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Unfinished Journey
The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge - the largest land battle ever fought by American troops in the history of the United States Army. These letters, meticulously preserved in old shoe boxes and stowed away in the attic of his parents' home for decades, are the backbone of Morris Redmann's journey in the military. They survived when the soldier did not. Through these letters, follow the ups and downs of this young soldier's life. From the rigors of basic training, to his being buried alive by a tank in his foxhole, to the experience of an enjoyable evening - dining on steak and cognac - shared with a large French family near the German border, before having to return to the snow-covered fields of Europe's harshest winter in fifty years. The reader becomes acutely familiar with Morris's life and philosophies, as expressed by the unusually mature young man with great strength of character.
He is buried in the Luxembourg American Military Cemetery at Hamm, Plot H,Row 1, Grave 20.
Author:
Kerry Redmann
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 9781592287611
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Foreigners
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair...David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice, and whose death at the hands of police in 1969 served as a wake-up call for the entire nation.Each of these men's stories is told in a different, perfectly realized voice. Each illuminates the complexity and drama that lie behind the simple notions of haplessness that have been used to explain the tragedy of their lives. And each explores, in entirely new ways, the themes - at once timeless and urgent - that have been at the heart of all of Caryl Phillips' work: belonging, identity, and race. Foreigners is among his most powerful, empathic, and profoundly affecting books.
Author:
Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9780436205972
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Translating Lives
Although Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives.
Author:
Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702236037
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Rameau's Nephew: AND d'Alembert's Dream
One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, and the two embark on a hilarious consideration of society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy. Its companion-piece, D'Alembert's Dream, outlines a material, atheistic view of the universe, expressed through the fevered dreams of Diderot's friend D'Alembert. Unpublished during his lifetime, both of these powerfully controversial works show Diderot to be one of the most advanced thinkers of his age, and serve as fascinating testament to the philosopher's wayward genius.
Author:
Denis Diderot,
Leonard Tancock
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140441734
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Authors Take Sides
This book is about two wars, separated by twelve years but united by the figures of Saddam Hussein and George Bush father and son. Based on writers' responses to a questionnaire, it is an attempt to record contemporary opinions and reactions to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the Iraq invasion of 2003. One of the many interests of this book lies in the immense diversity of opinion it evokes on both conflicts, ranging from outrage, through neutrality, to wholehearted support for the Coalition's handling of the issues. The fourth in a series of Authors Take Sides, its intention, like its predecessors, is to be informative and thought-provoking. While the editors had their own personal views on the issues raised - in fact, starting out on different sides in both wars - their aim in canvassing the opinions of authors was, so far as possible, to present an objective record of a cross-section of the intellectual community. More than 170 distinguished authors from Australia, Britain and the United States - novelists, playwrights, journalists, biographers, poets and historians - have contributed to this book.
Author:
Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522851366
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The Art of Dreaming
Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams. The Art of Dreaming is an extraordinary and exciting adventure of the psyche unlike any other, which takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer, don Juan.Carlos Castaneda reveals that, like the layers of an onion, there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams.Using powerful ancient techniques to alter his state of consciousness, Castaneda travels into new worlds and encounters remarkable but dangerous beings; he conjoins energy bodies with another dreamer in order to dream and explore together, and thus acquires new knowledge and understanding.
Author:
Carlos Castaneda
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781855384279
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The Bardo of Waking Life
An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more 'mundane issues' including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music.Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.
Author:
Richard Grossinger
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
ISBN: 9781556437007
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Conversations with the Heart-mind
This title presents an inspirational collection of quotations. Conversations With the Heart-Mind is a book of beautiful quotations covering all aspects of our lives. Written by a well-known Adelaide doctor, these quotations have the wisdom and sensitivity of many years of listening to patients from all walks of life. David Mitchell's patients are an inspiration to him and have made him aware that 'we have become too mindful of words, too rational and that we increasingly live in our heads disconnecting our minds from the rest of our body.' David Mitchell is, above all, a listener and lover of words. He loves their sounds, their pictures, their meanings and their feelings. His father taught him about the structure of words and sentences and his mother conveyed the magic of words to him. This book is, in the author's own words, 'a coming together, an acceptance of the oneness within each of us and from this harmony must come a better person, a better life and a better world.' With his gentle words, David Mitchell brings calm to the mind and heart and gives us the courage to see life as a magical thing.
