Man Cave Under Construction: Counting the Cost, Wright Stephen B.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: The Amalgamation Polka
ISBN: 0316427322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316427326
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Описание: A Civil War novel unlike any other, the story of young man's journey through an America torn apart-it "will bring a smile to your lips as it sets your brain on fire." (Village Voice)

Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists and the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Liberty escapes his home, first into war and then into a bedlam more disturbing still, in the hopes of reconciling the familial disunion.

Rich in characters both heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, The Amalgamation Polka is a vibrant display of literary achievement, showcasing not only the brutality of this tragic period in American history, but also the surprising compassion and hope of the era.


Instantly revelatory, constantly mesmerizing, this is the work of a major writer at the top of his form.

Автор: Wright Stephen E.
Название: The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945
ISBN: 0811736555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811736558
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Описание: Opening a new perspective on Malherbe`s major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction Rubin defines and illustrates implied comparison. There follows a series of explications which recover each poem`s values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: Meditations in Green
ISBN: 0316427284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316427289
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Описание: One of the greatest Vietnam War novels ever written, by an award-winning writer who experienced it firsthand.
Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 1069 Intelligence Group, Spec. 4 James Griffin starts out clear-eyed and hardworking, believing he can glide through the war unharmed. But the kaleidoscope of horrors he experiences gets inside him relentlessly. He gradually collapses and ends up unstrung, in step with the exploding hell around him and waiting for the cataclysm that will bring him home, dead or not.
Griffin survives, but back in the U.S. his battles intensify. Beset by addiction, he takes up meditating on household plants and attempts to adjust to civilian life and beat back the insanity that threatens to overwhelm him.
Meditations in Green is a haunting exploration of the harrowing costs of war and yet-unhealed wounds, "the impact of an experience so devastating that words can hardly contain it" (Walter Kendrick, the New York Times Book Review). Through passages gorgeous, agonizing, and surreal, Stephen Wright paints a searing portrait of a nation driven to the brink by violence and deceit.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: Processed Cheese
ISBN: 0316043370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316043373
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Описание: From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.
A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes -- and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.
Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything -- and nothing at all.
Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: Going Native
ISBN: 0316427306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316427302
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Описание: A dutiful husband and father walks out of his life and into a road trip from hell, in a novel Toni Morrison calls "Astonishing" and Don Delillo calls "A slasher classic . . . strange, dark, and funny."

Wylie Jones has a happy marriage, beautiful children, backyard barbecues in his tastefully decorated suburban house. One night he follows a sudden impulse, leaves his wife in bed and commandeers his neighbor's emerald-green Ford Galaxy 500, driving away without a second look. He sheds all traces of his old life in favor of a new name and a new life, and drives from town to town, following his deepest impulses where they lead.

By turns scathing and hilarious, writing an outrageous rollercoaster of sex and violence, Stephen Wright probes the nihilistic and savage core of the American identity.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: M31: A Family Romance
ISBN: 0316427292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316427296
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Описание: A "beautiful and terrifying" novel about family, faith, and the search for home, set amidst a community of UFO cultists in middlest America (San Francisco Chronicle).


Dash and Dot are the world's most in-demand lecturers on the topic of UFOs and alien abduction. Believers that we are all descended from M31, the nearest galaxy to ours, they live on the road, on late-night radio call-in shows, and occasionally with their family in a decommissioned church in the Midwest. A radar dish on its steeple and a spaceship in its sanctuary complete the modern nuclear-family setting.

A couple of UFO groupies arrive at the church with their own agenda, and everything changes-brought to a head by their strange beliefs and the timeless difficulties of modern life. Dash and Dot set out on their last trip, their ultimate journey, with a destination that no one could foretell. Written with a fevered vividness and immediacy, M31: A Family Romance has been hailed as "a devastatingly forceful accomplishment that] reestablishes its author as a star of the first magnitude" (Washington Post).

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: Processed Cheese
ISBN: 0316043389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316043380
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Описание: From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.

A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes--and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.

Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything--and nothing at all.

Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It's a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.

