UN Voices
Title | UN Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas G. Weiss |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 2005-06-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780253217882 |
Interviewed by the authors, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and 71 other UN professionals speak about international cooperation and the ideas that have shaped the accomplishments of the UN.
UN Voices
Title | UN Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas George Weiss |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253346428 |
Interviewed by the authors, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and 71 other UN professionals speak about international cooperation and the ideas that have shaped the accomplishments of the UN.
Adapted Voices
Title | Adapted Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Armelle Blin-Rolland |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1351577530 |
Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le metro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language. Since their publication they have been adapted into a broad range of media, including illustrated novel, bande dessinee, film, stage performance and recorded reading. What happens to their striking literary voices as they are transposed into media that combine text and image, sound and image, or consist of sound alone? In this study, Armelle Blin-Rolland examines adaptations sparked by these two seminal novels to understand what 'voice' means in each medium, and its importance in the process of adaptation.
Voices of the Iraq War
Title | Voices of the Iraq War PDF eBook |
Author | Brian L. Steed |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2016-04-11 |
Genre | History |
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The Iraq War (2003–2011) was the most significant conflict in the early 21st century. This book examines the ongoing importance of this war for the Middle East and the world today through first-person accounts of the war and primary source documents. Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life illuminates the complex and poorly reported realities of the conflict that those without direct experience cannot possibly fathom, presenting detailed personal accounts of what the conflict in Iraq was like across multiple disciplines and through a variety of viewpoints. The accounts are based on interviews with American, Iraqi-American, and British officers who deployed and fought throughout the country of Iraq. The book begins with the story of an Iraqi boy who flees Iraq with his family after Desert Storm and then returns to Iraq as a translator to assist U.S. forces nearly 16 years later. The book is filled with personal accounts of combat and training as well as other real-world experiences that define what the Iraq War meant to thousands of U.S. and allied service members. These personal accounts are supported with national level policy speeches and official statements that help readers put the individual stories and events in national, regional, and global perspective. The book concludes by examining the impact of this war on thousands of young men and women that will last for decades to come.
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett
Title | Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2021-08-16 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9004468382 |
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
Title | Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Leudar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2005-08-19 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1134754280 |
Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.
Voices of Scleroderma
Title | Voices of Scleroderma PDF eBook |
Author | International Scleroderma Network |
Publisher | International Scleroderma Network |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0972462309 |
Contains anecdotes and experiences of people with scleroderma or with loved ones who have it.