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Author : Alison Light
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226330945
"First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.
Author : Tony Birch
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702260742
From the award-winning author of Ghost River. In this unforgettable new collection, Tony Birch introduces a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories capture common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From two single mothers on the most unlikely night shift to a homeless man unexpectedly faced with the miracle of a new life, Birch's stories are set in gritty urban refuges and battling regional communities. His deftly drawn characters find unexpected signs of hope in a world where beauty can be found on every street corner - a message on a T-shirt, a friend in a stray dog or a star in the night sky. Common People shines a light on human nature and how the ordinary kindness of strangers can have extraordinary results. With characteristic insight and restraint, Tony Birch reinforces his reputation as a master storyteller. Stories include: 'The Ghost Train', 'Harmless', 'Colours', 'Joe Roberts', 'The White Girl', 'Party Lights', 'Paper Moon', 'Painted Glass', 'Frank Slim', 'Liam', 'Raven and Sons', 'The Good Howard', 'Sissy', 'Death Star', 'Worship'.
Author : Kit de Waal
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783527472
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.
Author : Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547102618
This book is a historical novel by the American classical scholar, Frank Frost Abbot. It deals with the lives of the Roman common people, their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the Roman standards to the Euphrates and the Atlantic: they lived abroad as traders, farmer and soldiers to Romanize the provinces. Or they stayed at home, working in different professions to supply the needs of the capital.
Author : Jacques Bidet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000962314
This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing. The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “metastructure” which defines the relationship between the structural and the symbolic, it confronts contemporary debates on class, gender andcoloniality, as well as on the state, the nation and the World-System. Global social-ecological destruction is thus analysed on three registers: that of capital, which produces for profit; that of (supposed) competent authority, which produces to produce; and that of the nation, which produces to conquer. Consumerism follows from productivism, not the other way around. The question of need takes precedence over that of desire. This metastructural configuration poses the imperative constantly renewed to counter the blind logic of capital with a rational logic of organisation, and, at the same time, to counter the logic of the organisers through a democratic discursive logic. This latter is the recourse of common people. The Global South is on the front line of this struggle; and women’s struggle bears its own decisive ecological impulse.
Author : Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351340830
This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the Roman standards to the Euphrates and the Atlantic; they lived abroad as traders, farmers, and soldiers to hold and Romanize the provinces, or they stayed at home, working as carpenters, masons, or bakers, to supply the daily needs of the capital. The other side of the subject which has engaged the attention of the author in studying these topics has been the many points of similarity which arise between ancient and modern conditions, and between the problems which the Roman faced and those which confront us.
Author : Ronald Suleski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004361034
In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.
Author : Paul Long
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443802987
“corrupt and moronic though the common people are seemingly becoming ... only in the common people can the true work be rooted, the true tradition rediscovered and re-informed” Charles Parker, BBC Radio Producer 1959. In 1958, in his best-selling book Culture and Society, Raymond Williams identified working-class culture as ‘a key issue in our own time’. Why this happened and how this subject was thought about and acted upon is the focus of this book. Paul Long investigates a variety of projects and practices that were designed to describe, validate, reclaim, rejuvenate or generate ‘authentic’ working-class culture as part of the re-imagining of Britishness in the context of the post-war settlement. Detailed case studies cover the wartime cultural activities of CEMA – the forerunner of the Arts Council - the Folk Revival, the impact of Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, broadcasting and the radio work of Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, the roots of modern arts festivals in Arnold Wesker’s Centre 42 project as well as the impact of progressive education on children’s writing and the politics of the English language. ‘Only in the Common People: The Aesthetics of Class in Post-War Britain’ examines the assumptions, idealism and prejudices behind these projects and the terms of class as ‘the preoccupation of a generation’. This approach offers a historicisation of the broader ideas and debates that informed the development of the New Left and British social history and cultural theory, offering an understanding of the rise of respect for ‘the common man’.
Author : Mary E. C. Drew
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781462887217
“The negro will not be alarmed at the unjust talk against him, as is often uttered by Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina. He will not be sent to the island of the sea to please Mr. Graves, of Georgia. The negro is here to stay, to work, to learn, to obey, to pray and to accumulate property and to become a responsible factor in his own country and nation.” --Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood September 25, 1903 “John J. Smallwood is the most eloquent negro orator that has ever spoken in Steubenville. He is dark in complexion, rather fine looking, a plain but substantial dresser, unassuming in his manners, a profound scholar, and a master of the pure English. He has a full round voice, very eloquent as a speaker, logical, graceful, and convincing. Upon the subject of the “Negro Problem” he has no equal in this country.” The Steubenville Weekly Herald Star September 25, 1903 “His style of oratory, which is dignified and graceful, is suggestive of that of Hon., Frederick Douglass, and his friends, of whom he has a host, numbering among them some of the leading men and women in New England, say that in time he will surpass Douglass.” The Boston Globe November 16, 1890 “On my return to America, on the question of labor, I learned that a colored man could better represent his race upon such issues when they came before the public.” Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood The Boston Sunday Globe November 16, 1890 “But through the broader knowledge which cultivated intelligence brings, Dr. Smallwood has not stopped at the race question, but has entered upon the agitation of temperance and labor, topics affecting American citizens, white and colored.” The Boston Globe, November 16, 1890. “I was only twelve years of age when I ran away from my birthplace of Rich Square, NC . . . I walked sixty miles from N.C. into the town of Franklin [VA] where my poor, slave-born father and mother once lived and where my great but misguided grandfather was executed Aug. [1831]. I speak of my grandfather (Nat Turner) who led the Southampton Insurrection in [1831] as being “great.” I do not mean in a foolish, unselfish way but as a fact.” November 16, 1890, Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood. December 26, 1903.
Author : Burke Aaron Hinsdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : New Year sermons
ISBN : UOM:39015071602828
Author : Jean Prevost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1664
Category : Medicine
ISBN : BL:A0021713933
Author : Scotchman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Christian life
ISBN : BL:A0021817410
Author : Surendrhananda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781456736606
True Path to Common Peoples Breathing, Postures, Relaxation and Concentration is a book about the Science of Yoga. We have quite a number of books about Yoga and Spirituality. His is one born from his inner self-discovery; that is why there is the urge, with all humility, non-assertion or didacticism, to share his experience to others. The book expounds for our hectic world with all its distress and woes the healing balm of proper breathing, relaxation and other benefits as the little suggests. Our mind, body and soul complex can then be better refreshed and re-energised. The book is a useful guide for the proper and true maintenance of mental and physical health. The approach is both practical and positive. Ours is a face-paced one with people leading a hectic life. For all our technological so-called progress, what do we see around us? A world of distressed and woes! This book has much to offer in a therapeutic way the path to a lesser degree from our anxiety and emotional disorders. With the proper yogic techniques advocated here; we can enlarge and deepen our spiritual inadequacy, so rampant today. Here is a book with the denunciation of a too much materialistic and dehumanizing world and the annunciation of genuine happiness, true liberation and bliss!
Author : Peter Buckley
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dictionaries
ISBN : 9781858284576
Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.
Author : Sally Rooney
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984822192
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE—Entertainment Weekly TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. Praise for Normal People “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post “Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney’s elegant sophomore effort . . . is a worthy successor to Conversations with Friends. Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism. . . . [She writes] some of the best dialogue I’ve read.”—The New Yorker