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Veterans: Faces of World War II

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My son's death has made me feel terrible. The pain hurts me tremendously, but the rest of my family helps me and lets me know how much they love me. Alistair Cormack ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND My name is Alistair Cormack. I 64 Lakshman ...

Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Alistair Cormack

Challenging characterisations of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites, Alistair Cormack shows that Joyce and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they identified with empire and celebrated Ireland as destabilising the ...

In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

Mrinalini Chakravorty

As John Marx and Alistair Cormack note, Brick Lane reproduces the conventions of a realist novel that “strains against the generic demands of realism” to address the myriad ways in which Nazneen strains to fit in socially. Cormack further ...

Diabetic Cardiology

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Naveed Sattar and Alistair Cormack 2.1 Introduction As described extensively elsewhere in this book, vascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes, with up to 75% of all such individuals ...

Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction

Victoria Stewart

... Modernism of Ian McEwan's Atonement' and Alistair Cormack, 'Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement'. Introduction. 19.

Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Alistair Cormack

The work of Irish critics – in particular Declan Kiberd, Emer Nolan and Seamus Deane – has radically corrected the orthodox AngloAmerican academic constructions of Yeats and Joyce, one would hope, forever. Indeed, it would probably be ...

Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of ...

Rebecca Walkowitz

ALISTAIR CORMACK Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form: Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane onica Ali's 2003 novel of Bangladeshi immigrants in London, Brick Lane, has been a huge success on both sides of the ...

Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition

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CHAPTER FIVE Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement ALISTAIR CORMACK Chapter Summary: In Atonement (2001), Ian McEwan performs a complex examination of novelistic discourse. The narrative involves a collision ...

Cormack's Revenge

Kate Marie Robbins

Aine finds out that the answers she was looking for were also the unraveling of her life and everyone's around her.Her father, Cormack, vowed revenge on Aine's family if they were ever reunited with Aine.In hopes of saving her boyfriend and ...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey, Wayne Miller, Alistair MacLean. Alistair MacLean Clayton Evant Alistair MacLean was a schoolteacher in Glasgow when, in i954, he entered a ...

From Rupert's Land to Canada

John Elgin Foster

For example, Lesley Cormack has argued that the belief that medieval cartographers assumed the world was flat stems from a misinterpretation of medieval T-O maps, Lesley B. Cormack, "Flat Earth or Round Sphere: Misconceptions of the ...

Canadian Almanac & Directory

Micromedia

... President, Lesley Cormack, Email: lesley.cormack® ualberta.ca Sec.-Treas.. Alison Li Publications: Communique Affiliates: International Union for History & Philosophy of Science Canadian Society of Microbiologists/Societe canadienne des ...

Alistair's Elephant

Marilyn Sadler

Alistair's life is never quite the same again after the day an elephant follows him home from the zoo.

Alistair's World

Keith M. Hopwood

Influenced by his brilliant college professor, Alistair is convinced that all living things are subjected to the natural rhythms and symmetries of the Universe,governed by a set of fixed scientific laws determined some relatively short time ...

Fracked!: Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word

Alistair Beaton

This new razor-sharp black comedy by Alistair Beaton takes a timely look at the conflicted core of planetary energy and earthly power. Fracked! received its world premiere at the Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 8 July 2016.

Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...

David Alistair Yalof

Winner of the 2000 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency Drawing on the papers of seven modern presidents-and firsthand interviews with key figures like Edwin Meese, Ramsey Clark, and Gerald Ford-David Alistair ...

Feelgood

Alistair Beaton

An outrageously funny satire on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spin Alistair Beaton's hilarious play, part farce, part biting satire, is set in the plush seaside hotel of a party conference.

Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The ...

Alistair Beaton

To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Cătălin Avramescu

Cătălin Avramescu, Alistair Ian Blyth ... A special word of gratitude is due to Professor Gabriel Liiceanu, the editor of the first, Romanian edition of this book, and to Alistair Ian Blyth, the translator who struggled with my prose. The work of ...

What is Philosophy?: An Introduction

Alistair Sinclair

"Dr. Alistair J. Sinclair is an independent philosopher living in Glasgow. For many years he taught philosophy courses for adult learners in the University of Strathclyde's Continuing Education programme. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game

Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn and Jim Highsmith, Series Editors Agile software development centers on four values identified in the Agile Alliance's Manifesto: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive ...