Wars Women And Other Wonders

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Wars Women And Other Wonders

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Author : Philip Rushlow
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-06-15

Wars Women And Other Wonders written by Philip Rushlow and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Here is a book written without the slightest nod to political correctness. It assumes that the reader and writer are equals in every way: intelligence, experience and the ability to exert common sense. The author is not trying to sell anything or prove anything; it is presented as friends in earnest discussion with a few comic breaks thrown in. It is a collection of thoughts from a man who has done everything from work in a labor gang to founding a non-profit organization devoted to philosophy. Who worked as a janitor to get through college and became the CEO of five corporations. Who抯 been rich and poor and believes that the sole primary purpose of human existence is learning. You won抰 have to guess about this writer抯 opinions, they will come to you in short, concise, clear bursts. You will love some, hate some others and, in the end, agree that you have been entertained in a stimulating fashion. Rushlow has been there, seen it, done it and now he tells it.

In Other Rooms Other Wonders

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Author : Daniyal Mueenuddin
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-04-05

In Other Rooms Other Wonders written by Daniyal Mueenuddin and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-05 with Fiction categories.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life.

Hummingbirds And Other Wonders

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Author : Ramon De La Vega Carbajal
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-02-07

Hummingbirds And Other Wonders written by Ramon De La Vega Carbajal and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Poetry categories.

In the stampede,that is life;we find ourselves,in a frantic struggle to survive. The enjoyment of nature and all the peace and beauty it brings;seems to be slipping away;much like the forests, we once loved so very much. Innumerable, are the wonders of this world,in spite of the devastation of war and man's indifference to his environment. By the will of nature;there will forever remain a corner of Eden, in which all of God's children can play. We each have our own paradise. Some of us acknowledge it,because;in our hearts, we want to see it. It's our way of saying,that the entire world isn't wrong,that there still remains a garden of Babylon, and the splendor of spring rain.

The Wonders

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Author : Elena Medel
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2022-03-03

The Wonders written by Elena Medel and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-03 with Fiction categories.

'The Wonders is a poet's novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination' HILARY MANTEL, two-time winner of the Booker Prize 'Full of brilliant moments of illumination... a boldly ingenious structure and flashes of beauty' GUARDIAN 'Mesmerising. Medel's prose is hypnotic – it's hard to believe this is her first novel.' AVNI DOSHI, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar 'A serene and impious novel that puts class, feminism and the eternal complexity of family ties at the fore' MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed AN AUDACIOUS, HEARTBREAKING DEBUT ABOUT WORKING-CLASS WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS TWO GENERATIONS, HERALDING A NEW EUROPEAN LITERARY STAR María and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. María, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending money back home for the daughter she hardly knows; Alicia, raised in prosperity until her family was brought low by tragedy, now trapped in a poorly paid job and a cycle of banal infidelities. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been different. Through a series of arresting vignettes, Elena Medel weaves together a broken family's story, stretching from the last years of Franco's dictatorship to mass feminist protests in contemporary Madrid. Audacious, intimate and shot through with razor edged lyricism, The Wonders is a revelatory novel about the many ways that lives are shaped by class, history and feminism; about what has changed for working-class women, and what has remained stubbornly the same. PRAISE FOR THE WONDERS 'An ambitious and enlightening book from an acclaimed Spanish poet' The Irish Times 'A beautifully written novel that examines the lives of three generations of working-class women living precariously in Madrid' Stylist At just over 200 pages, The Wonders is a novel that doesn't waste a single word, instead basking in all the linguistic pleasures of great poetry' Sunday Business Post 'Very rarely do natural talent, linguistic discipline, and emotional rawness coincide... unfolds a history of crude intimacies, subtle roughness and luminous sadness' Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century 'One of Spain's best poets has become one of its most important novelists' El País

Overcoming Violence Against Women And Girls

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Author : Michael L. Penn
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003

Overcoming Violence Against Women And Girls written by Michael L. Penn and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.

This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians, and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive, and visionary.

War Stories For My Grandchildren

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Author : H.F. Jansen Estrup
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-03-15

War Stories For My Grandchildren written by H.F. Jansen Estrup and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Storytelling at its best, this compelling memoir graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men who seek a place in the world by way of a military career. Exhausted shadows of the past are brought alive with uncommon eloquence as the author looks back on his youth brimming with innocence, idealism and patriotism. A page turner, the book explores the complex nature of a man whose brave, daring and sometimes foolhardy exploits led to the essential task; building a scaffold of choices and attitudes by rendering meaning from the intractable depths of experience. What in other hands might be a dreary tale of adolescent angst, betrayal and disillusion, takes on truly pyrotechnic energy, lifting his coming of age from the mundane to the profound. Reviews Rating="Excellent" (top rating) by Writer's Digest "...What I like best is the humanity of the speaker. Narrators often glorify themselves or the people they love and consequently attack those who might have ever hurt them slightly. It seems those authors do not approach their lives from a position of power. But this book is filled with real people with distinctive voices, made human and vulnerable by their standards and faults and are loved all the more for them by the reader. Especially wonderful is the perspective on the world, the philosophies and stories presented with reasoning throughout, as well as the various layers of actual war and the psychology of boy and manhood ... the raw, relatable, vivid voice that is found inside ... the project is quite necessary and brilliant, and I hope it will come under the gaze of many a person interested at all in our worlds history or the intelligent wisdom of one who has lived." Rating="5 Stars" By jd2 (ID) In War Stories For My Grandchildren, the author vividly portrays how war is not always on the military battlefield. This unique book tells of war in all walks of life, be it young, old, personal, social or military. It connects the reader to war through the eyes and mind of the author who experienced these events as they unfolded. With a poignant view of the military, gained from a combined total of twenty plus years in the Air Force and Navy, he writes with the technical expertise of an insider and the wisdom acquired after five tours in Southeast Asia. Here's a bargain if I ever read one. The book contains about twenty different stories for the price of one book. Each story filled with a refreshingly honest point of view. Not just the blood and guts side of war but a deeper philosophical understanding of what it is, what it does, and how humanity can't seem to detach itself from it. Real life danger and excitement await the reader in stories like The Drowning of Helen Lee and Sea Dragon, as well as others. I'm sure his Grandchildren will enjoy them all. I did! Highly recommended from a satisfied reader. Jd2/SFR

