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Lonesome Hero

Author : Fred Stenson
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1926972120
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Hero written by Fred Stenson and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he's hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till. The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the Land of the Forefathers and the Wellspring of Culture. Except that this is an excursion that Tyrone would do anything to get out of. His horizons are plenty broad, thank you very much, and he'd rather spend his days taking walks with his dog, fly-fishing without a hook, and composing such melodious odes to his native land as: O Beaver Creek, In the Foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, I would sooner have you, Than a bunch of crappy marble fountains. First published in 1974 and now released for the first time in paperback, Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, the award-winning smartass novel that launched a spectacular writing career. This new revised edition restores scenes deleted from the original and also features an introduction by the inimitable Mark Anthony Jarman and an afterword by the author, who reflects how glad he is, looking back at his first novel, that Lonesome Hero still manages to embody the ironies of the era, the fact that we often understood perfectly how cartoonish we were. The early '70s was about avoiding work at all costs and trying to live amusingly during all one's waking hours: about how weirdly far we would go to accomplish that.

Lonesome Hero

Author : T. I. Han
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463411766
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Hero written by T. I. Han and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.I. Han relates his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.

High Lonesome

Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846087
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book High Lonesome written by Cecelia Tichi and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at country music argues that it has become a national art form, reflecting the same themes that have characterized American art and literature over three centuries

The Lonely American

Author : Jacqueline Olds, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807000353
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely American written by Jacqueline Olds, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during the last six months. Another remarkable fact emerged from the 2000 U.S. Census: more people are living alone today than at any point in the country's history—fully 25 percent of households consist of one person only. In this crucial look at one of America's few remaining taboo subjects—loneliness—Drs. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz set out to understand the cultural imperatives, psychological dynamics, and physical mechanisms underlying social isolation. In The Lonely American, cutting-edge research on the physiological and cognitive effects of social exclusion and emerging work in the neurobiology of attachment uncover startling, sobering ripple effects of loneliness in areas as varied as physical health, children's emotional problems, substance abuse, and even global warming. Surprising new studies tell a grim truth about social isolation: being disconnected diminishes happiness, health, and longevity; increases aggression; and correlates with increasing rates of violent crime. Loneliness doesn't apply simply to single people, either—today's busy parents "cocoon" themselves by devoting most of their non-work hours to children, leaving little time for friends, and other forms of social contact, and unhealthily relying on the marriage to fulfill all social needs. As a core population of socially isolated individuals and families continues to balloon in size, it is more important than ever to understand the effects of a culture that idealizes busyness and self-reliance. It's time to bring loneliness—a very real and little-discussed social epidemic with frightening consequences-out into the open, and find a way to navigate the tension between freedom and connection in our lives.

American Hippo

Author : Sarah Gailey
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250176433
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book American Hippo written by Sarah Gailey and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.

Where the Tall Grass Grows

Author : Bobby Bridger
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1555918522
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Where the Tall Grass Grows written by Bobby Bridger and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, noted historian and musician Bobby Bridger explores the impact of Native American culture on the American psyche. The book also examines the impact of indigenous American mythology on contemporary identity and the development of modern popular entertainment, particularly the Hollywood film industry.

Into the Great Wide Open

Author : Andreas Rumpfhuber
Publisher : dpr-barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8494752316
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Into the Great Wide Open written by Andreas Rumpfhuber and published by dpr-barcelona. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Great Wide Open is a book about a search for a form of practice in architecture. Practice here is understood both as a critical reflection of a status quo and its history, as well as forms of (active) intervention through designing and planning. The book is a fragmentary snapshot of an on going, constantly developing and altering process to find a place in the production and reflection of our built environment, and implicitly disputes the question: “What is to be done?”

Philosophy as Passion

Author : Karen Vintges
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210708
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy as Passion written by Karen Vintges and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir's independent, original ethics and philosophy, drawing on the moral philosophical treatises of the 1940's and 1950's along with The Second Sex, her novel The Mandarins, and autobiographical works.

