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Bullets and Bolos is the memoir of Colonel John White's 15 years in
the Philippines as a member of the Philippine Constabulary during
the American occupation of the islands. The Constabulary,
established in 1901, was organized to quell unrest on the islands.
White took part in numerous engagements against the rebellious
Moros on Mindanao and Jolo, including the infamous First Battle of
Bud Dajo (also known as the Bud Dajo Massacre in which 800-1,000
men, women and children were killed).
This is a Non Fiction Book that is for ADULTS only. The book is an
accurate Historical rendition. It is reinforced by the author's 531
days of close quarters infantry combat in the Vietnam War. The
introduction begins with the French Indochina War (1946-1954)
followed by the US war against the Communist from 1959 until 1973.
The aftermath is also included.
This is a revised version of the book which was privately published
by the author in 1982. At the time, the book was widely welcomed by
Shakespearean scholars as a trenchant, scholarly and highly
original contribution to the field of Shakespearean studies. The
book's argument is that a full response to Shakespearean tragedy
has to take account of the fate of the victims as well as of the
tragic heroes; and this thesis is illustrated and developed by a
consideration of Lavinia, Lucrece and the children in Richard III,
Macbeth and King John; and to the three principal Shakespearean
tragic victims, Ophelia, Desdemona and Cordelia. The author is a
Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne. his other works include 'Let Wonder Seem
Familiar: Endings in Shakespeare's Romance Vision' and 'Keats as a
Reader of Shakespeare'(forthcoming).
Biometals in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Mechanisms and
Therapeutics is an authoritative and timely resource bringing
together the major findings in the field for ease of access to
those working in the field or with an interest in metals and their
role in brain function, disease, and as therapeutic targets.
Chapters cover metals in Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease,
Motor Neuron Disease, Autism and lysosomal storage disorders. This
book is written for academic researchers, clinicians and advanced
graduate students studying or treating patients in
neurodegeneration, neurochemistry, neurology and neurotoxicology.
The scientific literature in this field is advancing rapidly, with
approximately 300 publications per year adding to our knowledge of
how biometals contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. Despite
this rapid increase in our understanding of biometals in brain
disease, the fields of biomedicine and neuroscience have often
overlooked this information. The need to bring the research on
biometals in neurodegeneration to the forefront of biomedical
research is essential in order to understand neurodegenerative
disease processes and develop effective therapeutics.
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has greatly enhanced the
realm of online social interaction and behavior. In language
classrooms, it allows the opportunity for students to enhance their
learning experiences. Exploration of Textual Interactions in CALL
Learning Communities: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
ideal source of academic research on the pedagogical implications
of online communication in language learning environments.
Highlighting perspectives on topics such as reduced forms,
ellipsis, and learner autonomy, this book is ideally designed for
educators, researchers, graduate students, and professionals
interested in the role of computer-mediated communication in
language learning.
Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children's
literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some
of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the
Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose languages
are among the oldest in Europe. Among these tales are four native
Welsh legends collectively known as the Mabinogi, which were first
translated into English in 1845 by Lady Charlotte Guest. Numerous
children's books have been based on the Mabinogi since then, and
many have received awards and critical acclaim. Because these books
are written for children, they are not necessarily faithful
retellings of the original tales. Instead, authors have had to
select certain elements to include and others to exclude. This book
examines how authors of children's fantasy literature from the 19th
century to the present have adapted Welsh myth to meet the
perceived needs of their young audience.
The volume begins with a summary of the four principle tales of
the Mabinogi: "Pwyll Prince of Dyfed," "Branwen Daughter of Llyr,"
"Manawydan Son of Llyr," and "Math Son of Mathonwy." Books based on
the Mabinogi generally fall into two categories: retellings of the
myths, and original works of fantasy partially inspired by the
Welsh tales. Beginning with Sidney Lanier's "The Boy's Mabinogion,"
the first part of this book examines versions of the myths
published for children between 1881 and 1988. The second part
discusses imaginative literature that borrows elements from the
Mabinogi, including Alan Garner's "The Owl Service," which won a
Carnegie medal, and Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, the
final volume of which received the ALA Newbery Award for
outstanding children's book.
Two events make the history of Norfolk in the 1950s remarkable: the
voracity of its attack upon urban blight, and the ferocity of its
resistance to school desegregation. One of the first cities in the
nation to initiate large-scale redevelopment efforts, Norfolk was
the chief battleground for court-ordered school desegregation. The
author shows how Southern cities used their powers of
redevelopment, city planning, and school administration to resist
and delay school desegregation. He notes that this occurred in
three distinct phases. These findings present a breakthrough in
urban studies and school desegregation research. The author
establishes that the history of school desegregation began much
earlier than commonly thought, with almost a decade of planning,
redevelopment, and urban renewal initiatives; and that school
boards and administrators were only minor actors in a cast that
included mayors, city councils, state legislators, planning
commissioners, redevelopment authorities, and other public
officials.
This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from
the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions
come from established and emergent scholars from a range of
disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary
history.
At a moment when ""freedom of religion"" rhetoric fuels public
debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each
other in pitched battle throughout modern U.S. history. Yet, by
tracking the nation's changing religious and sexual landscapes over
the twentieth century, this book challenges that zero-sum account
of sexuality locked in a struggle with religion. It shows that
religion played a central role in the history of sexuality in the
United States, shaping sexual politics, communities, and
identities. At the same time, sexuality has left lipstick traces on
American religious history. From polyamory to pornography, from
birth control to the AIDS epidemic, this book follows religious
faiths and practices across a range of sacred spaces: rabbinical
seminaries, African American missions, Catholic schools, pagan
communes, the YWCA, and much more. What emerges is the shared story
of religion and sexuality and how both became wedded to American
culture and politics. The volume, framed by a provocative
introduction by Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R.
