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Author : Fred Scheske
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462018629
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Growing up Waukegan written by Fred Scheske and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational true story about the life experiences of a young boy growing up in Waukegan, Illinois.
Author : Gloria McMillan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612501
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars written by Gloria McMillan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors: colonial pollution of a pristine ecology, the impacts of a colonial invasion upon an indigenous population, the meeting of cultures with different values and physical aspects. Other essays view Bradbury via the lens of post-colonialism, drawing parallels between such works as The Martian Chronicles and real-life colonialism and its effects. Another essay views Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 New Yorker story "I See You Never," written long before the issue of Mexican deportees appeared on the American literary horizon. From the scientific side, four essays by astronomers document how Bradbury formed the minds of many budding scientists with his vision. On August 22, 2012, the Martian landing site of the Curiosity rover in the Gale Crater was named "Bradbury." This honor shows that Bradbury forms a significant link between the worlds of fiction and planetary science.
Author : Miranda Corcoran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560354
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction written by Miranda Corcoran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.
Author : Nancy A. Nichols
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265233
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Lake Effect written by Nancy A. Nichols and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols’ mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister’s death. While researching Sue’s cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning—by government as well as individuals—that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister’s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families.
Author : Lewis Buzbee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312373287
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Steinbeck's Ghost written by Lewis Buzbee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satisfying mystery that involves a boy who loves books, a library threatened with closing, and, quite possibly, the ghost of the writer John Steinbeck.
Author : Kathryn Reed Altman
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613127065
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Altman written by Kathryn Reed Altman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Martin Scorsese, this book of photos, essays and paraphernalia covers the life and filmography of the legendary director. For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films—among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park—that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement. His ability to explore and engage so many different worlds with a single, coherent vision changed the landscape of cinema forever. This signature “Altmanesque” style is, in the words of Martin Scorsese: “as recognizable and familiar as Renoir’s brushstrokes or Debussy’s orchestrations.” Now, the Altman estate opens its archive to celebrate his extraordinary life and career in the first authorized visual biography on the iconoclastic director. Altman, by Altman’s widow Kathryn Reed Altman and film critic Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, brims with photographs and ephemera, many culled from private family albums, and personal recollections of the director. Alongside the intimate illustrated story is a complete visual, historical, and critical narrative of Altman’s films and his process. To honor the Altman trademark of using a wide cast of characters, the book also features contributions from his collaborators and contemporaries including Frank Barhydt, E. L. Doctorow, Roger Ebert, Jules Feiffer, Julian Fellowes, James Franco, Tess Gallagher, Pauline Kael, Garrison Keillor, Michael Murphy, Martin Scorsese, Lily Tomlin, Alan Rudolph, Michael Tolkin, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Author : Michael M. Chemers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000472302
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Luis Valdez written by Michael M. Chemers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Luis Valdez focuses on the life and work of American playwright and director Luis Valdez, probably best known for his landmark 1979 play Zoot Suit – the first play by a Latinx playwright to appear on Broadway – and founder of El Teatro Campesino, the oldest surviving community theatre in the United States. Built around first-hand discussions of Valdez’s work, this collection gives an in-depth understanding of where ‘the godfather of Chicano theatre’ fits in the grand scheme of American drama and performance. Collaborators Edward James Olmos and Alma Martinez talk about working with Valdez and El Teatro Campesino; scholar Leticia Garcia interviews Jorge Huerta, the leading authority on Chicanx and Latinx theatre on the impact of Valdez work; and Luis Valdez himself contributes a lecture on all aspects of his craft from political resistance and the migrant experience to actor training and dramatic form. A concise and accessible study, 4x45 || Luis Valdez is the go-to resource for scholars, students and theatre practitioners looking for an introduction to this seminal figure in modern American performance.
Author : Shannon Van Slyke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257792040
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Last Cavebear Ii written by Shannon Van Slyke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Simpson Hall
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440107602
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Risk Takers written by Leslie Simpson Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author believes that genealogy (the study of one's ancestors) should involve far more than the mere gathering of names, dates and places. Our ancestors were real people who were so much more than a mere collection of birth, marriage and death dates. This book attempts to put 'meat on the bones' of the genealogical facts for four individuals, grandparents of the author. This book captures the family histories of the author's four grandparents, all born in the 1890s. Utilizing social history methods the author adds depth and detail to the simple facts of the two couples' vital statistics. By weaving the story of her grandparents lives with interesting information about how they lived their day-to-day lives and the social changes that impacted them, the author paints a fascinating picture that brings the individuals to life. Maternal grandparents, the Crislers, were Hoosiers, born in rural farming communities of northwestern Indiana in the early 1890s who left their familiar agrarian existence for life in the big city of Chicago just prior to the Great Depression. The Simpsons, her paternal grandparents, also born in the 1890s were city dwellers from Glasgow Scotland who emigrated to America settling in Chicago in the mid 1920s in search of steady employment and a better life.
Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504950
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
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Publisher : Terris Muhammad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book How to Solve Problems in Your Personal and Business Life written by and published by Terris Muhammad. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491809
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Great Radio Sitcoms written by Jim Cox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 12, 1926, radio audiences heard the first exchanges of wit and wisdom between "Sam 'n' Henry"--the verbal jousters who would evolve into Amos 'n' Andy and whose broadcasts launched the radio sitcom. Here is a detailed look at 20 of the most popular such sitcoms that aired between the mid-1920s and early 1950s, the three-decade heyday of radio. Each series is discussed from an artistic standpoint, with attention to the program's character development and style of comedy as well as its influence on other shows. The book provides complete biographical profiles of each sitcom's stars as well as several actors whose careers consisted primarily of supporting roles. Appendices include an abbreviated summary of 13 sitcoms beyond those discussed in the main body of the book, and a comprehensive list of 170 radio sitcoms. Notes, bibliography, index.
Author : Orty Ortwein
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686300
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The First Geeks written by Orty Ortwein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A. had to offer: getting celebrity autographs, watching blockbuster movies, and haunting dozens of bookstores. As members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Science Fiction League, the three belonged to a tight-knit group that was involved in the earliest science fiction conventions and the birth of cosplay. This book follows the lives and careers of these three literary and film legends and tracks the origins of science fiction fandom. Each chapter builds a chronology of how their paths intertwined, and ultimately connected to, the beginnings of renowned fan conventions like Comic-Con. Devoted science fiction fans and new readers alike will learn how a young friendship launched three illustrious careers and changed the face of science fiction forever.
Author : Lynnette Johnson-Terrien
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982249617
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Read Between the Signs (Divine Signs) written by Lynnette Johnson-Terrien and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple guide to recognizing signs from your loved ones as well as stories of personal experiences.
Author : Melissa E. Wooten
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564916
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process written by Melissa E. Wooten and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shifts the analytic attention of research on race as a people-based theoretical or empirical category to organizations. Chapters investigate how race shapes organizations and an organization's ability to get the cultural, political, and material resources it needs to survive, i.e, the organizing process.
Author : Jemar Tisby
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310751241
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book How to Fight Racism Young Reader's Edition written by Jemar Tisby and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids deal with racism and social justice issues every day; give them the tools to effectively fight injustices using Christian principles and practical tools. In this adaptation of?How To Fight Racism, Dr. Jemar Tisby helps young readers ages 8-12 understand how everyday prejudice affects them, what they can do to create social change, how to maintain an anti-racist mindset, and make a positive difference in the world. Racism is pervasive in today's world, and in the wake of protests and a call for change, many kids are eager to confront it but aren’t always sure how. Jemar Tisby, author of?How to Fight Racism?and?The Color of Compromise, believes we need to move beyond mere discussions?about?racism and begin equipping young people with the practical tools to fight against it. In?How to Fight Racism Young Reader’s Edition,?Dr. Tisby uses history to explore how racism has affected America since before its founding and how it’s continued to grow, as well as examines how true social justice is rooted in the Christian faith. In a format that provides kids with a handbook for pursuing racial justice, readers ages 8-12 will discover: hands-on suggestions and real-world examples of?change they can put into action practical ideas for confronting racism and social injustice in their?everyday lives, and how they can use Christian values to change the narrative around race the ARC of racial justice—Awareness, Connection, and?Relationships—that help form an anti-racist mindset ways to evaluate their actions and promote biblical principles Throughout, kids will learn how to ask questions of themselves and their communities as they stand up to racism in all its forms. This book is for anyone who believes it is time to courageously confront the racism we see in our society today. How to Fight Racism Young Reader’s Edition: Is ideal for any young person wanting to make a?difference in today’s world Can be used by families and church groups to start?meaningful conversations with kids Provides practical tools and advice for how to deal with social justice and racism Is written at a level kids in grades 4 through 6 and?beyond can understand Can be used in a small group setting to develop discussions of diversity, racism, social justice, and more
Author : John Sheldon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 145025523X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Willette Kotan written by John Sheldon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willette Kotan: A Backward Glance presents glimpses into some of the world's most beautiful settings while reminding the reader that every destination has its unique personality. From Richard Wright's abbreviated summation on racism in the United States to a reexamination of the fundamentalist view of Buddhism, Willette Kotan's travel notes on living life to the fullest will inspire and educate. This biographical volume includes travel notes about some of the most beautiful locations a tourist can explore. Within Kotan's journal are historical tidbits and abbreviated philosophical notes relating her thoughts on her sights and experiences. In the course of her adventures, there are many passages that incorporate humor along with the facts a memorable combination. More than just a biography and travel log, this book portrays Willette Kotan's everyday and yet extraordinary life. Presented by her brother, John Sheldon, it relates her observations, insights, and worldviews, both to tell her story and in hopes that they may offer a broadened perspective on the world and its inhabitants. The reader will find the index by classification helpful: a list of celebrity quotes, aspects of unfair government farming policies, a viewpoint of racism as expressed by Richard Wright in 1945, the reading process as well as other topics of interest outside of travel.
