Bøger af Jerry White

Speaking at the Congress of African People in September 1970, Amiri Barak said "In Newark, when we greet each other on the streets, we say, 'what time is it?' We always say 'It's nation time!' Nationalism is about land and nation, a way of life trying to free itself." National identity and nationhood are easily too often dismissed as retrograde populism or racist exclusion. Instead, they need to be understood as a key part of a vision of globalisation that holds the imperatives of diversity and solidarity in a delicate balance. Jerry White offers a defense of the nation based on the assumption that struggles for national identity have often unfolded in ways that should be familiar to those who defend the political standpoint of the progressive left. Having evolved into something that a wide variety of actors have sought to defend, nations can also serve as a defense against the homogenizing forces of globalisation and as havens of diversity in opposition to more singularly-minded forms of affiliation. It's Nation Time is structured as a series of specific case-studies that speak to theories of nation and their historical and cultural manifestations. It includes examples as varied as Black nationalism, Simone Weil's hopes for a postwar France, the first independence period of Georgia, the Bollywood cinema of Nehru-era India, New Zealand, Quebec, Ireland, Catalonia, and the Métis, the Mohawk, and Inuit, to argue that nationalism is a social form that has much potential and life in it. Broadly internationalist but also deeply insightful about particular the cultures and politics of small nations, It's Nation Time defends an idea of nation, and a form of nationalism, that is rooted in the potential for diversity, flexibility, and progressive politics.

Travis Simmons is a serial killer that loves meth and has a lust for chocolate. His addictions has gotten him caught up in an international human trafficking ring ran by the self proclaimed King of Russia Isben Hussein, who has vowed to blow America off the map.

Au palmarès des notions floues et difficiles, la conscience figure sans doute en bonne place. Elle est source de bien des erreurs, de la culpabilisation abusive à la licence sans bornes. Bien réelle et pourtant impalpable, elle est changeante selon les moments et les individus. Pourtant, elle est mentionnée dans la Bible comme l'un des moyens par lequel Dieu nous parle et peut nous guider si nous la développons de la bonne manière. Il ne s'agit pas d'un livre de morale, ni d'une approche théologique du sujet. Basé sur l'enseignement des Écritures et sur l'expérience vécue de l'auteur, cet ouvrage aborde de façon aussi pragmatique que possible des sujets comme: - l'honnèteté et l'éthique au travail; - le problème de la pression du groupe; - l'honnèteté au foyer; - l'honnèteté avec soi-mème; - la moralité sexuelle; - développer ses convictions sur une base biblique.

Marker to Pay: Who's Stalking Our President-Elect traces the footsteps of master spy Peter Marker commencing with his December 12th, 1920, journal entry: Marker has received a new set of orders from the head of Army intelligence. First, he is to assist Secret Service Agent Charles Fergerson who is assigned to protect President-elect Harding from disgruntled German military officers killing or capturing him. Second, Marker is to continue upgrading the two Florida Bases he has commanded since November. He must strengthen his ground and air units against the German enemies. Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy is convinced the War is over and the eastern seaboard and newly constructed Panama Canal are safe. A reduction of the Atlantic fleet has been ordered with most of its ships merged with the Pacific fleet in San Diego. The reported whispers of rogue German submarines have now forced the Navy to create several Caribbean air bases while also protecting the Panama Canal at all costs. Peter Marker is expected to spearhead an elite force to aid in protecting Harding, securing the U.S. southern border, and overseeing the expansion of military might.

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place. Acclaimed historian Jerry White has collected some twenty-six stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and writing over the past four centuries, from Shakespeare's day to the present. These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. Here are dramatic views of such iconic events as the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz, but also William Thackeray's account of going to see a man hanged, Thomas De Quincey's friendship with a teenaged prostitute, and Doris Lessing's defense of the Underground. This literary London encompasses the famous Baker Street residence of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the bombed-out moonscape of Elizabeth Bowen's wartime streets, Charles Dicken's treacherous River Thames and Frederick Treves's tragic Elephant Man. Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and Hanif Kureishi are among the many great writers who give us their varied Londons here, revealing a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy.

The loss of a loved one, a painful divorce, or a serious physical injury - we must all, at one point, face tragedy - unavoidable moments that divide our lives into 'before' and 'after'. This book outlines the author's successful five-step program for coping with life's worst, and for turning tragedy into triumph.

This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock , mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema, anxious to meet and dialogue with filmmakers of many different stripes. The book also contains substantial discussion of Brakhage's work in light of the filmmakers he encountered at Telluride and discussed in Rolling Stock . Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-J"e;rgen Syberberg. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and Stan Brakhage and Rolling Stock attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema. The book's appendices reprint letters Brakhage wrote to Stella Pence (Telluride's co-founder and managing director), as well as summaries of his work for Telluride and a brace of difficult-to-find reviews.

London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire.

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur.

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen.

But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital's most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the capital Jerry White introduces us to the Marshalsea's unfortunate prisoners - rich and poor;

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by using cutting-edge video equipment in a constant search for a new kind of filmmaking.

A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of eighteenth-century London, a city of grandeur and glitter, squalor and poverty, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. What emerges is a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history--and especially by class.

London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are brought back to be treated in hospitals and millions of shells are produced in its factories. This book presents the determination of Londoners to get on with their lives in the backdrop of a war.

Presents the discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. This book argues that Berger and Tanners work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss.

They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the East End Jewish working class in its formative years.

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order.