Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0973056053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"What did you do in the summer when you were kids, Grandpa and Grandma?" Likely some of the things Joshua and his gang - Bill, Ingrid, John, Lucy, Ellen, Piya and Sam did. Played at the serious game of growing up. In a small town in southern Ontario in the 1950's.
Joshua and His Gang
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0973056053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"What did you do in the summer when you were kids, Grandpa and Grandma?" Likely some of the things Joshua and his gang - Bill, Ingrid, John, Lucy, Ellen, Piya and Sam did. Played at the serious game of growing up. In a small town in southern Ontario in the 1950's.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0973056053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"What did you do in the summer when you were kids, Grandpa and Grandma?" Likely some of the things Joshua and his gang - Bill, Ingrid, John, Lucy, Ellen, Piya and Sam did. Played at the serious game of growing up. In a small town in southern Ontario in the 1950's.
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind
Author: Joshua Gang
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421440865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Joshua Gang offers a radical new approach to these questions, which are among the most challenging philosophical problems faced by literary study today. Recent cognitive criticism has tried to answer these questions by looking for similarities and analogies between literary form and the processes of the brain. In contrast, Gang turns to one of the twentieth century's most infamous psychological doctrines: behaviorism. Beginning in 1913, a range of psychologists and philosophers—including John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Gilbert Ryle—argued that many of the things we talk about as mental phenomena aren't at all interior but rather misunderstood behaviors and physiological processes. Today, behaviorism has relatively little scientific value, but Gang argues for its enormous critical value for thinking about why language is so good at creating illusions of mental life. Turning to behaviorism's own literary history, Gang offers the first sustained examination of the outmoded science's place in twentieth-century literature and criticism. Through innovative readings of figures such as I. A. Richards, the American New Critics, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and J. M. Coetzee, Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind reveals important convergences between modernist writers, experimental psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind—while also giving readers a new framework for thinking about some of literature's most fundamental and exciting questions.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421440865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Joshua Gang offers a radical new approach to these questions, which are among the most challenging philosophical problems faced by literary study today. Recent cognitive criticism has tried to answer these questions by looking for similarities and analogies between literary form and the processes of the brain. In contrast, Gang turns to one of the twentieth century's most infamous psychological doctrines: behaviorism. Beginning in 1913, a range of psychologists and philosophers—including John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Gilbert Ryle—argued that many of the things we talk about as mental phenomena aren't at all interior but rather misunderstood behaviors and physiological processes. Today, behaviorism has relatively little scientific value, but Gang argues for its enormous critical value for thinking about why language is so good at creating illusions of mental life. Turning to behaviorism's own literary history, Gang offers the first sustained examination of the outmoded science's place in twentieth-century literature and criticism. Through innovative readings of figures such as I. A. Richards, the American New Critics, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and J. M. Coetzee, Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind reveals important convergences between modernist writers, experimental psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind—while also giving readers a new framework for thinking about some of literature's most fundamental and exciting questions.
Grk and the Pelotti Gang
Author: Joshua Doder
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385733607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tim and his dog Grk face kidnapping, a plane crash in the jungles of Brazil, and more as they pursue a gang of escaped bank robbers--the infamous Pelotti brothers--who were originally captured by the Raffifi children's father.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385733607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Tim and his dog Grk face kidnapping, a plane crash in the jungles of Brazil, and more as they pursue a gang of escaped bank robbers--the infamous Pelotti brothers--who were originally captured by the Raffifi children's father.
