Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
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  • Contains Some of Wideman's Best Short Stories
Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
John Edgar Wideman
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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ASIN: 0395897971

Book Description

This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--with grace, courage, and dignity.

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4 out of 5 stars Contains Some of Wideman's Best Short Stories.......2000-04-03

Even if you don't read the rest of the Homewood Books, this collection stands up strong on its own. Stories such as "Damballah," "Daddy Garbage," and "The Caterpillar Story" are engaging although they are only a few pages long. The stoies are diverse, but they fit together to form an understanding of how a community survives through poverty and alienation. Some of the best stories in this collection are the touching "Daddy Garbage," the spirited "Love Songs of Reba Love Jackson," and the realistic "Rashad."
Damballah
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    Damballah

    Manufacturer: Vintage Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0380785196
    Damballah
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      Damballah
      John Edgar Wideman
      Manufacturer: Allison & Busby
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000J2HRQY
      Damballah 1ST Uk Signed
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        John Edgar Wideman
        Manufacturer: ALLISON & BUSBY
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        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000PYN7Y2
        Les Compagnons de Damballah
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          Henri Vernes
          Manufacturer: Claude Lefrancq éditeur
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          ASIN: 2871531315
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            Damballah : voice as ground in John Wideman's fiction (ONU monograph)
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              Thomas W Banks
              Manufacturer: Ohio Northern University
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              ASIN: B0006QEL30

              Superman Archives, Volume 1
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • The first four issues of the "Superman" comic book from 1939
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              • Great stuff, but buy used
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              Superman Archives, Volume 1
              Jerry Siegel , and Joe Shuster
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              ASIN: 1401206301

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              From the minds and hands of Superman creators Jerry Seigel Joe Shuster come the stories that started it all. This hardcover collectionincludes the early SUPERMAN comics that recount the Golden Age adventuresof the Man of Steel. From his perilous escape from the doomed planetKrypton to his high-flying adventures in Metropolis and everything inbetween, this is a must have edition for the discerning Superman collectoror fan.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars The first four issues of the "Superman" comic book from 1939.......2007-01-02

              I was going to point out that the chief value of reading the first four issues of "Superman" collected in Volume 1 of the "Superman Archives" was nostalgia, but then I realized that the term really applies to the past that you remember, and I was not reading "Superman" comic books back in 1939. Actually, reading any of the Superman titles was something I only did when we went to visit my cousins because their sun porch had a treasure trove of comic books. The comic books I remember buying on a semi-regular basis were war comics, specifically "Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos" and "Sgt. Rock" ("Our Army at War" back then). Since my father was in the military this was hardly surprising. When the "Batman" television series came out I was caught up in that and bought a subscription to the "Batman" comic book for a year, by first superhero comic book, very much aware that it was quite different from the show. But it was not until we were stationed in Japan that I got into Marvel Comics in a big way ("Amazing Spider-Man" #62 was my first purchase), and while I was busy Making Mine Marvel I developed a corresponding disdain for Superman and the entire DC line that lasted for a while. After all, I remember a Superman story where he swallows his costume to protect his identity, assuring the readers everything would come out okay in the end. Anyhow, it was not until DC rebooted the Man of Steel, giving him over to John Byrne for a significant makeover, that I started reading Superman comics on a regular basis. So actually reading the first four issues of was a revelation.

              Keep in mind that Superman first appeared in the first issue of "Action" comics in 1938, so even though we get an origin story in "Superman" #1 these are not the very first Superman stories. I have a reprinted version of "Superman" #1 that is part of the "Superman Masterpiece Edition," along with an 8-inch state of the 1938 Superman and an illustrated book chronicling the Man of Steel's Golden Age, so I had read that premier issue before. The origin is actually just the first two pages of the first story in which the main plot has Superman saving an innocent woman from the electric chair (and getting Clark Kent a job at the "Daily Star"). This leads to the second story where Superman teaches a munitions maker about the horrors of war. Then we find an invitation to become a charter member of "Supermen of America" and a "Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength" (Krypton's inhabitants evolved to physical perfection). The other two stories in the issue are reprinted from earlier issues of "Action," with Superman teaching a lesson to the heartless own of a coal mine and then taking the place of Tommy Burke, the greatest football player of all time. Following an introduction to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Superman's creators, there is two-page prose story regarding the Man of Steel (amazing that kids would want to read a prose story in a comic book).

