Burden Of Desire

Author : Robert MacNeil
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459503168

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Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil Pdf

Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth. Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing drive for the individuals from the north end of the city who've lost everything in the explosion. Peter discovers the diary and becomes fixated on its author, enlisting the help of his friend Stewart to find her. Burden of Desire explores the repression and expression of sexual desire at the time of the First World War. It also offers a compelling fictional account of the impact on Halifax society of the Halifax Explosion.

Author : Brontez Purnell
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558614321

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Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell Pdf

An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

Author : Les Blank,James Bogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Burden of dreams (Motion picture)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014795863

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Burden of Dreams by Les Blank,James Bogan Pdf

Author : Edward Hayes Plumptre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50243040

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Ecclesiastes by Edward Hayes Plumptre Pdf

Author : O. C. McSwite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317467267

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Invitation to Public Administration by O. C. McSwite Pdf

This engaging book presents a model for personal reflection on what a career in public service means. It's designed not to convince the reader to take up a public service career, but rather to invite him or her to explore the implications for one's identity that are inherent in the public service life. Lively and anecdotal, Invitation to Public Administration directly confronts the various difficult issues involved with a public service career even as it evokes self-reflection. It is equally useful for undergraduate through Ph.D. level readers, and it is ideal supplemental reading for any foundational course in Public Administration. The book will also stimulate public service professionals seeking fresh insights for their own careers.

Author : Kristen Iversen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307955654

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Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen Pdf

“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.

Author : Neal Griffin
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765395634

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The Burden of Truth by Neal Griffin Pdf

As a serving police officer, Los Angeles Times bestselling author Neal Griffin saw how family ties, loyalty to friends, and their own ambitions could lead young men to make choices that got them hurt, killed, or imprisoned. He explores this complex web of relationships and pressures in The Burden of Truth. In a small city in southern California, 18 year-old Omar Ortega is about to graduate high school. For years, he’s danced on the fringes of gang life, trying desperately to stay out of the cross-hairs. Once Omar joins the Army, his salary, plus his meager savings, will get his mother and siblings out of the barrio, where they’ve lived since his father was deported. One night, everything changes. Newly released from prison, Chunks, the gang’s shot-caller, has plans for Omar. That boy, Chunks thinks, needs to be jumped in. By dawn, Omar will be labeled a cop-killer. Law-and-order advocates and community organizers will battle over Omar’s fate in the court of public opinion while the criminal justice system grips him in its teeth. One night can destroy a man and all who depend on him. That he’s innocent does not matter. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Julia Von dem Knesebeck
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 190739611X

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The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-war Germany by Julia Von dem Knesebeck Pdf

Thirty years passed before it was accepted, in West Germany and elsewhere, that the Roma (Germany's Gypsies) had been Holocaust victims. And, similarly, it took thirty years for the West German state to admit that the sterilisation of Roma had been part of the 'Final Solution'. Drawing on a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this book examines the history of the struggle of Roma for recognition as racially persecuted victims of National Socialism in post-war Germany. Since modern academics belatedly began to take an interest in them, the Roma have been described as 'forgotten victims'. This book looks at the period in West Germany between the end of the War and the beginning of the Roma civil rights movement in the early 1980s, during which the Roma were largely passed over when it came to compensation. The complex reasons for this are at the heart of this book.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805212129

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A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Now in paperback, Wiesel’s newest novel “reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness.”—Le Monde des Livres A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die soon after in France in an accident, together with his father. Doriel was a hidden child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books. Doriel’s parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk. Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. And despite Doriel’s initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps bring him to a crossroads—and to a shocking denouement. “In its own high-stepping yet paradoxically heart-wracking way, [Wiesel’s novel] can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief).”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : H. Rider Haggard,Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664319

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The World's Desire by H. Rider Haggard,Andrew Lang Pdf

Author : Sharon Rezac Andersen
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604948042

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The Burden of Knowing by Sharon Rezac Andersen Pdf

Sharon Rezac Andersen and Sister Margie Tuite travel to civil-war-torn Nicaragua in 1983 to determine the truth of the situation.

Author : Myles Munroe
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781599796970

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Burden Of Freedom by Myles Munroe Pdf

The Burden Of Freedom explains that too many people use past oppression to remain mired in hatred and irresponsibility today. The spirit of oppression has specific telltale effects on individuals, communities, and nations.

Author : Natalie Charles
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373278640

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The Burden of Desire by Natalie Charles Pdf

Prosecutor Sally Dawson is just about to go to trial to prove a man killed his wife, when the wife shows up. Alone and pregnant, and now needing to save her career, a former male partner and lover is invited back into the picture to join forces with her to try to make sense of the evidence.

Author : Anne HŽbert
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 088784166X

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Burden of Dreams by Anne HŽbert Pdf

"Julien is captivated by a beautiful young woman, and his yearning for freedom from his protective mother turns into tragedy. This poetic and haunting novel won the Governor General's Award for French Fiction in 1992."

Author : Andrew Stuart Bergerson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783110246360

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The Happy Burden of History by Andrew Stuart Bergerson Pdf

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.