In a Lonely Street

Author : Frank Krutnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134973179
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book In a Lonely Street written by Frank Krutnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir and its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers classical Hollywood cinema, debates on genre, and the history of the emergence of character in film noir, focusing on the hard-boiled' crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain as well as the popularisationof Freudian psychoanalysis; and the social and cultural upheavals of the 1940s. The core of this book however concerns the complex representationof masculinity in the noir tough' thriller, and where and how gender interlocks with questions of genre. Analysing in detail major thrillers like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past and The Killers , alongside lesser known but nonetheless crucial films as Stranger on the Third Floor, Pitfall and Dead Reckoning Krutnik has produced a provocative and highly readable study of one of Hollywood most perennially fascinating groups of films.

Yankee Stories Untold

Author : Rich Marazzi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651280
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Yankee Stories Untold written by Rich Marazzi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Marazzi has experienced Yankee history and its culture first-hand as a fan, a writer for Yankees Magazine, a radio talk show host, umpire in the Old Timer's Day game for 16 years, a writer for Mel Allen, the long-time voice of the Yankees, and currently as a baseball rules consultant who was hired by general manager Brian Cashman in 2004. He was also trained by Bob Sheppard as a back-up to the legendary Yankee Stadium public address announcer. In this book Marazzi takes the reader inside Yankee baseball by covering life in the press box, the dugout, the clubhouse, the umpire's room and more. He compiles untold Yankee stories culled from interviews of many of the Yankee greats over the last seven decades including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Don Mattingly, Derek Jeter and more.

Avatars of Story

Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452908786
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Avatars of Story written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms, revealing how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars. Ryan considers texts such as the reality television show Survivor, the film The Truman Show, and software-driven hypertext fiction, and anticipates the time when media will provide new ways to experience stories.

Allegories of Underdevelopment

Author : Ismail Xavier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816626762
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Underdevelopment written by Ismail Xavier and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 'A camera in the hand and ideas in the head' was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of the 1960s and early 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films on minimal budgets. In Allegories of Underdevelopment, Ismail Xavier examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation into modernity. Its best-known voice, filmmaker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo was driven by an "aesthetics of hunger." This scarcity of means demanded new cinematic approaches that eventually gave rise to a legitimate and unique Third World cinema. Xavier stands in the vanguard of scholars presenting and interpreting these revolutionary films - from the masterworks of Rocha to the groundbreaking experiments of Julio Bressane, Rogério Sganzerla, Andrea Tonacci and Arthur Omar - to an English-speaking audience. Focusing on each filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Xavier asks questions relating to the connection between film and history. He examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory and charts the controversial roles that Marginal Cinema and Tropicalism played in this process. Among the films he discusses are Black God, White Devil, Land in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunaíma, Antônio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies." -- Book cover.

Beyond DiMaggio

Author : Lawrence Baldassaro
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803217056
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Beyond DiMaggio written by Lawrence Baldassaro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual baseball fans?in fact, even many nonfans?know these names, not as Italian Americans, but as some of the most colorful figures in Major League Baseball. Ever since future Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri became a key part of the Yankees? Murderers? Row lineup of 1926, Italian Americans have been among the most prominent and intriguing players in the game. The first comprehensive study of the topic, Beyond DiMaggio is also a social history of baseball, tracing the evolution of American perceptions toward those of Italian descent as it chronicles the baseball exploits that influenced those perceptions. ø Lawrence Baldassaro tells the stories of Italian Americans? contributions to the game, from Joe DiMaggio, who transcended his ethnic identity to become an American icon, to A. Bartlett Giamatti, who served as commissioner of baseball, to Mike Piazza, considered the greatest hitting catcher ever. Baldassaro conducted more than fifty interviews with players, coaches, managers, and executives?some with careers dating back to the thirties?in order to put all these figures and their stories into the historical context of baseball, Italian Americans, and, finally, the culture of American sports.

