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How Dare We! Write:A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
How Dare We! Write:A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
Sherry Quan Lee
¥56.82
How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, and to stand against traditions that silence you?" and "How can writers and teachers even begin to make diversity matter in meaningful ways on the page, in the classroom, and on our bookshelves?" How Dare We! Write is an inspiring collection of intellectually rigorous lyric essays and innovative writing exercises; it opens up a path for inquiry, reflection, understanding, and creativity that is ultimately healing. The testimonies provide a hard won context for their innovative paired writing experiments that are, by their very nature, generative. --Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania So-called "creative writing" classes are highly politicized spaces, but no one says so; to acknowledge this obvious fact would be to up-end the aesthetics, cultural politics (ideology) and economics on which most educational institutions are founded How Dare We! Write, a brilliant interventive anthology of essays, breaks this silence. --Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art; co-editor of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader How Dare We! Write a collection of brave voices calling out to writers of color everywhere: no matter how lonely, you are not alone; you are one in a sea of change, swimming against the currents. --Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, and The Song Poet, a 2017 Minnesota Book Award winner How Dare We! Write is a much needed collection of essays from writers of color that reminds us that our stories need to be told, from addressing academic gatekeepers, embracing our identities, the effects of the oppressor's tongue on our psyche and to the personal narratives that help us understand who we are. --Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, writer, spoken word poet/performer and contributing author to A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Learn more at http://blog.SherryQuanLee.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
The Sitting Swing:Finding the Wisdom to Know the Difference
The Sitting Swing:Finding the Wisdom to Know the Difference
Irene Watson
¥65.99
Irene Watson's pretentious life could go no further until she faced her past. Her moving and inspiring memoir begins at the end, in a recovery center, where she has gone to understand a childhood fraught with abuse, guilt, and uncertainty.Two distinct parts of the book look at abusive child rearing and the process of recovery years later. This story shows change, growth, and forgiveness are possible. It gives hope and freedom to those accepting the past and re-writing life scripts that have been passed down for generations. It's never too late to change your life, never too late to heal.Praise for The Sitting Swing"Watson's memoir recounts her fearful, highly sheltered years as she uncovers the childhood wounds leading to her personality crisis. This is an earnest memoir, well structured." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"The Sitting Swing is the poignant story of the author's successful journey to transcend the patterns sculpted by her parents and childhood experiences. I loved it!" --NANCY OELKLAUS, PHD, LIFE COACH AND AUTHOR OF JOURNEY FROM HEAD TO HEART: LIVING AND WORKING AUTHENTICALLY"As a teacher of transformational principles for self-discovery and the treatment of addictions, reading The Sitting Swing inspired me to a richer new voice, infusing my lectures with a deeper level of meaning. Irene's personal story of transformation will add to the experience, strength, and hope we share with our clients and to anyone who is on a path of personal transformation. " --MARY LYNN SZYMANDERA, LCAS, CEFIP, OUTPATIENT MANAGER, PAVILLON INTERNATIONAL, AND EQUINE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, SAWHORSE HILLAuthor info at www.irenewatson.comBook #6 in the Spiritual Dimensions Series from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
As a Matter of Course
As a Matter of Course
Annie Payson Call
¥40.79
The aim of this book is to assist towards the removal of nervous irritants, which are not only the cause of much physical disease, but materially interfere with the best possibilities of usefulness and pleasure in everyday life.
The Witch and Other Stories
The Witch and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
¥40.79
It was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at the same time as the hens. His coarse red hair peeped from under one end of the greasy patchwork quilt, made up of coloured rags, while his big unwashed feet stuck out from the other. He was listening. His hut adjoined the wall that encircled the church and the solitary window in it looked out upon the open country. And out there a regular battle was going on. It was hard to say who was being wiped off the face of the earth, and for the sake of whose destruction nature was being churned up into such a ferment; but, judging from the unceasing malignant roar, someone was getting it very hot.