Author:
David Mitchell
Publisher: Hill of Content Publishing Co Pty Ltd
ISBN: 9780855723620
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The Compulsive Spike Milligan
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, 'The Essential Spike Milligan'. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as wonderfully unmissable as the first.
Author:
Spike Milligan,
Norma Farnes
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007195428
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Disavowals
Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as an artist was rediscovered during the wave of interest in women artists, and more specifically Surrealism, during the 1980s. She is now known in the English speaking world as a photographer and, to a lesser extent, as a maker of surrealist objects. Despite the fact that Cahun was a self-confessed Anglophile and spoke fluent English, her texts were never translated into English during her lifetime. Now for the first time, an English translation of Cahun's most important book, Aveux non avenus, first published in 1930, is being made available by Tate Publishing. With only five hundred copies of the original French version printed, the book is exceedingly rare but can be said to summarise Cahun's distinctive ideas. Accompanying the translation will be an extensive introduction, setting the text in the context of her life.
The introduction draws attention to particular themes within the text, including self-interrogation, narcissism, metamorphosis, love, gender-switching, humour and fear and explore how these relate to the series of important photomontages made by Cahun with her lifelong partner, the illustrator Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe). The photomontages are reproduced from the original glass-plate negatives. The volume also features the original preface from author Pierre Mac Orlan. By making this lost masterpiece of Surrealist literature available to an English-speaking readership, this publication will bring further recognition to a seminal and previously underrated figure in twentieth-century art.
Author:
Claude Cahun,
Jennifer Mundy
Publisher: TATE PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781854376275
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Dream Stuff
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, this book presents stories that conjure up the memories and events that make a man. It uncovers vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, unfinished business, and more.
Author:
David Malouf
Publisher: CCV
ISBN: 9780099289906
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Great with Child
From serious to sisterly, these letters are from a toddler's mother to a pregnant friend about the transforming experience of motherhood.
Author:
Beth Ann Fennelly
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393329780
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My Dearest Friend
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to Miss Adorable, the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence - and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships - in American history.As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to My Dearest Friend, debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president).Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate.
This new collection - including some letters never before published - invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.
Author:
Margaret A. Hogan & C.James Taylor,
Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026063
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Life After Death
In recent years, the obituary has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in literary prestige and popularity with readers. As David Bowman, a distinguished Australian editor and journalist, says: 'In the English-speaking world, a newspaper of quality hardly seems complete these days without a regular obituary page.' This lively book by Dr Nigel Starck is the first to explore the evolution of the obituary in the English-language press. Its author, a journalist and scholar who is one of the world's foremost experts on the form of the obituary, traces its evolution through extracts drawn from newspapers and journals published since 1625. The characteristic wit, charm, candour and cultural significance of the obituary art are explored and analysed with many engaging examples. Painstakingly researched in newspaper archives on three continents, Life After Death includes the full texts of notable obituaries published in Britain, the United States and Australia. The subjects of these obits range from the famous to the obscure, from the evil and infamous to the plain unlucky.
