Gene Bullard C Est Moi

Author : Norman Weinstein
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781468918472

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Gene Bullard, C'est Moi! by Norman Weinstein Pdf

The protagonist of Gene Bullard, C'est Moi! becomes the world's first black aviator and a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps in WW I. Born into dire poverty in Georgia, in conflict with a stern father, he runs away at 12. The quintessential strength of Gene Bullard consists of courage, self-respect, a sense of humor, a deep regard for people of all stripes, and simple intelligence. He refuses to allow himself to drown in hatred: "Fill you up with hate and they've won, they've poisoned you, and they almost did it to me." He joins a gypsy band in Georgia, makes it to France, joins the Foreign Legion, is wounded at Verdun, receives the first of 15 medals from the French, learns to fly, and between the wars becomes owner of a small but successful Montmartre cabaret known by everyone. He marries into a middle-class Parisian family, spies for the French before WW II, and ultimately escapes to America after being wounded. The rapidly paced and numerous brief scenes with their many characters construct a remarkable person who, offered opportunities in France denied him in his native land, realizes himself as a complete human undefeated by racism and other challenges.

Author : Norman Weinstein
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781468958317

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First Love & Other Poems by Norman Weinstein Pdf

Most of these poems deal with the everyday, the ordinary, but as Walt Whitman once declared, a blade of grass is also a miracle. It is my deepest wish, then, that these poems attract, entertain, teach, amuse, speak directly to the emotions, even cause wonder, but above all that they be accessible and comprehensible to their readers and listeners and perhaps make the ordinary a little less so. Poems should scare away no one, but rather, in profound service to the language of which they consist, greet one and all warmly and, in a sense, say, "Here we are for you." However, many important poets over the last century have seemingly spoken in tongues addressed principally to critics and assorted academics, thus rendering difficult, even impossible, for many of us access to a very significant form of communication and pleasure. I hope this book will work otherwise to welcome everyone to what each poem says and the way it says it. Indeed, our lives are kaleidoscopic, shards of moments that together form a mosaic. We can take a single minuscule shard from our life, or someone else's, or an entire mosaic, and breathe life into it so that it has substance and meaning, dimension and music. In brief, every poem herein has evolved from a reality, even that of a dream, visible and tangible or hidden and unseen, but imprinted on heart or mind. Each poem bears with it an image of my choice simply because I enjoy "seeing" a poem, my own included, and feeling it through several senses. My purpose is not to impose in any way the thrust of the image, my choice, on the reader, but simply to share a personal physical possibility and a way of feeling the poem. Perhaps not unlike a boy splashing barefoot through a warm puddle on a summer's day, I enjoy wallowing in a poem's images, its music, and all the things it is capable of. Besides, pictures are fun.

Author : Sverre Heim,Felix Mitelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118795538

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Cancer Cytogenetics by Sverre Heim,Felix Mitelman Pdf

The first three editions of this acclaimed book presented a much-needed conceptual synthesis of this rapidly moving field. Now, Cancer Cytogenetics, Fourth Edition, offers a comprehensive, expanded, and up-to-date review of recent dramatic advances in this area, incorporating a vast amount of new data from the latest basic and clinical investigations. New contributors reflecting broader international authorship and even greater expertise Greater emphasis throughout on the clinical importance and application of information about cytogenetic and molecular aberrations Includes a complete coverage of chromosome aberrations in cancer based on an assessment of the 60,000 neoplasms cytogenetically investigated to date Now produced in full color for enhanced clarity Covers how molecular genetic data (PCR-based and sequencing information) are collated with the cytogenetic data where pertinent Discusses how molecular cytogenetic data (based on studies using FISH, CGH, SNP, etc) are fused with karyotyping data to enable an as comprehensive understanding of cancer cytogenetics as is currently possible

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622946

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey Pdf

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367290

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Painted Love by Hollis Clayson Pdf

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

Author : Richard W. Hemingway,Joseph J. Karchesy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468475111

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Chemistry and Significance of Condensed Tannins by Richard W. Hemingway,Joseph J. Karchesy Pdf

This book was developed from the proceedings of the first North American Tannin Conference held in Port. Angeles, Washington, August 1988. The objective of the conference was to bring together people with a common interest in condensed tannins and to promote interdisciplinary interactions that will lead to a better understanding of these important substances. Anot. her objective was the publicat. ion of this book because there has not been a monograph devoted to the chemistry and significance of tannins for several decades. The book is organized into sections dealing with the biosynthesis, structure, re actions, complexation with other biopolymers, biological significance, and use of tannins as specialty chemicals. The authors made a special attempt to focus on what we don't know as well as to provide a summary of what we do know in an effort to assist in planning future research. Our thanks go to the authors who so kindly contributed chapters and so pa tiently responded to our requests. We also thank Rylee Geboski and the Conference Assist. ance Staff, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, for their assistance in planning and conducting t. he conference, and Julia Wilson, Debbie Wolfe, Helen Coletka, and Nancy Greene of the Southern Forest Experiment Station, Pineville, Louisiana, who typed the chapt. ers. Linda Chalker-Scott was especially helpful in assisting us wit. h editing. Dick Hemingway is indebted t. o the staff of the Alexandria Forest.