              In "Superman" #2 the Man of Tomorrow saves Larry Trent the ex-heavyweight champ from committing suicide and getting him a chance to re-win his title in the first story and "Champions Universal Peace!" in the second by ending the Boravian Civil War (at one point a soldier thinks he must be shooting blanks at Superman and shoots himself in a foot to prove, well disprove, his hypothesis). Then we have "Superman and the Skyscrapers," where Clark Kent investigates five deaths in as many days at the erection of the Atlas Building, followed by another prose story (but this time accompanied by two drawings). "Superman" #3 offers stories in which Superman and Clark help a runaway orphan, Clark battles Lois to get a big story (and Lois kisses Superman for what appears to be the first time), Superman has to deal with advertisers using his name as well as a spate of crimes, and Superman captures a smuggling ring. Clark has a lot more to do in these stories (and he is now working at the "Daily Planet"), which are a bit shorter as Siegel and Shuster's work is compliment by a couple of prose stories that have nothing to do with Superman and a one-page strip about a dog named "Shorty." In "Superman" #4 our hero takes on the evil Professor Martinson, fights a torpedo-like projectile and a pterodactyl courtesy of the mad scientist known as Luthor (no first name, but he has hair), stops a saboteur, and saves a truck drivers union from racketeers.

              As I was reading these stories I was rather surprised that Siegel and Shuster were coming up with four Superman stories for each of these 72-page issues, but when you get to the back of this volume the Afterword by Jim Steranko explains that some of these stories are reprinted from "Action" and a couple were converted from stories drawn for newspaper syndication. Steranko, who also does the Foreword where he puts the creation of Superman in historical perspective, candidly observes that these two young pioneers typically stumble and fall in these early efforts, "yet, in retrospect, their failures are often as interesting as their successes." That is really what is captivating about these early stories, because neither the quality of the stories nor of the artwork is all that compelling. Here we discover that Superman is clearly a creature of the Great Depression whose commitment to justice is tempered by socialist inclinations as he protects the workers against the rich. It is also interesting to see that Superman dislikes Lois Lane as much as she disdains Clark Kent. Most obvious is that Superman does not have his full superpowers at this point where he can "hurdle skyscrapers, leap an eighth of a mile, raise tremendous weighs, run faster than a streamline train, and nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his skin!" Still, you can find the bare bones of the Superman mythos here and come to a better understanding how the first comic book superhero ended up becoming the greatest one of them all.

              5 out of 5 stars A Gem.......2006-11-06

              Nothing like the original stuff which came out before I was old enough to read. A 'must have' for anyone serious about the classic comics.

              5 out of 5 stars Very Good.......2005-09-30

              The book was recived with in a week of sale and was shipped very well.

              5 out of 5 stars Great stuff, but buy used.......2002-10-31

              This is actually some great stuff. I think the early Superman stories are good examples of exciting storytelling with interesting social commentary.

              For example, the first Superman story contains a none-too subtle anticaptial punishment message, as our man saves a lady from an execution and a man form a lynching (remember, this is 1938). The second shows Supe stopping a war that is concocted by munitions manufactureres (an early anti-WW2 message).

              Along with that, reading these early adventures gives you the feeling that you're a little kid in pre-television 1938-39, sitting with awe and wonder with these exciting tales either being read to you by a skilled adult storyteller, or by yourself with a flashlight at night. Once you get in that mood of an inner child, you can really get into this stuff and it's lots of fun.

              However, I would agree that the cost is a bit much for a new edition. Buy a good used copy. Gather the kids (over age 10, that is) around, turn the lights down low, read it with vigor, and have a ball!

