The Power of Names

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442259795
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis The Power of Names by : Mavis Himes

Download or read book The Power of Names written by Mavis Himes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our proper name is as much a part of us as our own skin. It travels with us like a passport, testifying to our unique presence on this earth. The articulation of our name rolls off our tongue with ease and familiarity, yet we rarely turn and examine the part our name plays in what makes us who we are. Our first name reflects the hopes and dreams of our parents and family, our culture, and our own sense of self, while our surname carries our ancestral history, a branding of both affiliation and transmission. In The Power of Names, Mavis Himes explores both the profound ambivalence that many of us feel toward our names and the conscious and unconscious impact our names have on our lives, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill. She explores such questions as: What do our names mean? How do they influence our destiny? What does it mean to lose or change our name - and what does this reveal or conceal about who we are? Himes engages readers through a skillful interweaving of reflections on her own Jewish surname, shortened by immigrant ancestors to accommodate a new life in a new world; the historical and cultural impact of a group on naming practices; the various ways different cultures celebrate the naming of infants; the power of names in myth and legend; and the impact of names on friends and patients from her practice. Readers are invited to consider their own names, the names they give others, and the names of those around them as a starting point for understanding the stories of our lives.

I'll Take You There

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451647875
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis I'll Take You There by : Greg Kot

Download or read book I'll Take You There written by Greg Kot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis! This is the untold story of living legend Mavis Staples—lead singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the civil rights era. One of the most enduring artists of popular music, Mavis and her talented family fused gospel, soul, folk, and rock to transcend racism and oppression through song. Honing her prodigious talent on the Southern gospel circuit of the 1950s, Mavis and the Staple Singers went on to sell more than 30 million records, with message-oriented soul music that became a soundtrack to the civil rights movement—inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr. himself. Critically acclaimed biographer and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot cuts to the heart of Mavis Staples’s music, revealing the intimate stories of her sixty-year career. From her love affair with Bob Dylan, to her creative collaborations with Prince, to her recent revival alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, this definitive account shows Mavis as you’ve never seen her before. I’ll Take You There was written with the complete cooperation of Mavis and her family. Readers will also hear from Prince, Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne, and many others whose lives have been influenced by Mavis’s talent. Filled with never-before-told stories, this fascinating biography illuminates a legendary singer and group during a historic period of change in America. “Ultimately, Kot depicts the endurance of Mavis Staples and her family’s music as an inspiration, a saga that takes us, like the song that inspired this book’s name, to a place where ain’t nobody crying” (The Washington Post).

Mavis

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ISBN 13 : 9781405207010
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Mavis by : W. Awdry

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Paris Stories

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174224
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Paris Stories by : Mavis Gallant

Download or read book Paris Stories written by Mavis Gallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.

MAVIS BATEY

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838591494
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis MAVIS BATEY by : Jean Stone

Download or read book MAVIS BATEY written by Jean Stone and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late 1930s. When World War II was declared, Mavis Batey, previously studying German Romanticism, abandoned her studies to do her duty for her country. At Bletchley Park, Britain’s best kept secret, she became one of the first women codebreakers, a pioneer and a star, breaking codes vital to bringing peace. Mavis Batey, a unique biography, delves into the life of one of Britain’s best female codebreakers, taking the reader through the war and to the arrival of peace, when Mavis turned her attention from breaking codes to the conservation and preservation of gardens. Mavis became an important figure in conservation, becoming President of the Garden History Society, which, under her watch, became an academic society and campaigning force for the protection of landscapes, parks, and gardens of historic interest. She also lobbied Parliament, fighting threats of encroachment and misuse of land. Acts of Parliament were passed, English Heritage was established, and grants were introduced. Historic gardens became officially recognised as essential components of European culture and her National Register of Historic Gardens came to fruition. Mavis’s passion was writing and she wrote many books. Mavis was finally awarded the RHS Veitch Memorial Medal and the MBE for Services to the preservation and conservation of historic landscapes. Mavis never did retire: her final project was to inspire an American Garden Trail for Bletchley Park which she signed off just a few months before her death in November 2013.

Mavis Gallant

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487505302
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Mavis Gallant by : Marta Dvorák

Download or read book Mavis Gallant written by Marta Dvorák and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a confidante’s insights, Marta Dvořák sets up an innovative connection between Mavis Gallant’s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts. She simultaneously engages with the feats of art making and the adventures of reading, looking, and listening. Drawing on private correspondence and conversations with the Gallant she repositions as a late modernist, Dvořák investigates the relationships between the Paris-based master of the short story and visual and sound culture. Through the filter of philosophical aesthetics, she identifies the painterly, cinematic, and musical dynamics which light up Gallant’s craft. At the same time, she opens a dialogue between Gallant and other international modernists and with those they were reading, watching, and listening to, from the moving pictures which shaped Gallant’s generation to the rhythm and dissonance of, say, Stravinsky and jazz, which − like the Cubist rupture with spatial perspective − spearheaded modernity’s aesthetics of breakage. How does Gallant’s work work? Dvořák’s hands-on rhetorical analyses of Gallant’s stories and lesser-known, recently reissued novels illuminate the superb stylist’s language and vision via an emphasis on both image and rhythm. Providing keys to Gallant’s famous sleights-of-hand and tonal shifts, the discussions reveal a fictional world as multidimensional as a Cubist picture or a symphony − depending on whether we lean towards the eye or the ear.

