Wherever There S A Fight

Author : Howard Hampton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 067402317X

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Born in Flames by Howard Hampton Pdf

Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” his writing breaks down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and often from the world at large. In the freewheeling spirit of Pauline Kael, Lester Bangs, and Manny Farber, Hampton calls up the extremist, underground tendencies and archaic forces simmering beneath the surface of popular forms. Ranging from the kinetic poetry of Hong Kong cinema and the neo–New Wave energy of Irma Vep to the punk heroines of Sleater-Kinney and Ghost World, Born in Flames plays odd couples off one another: pitting Natural Born Killers against Forrest Gump, contrasting Jean-Luc Godard with Steven Spielberg, defending David Lynch against aesthetic ideologues, invoking The Curse of the Mekons against Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, and introducing D. H. Lawrence to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “We are born in flames,” sang the incandescent Lora Logic, and here those flames are a source of illumination as well as destruction, warmth as well as consumption. From the scorched-earth works of action-movie provocateurs Seijun Suzuki and Sam Peckinpah to the cargo cult soundscapes of Pere Ubu and the Czech dissidents Plastic People of the Universe, Born in Flames is a headlong plunge into the passions and disruptive power of art.

Author : James Aitken WYLIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021939198

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The Impending Crisis of the Church and the World: Or the War in Its Relation to Prophecy, Etc by James Aitken WYLIE Pdf

Author : Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538112939

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All-American Rebels by Robert C. Cottrell Pdf

From women’s suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times over the past century. In All-American Rebels, historian Robert C. Cottrell traces the rise and fall, ebb and flow of left-wing American movements. Following an overview of early 20th century movements, Cottrell focuses on the 1960s to today, offering readers a concise introduction and helping them to understand the political and ideological roots of the Left today. Cottrell includes chapters on the most recent versions of the American left, discussing community organizing, gay liberation, the women’s movement, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, the nuclear freeze movement, opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America, the anti-WTO campaign, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and more. The demand for and support of democracy and the quest for empowerment in various guises unifies these different lefts to one another and to the general unfolding of American history. Cottrell argues that democratic engagement has proven inconsistent and at times outright contradictory. The Left has been most successful when it fully embraces a democratic vision.

Author : Mother Jones
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547398820

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Mother Jones by Mother Jones Pdf

Mother Jones was an exceptional woman who tirelessly fought for worker's rights till the end of her life. Labelled as the "Most Dangerous Woman" in America, she organised many successful strikes and championed for better enforcement of the child labor laws. In 1903, she also organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Excerpt: I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. My people were poor. For generations they had fought for Ireland's freedom. Many of my folks have died in that struggle. My father, Richard Harris, came to America in 1835, and as soon as he had become an American citizen he sent for his family. His work as a laborer with railway construction crews took him to Toronto, Canada. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. Of that citizenship I have ever been proud. After finishing the common schools, I attended the Normal school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Dress-making too, I learned proficiently. My first position was teaching in a convent in Monroe, Michigan. Later, I came to Chicago and opened a dress-making establishment. I preferred sewing to bossing little children. However, I went back to teaching again, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. Here I was married in 1861. My husband was an iron moulder and a member of the Iron Moulders' Union...

Author : MAO Min
Publisher : Mao Min
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Establishment of the New China by MAO Min Pdf

This is Topic 3 of the Selected Topics from The Revival of China. The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about how the People's Republic of China was established, including the establishment of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the year of 1921, the establishment of the Red Bases in countryside, the Long Match of the Red Army, the anti-Japanese fights of the 8th Route Army and the New 4th Army led by CPC, the decisive battles in the civil war between Guomindang Party (GMD) and CPC, and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the year of 1949.

Author : Anna Nevenic
Publisher : Anna Nevenic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0974750808

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Out of the Shadows by Anna Nevenic Pdf

A general overview of the development of feminism in the United States. Provides concise biographies of the key women in the U.S. who demanded peace and justice, and brought about reform.

Author : MAO Min
Publisher : Mao Min
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Revival of China by MAO Min Pdf

The book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. It has eight parts: (1) The civil revolution in China, (2) The countryside bases, (3) The Long Match of the Red Army, (4) The Anti Japanese War, (5) Decisive civil battles before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, (6) The Mao Era before the Great Cultural Revolution, (7) The Great Cultural Revolution, and (8) The Reform and opening up. This version of the book is without pictures.

Author : Albert I. Slomovitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814780985

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The Fighting Rabbis by Albert I. Slomovitz Pdf

Slomovitz refutes the common belief that the U.S. military itself has been a hostile place for Jews, in the process providing a unique perspective on American religious history.

Author : Nell Minow
Publisher : Quill
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 038078839X

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The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies by Nell Minow Pdf

A parent's guide to movies on video appropriate for children aged two to eighteen reviews more than five hundred movies for families, including plot descriptions and the issues they explore.

Author : Sir James William Redhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600085741

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An English and Turkish dictionary. [Entitled] Redhouse's Turkish dictionary by Sir James William Redhouse Pdf

Author : Charles John Vaughan (Dean of Llandaff.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000692709

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Lectures on the Revelation of St. John by Charles John Vaughan (Dean of Llandaff.) Pdf

Author : Philip Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848841086

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A Cavalryman in the Crimea by Philip Warner Pdf

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements, and did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed. Godman’s dispatches from the fields of war reveal his wide interests and varied experiences; they range from the pleasures of riding in a foreign landscape, smoking Turkish tobacco, and overcoming boredom by donning comic dress and hunting wild dogs, to the pain of seeing friends and horses die from battle, disease, deprivation and lack of medicines. He writes scathingly about the skein of rivalries between the Generals (‘a good many muffs among the chiefs’), inaccurate and ‘highly coloured’ newspaper reports and, while critical of medical inefficiency, regards women in hospitals as ‘a sort of fanaticism’. Yet at other times he will employ the pen of an artist in describing a scene, or wax eloquent on the idiosyncrasies of horses. He is altogether a most gallant and sensitive young cavalryman, and deservedly went on to achieve high rank after the war. Always fresh and easy to read, his letters provide an unrivalled picture of what it was really like to be in the Crimea.

Author : Charles John Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:600094967

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Lectures on the Revelation of st. John by Charles John Vaughan Pdf

Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Art
ISBN : NYPL:33433081666855

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Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas Pdf

Author : George S. Lair
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 156032516X

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Counseling the Terminally Ill by George S. Lair Pdf

Placing a focus on the spiritual needs of death and dying, the theme of this book is that the focus of counselling with people who are dying should be on the psychospiritual aspects of death and dying. It is based on two assumptions - that death and anxiety, not pain, are the most critical issues for the dying, and that the time of dying is an opportunity for growth and transformation. The author believes that it is imperative for counselling professionals to realize that at this time understanding and caring are primary.