              3 out of 5 stars Too much money.......2002-09-27

              The reprints are gorgeous and in a wonderful hardcover that shouldn't fall apart too quickly. The text prefacing the book is boring and unneccessary, mostly, this book just costs waaayyyy too much. I would've preferred to get it in comic book format for about 10 dollars, but they no longer reprint this stuff. The stories aren't very good, but it's interesting to read in it's amateurishness and see how things originally were intended.
              SUPERMAN: The Action Comics Archives - Volume (1) (i) One: Superman Champion of the Oppressed; Superman Joins the circus; Superman in the Slums; Wanted: Superman; Superman Goes to Prison; Superman and the Black Gold Swindle
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                Rays of the Rising Sun, Volume 1: Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, China and Manchukuo
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                Rays of the Rising Sun, Volume 1: Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, China and Manchukuo
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                When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to control the Chinese population in these occupied territories, and for this reason they set up governments from amongst the leaders of the Chinese who were willing to co-operate with them. These so-called 'puppet' governments were designed to rule on behalf of the Japanese while firmly under their overall control. In turn, the puppet governments needed their own armed forces to help them maintain control over the populace and so they raised their own 'independent' armed forces. These puppet armies were large in number, reaching a total of well over 1 million before 1945. Although poorly-armed and equipped, these forces had an influence on the Japanese war effort through sheer numbers. The Chinese puppet soldiers ranged from the well-drilled and trained regular Army of the Last Emperor of China, Pu Yi, who ruled the newly-formed state of Manchukuo, 1932-45, to the irregular Mongol cavalry who served alongside Japanese troops in the 'secret war' waged in the Mongolian hinterlands.

                The troops were dismissed as traitors by the Chinese fighting the Japanese, and they were equally despised by the Japanese themselves. The troops were motivated by a range of reasons, from simple survival to a loyalty to their commander. The fact that so many Chinese were willing to fight for the Japanese was embarrasing to all sides, and for this reason has been largely ignored in previous histories of the war in the East. In the first of a two-volume series, Jowett and Berger tell the story of the Chinese who fought for the Japanese over a 14 year period. Well over a million pro-Japanese troops were under arms in China and Manchukuo, with possibly two million at one time. There were 7 different 'puppet' governments in existence, 1931-45 The Manchukuo State possessed an Army, Navy and Air Force. The governments were given all the paraphenalia of independent states, including their own flags and insignia.

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                5 out of 5 stars Rays of the Rising Sun, volime 1 - more than just China and Manchukuo.......2006-12-22

                There has been very little written about the various 'puppet' forces raised by the Japanese following the September 1931 Manchurian Incident, and Philip Jowett's book is a welcome arrival. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Mr. Jowett covers not only the major 'puppet' forces of Manchukuo and the Nanking Army, but also the Inner Mongolian Army, White Russians in Japanese service and a number of the smaller forces in North China. In addition to the written information there are a good selection of photos, organisational charts and four pages of colour plates showing uniforms and aircraft colour schemes. Volume two of the series is eagerly awaited.

                5 out of 5 stars An excellent recommendation for military collections.......2006-01-09

                Philip S. Jowett's Rays Of The Rising Sun: Armed Forces Of Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume 1: China And Manchukuo is also an excellent recommendation for military collections, covering a puppet government set up in China by the Japanese and the armed forces which served this government. These 'puppet' armies were large and held over a million before 1945, and influenced the course of the Japanese war effort in China and Asia. Despised by both the Chinese and the Japanese, the troops have been largely under-represented in World War II coverages, until now. Details of their organization, training, actions, and uniform and battles make for an important study.
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                    This 4-CD set contains 74 Bob & Ray routines including Wally Ballou at the Fire Engine Factory; Grub, The Story of Food; Mary McGoon s Recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad; Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons; One Fella s Family; Aunt Penny s Sunlit Kitchens; Your Sanitation Department in Action; Bob & Ray Grand National Spelling Bee; Lawrence Fectenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate; Webley Webster s Book Review; Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelder; What the Tune Is, and many more. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.
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                    Introduction to Vectors and Tensors Volume 1: Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering)

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                    5 out of 5 stars Ray M. Bowen.......2000-01-16

