Download or read book Traveling through the Boondocks written by Terry Caesar and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wry and honest essays on the everyday conditions of professional life at a "second-rate" university, with implications for our understanding of higher education in general.
Download or read book Traveling through the Boondocks written by Terry Caesar and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorates our understanding of higher education by illuminating the everyday conditions under which academics work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded.
Download or read book Treacherous Journey through the Philippines written by Peter Robinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel was previously published under the title MY STORY IN THE PHILIPPINES IN FIRST PERSON, which proved to be an awkward title and was rightfully criticized. So I decided to republish the story under a new, more appropriate name, TREACHEROUS JOURNEY THROUGH THE PHILIPPINES, but only after thoroughly editing the wording of the text. Because the story line was recognized as being interesting and flowing, nothing else was changed except for my adding sketches at critical sections. My wife, Nelle, encouraged me to write a novel but passed away in 1992. She always wanted to help. The book may have suffered because she was unable to contribute her clear language. She always contended that in writing fiction, she could invent a story as interesting as one that occurred in real life. I believed her. She certainly was an entertaining conversationalist and had a lighthearted, devilish way of concocting a yarn. The plot for TREACHEROUS takes you to locations actually visited by the author. However, the characters and events are fictional. Larry Bulger is not meant to be Peter Robinson. Larry Bulger jumped headlong into treacherous circumstances. Peter Robinson's nature would be to circumvent the dangers presented by adversaries in the story. Perhaps Larry was a person Peter would like to be. The historical facts, such as Japanese General Yamashita pillaging Southeast Asia for treasure during WWII and hiding portions of the loot in the Philippines, are true but twisted somewhat for the convenience of the plot. The corruption of the Marcos regime is based on commonly repeated rumors that were prevalent at the time.
Download or read book Travels in the Greater Yellowstone written by Jack Turner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In a series of essays, Turner explores this wonderland, venturing on twelve separate trips in all seasons using various modes of travel. He treks down the Teton Range, picks up the Oregon Trail in the Red Desert, and floats the South Fork of the Snake River. Along the way he encounters a variety of wildlife: moose, elk, trout, and wolves. From the treacherous mountains in the dead of winter to lush river valleys in the height of fishing season, his words and steps trace one of the most American of experiences—exploring the West. Turner—who has lived in Grand Teton for three decades—designates the Greater Yellowstone as ground zero for the country's conflict between preservation and development, and his accounts of the area's conflicts with alien species, logging, real estate, oil, and gas development are alarming. A mixture of adventure, nostalgia, and Americana, Turner's rare experiences and evocative writing transform the sights and sounds of Greater Yellowstone into an intimate narrative of travel through America's most beloved lands.
Download or read book Into The Boondocks written by River Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rugged and humorous travel memoir, a couple of young high school graduates decide to forgo the imminent doom of student loan debt that college offers by spending a year on the road. River and his girlfriend Kaila loaded their van "Trooper" with food and camping equipment and embarked on a sort of vision quest across the country. Along their journey they faced freezing winters, harsh storms, and fear of imprisonment. What began as a simple year-long adventure across the country became a life-changing test of courage for them both. Into The Boondocks is a rugged and insightful travel memoir about a young couple who took the road less traveled.
Download or read book The Kansas City Monarchs written by Janet Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the top teams in the Negro National League, which served as a training ground for Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, and over twenty other players who were eventually sent to the major leagues.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
Download or read book Right to Be Hostile written by Aaron McGruder and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines life in America, with a focus on politics, from the perspective of two African-American children in over 800 strips.
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Download or read book Travels Through Jewish America written by Harry Golden and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a revealing portrait of Jewish America today drawn by Harry Golden. With pad and pencil, accompanied by his son and collaborator, Golden has charged into the enclaves of Jewish communities in ten cities to chart the chills and fever, the worry and hope of American Jewry."-- Book jacket.
Download or read book Public Enemy 2 written by Aaron McGruder and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than five hundred strips from the popular and subversive comic strip The Boondocks provides a satirical look at the follies, foibles, and complexities of modern life from an African-American perspective as it offers a provocative take on Condoleezza Rice's love life, Dick Cheney, the war in Iraq, The Passion of Christ, and more. Original. 75,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Boondocks written by Aaron McGruder and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of the beloved comic strip that inspired the critically acclaimed Cartoon Network show. In 1999, Aaron McGruder launched a cultural phenomenon with his smart and bitingly satirical comic strip, The Boondocks. It centers on the experiences of two young African-American boys, Huey and Riley, who move from inner-city Chicago to the suburbs (or the "boondocks" to them). The strip fuses hip-hop sensibilities with Japanese anime-style drawings and a candid discussion of race. In this first collection of Boondocks cartoons, you'll discover the funny yet revealing combination of superb art and envelope-pushing content in one of the most unique strips ever.
Download or read book Journey Through the Inferno written by Adam Boren and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Boren, born to the Borenstejn family in Warsaw ca. 1925. Boren feld from the Nazis with his father and brother in September 1939, with the hope of later rescuing his mother and sister. They found shelter in Bialystok and then in Krzemieniec. After the Nazi occupation in 1941 they were persecuted by local Ukrainians and then interned in the ghetto. They tried to escape but were caught and imprisoned. His father and brother were hanged, but Boren escaped and made his way back to the Warsaw ghetto. His sister had died of typhoid fever; he was reunited with his mother, from whom he hid the fate of her husband and other son. Describes life in the ghetto and the uprising, during which his mother was killed. Boren served as a courier during the uprising, but was captured and deported. He survived Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Sachsenhausen, and two death marches. In 1946 he emigrated to the U.S.
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