Kate Chopin:The Awakening (Penguin Classics)
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Tupelo, MS: American Family Association , 2013 American Family Association, Tupelo, MS. 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine… Altro …
Tupelo, MS: American Family Association , 2013 American Family Association, Tupelo, MS. 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Black grained boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 225 pp 8vo. This book tells the highly motivating story of how one man stepped out of his small community church's pulpit and acting on his Christian Faith, with no financial backing, founded the American Family Association to have a permanent impact on American society. This book tells of the significant events and incidents in his life that finally led him search for God's will in his life and his founding of the AFA. He has paid the price for what he has done but he still is fighting the liberal attempts to secularize America. A clean very presentable copy. Presentation letter from the AFA Foundation is laid in., American Family Association, 2013, 5, Shambhala Publications Inc, 2010-08-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1.7766 in x 21.3198 in x 13.7056 in., Shambhala Publications Inc, 2010-08-01, 2.5, WND Books, Incorporated, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., WND Books, Incorporated, 2017, 3, Penguin Books. Very Good. 6.04 x 1.17 x 9.18 inches. Paperback. 2007. 512 pages. <br>Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Th omas E. Ricks's The Gamble Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, lat e 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the grou nd during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural compani on piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq. Editorial R eviews Amazon Review Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon corresponden t for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps (released in a 10th anniversary edition to accompany the paperback release of Fiasco) , has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Ir aq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in e arly 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds re sponsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--th e runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from boo ks like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more s keptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the h eart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, wh en, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the J ordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His stronge st critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and t hen failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it wi th conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes h is portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sourc es--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the tho usands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case fo r a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. The paper back edition of Fiasco includes a new postscript in which Ricks l ooks back on the year since the book's release, a year in which t he intensity and frequency of attacks on American soldiers only i ncreased and in which Ricks's challenging account became accepted as conventional wisdom, with many of the dissident officers in h is story given the reins of leadership, although Ricks still find s the prospects for the conflict grim. --Tom Nissley A Fiasco, a Year Later With the paperback release of Thomas Ricks's Fiasco, a year after the book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and an influential force in transforming the public perception (and t he perception within the military and the civilian government as well) of the war in Iraq, we asked Ricks in the questions below t o look back on the book and the year of conflict that have follow ed. On our page for the hardcover edition of Fiasco you can see o ur earlier Q&A with Ricks, and you can also see two lists he prep ared for Amazon customers: his choices for the 10 books for under standing Iraq that aren't about Iraq, a collection of studies of counterinsurgency warfare that became surprisingly popular last y ear as soldiers and civilians tried to understand the nature of t he new conflict, and, as a glimpse into his writing process, a pl aylist of the music he listened to while writing and researching the book. Amazon: When we spoke with you a year ago, you sa id that you thought you were done going back to Baghdad. But that dateline is still showing up in your reports. How have things ch anged in the city over the past year? Thomas E. Ricks: Yes, I h ad promised my wife that I wouldnÂ't go back. Iraq was taking a t oll on both of us--I think my trips of four to six weeks were har der on her than on me. But I found I couldn't stay away. The Ir aq war is the most important event of our time, I think, and will remain a major news story for years to come. And I felt like eve rything I had done for the last 15 years--from deployments I'd co vered to books and military manuals IÂ'd read (and written)--had prepared me to cover this event better than most reporters. So I made a deal with my wife that I would go back to Iraq but would n o longer do the riskiest things, such as go on combat patrols or on convoys. I used to have a rule that I would only take the risk s necessary to get the story. Now I don't take even those risks i f I can see them, even if that means missing part of a story. Als o, I try to keep my trips much shorter. How is Baghdad differen t? It is still a chaotic mess. But it doesn't feel quite as Hobbe sian as it did in early 2006. That said, it also feels a bit like a pause--with the so-called surge, Uncle Sam has put all his chi ps on the table, and the other players are waiting a bit to see h ow that plays out. Amazon: One of the remarkable things ove r the past year for a reader of Fiasco has been how much of what your book recommends has, apparently, been taken to heart by the military and civilian leadership. As you write in your new postsc ript to the paperback