John Freeman
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Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more
America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to...
America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to...
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National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat,...
5) The park
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"In The Park, his second book of poetry, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it--a park is both natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations...
7) Wind, trees
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English
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"A collection of poems written by John Freeman"--
8) Ansiedad: La Guía Definitiva Para Aliviarlo A Usted Del Estrés Y Así Poder Liberarlo De La Ansiedad
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Tal como son nuestras vidas hoy en día, es natural que todos enfrentemos algo de estrés y ansiedad.
Pero cuando este pánico se vuelve abrumador y le impide vivir su vida, ¡es hora de actuar y controlar su ansiedad!
Con esta guía única, puede aprender todo sobre la ansiedad y los trastornos relevantes para que pueda controlar sus emociones y llevar una vida tranquila.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre la ansiedad y la depresión? ¿O pánico...
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The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively diverse" by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and...
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Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside themOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem,...
12) Freeman's: Power
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Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary anthology Freeman's explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval.
Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public...
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What makes a particular performance 'great'? The Greatest Shows on Earth offers an address that focuses sharply on theatre as performance: as an event that can stir the blood, the spirit and the brain like nothing else. The result is a book about fourteen outstanding theatre events from a dozen countries. In discrete, production-focused chapters, work from Peter Brook's King Lear through to the Sydney Olympics Opening Event is approached by a team...
14) Maps
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"Freeman's poetry debut maps the present by way of the past, drawing inspiration from childhood memories, family, and former loves"--
16) 1 Buck
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Money talks. Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, "1 buck" takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.
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Southwater, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd
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[2015]
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A comprehensive guide to film and digital photography that provides information on equipment, the differences between film and digital cameras, the link between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, composition, and digital editing techniques.