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When life loses its meaning, when suddenly the world is turned upside down, when there's nothing left that resembles life as we've known it, where do we find the strength and sustenance to go on? For naval aviator Jerry Coffee and others who were held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam, there was only one choice: to go within. Beyond Survival is a journey into the invincible human spirit that unites heart and mind in a compelling and unforgettable experience. Drawing from his...
| Автор | Gerald Coffee |
Thomas Piketty's book <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. <i>Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century</i> collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the notions of inequality, growth, wealth, and capital.
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives?historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries;...
| Автор | Andrew van der Vlies |
At the age of nine, John Diefenbaker announced, «I'm going to be prime minister when I grow up.» He never lost sight of his goal. Diefenbaker was prime minister of Canada from 1957-1963. He believed in social justice, opening up the North, and making things better for western farmers. Canadians responded to his campaign call to «Follow John.» This compelling book recreates the tensions of the Diefenbaker era – the time of the Cold War, spy scandals, and the Cuban Missile Crisis – when the...
| Автор | Arthur Slade |
George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe , the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at its most critical stage. This second volume traces the sectional conflict that brought political deadlock by 1864 and makes clear Brown's vital function in finding a way out. It also sets out in meticulous detail his career after...
| Автор | J.M.S. Careless |
In this investigation of the life and varied careers of True Davidson, Eleanor Darke seeks to discover what can be «truly said about True» – a fascinating and contradictory woman who was always ahead of her time. "There was no quitter in her make-up and she fought like a banshee for whatever she believed in – which was people, truth, Canada. People either loved her or loathed her. None was indifferent. All her life True Davidson stood for human values. And traditions. Her courage and...
| Автор | Eleanor Darke |
This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue of money in elections is as old as democracy, the experience of other countries is instructive. The studies in this volume offer Canadians information about approaches to funding political parties and elections in the United States and Western Europe. The...
| Автор | F. Leslie Seidle |
As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU citizenship and its relation to various localities of EU governance. From a critical political economy perspective, the authors argue for an integrated analysis of EU citizenship, one that considers the interrelated processes of migration,...
| Автор | Peo Hansen |
In this highly original collection of interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present, a place of timeless peace yet also riven by sudden violence. The stories provide glimpses into the life of Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, as he confronts the crude realities of farming life. Over the course of these episodes we meet merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers and fallen angels, all wanting their piece of the pie. Told with precision and a...
| Автор | Rodrigo Fuentes |
The remarkable debut from Plimpton Prize Winner Kelli Jo Ford, Crooked Hallelujah follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church – a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But...
| Автор | Kelli Jo Ford |
From a bar hosting its nightly Sad Hour to the moonlit sandbox of a retired army general, Jim Heynen’s new collection of micro fiction presents character sketches of strange yet fascinating men and women. Modeled after Theophrastus' Characters — brief, verbal snapshots of people created by the Greek philosopher — Heynen captures not just the quirks and eccentricities of his characters, but also their humanity. Guilty of only ordinary and forgivable sins, these...
| Автор | Jim Heynen |
In this compact collection, “settling the score” provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga’s flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel’s decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the duelists take...
| Автор | Michael Garriga |
The characters in Inappropriate Behavior teeter on the brink of sanity, while those around them reach out in support, watch helplessly, or duck for cover. In their loneliness, Murray Farish's characters cast about for a way to connect, to be understood, though more often than not, things go horribly wrong. Some of the characters come from the darkest recesses of American history. In 'Lubbock Is Not a Place of the Spirit,' a Texas Tech student recognizable as John Hinckley, Jr....
| Автор | Murray Farish |
In this haunting new collection of stories from award-winning writer Hester Kaplan, the past has a way of showing up when it is least welcome. In the title story “Unravished,” a woman reconsiders her marriage to a man bent on destroying a world famous landscape. In “The School of Politics,” a bored museum director struggles to understand her youthful affair with a corrupt politician. The fastidious preservationist in “The Aerialist” makes...
| Автор | Hester Kaplan |
"Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once."—Sandra Cisneros"We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the first twenty years in America felt for thousands of Vietnamese families who fled to San Francisco to escape the Vietnam War. Angie Chau writes with humor, intensity and forgiveness about lives full of danger,...
