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| Author | : August Wilson |
| Publisher | : Theatre Communications Grou |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781559361873 |
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
| Author | : John Dos Passos |
| Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 2010-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1412813255 |
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today. We need to know what kind of firm ground other men, belonging to generations before us, have found to stand on. In spite of changing conditions of life they were not very different from us. This is a prime example of Dos Passos as an American novelist and reporter on American reality. In times of change and danger when there is fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. That is why, in times like ours, when old institutions are caving in and being replaced by new institutions not necessarily in accord with most men's preconceived hopes, political thought has to look backwards as well as forwards. It is not a question of what we want; it is a question of what is. American history, the successes and failures of the men who went before us, is only alive in so far as some seeds are still stirring and growing in us today. Divided up into three major sections: The Use of the Past, Roger Williams and the Planting of the Commonwealth in America, and On the White Porch of the Republic; The Ground We Stand On traces the backgrounds and the rise of America's early political structure, the variety of influences upon it, and the men who gave it a stable foundation. John Dos Passos (1896-1970), American novelist, was born in Chicago. During and after the Second World War, he became increasingly interested in the roots of American culture and produced a number of historical studies relating to the problems of American democracy. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction. Among his works are Manhattan Transfer, the trilogy U.S.A. and his autobiographical The Best Times.
| Author | : Marti Corn |
| Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2016-06-06 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1623493765 |
In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, near the rich timber lands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed railroad from Conroe to Houston, the community benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industry and available transportation. The residents built homes, churches, a one-room school, and a general store. Over time, urban growth has had a powerful impact on Tamina. The sprawling communities of The Woodlands, Shenandoah, Chateau Woods, and Oak Ridge have encroached, introducing both opportunity and complication, as the residents of this rural community enjoy both the benefits and the challenges of urban life. On the one hand, the children of Tamina have the opportunity to attend some of the best public schools in the nation; on the other hand, residents whose education and job skills have not kept pace with modern society are struggling for survival. Through striking and intimate photography and sensitively gleaned oral histories, Marti Corn has chronicled the lives, dreams, and spirit of the people of Tamina. The result is a multi-faceted portrait of community, kinship, values, and shared history.
| Author | : Joshua Bowe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-09-12 |
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Awarded the Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America. Sent into the deadly Central Highlands of Vietnam, the true story of my dad and his fellow soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division. Twenty-year-old Will Bowe was living on his family's farm, and the military build-up had just begun when he was drafted in 1965. The impossibly young men of his company would be trained in the new airmobile infantry and become "skytroopers," flying into the jungle battlefield by helicopter, where they would learn what "search and destroy" meant and face the reality of this new war. Based on formerly classified staff journals, situation reports, and military maps, our story follows Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry as they march through rice fields, search villages, and climb jungle-covered mountains. Our story also features many of the photographs and letters my dad sent home from Vietnam's most remote valleys and outposts. Written under the most austere conditions, his dispatches were often scribbled in haste before another mission or by flashlight under a poncho in the rain. They would travel over eight thousand miles across the ocean to be placed in a mailbox that stood across from a farmhouse along a rural county road in Wisconsin. Many who served in my dad's company were interviewed for this story, as were many family members and friends of the fallen. Their accounts recall much of the humor and friendship they shared, along with the sadness and tragedy that would accompany a year spent in Vietnam. Now these letters, photos, reports, and personal accounts have been brought together to tell of one infantry company's war journey, from their training at Fort Carson to their historic voyage across the sea, their first steps into the dark highland jungles, their many battles fought together, and eventually, their final patrol.
| Author | : Collier Nogues |
| Publisher | : Drunken Boat Media |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780988241626 |
Poetry. Art. THE GROUND I STAND ON IS NOT MY GROUND, selected by Forrest Gander as the winner of Drunken Boat's 2014 poetry book contest, is a hybrid of poetry and digital art. The poems erase historical documents related to the development and aftermath of the Pacific War, especially on the island of Okinawa. Erased into poems, these texts become spare narratives of how individual soldiers' and civilians' daily lives were transformed by the war. Using QR codes, each poem links to an interactive version at the book's companion website, where readers can explore original documents ranging from government documents and political manifestos to travel narratives, blockbuster adventure fiction, and science writing. Taken together, the poems and their original texts tell a larger story about the ways we imagine war, and the ways language can be used to record, justify, memorialize, or resist it. "This is the best book of erasure poems since Srikanth Reddy's Voyager. Nogues carves critical observations into slow motion (erasure isolating and elongating time) so that we seem to see inside the body's gestures. The book is an intense meditation on war, riddled with aporia and drawing on many resources documentary, epistolary, and even rhyming lyric- to create an empathic and deeply affecting experience of contact with the devastation war brings and "with the pain about to come." Forrest Gander "Collier Nogues is nothing short of brilliant in this necessary book, which lights up a long shadow two big governments have cast on a miraculous island and an indigenous people. Nogues comprehends how any war is a continuum of the same hell, yet each experience is specific: the chronic trauma of surviving amid the dead, the way history makes a "war" a narrative but the participants (victims/survivors/casualties) experience it only in fragments. The speakers of these poems are visionary; they are "one of us." And if we can see that, we can see what Nogues has envisioned here, see how our world can change in the direction of mercy, human dignity, survival." Brenda Shaughnessy "Collier Nogues, who grew up on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, explores how war has shaped the island of her childhood. Taken together, these poems not only express a desire to erase violence, but they also attempt to map the topography of islands and nations, caves and embrasures, weapons and flags, grace and dread. Nogues is a brave poet who disassembles the official discourses of empire to articulate a dream for an island of peace." Craig Santos Perez"