edition, the war has been turned over to th e dissidents. General David Petraeus, who was one of the first to put classic counterinsurgency tactics to use in Iraq, is now the top American commander there, and he has surrounded himself with others with similar views. What was that transformation like on the inside? Ricks: I was really struck when I was out in Baghda d two months ago at how different the American military felt. I u sed to hate going into the Green Zone because of all the unreal h appy talk I'd hear. It was a relief to leave the place, even if b eing outside it (and contrary to popular myth, most reporters do live outside it) was more dangerous. There is a new realism in the U.S. military. In May, I was getting a briefing from one offi cial in the Green Zone and I thought, Wow, not only does this bri efing strike me as accurate, it also is better said than I could do. That feeling was a real change from the old days. The other thing that struck me was the number of copies I saw of Fiasco as I knocked around Iraq. When I started writing it, the title was controversial. Now generals say things to me like, Got it, unders tand it, agree with it. I am told that the Army War College is ma king the book required reading this fall. Amazon: And what are its prospects at this late date? Ricks: The question remain s, Is it too little too late? It took the U.S. military four year s to get the strategy right in Iraq--that is, to understand that their goal should be to protect the people. By that time, the Ame rican people and the Iraqi people both had lost of lot of patienc e. (And by that time, the Iraq war had lasted longer than America n participation in World War II.) Also, it isn't clear that we ha ve enough troops to really implement this new strategy of protect ing the people. In some parts of Baghdad where U.S. troops now ha ve outposts, the streets are quieter. Yet we're seeing more viole nce on the outskirts of Baghdad. And the cities of Mosul and Kirk uk make me nervous. I am keeping an eye on them this summer and f all. The thing to watch in Iraq is whether we see more tribes m aking common cause with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. How lo ng will it last? And what does it mean in the long term for Iraq? Is it the beginning of a major change, or just a prelude to a bi g civil war? Amazon: You've been a student of the culture o f the military for years. How has the war affected the state of t he American military: the redeployments, the state of Guard and R eserves troops and the regular Army and Marines, and the relation ship to civilian leadership? Ricks: I think there is general ag reement that there is a huge strain on the military. Essentially, one percent of the nation--soldiers and their families--is carry ing the burden. We are now sending soldiers back for their third year-long tours. We've never tried to fight a lengthy ground war overseas with an all-volunteer force. Nor have we ever tried to o ccupy an Arab country. What the long-term effect is on the mili tary will depend in part on how the war ends for us, and for Iraq . But I think it isn't going to be good. Today I was talking to a retired officer and asked him what he was hearing from his frien ds in Iraq about troop morale. It's broken, he said. Meanwhile, h e said, soldiers he knows who are back home from Iraq wonder why they were there. Not everyone is as morose as this officer, but t he trend isn't good. Amazon: You quote Gen. Anthony Zinni i n your postscript as saying the U.S. is drifting toward containme nt in Iraq. What does containment of what will likely remain a ve ry hot conflict look like? You've written in your postscript and elsewhere that you think we are only in act III of a Shakespearea n tragedy. I wouldn't describe Shakespeare's fifth acts as partic ularly well contained. Ricks: I agree with you. Containment wou ld mean some sort of stepping back from the war, probably beginni ng by halving the American military presence. You'd probably stil l have U.S. troops inside Iraq, but disengaged from daily fightin g. Their goals would be negative ones: prevent genocide, prevent al Qaeda from being able to operate in Iraq, and prevent the war from spreading to outside Iraq. (This was laid out well in a rece nt study by James Miller and Shawn Brimley, readable at http://ww w.cnas.org/en/cms/?368.) Containment probably would be a messy and demoralizing mission. No one signs up in the U.S. military to stand by as innocents are slaughtered in nearby cities. Yet that might be the case if we did indeed move to this stance and a ful l-blown civil war (or a couple) ensued. And there surely would be refugees from such fighting. Either they would go to neighboring countries, and perhaps destabilize them, or we would set up refu gee catchment areas, as another study, by the Brookings Institute , proposed. The open-ended task of guarding those new refugee cam ps likely would fall to U.S. troops. The more you look at Iraq, the more worrisome it gets. As I noted in the new postscript in the paperback edition, many strategic experts I talk to believe t hat the consequences of the Iraq war are going to be worse for th e United States than was the fallout from the Vietnam War. Amaz on: A year and a half is a long time, but let's say that we h ave a Democratic president in January 2009: President Clinton, or Gore, or Obama. What prospect would a change in administration h ave for a new strategic opening? Or would the new president likel y wind up like Nixon in Vietnam, owning a war he or she didn't be gin? Ricks: Not such a long time. President Bush has made his m ajor decisions on Iraq. Troop levels are going to have to come do wn next year, because we don't have replacements on the shelf. So the three big questions for the U.S. government are going to be: How many troops will be withdrawn, what will be the mission of t hose who remain, and how long will they stay? Those questions are going to be answered by the next president, not this one. My g ut feeling is the latter: I think we are going to have troops in Iraq through 2009, and probably for a few years beyond that. Inde ed, I wouldn't be surprised if U.S. troops were there in 15 years . But as I say in Fiasco, that's kind of a best-case scenario. Review Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essenti al reading. