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Richard Greene's poetry examines a wide range of sujects: politics, spirituality, marriage, fatherhood, landscapes, the environment, Newfoundland culture, war, mortality, and the afterlife. His poetry has been widely admired for its unusual combination of technical competence and visionary intensity. One of the main conce s of this volume is the political and religious implications of a profound sense of place.

For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and anecdotes were legendary and her works like English Eccentrics confirmed her comic genius, while later she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. This masterly biography, meticulously researched and drawing on many previously unseen letters, firmly places Edith Sitwell in the literary tradition to which she belongs.

A century of great oration is collected in this volume, from the speeches of leaders such as Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur to the words of Martin Luter Kings, Jr. and other reformers.

Describes results from 1990, the second year of a continuing study of the effects of noise from oil production activities on bowhead and (secondarily) white whales during their spring migrations around Alaska. Additional data was collected on physical acoustics, whale reactions to helicopters, and reactions of bowheads to the same type of drilling noise used in 1989.

Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

A collection of poems on aging, such as: I See Myself Becoming Old My closet is full of suits I don't wear anymore. Nothing I need to wear them for. There are days when I stay in my pajamas till noon. I picture my heirs looking at my wardrobe one day asking "Can you think of anyone who can use these or should we give them to Goodwill?" Or, "Would you like this tie as a remembrance of Dad?" As I read the obits of the recently deceased, which I took to doing a few years ago, I compare their ages to mine. Then there's the arthritis in my hands and feet. My left foot aches when I walk and I suffered a rupture in a time-worn tendon not long ago. I have more trouble lifting things and getting around. Don't jump over puddles anymore for fear of the damage I might do coming down. (No more kicking up heels for me.) What will it be next, the incipient cataracts? My hearing isn't what it used to be. I don't think I need a hearing aid yet, though my daughter disagrees. Or will it be something unforeseen like that ill-fated tendon? I see myself becoming old, yet it's as if I were watching it happen to somebody else.

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La scomparsa prematura di James Gandolfini, il mitico Tony Soprano, ripropone l’originaria confusione tra realtà, arte e pensiero. All’inizio era il teatro, per i greci antichi luogo di farsa e tragedia della vita, palcoscenico del pensiero, dei suoi incubi e delle sue utopie. Oggi sono gli effetti speciali e l’estetica assoluta delle serie tv, tra cui I Soprano spicca per la potenza catartica di una mirabile rappresentazione della violenza. Uccido dunque sono. Tra darwinismo sociale da tardo capitalismo consumistico ed eterni istinti dell’animale uomo, questo libro si addentra nella filosofia che ci tiene incollati al video anche per le scene più scabrose. A farci spalancare occhi e mente non è il lato morboso del voyeurismo, ma l’eterna sete del sapere. La sete che vede rappresentate degnamente tutte le sfumature dell’essere umano solo nei migliori prodotti della società dello spettacolo. Dove l’eterna sovrapposizione tra realtà e finzione è solo l’inizio della scienza.

A collection of poems describing the exterior world, such as: Orinocos of the Imagination I've never been to the Orinoco and have seen few photos of it, but I feel I know its sinuous lengths, winding between thick jungle walls, flashing silver in the sun, delicate waterfalls threading from cloud-shrouded cliffs, dense foliage adorned with birds of kindergarten colors and jaguars that merge into shadow, the insistent music of bird cry and monkey chatter, dugouts and caimans scoring its sleek waters, those who people its valley gliding nearly naked through twilight forests, dappled by the distant sun. I know these lush landscapes from my dreams.

A collection of autobiographical poems by Richard Greene. Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

Zombie e vampiri hanno conquistato il centro della cultura pop, come protagonisti di serie tv, fumetti, cartoni, videogames e film. Questo libro porta le teorie di filosofi come Socrate e Cartesio nei territori dei non morti, per interrogare queste oscure creature su questioni sociali e filosofiche. Vampiri e vegetariani, in fondo, non condividono la stessa visione del mondo? E gli zombie possono aiutarci a comprendere l'essenzialità della riforma sanitaria negli Stati Uniti? E ancora: cosa potrebbe significare il famoso detto "mente sana in corpo sano" per vampiri e zombie? Le risposte a queste e altre domande attendono i lettori abbastanza intrepidi da lasciarsi coinvolgere in questa filosofica e divertente scorreria nel mondo dei non morti.

Richard Greene's first collection since winning the 2010 Governor-General's Award for Poetry, take as their subject the rumors, misunderstandings and half-truths that often comprise our knowledge of others. With an astonishing gift for capturing states of feeling, Greene's new poems movingly reflect on the "presence and absence, glory and disarray" of our flawed life, moving from his mother's oil paintings to harrowing conditions at a corrections facility to recollections of a much-loved mentor. The capstone of the book is the magnificent title poem. Written in fluent, colloquial terza rima and set in sun-drenched Siena during the frenzied pageantry of Il Palio-the Italian city's bi-annual horse race-it is a brilliant, beautifully realized achievement that consolidates Greene's reputation as an emerging master of narrative verse. Richard Greene teaches Creative Writing and British Literature at the University of Toronto. Publisher's note.

Now revised and updated with new aphorisms! Reader beware: This book contains material that disparages cherished beliefs, opinions and institutions including political and religious ones. While some readers may find that material refreshingly irreverent, others may find it offensive. The aphorism quoted on the cover, Patriotism, piety and chastity are all much overrated virtues, offers a relatively mild example. Some of the aphorisms offer potentially even more offensive material, so proceed with caution. Here are a few examples of Mr. Greene's aphorisms: Sex wouldn't be nearly so interesting if it weren't so widely forbidden. The truly strong are those who aren't driven by the need to prove their strength. Lawyers, actors and politicians must fool others. In the process they often fool themselves. We tend to forget that not all mothers are saints, nor all soldiers heroes. The most important measure of civilization is compassion, not technology, culture, sophisticated institutions, power or the gross national product.

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It doesn't matter the type or size of the business or organization; the challenges of having productive meetings are the same. Many meetings are boring, run longer than planned, and accomplish very little. By applying powerful yet simple methods of planning, managing, and tracking, The 10 Commandments of Productive Meetings is a guide that any business or organization can use to make meetings a thing of value. In this book, you'll find a very simple process that you can follow to make your meetings shorter, more fun, and more productive.

The Ironman Triathlete represents 1/100th of 1% of the population and they've been found to practice these ten success principles. It doesn't matter what field or vocation you are engaged in life. If you want to be outstanding and unstoppable, you'll focus on the principles described in this book. To help inspire you to implement these principles in your life, some of the most powerful quotations have been chosen to complement each one. Chose those principles you'd like to adopt, reflect on their meaning for you, and select your favorite quotations for inspiration.Enjoy...become inspired...and create your own unstoppable success!