| Author | : Timothy Keller |
| Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1400221072 |
Bestselling author Timothy Keller and legal scholar John Inazu bring together a thrilling range of artists, thinkers, and leaders to provide a guide to faithful living in a pluralistic, fractured world. How can Christians today interact with those around them in a way that shows respect to those whose beliefs are radically different but that also remains faithful to the gospel? Timothy Keller and John Inazu bring together illuminating stories--their own and from others--to answer this vital question. Uncommon Ground gathers an array of perspectives from people thinking deeply and working daily to live with humility, patience, and tolerance in our time. Contributors include: Lecrae Tish Harrison Warren Kristen Deede Johnson Claude Richard Alexander Shirley Hoogstra Sara Groves Rudy Carrasco Trillia Newbell Tom Lin Warren Kinghorn Providing varied and enlightening approaches to reaching faithfully across deep and often painful differences, Uncommon Ground shows us how to live with confidence, joy, and hope in a complex and fragmented age. "Loving engagement with folks with whom we disagree does not come easily for many of us with strong Christian convictions. Tim Keller and John Inazu are not only models for how to do this well, but in this fine book they have gathered wise conversation partners to offer much needed counsel on how to cultivate the spiritual virtues of humility, patience, and tolerance that are necessary for loving our neighbors in our increasingly pluralistic culture." -- Richard Mouw, Professor of Faith and Public Life, Fuller Theological Seminary "For anyone struggling to engage well with others in an era of toxic conflict, this book provides a framework, steeped in humility, that is not only insightful but is readily actionable. I'm grateful for the vulnerability and wisdom offered by each of the twelve leaders who contributed to this book. The task of learning to love well - neighbors and enemies alike - is long and urgent, and it can be costly. And yet, as this book shows us, because it is the work of Jesus, we can pursue this love with great hope." -- Gary A. Haugen, founder and CEO, International Justice Mission
| Author | : Lucy McBath |
| Publisher | : 37 Ink |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2020-11-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1501187791 |
From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and a mother who “turned her sorrow into a strategy and her mourning into a movement” (Hillary Clinton) comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action for common-sense gun laws. Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed black men unjustly gunned down. Standing Our Ground is McBath’s moving memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she transformed her pain into activism. After seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a man who thought the music playing on his car stereo was too loud, the nation grieved yet again for the unnecessary loss of life. Here, McBath goes beyond the timeline and the assailant’s defense—Stand Your Ground—to present an emotional account of her fervent fight for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the rest of her days. But more than McBath’s story or that of her son, Standing Our Ground keenly observes the social and political evolution of America’s gun culture. A must-read for anyone concerned with gun safety in America, it is a powerful and heartfelt call to action for common-sense gun legislation.
| Author | : Tracie Miles |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2014-10-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441264892 |
God still has a plan for you--not in spite of your past, but because of it! Do regret and shame over your failures, sins, and shortcomings make you wonder how you could ever be loved, much less used, by a holy God? Tracie Miles felt the same way until she discovered the path to healing, peace, and significance. She helps you recognize that God not only has a purpose for you, but He has prepared you for your divine purpose based specifically on the experiences of your past. Through her own story and stories from other women who have discovered God's purpose for their lives because of adverse experiences, Tracie helps you see how God can turn pain into purpose. You will find forgiveness and healing from the troubles of your past, discover the courage to step out of your comfort zone to help others find hope and strength, and be inspired to step into the beautiful future God divinely designed for you. "No matter what you've been through or what's been done to you, if you're still breathing, God isn't finished with you yet! Let Tracie Miles help you discover your calling and the way you are uniquely equipped to make your life count!" --Renee Swope, bestselling author of A Confident Heart and Proverbs 31 Ministries' radio cohost, "Everyday Life with Lysa & Renee"
| Author | : Watchman Nee |
| Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 79 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0842358935 |
An inspiring look at Ephesians and the believer's asociation with Christ, the world, and Satan. Written by the saintly Chinese pastor, Watchman Nee.
| Author | : Victoria Christopher Murray |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2015-06-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1476792992 |
Janice Johnson's 16-year-old son was murdered and the shooter hasn't been arrested. Shelly Vance's husband is facing murder charges for shooting a teenager who he says attacked him in a parking lot. This tragedy is magnified by the racial divide it has created. She wants to stand by her man, but she's keeping a secret that could blow the case wide open. Alax Wilson is the jury foreman. Faced with a dramatic trial that has turned into a media frenzy, Janice, Shelly and Alax are forced to face their own prejudices.
