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Men in Green Faces

A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

By: Gene Wentz,B. Abell Jurus

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Men in Green Faces

A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

By: Gene Wentz,B. Abell Jurus

Full of ambushes and firefights...From page one I knew I wanted to be a SEAL. The more I read, the more I wanted to see if I could measure up." —Mark Owen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of No Easy Day Because it's a novel, the truth can be told. Because it's the truth, you'll never forget it... Gene Wentz's Men in Green Faces is the classic novel of Vietnam that inspired a generation of SEALs. Here is the story of a good soldier trained to be part of an elite team of warriors—and of the killing grounds where he was forever changed. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Gene Michaels carries an M-60, eight hundred rounds, and a Bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they'll take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives. In this stunning novel, former SEAL Gene Wentz brings to life what it was like to be a SEAL in Vietnam, running an endless tour of top-secret, death-defying operations deep in enemy territory. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America's most feared warriors as you've never seen them before.

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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1466831316

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9781466831315

The Mother of All Arts

Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

By: Gene Logsdon

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The Mother of All Arts

Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

By: Gene Logsdon

When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon’s journey, his account of friendships with farmers and artists driven by the urge to create. He chronicles his long relationship with Wendell Berry and discovers the playful humor of several new agrarian writers. He reveals insights gleaned from conversations with Andrew Wyeth and his family of artists. Through his association with musicians such as Willie Nelson and his involvement with Farm Aid, Logsdon learns how music—blues, jazz, country, and even rock ’n’ roll—is also rooted in agriculture. Logsdon sheds new light on the work of rural painters, writers, and musicians and suggests that their art could be created only by those who work intimately with the land. Unlike the gritty realism or abstract expressionism often favored by contemporary critics, agrarian art evokes familiar feelings of community and comfort. Most important, Logsdon convincingly demonstrates that diminishing the connection between art and nature lessens the social and aesthetic value of both. The Mother of All Arts explores these cultural connections and traces the development of a new agrarian culture that Logsdon believes will eventually replace the model brought about by the industrial revolution. Humorous and introspective, the book is neither conventional cultural criticism nor traditional art criticism. It is a unique, lively meditation on the nature and purpose of art—and on the life well-lived—by one of the truly original voices of rural America.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813172543

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9780813172545

Yishvara 2000

The Hindu Ancestor of Judaism Speaks to This Millennium!

By: Gene D. Matlock

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Yishvara 2000

The Hindu Ancestor of Judaism Speaks to This Millennium!

By: Gene D. Matlock

This book traces the history of Judaism back to its roots in India. Blamed by the nomadic Aryans (Devas and Christyanis) for two floods that destroyed the Indus Civilzation. The Yadava (Yahu-Deva) city dwellers, artisans, and farmers fled India for the Middle East and othe rparts of te world, taking with them and propagating their religion of Yishvara in their new homes. In the Middle East this Yishvara religion later became Judaism. The book gives many examples of the thousands of Hindu place names in various parts of the world and how Sanskirt influenced English. The author describes how the true meanings of the religious words of Yishvara, such as Prayer (Pray), Faith (Phath), Reverence (Rav-ara), Idolatry (Adaultar), etc., have changed so drastically that no one even knows what Religion is any more or what to do with it. Because of the computer age and other scientific innovations, Yishvara, the ancestor fo Judaism, has a powerful message to deliver to this millennium. When the reader finishes this book, he'll know more about religion than the Pope and the Dalai Lama.

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210

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iUniverse

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0595150128

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9780595150120

Inside the New China

An Ethnographic Memoir

By: Gene Ayres

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Inside the New China

An Ethnographic Memoir

By: Gene Ayres

China is no longer a Third World country. It is now the world's fastest growing economy. Even after the 2008 Olympics, this fact may come as a shock to many Americans, who continue to think that the Chinese still march around in brown uniforms with red stars on their caps arresting dissidents for wearing capitalist Levis. China has at last count, more than half a billion cell phone users. Indeed, the Chinese are not only the world's leading users of mobile phones, but also the leading suppliers. No Chinese student goes without one and even a donkey cart driver chatting away on a mobile is not an uncommon sight.China's educated New Generation is possibly the most highly motivated force since the post-World War II generation in America. The young people of China are the next wave of a flourishing Chinese middle class now estimated as 13.5 % of the population, and expected to be 600 million strong by 2015, according toBusiness Week. These young people want to drive cars like ours, live in houses like ours, own condos near the beach, wear designer clothes, and carry cell phones, iPods, camcorders, digital cameras, and MP3 players, just like Americans. Tens of millions already do.During a thirty-month stay in Chinabetween 2004 and 2007, Ayres was presented to soldiers straight out of boot camp, toasted by military generals and governors, invited to parties with local leaders as a ""foreign expert and dignitary,"" and begged to counsel dissidents and the lovelorn. He rode buses jammed with peasants hoping that they would actually be paid at the end of the month. He dickered with farmers in open markets and street vendors desperate to make ends meet. He dealt with smooth, savvy merchants in upscale department stores; and debated policy with Communist Party bosses. This revised paperback edition of the author's earlier work, A Billion to One, is a vivid, intimate account of China as it is today.

