A Study Guide for Bruce Jay Friedman's "Brazzaville Teen-ager"
| Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 25 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1410341976 |
A Study Guide For Bruce Jay Friedmans Brazzaville Teen Ager
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Lobby Hero
| Author | : Kenneth Lonergan |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780822218296 |
THE STORY: When Jeff, a luckless young security guard, is drawn into a local murder investigation, loyalties are strained to the breaking point. As Jeff's tightly wound supervisor is called to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an attra
The Last Utopia
| Author | : Samuel Moyn |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2012-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674256522 |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
An Aging World
| Author | : Kevin G. Kinsella |
| Publisher | : Bureau of Census |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Provides statistical information on the worldwide population of people 65 years old or older.
A Mother's Kisses
| Author | : Bruce Jay Friedman |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2015-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 150401958X |
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not, judging by the rejection letter he receives from Bates and the deafening silence that greets his application to Columbia. While his friends pack their bags for schools across the country, Joseph mopes around the apartment in his bathrobe and checks the mailbox obsessively. It’s enough to make his mother fear for the boy’s sanity—so she resolves to take matters into her own hands. What follows is a sidesplitting series of misadventures as Meg, whom the New York Times Book Review called “the most unforgettable mother since Medea,” pulls out all the stops to get her boy what he wants. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bruce Jay Friedman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
David Lynch Swerves
| Author | : Martha P. Nochimson |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0292748892 |
Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch “swerved” in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation of unprecedented openness, during which he shared his vision of the physical world as an uncertain place that masks important universal realities. He described how he derives this vision from the Holy Vedas of the Hindu religion, as well as from his layman’s fascination with modern physics. With this deep insight, Nochimson forges a startlingly original template for analyzing Lynch’s later films—the seemingly unlikely combination of the spiritual landscape envisioned in the Holy Vedas and the material landscape evoked by quantum mechanics and relativity. In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques of the immense dangers of modern materialism; and their hopeful conceptions of human potential. She concludes with excerpts from the wide-ranging interview in which Lynch discussed his vision with her, as well as an interview with Columbia University physicist David Albert, who was one of Nochimson’s principal tutors in the discipline of quantum physics.
The Cambridge History of Communism
| Author | : Norman Naimark |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 2017-09-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781107133549 |
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.
Filthy, Funny, and Totally Offensive
| Author | : Jeffrey Gurian |
| Publisher | : Citadel Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : American wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9780806528090 |
The only collection of the most offensive, politically incorrect and often disgusting (but hilarious) dirty jokes that the hottest comics in the worldwill only tell each other! No-one is spared: ranging from the silly to the sick, the sadistic to the sublime, these are the jokes comedians share only among themselves, finally compiled in one place for the first time ever.
The Anthropology of Christianity
| Author | : Fenella Cannell |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2006-11-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822388154 |
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell asserts that anthropological theory carries within it ideas profoundly shaped by this rejection. Because of this, anthropology has been less successful in considering Christianity as an ethnographic object than it has in considering other religions. This collection is designed to advance a more subtle and less self-limiting anthropological study of Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; the Swedish branch of Word of Life, a charismatic church based in the United States; and Protestants in Amazonia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. In the process they bring to light how local Christian practices and beliefs are affected by encounters with colonialism and modernity, by the opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism, and by the proximity of other religions and belief systems. Together the contributors show that it not sufficient for anthropologists to assume that they know in advance what the Christian experience is; each local variation must be encountered on its own terms. Contributors. Cecilia Busby, Fenella Cannell, Simon Coleman, Peter Gow, Olivia Harris, Webb Keane, Eva Keller, David Mosse, Danilyn Rutherford, Christina Toren, Harvey Whitehouse
