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African Americans: Voices of Triumph : Creative Fire (African Americans: Voices of Triumph)
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books
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ASIN: 0783522584 |
Book Description
The political activism of the American counterculture during the 1960s remains a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, the political thought of the 1960s is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and general irresponsibility. Despite sustained public interest, few remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defiantly challenged the established order during this tumultuous period. The period frightened both mainstream and elite Americans and still does.
In Generation on Fire, both well-known and overlooked political activists speak about their motives and actions during the 1960s through the present. Journalist and popular oral historian Jeff Kisseloff provides a broad and eclectic account of the political activity of the decade, as told by those individuals who led the resistance on numerous fronts: civil rights, the antiwar movement, women's liberation, the environmental movement, and gay rights. The book offers firsthand accounts of what it was like in the courtroom with the Chicago Eight, the trenches of the national football league, the jungles of Vietnam, a commune in Vermont and on a stage in Woodstock.
Including never-before published interviews, Generation on Fire unapologetically contextualizes the world of the 1960s--illuminating the ingrained social and cultural obstacles facing activists as well as the courage and shortcomings of those who defied "acceptable" conventions and mores. Generation on Fire is an invaluable resource for all who wish to understand the dramatic social, cultural, and political conflicts that arose during a period of radical change.
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A fascinating and important book.......2007-06-21
There are many hundreds of books about the 60s, and they vary in quality from inspired to inane. Generation on Fire is the newest of the oral histories of that time, and it stands out for several reasons.
First, Jeff Kisseloff is a journalist as well as a historian of popular culture, so he has the journalist's ability to elicit the "good stuff"-- the remembered impressions that give an authentic, human voice to the subject of each interview. Kisseloff doesn't philosophize, analyze, or theorize about the times. He simply lets the people who were there tell us what they did.
In addition, his selection of interview subjects is unusual. Rather than letting the big names tell their stories for the umpteenth time, he sought out people who were critically important to the events of the time, but who were somewhat out of the public eye. For example, rather than having Country Joe McDonald tell us about the psychedelic music scene in San Francisco, he talks to Country Joe's lead guitarist, Barry Melton.
His choice of interview subjects is interesting and unusual in its breadth, too. His fifteen subjects include people from the civil rights, women's, anti-war, gay rights, music, black militant, commune, and free press movements. The result is that the book leaves the reader with an good sense of the diversity of the time. That is, there really was no such thing as THE 60s; rather, there was a tumultuous collection of ideas, philosophies, and random notions that together formed the era and gave it whatever significance it has.
What did these various movements and the people in them have in common? That's the real impact of the book. Though these fifteen people were doing very different things in different places-- and though most of them didn't know one another-- every one of them shared an idealistic passion for his or her cause. Even more importantly, each of them was willing to sacrifice, suffer and quite literally risk his or her life for what he or she believed was right.
As the years have passed, the 60s have taken on a kind of nostalgic glow. We now take for granted the rights that these people and many other like them struggled and sacrificed for. Well, as the old saying goes, freedom isn't free.
This book is the story of the people who lived that old saying. I recommend it highly.
war, social justice, and our present state of mind in this nation.......2007-05-21
This is a good book for hearing some of the folks involved in the turmoil of our nation at the time of Viet Nam, the civil rights movement, and skepticism with government and big business. Although the telling by the individuals interviewed was minimally fleshed out with research by Mr. Kisseloff, the section devoted to the telling of the Kent State shootings really "made" it a book. The necessary use of Allison Krause's story through the eyes of those who knew her best at the time (her boyfriend and her mother) was woven along with some additional information on the National Guard and the government's investigation by Mr. Kisseloff fleshed out a story there. The other individual pieces were good, but the Krause section was best.
It's worth the read and timely in reminding us that Eisenhower's words of warning that the military-industrial complex is this nation's greatest threat. It's chilling how the present reflects that past.
