![]() ![]() But with the German front disintegrating, personal conflicts will merge into a chaotic retreat and improvised rearguard action.Īn adaptation of the 1955 Willi Heinrich book The Willing Flesh, Cross Of Iron is a stunning condemnation of war and an unrelenting front line experience. A Russian assault and German counterattack end with Steiner wounded and sent to a rehabilitation hospital, while Stransky falsely lays claim to the medal, further straining the relationship between the two men. He immediately clashes with Steiner, who does not hide his disdain for the entitled officer class. Stransky is from a privileged background and knows nothing about combat, but covets the Iron Cross for bravery in the field. His commander Colonel Brandt (James Mason) along with the jaded Captain Kiesel (David Warner) give Steiner plenty of leeway, but all this changes when Prussian Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell) arrives at the front having requested a transfer from France. ![]() Sergeant Steiner (James Coburn) is a legendary and decorated platoon leader, one of the few remaining hopes for some battlefield success. ![]() It's 1943 on the Eastern Front, and on the Crimean Peninsula the German Army is retreating under pressure from Russian forces. A World War Two epic, Cross Of Iron examines German class warfare on the bloody front lines of the global conflict. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The author chose to tell the story from the provocative point of view of an exceedingly charming, egotistical admitted murderer. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation-and a startling, provocative debut. ![]() Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). ![]() ![]() The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. ![]() ![]() The American Academy of Pediatrics sent more than 17,000 pediatricians special copies of the book, along with growth charts and parent handouts on healthy eating. Bush and Hillary Clinton were known to read the book to children on the campaign trail. ”`Caterpillar’ is a book of hope: you, too, can grow up and grow wings.” “I remember that as a child, I always felt I would never grow up and be big and articulate and intelligent,” Carle told The New York Times in 1994. It has sold some 40 million copies and has been translated into 60 languages, spawned stuffed animal caterpillars and has been turned into a stage play. Originally conceived as a book about a bookworm - called “A Week with Willi the Worm” - the hero, who eats through 26 different foods, was changed to a caterpillar on the advice of his editor. Biden signs debt ceiling bill avoiding default with 2 days to spare. ![]()
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In a letter to the editor of the New York Review of Books, where the piece first appeared in 1975, Rich faulted Sontag for neglecting to emphasize the connection between fascism and patriarchy. “Fascinating Fascism,” a probing appraisal of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, would be a bit of an outlier in the book, if not for the exchange with the poet and feminist theorist Adrienne Rich that it so famously prompted. Limiting, because she opposes the movement’s incursion into every facet of discussion. In “On Women ,” Sontag is concerned with both limiting and expanding the scope of feminism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cauley, and the two concoct an ingenious plan to get the town talking, aided and abetted by a cast of eccentric characters, some from beyond the grave. But who would have had reason to get rid of her for good? 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With Lorelie Brown, the Katie Porter co-writing team has been honored with a Reviewers' Choice award for Best Erotic Ebook, and the first m/m nomination for RT's Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() Now Carrie is celebrating her first New Adult romance, BLUE NOTES featuring a shy piano prodigy and a New Orleans playboy shouldering his family''s crumbling empire. Her historical and paranormal romances from Pocket have been described as "nuanced and superbly realized" (The Chicago Tribune) and "sexy, brutal and somehow innocent" (All About Romance). 2008, RITA-nominated and RT Reviewers' Choice-winning author Carrie Lofty has over twenty books to her name-or four names, to be precise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pesky fuel costs ate into Carnival's margins as gross cruise costs per available lower-berth day (including fuel) rose a stubborn 8.6% for the quarter. Adjusted net income - essentially backing out the volatility of unrealized gains and losses on fuel derivatives and other net charges - declined nearly 10% to $338 million, or $0.49 a share. Things aren't as kind on the bottom line at first glance. Carnival has routinely landed ahead of its guidance on that front. ![]() Net revenue yields adjusted for currency fluctuations rose 0.5%, just above the flat results that Carnival was targeting on that basis three months ago. Gross revenue yields - a key gauge for measuring a cruise line's health that basically tracks the revenue per available lower-berth day - rose 5.8%. Part of the P&O fleet, owned by Carnival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a short note, Austin says of the views which underlie these lectures that they ‘were formed in 1939. THE lectures here printed were delivered by Austin as the William James Lectures at Harvard University in 1955. THE NEED TO DISTINGUISH ‘CONSEQUENCES’ 74 The procedure must be executed by all participants completely. The procedure must be executed by all participants correctly. The particular persons and circumstances in a given case must be appropriate for the invocation of the particular procedure invoked. PRELIMINARY ISOLATION OF THE PERFORMATIVE 9Ī. ![]() HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS THE WILLIAM JAMES LECTURES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY BY J. We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.Īlthough in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit. © Barakaldo Books 2020, all rights reserved. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has also prepared critical editions of texts, including Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine (2020) and The Early Career of William Carlos Williams (2013). ![]() Eric specializes in avant-garde literature and is the author of two books: Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday (2020) and Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism (2013). This episode includes an interview with Dr Eric White, who is a Reader in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University. This is the second instalment in an occasional series to feature research that colleagues are engaged with at Oxford Brookes University. ![]() |