Four and Out

Four and Out
Author: Ronald Griffith
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1481772872

Much has been written about Vietnam and life in the Army. In almost every case the pictures, documentaries, and books concentrate on one of two major subjects. Most have been about life in combat with movies such as Yawn Wayne in Green Beret or Chuck Bore-us in his combat action flicks. Almost all of the documentaries were strictly about combat operations. The same can also be said about most of the pictures or documentaries coming out of World War I, II, Korea or Vietnam. The other type of picture features a unique character, such as the one played by Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. There was also Sergeant Bilko or Gomer Pyle, for the older generation. In reality, it took seven men to support one man in the field. You seldom read what life was like for any of those seven support personnel. This book gives you a glimpse into the life of a non-combatant Ditty Bopper in the top secret world of the Army Security Agency. A Ditty Bopper works with Morse code. All I had to do was sit back, relax, and listen to the radio while I enjoyed another cigarette with my fresh hot cup of coffee. Yes, life was tough in Vietnam with our air conditioned rooms, comfortable beds, clean linen, regular mail, an Enlisted Mens Club, four hot square meals a day, and a swimming pool for part of the time I was there. SPECIAL BONUS Ive included 80 full color pictures of my adventure in the ASA and most of the letters I sent home. Now you can read my on-the-spot comments. Remember The Ballad of the ASA, the 23 AR, or several of the other interesting pieces of literature written by someone someplace else? These are included.

The Immeasurable Equation

The Immeasurable Equation
Author: Sun Ra
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2005
Genre: African American philosophers
ISBN: 3833426594

A talented pianist and composer in his own right, Sun Ra (1914 - 1993) founded and conducted one of jazz's last great big bands from the 1950s until he left planet Earth. Few only know that he also was a gifted thinker and poet. Sun Ra's poetry leaves everything behind what's called contemporary, and flings out pictures of infinity into the outer space. These poems are for tomorrow. This is the only edition of Sun Ra's complete poetry and prose in one volume. The Contributors James L. Wolf Earned a music degree from Carleton College, and studied ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Now works at the Library of Congress in the Music Division. Active musician in various bands in the DC area. Many contributions to Sun Ra scholarship. Hartmut Geerken Oriental studies, philosophy and comparative religion at the universities of Tübingen and Istanbul. Writer, filmmaker, musician, composer. Since the 1970s, close relationships to Sun Ra and his works, setting up the world's most comprehensive Waitawhile Sun Ra Archive Sigrid Hauff Studied oriental languages and arts, philosophy, and romance studies at the universities of Tübingen and Istanbul. Free lance writer on literary and philosophical subjects. Klaus Detlef Thiel Studied philosophy and history at Trier University, Ph.D. Philosophical author, focussing on theory and history of writing. Brent Hayes Edwards Teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Author and Co-Editor of works on jazz and literature.

Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Gang of Four's Entertainment!
Author: Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1623562864

Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.

Ball Four

Ball Four
Author: Jim Bouton
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0795323247

The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people—often wildly funny people. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written . . . a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.” Today Ball Four has taken on another role—as a time capsule of life in the sixties. “It is not just a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros,” says sportswriter Jim Caple. “It’s a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than four decades. To call it simply a ‘tell all book’ is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California.” Includes a new foreword by Jim Bouton's wife, Paula Kurman “An irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball’s hierarchy and changed the way journalists and fans viewed the sports world.” —The Washington Post

Sun Ra Collected Works

Sun Ra Collected Works
Author: Sun Ra
Publisher: Phaelos Books & Mediawerks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780970020970

"260 cosmic poems and selected prose of Jazz legend Sun Ra." -- cover.