Mavis Forges Ahead

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Publisher : Metamorphosis Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Mavis Forges Ahead by : Linda Jordan

Download or read book Mavis Forges Ahead written by Linda Jordan and published by Metamorphosis Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis struggles with her new hip as she navigates the world. Then she makes a monumental discovery. One that alters her life forever. Fantasy readers looking for delightful new visions of old tropes need to read this one!

Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800464088
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer written by B.P. Smythe and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Pollack is a serial killer, whose evil roots were planted during a traumatic childhood, with an agenda to rob and kill women for financial gain. It is down to Mavis Bone, a forty-year-old Australian, lesbian Private investigator, and her German lesbian secretary, Gertrude Stick, to try and foil his murderous plans. Together they make up the Mavis Bone Detective Agency based in Wimbledon Broadway, London SW19. It is a hands-on job to chase down this ingenious killer, and Mavis is not afraid to get them dirty. Dirty with the blood of her prostitute philandering husband, and the blood of a problem client that could send her secretary to prison for a war crime. Both detective’s and killer’s paths, have already crossed during their troubled youths, but as the murders pile up, they move towards a final conflict. Mavis’s hard Australian outback childhood, led to her sexual and gender choices, as well as some questionable racist opinions. Not to mention the drug habit she picked up as a student, while backpacking in South America. This, making her, not your average South London Private Eye.

Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472860640
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units written by Edward M. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the 'Mavis' and 'Emily' by the Allies, Japan's H6K and H8K flying boats outstripped their RAF and US Navy counterparts. The 1941 outbreak of war in the Pacific and Southeast Asia saw these remarkable aircraft carry out offensive missions across vast tracts of ocean and employ their unique capabilities to escort convoys and serve as transports between Japan's island bases. However, while the technical details of the H6K and H8K are well known in the West, this important new study marks the first English-language account of their wartime operations. Utilizing newly translated Japanese war diaries, as well as Allied intelligence and combat reports, celebrated Pacific War expert Edward M. Young reveals the full story behind the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's flying boat units. Contemporary photos and 22 colour profiles bring new dimensions to this fascinating area of Japanese military history, vividly illustrating the pivotal roles of 'Emily' and 'Mavis' in events including the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway and the fighting in the Aleutians and the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.

Aboard the Mavis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Aboard the Mavis by : Richard Markham

Download or read book Aboard the Mavis written by Richard Markham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472852524
Total Pages : 81 pages
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Book Synopsis H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer by : Edward M. Young

Download or read book H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer written by Edward M. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics deployed by both US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and analyzing the technical improvements installed throughout the war. The PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer was the US Navy's first four-engined, land-based bomber, adapted and allocated to fight the U-boat menace in the Atlantic and protect the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The long range, speed, armament and bomb load of the PB4Y-1 enabled the US Navy's Pacific squadrons to adopt more aggressive tactics. The PB4Y-1, and its follow-on PB4Y-2, engaged in dangerous bombing missions against Japanese installations, shipping strikes, and air combat. On the other side, with its doctrine of making the first strike against an enemy fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy recognized the vital importance of maritime reconnaissance, relying on carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, ship-borne floatplanes and, for long-range maritime patrol, flying boats. The Japanese would continue to develop their aircraft throughout the war, resulting, among others, in the H6K 'Mavis' and the H8K2 'Emily', which despite never achieving a victory, was regarded by the Allied pilots as the most difficult Japanese aircraft to destroy. Enriched with specially commissioned artwork, including armament and cockpit views, battlescenes and technical diagrams, this title analyses technical specifications in detail. By including first-hand accounts, aviation expert Edward Young provides a detailed account of these one-sided yet dramatic and aggressive combats.

Mavis of Green Hill

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Mavis of Green Hill by : Faith Baldwin

Download or read book Mavis of Green Hill written by Faith Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mavis Gallant on Her Work

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Publisher : Editions Publibook
ISBN 13 : 274838444X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (483 download)

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The Stillwinches of Combe Mavis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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The Stilwinches of Combe Mavis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Stilwinches of Combe Mavis written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mavis & Her Marvelous Mooncakes

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ISBN 13 : 9780972196727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (967 download)

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Mavis

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Total Pages : 176 pages
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Book Synopsis Mavis by : Mary Bramston

Download or read book Mavis written by Mary Bramston and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: