from experience to experience. You'll have a hard time setting it down."--Back cover.

Author : Jo Gabriel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781514427408

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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Lost, Gay, Little Boy. by Jo Gabriel Pdf

Jos mission is to connect with any who can relate to or care about abuse on any and all levels. Jos vision is to see gaps of misunderstanding bridged between all who come in touch with victimizationwhether between victims, survivors, first responders, aggressors, perpetrators, or mere bystanders. Without those bridges, there will never be growth. Jos mission and vision continue to keep her focused on her work. It is clear to her that those bridges between peoples will only be as strong as those who are working together to build them.

Author : Ian McDonald
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765391452

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Time Was by Ian McDonald Pdf

Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time Was A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Judith Friedland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487546960

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There Was a Time for Everything by Judith Friedland Pdf

After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband’s academic career, she continued her formal education through part-time study and gradually began a journey tailored to herself as an individual. In her forties, she embarked on her own academic career, rising through the ranks to become a tenured full professor and chair of the department of occupational therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In There Was a Time for Everything, Friedland reflects on her life and the fact that over time she managed to "have it all" – just not all at once.

Author : Marco Antonio Caio
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788892609037

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Once upon a time there was Islam by Marco Antonio Caio Pdf

Caio Marco Antonio was born in Benghazi, Libya. He has spent 20 years of his life in North Africa and in the Sahara Desert, working for an oil company. He lives in Berlin, Germany, and Rome, Italy. This book is a collection of many e-mails, received from different parts of the world. Most of them deal with muslims and their own way of looking at things.

Author : Karen Fyke Kirchel (and Thomas Kirchel)
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781611029949

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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Thomas Named Thomas… by Karen Fyke Kirchel (and Thomas Kirchel) Pdf

Author : Andrew Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773102192

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It Was Dark There All the Time by Andrew Hunter Pdf

"My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law ... came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long -- it was dark there all the time." These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy.

Author : George H. Wittman
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636240459

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There Was a Time by George H. Wittman Pdf

It is the summer of 1945, the last and very dangerous days of World War II. The Office of Strategic Services is in close, cooperative contact with Ho Chi Minh and the fighting cadre of the Viet Minh, working against the Japanese. In the closing months of the war, the OSS parachute a team of special operations soldiers into Tonkin, northern Viet Nam. Led by Major John Guthrie and his second-in-command, Captain Edouard Parnell, both experienced officers from their earlier assignments in occupied France and Belgium, the team is tasked with working with Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese in the midst of various groups vying for control of Indochina. Guthrie and his team have to adapt to the entirely different context of Vietnamese politics in order to encourage communist operations against the Japanese. Guthrie in particular, struggles with both his personal and professional conflicts. The relationship that Guthrie and the rest of the OSS team develops with the Viet Minh leadership is of distinct annoyance to French ambitions to regain control of their colony, Indochina. Based on the little-known true story of American and Viet Minh collaboration in 1945, this novel challenges the later-accepted dogma of both those supporting and those opposing the American role in the Viet Nam conflict. This novel notes how what is seen at a later time is often inadequate to understand what actually went on. Its contemporary relevance is simply a mirror of what is always the case in international affairs: today’s enemies can and may be tomorrow’s friends – and most importantly, the reverse is true also.

Author : Dario Bollacasa
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Rome (Italy)
ISBN : 9781449036744

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There Was a Time When Rome Was Ruled by Kings by Dario Bollacasa Pdf

We think of ancient Rome mostly in terms of its Empire. But, before the Empire there was a Republic and before that there were Kings. They were responsible for Rome's dominant role in Central Italy, for organizing the Roman society and its religious institutions. Legend and fact are intertwined to make for fascinating reading.

Author : Leila Sales
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452143774

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Once Was a Time by Leila Sales Pdf

In the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible choice between danger and safety. Should she remain with her friend or journey to another time and place? Her split-second decision has huge consequences, and when she finds herself alone in the world, unsure of Kitty's fate, she knows that somehow, some way, she must find her way back to her friend. Written in the spirit of classic time-travel tales, this book is an imaginative and heartfelt tribute to the unbreakable ties of friendship.

Author : Marcella Hannon Shields Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595461066

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Once Upon a Time There was a Little Girl by Marcella Hannon Shields Ph. D. Pdf

Once Upon a Time There Was a Little Girl shares the moving stories of seven women who as young girls experienced the early loss of their mothers through death or physical or emotional abandonment. The women explore their personal traumas through their responses to seven fairy tales in which there was no nurturing maternal presence. Dr. Marcella Shields is a psychologist with over thirty years of experience who reveals the inspiring journeys of these women who eventually triumph over suffering and learn to rely on the bond they have formed with each other to help reclaim their passion for life. By exploring seven timeless fairy tales in which the heroine finds her way through the grief of abandonment, the women offer a deeper understanding of the significance of the mother-daughter bond and the devastating consequences for the daughter if this bond is ruptured early. The poignant life stories and dreams courageously offered by these women show how fairy tales allowed them to understand and refashion themselves, and provide a source of encouragement and hope for other women who have experienced early maternal loss. Fathers raising daughters without a consistent maternal presence will also find the reflections valuable.

Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588368935

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Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains a Once Upon a Time, There Was You discussion guide. Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they seem to have nothing in common—nothing except the most important person in each of their lives: Sadie, their spirited eighteen-year-old daughter. Feeling smothered by Irene and distanced from John, Sadie is growing more and more attached to her new boyfriend, Ron. When tragedy strikes, Irene and John come together to support the daughter they love so dearly. What takes longer is to remember how they really feel about each other. Elizabeth Berg’s immense talent shines in this unforgettable novel about the power of love, the unshakeable bonds of family, and the beauty of second chances.