How to Write a Suicide Note:Serial Essays that Saved a Woman's Life
How to Write a Suicide Note:Serial Essays that Saved a Woman's Life
Sherry Quan Lee
¥56.82
How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma--the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could love her. Writing has given her the creative power to name the experiences that dictated who she was, even before she was born, and write notes to them, suicide notes. Sherry Quan Lee believes writing saves lives; writing has saved her life.Acclaim for How to Write a Suicide Note "How to Write a Suicide Note is a haunting portrait of the daughter of an African mother and a Chinese father. Sherry dares to be who she isn't supposed to be, feel what she isn't supposed to feel, and destroys racial and gender myths as she integrates her bi-racial identity into all that she is. Through her raw honesty and vulnerability, Sherry captures a range of emotions most people are afraid to confront, or even share. Her work is a gift to the mental health community." --Beth Kyong Lo, M.A., Clinical Psychologist "Sherry Quan Lee offers us, in How to Write a Suicide Note, a deep breathing meditation on how love is under continuous revision. And like all the best Blues singers, Quan Lee voices the lowdown, dirty paces that living puts us through, but without regret or surrender." Wesley Brown, author of Darktown Strutters and Tragic Magic "I love the female aspects, the sex, and the strong voice Sherry Quan Lee uses to share her private life in How To Write A Suicide Note. I love the wit, the tongue-in-cheek, the trippiness of it all. I love the metaphors, especially the lover and suicide ones. I love the free-associations, the 'raving, ravenous, relentless' back and forth. Quan Lee breaks the rules and finds her genius. How to Write a Suicide Note is a passionate, risk-taking, outrageous, life-affirming book and love letter." Sharon Doubiago, author of Body and Soul, Hard Country; and other works Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com Book #2 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Francis Bacon
¥8.09
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. A much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38 essays. Another, under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was published in 1625 with 58 essays. Translations into French and Italian appeared during Bacon's lifetime. ? Bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the later essays. In "Of Boldness" he wrote, "If the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill", which is the earliest known appearance of that proverb in print. The phrase "hostages to fortune" appears in the essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" – again the earliest known usage. Aldous Huxley's book Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer", from Bacon's essay "Of Truth". The 1999 edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations includes no fewer than 91 quotations from the Essays.
Short Stories of Various Types
Short Stories of Various Types
J M Barrie
¥8.09
You will find that the stories in this collection are of different types with settings that take you in imagination all over our own country and into foreign lands. Try writing a story with a surprise ending like "The Gift of the Magi," a character story with the theme of unselfish love, and its setting in a big city. Again, "John G," the story of adventure with an animal for the hero, might suggest to you an adventuresome incident in your own experience. If you have a vivid imagination, it might be interesting to write a fanciful story like "Feathertop." All of you have heard of true and thrilling incidents of the recent Great War. Try to weave one into a good war story as did Daudet or Mrs. Andrews. Almost every young person loves nature or the open country. After you have read Mr. Garland's, "The Camping Trip," see how well you can tell a story of your own experience in the out-of-doors. Or, best of all, see if you can equal the great Conan Doyle in a detective story.
Magpies and Magic II :  The Great Escape
Magpies and Magic II : The Great Escape
Timothy Michael Lewis
¥31.07
Faced with Princess Candera’s kidnap by the Asperian Secret Service, our heroes attempt to undertake a daring mission to free her. However their usual level of incompetence quickly strikes and they too find themselves imprisoned in Minaturia’s most fearsome prison Ultricon. No one has ever escaped its magically secure interior. Inside the prison it soon becomes clear that they are not alone in their efforts to escape. Joining forces with the existing prisoners they hope soon to escape through an extremely long tunnel. But why do the guards not seem to care about the obvious escape attempt? Why does the tunnel never reach the surface? In the world outside Casper and his forces are being pushed back to their last fortress by Stephanie's superior army. It seems only a matter of time before he is killed or faced with exile to the underworld. The Pentagram Council while gloating of their success wonder about the force possessing Stephanie's body. Why can't they control her in the way they expect? Can they conquer Minaturia and then turn their attention to the world of the Giants? Can they escape? Is Stephanie lost forever, possessed by an unknown evil force? Will Casper avoid defeat from her advancing forces? Will the Pentagram Council succeed in their efforts at world domination? Find out in the next exciting part of the series, Magpies and Magic: The Great Escape.
