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From Ivory Towers to Gun Towers

Author : M. D. Barry Lew
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595523498
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book From Ivory Towers to Gun Towers written by M. D. Barry Lew and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I didn`t realize it early on, but Bertha was emotionally insuring my survival in order that I become an M.D.and reciprocate.I carefully avoided any meaningful relationship for many years and focused on fulfilling the covenant with my mother. I had kept my mother alive through four grave illnesses until her passing in 1977. I left the emptiness her loss created and began a new life in California.There I achieved a respect and reverance she could never have imagined.I believe I alnost achieved legendary status among the indigent and chronically ill. In one untoward series of events, I lost the degree and profession that Bertha had lived an eternity to witness. I was betrayed by a physician assistant who wrongfully accused me of masterminding his criminal activities.I was given the option of acting as an under cover agent for the Department of Justice.My attorneys had left me a position which I judged to be life threatening.I chose to survive and was led away to the harsh reality of the California Institue for Men. I suvived my prison experience because of a sacred bond with Rooster, an originally hard core, level four inmate who shared a cell at one time with John Clutchette, one of the Soledad "brothers". We defied the segregation in Chino at great personal risk. I invite you to read the amazing details of this never before articulated recount of a friendship in prison that defied all conventional wisdom.

From Ivory Towers to Gun Towers

Author : Barry Lew
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595624034
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book From Ivory Towers to Gun Towers written by Barry Lew and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I didn`t realize it early on, but my mother was emotionally insuring my survival in order that I become an M.D.and reciprocate. I carefully avoided any meaningful relationships for many years and focused on fulfilling the covenant with her. I attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed my training at the true "ivory towers" in medicine I had kept my mother alive through four grave illnesses until her passing in 1977. I left the emptiness her loss created and began a new life in California. There, I believe I alnost achieved legendary status treating the medical and social needs of a population shunned and forgotten by society At the height of my success, I acquired a hotel on its own island in Belize and mingled with the participants of the "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous". And then, suddenly,in one untoward series of events, I lost the degree and profession that I had spent a lifetime achieving. I was betrayed by a physician assistant who wrongfully accused me of masterminding his criminal activities. I was given the option of acting as an under cover agent for the Department of Justice. My attorneys had left me a position which I judged to be life threatening. I chose to survive and was led away to the harsh reality of the California Institue for Men. I suvived my prison experience because of a sacred bond with Gregory Jolley or "Rooster", originally a hard core,level four inmate who shared a cell at one time with John Clutchette, one of the Soledad "brothers". We defied the segregation in Chino at great personal risk. But first, I had to discover the inner resourses that would allow me to transform myself into a respected "convict". I invite you to read the amazing details of this never before articulated recount of a friendship in prison that defied all conventional wisdom.

Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts

Author : Maurice Beebe
Publisher : New York : New York University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts written by Maurice Beebe and published by New York : New York University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parallel Time

Author : Brent Staples
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524747483
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Time written by Brent Staples and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites. The oldest song among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a scholarship to a local college and then one for graduate study at the University of Chicago pulled him out of the close family circle. While he was away, the industries that supported the town failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void. News of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored the precariousness of his perch in a world of mostly white achievers. A younger brother became a cocaine dealer and was murdered by one of his "clients." His death propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood and coming-of-age that offers vivid portraits of family and place, of values that supported and pressures that tore apart, of the appeal and pain of entering a predominantly white world, and of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the black world he grew away from.

Out With It

Author : Katherine Preston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145167659X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Out With It written by Katherine Preston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character. It offers a fresh perspective on the obsession with physical perfection.

