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Book Brute

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  • Author : Emily Skaja
  • Publisher : Graywolf Press
  • Release : 2019-04-02
  • ISBN : 1555978835
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Brute written by Emily Skaja and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.

Book Brute

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  • Author : Robert Coram
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2010-11-10
  • ISBN : 0316128538
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Brute written by Robert Coram and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and invented the use of helicopters in warfare. In Vietnam, he developed a holistic strategy in stark contrast to the Army's "Search and Destroy" methods -- but when he stood up to LBJ to protest, he was punished. And yet it can be argued that all of his these accomplishments pale in comparison to what he did after World War II and again after Korea: Krulak almost single-handedly stopped the U.S. government from abolishing the Marine Corps.

Book Bellamy and the Brute

Download or read book Bellamy and the Brute written by Alicia Michaels and published by Clean Teen Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh twist on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast, Bellamy and the Brute proves true love really is blind. When Bellamy McGuire is offered a summer job babysitting for the wealthy Baldwin family, she's reluctant to accept. After all, everyone in town knows about the mysterious happenings at the mansion on the hill—including the sudden disappearance of the Baldwin's eldest son, Tate. The former football star and golden boy of Wellhollow Springs became a hermit at the age of sixteen, and no one has seen or heard from him since. Rumors abound as to why, with whisperings about a strange illness—one that causes deformity and turned him into a real-life monster. Bellamy wants to dismiss these rumors as gossip, but when she's told that if she takes the job, she must promise to never, ever visit the third floor of the mansion, she begins to wonder if there really is some dark truth hidden there. Tate's condition may not be the only secret being kept at Baldwin House. There are gaps in the family's financial history that don't add up, and surprising connections with unscrupulous characters. At night there are strange noises, unexplained cold drafts, and the electricity cuts out. And then there are the rose petals on the staircase. The rose petals that no one but Bellamy seems to be able to see. The rose petals that form a trail leading right up to the 3 rd floor, past the portrait of a handsome young man, and down a dark hallway where she promised she would never, ever go… As Bellamy works to unravel the mysteries of Baldwin House and uncover the truth about Tate, she realizes that she is in way over her head… in more ways than one. Can her bravery and determination help to right the wrongs of the past and free the young man whose story has captured her heart? Bellamy and the Brute is perfect for fans of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, and Beastly by Alex Flinn. Beauty and the Beast book retelling Fairy tale retelling young adult horror fiction teen romance suspense mystery books teens supernatural and monsters fantasy urban ghost stories Horror Young Adult Romance Books Contemporary Romance Teen Romance Novels Mystery Thrillers Suspense Emotions & Feelings Death & Dying Social Issues Coming of Age Action Adventure Contemporary Fiction teen love story YA mystery suspense contemporary romance modern survival stories thriller Fairy Tale adaptation young adult fiction Young adult fantasy light fantasy folklore and myths Women and Girls Girl power books Female Heroines Romance and adventure Legends and myths Classic tales Teen fiction

Book Brute

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  • Author : Kim Fielding
  • Publisher : Dreamspinner Press LLC
  • Release : 2012-12
  • ISBN : 9781623802264
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Brute written by Kim Fielding and published by Dreamspinner Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer. But heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and when he is maimed while rescuing a prince, Brute's life changes abruptly. He is summoned to serve at the palace in Tellomer as a guard for a single prisoner. It sounds easy but turns out to be the challenge of his life. Rumors say the prisoner, Gray Leynham, is a witch and a traitor. What is certain is that he has spent years in misery: blind, chained, and rendered nearly mute by an extreme stutter. And he dreams of people's deaths--dreams that come true. As Brute becomes accustomed to palace life and gets to know Gray, he discovers his own worth, first as a friend and a man and then as a lover. But Brute also learns heroes sometimes face difficult choices and that doing what is right can bring danger of its own. Winner in the 2013 Rainbow Awards. First: Best Gay Fantasy Fourth (tie): Best Gay Novel

Book The Little Brute Family

Download or read book The Little Brute Family written by Russell Hoban and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little Brute family is not nice. Can Baby Brute change their ways?

