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No Country No Home
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Author : Trudy Walter Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-29
No Country No Home written by Trudy Walter Carlson and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-29 with History categories.
NO COUNTRY NO HOME: A Family’s Exodus and Homecoming By: Trudy Walter Carlson Spanning three generations, this book recounts the story of a real German family who endured WWII, overcame poverty, and embraced an opportunity to come to a new country. Sadly, after surviving one of the most horrific events of world history, generations of decent, hardworking German people were affected by a societal prejudice and distrust for their culture. Nevertheless, their story exemplifies the resilience and perseverance of the human spirit. A compilation of personal histories, the book recounts the journeys of individual family members, often in their own words, and it proves that the struggles and victories of our ancestors can impact generations to come.
No Country No Home
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Author : Traudel Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-11
No Country No Home written by Traudel Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-11 with categories.
The amazing story about two German sisters during WWII and their challenges of surviving in their own country under the dehumanizing rule of Hitler. Written by a daughter about her own struggles and heartbreak dealing with the effects the war had on the family combined with the challenges of being German immigrants in America.
No Country For Old Men
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-12-03
No Country For Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-03 with Fiction categories.
Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, a tale of one man's dark opportunity – and the darker consequences that spiral forth. Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, True Grit), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' – Financial Times 1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? 'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' – Independent Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Political Animals
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Author : So Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Political Animals written by So Mayer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Social Science categories.
Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment. Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own.
The Bible And The People
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
The Bible And The People written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with categories.
For His Country
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Author : Marshall Saunders
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-09-30
For His Country written by Marshall Saunders and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Here the singer's voice broke down, and I peered curiously around my corner of the wall. He was pacing to and fro on the river-bank—a weary-faced lad with pale cheeks and drooping shoulders. Beyond him a fat French footman lay asleep on the grass, one hand loosely clutching a novel. An elderly goat, grazing nearer and nearer the man, kept a wary eye on the book, and finally seizing it, devoured it leaf by leaf. At this the weary-faced boy did not smile, and then I knew there was something the matter with him...
The Village Poor House
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Author : James White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The Village Poor House written by James White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Great Britain categories.
Thoughts On African Colonization Or An Impartial Exhibition Of The Doctrines Principles And Purposes Of The American Colonization Society
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Author : William Lloyd Garrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
Thoughts On African Colonization Or An Impartial Exhibition Of The Doctrines Principles And Purposes Of The American Colonization Society written by William Lloyd Garrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with African Americans categories.
Wendell Berry
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Author : Jason Peters
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2007-07-20
Wendell Berry written by Jason Peters and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about humankind and our relationship to the land and offers simple but profound solutions. Berry's essays, novels, and poems give voice to a provocative but consistent philosophy, one that extends far beyond its agrarian core to include elements of sociology, the natural sciences, politics, religion, philosophy, linguistics, agriculture, and other seemingly incompatible fields of study. Wendell Berry: Life and Work examines this wise and original thinker, appraising his written work and exploring his influence as an activist and artist. Jason Peters has assembled a broad variety of writers including Hayden Carruth, Sven Birkerts, Barbara Kingsolver, Stanley Hauerwas, Donald Hall, Ed McClanahan, Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, Norman Wirzba, Wes Jackson, and Eric T. Freyfogle. Each contributor examines an aspect of Berry's varied yet cohesive body of work. Also included are highly personal glimpses of Wendell Berry: his career, academic influence, and unconventional lifestyle. These deft sketches of Berry show the purity of his agrarian lifestyle and demonstrate that there is nothing simple about the life to which he has devoted himself. He embraces a life that sustains him not by easy purchase and haste but by physical labor and patience, not by mindless acquiescence to a centralized economy but by careful attention to local ways and wisdom. Wendell Berry: Life and Work combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary. Together, the contributors illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with an astonishing depth of domestic, intellectual, filial, and fraternal attributes. The result is a rich portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers.
Medea Hippolytus Heracles Bacchae
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Author : Euripides
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-21
Medea Hippolytus Heracles Bacchae written by Euripides and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-21 with Drama categories.
This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides’ plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain close to the original, with extensive introductions, interpretive essays, and footnotes. This series is designed to provide students and general readers with access to the nature of Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture, as well as highly readable and understandable translations of four of Euripides most important plays. Focus also publishes each play as an individual volume.