Автор: Ken Cruickshank, Stephen Black, Honglin Chen, Linda Tsung, Jan Wright
Название: Language Education in the School Curriculum: Issues of Access and Equity
ISBN: 1350069469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350069466
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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There is widespread concern in all English speaking countries at the rapid decline in study of languages. The promise of 'languages for all' in the UK and North America in the 1970s marked a shift from languages as lite subjects for the privileged few, but this promise has not been fulfilled. This book explores the reasons for and solutions to this decline. More importantly, it looks at how these trends have been reversed in successful school programs and the implications of this for language education policy makers. The study draws on an analysis of data from 600 primary, secondary and community languages schools over six years and from detailed case studies in a representative sample of 45 successful schools. The book proposes a range of strategies to address the decline: from engaging classroom learning, assessment outcomes and embedding languages as central in school curriculum on the one level, to a mix of incentives and mandation for language study, especially at upper secondary school level.

The authors explore the impact of learning languages on the thinking, educational experiences and outcomes of young people across a range of ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. They show the importance of having equal access to languages study in a world where young people will have increasingly more diverse working lives and argue that the gap in languages between policy and uptake is really a gap in the thinking of policy makers and government.

Автор: Wright Stephen J.
Название: Digitizing The Customer Journey: Using the Latest Digital Technologies to Support Growth, Efficiency and Delight Customers Throughout the Customer`s T
ISBN: 3952512648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783952512647
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Описание: Groundbreaking book emphasizing the need for companies to convert and integrate all their customer service and marketing data into a system that is optimized for an excellent user experience. In today`s times, any business that wants to compete will have to consider the advanced technologies available and implement them as soon as possible.

Автор: Wright Stephen B.
Название: Man Cave Under Construction: Counting the Cost
ISBN: 1973673711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781973673712
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In John Grisham's book "The Rainmaker" he tells the story of a once moral attorney, and I paraphrase, who crosses the line into deception and that line soon disappears. This seemingly suggests that if you are introduced to an idea or concept long enough, it becomes normal. A norm that is now introduced as truth. The bigger picture is the serpent introduced an alternative view of the tree to Adam and Eve in the garden that has since become a norm. Sin is progressive. I heard this saying "Sin takes you further than you want to go, keeps you longer than you wish to stay, and cost you far more than you are willing to pay." The consequences of lifestyle changes and revised laws that we accept now, will become our children's children code of conviction, because it will be the only thing they know. The reality is you can't unlearn what you know, until you understand the truth about what you know. This concept is called Deconstruction.

Автор: Wright Stephen
Название: Yours, Faithfully
ISBN: 0956030351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780956030351
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Описание: A series of poetic conversations with God. Most people at some time in their lives, if not always, experience an inner dialogue between the soul and the Absolute. It can feel boundless and wordless, beyond identification with "I" and "Another". Or it can feel intimate and personal, like letters between close friends. This latest collection of poems from Stephen Wright, seeks to capture that revelation of truth arising in relationship between one and One. Like slow food, please see these poems as slow words. To be read and savoured for layers of meaning, a source of reflection upon the mystical relationship in and with the Divine, meditations on love through the offering, presence and experience of Divine Love.

Автор: Wright Stephen I.
Название: Jesus the Storyteller
ISBN: 0664260446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780664260446
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Цена: 27590.00 T
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While it is widely acknowledged that Jesus told stories, there has not been much focus on why he did so and how these stories contributed to his ministry. Stephen Wright approaches this topic afresh to analyze how considering the parables as stories can help our understanding of Jesus and his mission. Wright begins by looking for insights in scholarship from recent decades on the parables and the historical Jesus. He goes on to imagine how these stories would have resonated with hearers in each of the Synoptic Gospels and considers the dynamics between Jesus and his hearers in different locations like Galilee and Jerusalem. Finally, Wright considers the purpose of these parables as an element of Jesus' ministry and looks at Jesus himself as a storyteller. This book will provide a solid basis for understanding why Jesus spoke in parables and how this distinctive style of speech functioned in his ministry.