Author : Darrell Addison Posey,Graham Dutfield
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9780889367999

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Beyond Intellectual Property by Darrell Addison Posey,Graham Dutfield Pdf

Cultural property, aboriginal people, ethnobiology, legal status, laws.

Author : Robert Boschman,Sonya L. Jakubec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1773852345

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Signs of Water by Robert Boschman,Sonya L. Jakubec Pdf

Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today. Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right.

Author : Rob Nixon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674247994

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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon Pdf

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Author : Joel Rodriguez-Saldana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030118150

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The Diabetes Textbook by Joel Rodriguez-Saldana Pdf

Diabetes has become a worldwide health problem, the global estimated prevalence approaches ten percent and the burden of this disease in terms of morbidity and mortality is unprecedented. The advances acquired through the knowledge of the mechanisms of the disease and the variety of therapeutic approaches contrast with the inability of private and public health systems in underdeveloped and even developed countries to achieve the goals of treatment. This paradox has been described in many sources: the surge of scientific advances contrast with an unprecedented amount of human suffering. Thus, a patient centered and an evidence based approach with the capacity to produce measurable clinical and economic outcomes is required. The purpose of this textbook is multiple: to offer a comprehensive resource covering all aspects of outpatient management; to address diabetes as a health problem from an epidemiological, economic and clinical perspective; to discuss the role of social determinants of health on the worldwide increase in diabetes; to highlight the challenges and obstacles in providing adequate care; and to outline a multidisciplinary approach to management in which medical visits retain their importance as part of a team comprising the patient, his or her family and a multidisciplinary group of health professionals who are able to move beyond the traditional approach of diabetes as a disease and greatly improve outcomes.

Author : J. Hillis Miller
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823230358

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For Derrida by J. Hillis Miller Pdf

This book—the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars—is “for Derrida” in two senses. It is “for him,” dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts of reading, as advocates for Derrida’s work. They focus especially on Derrida’s late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished, seminars. The chapters are “partial to Derrida,” on his side, taking his part, gratefully submitting themselves to the demand made by Derrida’s writings to be read—slowly, carefully, faithfully, with close attention to semantic detail. The chapters do not progress forward to tell a sequential story. They are, rather, a series of perspectives on the heterogeneity of Derrida’s work, or forays into that heterogeneity. The chief goal has been, to borrow a phrase from Wallace Stevens, “plainly to propound” what Derrida says. The book aims, above all, to render Derrida’s writings justice. It should be remembered, however, that, according to Derrida himself, every rendering of justice is also a transformative interpretation. A book like this one is not a substitute for reading Derrida for oneself. It is to be hoped that it will encourage readers to do just that.

Author : Alexander Mauro
Publisher : Raven Press (ID)
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015015064226

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Muscle Regeneration by Alexander Mauro Pdf

Author : Harold P. Drutz,Sender Herschorn,Nicholas E. Diamant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781846282386

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Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery by Harold P. Drutz,Sender Herschorn,Nicholas E. Diamant Pdf

This text includes sections on anatomy, normal and abnormal physiology, investigation techniques, inflammatory conditions and treatment options. The international panel of contributors is at the forefront of research in the field; the editors have assembled these contributors and topics that span the entire range of pelvic floor disorders in women. Throughout, the emphasis is on an evidence-based approach to the treatment of pelvic floor problems. Indispensable for gynecologists and urologists.

Author : Paul R. Crocker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540464105

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Mammalian Carbohydrate Recognition Systems by Paul R. Crocker Pdf

In the last decade there has been a great expansion in our knowledge of the existence, nature and functions of mammalian carbohydrate binding proteins. This book covers the structures and postulated functions for the major classes of mammalian carbohydrate binding proteins. These include intracellular lectins involved in diverse functions such as protein synthesis quality control, targetting of lysosomal enzymes and in the secretory pathway. In addition, several chapters are devoted to other major families of lectins that are found at the cell surface or in extracellular fluids which are involved in various recognition functions such as cell-cell interactions in inflammation and recognition of pathogen carbohydrates in host defence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004391949

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Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN by Anonim Pdf

This volume studies the governance and implementation of the sustainable development goals in Southeast Asia, in particular the difficulties in the shift from the international to the national, the multi-level challenges of implementation, and the involvement of stakeholders, civil society, and citizens in the process.