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21) The Face of War
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Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special...
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The true story behind the stories When news is often confined to sound bites and brief backgrounders, some of the best stories behind the news go largely untold. Here, without those constraints, Mike is able to give full, truthful and honest portrayals of these event. Admired for his credibility and willingness to go to the hot spots, in a reporting career spanning 25 years, Mike is best known for his work in some of the world's most dangerous places,...
23) A flor de pie
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Las caminatas urbanas, escribe Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, son como la paternidad: el único pecado cuya condena es mejor que la absolución. Un patasuelta empedernido, un pecador, recorre Berlín, Barcelona y Ciudad de México. Todas se le llenan de recuerdos propios y ajenos. Las ciudades le dicen qué era el mundo, quién era él. Berlín era y es una banca frente al lago Lietzensee, un árbol que habla con el viento, pero también un político asesinado...
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Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His daily journal entries became the source material for...
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Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together-writings by little-known black missionaries, so called "black whitemen," and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers-Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed...
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Le poème n'était pas pour Jacques Brault une question rhétorique ou seulement esthétique : il était indissociable de la vie, saisie dans tous ses aspects, les plus humbles, les plus quotidiens, comme les plus mystérieux. Ni vers ni prose, la poésie passait outre ces limites et circulait aussi librement dans ses essais o surgissaient ses « épiphanies pourvoyeuses de petite éternité ». Dans ses derniers ouvrages Chemins perdus, chemins trouvés,...
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¿Qué tienen en común el neurólogo Oliver Sacks, los problemas de la traducción, el escritor centroeuropeo Joseph Roth, la lectura en los transportes públicos, el poeta chileno Raúl Zurita, la ciencia ficción hispánica, la estación de Retiro y Diego Armando Maradona? Que han sido analizados por Marcelo Cohen. Además de ser uno de los grandes autores de ficción y traductores iberoamericanos, Cohen es un extraordinario narrador y pensador...
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The motivation behind this compilation is really funny, as you go through my poems you will realise the conditions I was going through. The motivation behind all this is �falling in love�. I fell in love and my heart was broken. Somehow, I regained my strength, my ability and far most my talent to write once again and this is my ART. I started writing when I was doing Grade 5 and only took writing as Art. When I was in Grade 9 I started to attend...
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Get the Summary of Richard F. Thomas's Why Bob Dylan Matters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Why Bob Dylan Matters" by Richard F. Thomas is an exploration of Bob Dylan's music and its enduring legacy, drawing parallels between Dylan's work and ancient Greek and Roman poetry. Thomas, a classics professor, identifies similarities in artistic values, themes, and the impact of political and cultural climates on...
32) Tone
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Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it."
In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience...
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There are times in our lives when we deal with circumstances that seem overwhelming; when all we need is a hug, a smile, or just a kind word. The Reason God Made Rainbows and Ribbons is about implementing the strength of poetry as a connection to faith and healing when we deal with life's challenging moments. It is a personal glimpse into the meaning behind each ribbon.
Awareness ribbons are representations meant to show support or to raise our...
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Traces the controversial poet's thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.
Once described by T. S. Eliot as "first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner," Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to teach readers in the twenty-first century, particularly amid increasing threats to the humanities and higher education. Robert Scholes and David Ben-Merre...
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Obra imprescindible de la literatura hispanoamericana, narra las aventuras de un gaucho trabajador, que vive en el campo con su mujer e hijos, y es reclutado forzosamente para servir en las milicias que defienden la frontera argentina contra los indígenas, dejando desamparada a su familia. Durante años sufre penurias - hambre, frío, castigos-, hasta que decide desertar después de tres años. Al volver, su rancho se encuentra abandonado, y se entera...
36) My Testimonies
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My Testimony was written to encourage those who are going through difficult circumstances with many trials and tribulations to believe in miracles, signs and wonders! It seeks to motivate people to pray for their breakthrough, which is to Pray Until Something Happens.
This exciting book holds readers captivated as the writer outlines miracle after miracle that she has experienced. It is a very uplifting and exciting book! It motivates readers...
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A comprehensive selection of his quips, aphorisms, and wit. One of the most well known personalities of his day, Oscar Wilde charmed and beguiled readers and audiences with his eloquent and biting observations, his smart quips, and the witticisms peppering his own speech and the speech of his characters. The Wisdom of Oscar Wilde collects both his best-loved quotes and longer excerpts, revealing a man wise to human nature and his times, and never...
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A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world.
Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French...
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Love was a central theme of Ernest Hemingway's major works. And although his passages on sexual love and on romantic love may be widely remembered and frequently quoted, says Robert W. Lewis in this scholarly and detailed consideration, Hemingway's later work revealed his ultimate belief that brotherly love was the supreme love of mankind. Eros, Hemingway concluded, was a neutral value, neither good nor bad in itself, but yet capable of complementing...
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