Being Well in Academia

Author : Petra Boynton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429590806
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Being Well in Academia written by Petra Boynton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. Are you studying or working in academia and in need of support? Perhaps you’re finding your work, study or personal life challenging or overwhelming; are experiencing bullying, harassment or abuse; or find your progress is being blocked by unfair, exploitative or precarious systems? Or perhaps you want to support a friend or colleague who’s struggling? Whether your problems are big or small, Being Well in Academia provides a wealth of practical and workable solutions to help you feel stronger, safer and more connected in what has become an increasingly competitive and stressful environment. This volume uses a realistic, pragmatic and – above all – understanding approach to offer support to a diverse audience. Covering a range of issues, it includes advice on: Ways to increase your support network, so you’re not alone. Reflections and actions that encourage you to evaluate your position. Guidance if you are in a stressful, precarious, dangerous or exploitative situation. Checklists and agreements to help you identify your specific needs and accommodations. Signposting to books, websites, networks and organisations that provide additional support. Ways to build your confidence and connections, particularly for Black, Indigenous or People of Colour; LGBTQ+; disabled or chronically sick; or other marginalised groups. Reflections on your rights and the responsibilities academia should be meeting. Tips for being an active bystander and helping others in need of assistance. Ideas for resisting, challenging and coping with unfair or exploitative environments. Suggestions for bringing you happiness, inspiration, motivation, courage and hope. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to address the need to stay well in academia, and will be particularly useful to those in diverse or disadvantaged positions who currently lack institutional support or feel at risk from academia.

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

Author : Sherry Marie Gallagher
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445230976
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture written by Sherry Marie Gallagher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boulder Blues brings you back to the era of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Its madness is exposed in a naive twist of two musicians from Irish immigrant backgrounds who struggle through the nightmare of a political war and countrywide civil unrest as they try to make sense of a world beyond the American Dream of their parents and grandparents. Sweet, poignant, laughable and pithy, it catches a time once labeled as a 'Modern Renaissance'.

The Life and Times of Sleepy Hollow

Author : P.C. North
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146788670X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Sleepy Hollow written by P.C. North and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are just some of the tales about the hapless sleepy chaps down at the elite 'Chair Support Unit,' and their trusty old steed, call sign 'India two and a half' Please click here to order the eBook version of The Life and Times of Sleepy Hollow.

Why Education Is Useless

Author : Daniel Cottom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220168X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Why Education Is Useless written by Daniel Cottom and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past twenty years. Critics of education point to the Nazism of Martin Heidegger, for example, to assert the inhumanity of highly learned people; they contend that an oppressive form of identity politics has taken over the academy and complain that the art world has been overrun by culturally privileged elitists. There are always, it seems, far more reasons to disparage the ivory tower than to honor it. The uselessness of education, particularly in the humanities, is a pervasive theme in Western cultural history. With wit and precision, Why Education Is Useless engages those who attack learning by focusing on topics such as the nature of humanity, love, beauty, and identity as well as academic scandals, identity politics, multiculturalism, and the corporatization of academe. Asserting that hostility toward education cannot be dismissed as the reaction of barbarians, fools, and nihilists, Daniel Cottom brings a fresh perspective to all these topics while still making the debates about them comprehensible to those who are not academic insiders. A brilliant and provocative work of cultural argument and analysis, Why Education Is Useless brings in materials from literature, philosophy, art, film, and other fields and proceeds from the assumption that hostility to education is an extremely complex phenomenon, both historically and in contemporary American life. According to Cottom, we must understand the perdurable appeal of this antagonism if we are to have any chance of recognizing its manifestations—and countering them. Ranging in reference from Montaigne to George Bush, from Sappho to Timothy McVeigh, Why Education Is Useless is a lively investigation of a notion that has persisted from antiquity through the Renaissance and into the modern era, when the debate over the relative advantages of a liberal and a useful education first arose. Facing head on the conception of utility articulated in the nineteenth century by John Stuart Mill, and directly opposing the hostile conceptions of inutility that have been popularized in recent decades by such ideologues as Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, and John Ellis, Cottom contends that education must indeed be "useless" if it is to be worthy of its name.