Blood Sisters

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Author : Sarah Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2014-03-04

Blood Sisters written by Sarah Gristwood and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.

To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a “cousins' war.” The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. These mothers, wives, and daughters were locked in a web of loyalty and betrayal that would ultimately change the course of English history. In a captivating, multigenerational narrative, Gristwood traces the rise and rule of the seven most critical women in the wars: from Marguerite of Anjou, wife of the Lancastrian Henry VI, who steered the kingdom in her insane husband's stead; to Cecily Neville, matriarch of the rival Yorkist clan, whose son Edward IV murdered his own brother to maintain power; to Margaret Beaufort, who gave up her own claim to the throne in favor of her son, a man who would become the first of a new line of Tudor kings. A richly drawn, absorbing epic, Blood Sisters is a tale of hopeful births alongside bloody deaths, of romance as well as brutal pragmatism. It is a story of how women, and the power that women could wield, helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age—and the creation of modern England.

A Female Us President

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Author : Jubril Aka
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-07

A Female Us President written by Jubril Aka and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with Political Science categories.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL / GENERAL Womanhood is an embodiment of love, motherhood, blessings, better presidency and compassionate leadership. Femininity is indispensable. Women motivational abilities make them outstanding managers of human and economic resources. They represent the magic wand for progress and development, stability, peace and prosperity. They do better in education, health-care, socio-economics, politics and focus better with political savvy and sagacity, transparency, security and spirituality. They excel in diplomacy, peaceful conflict resolution, love, empathy, sincerity, responsibility and discrimination-free irrespective of race, color, religion, gender or disability. Antithetically, manhood characterizes war presidency, defensiveness, negligence and staying the course with failed policies, prosecuting avoidable wars instead of diplomacy to win hearts and peace. Unwittingly, they sacrificed over 3,000 US soldiers, 20,000 wounded, over $500 billion and created scandals and civil war. If the first woman 'Eve' turned the world up-side-down, great women world-wide should realign it upward and forward moving. Unequivocally, a woman US President can speedily restore America's image which is at its lowest ebb. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

A Civilian In The War For The Union Life Of Felix Reville Brunot

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Author : Charles Lewis Slattery
language : en
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Release Date : 2016-05-18

A Civilian In The War For The Union Life Of Felix Reville Brunot written by Charles Lewis Slattery and has been published by BIG BYTE BOOKS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-18 with History categories.

When he heard of the horrors of the Battle of Shiloh, 42 year old businessman, Felix Brunot, immediately gathered medical supplies and headed for the front. Though offered high military commission by his friends Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and General William Tecumseh Sherman, he refused them to continue working directly with sick and wounded soldiers. He became ill himself, and though he never completely recovered his health, he continued to serve in the field, even when shot and shell were whistling around the hospital tents. After the American Civil War, he was the president of the first Board of Indian Commissioners. He tirelessly advocated for the rights of Native Americans and pushed for health and education measures. This is the only biography ever written of this remarkable man. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Women In War Films

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Author : Ralph Donald
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-04-04

Women In War Films written by Ralph Donald and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Performing Arts categories.

War has been depicted in cinema for more than a century, from early silent films to more recent blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and Lone Survivor. Most war films, especially combat films, are about men engaged in battle. But while Hollywood has reinforced the cultural stereotype of war as a man’s job, women have not been completely invisible in many of these films, whether waiting for their men to return home or standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts on the battlefield. In Women in War Films: From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane, Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald examine the representations of females in war throughout the history of film. They identify various types of women portrayed in these films, from home-front wives and daughters supporting their loved ones from afar to nurses and doctors stationed near the front lines of combat. The authors also look at depictions of foreign females who comfort homesick soldiers, ordinary women who unexpectedly encounter the enemy, female spies, and modern enlistees taking on roles traditionally reserved for men. Through these representations, the authors explore what war films say about the culture that created them and the social construction of reality that these films assert. The book covers an array of war films distributed in the United States, including Hearts of the World, Wings, Mata Hari, Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, Cry “Havoc,”Since You Went Away, The Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, The Americanization of Emily, M*A*S*H, Coming Home, Courage under Fire, G.I. Jane, and Zero Dark Thirty. Featuring an extensive filmography, Women in War Films will appeal to scholars of gender studies, history, and film, as well as to readers interested in the evolving portrayals of females in military-related cinema.