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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.
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.
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.
This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs,
exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men
and their quest for social respect. It focuses specifically on
group violence and the ways in which the 'gang' provides a forum
for the expression of this violence. White argues that what happens
on the street demands a holistic analysis which takes into account
the interrelationships between class circumstance, masculinity,
race and ethnicity. Gangs and gang violence are thus 'made' in the
crucible of specific histories, specific neighbourhoods and
specific social contexts. Based upon many years of research, and
drawing upon the theoretical insights of international literature
in this area, this book provides a sustained analysis and portrayal
of youth violence and youth gangs - one that includes and
highlights the voices and viewpoints of the young people
themselves.
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.
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.
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.
"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" --
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.
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.
Fully revised and expanded second edition of the only chart book
dedicated to British Hit EPs. Originally conceived as sort-of 'mini
LP', the four-track extended play album or 'EP' achieved mass
popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s, later enjoying a
revival during the punk/new wave era of the mid-1970s. Attractively
packaged in glossy colour sleeves and often containing rare
material, EPs also rapidly acquired a following among discerning
music fans and record collectors that continues to the present day.
Includes a history of the format, an artist-by-artist listing of
every 7-inch hit EP from 1955 to 1989 (with full track details for
each record), a trivia section, the official UK EP charts week by
week, and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 600 sleeve
shots.
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.
This timely book traces ideas of pacifism through English
literature, particularly poetry. Four wide-ranging chapters,
drawing on both religious and secular texts, provide intellectual
and historical contexts. There follows a chronological analysis of
poetry which rejects war and celebrates peace, from the middle ages
to the present day. The book provides inspiration for all readers
who seriously believe that conflict and war do not solve problems,
and for students it provides a new kind of thematic history of
literature.
Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner,
Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock,
Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and
Donna R. White For centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for
what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal,
autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach,
posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that
being human is not a fixed state but one always dynamic and
evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do
not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal,
machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being
human--self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or
problem-solving--since human characteristics reside in other
species along with shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the
ways our bodies, intelligence, and behavior connect and interact
with the environment, technology, and other species. In
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a
Posthuman World, editors Anita Tarr and Donna R. White collect
twelve essays that explore this new discipline's relevance in young
adult literature. Adolescents often tangle with many issues raised
by posthumanist theory, such as body issues. The in-betweenness of
adolescence makes stories for young adults ripe for posthumanist
study. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism,
including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity,
multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analyzing recent
works for young adults, including award-winners like Paolo
Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and Nancy Farmer's The House of the
Scorpion, as well as the works of Octavia Butler and China
Mieville.
This book arises from a conference held in November 1996 designed
to examine how competence can be improved in the different stages
ofthe lifespan. To this end, we brought together eminent
researchers in different areas of human development-infancy,
childhood, and adulthood, including the late adult years. The
conference was based on the premise that discussion arising from
the interfaces of research and practice would increase our
knowledge of and stimulate the further application of effective
interventions designed to improve competence. The editors wish to
acknowledge the contributions of Concordia University and the Fonds
pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (FCAR) in
providing funding and other assistance toward the conference
"Improving Competence Across the Lifespan" and toward the
publication of this book. Finally, we wish to express our gratitude
to the numerous students associated with our Centre for their help
and to Gail Pitts and Lesley Husband of the Centre for Research in
Human Development for their assistance. We are especially grateful
to Donna Craven, Centre for Research in Human Development, for her
heroic work on both the conference and the present volume. We could
not have met our goals without you.
Robert Langs had a substantial impact on American psychoanalysis in
the 1970s and 1980s-both Freudian and Jungian -due to his
development of what he termed "the adaptive paradigm." According to
Langs, the psychoanalytic tradition had vastly underestimated the
clinical importance of adaptation, both the role adaptive problems
play in psychological and emotional conflicts as well as the
significance adaptation has for understanding unconscious
communications in clinical practice. In spite of Langs' impact on
the psychoanalysis and analytical psychology of his time, there
have been few psychoanalytic studies either of adaptation or of
Langs' adaptive paradigm since the 1980s and no attempts to link
Langs' thinking with that of Carl Jung. Adaption and Psychotherapy
gives a concentrated but complete picture of Langs' adaptive
clinical theory and also expands Langs' treatment of adaptation by
examining Jung's theory of adaptation. Jung offers an extended
treatment of adaptation in his treatise On Psychic Energy. However,
understanding Jung's theory of adaptation is difficult, due to
Jung's having two diverse and virtually exclusive meanings of
"adaptation" in his writings, rendering his thought on adaptation
somewhat obscure and, at times, inconsistent. The book
differentiates those diverse meanings of adaptation and articulates
Jung's positive and clinical understanding of adaptation in a way
that allows comparison to Langs' adaptive paradigm as well as a
creative synthesis of the two approaches. The result is a
development of Langs' adaptive paradigm and an expansion of
clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian
and Jungian analysts.
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