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Author: Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Steven Davis Publisher: ISBN: 9781949366006 Category : Languages : en Pages : 370
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"Such is life in the army . . ."-this simple statement gets unpacked in the homespun pages of Dear Folks. Earl Young was a farm boy who had never even been out of his home state of Nebraska. In 1918, at age 18, Earl enlisted in the U.S. Army and, thus, WWI.Dear Folks offers up a rare treasure and a brief glimpse into a young American soldier's daily life through his own words-his own letters home. Interspersed with photographs, popular music of the time, poems, hymns, family recipes, and unique mementos, Dear Folks is a poignant journey of anticipation and discovery that will engage your senses and draw you back to a time when the innocence and passion of youth is all it took to change the world.Join the family and follow Earl as he leaves the only life he has ever known, his beloved Nebraskan wheat fields, and journeys across continents and oceans and back again with a resilience and indefatigable nature that will leave you inspired and content, realizing life does not always turn out the way you expect. Thank goodness!
Author: Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Steven Davis Publisher: ISBN: 9781949366006 Category : Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
"Such is life in the army . . ."-this simple statement gets unpacked in the homespun pages of Dear Folks. Earl Young was a farm boy who had never even been out of his home state of Nebraska. In 1918, at age 18, Earl enlisted in the U.S. Army and, thus, WWI.Dear Folks offers up a rare treasure and a brief glimpse into a young American soldier's daily life through his own words-his own letters home. Interspersed with photographs, popular music of the time, poems, hymns, family recipes, and unique mementos, Dear Folks is a poignant journey of anticipation and discovery that will engage your senses and draw you back to a time when the innocence and passion of youth is all it took to change the world.Join the family and follow Earl as he leaves the only life he has ever known, his beloved Nebraskan wheat fields, and journeys across continents and oceans and back again with a resilience and indefatigable nature that will leave you inspired and content, realizing life does not always turn out the way you expect. Thank goodness!
Author: Victor Davis Hanson Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 1541647548 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship. Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it may soon vanish. In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution. As in the revolutionary years of 1848, 1917, and 1968, 2020 ripped away our complacency about the future. But in the aftermath, we as Americans can rebuild and recover what we have lost. The choice is ours.
Author: Tracie White Publisher: Legacy Lit ISBN: 0316492493 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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A Father, His Son, and an Unrelenting Quest for a Cure At the age of twenty-seven, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole away the pieces of his life: First, it took the strength of his legs, then his voice, and his ability to eat. Finally, even the sound of a footstep in his room became unbearable. The Puzzle Solver follows several years in which he desperately sought answers from specialist after specialist, where at one point his 6'3" frame dropped to 115 lbs. For years, he underwent endless medical tests, but doctors told him there was nothing wrong. Then, finally, a diagnosis: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis. In the 80s, when an outbreak of people immobilized by an indescribable fatigue were reported near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, doctors were at a loss to explain the symptoms. The condition would alternatively be nicknamed Raggedy Ann Syndrome or the Yuppie Disease, and there was no cure or answers about treatment. They were to remain sick. But there was one answer: Whitney's father, Ron Davis, PhD, a world-class geneticist at Stanford University whose legendary research helped crack the code of DNA, suddenly changed the course of his career in a race against time to cure his son's debilitating condition. In The Puzzle Solver, journalist Tracie White, who first wrote a viral and award-winning piece on Davis and his family in Stanford Medicine, tells his story. In gripping prose, she masterfully takes readers along on this journey with Davis to solve one of the greatest mysteries in medicine. In a piercing investigative narrative, closed doors are opened, and masked truths are exposed as Davis uncovers new proof confirming that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a biological disease. At the heart of this book is a moving story that goes far beyond medicine, this is a story about how the power of love -- and science -- can shine light in even the darkest, most hidden, corners of the world.
Author: Sarah Davis-Goff Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250235243 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
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“Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later.” —Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters “A riveting novel.” —Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow Child Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives. Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen’s life has revolved around training to fight a threat she’s never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors. But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake. Then disaster strikes. Alone, pushing an unconscious Maeve in a wheelbarrow, Orpen decides her last hope is abandoning the safety of the island and journeying across the country to reach the legendary banshees, the rumored all-female fighting force that battles the skrake. But the skrake are not the only threat... Sarah Davis-Goff's Last Ones Left Alive is a brilliantly original imagining of a young woman's journey to discover her true identity.
Author: Lydia Davis Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374711437 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
Author: Jan Rosenberg Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030262227 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 156
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This book provides a history of the Quaker educator and intercultural education pioneer Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) that explores the period in which DuBois lived and the key works she created. The opening section establishes the disciplinary contexts of her work, education, and folklore, and the subsequent sections present DuBois' pedagogical methods as they were developed and exemplified by her programs. Throughout the narrative, Rosenberg includes reflections on her own experience as a practitioner of the intercultural and folklife education DuBois championed.
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