Fascinating and interesting.......2007-03-11
Jeff Kisseloff presents a timely work in which he shows how the voices of protest of the 1960's has had an enduring effect on the way we live today. He highlights the lives of many important voices of the 60's whose commitment to change should still be listened to. Especially fascinating is the portrait of Verandah Porche, a founder of the Liberation News Service, who helped to found a commune in Vermont, still lives there, and continues work as an activist and poet in the same causes that animated her in the 1960's.
Seeing What I Missed.......2007-01-11
Reading the intimate and riveting recollections of a generation that admittedly I had very lttle connection with was an emotional experience for me. I understand now a great deal more than I did then. The format employed to just let the interviewees recount their stories in their own words without prodding and without interruption made for easy reading. I finished the book in two sessions.
Book Description
Eight women from eight very different backgrounds. Yet the struggles they each faced rang with eerie similarity. These courageous women from across the globe-Pakistan, India, Romania, Former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Nepal, Indonesia-shared similar experiences of hardship, subjugation, and persecution, all because of their faith in Christ. Yet all of these women have emerged from adversity as leaders and heroines.
The eight modern-day pilgrims featured in Hearts of Fire are the hidden jewels in the church universal. They are worthy role models of faith and passion, and women of every age will gain new strength and hope for their own times of crisis and trial as they read these inspiring stories. Each story concludes with thoughtful self-reflection questions for the reader.
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Persecuted women of faith.......2007-03-28
Eight women in the underground Church have shared their stories of what their faith in God has cost them and their loved ones. They are each from different countries, and their individual ways of drawing persecution, and their sufferings are distinct. They are alike in that they each refused to deny the Lord Who saved them.
I don't agree with all the women in the book. One of the chapters was on Sabina Wurmbrand. I appreciate her suffering and stedfastness in the Lord, but some of the comments, as well as some things I've read on her husband, Richard Wurmbrand who has suffered so much for Christ's sake, seem to be contrary to Scripture. Maybe I am mistaken, or maybe they are less than orthodox, but I can still glorify God in their testimony for Him.
Ling was another woman who was tortured for Christ. She was a leader and preacher in the underground church in China. I believe that the Bible teaches against women preaching in mixed company, but I admire her conviction. I also realize that sometimes men are not available or willing to do things, and women are. Ling was willing, and she suffered much for Christ's sake.
The other six women had one thing in common with each other and the previously listed two: they were all Christians. One woman suffered incredible physical and emotional pain after refusing to convert to Islam. One father tried to kill his daughter who became a believer in Christ from Islam after searching for the truth. Another woman lost her husband and two sons to those who resented the message of Christ.
One thing I really appreciated about this book is that these are women of today. They are not women to inspire me from history, although they will be that for others. They are women who are living now, existing on this planet in my lifetime. These are the sufferings of today. I have not been chosen to suffer as they have, but whether my time comes or not, these women inspire me to cling to Christ, and remain faithful to Him whatever the cost. Due to the explanations of the extreme costliness of their faith, I would only recommend this book to adults.
Touching........2004-08-21
Touching and heart-tugging. Certainly an emotional pull. But I must say, I greatly prefer another book of the genre, "Daughters of Hope: Stories of Witness and Courage." It not only covers women from far more countries, but it goes beyond the emotional pull. It gives clear prayer and activity responses, country by country, giving guidance as to what we can do. I don't want to know unless I also know how to respond.
Incredibly Powerful!!.......2004-02-29
This was a truly inspirational book. These women of faith show true courage in their convictions and their walk with Christ. Each story is compelling and moves you to challenge your own faith!
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- Novel concept
- Strange read
- Best Novel of the 90s?
- This book is a work of magic
- a disturbing, stunning, even heartrending meditation
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Voice Of The Fire
Alan Moore
Manufacturer: Top Shelf Productions
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ASIN: 1891830449 |
Book Description
In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over a span of six thousand years. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land. In the tradition of Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Schwob's Imaginary Lives and Borges' A Universal History of Infamy, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing. This edition presents Voice of the Fire for the first time in hardcover format, with full color illustrations by Jose Villarrubia.
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Novel concept.......2006-06-30
Alan Moore's first prose novel, which combusted onto the scene some ten years ago now, still has yet to receive much attention. This occurrence is strange, but understandable. The book, to give a brief overview, is a collection of twelve short stories taking place in twelve different time periods (stretching from 4,000BC to AD1995), all sharing the same setting of the central area of England that eventually becomes Northampton.
Moore, who is so famous I can trust to odds that you know the top three or four works he's most famous for, as revolutionized the comics industry in terms of storytelling, style, and tone time and again. And yet Voice of the Fire remains low on Amazon.com's list of books sold, its decade in the 84,450s list include the English Teacher's Book of Instant Word Games and a certainly captivating Dictionary of Financial Terms.
This, inasmuch as concerns what the public is fed through the New York Times Best Seller List, is unsurprising. Moore's book begins with a 40+ paged chapter about a Neolithic cave-boy's exile from his hunter-gatherer tribe. An emotional and moving story to be sure...if you can make it to the end. The story is told in the first person, using what Moore estimates to be less than five hundred words--his creative attempt at mimicking Neolithic speech and thought.
If you're wondering what to expect from the story: expect fire. And blood. Horror. Nightmares. And more fire besides. Be it ancient, Roman, Norman, or modern, Northampton has never been a very safe place to live, an issue Moore addresses personally as the protagonist in the final chapter, written in a stream-of-consciousness style.
Expect a smorgasbord of writing styles. Moore takes the driver's seat with his characters, and with a Dickens-esque talent to create new personalities the reader sees this single geographical area from such varied points of view as a murderess who plots to get rich quick, a Roman agent come to find a local money counterfeiter, and even a disembodied head upon a gate. Many of the novel's characters are based off of actual historical figures, giving the whole work a cryptic echo that weaves in an out of the story. This echo, this voice of the fire, is the most captivating part of the book, and for which reason I obnoxiously give this book its 5-star rating. Learning history is fun. Learning history within the context of history--even if it is fiction--is perhaps one of the most thought-provoking experiences one can have with a book.
I recommend this book to any reader who has an interest in history or anthropology. For writers, read this if you want to study up on character development or telling first-person stories in a myriad of ways. Moore fans, just read this; he's done it again.
Strange read.......2004-03-15
This is a rather difficult book and it will not fare very well for a casual reading. It forced you to think, to look and rather more to feel what it is around you. It actually demand a lot from a reader, which is not a problem as long as the pay off is this good.
This is one of the most visual book I read. I think the writer have a picture of the events in his mind and describe it, rather than just thought of it as a prose. The think is, this will not work very well if the structure of the book allow it to be. And amazingly, I think it works quite well. The last chapter of the book make me look around in my dark room, feeling a breath of someone else on my neck.
Just don't read it when you are alone.
Best Novel of the 90s?.......2004-03-09
Most comics readers have heard of Alan Moore, and EVERYONE working in comics has been influenced by him. So when he released his first prose novel several years ago (1995?) I bought a British import and read it in a few days. Devoured it. Savoured every concrescence manifesting through the man's words. Loved it.
And then the book went out of print...
Until Top Shelf brought it back! (yesh)
Watchmen? From Hell? Tom Strong? Swamp Thing? A Small Killing? Halo Jones? Naw, it's different from all of them. Here's a quote from a current Moore interview: "I'd like to think that if I've shown anything, it's that comics are the medium of almost inexhaustible possibilities, that there have been...there are great comics yet to be written. There are things to be done with this medium that have not been done, that people maybe haven't even dreamed about trying. And, if I've had any benign influence upon comics, I would hope that it would be along those lines; that anything is possible if you approach the material in the right way. You can do some extraordinary things with a mixture of words and pictures. It's just a matter of being diligent enough and perceptive enough and working hard enough, continually honing your talent until it's sharp enough to do the job that you require."
