My War With Brian

Author : Ted Rall
Publisher : Comics Lit
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War with Brian written by Ted Rall and published by Comics Lit. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rall is back recounting his junior-high years at the hadns of a merciless bully who just wouldn't let up. Ted, now a strapping fella over 6 feet happily lost in the Big Apple, was a wimpy egghead trapped in the middle of Nowheresville, Heartland USA back then, and hated it with a passion. This no-holds-barred recollection begs the question: was his attitude so snotty that he deserved the abuse?

Author : Jeanne Betancourt
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780780759169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Name Is Brain, Brian written by Jeanne Betancourt and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is helped by his new sixth-grade teacher after being diagnosed as dyslexic, Brian still has some problems with school and with people he thought were his friends.

Author : Willson, S. Brian
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 160486592X
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Tracks written by Willson, S. Brian and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. In telling his story, Willson provides numerous examples of the types of personal, risk-taking, nonviolent actions he and others have taken in attempts to educate and effect political change: tax refusal—which requires simplification of one’s lifestyle; fasting—done publicly in strategic political and/or therapeutic spiritual contexts; and obstruction tactics—strategically placing one’s body in the way of “business as usual.” It was such actions that thrust Brian Willson into the public eye in the mid-’80s, first as a participant in a high-profile, water-only “Veterans Fast for Life” against the Contra war being waged by his government in Nicaragua. Then, on a fateful day in September 1987, the world watched in horror as Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks and arrested. Losing his legs only strengthened Willson’s identity with millions of unnamed victims of U.S. policy around the world. He provides details of his travels to countries in Latin America and the Middle East and bears witness to the harm done to poor people as well as to the environment by the steamroller of U.S. imperialism. These heart-rending accounts are offered side by side with inspirational stories of nonviolent struggle and the survival of resilient communities Willson’s expanding consciousness also uncovers injustices within his own country, including insights gained through his study and service within the U.S. criminal justice system and personal experiences addressing racial injustices. He discusses coming to terms with his identity as a Viet Nam veteran and the subsequent service he provides to others as director of a veterans outreach center in New England. He draws much inspiration from friends he encounters along the way as he finds himself continually drawn to the path leading to a simpler life that seeks to “do no harm.&rdquo Throughout his personal journey Willson struggles with the question, “Why was it so easy for me, a ’good’ man, to follow orders to travel 9,000 miles from home to participate in killing people who clearly were not a threat to me or any of my fellow citizens?” He eventually comes to the realization that the “American Way of Life” is AWOL from humanity, and that the only way to recover our humanity is by changing our consciousness, one individual at a time, while striving for collective cultural changes toward “less and local.” Thus, Willson offers up his personal story as a metaphorical map for anyone who feels the need to be liberated from the American Way of Life—a guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect and empathy.

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385536216
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Walk written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.

Author : Brian Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135370036
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just My Soul Responding written by Brian Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.

Author : Brian McClellan
Publisher : Tor.com
ISBN 13 : 125017015X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Cry written by Brian McClellan and published by Tor.com. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new novella from the author of the acclaimed Powder Mage series. Teado is a Changer, a shape-shifting military asset trained to win wars. His platoon has been stationed in the Bavares high plains for years, stranded. As they ration supplies and scan the airwaves for news, any news, their numbers dwindle. He's not sure how much time they have left. Desperate and starving, armed with aging, faulting equipment, the team jumps at the chance for a risky resupply mission, even if it means not all of them might come. What they discover could change the course of the war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Brian Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733314636
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War written by Brian Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is no ordinary war story. In 1943, twenty-year-old Brian Walpole leaves his Melbourne home for the steaming jungles of New Guinea to serve in one of Australia's first commando units. Then in Borneo, as a member of the elite Z Special Unit, he fights alongside headhunting Sea Dyaks, who are paid a bounty for every Japanese head taken. Brian learns their language, sleeps in their longhouses. The experience changes him forever. Yet despite his being surrounded on all sides by grotesque images of death, this is above all a story of life, reflecting the author's motto: life is for living. The lighter moments of his experiences are unforgettable. There's fishing with a hand grenade. The stingray tailing one of the boats as if in sexual pursuit. Men sitting in the jungle after an attack, listening to the phoney sweet words of Tokyo Rose. And back in Australia, there's one woman after another willing to welcome a young serviceman home, and a friendship that will last for the rest of Brian's life. My War is strong stuff - but, at the same time, it is hugely entertaining, as it records a unique experience of Australia at war that has so far been little known.

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Public Space Books
ISBN 13 : 9781734590760
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li written by Yiyun Li and published by Public Space Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress.

Author : Brian Turner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099578875
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life As a Foreign Country written by Brian Turner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 US soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert. Now, still stalked by conflict, he retraces his war experience and meditates on the echoes between his story and those of generations of soldiers marching to battle before him. Spanning pre-deployment to combat zone, World War I to Vietnam, boredom to bloodlust, roadside bombs to open mic nights, My Life as a Foreign Country asks what it means to be a soldier and a human being. âe~The most haunting book I read this yearâe(tm) Irish Times âe~His shrapnel-like chapters come at you from all anglesâe¦ Compulsiveâe(tm) Guardian âe~Turner is a soldier with the soul of a poetâe(tm) Daily Telegraph âe~Wrathful, wry and incantatoryâe(tm) Erica Wagner, New Statesman âe~Beautiful, electrifying and full of painâe(tm) Washington Post

Author : Christine C. Woods
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412230608
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War written by Christine C. Woods and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time to 1943 and experience what life was like during World War II- both overseas and on the home front- for one American family. This fascinating historical journey is a rich compilation of interviews, newspaper clippings, letter and diary transcriptions.