Chinese Blackbird
Chinese Blackbird
Sherry Quan Lee
¥56.82
Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird "Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain. With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart, Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles with both the vagaries and concreteness of race, class, gender and sexual identity. Her guilt and shame are palpable. But so too are her emotional and intellectual triumphs. Like a favorite sad song when we have been dumped by the love of our lives, this volume will be oddly comforting to anyone who has ever been overcome by that sorrow which seems insurmountable." --Eden Torres, Assistant Professor Women's Studies, Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota "It's been a long time since I've been treated to a voice so full of honesty about one's struggle to come to terms with her identity. Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee takes the reader on her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender and sexual identity inform who she is. Along the way, she encounters rocks and boulders that would have stopped many of us. Instead, she turns them over and examines the creatures hiding in the darkness underneath, leaving no stone on her path unturned. Quan Lee is a courageous woman. She is one of my sheroes." --Carolyn Holbrook, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Founder and past Artistic/Executive Director of SASE: The Write Place "In Chinese Blackbird, Sherry Quan Lee renders stories of her complex cultural heritage with the lyrical touch of a poet coming into self-possession. Through the generative power of language, Lee creates an inspirational and a multifarious self. This self blows breath unto the page and into the reader, who may have felt quiescent or invisible, often feeling forced to choose among various enriching worlds, until she experiences the truth that only good literature can unveil about the joys and struggles of defining oneself on one's terms." --Pamela R. Fletcher, Associate Professor of English Co-Director of Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com Book #2 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
¥40.79
The story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. One day Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards; however, Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There the two boys get to know one another, fascinated by each other's life and their uncanny resemblance. They decide to switch clothes temporarily.
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
Walter Savage Landor
¥16.27
The poetry of Walter Savage Landor spans the final years of the Enlightenment to the greatest achievements of the Victorian Empire. Landor is now regarded as a ‘poet’s poet’, whose sensitive and beautiful poetry won the admiration of Browning, Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. His celebrated love poems were inspired by a succession of female romantic ideals – Ione, Ianthe, Rose Aylmer and Rose Paynter — while his "domestic" poems concerning his sister and children reveal equal finesse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Landor’s collected poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Landor's life and works* Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Walter Savage Landor* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Rare collections available in no other digital publication* Excellent formatting of the poems* Includes a selection of Landor's prose * Features a bonus biography - discover Landor's literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to Landor’s method of titling the majority of his poems with Roman numerals, this Delphi edition does not feature our usual chronological and alphabetical contents tables. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Walter Savage LandorBRIEF INTRODUCTION: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The Poetry CollectionsGEBIRCOLLECTION OF 1846THE HELLENICSTHE LAST FRUIT OF AN OLD TREEDRY STICKSMISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM “HEROIC IDYLS” WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, 1863 The PlayCOUNT JULIAN Selected ProseIMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS: A SELECTIONTHE PENTAMERONCITATION AND EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE The BiographyWALTER SAVAGE LANDOR by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set
Men of Achievement Inventors
Men of Achievement Inventors
Phlilip G. Hubert Jr.
¥56.82
In Men of Achievement Phillip Hubert writes about inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel Morse, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as many others. He reviews their inventions and also examines the inventor: their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials and triumphs ,and their daily life and personal character. With over forty-five illustrations, Men of Achievement discusses the value of their work – the invention of steam power, electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, phonograph, the camera, and Goodyear’s vulcanized rubber. With the patent laws of the time it also highlights how these men contributed thousands of millions of dollars to the nation’s wealth and, in some cases, received comparatively little in return.
Odd Craft and Other Stories
Odd Craft and Other Stories
W. W. Jacobs
¥40.79
An exciting collection of stories from W.W. Jacobs, a London based novelist famous for his humour, horror and travel stories. This volume includes some of his iconic work: The Money-box, The Castaway, Blundell's Improvement, Bill's Lapse, Lawyer Quince, Breaking A Spell, Establishing Relations, The Changing Numbers, The Persecution of Bob Pretty, Dixon's Return, A Spirit of Avarice, The Third String, Odd Charges, Admiral Peters.
Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault
¥40.79
An iconic collection of fairy tales from the master of storytelling Charles Perrault including some of his best work: Little Red Riding-Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Little Thumb, Cinderella, Blue Beard.
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Adam Mickiewicz (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Adam Mickiewicz (Illustrated)
Adam Mickiewicz
¥24.44
Explore Adam Mickiewicz, Poland’s National Poet, who was a leading figure of Romanticism, often likened to Byron and Goethe. Born in the Russian-partitioned territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to win independence for his homeland. His epic poem ‘Pan Tadeusz’ is celebrated as a masterpiece of European literature. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Mickiewicz’ collected poetical works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mickiewicz’ life and works* Concise introduction to Mickiewicz’ life and poetry* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes a modern-day verse translation of Mickiewicz’ great epic ‘Pan Tadeusz’ by Leonard Kress – available in no other collection* Features a bonus biography - discover Mickiewicz’ intriguing life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Adam MickiewiczBRIEF INTRODUCTION: ADAM MICKIEWICZODE TO YOUTHTHE CRIMEAN SONNETS (Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood)KONRAD WALLENROD (Translated by M. A. Biggs)PAN TADEUSZ The PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The ProseMY FIRST BATTLE The BiographyADAM MICKIEWICZ: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Edna Worthley Underwood Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
¥40.79
The comedy begins with an induction in which we follow a drunken tinker being tricked into believing he is a nobleman. He then watches a play depicting nobleman Petruchio's marriage with an outspoken, intelligent and bad-tempered shrew named Katherine. Petruchio manipulates and tames her until she is obedient to his will. The main subplot features the courting of Katherine’s more conventional sister Bianca by numerous suitors. The content has become the subject of considerable controversy.
