Author: Craig Pospisil
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Editor Craig Pospisil has drawn exclusively from Dramatists Play Service publications to compile this collection, which features over fifty monologues. You will find an enormous range of voices and subject matter, characters from their teens to their seve
The Vast Difference
Author: Jeff Daniels
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217626
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
THE STORY: George Noonan needs a vasectomy. As a flight attendant and the father of five girls, George turns a routine visit to his urologist into a psychotherapy session about life, the insignificance of the modern-day man and the vast difference
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217626
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
THE STORY: George Noonan needs a vasectomy. As a flight attendant and the father of five girls, George turns a routine visit to his urologist into a psychotherapy session about life, the insignificance of the modern-day man and the vast difference
Outstanding Men's Monologues 2001-2002
Author: Craig Pospisil
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Editor Craig Pospisil has drawn exclusively from Dramatists Play Service publications to compile this collection, which features over fifty monologues. You will find an enormous range of voices and subject matter, characters from their teens to their seve
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Editor Craig Pospisil has drawn exclusively from Dramatists Play Service publications to compile this collection, which features over fifty monologues. You will find an enormous range of voices and subject matter, characters from their teens to their seve
The Roy Stories
Author: Barry Gifford
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609804988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford “a great comic realist,” while Pedro Almodóvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.” In The Roy Stories Gifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford’s previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609804988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford “a great comic realist,” while Pedro Almodóvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.” In The Roy Stories Gifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford’s previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.
All the Difference
Author: Benjamin Howard Higgins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
All the Difference is the story of one man's work in the vast international effort since World War II to raise standards of living in less developed countries; an effort in which all member countries of the United Nations have to some extent been involved. In the opening chapter Benjamin Higgins recounts how, almost by accident, he became a "development economist" at the age of thirty-nine, and indicates how inadequate the training and experience of the first generation of development economists were for this role.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
All the Difference is the story of one man's work in the vast international effort since World War II to raise standards of living in less developed countries; an effort in which all member countries of the United Nations have to some extent been involved. In the opening chapter Benjamin Higgins recounts how, almost by accident, he became a "development economist" at the age of thirty-nine, and indicates how inadequate the training and experience of the first generation of development economists were for this role.
Metametaphysics
Author: David Chalmers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199546045
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199546045
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.
The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review
Author: Charles Hodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
The Causation of Disease
Author: Harry Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Analyzing the Different Voice
Author: Ellen S. Silber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847686414
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The essays collected in Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts apply influential, pathbreaking psychological studies about women's lives to literature. In their analyses of fictional portraits, contributors both challenge and confirm psychological theories about female identity, about 'connection/separation' as developmental catalysts, and about the impact of gender on 'voice, ' moral decision-making, and epistemology in relation to classical and contemporary literary texts, written by both women and men.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847686414
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The essays collected in Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts apply influential, pathbreaking psychological studies about women's lives to literature. In their analyses of fictional portraits, contributors both challenge and confirm psychological theories about female identity, about 'connection/separation' as developmental catalysts, and about the impact of gender on 'voice, ' moral decision-making, and epistemology in relation to classical and contemporary literary texts, written by both women and men.
East Encounters West
Author: Fatma Muge Gocek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In 1720, an Ottoman ambassador was sent to the court of the Child King Louis XV to observe Western civilization and report on what he saw and how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on the accounts of this ambassador, East Encounters West studies the impact of the West on the Ottoman empire and the impact of this Ottoman embassy on the two societies. In France, the presence of the embassy yielded only a brief fashion of Turquerie, whereas in the Ottoman empire, it yielded the first official printing press, signalling an important step toward Western style. Göçek here assesses the reasons behind these differential impacts through three factors: the Western technological advances, consequent commercial expansion, and the different reactions of various social groups in the Ottoman empire to these developments. Her analysis reveals a far-reaching and complex Westernization process that permeated Turkish society as it was approved and imported by dignitaries and eventually passed onto average households. Sketching the process of Westernization from the perspective of Easterners, this unique book throws new light on the cultural differences between these two major civilizations and on the nature of cultural transmission and diffusion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In 1720, an Ottoman ambassador was sent to the court of the Child King Louis XV to observe Western civilization and report on what he saw and how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on the accounts of this ambassador, East Encounters West studies the impact of the West on the Ottoman empire and the impact of this Ottoman embassy on the two societies. In France, the presence of the embassy yielded only a brief fashion of Turquerie, whereas in the Ottoman empire, it yielded the first official printing press, signalling an important step toward Western style. Göçek here assesses the reasons behind these differential impacts through three factors: the Western technological advances, consequent commercial expansion, and the different reactions of various social groups in the Ottoman empire to these developments. Her analysis reveals a far-reaching and complex Westernization process that permeated Turkish society as it was approved and imported by dignitaries and eventually passed onto average households. Sketching the process of Westernization from the perspective of Easterners, this unique book throws new light on the cultural differences between these two major civilizations and on the nature of cultural transmission and diffusion.