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An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El
Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an
aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author,
Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his
tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer.
Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent
as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in
1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called
Revulsion Castellanos Moya's darkest book and perhaps his best: "A
parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes
you laugh out loud."
From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual
language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of
history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays,
Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies
through the dynamically shifting cultural, political, and
linguistic landscapes of the twentieth century. He considers the
rise and fall of "philosophy of history" and discusses past
attempts to imbue historical discourse with scientific precision.
He explores the development of the "meta-narrative" and the
post-Marxist view of history and shows how the present resurgence
of old words--such as "memory"--in new contexts is providing a way
to address marginalized peoples. In analyzing linguistic changes in
the North American academy, From History to Theory innovatively
ties semantic shifts in academic discourse to key trends in
American society, culture, and politics.
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SOMEDAY I'LL WISH UPON A STAR ask what you will and it will be done
for you You may not have thought that God would want to make your
wishes come true, but He does. You might not imagine God wanting to
answer a request like, having a dress to wear to the ball, having
the luxury of riding to the ball in a beautiful coach, dancing with
the Prince, or let alone marrying the Prince and living happily
ever after, but He does. Not knowing that God is that good or that
God cares about the little details in our lives, like a dress, your
hair, your ride to the ball, or marrying the man of your dreams,
keeps us from living the dream life God has intended for us. If man
can dream up such wonderful heart warming fairytales, then how much
more do we think God has dreamt for us? God who is real and who has
an exceptional love for us has dreamt bigger dreams for us than we
can imagine. God is astoundingly amazing, way beyond extraordinary,
and compassionate--and can by far surpass any fairytale love in any
fabricated story--and besides do exceedingly more wonders for us
than any fairy godmother could ever do. God already created us
beautifully like Himself, and has given us all we need to live an
extraordinary life. What we might not see because of our lack of
really knowing Him, is that He not only created beauty all around
us but a beautiful plan for our lives that is seeded deep down on
the inside of us. That seed has everything in it we need to be
happy and live the dream life God planned for us before we were
even born. God's intentions for us are good and when we know
that--we can finally start to fathom the wonderfully marvelous life
He has planned for us and start living in it God is my Hero and He
is always faithful to me. Now it is my turn to be faithful to Him
and tell how wonderful He is You hold this book in your hand
because God is in love with you and wants you to know He has a good
life wished-for you Love-lee
Finally, a book about sales that is not a how to. That's not to say
that the book does not contain tips on how to succeed. There are
lots of those and, in this case, realistically written and by
someone whose success is unquestionable. But this book is
different. It's a whole new way of looking at sales, as a
profession. Question..Lee, why did you decide to write this book?
Answer...For me, after all the years in the business of selling or,
as I call it, peddling, it was time to ask the question..Why is it
that one of the world's highest paid professions never seems to get
the respect it deserves? Those of us who have had the courage to
fight the battle (and, it is a definite battle) and have succeeded,
live in the best neighborhoods, drive the nicest cars and send our
children to the best schools. Yet, the doctors, lawyers, bank
presidents who are our neighbors, seem to dismiss what we have done
and look down their professional noses at us. To me, it was time to
examine this phenomena and try and put some humorous light on it.
Question.You say humorous light. Is it a funny book. Answer...Sales
is a fun job if you keep it in its proper perspective. even I laugh
at no matter how many times I have ready them. Question.Finally,
Lee, What about the title? What do donuts have to do with sales?
Answer...It all has to do with perception; the perception of whom a
salesman is and who should be entitled to call himself or herself a
salesman or salesperson. Bottom line, I resent the clerk at the
local convenience store claiming that she (or he) SOLD two dozen
glazed donuts that morning. And so, the title of the book This book
is going to help those who have the talent and, yes, above all
else, the courage to go out and make their living, to build their
careers as sales professionals. At the same time, it is going to
narrow the field by illustrating clearly why those of you who think
sales is easy, are dead wrong.
Finally, a book about sales that is not a how to. That's not to say
that the book does not contain tips on how to succeed. There are
lots of those and, in this case, realistically written and by
someone whose success is unquestionable. But this book is
different. It's a whole new way of looking at sales, as a
profession. Question..Lee, why did you decide to write this book?
Answer...For me, after all the years in the business of selling or,
as I call it, peddling, it was time to ask the question..Why is it
that one of the world's highest paid professions never seems to get
the respect it deserves? Those of us who have had the courage to
fight the battle (and, it is a definite battle) and have succeeded,
live in the best neighborhoods, drive the nicest cars and send our
children to the best schools. Yet, the doctors, lawyers, bank
presidents who are our neighbors, seem to dismiss what we have done
and look down their professional noses at us. To me, it was time to
examine this phenomena and try and put some humorous light on it.
Question.You say humorous light. Is it a funny book. Answer...Sales
is a fun job if you keep it in its proper perspective. even I laugh
at no matter how many times I have ready them. Question.Finally,
Lee, What about the title? What do donuts have to do with sales?
Answer...It all has to do with perception; the perception of whom a
salesman is and who should be entitled to call himself or herself a
salesman or salesperson. Bottom line, I resent the clerk at the
local convenience store claiming that she (or he) SOLD two dozen
glazed donuts that morning. And so, the title of the book This book
is going to help those who have the talent and, yes, above all
else, the courage to go out and make their living, to build their
careers as sales professionals. At the same time, it is going to
narrow the field by illustrating clearly why those of you who think
sales is easy, are dead wrong.
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first
stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for
Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores
the traditions through which historians, philosophers,
anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of
America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and
been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West
was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with
Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World
met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the
cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also
the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and
nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that
the idea of a collision between people with and without history
still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes,
resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which
creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them
into the language used to describe the American frontier. In
Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of
history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America'
balances on history's shifting frontiers."
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