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Book My Childhood Reminiscences

Download or read book My Childhood Reminiscences written by Charmiene Maxwell-Batten and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These evocative childhood memories are non-fiction narratives about growing up in Kampala, East Africa as well as in Dorset, England. Inspiring and thought provoking stories will touch upon and stir the collective heart and soul in many of us who reflect on our own childhood. Charmiene grew up with an unconventional mother who wrote extraordinary poetry and her great grandfather was a prolific writer and explorer.

Book Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi

Download or read book Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi written by Charles Augustus Lindbergh and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed flier's own vivid word picture recalls with warmth and accuracy the years before World War I on his family farm near Little Falls. The brief text is enhanced by many photographs from his personal albums.

Book Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

Download or read book Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood written by John D'Emilio and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City? Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement. This is not just John D’Emilio’s personal story; it opens a window into how the conformist baby boom decade of the 1950s transformed into the tumultuous years of radical social movements and widespread protest during the 1960s. It is the story of what happens when different cultures and values collide and the tensions and possibilities for personal discovery and growth that emerge. Intimate and honest, D’Emilio’s story will resonate with anyone who has had to chart their own path in a world they did not expect to find.

Book Guide Book to Childhood

Download or read book Guide Book to Childhood written by American Institute of Child Life and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sands of Oxus

Download or read book The Sands of Oxus written by Sadriddin Aĭnī and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chesapeake Boyhood

Download or read book Chesapeake Boyhood written by William H. Turner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences, waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm. "Its chief virtue (besides its highly literate style), it seems to me, is its intimate, sensory knowledge of a vanishing Chesapeake landscape: its sounds and smells, the way things feel to the touch, the lore lodged in the names of the commonest creatures and activities... At one point Turner likens the local farmers and fishermen sitting around the table in the country store to fixed positions on a compass, with `all the cardinal points taken,' and I think of this [book] as a kind of compass too, that describes one man's orientation to the Eastern Shore."--Andrea Hammer, St. Mary's College "Modern outdoor writing has enough anemic adventures by faint-hearted writers reared in the suburbs. What it needs more of is the droll wit of an Ed Zern, the robust foolishness of a Patrick McManus, and the lean prose of an Ernest Hemingway. It gets all three in the tales of Bill Turner."--George Regier, author of Heron Hill Chronicle and Wanderer on My Native Shore "Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution." -- Waterman's Gazette

Book Memories of a Hundred Years

Download or read book Memories of a Hundred Years written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The poetry of real life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Ellison (of Christchurch, Oxford.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1844
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book The poetry of real life written by Henry Ellison (of Christchurch, Oxford.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetry of Real Life  a New Edition  Much Enlarged and Improved  Etc

Download or read book The Poetry of Real Life a New Edition Much Enlarged and Improved Etc written by Henry ELLISON (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert E  Speer

    Book Details:
  • Author : John F. Piper
  • Publisher : Geneva Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664501327
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Robert E Speer written by John F. Piper and published by Geneva Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough yet easy-to-read biography of one of the major figures in Presbyterian and ecumenical church history. During the course of his forty-six-year career as Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Robert Speer shaped church policy, increased Presbyterian funding of world missions, and influenced many church leaders, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Henry Sloane Coffin, and John Mackay. Pastors, laity, professors, and students interested in the history of mission work and ecumenical relations will be interested in the life and accomplishments of this influential Presbyterian.

Book The American Magazine

Download or read book The American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Illustrated Magazine

Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Waggoner, Josephine
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 0803245645
  • Pages : 822 pages

Download or read book Witness written by Waggoner, Josephine and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¾–Josephine Waggonerês writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggonerês manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levineês extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.”ãRaymond DeMallie, Chancellorsê Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University¾ During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871_1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women.¾¾ Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participantês perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggonerês two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood HÏ?kpap?a girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggonerês sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.

Book Engendering Slavic Literatures

Download or read book Engendering Slavic Literatures written by Pamela Chester and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works. Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.

Book The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology

Download or read book The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology written by Alfred Adler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Practice And Theory Of Individual Psychology

Download or read book The Practice And Theory Of Individual Psychology written by Alfred Adler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Alder's 1924 work was penned as the science of individual psychology was gaining increasing credibility and recognition. The volume covers the range of psychological issues understood at the time, whilst recognising the inevitable developments in the field as scientific knowledge and experimentation grew.

Book Massacre in Minnesota

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2019-10-17
  • ISBN : 0806166029
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Massacre in Minnesota written by Gary Clayton Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.