From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude

Author : Michael B Buchholz
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1800131119
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude written by Michael B Buchholz and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly being recognised as a priority public health problem and policy issue worldwide, with the effect on mortality comparable to risk-factors such as smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity. From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude sheds much-needed light on a multifaceted global phenomenon of loneliness, and investigates it, together with its counterpart solitude, from an exciting breadth of perspectives: detailed studies of psychoanalytic approaches to loneliness, developmental psychology, philosophy, culture, arts, music, literature, and neuroscience. The subjects covered also range widely, including the history and origins of loneliness, its effects on children, the creative process, health, lone wolf terrorism, and shame. This is a timely and important contribution to a growing problem - greatly exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic - that has serious effects on both life quality and expectancy. The book features contributions from a diverse host of leading international experts: Dominic Angeloch, Patrizia Arfelli, Charles Ashbach, Manfred E. Beutel, Elmar Brahler, Jagna Brudzinska, Michael B. Buchholz, Lesley Caldwell, Karin Dannecker, Aleksandar Dimitrejevic, Mareike Ernst, Jay Frankel, Gail A. Hornstein, Colum Kenny, Eva M. Klein, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Gamze Ozcurumez Bilgili, Inge Seiffge-Krenke, and Peter Shabad. The contributors address the developmental and communicative causes of loneliness, its neurophysiological correlates and artistic representations, and how loneliness differs to solitude, which some consider necessary for creativity. They also provide insights into how we can help those suffering from loneliness, as classical psychoanalytic papers are revisited, contemporary therapeutic perspectives presented, and detailed case presentations offered. From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude is essential reading for mental health professionals and those searching for a better understanding of what it means to be lonely and how the lonely can better voice their loneliness and step out of it.

Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition

Author : David G. Lockwood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299684
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition written by David G. Lockwood and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections. The first section ‘Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice’ starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena. In the second section ‘Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics’ general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture.

Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare's Rome

Author : Maria Del Sapio Garbero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135192902X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Identity, Otherness and Empire in Shakespeare's Rome written by Maria Del Sapio Garbero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare's plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial culture, or a routine chapter in the history of literary influence, but rather as the problematic link with a distant and foreign ancestry which is both revered and ravaged in its translation into the terms of the Bard's own cultural moment. During a time when England was engaged in constructing a rhetoric of imperial nationhood, the contributors demonstrate that Englishmen used Roman history and the classical heritage to mediate a complex range of issues, from notions of cultural identity and gender to the representation of systems of exchange with Otherness in the expanding ethnic space of the nation. This volume addresses matters of concern not only for Shakespeare scholars but also for students interested in issues connected with gender, postcolonialism and globalization. Drawing implicitly or explicitly on recent criticism (intertextual studies, postcolonial theory, Derrida's conceptualization of hospitality, gender studies, global studies) the essayists explore how the Roman Shakespeare of an emerging early modern empire asks questions of our present as well as of our past.

Lonesome Hero

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Hero written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he's hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till. The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the Land of the Forefathers and the Wellspring of Culture. Except that this is an excursion that Tyrone would do anything to get out of. His horizons are plenty broad, thank you very much, and he'd rather spend his days taking walks with his dog, fly-fishing without a hook, and composing such melodious odes to his native land as: O Beaver Creek, In the Foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, I would sooner have you, Than a bunch of crappy marble fountains. First published in 1974 and now released for the first time in paperback, Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, the award-winning smartass novel that launched a spectacular writing career. This new revised edition restores scenes deleted from the original and also features an introduction by the inimitable Mark Anthony Jarman and an afterword by the author, who reflects how glad he is, looking back at his first novel, that Lonesome Hero still manages to embody the ironies of the era, the fact that we often understood perfectly how cartoonish we were. The early '70s was about avoiding work at all costs and trying to live amusingly during all one's waking hours: about how weirdly far we would go to accomplish that.