Men Of Action

Author : Howard Akler
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770564268

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Men of Action by Howard Akler Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most novel, most necessary at the time. At its most reductive, the word 'consciousness' refers to the synchronized firing of neurons across multiple areas of the brain, the mental experience of attending. But should consciousness be summed up simply by its subsconscious mechanism? I would prefer a more imaginative answer. After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness and Akler's struggles with writing and his own unpredictable mind. With echoes of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth's Patrimony, Men of Action treads the line between memoir and meditation, and is at once elegiac, spare, and profoundly intimate. Howard Akler is the author of The City Man, which was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Author : Cmdr. Kenneth Edwards
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204522

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Men of Action by Cmdr. Kenneth Edwards Pdf

Originally published in 1943, this is a unique collection of accounts relating to 19 distinguished Royal Navy Admirals and Captains of the Second World War Royal Navy. Written in the midst of World War II by Royal Navy Commander Kenneth Edwards, each contemporary portrait is filled with fascinating details. From the grey ships accompanying the convoys in the Atlantic to the seaborne Royal Navy Marines the struggle at sea during the Second World War is brought to life. An essential book for all R.N. historians to add to their collection!

Author : Burton E. Stevenson
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788726552607

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American Men of Action by Burton E. Stevenson Pdf

‘American Men of Action’ is Stevenson’s exploration of the lives of some of the most notable men in American history. From Christopher Columbus to Melvil Dewey, he leaves no stone of American history unturned. His concise and intentional manner manages to make even the most mundane pieces of history captivating. An American author and librarian, Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. After studying at Princeton, he fought in the First World War, founded a library in Camp Sherman, and worked at Chillicothe city library for an impressive 58 years. He also founded the American Library in Paris, during his posting as the European director of the Library War Service. Alongside this, he was also an author, writing and compiling over 50 books across his lifetime, his children’s books and anthologies being the most well-known among them.

Author : John Rose Butlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024177242

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Men of Action and Men of Thought. A lecture, etc by John Rose Butlin Pdf

Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : MADARIS PUBLISHERS
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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INFINITE POSSIBILITIES (MEN OF ACTION Book 3) by Brenda Jackson Pdf

Roland Summers wonders if there’s a reason he keeps running into Charlottesville's new medical examiner, Lennox Roswell. First, there was the wedding of his good friend Stonewall Courson and then they participated in a career panel at a local high school; and then again at the grocery store. He soon discovers they are neighbors. What confuses Roland more than anything is his fierce attraction to Lennox. Lennox Roswell moved to Charlottesville to start a new life after the accidental death of her fiance. She's heard about Roland Summers' tragic loss of his wife years ago but senses the attraction between them. Is it time to move on with her life and convince him to move with his? Can their hearts heal together? When Lennox discovers that her fiance's death might have been an accident but intentional murder, she starts asking questions. It soon becomes obvious someone doesn't want her to get answers. Can Roland protect Lennox with his life if it comes down to that? He is determined not to let her be another woman lost to him forever.

Author : BRENDA JACKSON
Publisher : MADARIS PUBLISHERS
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ENTANGLED PURSUITS by BRENDA JACKSON Pdf

WHEN DANGER ARRIVES, REAL MEN TAKE ACTION Detective Andrew Logan hears that Detective Antonia Oliver is back in town. It's been four years since they were involved in a hot, heavy, and steamy affair. Andrew's life gets complicated when Toni is assigned as his new partner. Paired together, they try hard to ignore the sexual chemistry that's stronger than ever between them. One homicide investigation turns deadly and Toni's life is in danger. Andrew goes into action, determined to protect the woman he's trying his damnedest not to fall in love with.