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The best accou nt yet of the entire war. -Vanity Fair Review Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading. -Michiko Kaku tani, The New York Times The best account yet of the entire war. -Vanity Fair About the Author Thomas E. Ricks is The Washingto n Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for sev enteen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for na tional reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty. </div ., Penguin Books, 2007, 3, New., 6, Tokuma Shoten. Good. () / / 15 x 10.6 x 1.4 cm / 0.14 kg, Tokuma Shoten, 2.5, The world's most renowned volcanologist mysteriously disappears after a lecture on geophysical catastrophes. Two policemen are found brutally executed on the steps of London's nearby Albert Hall. Then, Mount St Helen's suddenly and inexplicably erupts in Washington State, leaving a wake of death and destruction. The new, liberal administration in the White House ignores these apparent coincidences, but the retired Admiral Morgan, former National Security Adviser to the President, and Lt. Jimmy Ramshawe are shocked into action. Only a missile, launched from a nuclear submarine, could have had the power to blow up the volcano. Is this the fabled HAMAS terrorist, Major Ray Kerman, at work again? Their suspicions are quickly confirmed by a HAMAS ultimatum: Total military evacuation of the Middle East or the terrible threat of a mega-tsunami - the greatest tidal wave in 4000 years of world history. Both men know immediately what that means: the volcano Cumbre Vieja, glowering over the island La Palma in the Canaries. A nuclear missile, such as Kerman's brand-new, state-of-the-art Scimitar SL-2, launched straight at the heart of the volcano would explode the mountain into the Atlantic ocean and send a tidal wave towards the East Coast of the United States, at 400 miles an hour, with waves 150 feet high. Resolutely, the Pentagon refuses to buckle and Admiral Morgan is swept back into the White House to implement Operation High Tide - a desperate race to evacuate the East Coast and locate the nuclear submarine before it launches its deadly weapon. ., 5, Sourcebooks Press, 1998. Oversize softcover design. Moderate cover wear. Pages generally very good; moderate discoloration at outer edge. Completely redesigned, this book visually teaches the fundamentals of money and finance by using illustrations, charts, anecdotes, and stories. Aimed at the quantitatively challenged, this excellent financial planning guide makes liberal use of graphics. Monroe, formerly an English teacher and presently a financial planner, stresses the need to set financial goals. She then treats each significant financial obstacle confronting individuals. This is a useful introductory title for individuals of either brain orientation. With this extremely helpful book, the sensitive artiste can come up with a personal financial picture and plan. Monroe, a right-brainer herself, addresses those with little or no experience in or inclination for financial issues, guiding them in establishing a complete financial program for themselves. Steps toward that end consist of defining one's financial goals, learning how money gets spent and made, and protecting one's assets, among other major and minor concepts and practices. 339 pages.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book., Sourcebooks Press, 1998, 2.5, Gordon Klingenschmitt, 2020-02-26. Paperback. New. 88x7x136., Gordon Klingenschmitt, 2020-02-26, 6, The Women's Press, 1991. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Our cover is different. The Women's Press. 1991. A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage, this revolutionary book is still relevant to many. This concise supplement to Chopin's The Awakening helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and culutral perspectives of the author. From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister Edna Pontellier, the heroine of The Awakening, shocked readers in 1899 and the scandal created by the book haunted Kate Chopin for the rest of her life. The Awakening begins at a crisis point in twenty-eight year-old Edna Pontellier's life. Edna is a passionate and artistic woman who finds few acceptable outlets for her desires in her role as wife and mother of two sons living in conventional Creole society. Unlike the married women around her, whose sensuality seems to flow naturally into maternity, Edna finds herself wanting her own emotional and sexual identity. During one summer while her husband is out of town, her frustrations find an outlet in an affair with a younger man. Energized and filled with a desire to define her own life, she sends her children to the country and removes herself to a small house of her own: "Every step she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. She began to look with her own eyes; to see and apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. No longer was she content to 'feed upon the opinion' when her own soul had invited her." Her triumph is short-lived, however, destroyed by a society that has no place for a self-determined, unattached woman. Her story is a tragedy and one of many clarion calls in its day to examine the institution of marriage and woman's opportunities in an oppressive world. How could any woman not like this book? I am FAR from being a feminist, but- WOW! Ms. Chopin was ahead of her time in describing the oppression of women and how they were considered nothing but an extension of their husbands. She ventured where few female authors dared and boldly expressed the idea that if a woman wasn't free to be herself it was better, not only for her, but for all around her, that she were dead instead of living as someone that she was not. Suicide was a little extreme, but what other choice did Edna have in that time period? Ms. Chopin's ideas of liberation and identity and equality are still applicable today. A woman must become someone before she becomes someone's wife. 0-7043-3822-X. Paperback - 1991 - good condition - - . Isbn 070433822X., The Women's Press, 1991, 2.5<
