Women's Works in Stalin's Time : On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam (9780253208293)

"...impressive, eloquently written ...[Holmgren] provide[s] an integrated comparative study of two very different female survivors of the Stalinist night" - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University. "...a bold scholarly act...The writing is excellent throughout" - Barbara Heldt, University of British Columbia. Focusing on the works of Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Beth Holmgren reclaims the extraordinary roles that women writers played as conservators of culture and memory in Stalin's time. Holmgren argues that during the Stalin era, the domestic sphere offered a haven for dissident acts of resistance and cultural survival. She examines literary texts by such writers as Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, and especially Anna Akhmatova that variously scripted women's unofficial roles. She then traces how Chukovskaia and Mandelstam reclaimed and revised these scripts, evoking their own creative models. This fresh and original approach to the culture of the Stalin era illuminates Russian cultural and literary history with insights from feminist theory and recent writing on women's autobiography and on the theme of history and memory.

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• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 235 x 12.7mm | 500g
• Publication date 01 Nov 1993
• Publisher Indiana University Press
• Publication City/Country Bloomington, IN, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 3 b&w photographs
• ISBN10 0253208297
• ISBN13 9780253208293

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Feel the Wind (9780064450959)

Wind

Have you ever felt the wind tickle your face or heard it whistle through your window? Did you know that some wind travels faster than a car? Read inside to find out more about what causes wind, and learn how to make your own weather vane!

Have you ever felt the wind tickle your face or heard it whistle through your window? Did you know that some wind travels faster than a car?

Air is always moving. We can't see air moving, though we can watch it push clouds across the sky, or shake the leaves of a tree. We call moving air the wind. In this enlarged edition, find out about the wind - what causes it, how it can be used to help us, and how it affects the weather.

Arthur Dorros shows you how to make your own weather vane, and in simple terms, with playful illustrations, he explains just what makes the wind that blows all around us.

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• For ages 0-5
• Format Paperback | 32 pages
• Dimensions 204 x 249 x 3mm | 120g
• Publication date 05 Feb 2001
• Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint WILLIAM MORROW
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New edition
• Illustrations note colour illustrations
• ISBN10 0064450953
• ISBN13 9780064450959
• Bestsellers rank 122,145

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Factfulness : Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think (9781473637474)

The #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA

Things aren't as bad as we think. Fact.

At last, a book that puts all the bad news in perspective- and brings us surprisingly positive data that show the state of the world has in fact improved over the last 50-200 years. Acclaimed by Bill Gates and Barack Obama, named an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' - destined to be a perennial bestseller and non-fiction classic. (let's make that a fact!)

'Wonderful . . . a passionate and erudite message that is all more moving because it comes from beyond the grave . . . His knack for presentation and delight in statistics come across on every page. Who else would choose a chart of "guitars per capita" as a proxy for human progress?' FINANCIAL TIMES

'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES

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• Format Paperback | 352 pages
• Dimensions 110 x 178 x 21mm | 194g
• Publication date 09 Oct 2019
• Publisher HODDER & STOUGHTON
• Imprint Sceptre
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1473637473
• ISBN13 9781473637474
• Bestsellers rank 698

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Job 21-37, Volume 18A (9780310521938)

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

Introduction--covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.Each section of the commentary includes: Pericope Bibliography--a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.Translation--the author's own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.Notes--the author's notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.Form/Structure/Setting--a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.Comment--verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.Explanation--brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.General Bibliography--occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

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• Format Hardback | 560 pages
• Dimensions 159 x 235 x 38mm | 930g
• Publication date 07 Apr 2015
• Publisher ZONDERVAN
• Publication City/Country Grand Rapids, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 0310521939
• ISBN13 9780310521938
• Bestsellers rank 566,969

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Man's Search for Meaning (9780807000007)

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man's Search for Meaning--at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Yet rather than "a tale concerned with the great horrors," Frankl focuses in on the "hard fight for existence" waged by "the great army of unknown and unrecorded." Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that the "the will to meaning" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy, and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living.

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• Format Paperback | 299 pages
• Dimensions 178 x 255 x 19mm | 662g
• Publication date 18 Feb 2014
• Publisher Beacon Press
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Edition Large type / large print
• Edition Statement Large type / large print edition
• ISBN10 0807000000
• ISBN13 9780807000007
• Bestsellers rank 103,333

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Seventy-Five Years : A History of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1861-1936 (9781258739065)

Contributors Include Ruth A. Sparrow, Carlos E. Cummings, William Wild And Others. Bulletin Of The Buffalo Society Of Natural Sciences, V18.

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• Format Paperback | 286 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 15mm | 386g
• Publication date 01 Jun 2013
• Publisher Literary Licensing, LLC
• Language English
• ISBN10 1258739062
• ISBN13 9781258739065

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Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself : A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace (9780307592439)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces for Harper's magazine in the '90s were, according to Lipsky, "like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming." Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader's escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an "orgy of spectation"). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace's dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things--everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him--in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him--that grateful, awake feeling--the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church. A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace's own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer--of being young generally--trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and--as he tells it--what it was like to become David Foster Wallace. "If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious."
--David Foster Wallace

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• Format Paperback | 320 pages
• Dimensions 159 x 235 x 27.94mm | 504g
• Publication date 24 Jun 2010
• Publisher Three Rivers Press
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 030759243X
• ISBN13 9780307592439
• Bestsellers rank 42,450

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