Book  Exterminate All the Brutes

Download or read book Exterminate All the Brutes written by Sven Lindqvist and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned “A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust. Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”

Book The Brute

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  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-04-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 31 pages

Download or read book The Brute written by Joseph Conrad and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Joseph Conrad—best remembered for his masterpiece, Heart of Darkness—this book tells the story of a ship, The Apse Family, which purportedly brings misfortune to those who step foot on her deck. Two brothers find themselves as the ships' mates; and only time would tell if the vessel's rumors carry any truth.

Book Vandover and the Brute

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  • Author : Frank Norris
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 3734046432
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Vandover and the Brute written by Frank Norris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris

Book The Natural Influence of Speech in Raising Man Above the Brute Creation

Download or read book The Natural Influence of Speech in Raising Man Above the Brute Creation written by James Flamank and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Reflections on Cruelty Towards the Brute Creation

Download or read book Some Reflections on Cruelty Towards the Brute Creation written by and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Buffon s Natural History  History of the brute creation  Of the degeneration of animals

Download or read book Buffon s Natural History History of the brute creation Of the degeneration of animals written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Moral Gulph Betwixt Man and the Brute  an Essay

Download or read book The Moral Gulph Betwixt Man and the Brute an Essay written by Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brute Facts

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  • Author : Elly Vintiadis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2018-10-25
  • ISBN : 019875860X
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Brute Facts written by Elly Vintiadis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to provide adequate justifications for other facts or phenomena. Brute facts inform many people's views about the structure of the world, and are part of philosophical interpretations in metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Yet, despite the considerable literature on explanation, the question of bruteness has been left largely unexamined. The chapters in Brute Facts address this gap in academic thought by exploring the central considerations which surround this topic. How can we draw a distinction between facts that can reasonably be thought of as brute and facts for which further explanation is possible? Can we explain something and gain understanding by appealing to brute facts? Is naturalism inconsistent with the existence of (non-physical) brute facts? Can modal facts be brute facts? Are emergent facts brute? This volume brings together contributions by authors who offer different answers to these questions. In presenting a range of different viewpoints on these matters, Brute Facts engages with major debates in contemporary philosophy concerning modality, naturalism, consciousness, reduction and explanation.

Book An Apology for the Brute Creation  Or Abuse of Animals Censured  in a Sermon on Proverbs Xii  10  Preached in the Parish Church of Shiplake  in Oxfordshire  October 18  1772  by James Granger

Download or read book An Apology for the Brute Creation Or Abuse of Animals Censured in a Sermon on Proverbs Xii 10 Preached in the Parish Church of Shiplake in Oxfordshire October 18 1772 by James Granger written by James Granger and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brute Within

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  • Author : Hendrik Lorenz
  • Publisher : Clarendon Press
  • Release : 2006-04-06
  • ISBN : 0191537403
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Brute Within written by Hendrik Lorenz and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.

Book Brute Cake  A Branches Book  The Binder of Doom  1

Download or read book Brute Cake A Branches Book The Binder of Doom 1 written by Troy Cummings and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new, monster-filled, action-packed, early chapter book series from the bestselling author-illustrator of The Notebook of Doom! Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Alexander Bopp is the leader of the Super Secret Monster Patrol, a club whose members are sworn to protect the town from monsters. But there haven't been monsters to fight for months... Alexander misses his best friends -- and fellow club members -- Rip and Nikki. Then he starts finding weird old-timey objects, cake crumbs, and creepy monster cards all over town! Could the monsters be back? The Super Secret Monster Patrol will have to get back together to find out! Fans of The Notebook of Doom are going to devour this exciting new series from bestselling author-illustrator Troy Cummings!