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Author : Winsome Pinnock
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848427402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Leave Taking written by Winsome Pinnock and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new play about the conflict between a West-Indian woman and her English-born daughters.
Author : Aaron Hiltner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668718X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Taking Leave, Taking Liberties written by Aaron Hiltner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.
Author : Nagle Jackson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822217640
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Taking Leave written by Nagle Jackson and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the middle of the night, Eliot Pryne, professor of English Literature--specialty Shakespeare--is packing what he thinks is a suitcase and leaving what he thinks is a hotel. In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, he is taking leave
Author : Neil Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637120033
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Taking Leave of Darwin written by Neil Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University professor Neil Thomas was a committed Darwinist and agnostic-until an investigation of evolutionary theory led him to a startling conclusion: "I had been conned!" As he studied the work of Darwin's defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: "Beware! You have been fooled!" The result is Taking Leave of Darwin, a wide-ranging history of the evolution debate. Thomas uncovers many formidable Darwin opponents that most people know nothing about, ably distills crucial objections raised early and late against Darwinism, and shows that those objections have been explained away but never effectively answered. Thomas's deeply personal conclusion? Intelligent design is not only possible but, indeed, is presently the most reasonable explanation for the origin of life's great diversity of forms.
Author : Don Cupitt
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334053552
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Taking Leave of God written by Don Cupitt and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejecting Christian doctrines and metaphysics in favour of the religious consciousness which characterizes human identity, Cupitt "takes leave" of God by abandoning objective theism.
Author : John McGahern
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571250203
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Leavetaking written by John McGahern and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man and the woman, the novel recreates their breaking of the shackles of guilt and duty into the acceptance of a fulfilling adult love. 'A beautiful, irresistible work of imagination. Sunday Telegraph 'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.' David Mitchell 'I have admired, even loved, John McGahern's work since his first novel .' Melvyn Bragg
Author : Lorraine Marwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780702260117
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Leave Taking written by Lorraine Marwood and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leave taking nounthe act of saying goodbye. What if you had just one week left to say goodbye to everything you've ever known? Toby and his mum and dad are leaving their family farm after the death of Toby's younger sister, Leah. Together, they sort through all their belongings and put things aside to sell or throw out. It's a big task, and Toby doesn't want to leave the only place he's called home. As his last day on the farm approaches, Toby has a plan - a plan to say goodbye to all the things and places that mean something special to him and Leah, from the machinery shed to Pa's old truck to the chook house. With the help of his best friend, Trigger the dog, he learns what it means to take your leave.
Author : Megan Sholar
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439912955
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Getting Paid While Taking Time written by Megan Sholar and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to expand family leave benefits nationally. However, in the United States, it is common for innovations in family policies to arise at the state level. In her timely book, Getting Paid While Taking Time, Megan Sholar explains the development of family leave policies at both the national and state levels in the United States. She provides cogent studies of states that have passed and proposed family leave legislation, and she pays special attention to the ways in which women’s movement actors and other activists (e.g., labor unions) exert pressure on public officials to help influence the policymaking process. In her conclusion, Sholar considers the future of paid family leave policies in the United States and the chances for it ever equaling the benefits in other countries.
Author : Anna Gilbert
Publisher : Dales Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842628492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The Leavetaking written by Anna Gilbert and published by Dales Large Print Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comes a dark stranger... Isobel Penrose shared an idyllic life at charming, picturesque Emberside Grange with her widowed father and Lydia, her vivacious older cousin. Then one day a tall, dark stranger invaded their lives. He called himself Simeon Graw, and there was something disturbing about the gifted portrait artist in the flowing ebony cape. He seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, accompanied by a silent woman clad in black. Suddenly Emberside became a place of terrifying night shadows. Lydia had vanished, and Isobel, setting out in search of her, was propelled down a twisted road menaced by cloaked desires and sudden death...
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743247221
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
Author : Mark G. Boyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498298001
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Taking Leave of Your Home written by Mark G. Boyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are pilgrims on a journey; that means we will leave our home and move to another one at least once during our lifetime. This book is a resource for taking leave of a home, focusing primarily on the psychological and spiritual tasks of moving. Chapter 1 offers suggestions on how to take leave of one's home slowly. Chapter 2 presents occasions when one must quickly take leave of a home because of poor health, a health emergency, age, the death of a spouse, finances, a job transfer, etc. Because nature can precipitate a move, chapter 3 offers suggestions for taking leave of a home when one has been faced with such a disaster as a tornado, a flood, an earthquake, a fire, etc. Chapter 4 presents a short prayer service to be held on moving day. For every one of the entries a few verses of a Scripture text that is appropriate for the topic under consideration are given. A reflection follows. The reflection is followed by an activity, which involves the members of a family in some way. A prayer concludes the exercise.
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Publisher : CCH Australia Limited
ISBN 13 : 1921873647
Total Pages : 1489 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book na written by and published by CCH Australia Limited. This book was released on with total page 1489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mindy Fried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566396462
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Taking Time written by Mindy Fried and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing movement among corporations to provide family benefits in order to attract and retain women workers. They recognize that these benefits have become a cost of doing business. Many of these benefits, like child care and elder care, areaimed at supporting employees' ability to stay on the job. Parental leave policies are an exception, because they involve taking time away from the job. This timely book provides an inside look at life in a major U.S. corporation, focusing on the impact of workplace culture on the use of parental leave and those who use it. Fried begins by describing why parental leave is critical to making parenting the job of both parents in two-parent families. She examines the varied experiences of different levels of workers in how parental leave policy is used. The author tells a rich and textured tale of day-to-day life in the skyscraper offices of a large corporation. How people dress, what their offices look like, which cafeteria they eat in, how the supervisors and supervised talk-all these things are part of the fabric of corporate culture that Fried describes. Most of us live in work cultures that value overtime. Fried argues that, as a "time policy" parental leave clashes with the powerful norm that corporate employees must work long and hard. Taking time for parenting-a job that is devalued in our culture-may be perceived as "taking time away" from the company, and, in particular, from the company's productivity.
Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375420525
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book House of Leaves written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
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Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Leavetaking [and] Vanishing Point written by Peter Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307560813
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Trumpet written by Jackie Kay and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book Review In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love.
Author : Mary Cowden- Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare: Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet written by Mary Cowden- Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
