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Author: Eric Oliver Coulson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312407840 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 195
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Eric Coulson mines records, archives, and family anecdotes to discover the "probable life" of his mother in early twentieth-century England.
Author: Eric Oliver Coulson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312407840 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 195
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Eric Coulson mines records, archives, and family anecdotes to discover the "probable life" of his mother in early twentieth-century England.
Author: Kate McMullan Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545629764 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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In Kate McMullan's first My America book, the drama and adventure of the American prairie come to life when Meg must leave her family and move to Kansas to avoid the St. Louis cholera epidemic. Margaret Cora Wells is a resilient young girl living in St. Louis where cholera has become an epidemic. When her mother and sister get sick, Meg wants only to tend to them. But, in an effort to protect his children, her father sends Meg and her brother, Preston, to their relatives on the Kansas prairie for the summer. After an adventurous journey, Meg and Preston arrive in Kansas where they learn about life in another part of the country, and even more about the politics of the time. Meg is sweet and strong with a deep moral sense and a real sense of humor.
Author: Philip Gambone Publisher: Rattling Good Yarns Press ISBN: 9781734146462 Category : Languages : en Pages : 476
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Philip Gambone, a gay man, never told his father the reason why he was rejected from the draft during the Vietnam War. In turn, his father never talked about his participation in World War II. Father and son were enigmas to each other. Gambone, an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer, spent seven years uncovering who the man his quiet, taciturn father had been, by retracing his father's journey through WW II. As Far As I Can Tell not only reconstructs what Gambone's father endured, it also chronicles his own emotional odyssey as he followed his father's route from Liverpool to the Elbe River. A journey that challenged the author's thinking about war, about European history, and about "civilization." Praise for As Far As I Can Tell "In retracing his father's World War II army service across the U.S. and Europe, Phil Gambone ingeniously uses public records to plumb private mysteries: Who was this "impossibly foreign" man, and what did he have in common with his son, who dodged the Vietnam draft by being gay? This is a travel book unlike any other: across continents but also into the past and toward self-forgiveness." Richly researched and written with unerring grace, Gambone's journey is an act of witness, of belated connection, and, ultimately, of courage that does justice to his father's." - Michael Lowenthal, author of Paternity Test "Philip Gambone weaves a moving memoir of his family, a vivid portrayal of his travels through the locales of WWII, and a powerful description of what that war was like to the men who fought it on the ground into a seamless and eloquent narrative." - Hon. Barney Frank, former Congressman, Massachusetts "A single question pulses through As Far As I Can Tell: why didn't my father talk about his time in the war? With meticulous research, Philip Gambone puts sound to silence, offering us a book-length love letter, not just to his father, but to anyone whose life has been hemmed in by obligation, obedience, and the brutality of the system. It's also a coming to terms with the unknown in others, which is its own hard grace. A vital, dynamic read." - Paul Lisicky, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World "As Far As I Can Tell is a fascinating mix of autobiography, travelogue, and historical research that not only takes us on a great adventure in search of what World War Two was like for those who fought in the European theater but probes that most difficult of all subjects, the relationship between a father and a son -- in this case, a gay son. Extensively researched, highly literate and profoundly thoughtful, the story Gambone tells uses not only soldiers' memoirs but writers as disparate as Samuel Johnson and James Lord to make this a reader's delight."- Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance
Author: Francis Aiyeobalor Omoruyi Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1039140025 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 144
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From Nigeria to Canada and back again: Francis Omoruyi’s immigrant story explores the challenges of corruption, racism, and crime, but also the joys of achievement, aspiration, and community connection. Born in a small Nigerian village, Francis was the son of one of his father’s three wives. His entrepreneurial mother instilled in him a drive for education as well as an adventurous spirit—traits that endured throughout his life. To improve the educational opportunities for his children, Francis and his wife, Rosaline, decided to immigrate to Canada in the 1970s—but the experience was rife with setbacks. Francis struggled to find a job that would recognize his qualifications, and, once employed, he continued to face systemic racism. This memoir details not only the hard times but also the triumphs of Francis’s journey as he found ways to thrive no matter what life threw his way. Intense and evocative, As Far as I Can Remember is a candid account of the Nigerian-Canadian immigrant experience and a paean to education and family bonds.
Author: Chad Oliver Publisher: Gateway ISBN: 057512590X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 430
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Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following: Stardust Let Me Live in a House Field Expedient Transformer If Now You Grieve a Little Anachronism North Wind Pilgrimage The Wind Blows Free Of Course Rite of Passage Didn't He Ramble? Second Nature Ghost Town End of the Line Just Like a Man Far From This Earth King of the Hill Meanwhile, Back on the Reservation A Lake of Summer
Author: John Carriero Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691135614 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 538
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Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations. Philosophers have tended to read Descartes's seminal work in an occasional way, examining its treatment of individual topics while ignoring other parts of the text. In contrast, John Carriero provides a sustained, systematic reading of the whole text, giving a detailed account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Carriero finds in the Meditations a nearly continuous argument against Thomistic Aristotelian ways of thinking about cognition, and shows more clearly than ever before how Descartes bridged the old world of scholasticism and the new one of mechanistic naturalism. Rather than casting Descartes's project primarily in terms of skepticism, knowledge, and certainty, Carriero focuses on fundamental disagreements between Descartes and the scholastics over the nature of understanding, the relation between the senses and the intellect, the nature of the human being, and how and to what extent God is cognized by human beings. Against this background, Carriero shows, Descartes developed his own conceptions of mind, body, and the relation between them, creating a coherent, philosophically rich project in the Meditations and setting the agenda for a century of rationalist metaphysics.
Author: Karin Aijmer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317896920 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 276
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It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication. This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.
Author: James R. Nattinger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780194371643 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 240
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Presents a language teaching programme based on the use of 'prefabricated language'. The authors show that the unit of language they term the 'lexical phrase' can serve as an effective basis, for both second and foreign language learning.
Author: Thomas Warner Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1664131264 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 512
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One quick look through this book will instantly tell you it is a diary of sorts. With little to do in this lockdown I wanted to keep a record of what was happening for myself as we are now living in some kind of new world, and not for the better it seems and I also wanted my family and grandchildren to know what I is like to live through something like that on one’s own. I cannot say it was easy to write giving the circumstance and the great loss of life worldwide. After the stroke I had I had to cut back somewhat with the major loss of energy I was experiencing. I Dedicate this book with all the restored energy and love to my wonderful daughter Jacqueline and her brilliant husband Pat. Thank you guys for all you have done. It will never be forgotten.
Author: Eric Oliver Coulson
Author: Eric Oliver Coulson
Author: Kate McMullan
Author: Philip Gambone
Author: Francis Aiyeobalor Omoruyi
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Author: Chad Oliver
Author: John Carriero
Author: Karin Aijmer
Author: James R. Nattinger
Author: Thomas Warner