Editora: D.L. Lang
Heaven is Portable: New and Collected Poems is D.L. Lang's 14th poetry book featuring poems on social justice, the global pandemic, Judaism, nature, and more. This volumecontains dozens of poems previously published in anthologies worldwide and other brand new poems.
Adapted directly from the actual transcripts by Mame Hunt, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Edward Asner as The Senator Ella Joyce as Professor Hill Paul Winfield as Judge Thomas Directed by Roberta Levitow. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in May of 1993.Ver livro
Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and propaganda is being put before us from unknown sources by unknown authors.Ver livro
Wanting nothing to do with men, a beautiful young woman founds a women's university, where no man can enter. But as the master Tennyson writes, "Life is brief but love is long"; love will find a way; and the prince to whom the young woman was betrothed in infancy disguises himself into a woman and enters the grounds...This classic narrative poem continues to captivate generation after generation of listeners and it is no wonder why: "Better not be at all than not be noble."Ver livro
When an unhappy estate agent sells a house to charismatic social-media influencer Alice, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. But as her obsession with Alice's seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between online and reality become dangerously blurred. Harm is a thrilling, twisted and razor-sharp comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation. It was first performed on stage at the Bush Theatre, London, in May 2021, directed by Atri Banerjee, with a screen version broadcast as part of BBC Four's Lights Up season.Ver livro
‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems - 1 Topic. Trees - An Introduction 2 - The Forest Road by Charlotte Mew 3 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 4 - In the Forest by Sarojini Naidu 5 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy 6 - Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman 7 - Song 30 - On This Tree is a Bird by Kabir 8 - The Fir Tree and the Brook by Helen Hunt Jackson 9 - The Hawthorn Tree by Willa Cather 10 - Pine-Trees And The Sky by Rupert Brooke 11 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson 12 - To the Willow Tree by Robert Herrick 13 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt WhitmanVer livro
Henry Fleming had no idea how horrible war really was. Attacks come from all sides, bullets fly, bombs crash. Men everywhere are wounded, bleeding, and dying. Now, Henry's fighting for his life and he's scared.He must make a decision, perhaps the most difficult decision he will ever make in his life: save himself, run from the enemy and desert his friends, or fight, be brave, and risk his life.If he stays to fight, he may die with his regiment. If he runs, he'll have to live with knowing he was a coward. Can Henry find the strength within himself to earn his red badge of courage?Ver livro
