Battlegrounds And Crossroads

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201094

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Battlegrounds and Crossroads by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Pdf

Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battleground and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography explore the construction of identity through the representation of social space and the transformation of literary space. For discussion of a diacritical territory this volume draws on a interdisciplinary practice that facilitates the journey from the most intimate spaces to the most public spaces of modernity, so that the aesthetic text yields its knowledge of the contingent historical circumstances of its production in material and existential terms. The apparent regionalism and localism of this literature is nothing but a reflection of the relationship between the local and the global, the private and the public, the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. Each text stands by itself while it also reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation through an interdisciplinary methodology that is indispensable to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9042011963

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Battlegrounds and Crossroads by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Pdf

Oliver-Rotger inquires into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text.

Author : Leandra Hinojosa Hernández,Robert Gutierrez-Perez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498558792

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This Bridge We Call Communication by Leandra Hinojosa Hernández,Robert Gutierrez-Perez Pdf

This co-edited collection explores contemporary research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. These concepts include borderlands theories, nepantla, mestiza consciousness, the Coyolxauhqui Imperative, conocimiento, and spirituality.

Author : Patrick Lawrence Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128329781

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Reading Space by Patrick Lawrence Hamilton Pdf

Author : Warlord Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472810441

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Bolt Action: Battleground Europe by Warlord Games Pdf

Take the fight to the enemy with this new theatre book for Bolt Action. From the D-Day landings to the final battle for Berlin, this volume gives players everything they need to focus their gaming on these final campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Scenarios and special rules offer something for all Bolt Action players, regardless of the armies they collect.

Author : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781588362940

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The Essential Conversation by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Pdf

With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the dialogue between the most vital people in a child’s life. “The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers—a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children. Participating in this twice-yearly ritual, so friendly and benign in its apparent goals, parents and teachers are often wracked with anxiety. In a meeting marked by decorum and politeness, they frequently exhibit wariness and assume defensive postures. Even though the conversation appears to be focused on the student, adults may find themselves playing out their own childhood histories, insecurities, and fears. Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She also identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships. In a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of our nation’s most admired educators, Lawrence-Lightfoot offers penetrating analysis and an urgent call to arms for all those who want to act in the best interests of their children. For parents and teachers who seek productive dialogues and collaborative alliances in support of the learning and growth of their children, this book will offer valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively. In The Essential Conversation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brings scholarship, warmth, and wisdom to an immensely important cultural subject—the way we raise our children.

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780964645

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Battleground Prussia by Prit Buttar Pdf

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished. From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously untold testimony and astute strategic analysis recognising a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573569569

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Battleground: Religion [2 volumes] by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Pdf

Is there a controversial issue in the contemporary world that does not involve religion? Whether it's a debate over the beginning of life, or on sexuality and family life, or on the stewardship of humans over the environment, almost all of the most contentious matters that impact today's society involve people's deeply held religious beliefs. Battleground: Religion helps clarify these complex topics by examining how various religious beliefs and practices impact current political, social, and cultural debates. Each of the approximately 100 entries examines a hot-button issue—from war and peace to the culture wars—and discusses, in a balanced and objective way, the points of view on these topics from all parts of the religious spectrum. Students will come away from Battleground: Religion with a better understanding of the issues that they will be encountering for years to come. Each entry includes a bibliography or resources for further information.

Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469649573

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The Last Battleground by Philip Gerard Pdf

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state's complex loyalties, its sprawling and diverse geography, and its dual role as a home front and a battlefield, North Carolina embodies the essence of the whole epic struggle in all its terrible glory. Philip Gerard presents this dramatic convergence of events through the stories of the individuals who endured them--reporting the war as if it were happening in the present rather than with settled hindsight--to capture the dreadful suspense of lives caught up in a conflict whose ending had not yet been written. As Gerard reveals, whatever the grand political causes for war, whatever great battles decided its outcome, and however abstract it might seem to readers a century and a half later, the war was always personal.

Author : Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135016494

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Campaigning for President 2012 by Dennis W. Johnson Pdf

In this important and timely volume, Dennis W. Johnson has assembled an outstanding team of political scientists and political professionals to examine one of the fiercest and most closely fought presidential elections of our time. Like its predecessor, Campaigning for President 2008, Campaigning for President 2012: Strategy and Tactics focuses on political management. It is written by both elections/campaign scholars and practitioners, who highlight the role of political consultants and campaigns while also emphasizing the strategy and tactics employed by the candidates, the national political parties, and outside interests. The contributors explore the general mood of the electorate in the 2012 election, the challenges Obama faced after his first term, the primaries, money, communication, the important issues of the election, and finally the election itself.

Author : Jeff Shesol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324003250

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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War by Jeff Shesol Pdf

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : UIUC:30112047049124

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cameron Binkley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cowpens National Battlefield (S.C.)
ISBN : UGA:32108033653687

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Cowpens National Battlefield by Cameron Binkley Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nonprofit organizations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050691745

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The Internal Revenue Service's Processing of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Applications for Tax-exempt Status Submitted by "political Advocacy" Organizations from 2010-2013 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Richard Sauers,Richard Allen Sauers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Battlefields
ISBN : WISC:89082455957

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America's Battlegrounds by Richard Sauers,Richard Allen Sauers Pdf

Presents the military battlefields of America and explores each site, offering descriptions of the campaigns, the battlefield's significance, and monuments to the fallen, and includes travel tips for planning a trip to a site.