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O! Call Back Yesterday, Joy Trott Dec 2012

O! Call Back Yesterday, Joy Trott

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When VE Day was announced in 1945, twenty-one year old Joy Trott was halfway across the Atlantic Ocean with a newborn daughter who had yet to meet her father. Armed with a trunk and a pram, Joyce embarked on a new life alongside her Canadian husband.

In her memoirs, Trott recounts her early childhood in Depression-era Great Britain and the death of her parents, her life as a teenaged volunteer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service of the British Army, and her immigration to Canada as a young war bride. Interwoven into this personal narrative are anecdotes and reflections on class, …


The Festive City, Evelyn Lincoln, Emily J. Peters Dec 2012

The Festive City, Evelyn Lincoln, Emily J. Peters

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In early modern Europe (1500-1800), festivals enlivened civic spaces with a frequency, scale, and magnificence unrecognizable to us today. Festivals marked ritual moments, praised political agendas, and provided public entertainment. Europe’s papal court, sovereign powers, civic governments, and high aristocracy sponsored festivals for all sorts of occasions, staging joyous entry processions when foreign dignitaries entered a city, celebrating coronations, marriages, royal births, and funerals, and honoring saint’s days and Carnival season. Festivals shaped the public spaces of European cities. Buildings, plazas, stairways, and roadways were constructed specifically with festivals in mind. Likewise, festivals put the social structure of the city …


Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian And American Cold War Satire, Derek C. Maus Oct 2012

Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian And American Cold War Satire, Derek C. Maus

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Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations—including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vasily Aksyonov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Alexander Zinoviev, Vladimir Voinovich, Fazil Iskander, and Sasha Sokolov.

Maus surveys the background of each nation's culture, language, sociology, politics, and philosophy to map the foundation on which cold war satire was built. By …


Life Begins With Faith: Poems And Meditations, George William Wiseman Jan 2012

Life Begins With Faith: Poems And Meditations, George William Wiseman

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The Book And The Student: Theological Education As Mission, Wagner Kuhn Jan 2012

The Book And The Student: Theological Education As Mission, Wagner Kuhn

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Fasting For A Miracle, Elmer L. Towns Jan 2012

Fasting For A Miracle, Elmer L. Towns

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Walking With Giants, Elmer L. Towns Jan 2012

Walking With Giants, Elmer L. Towns

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Contemplativus Simul In Actione, Lmu Center For Ignatian Spirituality Jan 2012

Contemplativus Simul In Actione, Lmu Center For Ignatian Spirituality

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Franco-Irish Connections In Space And Time: Peregrinations And Ruminations, Eamon Maher, Catherine Maignant Jan 2012

Franco-Irish Connections In Space And Time: Peregrinations And Ruminations, Eamon Maher, Catherine Maignant

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Strong cultural, commercial, literary and intellectual links have existed for many centuries between the Celtic cousins France and Ireland and continue to flourish today. This book explores some of the connections that have been forged over space and time by groups and individuals travelling between the two countries.
Covering subjects as varied as travel literature, music, philosophy, wine production, photography and consumer culture, and spanning the seventeenth through to the twenty-first centuries, the collection draws attention to the rich tapestry of interconnections and associations which confirm this unique and mutually beneficial friendship. The book examines the role of figures such …


Deutsche Und Schweizer In Der Schlacht Am Little Big Horn 1876, Albert Winkler, Dietmar Kuegler, Trans. Jan 2012

Deutsche Und Schweizer In Der Schlacht Am Little Big Horn 1876, Albert Winkler, Dietmar Kuegler, Trans.

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Wonderful Words Of Life: Meditations Based On Traditional Hymns And Gospel Songs, George William Wiseman Jan 2012

Wonderful Words Of Life: Meditations Based On Traditional Hymns And Gospel Songs, George William Wiseman

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