Good News on the Frontier
Author : Thomas H. Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Thomas H. Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735272468
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.
Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1250179815
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.
Author : Thomas H. Campbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597523917
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Missions
ISBN :
No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
Author : Matt Neuburg
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Database management
ISBN :
The first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting Userland Frontier, a collection of powerful, pre-written scripts for total web site management, this book teaches readers Frontier from the ground up. The guide is packed with examples, advice, tricks, and tips.
Author : Traci Brimhall
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619322196
Written during the trial for a close friend’s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend’s murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic. In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other––much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel. By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief. Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty. Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy.
Author : Steuart Pennington
Publisher : Conceptualee Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 062042379X
"Africa - the good news is the conclusion of a year of extensive research and includes contributions from over 40 leading writers on Africa - from the continent and beyond. It provides insights into what is happening in Africa today. It is about Africa, and the good in Africa"--Jacket.
Author : C.S. Song
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2002-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579109586
The pioneer of contextual theology concludes his trilogy on the person and message of Jesus with a profound meditation on the significance of Jesus for a post-Christian world.
Author : Ross B. Emmett
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184855656X
Contains refereed articles on constrasting relational conceptions of the individual in economics. This book also covers the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "Prosperity and Depression".