Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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: What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? This book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race and political behavior in the purported "post-racial" context of US politics.
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: Goldfarb, Lisa Название: Unexpected affinities ISBN: 1845199472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845199470 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 6971.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry and Symbolist Poetics studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical fashion. Pairing poets who are not usually studied in their relation to one another reveals mutuality and dissimilitude. Chapter I looks at Stevens and Valery from the vantage point of the senses as opposed to the more usual lens of their similar cerebral or philosophical temperaments. Although critics have largely and justifiably seen Stevens and Eliot in oppositional terms (Stevens proclaims them dead opposites), Lisa Goldfarb asks what happens when we look at them from the vantage point of their mutual interest in creating a musical poetics. Auden is principally known for his distaste for the symbolists and their magical poetics, yet he reserves special praise for Valery and considers him as his poetic mentor; Chapter III studies their poetics side-by-side. With Stevens and Audens mutual appreciation of Valery as a starting point, Chapter IV turns to a closer comparative study of Auden and Stevens, two poets who have traditionally been seen as operating in distinct poetic spheres. While Elizabeth Bishop famously eludes categorization in terms of poetic school or affiliation, a fifth chapter addresses her poetic music in relation to French symbolist poetics, one of the many poetic schools she admired. A sixth and final chapter examines Stevens musical legacy, in large part derived from the symbolists, and addresses the work of a range of modern and contemporary poets, with a final section devoted to the work of contemporary poet, Susan Howe.
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.
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.
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