| Автор | Angie Chau |
Irgendwo im Hindukusch. Ein Anwalt für Marken- und Urheberrecht, «ein amerikanski», macht Bin Laden darauf aufmerksam, welches Geld die Medien mit dem Gebrauch seines Namens und dem der von ihm gegründeten Organisation al-Qadia verdienen. Vom Geld verlockt, das der Anwalt ihm durch den Erwerb der Namensrechte verspricht, willigt Usama Bin Laden in das Geschäft ein und sichert sich die Rechte an den beiden «Marken». In den folgenden Wochen quälen sich die Medien mit teuren...
| Автор | Andreas Eschbach |
Mullins is the winner of Sarabande's prestigious Mary McCarthy Prize in Short FictionIntroduction by David MeansAuthor is very well-connected in literary circles and can expect course adoption and review in a variety of venuesSeveral stories included in this collection have seen prior publication in journals that will likely provide reviewsAuthor is a married father of two who writes about sexual taboos with humor and franknessAuthor has strong ties to Las Vegas, where the stories are...
| Автор | David Philip Mullins |
Sandra Cisneros has a fondness for animals and this little gem of a story makes that abundantly clear. “La casa azul,” the cobalt blue residence of Mister and Missus Rivera, overflows with hairless dogs, monkeys, a fawn, a “passionate” Guacamaya macaw, tarantulas, an iguana, and rescues that resemble “ancient Olmec pottery.” Missus loves the rescues most “because their eyes were filled with grief.” She takes lavish care of her husband too, a famous artist, though her neighbors insist he has eyes...
| Автор | Sandra Cisneros |
"Er würde es ihr beweisen. Er würde beweisen, dass er der verdammt noch mal beste Programmierer der Welt war. Er würde den raffiniertesten Computervirus aller Zeiten schreiben." Fabian, bekennender Computerfreak, hat sich in Amaryllis aus der Parallelklasse verliebt. Doch sie scheint sich eher für breitschultrige Machos als für Nerds wie ihn zu interessieren. Um Amaryllis zu beeindrucken, beschließt Fabian ein Computer-Virus zu programmieren, das alle auf ihn aufmerksam machen soll-
| Автор | Andreas Eschbach |
"Alzayat’s slim, powerful debut collection showcases the author’s deep empathy and imagination in stories about grief, assimilation, and trauma… This intelligent collection is a force to be reckoned with." — Publishers Weekly , starred review The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat’s collection, Alligator and Other Stories , are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in “Ghusl,” or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity...
| Автор | Dima Alzayat |
It won’t take you long to see why Jane Tyson Clement’s short stories have become perennial favorites for adults and children alike. Written with a measured beauty that recalls Tolstoy and Tolkien, these tales are rich in allegorical symbolism and evocation of mood. They are infused throughout with the thrill of expectancy, a sense that something new is on the way, and a certainty that God is seeking us, just as we seek him. In an age where cleverness often counts more than substance, Clement’s...
| Автор | Jane Tyson Clement |
Eine Kurzgeschichte von Andreas Eschbach Um die Eine zu erobern gibt es viele Möglichkeiten. Weil alle anderen Versuche nicht glücken, will der Student Norbert einen Pakt mit dem Teufel eingehen, um die Frau seiner Träume zu erobern. Dass er das Ritual an Halloween durchführt, soll ihn schützen, denn nur an diesem Tag steht dem Teufel als Gegenleistung nicht seine Seele zu. Zusammen mit seinem besten Kumpel setzt er seinen Plan in die Tat um und tatsächlich scheint es zu funktionieren. Doch...
| Автор | Andreas Eschbach |
This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a «grotesque, unflinching» portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America ( Publishers Weekly ). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World In lucid and compelling prose,María Fernanda Ampuero sheds light on...
| Автор | María Fernanda Ampuero |
Ein skurriles Projekt? Nein, eher spaßig und kurzweilig! Der edelste aller Indianer ist wohl Karl Mays Apatschenhäuptling Winnetou, von dem der niederbayerische Kabarettist, Moderator und Buchautor «Der Fälscher» Wolfgang «Woife» Berger seit seiner Kindheit begeistert ist. Und so will Berger die Geschichte seines Helden mal auf Bayrisch erzählen und hat kurzerhand den ersten Band des WINNETOU in eine gekürzte 90-Minuten-Version 'übersetzt'. Zur Aufführung und Aufnahme gesellte sich...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |