Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Blaming No One - Blog Postings on Arts Letters and Policy - cover

Blaming No One - Blog Postings on Arts Letters and Policy

Dan Whitman

Publisher: Vellum

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Personal and professional reflections from a former US Foreign Service officer. 
 
This book is a series of reflections at the point of retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service after a career spent in locations around the globe. The collection of public blog postings, all colored by the author’s experience, include short essays on the following themes: personal anecdote, people/profiles, foreign policy as seen by a mid-level official, human nature, government functions, and “other”—ranging from music to immigration to condominium rules on dog comportment.  
 
Marked by a tone of light humor and social and institutional criticism, Blaming No One is an easy, entertaining read that also questions and challenges facile suppositions and notes many historic moments of interest.
Available since: 01/23/2013.
Print length: 258 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Scotland and the Sea - The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History - cover

    Scotland and the Sea - The...

    Nick Robins

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.Scottish engineering, ship-owning and operating, as well as business and entrepreneurial skills, played a major part in the success of the Merchant Navy, while Scottish emigrants took skills to every corner of the world, creating trade and wealth both abroad and at home. In terms of engineering, 'Clyde-built' was the Kitemark for the shipbuilding industry the world over. Scottish shipowners included household names such as Allan, Anchor, Donaldson and Henderson, while Scotsmen were instrumental in founding and, for much of the time, managing Cunard, British India, P & O, Orient, Glen and many other 'English' companies.The author tells an exhilarating story of energy and inventiveness, describing the remarkable navigational skills of the highlanders and the technological and business skills of the lowlanders, and relates the early development of the steamship, the impact of emigration, the involvement with exploration and the development of trade routes, and the final flowering of the world's last great iron sailing ships. And the evidence is still here, in the Cutty Sark, the Denny test tank at Dumbarton, and the Burrell Collection at Pollock, all reminders of a remarkable story.As seen in Scottish Memories Magazine.
    Show book
  • How to Treat People - A Nurse's Notes - cover

    How to Treat People - A Nurse's...

    Molly Case

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again—this time as a trainee nurse. She learns to care for her patients, sharing not only their pain, but also life-affirming moments of hope. In doing so, she offers a compelling account of the processes that keep them alive, from respiratory examinations to surgical prep, and of the extraordinary moments of human connection that sustain both nurse and patient.In rich, lyrical prose, Case illustrates the intricacies of the human condition through the hand of a stranger offered in solace, a gentle word in response to fear and anger, or the witnessing of a person's last breaths. It is these moments of empathy, in the extremis of human experience, that define us as people. But when Molly's father is admitted to the cardiac unit where she works, the professional and the personal suddenly collide.Weaving together medical history, art, memoir, and science, How to Treat People beautifully explores the oscillating rhythms of life and death in a tender reminder that we can all find meaning in being, even for a moment, part of the lives of others.
    Show book
  • Elementary Penguin Singing Hare Krishna John Lennon Revealed - Interviews With His Sister Julia Baird - cover

    Elementary Penguin Singing Hare...

    Geoffrey Giuliano

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    John Lennon‘s now we’ll known, maternal half-sister Julia Baird joined forces with famous author, Geoffrey Giuliano in the early 1980s to write a riveting book on her life and times on the famous Beatle.  With a stirring, revealing introduction by close friend Paul McCartney  it was an immediate, internationally best selling smash!  The sometimes rocky relationship between Mrs. Baird and Mr. Giuliano however, makes for an exciting, behind the scenes inside story. Here are Giuliano‘s world exclusive, unheard, super rare, interviews with the reclusive younger sister of the Beatles founder and strongest member, John Lennon.  An absolute must for all Beatles fans, pop historians, student of 60s culture, as well as all school and library systems. Recorded in Bangkok Produced by Macc Kay Mixed at Lawrence Sound, Vrndarana, IndiaMusic by Audionautix
    Show book
  • Amazing Explorers: B1 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers) - Collins English Readers - cover

    Amazing Explorers: B1 (Collins...

    Anne Collins, Fiona MacKenzie

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. 
    Contents: 
    Marco Polo who taught the world about China 
    Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries 
    Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds 
    James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions 
    David Livingstone who explored Africa 
    Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space 
    BRITISH ENGLISH 
    Word count: 14,679 
    Headword count: 1,163 
    PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. 
    This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. 
    Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. 
    About the Amazing People series: 
    A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. 
    Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. 
    After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. 
    Created in association with The Amazing People Club. 
    About Collins ELT Readers: 
    Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: 
    Level 1 – elementary (A2) 
    Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) 
    Level 3 – intermediate (B1) 
    Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) 
    Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.
    Show book
  • Notes from a Public Typewriter - cover

    Notes from a Public Typewriter

    Michael Gustafson, Oliver Uberti

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A collection of confessional, hilarious, heartbreaking notes written anonymously on a public typewriter for fans of PostSecret and Other People's Love Letters. 
    When Michael Gustafson and his wife Hilary opened Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they put out a typewriter for  anyone to use. They had no idea what to expect. Would people ask metaphysical questions? Write mean things? Pour their souls onto the page? Yes, no, and did they ever. 
    Every  day, people of all ages sit down at the public typewriter. Children  perch atop grandparents' knees, both sets of hands hovering  above the metal keys: I LOVE YOU. Others walk in alone on Friday nights and confess their hopes: I will find someone someday. And some leave funny asides for the next person who sits down: I dislike people, misanthropes, irony, and ellipses ... and lists too. 
    In Notes from a Public Typewriter Michael and designer Oliver Uberti have combined their favorite notes with essays to create an ode to community and the written word that will surprise, delight, and inspire.
    Show book
  • Lies My Mother Told Me - Tall Tales from a Short Woman - cover

    Lies My Mother Told Me - Tall...

    Melissa Rivers

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait ’til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE … things that will make you laugh out loud … and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future.The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying … or as she’d say, “embellishing.” Her motto was: “Why let the truth ruin a good story?”This book contains some of those stories.
    Show book