He does the same thing with prose, pushing the medium in surprising directions. The closest literary equivalent I know of is 'Ulysses' - but that takes place in one day. 'Voice of the Fire' covers a few thousand years. Both are equally dulcet and disquieting. It's a book worth owning. And rereading.
This book is a work of magic.......2004-02-27
I think that Rebecca Scott explains the book best in her greenmanreview.com review. Here is an excerpt:
"If Voice of the Fire has a protagonist, it must be Northampton itself, because this is the story of the formation of the mythology of that place. It is a geological study of the strata of the collective unconscious of the area. Each of its twelve chapters is the first-person story of an individual who crystallized into the forming stones in the hill of tales, whose bodies fed its grass and trees. Their histories wind through that of the land, bringing us closer and closer to the present day.
Each of the chapters includes a full-color plate, a photographic character portrait by Jose Villarrubia (who contributed to the very fine graphic novel Veils). These glow softly, and have a painterly quality about them that makes even the grimmest a gem. Yet this is a text novel, not a graphic novel, and the words are the things. Very fine words they are, too: "Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world." The language is vivid, graphic (sometimes too graphic for someone who reads while eating). Each chapter, each story, has a distinct voice, radically different from the others...
This book is a work of magic ... If you let it, it will work a change in your consciousness ... So come, climb this hill of tales in the night of myth, draw close to the flames, listen to the voice of the fire, and let it work its spell in you." -- Rebecca Scott, GreenManReview.com
a disturbing, stunning, even heartrending meditation.......2004-02-25
These reviews I found would express what I think better than I can.
"Part mythic cycle, part fictional history of Moore's hometown, part collection of fireside ghost stories, Voice of the Fire is as clever and well-crafted as Moore's other genre experiments, and by taking his dialogue out of word-balloons and panel arrangements, it gives his limitless literary ambition room to stretch out into new and fascinating forms." -- Tasha Robinson, The Onion
"[Voice of the Fire] blends witchcraft, savagery, subjectivity, and the darkness that lies within each of us. The resulting narrative is a meditation on the twisting annals of history, the supernatural world between life and death, and the oft-thin line between fantasy and reality." -- Lloyd Babbit, MetroPulse.com
By summoning up the voices of the dead and burned, Moore stakes his claim as a grand magician and, unlike his colleague in Oz, he invites us to look at him behind his curtain of fire. Now singing, now screaming, he signals his message through the flames." -- Adam White, Indyworld.com
Book Description
The AIGA’s Fresh Dialogue series brings together emerging designers in annual roundtable discussions, providing them with a forum to talk about their work, thoughts, and ideas. Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire bridges the divide between high and low tech by focusing on two studios standing at opposite sides of the field of designed objects and social responsibility. The 62 is a Brooklyn-based design and art collective that works with designers, artists, and social and not-for-profit organizations on projects that involve a vision of sustainable culture within a contemporary urban environment. Crye Associates design, engineer, and fabricate everything from light switches and handheld PCs to handgun components and GP racing motorcycles. As lead contractors on the U.S. military’s Project Scorpion they are reinventing everything worn or carried by a soldier.
Book Description
An exciting performance suite celebrating the natural "elements" of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. The six songs in the suite feature unison, two and three-part singing, speech ostinati, instrumental accompaniments, poetry, interpretive signing, recorder playing and movement.
The melody appendix may be copied for student use.
Each song may also be performed as a stand alone composition.
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- Couldn't Put It Down
- Thomas Voxfire
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Tales for the New Aeon: The Voice of Fire
Thomas Voxfire
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1412086566
Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
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Imagine:
- The time has come when Mother Nature's errant child, the human race, has pushed Her a little too far with devastating consequence...