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275

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Routledge

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1351512358

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9781351512350

Christianity--Mankind's First Worldwide Religion!

By: Gene Matlock

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Christianity--Mankind's First Worldwide Religion!

By: Gene Matlock

It is my hope that this book will help all humans understand just exactly what Buddhism, Ketuloka or Krishtaya is and apply its principles, according to the uniqueness and level of their respective understandings, for the improvement of their lives. Christianity/Catholicism was mankind's first and oldest worldwide religion. According to author Gene Matlock, Christianity merely stepped into the shoes of an ancient existing worldwide religion of the same name. The infant Church did not begin to call itself Christianity until two or three hundred years after it was established. Before the Great Flood, Krishtayana was brought to India from Eastern Siberia by a highly civilized Turkish tribe called Kurus or Krishtaya. The Kurus were the world's first highly developed civilization, predating India, Egypt, and Sumeria. After conquering India, the Kurus went on to conquer the world, including Middle America. The Caribbean Indians told the Spanish that their gods were the Kurus-Rumani. Nearly all the Indian tribes of both Americas will find their respective tribes' Turkish and North Indian origins in this book. But what happened to keep Turkey from receiving credit as the founder of all human civilizations as well as the first religion? Christianity-Mankind's First Worldwide Religion! clears up many mysteries and shows that Jesus Christ really was all that Christians have been taught he was.

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iUniverse

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0595375111

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9780595375110

Oneonta

By: Gene Milener

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Oneonta

By: Gene Milener

Oneonta is the only city in the large Central New York counties of Otsego, Delaware, and Schoharie. The earliest settlers in 1780 knew the place as a “dammed hemlock swamp.” By 1930, it had become an established regional metropolis towering over all area localities. Oneonta is an exciting story, and this comprehensive book is a unique treasure. The big stories are all there, such as the turnpikes, Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, D&H, cigar rolling, normal school, Hartwick College, and more. Yet so are accounts of sidewalks, cemeteries, boardinghouses, Barn Hill, charity, piano manufacturer, and many others. Maybe more important still was the predominant thought about business affairs. There is much on that too. With rich detail and over 350 heavily annotated pictures, those 150 years to the Great Depression are described as never before and, most likely, never again.

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653

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Page Publishing Inc

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1645449939

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9781645449935

Expanded Cinema

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

By: Gene Youngblood

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Expanded Cinema

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

By: Gene Youngblood

Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long considered the bible for media artists, Youngblood’s insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today’s hypermediated digital world. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author that offers conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world. A unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s, this far- ranging study traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. Vast in scope, its prescient formulations include “the paleocybernetic age,” “intermedia,” the “artist as design scientist,” the “artist as ecologist,” “synaesthetics and kinesthetics,” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis.” Outstanding works are analyzed in detail. Methods of production are meticulously described, including interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette. An inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R. Buckminster Fuller—a perfectly cut gem of countercultural thinking in itself—places Youngblood’s radical observations in comprehensive perspective. Providing an unparalleled historical documentation, Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later. The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication.

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Fordham University Press

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0823287432

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9780823287437

Passing Grade

By: Gene Lovell

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Passing Grade

By: Gene Lovell

Who is lying? A child comes home and reports that he has had sex with his teacher. At the same time, a teacher reports to her principal that she has received a note from a student wherein the student threatens to tell the world that they (the student and the teacher) have had sex unless the teacher gives him a passing grade. If you set this conflict in a poor, rural community where rumor is king and backyard gossip is the coin of the realm, you have an explosive drama best compared to To Kill a Mockingbird. Add to this that the teacher is a first-year, pretty young thing from out-of-state and the student is an underachiever from a well-known, in-your-face, local family and the stage is quite literally set for a polarized community cat fight. Who would you believe?

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0595378269

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Men in Green Faces

A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

By: Gene Wentz,B. Abell Jurus

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Men in Green Faces

A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

By: Gene Wentz,B. Abell Jurus

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Men in Green Faces

Men in Green Faces

The Mother of All Arts

The Mother of All Arts

Yishvara 2000

Yishvara 2000

Inside the New China

Inside the New China

Christianity--Mankind's First Worldwide Religion!

Christianity--Mankind's First Worldwide Religion!

Oneonta

Oneonta

Expanded Cinema

Expanded Cinema

Passing Grade

Passing Grade

Men in Green Faces

Men in Green Faces

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