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Leaves of Grass (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
by Kevin Kelly Christine BergREA's MAXnotes for Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal
by Alexandra JohnsonAn inspirational, practical & literate guide to starting & keeping a journal - & transforming it into something permanent like a memoir or a novel. Leaving A Trace is a practical guide to keeping a journal successfully & transforming it into future projects. Each chapter features both narrative & tailored exercises for beginning & committed diarists. Beginners will turn first to quick ways to overcome inhibitions, get started & stay on course. Seasoned chroniclers will start diaries with a new slant: they will learn how to trigger inspiration with creative brainstorming exercises; how to note patterns in diaries they already have & how to shape their material.
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
by Barbara Brown TaylorBy now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments in which I was ordained. Today those vestments are hanging in the sacristy of an Anglican church in Kenya, my church pension is frozen, and I am as likely to spend Sunday mornings with friendly Quakers, Presbyterians, or Congregationalists as I am with the Episcopalians who remain my closest kin. Some-times I even keep the Sabbath with a cup of steaming Assam tea on my front porch, watching towhees vie for the highest perch in the poplar tree while God watches me. These days I earn my living teaching school, not leading worship, and while I still dream of opening a small restaurant in Clarkesville or volunteering at an eye clinic in Nepal, there is no guarantee that I will not run off with the circus before I am through. This is not the life I planned, or the life I recommend to others. But it is the life that has turned out to be mine, and the central revelation in it for me -- that the call to serve God is first and last the call to be fully human -- seems important enough to witness to on paper. This book is my attempt to do that. After nine years serving on the staff of a big urban church in Atlanta, Barbara Brown Taylor arrives in rural Clarkesville, Georgia (population 1,500), following her dream to become the pastor of her own small congregation. The adjustment from city life to country dweller is something of a shock -- Taylor is one of the only professional women in the community -- but small-town life offers many of its own unique joys. Taylor has five successful years that see significant growth in the church she serves, but ultimately she finds herself experiencing "compassion fatigue" and wonders what exactly God has called her to do. She realizes that in order to keep her faith she may have to leave. Taylor describes a rich spiritual journey in which God has given her more questions than answers. As she becomes part of the flock instead of the shepherd, she describes her poignant and sincere struggle to regain her footing in the world without her defining collar. Taylor's realization that this may in fact be God's surprising path for her leads her to a refreshing search to find Him in new places. Leaving Church will remind even the most skeptical among us that life is about both disappointment and hope -- and ultimately, renewal.
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepeneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John E. WoodsA trip to Nepal convinced Wood to divert the energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that needed addressing - educating all children
Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity
by Mary Weaks-BaxterMillions of Southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of Southerners—and people in general—are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of Southern nationhood and redefined Southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted Southerners to leave the region and changed perceptions of Southerners to outsiders as well as how Southerners saw themselves. Through an examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant’s journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and she connects the history of border crossings to the issues being considered in today’s national landscape.
Lebenslanges Lernen für die Medienwelt von morgen: Eine empirische Analyse der journalistischen Weiterbildung
by Michaela PetekWarum „lebenslanges Lernen für die Medienwelt von morgen“ sowohl für Journalistinnen und Journalisten als auch für Medienunternehmen alternativlos ist, legt Michaela Petek hier in einer empirischen Analyse der journalistischen Weiterbildung dar. Im Vergleich zum seit fünf Jahrzehnten gut untersuchten Bereich der journalistischen Ausbildung wird damit erstmals in der Journalismusforschung die Weiterbildung umfassend unter die Lupe genommen. Michaela Peteks Ziel ist es, alle Akteure auf dem journalistischen Weiterbildungsmarkt in die Untersuchung mit einzubeziehen: Journalist*innen, Medienunternehmen und Weiterbildungsinstitutionen. Neben ökonomischen Zwängen sind es vor allem die technischen Innovationen, die den Wandel in der Medienlandschaft vorantreiben. So entstehen ständig neue Produkte und Formate, Redaktionsstrukturen, Arbeitsabläufe, Berufsbilder. In dieser sich rasant wandelnden Medienwelt ist die kontinuierliche Investition in Weiterbildung für Journalistinnen und Journalisten notwendig, um einem immer wieder neu an die Veränderungen anzupassenden journalistischen Kompetenzprofil gerecht zu werden.
Lecciones para el inconformista aturdido en tres horas y cuarto, por un ensayista inexperto y sin papeles: La falta de ideas de la izquierda en la crisis actual
by Irene LozanoEl capitalismo sufre su crisis más profunda y la izquierda carece de respuestas: una reflexión lúcida e irónica sobre la situación actual En medio de una profunda crisis económica, provocada por los excesos del capitalismo, sería de esperar un auge de la izquierda. Pero los partidos laboristas, socialistas y socialdemócratas se desangran en toda Europa. Parece haber cada vez menos izquierda, pero ¿qué ocurre con los izquierdistas? ¿Se han convertido en unos sin techo de las ideas de progreso, desquiciados por las incongruencias de la izquierda oficial? Irene Lozano recorre las causas de su aturdimiento desde la caída del Muro de Berlín, para esbozar lo que a su juicio deberían ser las "ideas-fuerza" de la izquierda hoy. Con originalidad y perspicacia, la autora aborda el declive del papel del intelectual en la discusión pública, en un ensayo que hará pensar y disfrutar a los lectores. Sólo han de cumplir un requisito: estardispuestos a dejarse sorprender durante tres horas y cuarto.
