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After Kathy Acker: A Biography

After Kathy Acker: A Biography

Chris Kraus

At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

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Chapter Nine Kathy Acker's Terrorist Network: Re-mapping Transnational Resistance Leif Sorensen The complexity of Kathy Acker's transnational imagination defies simple description. There is no existing terminology that sums up the ...
Gerhard Schroeder

Gerhard Schroeder

Kerry Acker

Elected in 1998, Schroeder and his pro-business platform promised to breathe new life into Germany's stagnant political landscape.
Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

Kerry Acker

Discusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange.
Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Kerry Acker

Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
Everything You Need to Know about the Goth Scene

Everything You Need to Know about the Goth Scene

Kerry Acker

Introduces the characteristics of the lifestyle and look known as "Goth," and explains that for many of its followers it is more of a stylistic choice while for others it is a way of life, and that most are sensitive and tolerant, not ...
Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright

Kerry Acker

Madeleine Albright came to the United States as an eleven-year-old Czechoslovakian refugee and grew up to become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in the U.S. government.
Women in Politics Set

Women in Politics Set

Kerry Acker

Women in Politics offers inspiring profiles of women who broke through gender barriers to become successful in the political realm--not only in the United States, but around the world.
Air-proof Green

Air-proof Green

Maleea Acker

Poems in Maleea Acker's second collection range over continents and countries, asking an essential question for our time: How do we live in the world?
The Hieronymus story, 1997

The Hieronymus story, 1997

Kenneth McClanahan

7/7/1988 FJ( 13)65822 NATHAN TYLER SCHUMACHER b. 7/25/1991 FJ( 13) 659 LONNIE LELAND ACKER m. IRENE MARGARET HEISTERBURG (1st) b. 12 /13/1927 b. 2/1/1928 m. 10/10/1954 d. 1/20/1984 Children: Surname ACKER FJ(  ...
Wegweiser durch die Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein, für ...

Wegweiser durch die Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein, für ...

Wilh Hirschfeld

dem Haupthofe an Acker und Wiesen 1051 Tonnen und an Holzungen 500 Tonnen ; der Meierhof Henningrode, an Acker und Wiesen 300 Tonnen; der Meierhof Rockefort, an Acker und Wiesen 200 Tonnen, und die Dorfländereien 1009 ...
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

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Shannon Rose Riley shrewdly probes the association of Acker's text with older popular culture texts that use the “goes to” trope, such as Cole Porter's 1939 hit “ Katie went to Haiti,” Hollywood flicks such as “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” Mr. Smith ...
When She Does what She Does: Intertextual Desire and ...

When She Does what She Does: Intertextual Desire and ...

Douglas A. Martin

... 2000), Nicola Pitchford's Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in Kathy Acker and Angela Carter (2004), and Maureen F. Curtin's Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker (2003). paper accepted; ...
Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

James R. Acker

... NC: Carolina Academic Press 2006). Marsha Kimble, “My Journey and the Riddle,” in Acker & Karp, Wounds That Do Not Bind, supra note 74, at 127, 138. See generally Jody Lynee Madeira, Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and ...
The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review

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POETRY MALEEA ACKER, The Reflecting Pool (Toronto: Pedlar, 2009). Paperbound, 90 pp., $20. Reading Maleea Acker's first collection, The Reflecting Pool, packaged in a beautiful, textured volume, is a dreamy journey into image and ...
County Kerry, Ireland: Genealogy & Family History Notes

County Kerry, Ireland: Genealogy & Family History Notes

Michael C. O''Laughlin

Included are record extracts, the 1659 census, Irish Pedigrees, Coats of arms, helpfull address list, and maps of Kerry. This volume complements "Families of County Kerry, Ireland" another book in the series.
The Kerry Way: A Walking Guide

The Kerry Way: A Walking Guide

Donal Nolan

The Kerry Way is Ireland's longest marked trail and one of the most popular.
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

Douglas Brinkley

Covering more than four decades, Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career.
Ben

Ben

Kerry Needham

The chance that Ben will read about himself and come home becomes more real every day. All of Kerry's royalties from the sale of this book will go toward the Help Find Ben campaign.
The Discovery Haggadah

The Discovery Haggadah

Kerry M. Olitzky

Take a journey with Rabbis Ron Isaacs and Kerry Olitzky to discover the best seder ever! Traditional Hebrew text, accessible transliterations, and modern translations guide families through the story and practice of Pesach.
Resurgence

Resurgence

Kerry Wilkinson

Following Reckoning and Renegade, Resurgence is the thrilling conclusion to Kerry Wilkinson's heartstopping Silver Blackthorn Trilogy.
Locked In

Locked In

Kerry Wilkinson

The first in the Jessica Daniel series, Locked In is the number one bestselling crime thriller from Kerry Wilkinson.
The Civil War in Kerry

The Civil War in Kerry

Tom Doyle

A fresh look at the key role played by Co Kerry in the Irish Civil War.
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in ...

Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in ...

Kerry Kennedy

For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace.
101 Things You May Not Have Known About Gaelic Football

101 Things You May Not Have Known About Gaelic Football

John DT White

The Tim Clarke Cup The All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was first contested in 1964 in response to a Congress motion put forward by the Kerry County Board. The inaugural winners were Kerry who defeated Laois 1-10 to 1- 03 in ...
Nothing but Trouble

Nothing but Trouble

Kerry Wilkinson

In Nothing But Trouble, a gripping crime thriller by bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson, DI Jessica Daniel has to protect the streets of Manchester from escaped prisoners - and those trying to hunt them down.

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