Tag: Journals

The Cancer Journals


Free Download Tracy K. Smith, "The Cancer Journals"
English | 2020 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 0143135201 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.

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E-Journals Access and Management


Free Download Wayne Jones, "E-Journals Access and Management"
English | 2008 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 0789033852, 113880116X | PDF | 1,9 mb
The proliferation of e-journals and their impact on library collections is tremendous. E-Journals Access and Management takes a comprehensive look at how e-journals have changed the library landscape and offers librarians strategies to better manage them. This useful resource provides a broad overview of the practical and theoretical issues associated with the management of electronic journals, and contains practical and illuminating case studies of problems faced and solutions found in individual libraries. Containing chapters by respected authorities on this dynamic topic of debate, E-Journals Access and Management presents vital information on a full range of issues dealing with electronic resource access and management, including bibliographic and web access, acquisitions, and licensing.

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The Life of a Private Journals of a U.S. Private of World War 1


Free Download Jason Sprague, "The Life of a Private: Journals of a U.S. Private of World War 1"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1637107714 | EPUB | pages: 68 | 3.7 mb
A firsthand account written in the final year of World War I. Jason Sprague recounts his experience as a private in the United States military. Sprague presents his adjustment from a serene life in the states to the battle-ravaged fields and confusion of Europe during "the war to end all wars" from the explosion of the Spanish flu, the signing of the armistice, and the aftermath of the Argonne Forest offensive. Including images he took himself or collected along the way, he details his journey from his landing in France as he joins his company on the march towards Germany. The detailed stories provided offer a unique perspective to even those who are experts of this historical conflict.

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The Japan Journals 1947-2004


Free Download The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 By Donald Richie, Leza Lowitz
2005 | 510 Pages | ISBN: 1880656973 | EPUB | 10 MB
"Richie should be designated a living national treasure."-Library Journal"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor… honest, introspective, and often poignant."-New York Times"No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."-London Review of Books"To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."-Japanese Language and LiteratureDonald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals-now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition-becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.

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Phases & Stages The Terri Clark Journals


Free Download Terri Clark, "Phases & Stages: The Terri Clark Journals"
English | 2000 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 189466356X | PDF | 5,2 mb
What’s it like being a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and superstar? For multi-platinum selling country songstress Terri Clark, it’s a world of tour buses, friendly faces, and passing moments captured in songs. Having kept a journal during her rise from breakout sensation to first woman in almost a year to have a number one country hit with her "I Just Wanna Be Mad," Phases & Stages affords an unprecedented insight into the price of the dream, the joy of creation, and the thrill of arrival.

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Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8 Journals NB21-NB25 (2024)


Free Download Søren Kierkegaard, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, "Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21-NB25"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0691166188 | PDF | pages: 895 | 84.8 mb
For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory.

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Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8 Journals NB21-NB25 (2024)


Free Download Søren Kierkegaard, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, "Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21-NB25"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0691166188 | PDF | pages: 895 | 84.8 mb
For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory.

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