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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Gerald Mortimer
The music of Gerald Finzi, whose popularity has recently enjoyed a great resurgence, is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers of the early part of this century for whom song writing was a principal means of expression.While retaining a general picture of the modest, quintessentially English composer, Stephen Banfield's stylish, witty and acute biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for. Finzi's ambiguous relationship with his craft, his affluent and intellectually stimulating family background and his Jewishness lend a mysterious and troubled quality to his life and work, and ultimately invite us to question the notions of Englishness he represents.'In this outstanding study, Stephen Banfield remarks that although Finzi's output and influence were those of a minor composer, "something about his profile, the way he went about his job, the breadth of his thought, the depths of his personality and its impact on others, in short his individuality, always suggested something greater." Thus it is that Finzi, with a relatively small output, now receives a 571-page biography in which the author brings to bear the full weight and authority of analytical scholarship. Is he worth it? Banfield compels one to answer yes.' Michael Kennedy, BBC Music Magazine'Stephen Banfield's long-needed and doubly welcome book does all that a good life-and-works study should do ... he earns the most heartfelt gratitude. So, it should be added, do his publishers.' Musical Times
'[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some circus freaks are shipwrecked on an island. A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the games he has so carefully planned...' TLS 'Beneath his talented lightness and fantasy, Gerald Kersh is a serious man... [He] has the ability... to create a world which is not realistic and which is yet entirely credible and convincing on its own fantastic terms.' New York Times 'Mr Kersh tells a story; as such, rather better than anybody else.' Pamela Hansford Johnson, Telegraph
Life and Wisdom: THE LIVING OF LIFE and The Wisdom Generated Thereby of Gerald Paul Kooyers
Gerald Paul Kooyers
Moria Corporation
2016
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An autobiography of Gerald Paul Kooyers. Children, grandchildren and others have at times requested Kooyers to write of his interesting life lived in the United States of America in the golden age of the nation from about 1940 to 2010. He writes of life growing up in Wisconsin and California, education at San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University leading to a career in scientific research, self employment, business ventures, computer programming, computer models of devices, electron device research, commodity trading adviser, white water river outfitting, mining and farming.Subjects are ancestry, growing up, college, employment, business ventures, hunting adventures, family fun, making a ton of money in the commodity markets, building a very exquisite dream home, at the time nothing like it in all of Idaho, encountering the criminal banking organization called State Savings, and then American Savings, the lawsuits involved including bankruptcy, and the government seizure of American. He writes of a mine disaster where three men were killed and his belief they were murdered.A Christian life well lived encountering good and evil and the wisdom gained from the experiences. His intent is to pass on the wisdom gained from this living of life on to posterity, He presents the Eigen Theory of Life. By using his scientific skills, his understanding of the Bible so as to let the Bible be its own interpreter, he presents human kind as consisting of an encompassed, composite, four realm manifestation of body, soul, spirit, and heart. He borrows a concept from mathematical quantum physics and presents Jesus Christ as the Eigenfunction of everything, both created and uncreated, so as to present Jesus Christ to be the whole system for the connecting of mankind to God.He lives on the Salmon River of Idaho with his wife Geneva of 58 years. They have six children, 20 grandchildren, and in 2015, 15 great grand children.
Chronicles of the New Jack Era: Gerald G. Money
Gerald G. Money
Gmentertainment1 Incorporated
2014
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The Chronicles of the New Jack Era takes you back to a time where drugs, sex and crime were running rampant in the streets. The Author, Gerald G. Money, takes you on a dangerous journey through the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a tell-all book of survival in the concrete jungle of the New York City streets where redemption is rarely offered in a world that has little room for forgiveness. A page turner, from Gangster to God, you will experience and be a witness to how one man who once was enticed by the temptations of this world was transformed and enlightened by the deliverance of the Lords goodness, grace and mercy. After many years of silence and a Hollywood movie loosely based on the young life of Gerald G.Money, here is his true story filled with a lot of heartache, pain and suffering. Based in Esplanade Gardens, a cooperative apartment complex in upper middle class Harlem at that time, Gerald G. Money was offered every opportunity in life to become whatever he wanted to become but he chose the darkness and perils of the street life. He had it all then lost it all. This was the life & times of The New Jack Era.
The Visionary - Gerald Lacey II: A Collaboration of Visionary Insights
Gerald Lacey II
Conglomerate Publishing
2018
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Warning: This book was created to stimulate & motivate. Reading could fast forward your progress and catapult you to the pinnacle of greatness. Fasten your seat belts and fly safely. Accomplishments along your path could appear larger than life. #Attack. Your Legacy Awaits... "The Visionary" was inspired by life and the journey to be great. Every word was fueled by the passion for winning and the will to persevere. My dad was a visionary, so at a young age, I witnessed the ambition to go after more, to kick down doors, and to go above and beyond what was commonly expected. Faced with many obstacles and countless crossroads, I felt the necessity to share my experiences. There was a burning feeling inside me to get this information to anyone that may need that extra push or that nudge to FINISH. My pure intention is to inspire generations of visionaries to go after their dreams without waiver and understand the sacrifices they may endure are the building blocks of their future. 20+ years of visionary experiences and "Going For It All" evoked the thought process, instructions, exercises and real-life lessons included in this visionary 'Go To Guide'. THIS BOOK WAS DESIGNED TO BE A WORKBOOK FOR YOUR VISION. A WAY TO FOCUS YOUR AMBITION AND CAPITALIZE ON YOUR INNER DRIVE TO SUCCEED.
