Flyover Lives

Author : Diane Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698137486

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Flyover Lives by Diane Johnson Pdf

“[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.” —The New York Times Book Review Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans’ indifference to history. Could it be true? The j’accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family’s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestors—beginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711. As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the “wispy but material” family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.

Author : Sarah Kendzior
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250189981

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The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER From the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — Kirkus In 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as The View from Flyover Country, which became an ebook bestseller and garnered praise from readers around the world. Now, The View from Flyover Country is being released in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on the ways that the Trump presidency was the certain result of the realities first captured in Kendzior’s essays. A clear-eyed account of the realities of life in America’s overlooked heartland, The View from Flyover Country is a piercing critique of the labor exploitation, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat. The View from Flyover Country is necessary reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to fix its problems is to first discuss them with honesty and compassion. “Please put everything aside and try to get ahold of Sarah Kendzior’s collected essays, The View from Flyover Country. I have rarely come across writing that is as urgent and beautifully expressed. What makes Kendzior’s writing so truly important is [that] it . . . documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there.”—The Wire “Sarah Kendzior is as harsh and tenacious a critic of the Trump administration as you’ll find. She isn’t some new kid on the political block or a controversy machine. . . .Rather she is a widely published journalist and anthropologist who has spent much of her life studying authoritarianism.” —Columbia Tribune

Author : Robert P. Kolker,Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571370375

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Kubrick by Robert P. Kolker,Nathan Abrams Pdf

The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. It is based on access to the latest research, especially into his archive at the University of the Arts, London, and other papers as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. We discuss not only the making of his films, but also about those he wanted but failed to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. We discover what he was doing when he was not making films. This biography will puncture a few myths about this allegedly reclusive filmmaker, who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century

Author : Dana Loesch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780399563898

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Flyover Nation by Dana Loesch Pdf

Dana Loesch believes in Christianity, patriotism, traditional marriage, and the right to bear arms, among other “quaint” ideas. For the elites in DC, Los Angeles, New York, and Silicon Valley, that makes her as bizarre as a three-headed dog. Loesch is alarmed that America is fracturing into two countries—not North and South, but Coastal and Flyover. Worse, the people in charge don’t understand the first thing about how most of the country thinks and lives. Consider a few examples . . . • In Flyover America, people believe criminals should be punished. Coastal America focuses on “rehabilitation.” • Flyovers think the Declaration of Independence was crystal clear: “All men are created equal.” For Coastals, Black Lives Matter—but anyone who adds that all lives matter must be a racist. • Coastals think they understand firearms because they watched a TV movie about Columbine. Fly- overs get a deer rifle for their thirteenth birthday. • Coastals talk about blue-collar workers in the abstract. Flyovers have a relative who works the night shift in a granola bar factory, where the big perk is taking home a bag full of granola bars every Friday. • Coastals think every problem—from hurt feelings to the cost of birth control—requires government intervention and huge federal spending. Flyovers know that money isn’t magic fairy dust, and many problems can be solved only by individual character and hard work. It would all be funny—if Coastals weren’t winning on most of today’s big issues. As Loesch writes, “Most of these pinkies-out, cocktail- drinking-appletini fans selfishly entertain grandiose plans of economic equality without realizing the negative impact their plans would have on the very people they pride themselves on helping. That’s the true class warfare.” Loesch shines the light of truth on everything from feminism to gun violence to abortion. She reveals the damage done by elitists who flat-out don’t get the lives and values of people in the heart of the country. And she asks commonsense questions such as: How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one? How can you hate the police if you’ve never needed help from a cop? How can you attack Christians if you don’t have a single friend who goes to church? In other words, how can you run a country you’ve never been to? And how much could our politics improve if Coastals would actually listen to their fellow Americans? This book is a rallying cry for anyone who wants our leaders to understand and respect the culture that made America exceptional in the first place.

Author : M. Alston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137390578

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Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia by M. Alston Pdf

A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.

Author : Nigel Powers,Dan M. Frangopol,Riadh Al-Mahaidi,Colin Caprani
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351745970

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Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges by Nigel Powers,Dan M. Frangopol,Riadh Al-Mahaidi,Colin Caprani Pdf

Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 393 contributions presented at IABMAS 2018, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 10 Keynote Lectures, and 382 technical papers from 40 countries. The contributions presented at IABMAS 2018 deal with the state of the art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance. Major topics include: new design methods, bridge codes, heavy vehicle and load models, bridge management systems, prediction of future traffic models, service life prediction, residual service life, sustainability and life-cycle assessments, maintenance strategies, bridge diagnostics, health monitoring, non-destructive testing, field testing, safety and serviceability, assessment and evaluation, damage identification, deterioration modelling, repair and retrofitting strategies, bridge reliability, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, advanced experimental simulations, and advanced computer simulations, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of more rational decision-making on bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and engineers from all areas of bridge engineering.

Author : Cheryl Unruh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 0615385346

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Flyover People by Cheryl Unruh Pdf

Author : Zhang Cheng
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304467423

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The mighty force broke through the sky by Zhang Cheng Pdf

In a blue brick courtyard, Xia Fei opened his heavy eyelids and saw that the decoration in the room was antique and had no modern flavor at all. Xia Fei was so excited that he muttered to himself, "I'm not dead? Did I cross

Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385543842

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Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn Pdf

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." --Lorrie Moore A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere. What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country." She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still," and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture ("Hell"), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design ("Species of Origin"), the paradoxes of Christian Rock ("Sniffing Glue"), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages ("Midwest World"), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity ("Ghosts in the Cloud"). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.

