Author: Scott Huler
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0307409783
Size: 56.79 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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No Man S Lands

by Scott Huler, No Man S Lands Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download No Man S Lands books, When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood.But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months.Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people.

Author: Aasif Mandvi
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452124094
Size: 40.83 MB
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Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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No Land S Man

by Aasif Mandvi, No Land S Man Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download No Land S Man books, "It always bothered me that Aasif was more than merely funny-he's also a great actor. Now I've learned he's an amazing storyteller as well, and I am furious . . . but also grateful. Aasif's movement between cultures and genres is what makes him and his story singularly funny, poignant, and essential." - John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require "My father moved our family to the United States because of a word. It was a word whose meaning fascinated him. It was a singularly American word, a fat word, a word that could only be spoken with decadent pride. That word was . . . Brunch! 'The beauty of America,' he would say, 'is they have so much food, that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again.'" —from "International House of Patel" If you're an Indo-Muslim-British-American actor who has spent more time in bars than mosques over the past few decades, turns out it's a little tough to explain who you are or where you are from. In No Land's Man Aasif Mandvi explores this and other conundrums through stories about his family, ambition, desire, and culture that range from dealing with his brunch-obsessed father, to being a high-school-age Michael Jackson impersonator, to joining a Bible study group in order to seduce a nice Christian girl, to improbably becoming America's favorite Muslim/Indian/Arab/Brown/Doctor correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. This is a book filled with passion, discovery, and humor. Mandvi hilariously and poignantly describes a journey that will resonate with anyone who has had to navigate his or her way in the murky space between lands. Or anyone who really loves brunch.

Author: David Simon
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781429900959
Size: 46.22 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Homicide

by David Simon, Homicide Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Homicide books, From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl. Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition—which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs—revives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience.

Author: George Galdorisi
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 1616732253
Size: 41.11 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Leave No Man Behind

by George Galdorisi, Leave No Man Behind Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Leave No Man Behind books, Beginning with the birth of combat aircraft in World War I and the early attempts to rescue warriors trapped behind enemy lines, Leave No Man Behind chronicles in depth nearly one hundred years of combat search and rescue (CSAR). All major U.S. combat operations from World War II to the early years of the Iraq War are covered, including previously classified missions and several Medal-of-Honor-winning operations. Authors George Galdorisi and Tom Phillips (both veteran U.S. Navy helicopter pilots) highlight individual acts of heroism while telling the big-picture story of the creation and development of modern CSAR. Although individual missions have their successes and failures, CSAR, as an institution, would seem beyond reproach, an obvious necessity. The organizational history of CSAR, however, is not entirely positive. The armed services, particularly the U.S. Air Force and Navy, have a tendency to cut CSAR at the end of a conflict, leaving no infrastructure prepared for the next time that the brave men and women of our armed forces find themselves behind enemy lines. The final chapter has not yet been written for U.S. combat search and rescue, but in view of the life-saving potential of these forces, an open and forthright review of U.S. military CSAR plans and policies is long overdue. Beyond the exciting stories of heroic victories and heartrending defeats, Leave No Man Behind stimulates debate on this important subject.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Size: 47.35 MB
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalog Of Copyright Entries

by Library of Congress. Copyright Office, Catalog Of Copyright Entries Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Catalog Of Copyright Entries books,

Author: Cassell, ltd
Publisher:
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Cassell S Library Of English Literature Selected Ed And Arranged By H Morley

by Cassell, ltd, Cassell S Library Of English Literature Selected Ed And Arranged By H Morley Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Cassell S Library Of English Literature Selected Ed And Arranged By H Morley books,

Author: Ben Payne
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748765133
Size: 42.52 MB
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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No Man S Land

by Ben Payne, No Man S Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download No Man S Land books, Set on Tyneside during the World War I, this moving play sets up dramatic conflicts of issue and personality. Women fight for the right to work and to vote, and men fight in - and in opposition to - the war to end all wars. It involves a cast of 17 plus extras.

Author: Janet Stewart
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039102655
Size: 12.22 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Blueprints For No Man S Land

by Janet Stewart, Blueprints For No Man S Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blueprints For No Man S Land books, This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, literature and travel, and the visual arts and public space. The individual contributions deal with central figures in the Austrian arts, including Thomas Bernhard, Franzobel, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, Peter Turrini and Doron Rabinovici, as well as collective ventures such as Walter Grond's Odysseus project and the museum in progress. They analyse the impact of connections between disciplines on the cultural landscape in contemporary Austria, as well as examining the limits of such interaction between disciplines.

Author: Philip Auger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815330608
Size: 22.63 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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Native Sons In No Man S Land

by Philip Auger, Native Sons In No Man S Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Native Sons In No Man S Land books, First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Eric J. Leed
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521285735
Size: 33.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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No Man S Land

by Eric J. Leed, No Man S Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download No Man S Land books, Based on the firsthand accounts of German, French, British, and American front-line soldiers, No Man's Land examines how the first modern, industrialized war transformed the character of the men who participated in it. Ancient myths about war eroded in the trenches, where the relentless monotony and impotence of the solder's life was interrupted only by unpredictable moments of annihilation. Professor Leed looks at how the traumatic experience of combat itself and the wholesale shattering of the conventions and ethical codes of normal social life turned ordinary civilians into 'liminal men', men living beyond the limits of the accepted and the expected. He uses the concept of liminality to illuminate the central features of the war experience: the separation from 'home': the experience of pollution, death, comradeship, and 'the uncanny': and the ambivalence of returning veterans about civilian society. In a final chapter Professor Leed assesses the long-term political impact of the front experience. He finds that the end of hostilities did not mean the end of the war experience as much as the beginning of a process by which that experience was framed, institutionalized, celebrated and relived in political action as well as in fiction.