The story of an ambitious Norman-Welsh priest who wrote, often angrily and always vividly, about his troubles and about the people and places he knew. His books provide the most detailed evidence and the shrewdest insights we have into twelfth century Wales, its social customs, its agriculture, its leading figures and its religious life.
Gerald's own testimony is used extensively in this book to introduce various themes from medieval life, especially in relation to Wales. The book looks at twelfth-century Wales - its land and society, the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Third Crusade, the troubled reign of Henry II and the Welsh Church. Gerald himself was a vitally important figure in the story of the Welsh Church at this time.
This study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.
Probes the personalities assembled at a party when the murder of a guest named Ros transforms an ordinary evening
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisisWhen Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
Gerald Vizenor, the most prolific Native American writer of this century, has produced more than twenty-five books in genres as varied as fiction, journalism, haiku, and literary theory. The first book-length study devoted to this important author, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition lays the groundwork essential for understanding his complex work.Kimberly M. Blaeser begins with an examination of Vizenor's concept of Native American oral culture and his unique incorporation of oral tradition in the written word. She then explicates Vizenor's method of linking the traditional oral aesthetic with reader-response theories and details Vizenor's efforts to produce a form of writing that resists static meaning, involves the writer in the creation of the literary moment, and invites political action. She also explores the place of Vizenor's work within the larger contexts of contemporary tribal literature, Native American scholarship, and critical theory.Individual chapters examine Vizenor's renditions of the Native American trickster figure in his fiction; analyze his employment of a network of critical, social, and literary subtexts within the larger text; and explain the sometimes difficult ""Vizenorese,"" a complex of terms that characterize people and ideas. Blaeser offers explanations of the origins, meanings, and dialogic purposes of a variety of terms, such as manifest manners, dead voices, word cinemas, terminal creeds, and socioacupuncture.Blaeser's is the first study to reveal the full importance of haiku in Vizenor's work. His poetry, which draws equally from Zen aesthetics and Ojibway dream songs, contains concise, economical descriptions, made up equally of absence and presence-a style characterictic of Vizenor's writing in other genres as well.Based upon scholarship, close reading, and interviews with Vizenor himself, and written by a Native scholar of Vizenor's own tribe, this book explicates Vizenor's ideas, methods, and forms, making even his most sophisticated arguments accessible to the general reader.
In the first full-length biography of evangelist Gerald L. K. Smith (1898-1976), Glen Jeansonne traces the tempestuous career of this notorious bigot. A spellbinding speaker and brilliant organiser, Smith founded the reactionary hate sheet The Cross and the Flag as well as the anti-Semitic Christian Nationalist Crusade and ran for president three times. Exhaustively researched, this study contains information from Smith's FBI dossier, his personal papers, and Smith himself. Also included are compelling arguments concerning the causes of anti-Semitism in America, the role of demagogues, and the mentality of their loyal supporters.
Susan Petigru King wrote and published virtually all of her novels and short stories just before and during the American civil war, although her fiction deals neither with slavery nor sectional politics. Set in her native Charleston and its surrounding plantations, King's novels explore the social life and sexual politics of South Carolina's privileged antebellum elite. In the tradition of nineteenth-century domestic novels, King's writings chronicle courtships and marriages, love and jealousy. The republication of these long-neglected novels will introduce contemporary readers to the imaginative power of an important southern American woman writer.Lily, King's best known novel, was originally published by Harper and Brothers in 1855. In this work, King skewers the rituals of courtship that propel its wealthy young heroine toward marriage and a melodramatic death. Gerald Gray's Wife, King's last novel, plays out the ironies of a plain woman who survives-but barely-the revelations that destroy her seemingly perfect marriage and acquired beauty. In both novels, women's jealousies and men's deceptions are the forces that propel King's often satirical pen. Largely lacking the moral instruction so common among nineteenth-century domestic novelists, King's novels are differentiated by their critical perspective on women's position, their exploration of themes of failure and frustration, and their focus on the drawing room and ballroom rather than the kitchen and nursery.
Susan Petigru King wrote and published virtually all of her novels and short stories just before and during the American civil war, although her fiction deals neither with slavery nor sectional politics. Set in her native Charleston and its surrounding plantations, King's novels explore the social life and sexual politics of South Carolina's privileged antebellum elite. In the tradition of nineteenth-century domestic novels, King's writings chronicle courtships and marriages, love and jealousy. The republication of these long-neglected novels will introduce contemporary readers to the imaginative power of an important southern American woman writer.Lily, King's best known novel, was originally published by Harper and Brothers in 1855. In this work, King skewers the rituals of courtship that propel its wealthy young heroine toward marriage and a melodramatic death. Gerald Gray's Wife, King's last novel, plays out the ironies of a plain woman who survives-but barely-the revelations that destroy her seemingly perfect marriage and acquired beauty. In both novels, women's jealousies and men's deceptions are the forces that propel King's often satirical pen. Largely lacking the moral instruction so common among nineteenth-century domestic novelists, King's novels are differentiated by their critical perspective on women's position, their exploration of themes of failure and frustration, and their focus on the drawing room and ballroom rather than the kitchen and nursery.
Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist, and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefront of Native writing. This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close reading of his texts and exploration of the intellectual contexts in which they are situated.