Author : Joel Hawes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Young men
ISBN : PRNC:32101068788536

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Lectures Addressed to the Young Men of Hartford and New Haven, and Published at Their United Request by Joel Hawes Pdf

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752358704

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The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Liffe Story by Frank Harris Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Liffe Story by Frank Harris

Author : Tommy J. Curry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786600349

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The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris by Tommy J. Curry Pdf

There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition is William H. Ferris’s The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization: Tracing His Development under Caucasian Milieu. In 1913, Ferris composed and published one of the most authoritative encyclopedias of Black (African-American) thought and Black civilization. The African Abroad was well known and widely engaged with in Black debates about philosophy, politics and history through the mid-1900’s, yet has largely disappeared from contemporary scholarship. The text itself offers readers the first evidence of a Black idealist philosophy of history that seeks to explain the evolution of the Negro race the world over. The African Abroad establishes a system of thought starting from God, the revelation of knowledge God offers humanity through history, and finally the Negro problem. Ferris offers the world a Black philosophical perspective currently unavailable in any collection of Black authors. He is a racial idealist who offers systematic thinking about the world faced by the Negro in the first decade of the 20th century. This edition includes Ferris's Philosophical Treatises from Sections I-III from The African Abroad. Tommy J. Curry includes two comprehensive introductory essays highlighting the significance of Ferris’s text in the study of African American philosophy, and the possible contributions Ferris’s thoughts on ethnological thought, the philosophy of history and the role of race play in the larger field of American philosophy.

Author : Jonathan Daniels
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826211909

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The Man of Independence by Jonathan Daniels Pdf

Having worked closely with Harry S. Truman in the triumphant campaign of 1948, Jonathan Daniels believed that President Truman was an "everyday" American, an ordinary human who aspired to greatness and achieved it. Thus, it was Daniels's intention that The Man of Independence not be a conventional biography; rather, he wanted it to reveal in real terms "the Odyssey of the 'everyday' American through our times." As a result, this comprehensive work not only presents Truman's life, it also details the development of the America in which the president grew up. Truman spent his youth and his political life believing that old- fashioned, determined conservatism was vital to the preservation of personal liberty. Daniels re-creates Truman's remarkable journey through life--employing newspapers, letters, memos, family papers, as well as interviews with Truman, his family, and his close acquaintances. In the process, Daniels provides powerful evocations of the time during which Truman lived. Daniels tells this extraordinary story by following this simple farm boy from Missouri through his youth and his years as a farmer, a veteran, and a businessman, on to his early career in politics, and then his presidency. Along the way, Daniels deals with issues, events, and ideas that were part of Missouri and American politics in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s; ultimately, he gives us the Truman who was to become the legend. This inside account provides thought-provoking and personal information about Truman. His relationship with Thomas Pendergast, the seeming conflict between Truman's midwestern conservatism and his belief in equality for American blacks, and his momentous decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war--these are just a few of the topics touched on. Ending in 1949 when Truman was for the second time sworn in as president, The Man of Independence provides a fascinating and valuable look at one of America's most important and beloved presidents, as well as a crucial look at the America from which he emerged.

Author : Ernst Kretschmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136332616

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The Psychology Of Men Of Genius by Ernst Kretschmer Pdf

This is Volume XI of twenty-one of collection of works on Individual Differences. Initially published in 1931, it offers a look at the psychology of genius and is created from the careful examination of a very comprehensive primary source of material in the form of artistic works, but more especially of letters, diaries, memoirs and the original reports of contemporaries. This book is concerned entirely with the personality of genius, the laws governing its biological origin and the psychology of its inner instinctive structure.

Author : J.A. Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684815824

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World's Great Men of Color by J.A. Rogers Pdf

Collects biographies of outstanding Blacks from all over the world, from Marcus Garvey to Akhenaton.

Author : Howard Akler
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451585

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The City Man by Howard Akler Pdf

"It's 1934, and Toronto is stalled in the Great Depression. Pickpocket Mona Kantor is scraping by on small change, while Eli Morenz, city reporter for the Daily Star, struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued metropolis. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life." - From the publisher.

Author : Howard Akler
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770565678

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Splitsville by Howard Akler Pdf

It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes. A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for his baby to be born as he tries to piece together facts and fictions about Hal's disappearance. Splitsville is a diamond-cut love letter to a city whose defining moment was to say 'no way' to a highway, and a look at the obsessions that carry down through a family.

Author : Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433067292361

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Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III. by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux Pdf