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Without Looking Back
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Author : Tabitha Suzuma
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-05-07
Without Looking Back written by Tabitha Suzuma and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate - his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and Dad's rarely allowed to visit them. Louis finds release in his dance classes and discovers he has a real talent for ballet. But suddenly, Dad whisks them away on a surprise holiday to England, right in the middle of the school term. Something isn't right - Dad is acting strangely again: could it be he has not fully recovered from his mental breakdown? The rented farmhouse in the Lake District is nice, but why is Dad furnishing it and why won't he let them call home? Then Louis comes across a poster - a missing person's poster. And it has his face on it.
Telling The Little Secrets
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Author : Janet Handler Burstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Telling The Little Secrets written by Janet Handler Burstein and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of “home” in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within “the little secrets” of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.
There S No Such Thing As Free Speech
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Author : Stanley Fish
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-12-15
There S No Such Thing As Free Speech written by Stanley Fish and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and right. His mission is not to win the cultural wars that preoccupy the nation's attention, but rather to redefine the terms of battle. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he neatly eviscerates both the conservatives' claim to possession of timeless, transcendent values (the timeless transcendence of which they themselves have conveniently identified), and the intellectual left's icons of equality, tolerance, and non-discrimination. He argues that while conservative ideologues and liberal stalwarts might disagree vehemently on what is essential to a culture, or to a curriculum, both mistakenly believe that what is essential can be identified apart from the accidental circumstances (of time and history) to which the essential is ritually opposed. In the book's first section, which includes the five essays written for Fish's celebrated debates with Dinesh D'Souza (the author and former Reagan White House policy analyst), Fish turns his attention to the neoconservative backlash. In his introduction, Fish writes, "Terms that come to us wearing the label 'apolitical'--'common values', 'fairness', 'merit', 'color blind', 'free speech', 'reason'--are in fact the ideologically charged constructions of a decidedly political agenda. I make the point not in order to level an accusation, but to remove the sting of accusation from the world 'politics' and redefine it as a synonym for what everyone inevitably does." Fish maintains that the debate over political correctness is an artificial one, because it is simply not possible for any party or individual to occupy a position above or beyond politics. Regarding the controversy over the revision of the college curriculum, Fish argues that the point is not to try to insist that inclusion of ethnic and gender studies is not a political decision, but "to point out that any alternative curriculum--say a diet of exclusively Western or European texts--would be no less politically invested." In Part Two, Fish follows the implications of his arguments to a surprising rejection of the optimistic claims of the intellectual left that awareness of the historical roots of our beliefs and biases can allow us, as individuals or as a society, to escape or transcend them. Specifically, he turns to the movement for reform of legal studies, and insists that a dream of a legal culture in which no one's values are slighted or declared peripheral can no more be realized than the dream of a concept of fairness that answers to everyone's notions of equality and jsutice, or a yardstick of merit that is true to everyone's notions of worth and substance. Similarly, he argues that attempts to politicize the study of literature are ultimately misguided, because recharacterizations of literary works have absolutely no impact on the mainstream of political life. He concludes his critique of the academy with "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," an extraordinary look at some of the more puzzing, if not out-and-out masochistic, characteristics of a life in academia. Penetrating, fearless, and brilliantly argued, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech captures the essential Fish. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the outcome of America's cultural wars.
The Writings Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Writings Of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
No Looking Back
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Author : Shivani Gupta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
No Looking Back written by Shivani Gupta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Health & Fitness categories.
Twenty-two-year-old Shivani had thrown a party one evening-and awoken the next morning in hospital, her spine and her dreams shattered by a car crash. Paralysed and then wheelchair-bound, it took Shivani years of pain, struggle and determination to regain control of her life and her body; to demand and receive respect from the world; to gain acceptance from within and without; to find love and happiness. Then tragedy struck again. As the newly married Shivani drove to Manali with her family, an oil tanker collided head-on with the car; bedridden once again, she watched helplessly as first her father-in-law and then Vikas, her husband, succumbed to their injuries. And, yet, Shivani refused to surrender-she would not let her inability to walk keep her from achieving her ambitions. No Looking Back is a deeply moving and inspiring narrative about surviving the challenges of disability in a country that takes little account of the daily difficulties and indignities faced by approximately fifteen per cent of the world's population, whether in terms of infrastructure, legislation or awareness-a country that appears to believe that disability equals invisibility from the public discourse. Undeterred by the hand fate had dealt her, Shivani Gupta has chosen to champion the cause of the disabled everywhere and is today one of India's best-known accessibility consultants. Her life is an extraordinary testament to true courage and the indomitability of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with categories.
Bible Society Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Bible Society Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Bible categories.
An Honest Lawyer
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Author : Alvah Milton Kerr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
An Honest Lawyer written by Alvah Milton Kerr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with American fiction categories.
Loyal By M R Godfrey
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Author : Mary Rose Godfrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Loyal By M R Godfrey written by Mary Rose Godfrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
Forged In Fire
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Author : Edgar French, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-09
Forged In Fire written by Edgar French, Jr. and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with Fiction categories.
Forged in Fire: A Testimony in Fact or Fiction? The Search for the Narrow Road, Vol. I By: Edgar French, Jr. Take an adventurous and exciting ride with an auspicious and audacious inner-city youth while unlocking the secrets of the universe, and traversing the hazardous pitfalls of society's nomenclature and political correctness. This story gives the reader an intense and highly emotional glimpse behind the hidden veil of different realities dividing the dimension between this reality and the realm of Angels, Demons, and Giants. The protagonist unwittingly uncovers secret evil plans hatched by a breakaway civilization to conceal Secret Life Extension Technology from mankind, and to kill 99.9% of the population, alongside the planet as a whole. Through hardships and pitfalls, our young hero learns how to prevent the inevitable destruction of mankind.