Ποιητικ? Αυτογνωσ?α
Ποιητικ? Αυτογνωσ?α
Ελευθέριος Ζερβός
¥42.10
Το συγγραφικ? αυτ? ?ργο ε?ναι απ?σταγμα των ιδια?τερων συναισθηματικ?ν δεσμ?ν του συγγραφ?α με το εσ?τερο κομμ?τι τη? ψυχ?? του και τον αν?τερο φ?λακα ?γγελ? του, ?που ο ?διο? ο ?γγελο? μιλ? με σαφ?νεια και απαρ?μιλλη αγ?πη προ? αυτ?ν, μεταφ?ροντα? την ευλογ?α που συναντ? κανε?? στα κρυμμ?να καταπρ?σινα λιβ?δια του καρδιακο? πεδ?ου, ?που επ?ση? τα ροζ λουλο?δια επικρατο?ν. Ε?ναι πρ?γματι μια προσωπικ? μελ?τη γεμ?τη με πλο?σια συναισθ?ματα, ?που τι? ιερ?? στιγμ?? τη? σιωπ?? αναδ?ονται τα στοιχε?α του πυρ?να τη? ?παρξη? και αυτ? αντιμ?χονται την κ?λπικη προσωπικ?τητα, με νικηφ?ρα πορε?α την υπ?ρμαχο αγ?πη και τη συμπ?νια για κ?θε τι που υπ?ρχει σ?μερα. ?Μπορε? το σ?μερα να νικ?σει την εμμον? στο παρελθ?ν και το φευγι? στο μ?λλον?? ... Μα δεν υπ?ρχει τ?ποτε ?λλο παρ? μ?νο αυτ? η στιγμ? που διαβ?ζει? αυτ? την απλ? φρ?ση!!!... Υπ?ρχει? τ?ρα!!!...
Despre lucrurile ultime
Despre lucrurile ultime
Otto Weininger
¥32.62
Iubitafizica este ?tiin?a iubirilor imaginare. Toate iubirile ?i iubitele imaginare s?nt excep?ii ce se supun, ?n t?cere, iubitafizicii. Adev?rul care conteaz? pentru iubitafizic? este cel inventat, adev?rul ?nchipuit, adev?rul visat, adev?rul din flori.
Seguridade social e saúde: tendências e desafios
Seguridade social e saúde: tendências e desafios
Jordeana Davi, Claudia Martiniano, Lucia Maria Patriota
¥57.14
Mihai Eminescu este considerat de cititori ?i de critica literar? mondial? drept cea mai important? voce poetic? din literatura rom?n?. ?Titlul de fata reprezinta cea mai bogata colectie de poezii a poetului Mihai Eminescu. In cele 650 de pagini regasiti titluri celebre precum: Floare albastra * Revedere * Scrisoarea III * Luceafarul * Ce te legeni... * Mai am un singur dor * Sara pe deal
Cum se fabric? o emo?ie
Cum se fabric? o emo?ie
Ștefănescu Alex.
¥32.62
n paginile acestei cri, am redat situaia general din Paradisul Vestului“ i a exilatului romn venit aici, vzut n dublu avantaj de persoana particular i jurnalist. Majoritatea celor venii n perioada tranziiei romne“, dar i o buna parte din ceilali au fost i sunt buni aici – cu preponderen n Germania – la muncile de jos“ (…) Romnia nu e cunoscut n Occident dect ca zona srciei, a copiilor orfani, a hoilor i a corupiei“!
Zanna Bianca
Zanna Bianca
Jack London
¥32.54
Astfel de dic?ionare care s? te edifice asupra autorului, a operelor ?i a personajelor principale ale acestora n-au mai ap?rut p?n? acum la noi (desigur, ?n ce prive?te literatura universal?). Aici g?se?ti nu numai cuno?tin?ele necesare la orele rezervate lecturii obligatorii sau suplimentare din literatura universal?, ci ?i suficiente informa?ii care s? te incite la noi ?aventuri“ ale lecturii ?i, firesc, la l?rgirea universului intelectual.