The Twentieth Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Targeted

Author : Stephen Hunter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982169818
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Targeted written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger protects a group of political hostages during a perilous standoff in this razor-sharp, white-knuckled thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times bestselling author, and “one of the best thriller novelists around” (The Washington Post) Stephen Hunter. After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders are taken hostage by a group of violent criminals. Soon, the very people who had accused him are depending on him to save their lives. Trapped in the auditorium and still struggling with injuries from his last assignment, Swagger must rely on his instincts, his shooting skills, and the help of a mysterious rogue operator on the outside in order to ensure that everyone makes it out alive. A heart-pounding and crackling action-packed novel, Targeted proves that Stephen Hunter is “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft. No one does it better” (Jack Carr, Former Navy SEAL Sniper and author of The Terminal List).

On Form

Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199290601
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book On Form written by Angela Leighton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Form assesses both the legacy of Victorian aestheticism and the nature of the literary. It tracks the development of the word 'form' since the Romantics and offers readings of, among others, Tennyson, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath. Original readings of poetry are combined with a powerful argument about the nature of aesthetic pleasure.

Under Fire

Author : Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290428
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Under Fire written by Osha Gray Davidson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, "Under Fire "was widely hailed as the first objective examination of the NRA and its efforts to defeat gun control legislation. Now in this expanded edition, Osha Gray Davidson shows how the NRA's extremism has cost the organization both political power and popular support. He offers a well-reasoned and workable approach to gun control, one that will find many supporters even among the NRA membership.

Aviation Week

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1976 pages
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Cage of Souls

Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788547233
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Cage of Souls written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

Into Dust and Fire

Author : Rachel S. Cox
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101579978
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Into Dust and Fire written by Rachel S. Cox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving, beautifully-written tale… Rachel Cox has produced a masterpiece of storytelling, infused with romance, danger, adventure, humor, and heartbreaking loss. It is, hands down, the best description of the transformation of untested young men into soldiers that I have ever read.” — Lynne Olson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Last Hope Island The untold story of five young American friends who left the ivory towers at Harvard and Dartmouth to take on Rommel's Panzers under the blazing sun of North Africa. In the spring of 1941, with Europe consumed by war and occupation, Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace. The United States remained wary of joining the costly and destructive conflict. But for five extraordinary young Americans, the global threat of fascism was too great to ignore. Six months before Pearl Harbor, these courageous idealists left their promising futures behind to join the beleaguered British Army. Fighting as foreigners, they were shipped off to join the Desert Rats, the 7th Armoured Division of the British Eighth Army, who were battling Field Marshal Rommel’s panzer division. The Yanks would lead antitank and machine-gun platoons into combat at the Second Battle of El Alamein, the twelve-day epic of tank warfare that would ultimately turn the tide for the Allies. A fitting tribute to five men whose commitment to freedom transcended national boundaries, Into Dust and Fire is a gripping true tale of idealism, courage, camaraderie, sacrifice, and heroism. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Mad Politics

Author : Gina Loudon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621578402
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Mad Politics written by Gina Loudon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, America has been insane for decades. We've elected establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle; we've hoped for change; and we've been disappointed. But with the election of Donald Trump, America tried something new. So we have to ask ourselves: what if Trump isn't the crazy man that the media pretends he is? What if he's actually the cure for a country who's been going mad for years? In Mad Politics, Fox News commentator, radio host, and psychological analyst Dr. Gina Loudon diagnoses the problem with America's status quo politics. Loudon has unique insight into both the Trump campaign and the larger political landscape as a member of the president's 2020 media advisory board, a former surrogate for his campaign, the wife of a former Senator from Missouri, the co-host of a national Television show, a seasoned psychological analyst on FOX News, CNN and others, and a twice pedigreed Master and Ph.D. With authority and wit, Mad Politics exposes cultural patterns that have led to today's political narcissism. She scans the psychological literature and illuminates a formula to answer the question: How can we restore a sound mind to the body politic? The answer, Loudon concludes, may be in joining Trump in a complete rejection of political correctness.