- The Archangels of the Four Creative Forces - Earth, Air, Fire & Water - convene a forum to diagnose the foibles of Mankind in a most irreverent fashion.
- A young novice magician evokes a Spirit to make rain and finds herself fighting for her life with a malignant demon.
- The Bureau of Deity Fabrication has the task of creating a new god for every new cult on earth, and they are understaffed, overworked and running out of time...
- A young boy comes to America from deep in Mexico seeking his fortune to help his poor village following his dream and his Holy Guardian Angel.
- A male UFO pilot, whose ship runs on energy produced by sexual union with his female Powermate, has his partner suddenly die and he must seek a new one on the primitive planet, earth.
- The SS, searching for relics of ancient power in Egypt to aid the Nazis in conquering the world, unearth an artifact of the Egyptian devil-god Set, which unleashes a horror beyond their wildest nightmares.
- A rip in space-time occurs in the belly of a mouse and metamorphoses into an insatiable monster that devours and alters all that it touches...
- She was Satan's daughter - a woman of incredible beauty and incalculable evil - whose intimate liaison with the American President had only one purpose: absolute power.
These stories and more are to be found in
Tales for the New Aeon. These are tales of magick, science fiction, divine inspiration and demonic possession, humor, great courage, raw fear and sheer horror. Each is unique and proceeds directly from the brilliant but rather strange mind of Thomas Voxfire.
Customer Reviews:
Couldn't Put It Down.......2007-06-25
I got a real kick out of reading this book! A very eclectic collection of short stories, loosely connected by a thread of Mysticism and Magick, with a dose of sex & violence, all with tongue firmly in cheek. A fun tour through an obviously twisted mind. Worth the price of admission.
Thomas Voxfire.......2007-05-08
This book contains some of the most fantastic stories I have ever read. What a range of subjects: from New age to horror. Truly an incredible book.
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- Required Reading
- Passionate Storytelling
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Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation (Native America: Yesterday and Today)
Douglas M. George-Kanentiio
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0275983846 |
Book Description
In their homelands in what is now New York State, Iroquois and their issues have come to dominate public debate as the residents of the region seek ways to resolve the multibillion dollar land claims against the state. This initial dispute over territorial title has grown to encompass gambling, treaties, taxation, and what it means to claim Native sovereignty in a world experiencing fantastic technological change. New York's influence is such that the experiences of Iroquois interaction with the state will surely affect how Natives and other states deal with similar issues. This is an essential volume for those wishing to better understand these issues, written from an Iroquois perspective by someone who has taken an active role in tribal affairs and who is dedicated to preserving the philosophies of his people. Douglas George-Kanentiio, a member of the Mohawk Nation and an activist for Native American claims, details the history of his Nation from initial contact with the Europeans through to the casino crises. As a key figure in events of the last two decades, George-Kanentiio uses aspects of his personal story to highlight issues of public interest: the land, family and community, geography, federal interference in tribal affairs, religion, political activism, land use/claims, and connections to organized crime.
Customer Reviews:
Required Reading .......2006-12-04
Author Doug George-Kanentiio writes from within the struggle, to shed light on the on-going struggles of the People of the Longhouse to save their sacred traditions and land from the contemporary seduction of money and political clout.
Recommended reading for those seeking the inside story on a quintessentially American saga. Not to be missed. A 21st century journalist reporting on the travails of the First People, Doug George's voice is raised and demands a hearing.
Passionate Storytelling.......2006-12-04
Douglas M. George-Kanentiio's writing is raw, bare-knuckled exposition pounded out, it seems at times, in his own blood. This is his third book. He knows how to use the language, he knows the history of the Six Nations and he pulls no punches in describing the schisms among the Iroquois that still haunt the people of the longhouse today. This book is a shot across the bow of Iroquois leaders and a reminder that only in unity did the Six Nations flourish. With an intimate forward by Vine Deloria, his last.
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