age ~57
from Grantsville, UT
The sermon is the first and most enduring genre of American literature. The essential medium of the Puritan settlements, it continued in succeeding centuries to play a vital role - as public ritual, occasion for passion and reflection, and, not least, popular entertainment. The 58 sermons collected ...
Author
Various
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
939
Publisher
Library of America
ISBN #
1883011655
EAN Code
9781883011659
ISBN #
14
This sensational book, edited by NSA and CIA officers, reveals U.S. "code-breaking" successes in reading KGB and GRU messages during the Cold War. The cryptanalytic efforts of NSA, termed the Venona project, succeeded in dramatically tearing away the veil of secrecy surrounding Soviet intelligence a...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
450
Publisher
NSA - Central Intelligence Agency
ISBN #
12
“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the expe...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674072413
EAN Code
9780674072411
ISBN #
6
The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking ones place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from cha...
Author
Michael Warner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674527860
EAN Code
9780674527867
ISBN #
5
This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, wh...
Author
Michael Warner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
ISBN #
1626160465
EAN Code
9781626160460
ISBN #
3
Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world with...
Author
Michael Warner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
334
Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN #
1890951293
EAN Code
9781890951290
ISBN #
1
Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Fear of a Queer PlanetAuthor: Warner, Michael (EDT)/ Social Text Collective (COR)Publisher: Univ of Minnesota PrPublication Date: 1993/11/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 93028703
Author
Michael Warner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN #
0816623341
EAN Code
9780816623341
ISBN #
4
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and ad...
Author
Walt Whitman
Binding
Paperback
Pages
608
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0142437689
EAN Code
9780142437681
ISBN #
10
Literary Criticism and Theory
Gay writer • LGBT writer
Company:Yale University faculty
Position:Author • Advocate
Johns Hopkins University
Specialty:Social theorist
Non-fiction writer
Preference:Queer
Michael Warner is a literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes...
ISBN #
1