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In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices - men and women, military
and civilian - and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the
combat zone, and war's aftermath. These personal responses to war
in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature
& the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities to mark
the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication. The
responses cover approximately fifteen years of the United States'
conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and demonstrate the aftermath of
war, the degreed ripples that extend beyond soldiers to families
and friends, lovers, hometowns, even pets. As citizens, Pablo
Neruda advised, we have an obligation to "come and see the blood in
the streets." To ignore what we do in war and what war does to us
is to move willfully toward ignorance. To ignore such reminders
imperils ourselves, our communities, and our nation.
Climate change is here. This book moves beyond misery and
misunderstanding, taking a literary approach to the debate. Below
Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper
reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction,
history, creative nonfiction, and poetry-a commonplace book for our
era of altering climate. This polyphony of voices functions as an
oratorio, shifting from chorus to solo and back to chorus. An
unconventional and brilliant book, Below Freezing is both timely
and pertinent-an original gaze at this melting ball we call home.
We are where we've been and what we've read, aren't we? Where else
do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? In Fragments
of a Mortal Mind, Donald Anderson confronts language and employs
language to try to make sense, as we all do, of life. In this
contemporary commonplace book, readers are also faced with some of
the larger issues of human existence: war, memory, trauma, family,
mortality, religion, fear, joy, ugliness, and occasional beauty. At
once a memoir, a reading journal, and a nonfiction novel, Fragments
of a Mortal Mind is a pertinent and timely conversation. Collage on
this scale, charting the interior construction of thought over a
lifetime, boggles the mind in its artistry and shows us how
stream-of-consciousness and the art of fragmentation have evolved
and merged into one another in ways that renew them both.Although
this work is comprised of fragments, this is, in fact, long-form
thinking a way of thinking and perceiving the world that is
desperately needed in our time.
This guidebook takes readers on a tour of the Academy, to
experience no only its spectacular physical setting, but to gain a
broader understanding of the life of a cadet.
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Sizing up People
Donald Anderson Laird
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Discovery Miles 9 520
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Sizing up People
Donald Anderson Laird
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Discovery Miles 6 660
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An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays
such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been
largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has
appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R.
Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity. Although Barry's
successes were with comedies of manners, he also wrote dramatic and
experimental works. Anderson analyzes all of Barry's plays
(twenty-one in total) and questions the traditional
characterization of the American playwright's work. He begins with
Barry's early plays concerning intergenerational tensions and
lessons learned from the Great War. Subsequent chapters explore
Barry's preoccupation with fidelity and infidelity, his struggles
with his Catholic beliefs, and his investigations into sources of
evil and despair. Anderson also looks at the plays of the late
1930s and the 1940s, including the posthumously produced Second
Threshold. One chapter is devoted to Barry's synergistic
relationship with Katharine Hepburn: her role in lifting the
playwright out of a mid-1930s slump and his role in rescuing her
from the label of "box-office poison" with both The Philadelphia
Story and the World War II drama Without Love. Anderson places
Barry within the context of his times but also shows him drawing on
past influences and anticipating theatrical developments of the
latter part of the twentieth century. Part cultural history, part
literary analysis, Shadowed Cocktails is sure to revitalize
interest in this remarkable American author. and his role in
rescuing her from the label of 'box-office poison' with both The
Philadelphia Story and the World War II drama Without Love.
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Donald (Hardcover)
Donald Anderson
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Donald (Paperback)
Donald Anderson
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Discovery Miles 5 260
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In this missionary classic, first published in 1970, Donald A.
McGavran skillfully combines theological convictions, empirical
research, sociological principles, and spiritual insights to mold a
paradigm for effective evangelism strategy both at home and abroad.
This third edition, revised and edited by C. Peter Wagner, retains
the book's original aim and essence while modernizing the language
and streamlining the flow of ideas, reducing the book's bulk by 35
percent. Other features of this edition include an additional
chapter on divine healing and an expanded, updated, and annotated
reading list.
Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a
haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span
more than 100 years of warfare. Alvord White Clements--himself a
veteran of the Second World War--introduces his grandfather Isaac
N. Clements's Civil War memoir; the novelist Paul West writes of
his father, a British veteran of World War I, as well as of his own
boyhood recollections of the London Blitz. John Wolfe details the
life-changing and life-threatening injuries he sustained in Vietnam
and the hallucinations he experienced afterward. Second Gulf War
veteran Jason Armagost traces his journey to Iraq through the
history of literature and the books he brought with him to the war
zone.
The thirteen essays in "When War Becomes Personal "tell the
enduring truths of battle, stripping away much of the romance,
myth, and fantasy.
Soldiers more than anyone know what they are capable of
destroying; when they write about war, they are trying to preserve
the world.
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