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Book Smile Because It Happened

Download or read book Smile Because It Happened written by Margaret Jean Baptist and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smile Because It Happened is a story of the importance of family bonds and love in enriching the author’s life. The book begins with the author’s childhood bout with osteomyelitis- in her hip. Then she flips back in time to stories about her parents and grandparents before progressing to her childhood, followed by her marriage and their family stories. Most of pieces in the next section were written shortly after the events occurred, though they often invoked childhood memories. Letters to family members who have died are in an In Memory section. The author ends with a letter to her great-great-great grandchildren.

Book My Father s Gun

Download or read book My Father s Gun written by Brian McDonald and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime. From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.

Book Cities of the Heartland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon C. Teaford
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1993-04-22
  • ISBN : 9780253209146
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Cities of the Heartland written by Jon C. Teaford and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1880s and '90s, the rise of manufacturing, the first soaring skyscrapers, new symphony orchestras and art museums, and winning baseball teams all heralded the midwestern city's coming of age. In this book, Jon C. Teaford chronicles the development of these cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East. The antebellum growth of Cincinnati to Queen City status was followed by its eclipse, as St. Louis and then Chicago developed into industrial and cultural centers. During the second quarter of the twentieth century, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob the heartland of its distinction as a boom area. In the last half of the century, however, midwestern cities have suffered some of their most trying times. With the 1970s and '80s came signs of age and obsolescence; the heartland had become the "rust belt."" "Teaford examines the complex "heartland consciousness" of the industrial Midwest through boom and bust. Geographically, economically, and culturally, the midwestern city is "a legitimate subspecies of urban life.--[book jacket].

Book Historic Washington County

Download or read book Historic Washington County written by Dennis E. Frye and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-07-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnic Passages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas J. Ferraro
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1993-04-15
  • ISBN : 9780226244419
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Ethnic Passages written by Thomas J. Ferraro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farraro (English, Duke U.) defends immigration narratives from their reputation of having stereotyped characters and plots. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The One

Download or read book The One written by R. J. Smith and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.

Book Holy Redeemer Centennial

Download or read book Holy Redeemer Centennial written by Ellen Clanon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers on Accounting History  RLE Accounting

Download or read book Papers on Accounting History RLE Accounting written by Robert Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.

Book Dialogue

Download or read book Dialogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of Mormon thought.

Book Critique for What

Download or read book Critique for What written by Joel Pfister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British and US cultural studies, American studies, and Left studies that challenge the academic critique-for-critique's-sake and career's-sake business and ask: Critique for what and for whom? Historicizing for what and for whom? Politicizing for what and for whom? America for what and for whom? Here New Left revisionary socialists, members of the "unpartied Left," cultural studies theorists, American studies scholars, radical historians, progressive literary critics, and early proponents of transnational analysis interact in what amounts to a lively book-length strategy seminar. British political intellectuals, including Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, and Raphael Samuel, and Americans, including F. O. Matthiessen, Robert Lynd, C. Wright Mills, and Richard Ohmann, reconsider the critical project as social transformation studies, activism studies, organizing studies. Eager to prevent cultural studies from becoming cynicism studies, Critique for What? thinks creatively about the possibilities of using as well as developing critique in our new millennium.

Book Inside Outside Nietzsche

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-18
  • ISBN : 1501719572
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Inside Outside Nietzsche written by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the philosophical world that Nietzsche created for himself and the external world challenged by his philosophy.Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, a distinguished social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst, focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the will to power and perspectivism. Through critical engagement with these Nietzschean concepts, Wolfenstein brings them into the purview of psychoanalytic theory and practice.Using this revised version of psychoanalytic theory, Wolfenstein then conducts a psychobiography of Nietzsche's life. He contends that Nietzsche philosophized from within a transitional space between the maternal and paternal extremes of the male imaginary, a space in which gender identity is notably unstable, and sublimity consorts with the most abject misery. This psychic location is the impetus for Nietzsche's conceptions of eternal return and the feminine.Finally, Wolfenstein explores Nietzsche's genealogy of morals from a psychoanalytic perspective and in the light of Nietzsche's psychobiography. He concludes that Nietzsche's revaluation of values leaves us painfully short on both love and compassion. The whole book is also framed by a critical engagement with Michel Foucault's problematics of power/knowledge.

Book Fostoria  Ohio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul H. Krupp
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2002-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780738520056
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Fostoria Ohio written by Paul H. Krupp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fostoria, Ohio, was formed in 1854 with the merger of Risdon to the north and Rome to the south. It was named after Charles W. Foster, a local businessman who served as the town's first mayor. A town of 15,000 in northwestern Ohio, it is known around the world for its many railroads and, at one time, many glass factories including the well-known Fostoria glassware. "As the great City of Fostoria celebrates its 'Sesquicentennial' we all look forward to our next 150 years, but at the same time look back on where we have been. Paul Krupp's first book on Fostoria gave a great historical and yet personable account of Fostoria. Volume 2 continues with more wonderful insights of the rich heritage of our great city."-Mayor John Davoli, City of Fostoria, Ohio.

Book The Haymakers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven R. Hoffbeck
  • Publisher : Borealis Book
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Haymakers written by Steven R. Hoffbeck and published by Borealis Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells a story of the labour and heartbreak suffered by five families struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a story not just about grass, alfalfa, and clover, but also about sweat and tears, toil and loss. This is an epic -- the history of a man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980-04-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-04-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Encountering Chinese Networks

Download or read book Encountering Chinese Networks written by Sherman Cochran and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.

Book The British Economy in Transition

Download or read book The British Economy in Transition written by Royce Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-08-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Economy in Transition: From the Old to the New? examines attempts at economic regeneration in areas that have experienced the decline in 'traditional' industry of recent years. The contributors also look at the impact of techno and managerial modernization strategies in industries that have survived, but have had to adapt rapidly to do