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As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (Jews in Eastern Europe)

An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld—hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.

As We Go

As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick

The world is full of brilliant people whose ideas are never heard. This book is designed to make sure that you’re not one of them. Even for the most self-confident among us, public speaking can be a nerve-racking ordeal. Whether we are speaking to a large audience, within a group, or in a one-on-one conversation, the way in which we communicate ideas, as much as the ideas themselves, can determine success or failure. In this invaluable guide by two of today’s most sought-after communication experts, Peter Meyers and Shann Nix offer a comprehensive approach for tackling the underlying obstacles that almost all of us experience when faced with speaking in public. In As We Speak, you’ll learn to master the three building blocks at the core of their approach: Content: Organize the information you want to convey and construct a clear and lucid architecture of ideas that will lead your listener through a memorable emotional experience. Delivery: Use your body, voice, eyes, and hands in ways that engage your audience and naturally support your message. State: Bring yourself into peak performance condition. Your state is the way you feel when you perform, and it is both the most powerful and most frequently overlooked component of communication. Meyers and Nix show how to apply these principles in a wide variety of situations. You’ll learn how to handle difficult face-to-face conversations with colleagues, friends, and family; how to make the best use of e-mail, phone, video conference, and other technology; and how to communicate in a crisis, when all eyes are on you and emotions are running high. Meyers and Nix also emphasize that effective communication is impossible without first becoming aware of your own true goals and personal beliefs, and they offer helpful tools and exercises that will lead you to greater clarity and self-knowledge. Accessible, inspiring, and laden with useful tips, As We Speak will help you discover your authentic voice and learn to convey your ideas in the most powerful and memorable way possible.

As We Were Saying: Sewanee Writers on Writing

Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard more broadly. All are written in response to questions generated by the process of writing, as masters of the craft candidly report challenges they confront and the means by which they work to resolve such issues. The eighteen essays encompass poetry, fiction, and playwriting, investigating questions of language, character, design, and meaning, with nuanced readings of particular authors and works alongside more wide-ranging reflections on craft. Designed for audiences of writers and readers across multiple levels and backgrounds, the essays collected in As We Were Saying offer original, insightful arguments about the craft of writing and the power of literature.

As You Like It: MAXNotes Literature Guides

REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's As You Like It The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of As You Like It and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.

As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man ("Ganymede"), "teaches" the art of romantic wooing to Orlando.The cutting includes Jaques' timeless "Seven Ages of Man" speech; Touchstone the Fool's courtship of Audrey; and the hilarious love triangle between Silvius, Phebe, and Rosalind (as Ganymede). The entire cast joins in the delightful song "A Lover and His Lass" to bring a rousing end to this charming comedy.The edition includes helpful advice by Nick Newlin on how to put on a Shakespeare production in a high school class with novice actors, as well as tips for performing the specific play and recommendations for further resources.

As You Like It (Shakespeare Made Easy)

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

As You Like It (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)

As You Like It (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.

As You Like It: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism #No. 17)

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It. Twenty-six major essays on the play, including several written especially for this volume highlight the work, coupled with twenty-three reviews of various productions, ranging from 1741 to 1919. Edward Tomarken edited this valuable collection with a contents that includes pieces by Samuel Johnson, Charles Gildon, J. Payne Collier, Denton J. Snider, Charles Wingate, Victor O. Freeburg, J.B. Priestly, Cumberland Clark, Margaret Maurer and others.

Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years

It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn’t “getit,” and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled. The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as the phony was for Holden Caulfield and the cad was for Anthony Trollope. From Donald Trump to Ann Coulter, from Mel Gibson to Anthony Weiner, from the reality TV prima donnas to the internet trolls and flamers, assholism has become the characteristic form of modern incivility, which implicitly expresses our deepest values about class, relationships, authenticity, and fairness. We have conflicting attitudes about the A-word––when a presidential candidate unwittingly uttered it on a live mic in 2000, it confirmed to some that he was a man of the people and to others that he was a boor. But considering how much the word does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves––at least until now.

The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core. From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF. "

Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic?Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyond the many legends that surround it. He unveils the literary ideas and networks that made possible the book’s creation and initial success. Santana-Acuña then follows this novel’s path in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert

Gott examines Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874). He provides a highly original reading of both texts and argues that a stylistic affinity exists between the two works.