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                    The Best of Bob & Ray Volume 1 Excerpts from the Bob & Ray Public Radio SHow (Volume 1)
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                      Bob Elliot & Ray Goulding
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                      The Ray Bradbury Chronicles, Volume 1
                      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                      • Tales of the Future, Time Travel, Aliens, Dragons, Dinosaurs, Robots, etc., etc. etc.
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                      Ray Bradbury
                      Manufacturer: Spectra
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                      Release Date: 1992-06-01

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                      5 out of 5 stars Tales of the Future, Time Travel, Aliens, Dragons, Dinosaurs, Robots, etc., etc. etc........2005-11-05

                      This is an excellent set of seven volumes all containing fully illustrated graphic versions of Ray Bradbury's most famous stories. I have no idea why this set is not better known. I, myself, have read Mr. Bradbury's work all of my life and I found this collection to be fully in the spirit of his greatest work. In fact, you get the full flavor and atmosphere of those stories here in a way that you can get them nowhere else. Sure, some of the art work and lettering is a little far out and avante gard, but the early Bradbury was always about pushing the boundaries of imagination and perception. His work was always more poem than prose- in fact it was Bradbury that opened me up to a wider world of literature appreciation. Having said that, there is also a good sampling of more conventional Bradbury adaptations from the old EC mags.

                      Really this is an homage to Bradbury's work by some of the top talent in comics and graphic novels. Each volume contains from four to six graphic adaptations of the master's work (all in glorious color.) The hard cover set has dust jackets and custom illustrated end papers (all different.) This is really a handsome set for your permanent library. In fact, these are the kind of books that you keep pulling down from the the shelf again and again to read on a quiet evening.

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                        Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
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                        This 4-CD set contains 74 Bob & Ray routines including: Wally Ballou: Lawrence Fechtenberger; Army Amateur Hour; Mary McGoon; Ace Willoughby, International Detective; Steve Bosco; Grand Motel; Word Carr; Jack Headstrong, All-American American; Artie Schermerhorn; Tex Blaisdell; The CBS Roving Accordionist; Charles the Poet; The Bob & Ray Overstocked Warehouse; and many more. For a detailed list of tracks go to BobandRay.com/catalog.
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                          Norey Latona , and Edwin M. Young
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                            Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
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                            Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth. In this boldly argued and beautifully written book, Robert Orsi also considers how scholars of religion occupy the ground in between belief and analysis, faith and scholarship.

                            Orsi infuses his analysis with an autobiographical voice steeped in his own Italian-American Catholic background--from the devotion of his uncle Sal, who had cerebral palsy, to a "crippled saint," Margaret of Castello; to the bond of his Tuscan grandmother with Saint Gemma Galgani.

                            Religion exists not as a medium of making meanings, Orsi maintains, but as a network of relationships between heaven and earth involving people of all ages as well as the many sacred figures they hold dear. Orsi argues that modern academic theorizing about religion has long sanctioned dubious distinctions between "good" or "real" religious expression on the one hand and "bad" or "bogus" religion on the other, which marginalize these everyday relationships with sacred figures.

                            This book is a brilliant critical inquiry into the lives that people make, for better or worse, between heaven and earth, and into the ways scholars of religion could better study of these worlds.

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                            4 out of 5 stars Interesting, easy read.......2007-05-14

                            Orsi's book is an interesting intro to some of the issues facing religious studies scholars. It presents the issues of how to study a religious community and what difficulties arise in doing so. For the reader less interested in the academic field of religious studies, there is still a wealth of information on religion in America, especially the history and development of American Catholicism.

                            The book is accessible to a wide audience and is the kind of work that makes for good dicussions with a variety of different types of groups. I will add, however, that for those who are already sufficiently aware of the problems of doing anthropological research on religious communities, it offers little that is new or insightful.
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                              R.J. Callahan
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                              The Catholic thing.(Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them)(Book Review) : An article from: Commonweal
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                                The Catholic thing.(Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them)(Book Review) : An article from: Commonweal
                                John T. McGreevy
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                                Title: The Catholic thing.(Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them)(Book Review)
                                Author: John T. McGreevy
                                Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
                                Date: March 11, 2005
                                Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                Volume: 132 Issue: 5 Page: 29(3)

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