For It's One, Two, Three, Four Strikes You're Out at the Owners' Ball Game

For It's One, Two, Three, Four Strikes You're Out at the Owners' Ball Game
Author: G. Richard McKelvey
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786450495

Many assume incorrectly that confrontations between baseball's players and management began in the 1960s when the Major League Baseball Players Association started showing signs of becoming a union to be reckoned with. (The tensions of the 1960s prompted the owners to form the Player Relations Committee to deal with them and in February 1968, the two groups negotiated the game's first Basic Agreement.) The struggles between players and management to gain the upper hand did not, however, start there--the two groups have had numerous clashes since baseball began (as well as since the 1968 agreement). There have been various periods of conflict and peace throughout the century and before. This work traces the history of the relationship between players and management from baseball's early years to the new challenges and developing tensions that led to spring training lockouts instigated by the owners and to player strikes in 1972, 1981, 1985, and 1994. An important agreement in 1996 brought labor peace once again. The future of player-management relations is also covered.

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Secret of the Realms

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Secret of the Realms
Author: Meredith Rusu
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1368027792

This dazzling novel will not only retell the moving story from The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, but half of the book will expand and explore the world of the Walt Disney Studios film with brand-new, exclusive content. Complete with beautiful full-page chapter opener illustrations and never-before-seen details that add new depth to the story, this novel will have readers eager to step into the resplendent world of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms for generations to come.

Four Out the Door

Four Out the Door
Author: S. D. Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781952999031

From the Amazon Best Selling Author of I Escaped the California Camp Fire FOUR OUT THE DOOR is book 4 in the Every Number Counts series. This is a fun-filled colorful picture book for kids ages 4-6. 4 is bored. There is nothing new to do. Her dad suggests she go outside and explore. Unless. . . she'd rather do a chore. FOUR OUT THE DOOR is a fun number book with a story that will delight young readers and told is in rhyme. This colorful picture book combines numbers, problem solving and friendship. It's a book kids will ask their parents and teachers to read over and over again! Parents and educators FOUR OUT THE DOOR teaches important lessons for preschoolers and older kids. It: * tackles an important early life lesson in a funny, non-threatening tale.* is perfect for kindergarten and preschool classrooms. * addresses the social dilemma of making new friends.* provides an alternative to being bored.* makes numbers and learning fun.* teaches age-appropriate problem solving.* has easy-to-understand text, and engaging art. Kids ages: 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 Grades: Pre K, 1st, and 2nd The Series Every Number Counts Two at the Zoo Three Sails the Sea Four Out the Door Coming soon: Five Takes a Dive Six and the Chicks

All the Way

All the Way
Author: Joe Namath
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 031642109X

The NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons on fame, fatherhood, and football. Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead the New York Jets to an 18-point underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. When the final whistle blew, that promise had been kept. Namath was instantly heralded as a gridiron god, while his rugged good looks, progressive views on race, and boyish charm quickly transformed him - in an era of raucous rebellion, shifting social norms, and political upheaval - into both a bona fide celebrity and a symbol of the commercialization of pro sports. By 26, with a championship title under his belt, he was quite simply the most famous athlete alive. Although his legacy has long been cemented in the history books, beneath the eccentric yet charismatic personality was a player plagued by injury and addiction, both sex and substance. When failing knees permanently derailed his career, he turned to Hollywood and endorsements, not to mention a tumultuous marriage and fleeting bouts of sobriety, to try and find purpose. Now 74, Namath is ready to open up, brilliantly using the four quarters of Super Bowl III as the narrative backbone to a life that was anything but charmed. As much about football and fame as about addiction, fatherhood, and coming to terms with our own mortality, All the Way finally reveals the man behind the icon.

Catena Aurea: Commentary On the Four Gospels Collected Out of the Works of the Fathers: Volumes 1 to 4

Catena Aurea: Commentary On the Four Gospels Collected Out of the Works of the Fathers: Volumes 1 to 4
Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Total Pages: 3033
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

As the Son of God came down from heaven, not only to be our Redeemer, but our teacher; not only to ransom us with the effusion of His precious blood, but to enlighten us with these saving truths, the knowledge of which, joined to firm and unhesitating faith, He has made an indispensable condition of salvation, it must be ever a subject of the deepest spiritual interest, to place these truths in as clear a light as possible. Whether this Commentary may serve in any way to advance this end, must be left to others to decide. Aeterna Press