As No Other Dare Fail
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Publisher | : Calder Publications Limited |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Publisher | : Calder Publications Limited |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Jennifer Lazarow |
Publisher | : Fulton Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1633382788 |
Six years ago, two ordinary people—that’s us—set off on an affordable adventure that has enhanced our lives beyond expectation. In fact, as we approach our mid-sixties, we exclaim this period to be the most exciting of all. Perhaps a fascinating aspect of the concept is that it’s available to many—people need only identify their desire from life and then pursue it, seize it. We found our passion; it follows that we understand our purpose. We embarked on this ongoing journey by giving up our physical home and storing our movable possessions and took to living on the road as we travel in many parts of the world in search of exciting and challenging hikes. As we struggle and sweat up and down the mountain slopes, the loving relationship we enjoy is further bonded while we face the risks and pleasures on display in this endlessly beautiful planet. We don’t limit ourselves to a fixed abode; rather, we try to inhabit the world, albeit tiny bits. Years before, we developed a fascination for hiking, particularly to mountain peaks (however, it could be any activity). As an ancillary benefit, we discovered the enthrallment of meeting interesting people and being enveloped in different cultures and customs—a truly broadening experience. The natural beauty existing in the world is beyond belief and seems infinite, especially as no scene ever repeats itself. The taste of freedom, as we became liberated from the daily grind of city life and material possessions, is something we never envisioned—we always believed we were free. Perhaps above it all, a process of discovery and self-growth has stimulated more meaning and understanding within our lives. We also realize the foregoing is but the beginning as we race against the inevitable diminishing of time and good health that stalks us all. The book provides visuals in the form of a limited selection of photographs attesting to our adventures. The text discusses some personal philosophy, anecdotes, and experiences of living on the road and in the wilds, including incidents and humorous occurrences that make for a full and rounded life.
Author | : Max Felker-Kantor |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2024-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469676370 |
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing. Max Felker-Kantor has assembled the first history of DARE, which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-90s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States. DARE received near-universal praise from parents, educators, police officers, and politicians and left an indelible stamp on many millennial memories. But the program had more nefarious ends, and Felker-Kantor complicates simplistic narratives of the War on Drugs. He shows how policing entered US schools and framed drug use as the result of personal responsibility, moral failure, and poor behavior deserving of punishment rather than something deeply rooted in state retrenchment, the abandonment of social service provisions, and structures of social and economic inequality.
Author | : Billi P. S. Lim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9789839323306 |
Author | : Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802134905 |
Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.
Author | : Erik Tonning |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9783039110223 |
Samuel Beckett's Play, written 1962-63, was an aesthetic watershed inaugurating his late, 'abstract' dramatic style. This book gets close to Beckett's creative process by examining the possible influence of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music and Vassily Kandinsky's abstract painting upon this formal shift; by tracing Beckett's developing attitude to abstraction and its relation to his long-standing preoccupation with the 'breakdown' of the subject-object relation and the ultimate failure of all expression; and by following his formal choices through manuscript drafts. The author goes on to analyse Beckett's attempt to adapt his new methods to the media of film and television, and to demonstrate how Beckett's late works for stage and screen develop alongside one another right up to his 1985 adaptation of the play What Where for television. Throughout the book, unpublished manuscript materials such as Beckett's letters, drafts, notes on philosophy, psychology and art, and his 'German diaries' augment a detailed account of the submerged sources that Beckett appropriated to the evolving needs of his abstract dramatic art.
Author | : Timothy O'Leary |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 144119021X |
Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney, O'Leary draws on Foucault's concept of experience as well as the work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources, he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new insights into Foucault's mature philosophy and an improved understanding of what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.
Author | : Steven Connor |
Publisher | : Writers and Their Work (Paperb |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0746311672 |
In this lively, approachable introduction, which covers the whole range of James Joyce's writing from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, Steven Connor traces the key concerns of language, identity and the transforming experiences of modernity.
Author | : Sarah Anne Dorsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 1062 |
Release | : 1918 |
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