Asemic: The Art of Writing

The first critical study of writing without language In recent years, asemic writing—writing without language—has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and flourishing interest on sites like tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. Yet this burgeoning, fascinating field has never received a dedicated critical study. Asemic fills that gap, proposing new ways of rethinking the nature of writing.Pioneered in the work of creators such as Henri Michaux, Roland Barthes, and Cy Twombly, asemic writing consolidated as a movement in the 1990s. Author Peter Schwenger first covers these &“asemic ancestors&” before moving to current practitioners such as Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, and Christopher Skinner, exploring how asemic writing has evolved and gained importance in the contemporary era.Asemic includes intriguing revelations about the relation of asemic writing to Chinese characters, the possibility of asemic writing in nature, and explanations of how we can read without language. Written in a lively style, this book will engage scholars of contemporary art and literary theory, as well as anyone interested in what writing was and what it is now in the process of becoming.

Asesinato en Amsterdam: La muerte de Theo van Gogh y los límites de la tolerancia

Un clásico contemporáneo del ensayo y el reportaje: cómo el asesinato de Theo van Gogh a manos de un islamista radical supuso el fin del sueño de las sociedades multiculturales en Europa. Quizá el primer aviso de los problemas que Europa iba a afrontar en el siglo XXI fue el asesinato del cineasta Theo van Gogh en Amsterdam, a manos de un islamista radical, el 2 de noviembre de 2004. Su crimen había sido filmar una película documental con Ayaan Irsi Alii, diputada holandesa de origen somalí y una de las principales críticas del islam. Junto al cadáver de Van Gogh parecía agonizar el sueño holandés -y por extensión el europeo- de una sociedad multicultural capaz de absorber a los inmigrantes que acuden en busca de una vida mejor. Ian Buruma tomó este asesinato como el punto de partida para una vibrante obra, mitad reportaje mitad ensayo, en la que se enfrenta con las medias verdades, los cinismos, los problemas y las vanas esperanzas de Europa ante las nuevas migraciones, en un país como Holanda, en el que el 45% de los habitantes son de origen extranjero y cuyas políticas de integración y multiculturalismo eran vistas como un modelo. El asesinato de Van Gogh, la controvertida figura del político Pim Fortuyn, las contradicciones del Estado de bienestar europeo y la aparición de una versión violenta y radical del islam son algunos de los hilos con los que Buruma teje este fascinante, fundamental y premonitorio libro, un auténtico clásico contemporáneo. Reseñas:«Un reportaje puede ser una obra de arte, si su autor escribe con elegancia y eficacia, documenta con rigor sus informaciones y las organiza con la precisión y la astucia de un buen novelista. Es lo que ha hecho Ian Buruma en Asesinato en Amsterdam, un libro que se lee como una novela de suspense aunque en él no haya fantasía y sí historia viva, y hunda sus raíces en la más candente actualidad.»Mario Vargas Llosa, El País «Fascinante. Tan agudo e inteligente como cabía esperar de Buruma.»Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books

Asesino de espías

El marinero Americano Kurt Reid es un tipo impetuoso: tan duro y energico como Benicio del Toro. Falsamente acusado de asesinato, Reid cambia de barco en Shangai. . . y desembarca en una telarana de intrigas, traiciones y asesinatos. Atraido a un letal juego de espias, tendra que aprender rapido las reglas, porque con jugadores como la sexy agente rusa Varinka Savischna el juego es tan seductor como siniestro.

El asesino de la pantalla grande

No exagero al decir que tras leerlo, te internarás en un laberinto que puede llevarte por caminos que quisieras evitar por no encontrar la salida. Tras su primera novela Aquiles Strovosky, Esteban Valenzuela nos asombra con una serie de cuentos, recogidos de su singular forma de observar la vida, es así, como las palabras como no sé, no creo; sí, pero o me falta por nombrar algunas, se transforman en singulares personajes en los cuentos de éste escritor, que nació en San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, pero que luego de nacionalizarse chileno (por sus padres), se considera un porteño de corazón, por la ciudad de Valparaíso, donde dice que nació de nuevo. De hecho su novela transcurre, en esa ciudad de Chile. Empecinado en hacer de su forma de escribir un estilo particular, busca mostrarle las variadas formas de mirar la vida, a veces de las voces de sus inconscientes, otras recurre a fantasmas personales,traumas e inclusive a Dios, como sucede en el cuento podría morir en éste instante, en que la protagonista, después de morir, conversa con el todopoderoso, para recriminarle sobre su vida y la de su amante.

