The Devil Dealt the Cards" is an emotionally engaging series of intimate stories derived from months of living among the natives on a small Afghan Army post called Gamberi Garrison. Captain Jackson, a female logistics officer, and her team find themselves tasked with training Afghanistan's greenest soldiers, while simultaneously living on a violent crossroads near the Pakistan border. Her personal recollections vividly portray the excitement, ...
The Devil Dealt the Cards" is an emotionally engaging series of intimate stories derived from months of living among the natives on a small Afghan Army post called Gamberi Garrison. Captain Jackson, a female logistics officer, and her team find themselves tasked with training Afghanistan's greenest soldiers, while simultaneously living on a violent crossroads near the Pakistan border. Her personal recollections vividly portray the excitement, ...
June 12, 1998: a day she will never remember: When 15 year-old Sarah Jackson climbed into a car with an underage drinking driver, she didn't know that choices can impact dreams . The driver lost control and crashed. Sarah sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. She was in a coma for 3 ¿ weeks and underwent four months of rehabilitation therapy. With a journal describing her difficulties, essay reaction's from friend's, mom's journal detaili...
June 12, 1998: a day she will never remember: When 15 year-old Sarah Jackson climbed into a car with an underage drinking driver, she didn't know that choices can impact dreams . The driver lost control and crashed. Sarah sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. She was in a coma for 3 ¿ weeks and underwent four months of rehabilitation therapy. With a journal describing her difficulties, essay reaction's from friend's, mom's journal detaili...
Excerpt from Letters to a Young ChristianDear Eugenia, - You are now just starting in the Christian course, you have taken the vows of God upon you, and joined yourself to his people. Hence forth you will be regarded by the world as a Chris tian, and they will expect you to live accordingly. They have heard you solemnly promise, that, denying all ungodliness and every worldly lust, you will live soberly, godly, and righteously, and take the Lo...
Excerpt from The Director, or Young Woman's Best Companion: Being the Plainest and Cheapest of the Kind Ever Published, The Whole Makes a Complete Family Cook and Physican, Containing Above Three Hundred Easy Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and SurgeryFat rather inclining to White than Yellow, and the Suet Very white.Cow. Beef has a clofer Grain, the Fat is whiter, the Bones leis, and the Lean o...
Excerpt from The Director, or Young Woman's Best Companion: Being the Plainest and Cheapest of the Kind Ever Published, The Whole Makes a Complete Family Cook and Physican, Containing Above Three Hundred Easy Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Candying, Pickling, Collaring, Physick, and SurgeryFat rather inclining to White than Yellow, and the Suet Very white.Cow. Beef has a clofer Grain, the Fat is whiter, the Bones leis, and the Lean o...
This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have covered cases of controversial political dissent by African American celebrities from Paul Robeson to Kanye West.
Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation."-San Francisco ChronicleAcclaimed in her own time for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House-classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe-Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after he...
This book captures the contested terrain of contemporary masculinity and explores a range of conceptualisations, with a specific focus on the role of the media and promotional culture within the context of sport. Asking whether sport is the final frontier of masculinity in society, the book focuses on how the production and representation of sport-related advertising and marketing contribute to the shifting and contested nature of masculinity ...
Excerpt from Letters to a Young Christian
Another great difficulty with me was, that I had not correct ideas of what is implied in the life of faith. I understood very well that heaven was not to be purchased with penances, or merited by good works. Yet the spirit of legality lingered long in my heart, unperceived. I used to think it a mark of humility for a Christian to have doubts and fears about the reality of his conversion. If I happened...
Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century. Yet, while many of her male contemporaries remain well known to Texas literature, she does not. Her energy and significant role in shaping the literature of Texas equaled those of Walter Prescott Webb or J. Frank Dobie, with whom she ranked as the first Fellows of the Texas Institute of Letters. Although she lived in the small town of Nacogdoches, her modern lifes...