The Right Mistakes
Author: Foo Yin Tung
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814351911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“Today I am 22 years of age. I used to be a person who was working in the complex streets of Geylang and the black market. I was a gangster in three different criminal organizations. Robbery, assault, peddling drugs, extortion…At the end of everything I have done in the underworld, I have never brought goodness to anyone around me. People who know me and those who don’t, I have never given them something pleasant to smile about.” As a child, Joshua Foo seemed to have a particular affinity for trouble. Despite his best intentions, his actions and decisions always seemed to land him on the wrong side of the law. Without the support of a loving family, Joshua was drifting and furthermore, angry—and he didn’t know why. With his father in jail and his mother working tirelessly to provide for her only child, Joshua was left to his own to make sense of his world and fend for himself. The death of his beloved grandmother and constant teasing by peers over the absence of his father drove him to fill the void in his world with friends who gave him the support he never had, the security he never knew and worth he never felt. But this came with a price, and with eyes wide open, Joshua fell headlong into a secret, illegal world, where bravery and loyalty were valued above all. But eventually Joshua had to come face to face with the reality of his world and into confrontation with all that he had been running from. With piercing honesty and brazen boldness of youth, Joshua recounts his experiences of being in a gang, his brushes with law and examines the events that brought him there. What made him who he is today? Was it his own choices, or the choices of others? And does he have the agency to decide what he will become? More than just a shocking story of a boy losing his way, The Right Mistakes is about a boy trying to make sense of his life and change it for the better.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814351911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“Today I am 22 years of age. I used to be a person who was working in the complex streets of Geylang and the black market. I was a gangster in three different criminal organizations. Robbery, assault, peddling drugs, extortion…At the end of everything I have done in the underworld, I have never brought goodness to anyone around me. People who know me and those who don’t, I have never given them something pleasant to smile about.” As a child, Joshua Foo seemed to have a particular affinity for trouble. Despite his best intentions, his actions and decisions always seemed to land him on the wrong side of the law. Without the support of a loving family, Joshua was drifting and furthermore, angry—and he didn’t know why. With his father in jail and his mother working tirelessly to provide for her only child, Joshua was left to his own to make sense of his world and fend for himself. The death of his beloved grandmother and constant teasing by peers over the absence of his father drove him to fill the void in his world with friends who gave him the support he never had, the security he never knew and worth he never felt. But this came with a price, and with eyes wide open, Joshua fell headlong into a secret, illegal world, where bravery and loyalty were valued above all. But eventually Joshua had to come face to face with the reality of his world and into confrontation with all that he had been running from. With piercing honesty and brazen boldness of youth, Joshua recounts his experiences of being in a gang, his brushes with law and examines the events that brought him there. What made him who he is today? Was it his own choices, or the choices of others? And does he have the agency to decide what he will become? More than just a shocking story of a boy losing his way, The Right Mistakes is about a boy trying to make sense of his life and change it for the better.
Gang of One
Author: Fan Shen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.
A Kingdom of Their Own
Author: Joshua Partlow
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post. The United States went to Afghanistan on a simple mission: avenge the September 11 attacks and drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. Over the course of the next decade, the ensuing fight for power and money—supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth, in ever-greater amounts—left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the center of this story is the Karzai family. President Hamid Karzai and his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan: moderate, educated, fluent in the cultures of East and West, and the antithesis of the brutish and backward Taliban regime. The siblings, from a prominent political family close to Afghanistan’s former king, had been thrust into exile by the Soviet war. While Hamid Karzai lived in Pakistan and worked with the resistance, others moved to the United States, finding work as waiters and managers before opening their own restaurants. After September 11, the brothers returned home to help rebuild Afghanistan and reshape their homeland with ambitious plans. Today, with the country in shambles, they are in open conflict with one another and their Western allies. Joshua Partlow’s clear-eyed analysis reveals the mistakes, squandered hopes, and wasted chances behind the scenes of a would-be political dynasty. Nothing illustrates the arc of the war and America’s relationship with Afghanistan—from optimism to despair, friendship to enmity—as neatly as the story of the Karzai family itself, told here in its entirety for the first time.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post. The United States went to Afghanistan on a simple mission: avenge the September 11 attacks and drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. Over the course of the next decade, the ensuing fight for power and money—supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth, in ever-greater amounts—left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the center of this story is the Karzai family. President Hamid Karzai and his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan: moderate, educated, fluent in the cultures of East and West, and the antithesis of the brutish and backward Taliban regime. The siblings, from a prominent political family close to Afghanistan’s former king, had been thrust into exile by the Soviet war. While Hamid Karzai lived in Pakistan and worked with the resistance, others moved to the United States, finding work as waiters and managers before opening their own restaurants. After September 11, the brothers returned home to help rebuild Afghanistan and reshape their homeland with ambitious plans. Today, with the country in shambles, they are in open conflict with one another and their Western allies. Joshua Partlow’s clear-eyed analysis reveals the mistakes, squandered hopes, and wasted chances behind the scenes of a would-be political dynasty. Nothing illustrates the arc of the war and America’s relationship with Afghanistan—from optimism to despair, friendship to enmity—as neatly as the story of the Karzai family itself, told here in its entirety for the first time.
