WHEREAS

WHEREAS
Title WHEREAS PDF eBook
Author Layli Long Soldier
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 121
Release 2017-03-07
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1555979610

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The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Whereas: Poems

Whereas: Poems
Title Whereas: Poems PDF eBook
Author Stephen Dunn
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 80
Release 2017-02-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0393254682

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In wise and masterful poems, Stephen Dunn “reveals a deep understanding of human longing and the desire to become more than what we are” (Washington Post). Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn examines the difficulties of telling the truth, and the fictions with which we choose to live. Finding beauty in the ordinary, this collection considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life, allowing room for more rethinking, reflection, revision, prayer, and magic in the world.

Begin. Whereas there was printed at Colen by Orthuinus Gratius, anno 1535, a book in folio, intituled, Fasciculus rerum expetendarum&fugiendarum, etc. [A prospectus.]

Begin. Whereas there was printed at Colen by Orthuinus Gratius, anno 1535, a book in folio, intituled, Fasciculus rerum expetendarum&fugiendarum, etc. [A prospectus.]
Title Begin. Whereas there was printed at Colen by Orthuinus Gratius, anno 1535, a book in folio, intituled, Fasciculus rerum expetendarum&fugiendarum, etc. [A prospectus.] PDF eBook
Author Ortwinus GRATIUS
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 1688
Genre
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The Loyal Subject. Whereas There Hath Been Some Attempts and Presumptions of Late by Disaffected Persons to Oppose that Constitution of Government which Hath Ever Made the People of this Famous Kingdome Happy at Home, and Renowned Abroad: These are Therefore, (shewing Forth Some Examples of History, ...) to Exhort All His Majesties Subjects, ... to an Holy Conformity in Christian Government

The Loyal Subject. Whereas There Hath Been Some Attempts and Presumptions of Late by Disaffected Persons to Oppose that Constitution of Government which Hath Ever Made the People of this Famous Kingdome Happy at Home, and Renowned Abroad: These are Therefore, (shewing Forth Some Examples of History, ...) to Exhort All His Majesties Subjects, ... to an Holy Conformity in Christian Government
Title The Loyal Subject. Whereas There Hath Been Some Attempts and Presumptions of Late by Disaffected Persons to Oppose that Constitution of Government which Hath Ever Made the People of this Famous Kingdome Happy at Home, and Renowned Abroad: These are Therefore, (shewing Forth Some Examples of History, ...) to Exhort All His Majesties Subjects, ... to an Holy Conformity in Christian Government PDF eBook
Author R. Thomson (of Newcastle.)
Publisher
Pages 8
Release 1660
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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
Title Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Putnam
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Pages 592
Release 2020-10-13
Genre History
ISBN 1982130849

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Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolized a significant social change that became the basis of the acclaimed bestseller, Bowling Alone, which The Washington Post called “a very important book” and Putnam, “the de Tocqueville of our generation.” Bowling Alone surveyed in detail Americans’ changing behavior over the decades, showing how we had become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether it’s with the PTA, church, clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. In the revised edition of his classic work, Putnam shows how our shrinking access to the “social capital” that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing still poses a serious threat to our civic and personal health, and how these consequences have a new resonance for our divided country today. He includes critical new material on the pervasive influence of social media and the internet, which has introduced previously unthinkable opportunities for social connection—as well as unprecedented levels of alienation and isolation. At the time of its publication, Putnam’s then-groundbreaking work showed how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction, and how the loss of social capital is felt in critical ways, acting as a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, and affecting our health in other ways. While the ways in which we connect, or become disconnected, have changed over the decades, his central argument remains as powerful and urgent as ever: mending our frayed social capital is key to preserving the very fabric of our society.

On Immunity

On Immunity
Title On Immunity PDF eBook
Author Eula Biss
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 196
Release 2014-09-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1555973272

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A New York Times Best Seller A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year A Facebook "Year of Books" Selection One of the Best Books of the Year * National Book Critics Circle Award finalist * The New York Times Book Review (Top 10) * Entertainment Weekly (Top 10) * New York Magazine (Top 10)* Chicago Tribune (Top 10) * Publishers Weekly (Top 10) * Time Out New York (Top 10) * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Booklist * NPR's Science Friday * Newsday * Slate * Refinery 29 * And many more... Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of Notes from No Man's Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear-fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world. In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates.

If You Want to Write

If You Want to Write
Title If You Want to Write PDF eBook
Author Brenda Ueland
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 192
Release 2013-05-20
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1627932011

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Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. In If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit she shares her philosophies on writing and life in general. Ueland firmly believed that anyone can write, that everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say. In this book she explains how find that spark that will make you a great writer. Carl Sandburg called this book the best book ever written about how to write. Join the millions of others who've found inspiration and unlocked their own talent.