Download or read book Two Nobodies Speak Out written by Sheldon Marcus and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the journey of two individuals who have spent their lives on both sides of the teacher/professor's desk. Between them, they went from attending kindergarten to being a college president, and in that journey, they held positions ranging from classroom teacher in the New York City public schools, every rank of the professorial ladder, to almost every administrative position available in a university. In their book, Marcus and Vairo are totally candid in relating their experiences in their various roles. They are highly opinionated, but these opinions are based on the realities they encountered with students and colleagues at all levels of education. This book utilizes vignettes as well as commentaries to tell a story of two educators who have worked at every part of the United States. There is little that has happened in education since the 1940's down to the present day that is not touched on in this book. Marcus and Vairo are "insiders" with no ax to grind. They tell the truth as they see it!
Download or read book Second Acts written by A. S. Breslauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Jason Gilbert, a world famous composer, undergoes dangerous brain surgery to discover why he is suffering from debilitating headaches. The surgeons discover a brain tumor and remove it. To everyone's relief, the tumor is found to be benign. However, Gilbert soon discovers that the surgery has rendered him tone deaf. Bereft of his talent, he desperately searches for a new life. Gilbert travels to Paris-the scene of one of his many musical triumphs-where he gets caught up in a bizarre escapade involving famous journalists, Soviet secret police, an attractive divorcée, and desperate musicians. This leads to a chain of events that takes Gilbert and others to Marseilles, New York, Hollywood, Mexico City, Acapulco, Costa Rica, Lisbon, and the battlefields of France during World War II. He also meets an eclectic group of people: French painter Henri Matisse; German composer Arnold Schoenberg; Hungarian novelist Arthur Koestler; American journalist Bertram Wolfe; dictator Joseph Stalin; America's greatest code-breaker, William Friedman; and William Donovan, the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), who makes Gilbert a charter staff member of the new organization. Working for the OSS makes Gilbert feel alive. But will music ever again play a part in his life?
Download or read book Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series such as Black Mirror to the repressive Hitlerian dystopia of Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, the contributors examine the development of scenarios that either prefigure the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump or suggest alternatives to them. Ultimately, one might say of the worlds presented here, viewed from different social and political perspectives: one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia. This is the fifth in a series of books edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, and published by Rowman & Littlefield with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (both in 2013) focused on the vampire legend in traditional and modern thought. The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (2016) examined a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts (2017) dealt with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times, and from peoples and cultures around the world.
Download or read book To Die In June written by Alan Parks and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One missing child. Two murders. A midsummer nightmare. A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from the cop shop across town, discovers the family is part of the cultish Church of Christ's Suffering, he suspects there is more to Michael's disappearance than meets the eye. Meanwhile reports arrive of a string of poisonings of down-and-outs across the city. The dead are men who few barely notice, let alone care about - but, as McCoy is painfully aware, among this desperate community is his own father. Even as McCoy searches for the missing boy, he must conceal from his colleagues the real reason for his presence - to investigate corruption in the station. Some folk pray for justice. Detective Harry McCoy hasn't got time to wait.
Download or read book The Diary of Two Nobodies written by Mary Killen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody is a somebody. Giles is a countryman who relishes solitude. His wife Mary thrives in company and enjoys frequent escapes to London. After thirty years in a marriage of opposites, Giles and Mary have adapted to a life of domestic misunderstandings within comical misadventures. In The Diary of Two Nobodies, you will have the unique opportunity to discover, first hand, what occurs when a man who sees himself as a cross between Mr Bean and Basil Fawlty shares his life with a woman who identifies closely with the Queen. Featuring original illustrations by the artist Giles, himself.
Download or read book The Calibre of Justice written by Phil Copsey and published by in case of emergency press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant at his beloved Carlton Police Station and out of the firing line of day-to-day street policing, Tony Signorotto is hoping that the old street wars that raged between him and his mafia relatives are battles of the past. Now married to his long-time girlfriend, Tony is looking to extend his career and look after his charter of the safety of the suburb of Carlton in Melbourne's north. Life should be less complicated now. He has made the sacrifice of life on the edge for nine-to-five and the paperwork routine surrounding his mahogany foxhole - until the rumours of a possible firearms raid on the Victoria Police Department. Enough handguns, if stolen, to flood the streets of Carlton and every major city in Australia. Fast-paced, and brilliantly plotted, Calibre of Justice is also frighteningly real!
Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bloom s How to Write about Emily Dickinson written by Anna Priddy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Emily Dickinson and lists sample topics for twenty of her poems.
Download or read book Beyond the Boundary written by Woody Goodell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While deep in the north woods on a fishing trip, Wilson Tuck Tucker and his best friend, Bob Haney, stumble across a crashed twin engine airplane with two dead bodies in the cockpit. After the good Samaritans notify the local authorities, they discover the plane contains an earth-shattering secret that, if released, could change the world as they know it and prompt even honest men to do whatever it takes to obtain it. Tuck and Bob quickly realize that their lives are in danger now that their location is known. A few hours after the men report the wreckage, a pontoon plane lands on an isolated lake next to the crash site. Tuck and Bob have no idea if the men aboard have evil intent and are seeking the secret or if the passengers are from the government to investigate the crash. After Tuck and Bob quickly formulate a plan they hope will assure their safety, now only time will tell if the two will be able to survive what awaits themand keep a powerful secret from getting into the wrong hands. In this north woods thriller, two men discover a crashed airplane that holds world-changing information that places their lives in jeopardy.
Download or read book Cultural Studies Vol18 Issue 2 written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few.
Download or read book M xico s Nobodies written by B. Christine Arce and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize, presented by the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture Winner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore Society Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness. México’s Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, ballads such as “La Adelita” and “La Cucaracha,” iconic performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres such as the son jarocho and danzón. This study is the first of its kind to draw attention to art’s crucial role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of blacks and women in contemporary México.
Download or read book Disability Injustice written by Kelly Fritsch and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous – even deadly – for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system. The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement. This provocative collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of disability, we can and should challenge the practices of crime control and the processes of criminalization.
Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aggie s Double Crowns written by Izzy Auld and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerica Davidson, the First Miss, enrolls at her parents' alma mater. Her professor advisor is Joan, daughter of Aggie Morissey, good friend of the President, Jerica's dad. Eager to live a normal life away from the spotlight and the secret service, Jerica falls in with a rough crowd, led by her roommate, Callie, a devious opportunist. Callie introduces Jerica, the girl who longs to win beaty contests, to Butch, a tough guy from Milwaukee. Aggie tries to take Jerica under her wing, but the President's daughter resists, eluding both Aggie and Joan. Now Butch is one step closer to winning Jerica's heart, body, and soul, through her commitment to him, to Callie, and to their cause. Involving Jerica in his terrorist activities would be cool. He convinces Jerica that their cause is "Saving the Trees". When Jerica goes missing just when a building on campus blows up, Butch leaks the news that the First Miss is a member of the eco-terrorist gang responsible for the mayhem. And the press goes wild! Aggie Morissey starts out worrying about President Dominic Davidson's life, but she could be mistaken: right family, wrong person.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part VI written by Joanne Wilkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) is one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. She was both prolific and wide ranging in her career which spanned half a century. Primarily known as a novelist Mrs Oliphant is of interest to scholars today both for her wide popularity in her prime and her influential position as reviewer and journalist which saw her become an important critical voice for her generation. Her high profile in the literary world led to savage satirical portrayals in works by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. This is the most ambitious and substantial scholarly edition of Margaret Oliphant's writings ever undertaken. In six parts and twenty-five volumes all her important fiction plus substantial selections of her criticism and journalism are collected and edited by a prestigious editorial team. The novels contained in Parts V and VI represent some of Margaret Oliphant's most significant work. Darker and more politically motivated than the more comic Chronicles of Carlingford, they show Oliphant at the height of her writing powers. Money, financial crises and social and sexual inequality all feature strongly in these works which find Oliphant sharply critical of materialistic, late-Victorian culture. They mirror her own experiences as a female professional writer having to support her family single-handedly. They also form some of her most popular and enduring works which gained a wide readership through serialization. The significance of Oliphant as a writer can only be fully appreciated by close study of these novels, which bring to completion this major twenty-five-volume scholarly edition.