Asesinos seriales en México: Los monstruos urbanos

Matan por gusto; uno de ellos podría ser tu vecino.Son los asesinos seriales.Este personaje macabro se ha popularizado en las series de televisión y las películas, pero es real. Existe y está al acecho. A veces come carne humana. Podría ser tu vecino o alguien a quien conoces y te parece una persona normal, pero que en el fondo profesa un odio inagotable. Su mente está perturbada por viejos rencores y heridas ancestrales que nunca sanaron. Ejere una violencia descomunal e implacable sobre sus víctimas. Es el asesino serial, y en México deambulan muchos por ahí. Más de los que crees.Algunos de estos criminales dicen estar poseídos por entidades sobrenaturales y otros descuatizan personas por entretenimientos. En estas reveladoras páginas, Filiberto Cruz expone su enomre talento como periodísta de investigación, en un libro dedicado a los asesinos seriales mexicanos. Por aquí figuran caníbales que se creínan poetas, expertos en artes marciales que mataban por diversión, vendedores de fierro viejo que alimentaban con carne humana a sus mascotaas, violadores carniceros y otras mentes trastornadas.Aquí se detallan como nunca antes las motivaciones, el modus operandi y la oscura mente de la Matataxistas, el Carnicero de Atizapán, el Comecorazones, el Coqueto, el Caníbal de la Guerrero, la Mataviejitas, los monstruos de Ecatepec y muchos otros espeluznantes asesinos en serie a lo largo de México, desde Ciudad Juárez hasta Mérida, y desde los años ochenta hasta nuestros días dominados por las redes sociales. El impecable ejercicio periodístico de Filiberto Cruz no revictimiza a las infortunadas personas que cayeron en las garras de estos inhumnos criminales, y tampoco hace gala de una pasión oscura. Su intención es arrojar luz para comprender cómo, dónde y por qué han matado los asesinos seriales más conocidos en nuestro país.

Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists. A distant reading of this corpus finds that the Asexual Exile trope is employed in approximately two-thirds of cases. The author analyses how this trope permutates across genres, and the frequency of its endorsement and subversion by these narratives. Presenting the first extensive investigation into the Asexual Exile trope in YA fiction, this research investigates how asexual characters are Othered as not truly alive, and how these messages then rebound into necropolitical cultural understandings of asexual people as expendable. The results prompt the questions: how does the Asexual Exile trope influence Young Adult readers in the formation of their ideologies? How can publishers do better?

The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library #4)

Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and reducing earth to a tiny speck in an overwhelmingly immense cosmos, Bruno offers a lively description of his clash of opinions with the conservative academics and theologians he argued with in Oxford and London. This volume, containing what has recently been claimed as the final version of Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper, presents a new translation based on a newly edited text, with critical comment that takes account of the most current discussion of the textual, historical, cosmological and philosophical issues raised in this dialogue. It considers Bruno’s work as a seminal text of the late European renaissance.

Ashcroft's Programmed Instruction: Unified English Braille

The textbook Ashcroft's Programmed Instruction in Braille (APIB) has a long and distinguished history. In 1963, the first version of this text was created by Sam Ashcroft and Freda Henderson. It quickly became an important resource for teachers who were learning to work with students with visual impairments. Ashcroft and Henderson's Programmed Instruction in Braille became a staple in university programs preparing these teachers. We join countless other professionals in gratitude for this text which created the foundation of braille code knowledge for many generations of teachers. <P><P><i>Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.

ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals.

Asher the Thresher Shark: Targeting the sh Sound (Speech Bubbles 2)

Asher the thresher shark is very shy. Will it stop him from being a hero? This picture book targets the /sh/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children’s speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents, teachers or caregivers. Bright pictures and a fun story create an engaging activity perfect for sound awareness. Picture books are sold individually, or in a pack. There are currently two packs available – Speech Bubbles 1 and Speech Bubbles 2. Please see further titles in the series for stories targeting other speech sounds.

Ashes & Stars

Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes's final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: Volume 4: The Seventeenth Century (Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers)

Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.