Author:
Nigel Starck
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522852561
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Liverpool Accents
This anthology is not a historical survey of poetry about Liverpool, neither is it representative of Liverpool poets. Rather, it is an opportunity for seven poets - all with a biographical link to the city - of different ages and affiliations to introduce their poetry. The poets represented have all been shaped by hearing the Liverpool accents they have been influenced by the city's history, culture and spirit. Coming from diverse cultural backgrounds and influenced by different parts of an extremely various place, the youngest less than half the age of the most senior, these poets demonstrate a range of poetic styles and concerns the city has helped to nourish. Each of the seven poets presents a selection of their poetry, also contributing an introductory prose piece focusing on their lives and work in relation to Liverpool. The poets are Elaine Feinstein, Adrian Henri, Grevel Lindop, Jamie McKendrick, Deryn Rees-Jones, Peter Robinson and Matt Simpson. The volume is introduced by John Kerrigan, who concludes: Finally, and most intriguingly for Liverpudlians-in-exile, there is the pleasure of seeing what happens when voices brought up beside the Mersey encounter a larger world. On the evidence of Liverpool Accents, it is possible to prosper elsewhere, but not to forget the 'ocean-minded streets' (in Matt Simpson's phrase) which line that gull-swarmed river.
Author:
Peter Robinson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236719
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Miss Marple Omnibus: Body in the Library, Moving Finger, Murder is Announced, 4.50 from Paddington v. 1
The first of three omnibuses which bring together all 12 Miss Marple novels. This volume contains "The Body in the Library", "The Moving Finger", "A Murder is Announced" and "The 4.50 from Paddington".
Author:
Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006499596
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Miss Marple Omnibus: Caribbean Mystery, Pocket Full of Rye, Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, They Do it with Mirrors v. 2
Another four of Agatha Christie's twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribbean Mystery As Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun, an old soldier talks of elephant shooting and scandals. Then he dies - shortly after offering to show her a picture of a murderer. It's not long before the deceptively frail detective finds herself investigating a most exotic murder...A Pocket Full of Rye Rex Fortescue, 'king' of a financial empire, was in his counting house his 'queen' was in the parlour...and that's exactly where they were when they died. There are baffling similarities between the rhyme and the crime and it takes all Miss Marple's ingenuity to find them...The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Marina Gregg, the famous actress, witnesses a murder in her country home. But what gave her the expression of frozen terror that only Dolly Bantry saw? Dolly, of course, knows just who can find out: her old friend Miss Marple...They Do It With Mirrors To fulfil a promise to an old schoolfriend, Miss Marple stays in a country house - with 200 juvenile delinquents and seven heirs to an old lady's fortune.
One of them is a murderer - with, it seems, a talent for being in two places at once...
Author:
Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780006499602
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The Meaning of Recognition
Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected here are testament to that fact. Whether discussing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, he manages to prioritise style and substance simultaneously, his tone never less than pitch-perfect, his argument always considered. With each phrase carefully crafted and each piece offering cause for thought, the resulting volume - which takes the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library, from pre-election campaigning to sitting in front of the TV at home, watching The Sopranos and The West Wing - is remarkable not only for its range and insight, but also its intimacy and honesty. Clive James realised early on that a quick wit needs to be harnessed to a patient hand if the writer is going to please anyone other than himself, and set about polishing his sentences until they gleamed...You'd hate him if you didn't enjoy reading him so much. - Daily Telegraph.
Author:
Clive James
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330440288
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Letters to Kate
Sorrow is not a state, but a process that needs not a map but a history...There is something new to be chronicled every day, writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love. His vivid and thoughtful letters will resonate with everyone whose loss confronts them with emotional, psychological, and philosophical questions for which there are no easy answers. During his first year without Kate, Carl writes himself into the life that comes after the life he loved. From days of grief in the darkness of a midwestern winter, to springtime, with a return to life in the garden and a memorial service for Kate on a sunny afternoon, to fall, with a pilgrimage to their favorite vacation spot in Hawaii, Carl documents his year-long experience of remembering, meditating, and evolving a new life. Individually, his letters provide the insights of a master diarist collectively, they have the arc of a master essayist.
Recording the full range of mourning from intense shock to moments of exceptional affirmation, Klaus's stories and reflections on loss bear witness to universal truths about the first and most significant year of mourning.
Author:
Carl H. Klaus,
Patricia Hampl and Carl H. Klaus
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877459712
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Territories of History
Explores the unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and post-structuralist approaches to the study of history, this book uncovers a legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition.
Author:
Sarah H. Beckjord
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 9780271032795
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