Author: Jon Christensen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477232028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This is a fictional account of one man's attempt to give some meaning and scope to his life by involving himself in the Vietnam conflict during the dying years of it. As well, it covers the years of tortured regret that followed. To the attuned reader, it will also indicate the parallels between that conflict and the one that more recently took place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Flight into Folly
Author: Jon Christensen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477232028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This is a fictional account of one man's attempt to give some meaning and scope to his life by involving himself in the Vietnam conflict during the dying years of it. As well, it covers the years of tortured regret that followed. To the attuned reader, it will also indicate the parallels between that conflict and the one that more recently took place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477232028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This is a fictional account of one man's attempt to give some meaning and scope to his life by involving himself in the Vietnam conflict during the dying years of it. As well, it covers the years of tortured regret that followed. To the attuned reader, it will also indicate the parallels between that conflict and the one that more recently took place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Flight Into Inwardness
Author: Timothy J. Lukes
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780941664042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In his more recent works, Herbert Marcuse has come to appreciate the liberatory potential of the aesthetic practice. This book traces the development of that appreciation. A discussion of Kant's aesthetic theory, and Marcuse's improvement of it, is included.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780941664042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In his more recent works, Herbert Marcuse has come to appreciate the liberatory potential of the aesthetic practice. This book traces the development of that appreciation. A discussion of Kant's aesthetic theory, and Marcuse's improvement of it, is included.
Jacob's Folly
Author: Rebecca Miller
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443418285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring, young, ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob’s Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a housefly in contemporary Long Island. Through the unique lens of Jacob’s consciousness, Miller explores transformation in all its different guises—personal, spiritual and literal. As she considers the hold of the past on the present, the power of private hopes and dreams, and the collision of fate and free will, Miller’s world—which is our own, transfigured by her startlingly clear gaze and by her sharp, surprising wit—comes to vibrant life. Leslie’s desire to act as hero and rescuer; Jacob’s disastrous marriage to the childlike Hodle, and his intense obsession with Masha—Miller sketches her characters’ interior lives with compassion, subtlety and an exceptionally light touch. Jacob’s Folly is wildly inventive, and ultimately moving; it will leave the reader, no less than its characters, transformed.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443418285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring, young, ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob’s Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a housefly in contemporary Long Island. Through the unique lens of Jacob’s consciousness, Miller explores transformation in all its different guises—personal, spiritual and literal. As she considers the hold of the past on the present, the power of private hopes and dreams, and the collision of fate and free will, Miller’s world—which is our own, transfigured by her startlingly clear gaze and by her sharp, surprising wit—comes to vibrant life. Leslie’s desire to act as hero and rescuer; Jacob’s disastrous marriage to the childlike Hodle, and his intense obsession with Masha—Miller sketches her characters’ interior lives with compassion, subtlety and an exceptionally light touch. Jacob’s Folly is wildly inventive, and ultimately moving; it will leave the reader, no less than its characters, transformed.
Flight
Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *Recipes For Disaster *
Author: John Quinn Olson
Publisher: Dust Devil Press
ISBN: 0982070322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
Publisher: Dust Devil Press
ISBN: 0982070322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
The Reverie
Author: Charles Johnstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political satire, English, Early works to 1800
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political satire, English, Early works to 1800
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Works of the Right Reverend and Learned Ezekiel Hopkins, Late Lord Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland
Author: Ezekiel Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
A Commentary on the Proverbs
The Royal Air Force: Re-Armament 1930 to 1939
Author: Ian M. Philpott
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Volume II of this mammoth reference work covers the years in which the League of Nations failed because of the emerging dictatorships in Germany and Italy and the expansionist policies adopted by Japan. Britain was still reeling from the consequences of World War I and the RAF was sadly far behind the other major world powers in aircraft design, still relying on bi-planes that were direct descendants of World War I thinking. It gradually became apparent that, despite UK government dithering, the RAF needed to develop new aircraft, engines and increase production to confront the bully-boy tactics of the Axis powers. As the turn of the decade approached extraordinary measures were taken to enable RAF to defend Britain's skies and this her freedom. As with Volume 1, this book covers every conceivable part of the RAF's history through these pre-War days. It looks at the development and invention of new equipment such as radar, monoplane fighters, metal construction and the heavy bomber. This was an era when science in aviation was rushing ahead and fortunately for Britain's freedom, it laid the foundations of victory in 1.943
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Volume II of this mammoth reference work covers the years in which the League of Nations failed because of the emerging dictatorships in Germany and Italy and the expansionist policies adopted by Japan. Britain was still reeling from the consequences of World War I and the RAF was sadly far behind the other major world powers in aircraft design, still relying on bi-planes that were direct descendants of World War I thinking. It gradually became apparent that, despite UK government dithering, the RAF needed to develop new aircraft, engines and increase production to confront the bully-boy tactics of the Axis powers. As the turn of the decade approached extraordinary measures were taken to enable RAF to defend Britain's skies and this her freedom. As with Volume 1, this book covers every conceivable part of the RAF's history through these pre-War days. It looks at the development and invention of new equipment such as radar, monoplane fighters, metal construction and the heavy bomber. This was an era when science in aviation was rushing ahead and fortunately for Britain's freedom, it laid the foundations of victory in 1.943
The Minor Prophets
Author: Edward Bouverie Pusey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description