Author : Penny Lewis,Lorens Holm,Sandra Costa Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000457506

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Architecture and Collective Life by Penny Lewis,Lorens Holm,Sandra Costa Santos Pdf

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity that both reflects and gives shape to our social relations, public institutions and political processes. Written by an international range of contributors, the chapters address the intersection of public life and the built environment around the themes of authority and planning, the welfare state, place and identity and autonomy. The book covers a diverse range of material from Foucault’s evolving thoughts on space to land-scraping leisure centres in inter-war Belgium. It unpacks concepts such as ‘community’ and ‘collectivity’ alongside themes of self-organisation and authorship. Architecture and Collective Life reflects on urban and architectural practice and historical, political and social change. As such this book will be of great interest to students and academics in architecture and urbanism as well as practicing architects.

Author : Don Sawicki
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483691190

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My Fantastic God-Given Life by Don Sawicki Pdf

As for that officer who greeted me when I graduated from the B-52 school and made the remark “What are you doing here?” when I came back to Carswell Air Base again for the second time in the hangar, well when the hospital was closing its doors for good, I saw him walking slowly from the hospital. I called out to him, and we exchanged greetings. While he asked what I was doing these days, I noticed that he was much older and walked slower using a cane. Then he told me, “Don, I have known you from 1950, and I have served with you in many different occasions. I stayed in touch with most of the men who served with me. When I first met you, you were just a young kid—aged nineteen and always getting into trouble. Then you got married and settled down. I always said you would amount to something good when I noticed the way you made your choices in your careers. Looks like you did okay.” After a year, I read in the paper that he passed away. Today I don’t see much of my son’s ex-wife (who I felt was as if she were my own daughter), and I still wonder why things like that happened. To walk away from a marriage of eighteen years and three children . . . I repeat: “Why?” Many of my military buddies are gone to the military heavens, so are many of my Ashton hometown school guys that I attended school with. I am still around. I have to wonder if what did happen in that cold watery accident in New Jersey when I found myself down in that river—was it just the way the brain reacts to prevent one from becoming brain-dead from fright, or was it the work of some supreme act from God?

Author : Tyndale,Tyndale House Publishers
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 1519 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781414361949

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The Wayfinding Bible NLT by Tyndale,Tyndale House Publishers Pdf

ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Finalist What if you had a trusted friend to guide you through God's Word every day? Whether you want a fast overview of the grand story of the Bible or a deeper exploration of the riches of Scripture, The Wayfinding Bible is that guide. With an innovative, full-color visual guide at the top of each reading, The Wayfinding Bible provides you with three paths through God's Word: the Fly-Over Route, the Direct Route, and the Scenic Route. Following the Fly-Over Route, you'll cover the most important events in the Bible in just 40 readings, giving you a fresh overview of how these events tell the story of God's redemption. Following the Direct Route's 200 readings, you'll develop a better understanding of how God's story develops through history. Following the Scenic Route, you'll explore new territory while discovering a richness and depth in God's Word that you've not seen before. All without the discouragement of getting bogged down in any single book. Whether you are encountering the Bible for the first time or simply looking for a new journey through Scripture, you will always know where you are and where you're going in God's Word. Just choose your route, and prepare yourself for life-changing experiences with God. Special features: Getting Your Bearings: These 8 two-page articles occur at major turning points of Scripture and help the reader stay on track Side Trips: Explore a known concept in greater depth or read about a topic for the first time Scenic Overlooks: Stunning visuals including maps, photos, infographics, and charts that aid in understanding the Bible text The Wayfinding Bible uses the clear and understandable New Living Translation text.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Dressmaking
ISBN : UCD:31175034503709

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Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Harper
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761853336

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Flyover Country by Christopher Harper Pdf

This book focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969, entering the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas.

Author : Michael Croley,Jack Shuler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982147785

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Midland by Michael Croley,Jack Shuler Pdf

Leading journalists between the coasts offer perspectives on immigration, drug addiction, climate change, and more that you won’t find in national mainstream media. After the 2016 presidential election, the national media fretted over what they could have missed in the middle of the country, launching a thousand think pieces about so-called “Trump Country.” Yet in 2020, the polling was way off—again. Journalists between the coasts could only shake their heads at the persistence of the false narratives around the communities where they lived and worked. Contributor Ted Genoways foresaw how close the election in 2016 would be and, in its aftermath, put out a public call on Facebook, calling on writers from those midland states to help answer the national media’s puzzlement. Representing a true cross-section of America, both geographically and ethnically, these writers highlight the diversity of the American experience in essays and articles that tell the hidden local truths behind the national headlines. For instance: -Esther Honig describes the effects of the immigration crackdown in Colorado -C.J. Janovy writes about the challenges of being an LGBTQ+ activist in Kansas -Karen Coates and Valeria Fernández show us the children harvesting our food -And Sydney Boles chronicles a miner’s protest in Kentucky. For readers willing to look at the American experience that the pundits don’t know about or cover, Midland is an invaluable peek into the hearts and minds of largely unheard Americans.