Strategic plans invariably differ from the reality of war. The American experience in the Second World War was no exception. This volume offers an understanding of the gap between American plans and what actually happened. A variety of factors including coalition politics, inter-service disputes, disagreements between field commanders and Washington headquarters, logistical constraints, and the initiatives and reactions of the enemy combined in myriad forms to produce a conflict that was very different from original strategic expectations.

Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interactional and social engagement. Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties. The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.

raw words written around the time of the sandy hook sadness madness senselessness the sudden silence when there is no more for the dead the gone and all those around are covered infilled by a silence that is so deep that its suddenness is just a point in time

Paperback edition of my first novel after ten books of poetry. A tale of life suddenly cut into by disaster. A few minutes where multiple lives are lived or imagined. What happened besides the fire?

images and poetry from my experiences around the WTC site before and after september 11, 2001 realized in print september 2011. including some images i took after that day in september.

a chance to renew what happened long ago by post cards in the mail. a story told in increments by innocents now older. a story told over time. a story placed in time in abbreviated time as in the limited space of a post card. the twitter of our parents and their parents.

Written long ago. My first book that should have been printed years ago. Printed here now through the wonder of the internet. My regret was that I didn't have, couldn't raise $500 for the printing then when the New York Editor came to Jamestown, ND to see me for my work.

floating to the surface is a transition book taking me from poetry as rhymes and phrasing to a more narrative style that seems to be leading me to prose maybe my next novel. these are memory poems composed from the flashing lights of remembering what was and what might have been.

almost all the poetry I've written to date. collected and rearranged in another patten. collected in a hard cover book.

paperback edition of who knew? collected poetry 1968 to 2008. a collection of most of my first eight poetry books.

what happens when someone from your past finds you in the present. facebook meets my mind and what was and wasn't. what we dreamed what we became. a love story? a memoir? dreams of the past? thoughts and actions taken and/or deferred.

Paperback edition of my first novel after ten books of poetry. A tale of life suddenly cut into by disaster. A few minutes where multiple lives are lived or imagined. What happened besides the fire?