Walking the Line
Author: Joshua William Clauer
Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781595988782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Some people are so poor all they have is money." -Bob Marley Joshua Clauer is a beloved man. He is fierce in what and who he loves. He is uncompromising in walking the line in today's complex, scrappy world. He has no time for hate. "I wrote this book so that you can be understood and can be motivated to be great. I did this by opening up my life for you, my saddest days and the best days ever." When the book was nearly complete, advanced stage cancer entered Joshua's life. His treasured family and friends have surrounded him and supported him as he fights this disease. "Thank you all for showing your love as I fight this cancer! It is so appreciated....I'm a rich man because of all of you!!!!" Yes, a rich and beloved man. Well played, Joshua. Well played.
Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781595988782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Some people are so poor all they have is money." -Bob Marley Joshua Clauer is a beloved man. He is fierce in what and who he loves. He is uncompromising in walking the line in today's complex, scrappy world. He has no time for hate. "I wrote this book so that you can be understood and can be motivated to be great. I did this by opening up my life for you, my saddest days and the best days ever." When the book was nearly complete, advanced stage cancer entered Joshua's life. His treasured family and friends have surrounded him and supported him as he fights this disease. "Thank you all for showing your love as I fight this cancer! It is so appreciated....I'm a rich man because of all of you!!!!" Yes, a rich and beloved man. Well played, Joshua. Well played.
The Peripheral Son
Author: Dorien Grey
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611878802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Gay investigative reporter Victor Koseva is working on an exposé about doping within a boxing syndicate, when he mysteriously disappears. Hired by the journalist’s sister-in-law, P.I. Dick Hardesty takes on the case, following a cast of unsavory suspects ranging from construction unions to bitter ex-boyfriends to a middleweight boxer determined to win a championship. When Koseva’s body is found, not only does Hardesty have to determine whether the death is from foul play or an accident, but he also has to make sure he’s not the next victim.
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611878802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Gay investigative reporter Victor Koseva is working on an exposé about doping within a boxing syndicate, when he mysteriously disappears. Hired by the journalist’s sister-in-law, P.I. Dick Hardesty takes on the case, following a cast of unsavory suspects ranging from construction unions to bitter ex-boyfriends to a middleweight boxer determined to win a championship. When Koseva’s body is found, not only does Hardesty have to determine whether the death is from foul play or an accident, but he also has to make sure he’s not the next victim.
Elementus: Rising Dawn
Author: R. D. Davies
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493142151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Life in a little town of Wales is quiet and busy, until the crash of a meteorite changes everyones life forever. Most residents develop strange powers, which eventually causes an all-out war where only the strongest will survive and the weak will die! However, that meteorite isnt all that it seems.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493142151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Life in a little town of Wales is quiet and busy, until the crash of a meteorite changes everyones life forever. Most residents develop strange powers, which eventually causes an all-out war where only the strongest will survive and the weak will die! However, that meteorite isnt all that it seems.
The Real Blake
Author: Edwin John Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This book provides a detailed biography of the artist and poet.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This book provides a detailed biography of the artist and poet.