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America's Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind -- a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. America's Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media.As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O'Sullivan -- a lo

Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have had an enormous influence on contemporary U.S. films, from Star Wars to Taxi Driver.In John Ford Made Westerns, nine major essays by prominent scholars of Hollywood film situate the sound-era Westerns of John Ford within contemporary critical contexts and regard them from fresh perspectives. These range from examining Ford's relation to other art forms (most notably literature, painting, and music) to exploring the development of the director's reputation as a director of Westerns. While giving attention to film style and structure, the volume also treats the ways in which these much-loved films engage with notions of masculinity and gender roles, capitalism and community, as well as racial, sexual, and national identity.Contributors include Charles Ramirez Berg, Matthew Bernstein, Edward Buscombe, Joan Dagle, Barry Keith Grant, Kathryn Kalinak, Peter Lehman, Charles J. Maland, Gaylyn Studlar, and Robin Wood.ContentsPart IIntroduction, Gaylyn Studlar & Matthew Bernstein "'Shall We Gather at the River?': The Late Films of John Ford, " Robin Wood "Sacred Duties, Poetic Passions: John Ford and Issue of Femininity in the Western, " Gaylyn Studlar"The Margin as Center: The Multicultural Dynamics of John Ford's Westerns, " Charles Ramirez Berg "Linear Patterns and Ethnic Encounters in the Ford Western, " Joan Dagle "How the West Wasn't Won: the Repression of Capitalism in John Ford's Westerns, " Peter Lehman "Painting the Legend: Frederic Remington and the Western, " Edward Buscombe "'The Sound of Many Voices': Music in John Ford's Westerns, " Kathryn Kalinak "John Ford and James Fenimore Cooper: Two Rode Together, " Barry Keith Grant "From Aesthete to Pappy: The Evolution of John Ford's Public Reputation, " Charles J. MalandPart II -- DossierEmanuel Eisenberg, "John Ford: Fighting Irish, " New Theater, April 1936Frank S. Nugent, "Hollywood's Favorite Rebel, " Saturday Evening Post, July 23, 1949John Ford, "John Wayne -- My Pal, " Hollywood, no. 237 (March 17, 1951), translated from the Italian by Gloria MontiBill Libby, "The Old Wrangler Rides Again, " Cosmopolitan, March 1964"About John Ford, " Action 8.8 (Nov.-Dec. 1973)

Would you agree or disagree with someone who said that Wednesday is fat, Tuesday lean? Does the ordinary use of words provide all we need to know about their descriptive power? In Fat Wednesday: Wittgenstein on Aspects, John Verdi thinks about how the inexplicable connections of words can help us understand the ever-changing connections of things that we actually see in everyday experience.According to Wittgenstein, the key to understanding what we see lies in what we say and in how we learn language. The questions we should be asking about aspect perception are these: “How did we learn to talk about visual ambiguity in the first place?” and “How do we use ‘seeing’ words in all their complexity?”John Verdi considers how our experience of seeing aspects, wherever they appear, helps us imagine possible meanings for philosophy’s opening question, “What is there?” He illuminates the philosopher’s ideas on language and perception while challenging readers to think through for themselves the different ways in which we see.John Verdi has taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis and Santa Fe since 1975. Over the years his areas of special interest have included the writings of Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, the foundations of mathematics, and the common ground between psychology and philosophy.

"Blood Meridian reads like a conflation of the Inferno, the Iliad, and Moby-Dick . . . an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement."--Independent (London)"Sepich lets us see how Cormac McCarthy went about crafting what he built, with the result that Blood Meridian . . . becomes more a wonderment than ever. This is constructive scholarship at its best."--Shelby FooteBlood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the Old West, as well as McCarthy's greatest work. The New York Times Book Review ranked it third in a 2006 survey of the "best w

Release Date: January 03, 2001

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Free Worldwide Delivery : Awakening Far Memory - "Reincarnation Cards" : Mixed media product : Ger Maa Publishers : 9789963667000 : 9963667007 : 28 Jan 2008 : A boxed set containing 61 full-colour cards depicting diverse historical periods, occupations, cultures and manner of termination, all designed to provoke "far memories" of both past and future incarnations. It offers a look at the implications of quantum physics for understanding the true nature of time, space, consciousness and the paranormal.

Release Date: July 01, 2001

The Skinny on Credit Cards, How to Master the Credit Card Game. Finally, someone has written a book which is clear, concise and comprehensive on the subject of credit cards. The Skinny on Credit Cards will be helpful to everyone from the young adult getting his or her first card to the older adult who has used cards for years and never really totally understood the rules of the game. The Skinny on Credit Cards is a compilation of all the books and articles that have been written on the subject. All the experts were consulted. The Skinny On™ presents all the relevant information in an entertaining and easy-to-digest fashion. The credit card world is willing to lend you money. They want money back in return in the form of fees and interest. In some ways, the use of a credit card is a big game. Your job as a consumer is to play the game well so that you get more out of the relationship than do the credit card issuers. The Skinny on Credit Cards will teach you how to win the game!!

Release Date: October 30, 2009