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Fathers and Daughters

from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

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Fathers and Daughters

from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is a poignant picture of Vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story. A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

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0525436634

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Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay

Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

By: John Jay,Sarah Livingston Jay

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Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay

Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

By: John Jay,Sarah Livingston Jay

This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times during and after the American Revolution. The letters showcase Sarah as a devoted wife and mother who also helped further her husband's political career. Their correspondence reveals the abiding love of husband and wife, their concern for their children, the dangers and difficulties of travel, descriptions of the lands they visited and events they witnessed, as well as a sense of the effort it took to survive in the era even with the buffer of wealth. The book includes essays on the Jay and Livingston families, family trees, and information about the character and appearance of both husband and wife,and other topics. Importantly, there are textual bridges between the letters where necessary.

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McFarland

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0786445041

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9780786445042

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

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A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

“One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving, powerful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer In these pages, Le Ly Hayslip—just twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her tiny village of Ky La—shows us the Vietnam War as she lived it. Initially pressed into service by the Vietcong, Le Ly was captured and imprisoned by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American contractor and ultimately fled to the United States. Almost twenty years after her escape, Le Ly found herself inexorably drawn back to the devastated country and loved ones she’d left behind, and returned to Vietnam in 1986. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, creating an extraordinary portrait of the nation, then and now—and of one courageous woman who held fast to her faith in humanity. First published in 1989, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places was hailed as an instant classic. Now, some two decades later, this indispensable memoir continues to be one of our most important accounts of a conflict we must never forget.

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0525431845

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

By: Jay Parini

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

By: Jay Parini

This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.

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0195156536

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9780195156539

Rethinking Homeostasis

Allostatic Regulation in Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Jay Schulkin

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Rethinking Homeostasis

Allostatic Regulation in Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Jay Schulkin

An overview of allostasis, the process by which the body maintains overall viability under normal and adverse conditions.

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MIT Press

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0262194805

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9780262194808

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels-The essay in America

By: Jay Parini

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels-The essay in America

By: Jay Parini

Alphabetically arranged entries include discussions of individual authors, literary movements, institutions, notable texts, literary developments, themes, ethnic literatures, and "topic" essays.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195167244

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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

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A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

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Fathers and Daughters

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By: Le Ly Hayslip,Jay Wurts

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Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay

Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Rethinking Homeostasis

Rethinking Homeostasis

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels-The essay in America

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels-The essay in America

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

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