L’écriture freelance – Les secrets d’un prête-plume professionnel
by Richard G Lowe Jr Agnes RuizVous envisagez de devenir un rédacteur indépendant (freelance) et souhaitez faire de l’écriture fantôme. L’écriture fantôme est un travail difficile ! Pourtant, lorsqu’elle est correctement gérée et évaluée, l’écriture fantôme peut être l’une des carrières de rédaction freelance les plus lucratives. Ce livre vous aidera à mener à bien un projet d’écriture fantôme, du contact initial avec un client potentiel jusqu’à la livraison du travail terminé. Les pièges potentiels y sont discutés en détail, ainsi que des solutions et des suggestions. Voici un résumé de ce que vous apprendrez : * Comment évaluer un projet d’écriture fantôme * Comment mettre en place une entreprise d’écriture fantôme * Organiser des réunions avec votre client * Faire des entrevues et des recherches * Pourquoi la communication est particulièrement importante * Comment rédiger un énoncé de travail pour vous protéger et protéger votre client * Comment gérer les révisions inévitables * Comment livrer votre projet final.
'Lector Ludens'
by Michael SchamIn sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.
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Lecturas con Daiquiri
by Manuel VicentVuelve Manuel Vicent con una recopilación de artículos en los que brilla su mirada inteligente, crítica e irónica de la realidad. «Este libro contiene algunos textos rescatados del tiempo que leídos ahora resultan una crónica de hechos, sensaciones e imágenes de nuestra reciente historia, y constituyen a la vez una manera de ver la vida y de enfrentarse al azar de los días propicios o adversos. Son páginas escritas para ser leídas con una copa en la mano, a ser posible con un daiquiri con un grado exacto de hielo, ron, azúcar y zumo de limón, para rememorar los días felices del pasado, los veranos convulsos y todos los sueños derrotados con que se teje la urdimbre de la existencia. Todos ellos fueron publicados en el diario El País, pero salvadas de la desmemoria, las palabras escritas entonces adoptan otro sonido, otro sentido, y pueden abrir armarios durante mucho tiempo cerrados. Si un día estos artículos, crónicas, reportajes y estampas cumplieron su misión de ser leídos y a continuación olvidados, ahora recuperan un hipotético milagro. Un momento de felicidad da sentido a toda una vida. Cualquiera que remonte el río de la memoria hallará un aroma que dio estructura al mundo, un tacto sobre la piel que llegó a nublarle el cerebro, una música, una canción que le hicieron saltar las lágrimas. La felicidad también puede asumirse como un acto de rebeldía en el que hay que apoyar la palanca para sobrevivir.» Manuel Vicent La crítica ha dicho sobre el autor y su obra...«Las columnas de Manuel Vicent no pretenden soportar ningún peso muerto; solo están escritas para el placer de los sentidos.»Joan Manuel Serrat «Vicent cuenta todo lo que sabíamos y algunas cosas más con exquisita elegancia, no exenta de virulencia poética cuando hace falta...»J.J. Armas Marcelo, ABC Cultural «Manuel Vicent es la alegría contagiosa de tener algo que contar y contarlo magistralmente.»Justo Navarro, El País «Su gusto por el detalle no disminuye la contundencia gráfica. Cuando Vicent habla de algo lo ofrece abierto en la mesa de quirófano.»David Trueba, Babelia «Manuel Vicent es un ameno cronista y un fino retratista.»Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo Español «Manuel Vicent se apodera de la realidad evocada y la vuelve vívida y candente. Se saborea, se palpa, se huele, se ve, se oye la ciudad, el campo, el mar. Todos los sentidos colaboran en esta escritura brillante, potente, feliz, habitada por la gracia suprema del gran estilista...»Miguel García-Posada, El País «Manuel Vicent es un prosista lírico, un narrador de aromas, un metaforizador del costumbrismo, un realista de la prosa sonámbula [...]. El autor nos recuerda en buena prosa la efímera, la dulce felicidad prohibida que hemos sido.»Luis Antonio de Villena, El Mundo «Dispara con balas elegantes.»F.L. del Pino Olmedo, Qué leer «¿Y cómo descifra la realidad o el mundo Vicent? Mediante la metáfora o la imagen.» J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia «La mezcla de realismo y de calculada deformación expresionista vale de soporte artístico al relato. Vicent sopesa bien la dosis de lo uno y de lo otro y la combinación produce un excelente efecto.»Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural «Manuel Vicent tiene una técnica muy depurada de tantear entre lo concreto y lo genérico, y a veces le florecen símbolos oportunísimos. Así le salen tan bien compuestos los ciervos de 14 puntas de la cultura del siglo XX que retrata en Póquer de ases.»Álvaro Cortina (sobre Póquer de ases) «Como en toda partida de cartas, en este Póquer de ases de Manuel Vicent se escribe mucho y se bebe mucho más.»J. Rodríguez Marco, El País (sobre Póquer de ases) «Sus daguerrotipos, crónicas urbanas y retratos han despejado at
Lecturas de mí mismo
by Philip RothRecopilación de artículos de Philip Roth. Las entrevistas, ensayos y artículos reunidos en este volumen cubren un cuarto de siglo de la distinguida carrera del autor norteamericano. Roth habla de sí mismo, de su obra y de las controversias que ha engendrado. Estas páginas también contienen sus escritos sobre los autores de Europa oriental por los que siempre ha abogado, sobre béisbol, la narrativa norteamericana y los judíos estadounidenses. Reseña:«Un mapa certero y detallado de la poética de Roth, de sus ideas literarias y de los procesos y circunstancias de la composición de sus obras más significativas.»Javier Aparicio Maydeu, Babelia, El País
Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other Dramatists. (Routledge Revivals)
by S.T ColeridgeThis book presents lectures and notes upon Shakespeare and other dramatists, including poetry, the drama and Shakespeare; order of Shakespeare's plays; notes on Shakespeare's plays from English history; and notes on some of the plays of Shakespeare, Johnson, Beaumont and Fletcher.
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)
by Niklas ForsbergThis book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin’s continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today—such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity. Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin’s philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.