The Sport of Ghost Wrestling
Author : Demetrios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1300002476
Controversies
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 0802043976
Book Description
Renegades
Author : Barack Obama
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0593236319
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material. Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-color photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders—one Black and one white—looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself. It includes: • Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen • Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions • Obama’s never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his “Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches” • Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career • Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors’ personal archives • Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favorite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for—and the occasional toll of—telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how our fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity and global leadership.
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction
Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192888463
Book Description
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements. These engagements invariably come packaged in, and are shaped by, the language of spectrality. In its capacity to articulate a particular sort of relationship between the past, the present and the future, the spectral concerns the basic question of how to proceed, how to live with-maybe even address-ethical indeterminacy. Whether their spectral rhetoric traces the logics of capitalist possession (Conrad), queer "friendship" and paganized Christianity (Forster), regressive politics haunted by historical traumas (Butts), or the devious passages of perverse desire (Bowen), these writers locate something like hope in their ghosts. The ethical and political impasses they chart through their spectral rhetoric are not final, but temporary, and the drive to overcome them constitutes a tensile optimism.
Genre-Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4–8
Author : Danielle E. Hartsfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440863172
Book Description
Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms. Genre Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8 provides strategies and lesson plans with additional resources and tools for school librarians and teachers to engage middle grade students in reading children's literature through a critical literacy lens. To be critically literate readers and thinkers, students must learn to question what they read, asking themselves who wrote the text, why the text was written, and how the text positions its readers and others. Teaching students how to read from a critical literacy stance is a timely and relevant practice in a world in which text is available instantly and on nearly any mobile device. In many cases, preparation programs for school librarians and teachers do not teach candidates how to incorporate critical literacy practices in library and classroom settings. This book provides both pre-service and in-service school librarians and teachers with that professional development and guidance for teaching critical literacy in children's literature courses.
The Character Codex III: The Book of Eastern Fantasy Character Classes
Author : Robert Neri
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0997267453
Book Description
A new supplement from Ranger Games for the Dice & Glory game system containing specialist character classes drawn from Asian and middle-eastern history and lore. This book is a great resource for both Players and Game Masters wishing to introduce some eastern flavor into their game!
Ghosts
Author : Roger Clarke
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1466857862
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A comprehensive, authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining the behavior of the subject in its preferred environment: the stories we tell each other. "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within... [An] erudite and richly entertaining book." —New York Times Book Review No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly do those who have been haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there? Taking us through the key hauntings that have obsessed the world, from the true events that inspired Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw right up to the present day, Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict, charlatans, and true believers. The cast list includes royalty and prime ministers, Samuel Johnson, John Wesley, Harry Houdini, and Adolf Hitler. The chapters cover everything from religious beliefs to modern developments in neuroscience, the medicine of ghosts, and the technology of ghosthunting. There are haunted WWI submarines, houses so blighted by phantoms they are demolished, a seventeenth-century Ghost Hunter General, and the emergence of the Victorian flash mob, where hundreds would stand outside rumored sites all night waiting to catch sight of a dead face at a window. Written as grippingly as the best ghost fiction, A Natural History of Ghosts takes us on an unforgettable hunt through the most haunted places of the last five hundred years and our longing to believe.
Popular Ghosts
Author : Maria del Pilar Blanco
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441164014
Book Description
Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
Haunted Jersey Shore
Author : Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493045830
Book Description
Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder ... let your imagination run wild as you read about the Jersey Shore's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of the New Jersey Devil or the pirate ghosts at Cape May Point, but perhaps you haven't heard about: Captain Kidd's treasure, which sits guarded on the beach by the ghost of Timothy Jones, who lays in wait to get revenge on the pirate who back stabbed him; the Ghost Towns of the Pinelands, which sit abandoned and haunted only miles from busy tourist destinations; and the Confederate ghosts of Finn's Point, who can be seen marching on foggy nights, bitter and vengeful.
The Ghosts of Iceland
Author : Robert Thomas Anderson
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Book Description
Takes a look at the way supernatural beliefs and practices thrive in Iceland. The author spent time with spirit mediums, joined in group seances, observed and recorded conversations between the living and the dead, arranged for spirit doctors to treat sick friends, and attended lectures at spiritist schools