White and a compelling afterword by John D'Emilio, features essays
by Rebecca T. Alpert and Jacob J. Staub, Rebecca L. Davis, Lynne
Gerber, Andrea R. Jain, Kathy Kern, Rachel Kranson, James P.
McCartin, Samira K. Mehta, Daniel Rivers, Whitney Strub, Aiko
Takeuchi-Demirci, Judith Weisenfeld, and Neil J. Young.
In this book White "traces the influence of both the comedies and
tragedies {of Shakespeare} on Keats's work." (Choice)
Following the American War of Independence and the French
Revolution, ideas of the 'Natural Rights of Man' (later
distinguished into particular issues like rights of association,
rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly
debated in England. Literary figures like Wollstonecraft, Godwin,
Thelwall, Blake and Wordsworth reflected these struggles in their
poetry and fiction. With the seminal influences of John Locke and
Rousseau, these and many other writers laid for high Romantic
Literature foundations that were not so much aesthetic as moral and
political. This new study by R.S. White provides a reinterpretation
of the Enlightenment as it is currently understood.
"At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of
Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems.
The readings are placed in the contexts of his letters to family
and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time,
his love for Fanny Brawne, his coterie of literary figures and his
tragic early death" --
This volume examines factors associated with success and failure of
historical episodes of democratization in Europe, giving a
historical and comparative approach. It focuses on a series of
important case studies, including Britain and the Netherlands, the
Weimar Republic, Spanish Second Republic, the German Federal
Republic, and the post-Communist studies of East Europe and Russia.
A wide-ranging reading of Freud's work, this book focuses on
Freud's scientifically discredited ideas about inherited memory in
relation both to poststructuralist debates about mourning, and to
certain uncanny figurative traits in his writing. "Freud's Memory"
argues for an enriched understanding of the strangenesses in Freud
rather than any denunciation of psychoanalysis as a bogus
explanatory method.
By the time America decided to engage in Vietnam, the Soviets had
already overwhelmed fifteen nations by force and fear. The conflict
that followed was one of American history's toughest infantry wars.
American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War call it "the Nam."
In this unique recollection of deadly, close-quarters infantry
combat, author and twenty-year US Army veteran Donald R. White
shares his wealth of personal experience, presenting an emotional
trip through violence and bloodshed. In the time period between
late fall of 1965 and late summer of 1969, hundreds of men were
killed in action each week-something that survivors live with
daily. Former US Army platoon sergeant Donald R. White reveals
detailed facts about infantry war that are bloody, horrific, and
shocking. In this personal account, he deals with memories that are
seldom happy and often grim, giving readers an eye-witness account
of what the Nam was really like for American fighting men.
Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the
Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of
Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on
children's literature and popular culture today, especially
focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies. This
collection of essays on Peter Pan is separated into four parts. The
first section is comprised of essays placing Barrie's in its own
time period, and tackles issues such as the relationship between
Hook and Peter in terms of child hatred, the similarities between
Peter and Oscar Wilde, Peter Pan's position as an exemplar of the
Cult of the Boy Child is challenged, and the influence of pirate
lore and fairy lore are also examined. Part two features an essay
on Derrida's concept of the grapheme, and uses it to argue that
Barrie is attempting to undermine racial stereotypes. The third
section explores Peter Pan's timelessness and timeliness in essays
that examine the binary of print literacy and orality; Peter Pan's
modular structure and how it is ideally suited to video game
narratives; the indeterminacy of gender that was common to
Victorian audiences, but also threatening and progressive; Philip
Pullman and J.K. Rowling, who publicly claim to dislike Peter Pan
and the concept of never growing up, but who are nevertheless
indebted to Barrie; and a Lacanian reading of Peter Pan arguing
that Peter acts as "the maternal phallus" in his pre-Symbolic
state. The final section looks at the various roles of the female
in Peter Pan, whether against the backdrop of British colonialism
or Victorian England. Students and enthusiasts of children's
literature will find their understanding of Peter Pan immensely
broadened after reading this volume.
Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic
workers, Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment documents statistical
relationships between exports and imports and domestic
employment/wages.
Dr White examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses formal
conventions from romance throughout his writing career, especially
in giving formal completion to a play without forfeiting the
open-ended sense of life's complexity. In his romantic comedies
these conventions are modified to imply that the cosy womb of
marriage is not the end of lovers lives; in the problem comedies
they are used to challenge the artifice of the comic ending; in
some tragedies they are used to provide an ideal of fulfilment
which has been destroyed by the tragic events and in the last plays
or romances they are used to invoke the full sense of life;s
continuing comprehensiveness.
This volume explores methods used to examine metal levels and
distribution in brain tissue or brain-derived cells. The chapters
in this book discuss the use of fluorescent metal probes,
synchrotron-based X-ray microscopy, ICP-MS, laser ablation-ICP-MS,
laser-based tissue microdissection, MRI image analysis,
fractionation of cell tissue samples for metal analysis, and metal
treatment of cells. In Neuromethods series style, chapters include
the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to
get successful results in your own laboratory. Practical and
cutting-edge, Metals in the Brain: Measurement and Imaging is a
valuable resource for researchers in the rapidly growing area of
neuroscience research.
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