Описание: Originally published in 1935, this book examines the role of dreams in Old Norse literature, how dreams were changed by the coming of Christianity, and how parallels in folklore can further inform an understanding of the importance of dreams to pre-Christian Norsemen.
Автор: Reid Carlton Название: Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling ISBN: 1610918169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610918169 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An optimistic book about the history and future of cycling in Europe and the US.
Описание: The life and times of the 21st president of the United States--who surprised everyone with his anti-corruption agenda--and assumed office after President James Garfield died from an assassin`s bullet.
An insecure young man drafted into the United States Army in 1968 at the height of the American war in Vietnam finds himself adrift in Mannheim, Germany, an assigned detour from combat made possible by his talent at baseball, one that years earlier had found him opposing--and besting--the eventual Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver. Although his deployment in Germany, rather than in the bloody rice patties of Vietnam is nothing less than fortuitous in that regard, Private Charles Levine nevertheless finds himself at the mercy of a military bureaucracy he can neither fathom nor follow. Ever fearful that he might be sent off to a war he rejects on philosophical and humane grounds, Levine reaches his nadir when he meets a "Gatsby-like" fellow G.I. equally dismayed by his circumstances. Levine discovers a side of himself he had never known, long after the two young men crossed paths in a place neither wanted to be.
"Charles Levine's Mannheim is a fascinating lifelong voyage of self-discovery. Levine's prose is clean, clear and approachable and his book is refreshingly candid and vulnerable. I couldn't put it down." David Elliot Cohen, multi-New York Times best-selling author of One Year Off and The Wrong Dog
"Charles Levine's coming of age book is written with simplicity and universally accessible emotion. It's heartfelt vividly realized memory of life validates a sometimes painful time when boys become men and discover the world is a darker and more dangerous place than expected. But the author always reminds us that he hasn't entirely lost his playful spirit. Mannheim is a moving character study that will stay with you. A great read." James Carlos Davis, screenwriter, film producer, and national best-selling novelist of No Dawn For Men, The Bone Keepers and God's Formula
Charles Levine is a retired businessman. He grew up mostly in Sacramento and has spent his adult years between California and New York. He graduated from Dominican University and studied liberal arts at Stanford. He lives in San Rafael, CA. This is his first book.
Автор: Currie Mark Название: Unexpected ISBN: 0748676295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748676293 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature.
Автор: Djockoua, Manyaka Toko Название: Cross-cultural affinities ISBN: 3631681259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631681251 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 10378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends which have impacted on the complex and elusive fields of Transcendentalism and Negritude. Focusing on the current debate on influences and affinities in literary and cultural studies, the book shows that African religions and philosophy have influenced the formation of American Transcendentalism.
Описание: The novel, according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual's path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany and in Europe more broadly, from Watt to Moretti, has essentially collapsed the genre into the individualist Bildungsroman, exemplified by a narrow canon. This study challenges and nuances these narratives, first by expanding the focus from the individual to the family, second by broadening the field of novels treated to include not only canonical works but also so-called trivial literature, and third, by reading novels alongside contemporary biological, legal, and pedagogical texts. This perspective reveals that the novel and the family around 1800 were mutually constitutive and that the two together were instrumental in the development of conceptions of individuality, kinship, and society that are still relevant today. Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge reads novels by Goethe, Wolzogen, Engel, Karoline Fischer, August Lafontaine, and Brentano, showing that they exhibit varying degrees of "imaginative didacticism": suggestions not of what to think and feel, but that thinking and feeling in reaction to literature are central to cultural practices of self-reflection and development. The family is a crucial locus for this practice, and reading novels together with nonliterary texts illuminates how they experiment productively with the infinite possibilities presented by the relationships they portray. Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Автор: Orr Lyndon Название: Famous Affinities of History ISBN: 1312184825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781312184824 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8598.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Students are well aware of the contributions of the men who served as college presidents, researchers, and national leaders in community college-but what women made significant contributions that have not before been brought to light? Their valuable stories are captured in this book.
Автор: Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones Название: Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places ISBN: 1501705628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501705625 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupations—making beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires' relentless quest for profits.The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nation—the 60,000-member Culinary Union—becoming in time its president. In Las Vegas, "the hottest union city in America," the collective actions of union activists have won economic and political power for tens of thousands of working Nevadans and their families. The story of these women's transformation and their success in creating a union able to face off against global gaming giants form the centerpiece of this book.Another group of women, dealers and middle managers among them, did not act. Fearful of losing their jobs, they remained silent, declining to speak out when others were abused, and in the case of middle managers, taking on the corporations' goals as their own. Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones appraise the cost of their silence and examine the factors that pushed some women into activism and led others to accept the status quo.Casino Women will appeal to all readers interested in women, gambling, and working-class life, and in how ordinary people stand up to corporate actors who appear to hold all the cards.
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