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Book Strike Sparks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Olds
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2009-01-21
  • ISBN : 0307547604
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Strike Sparks written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets—117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.” This rich selection exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting experimentation with rhythm and language and a movement toward an embrace beyond the personal. Subjects are revisited—the pain of childhood, adolescent sexual stirrings, the fulfillment of marriage, the wonder of children—but each recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits. Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth.

Book Sparks Off the Main Strike   Poems

Download or read book Sparks Off the Main Strike Poems written by Daniel Abdal Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all the poems of a poet's work there's the impulse to get to the bottom of things, to the original energy pulse, the first cause as it manifests in the present tense, the spark off the main strike. As always, the title came to me first, and the poems followed, some faithful some astray from the theme, but always rebounding back again to resonate with that original strike, in these scattered sparks.

Book When Disaster Strikes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Stein
  • Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Release : 2011-11-16
  • ISBN : 1603583238
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book When Disaster Strikes written by Matthew Stein and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and information, survivors can fend for themselves and get through even the toughest circumstances. Matthew Stein's When Disaster Strikes provides a thorough, practical guide for how to prepare for and react in many of life's most unpredictable scenarios. In this disaster-preparedness manual, he outlines the materials you'll need-from food and water, to shelter and energy, to first-aid and survival skills-to help you safely live through the worst. When Disaster Strikes covers how to find and store food, water, and clothing, as well as the basics of installing back-up power and lights. You'll learn how to gather and sterilize water, build a fire, treat injuries in an emergency, and use alternative medical sources when conventional ones are unavailable. Stein instructs you on the smartest responses to natural disasters-such as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods-how to keep warm during winter storms, even how to protect yourself from attack or other dangerous situations. With this comprehensive guide in hand, you can be sure to respond quickly, correctly, and confidently when a crisis threatens.

Book Revolutionary Sparks

Download or read book Revolutionary Sparks written by Margaret A. Blanchard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-07 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. A broad-gauged discussion of freedom of expression in America, this book begins by studying the period after the Civil War and Reconstruction when new and unsettling ideas appeared with great regularity on the American scene. So many of these ideas were floating around during this period that the nation's leaders often joined forces to repress aberrant notions. In response to such suppression, individuals seeking to better their lives through the expression of new ideas began to demand their rights to speak, write, and associate together to advance their points of view. Blanchard traces this contest for control through the Watergate scandal of the 1970s and the Reagan and early Bush administrations. Blanchard presents a lively discussion of freedom of speech ranging from questions of national security to those of public morality, from loyalty during times of national stress to the right to preach on a public street corner. Including examinations of controversies involving the press, the national government, the Supreme Court, and civil liberties and civil rights concerns, Revolutionary Sparks presents a strong case for the right of Americans to speak their minds and to have access to knowledge necessary for informed self-government.

Book Sparks Over Vietnam

Download or read book Sparks Over Vietnam written by Gilles Van Nederveen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study underscores the important use of electronic intelligence and jamming as an electronic countermeasure. Three decades ago, the USAF faced a North Vietnamese electronic air defense threat about which little was known. Through some extraordinary efforts, the USAF ably countered that threat employing an obsolete aircraft, the EB-66, only refitted and upgraded for mid 1960s missions. Since the aircraft was at the end of its projected lifecycle, and a new jammer was on the drawing board, the air staff would not fund additional EB-66 modifications and maintenance requirements. Parallels are easy to draw with today's jammers, as essentially the same situation exists with the EA-6B. The number of EB-66 aircraft during the Vietnam War was inadequate to meet both operational and training requirements. Thus, crews were trained on the job, often during combat operations, and the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan was often the site of scavenger hunts for repair parts needed to keep the aircraft aloft. The advent of the Pueblo crisis created an additional demand for the EB-66 forcing a partial redeployment of the fleet from Thailand to Korea. Training assets were also flown from Shaw to Germany during the same period to monitor the escalating air defense threat in the Warsaw Pact nations. Missions and employment doctrine had to change to match electronic counters by adversaries from all directions.

Book The Dozer Strikes

Download or read book The Dozer Strikes written by Scott Nickel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil General creates a new mutant, the Dozer, to bring Chip Stone to the secret testing facility, and the super high-tech and somewhat sleepy kid-creature will stop at nothing to complete his mission.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1486 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Investigation of Un American Propaganda Activities in the United States

Download or read book Investigation of Un American Propaganda Activities in the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report on Strikes and Lock outs in the United Kingdom   and on Conciliation and Arbitration Boards   Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command

Download or read book Report on Strikes and Lock outs in the United Kingdom and on Conciliation and Arbitration Boards Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Bulletin of the Canadian Mining Institute

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Canadian Mining Institute written by Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin

Download or read book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Bulletin of the Canadian Mining Institute

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Canadian Mining Institute written by Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and the Material Culture of Death

Download or read book Women and the Material Culture of Death written by BethFowkes Tobin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Book Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia written by District of Columbia. Board of Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Government of the District of Columbia

Download or read book Report of the Government of the District of Columbia written by District of Columbia. Board of Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Survival   Training Edition

Download or read book Survival Training Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: