Jerome Nadal, S.J. 1507-1580: Tracking the First Generation of Jesuits (Campion Book)

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This is the biography of Jerome Nadal, an important figure in the early history of the Jesuits. Nadal visited the Jesuit houses throughout Western Europe.

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952

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The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
Allen Ginsberg , and Bill Morgan
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ASIN: 0306814625

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The earliest journals and never-before published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation.

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice covers the most important and formative years of Ginsberg's storied life. It was during these years that he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures. Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be published only after his death--also document his relationships with such notable figures of Beat lore as Carl Solomon, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke. Conversations with Kerouac, his beloved muse Neal Cassady, and others have been transcribed from Ginsberg's memory, and information will be found here relating to the famous murder of David Kammerer by Carr--a startlingly violent chapter in Beat prehistory--which has been credited in New York magazine as "giving birth to the Beat Generation." It was also during this period that he began to recognize his homosexuality, and to think of himself as a poet.

Illustrated with photos from Ginsberg's private archive and enhanced by an appendix of over 100 of Ginsberg's earliest poems, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice is a major literary event.

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Essential keys for a through, in-depth understanding of his writings........2006-12-12

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 is edited by Bill Morgan and Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and offers a rare view of the poet during his formative years rather than the more commonly covered later life works. As such, this will serve as a fitting and important introduction for both college-level and casual Ginsberg enthusiasts, surveying the contents of candid journals allowed to see publication only after his death, and including conversations with Jack Kerouac and other notable contemporaries. In packing in elements of his personal life and family relationships, succeeds in displaying many hitherto-unrevealed aspects of Ginsberg's life and personality - essential keys for a through, in-depth understanding of his writings.

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Insight Into a Poets Mind.......2006-11-30

Ginsberg was perhaps the defining person of the Beat Generation. Technically I suppose that to be a true member of the beat generation club you had to be a personal friend of Ginsberg (although he never claimed to be the leader). It's also possible that being friends of some other members of the cordon of friends around him might count as well. Or, who knows, perhaps it could be anyone who shares the philosophy.

Anyway, this book might be called the early years of a Beat Generation Poet. It consists of journal entries from his early years, along with about 100 poems, some 65 of which have never been published. The entries are varied in subject, they reflect his thinking at the time. They are also a look inside a persons head that we don't often get to see. They describe the time he spent in psychiatric hospitals, his earliest homosexual feelings, the mental illness of his mother, and the early seeking of a religious home.

This is not a biography, it is the writings of the man himself, intended for publication only after his death.

The Real Ones: Four Generations of the First Family of Coca-Cola

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The Real Ones: Four Generations of the First Family of Coca-Cola
Elizabeth Candler Graham , and Ralph Roberts
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Filled with interviews photographs and never-before-revealed family documents chronicles the evolution of an obscure patent medicine into the globally successful Coca Cola(r).

Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women

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Heart-touching first generation immigrant women
When do we know we're American?
An Insightful View of Immigrant Experience

Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
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Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America

ASIN: 078688343X

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Take part in an extraordinary journey through the lives of 23 first-generation immigrant women as they uncover their own unique experiences in the new world. In this remarkable collection of original essays, these acclaimed writers speak to issues of identity, ethnicity, and race, as well as how the self begins to take on and absorb the label American.

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Beautifully Written.......2004-05-26

I never would have imagined the plight of the imigrant woman had it not been for this book.Nina's story, among other women were compelling.
I would strongly recommend this book it is not only informative, but also emotionally engaging, and gives a good discription on the issues immigrant women face with here in the United States, mainly discrimination.

Heart-touching first generation immigrant women.......2004-03-26

This book tought me the strenght of each of the women that immigrated to the United States for a better future. It is interesting to learn that these women had a new start, which meant that they would have to adapt to this new country facing many obstacles. One is given the personal experiences from women around the world.

When do we know we're American?.......2001-10-11

At first I was a bit put off by how everywoman sounded as if she were whining at the loss of something she'd never had, as if her coming to America was by default(most had arrived as children), rather than a delirious desire, as it had been for me in my 20s. Still, I read on, fascinated by each woman's unique story - until I hit the motherlode in their essays where they began to spin their broken straws into the golden fiber of their new lives.

Curious & remarkable what women from the East & from Africa thought important & what women from the Old World thought vital to their welfare. Some women ached in exactly the same way I had - wanting so much to be the daughter of which our mothers would have been proud.

Do not look for patriotism in these pages - that sort of thing doesn't matter to women nearly as much as which identity we will be expected to wear in which place in our lives: our families' homes & churches; our schools & our parents' relatives from the Old Country.

Becoming American is an absorbing, serious tea party where 24 women who started in every corner of the world have come to adulthood in America &, under Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's able editorship, have shared their stories.

What of our past must we relinquish & what of America need we assimilate?

Well worth the read! Made me do a lot of thinking, & writing too!

An Insightful View of Immigrant Experience.......2000-08-04

This book is a wonderful insight into the lives of first-generation immigrants. Being a first-generation immigrant myself, I found myself identifying with a lot of emotions and confusions of adjusting to the American beat. Because most of my immigrant friends come from the same culture as me, it was interesting to see how my experience differs from immigrants from other countries.

The range of countries represented is diverse, although there is a definite emphasis on Latino experience and several essays by Irish immigrants. The fact that the authors of the essays are all writers of various success does not make for a very representative sample, however, although that was probably not the book's intent. The writing is a bit uneven and in some essays quite forced. I guess it's hard to write about one's personal experiences and emotions without sounding cheesy, and few of the writers in this anthology overcome this problem. But this is of course the matter of personal taste.

All in all, the book makes for a pleasant and interesting read, although after reading this book, I will also look for a book that captures a more diverse experience, perhaps written in form of profiles rather than personal essays, a style I found less probing than profiles written by an outsider.

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Ordained Women In The Church Of The Nazarene: The First Generation
Rebecca Laird
Manufacturer: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
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The Modern Church: From the Dawn of the Reformation to the Eve of the Third Millennium

ASIN: 0834114526

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’Some of our best ’men’ are women’ ’An oft-repeated folklore tells us that Phineas Bresee, one of [our] main denominational founders, was fond of saying, ’some of our best ’men’ are women!’ Who were these women? Rebecca Laird offers a fascinating historical glimpse at 12 pioneer women ministers who helped shape the Church of the Nazarene, including: Lucy Pierece Knott Mary Lee Harris Cagle Olive M. Winchester Frances Rye McClurkan Susan Norris Fitkin These women’s lives and ministries step from the pages of the early 20th century and speak to us today with significant questions past and present. Paper.

Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends

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Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends

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ASIN: 1555533795

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The events set in motion by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 changed many lives irrevocably. For Vera Brittain, an Oxford undergraduate who left her studies to volunteer as a nurse in military hospitals in England and France, the war was a shattering experience; she not only witnessed the horrors inflicted by combat through her work, but she lost the four men closest to her at that time--her fiancé, Roland Leighton, brother Edward, and two close friends, Geoffrey Thurlow and Victor Nicholson, who all died on the battlefield.

Letters from a Lost Generation, a collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Brittain and these young men--all public schoolboys at the start of the war--chronicles her relationship with them, and reveals "the old lie," the idealized glory of patriotic duty that was soon overtaken by the grim reality of the Flanders trenches. The letters are lively, dramatic, immediate and, despite the awfulness of war, curiously optimistic: "Somehow I feel the end is not destined to be here and now. We have not fulfilled ourselves--and someday we shall live our roseate poem through," wrote Vera in one of her last letters to Roland in December 1915, just days before he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Following his death, and later those of their mutual friends Victor and Geoffrey, Vera's letters take on a new, raw intensity as she concentrates all her emotions on her brother--a hero awarded the Military Cross--until his death on the Italian Front in June 1918. These letters formed the basis of Vera Brittain's remarkable autobiography, Testament of Youth, and vividly bring to life the voices of the lost generation whose words threaten to be lost forever as the First World War recedes even further from living memory. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk

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This poignant work collects correspondence written from 1913 to 1918 between Vera Brittain and four young men -- her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward and their two close friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow -- who were all killed in action during World War I.

The correspondence presents a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five idealistic youths caught up in the cataclysm of war. Spanning the duration of the war, the letters vividly convey the uncertainty, confusion, and almost unbearable suspense of the tumultuous war years. They offer important historical insights by illuminating both male and female perspectives and allow the reader to witness and understand the Great War from a variety of viewpoints, including those of the soldier in the trenches, the volunteer nurse in military hospitals, and even the civilian population on the home front. As Brittain wrote to Roland Leighton in 1915, shortly after he arrived on the Western Front: "Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heartbreaking descriptions, have made me realize war like your letters."

Yet this collection is, above all, a dramatic account of idealism, disillusionment, and personal tragedy as revealed by the voices of four talented schoolboys who went almost immediately from public school in Britain to the battlefields of France, Belgium, and Italy. Linking each of their compelling stories is the passionate and eloquent voice of Vera Brittain, who gave up her own studies to enlist in the armed services as a nurse.

As World War I fades from living memory, these letters are a powerful and stirring testament to a generation forever shattered and haunted by grief, loss, and promise unfulfilled.

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Unique reading about WO1.......2006-07-08

This book is a unique piece of literature from the Great War. What sets this apart from others, like Sassoon or poet Owen, is that it gives a picture of how it was not only at the front, but also at home, and that it includes a woman, Vera, in it who communicated with her 4 closest friends through letters. An excerpt of these letters is, in edited form, available in this book.
The letters, written real-time one could say, in stead of polished as novels are, give an interesting insight on how life was back then, how youth thought, how war affected the people of the generation swept in it, and how human nature somehow manages to conserve its hope for the future. The fact that all 4 of her friends died in these events and that their generation is almost no more, makes the title and this war stand even more apart. Essential reading.

real war letters.......2003-06-28

Ever since 14 July 1988 when I read Chronicle of Youth with absorbed attention and keen feeling I have been fascinated by Vera Brittain. This fine work, without duplicating Chronicle of Youth, sets out the letters written by her and her brother and friends till all her correspondents were killed in the war. This is a poignant work, well worth reading. One stands amazed and impressed by the eagerness of these Englishmen to serve their country, even though they knew the hell that the Western Front was, and though so much was repellant about the condition under which they soldiered.

WW1, first hand.......2000-09-24

Anyone who is interested in WW1 and the men and women who lived it, should read this account of the war first hand!

This is what the war really meant to people, both in and out of the trenches, for these are the letters written from and to them.

A thought provoking book, that it is true, is even more shocking.

It is about a generation of people that we should never forget.

WW1, first hand.......2000-09-24

Anyone who is interested in WW1 and the men and women who lived it, should read this account of the war first hand!

This is what the war really meant to people, both in and out of the trenches, for these are the letters written from and to them.

A thought provoking book, that it is true, is even more shocking.

It is about a generation of people that we should never forget.

a moving and mesmerizing book, worth every penny.......1999-06-23

I have been interested in Vera Brittain since her autobiography, Testament of Youth, was featured on Masterpiece Theatre in the 70s. I came across this new book by chance when looking for Testament, which my book group is reading and enjoying this month. This collection of letters not only recaptures Vera, her brother, and three close friends, it adds great dimension to their WWI experience. This is a book I will treasure a long time.

Microsoft First Generation: The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched A Technology Empire

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First Generation: A wonderful example to today's society.

Microsoft First Generation: The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched A Technology Empire
Cheryl D. Tsang
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If a company's soul is defined by its employees, Cheryl Tsang's Microsoft First Generation offers the definitive look at the way one of the world's top corporations has really been shaped. In straightforward but perceptive profiles, Tsang introduces a dozen key individuals hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen before 1990--when the primary focus was creation and development, rather than growth and maintenance. They are mathematician-programmer Bob O'Rear (hired two years before Microsoft relocated from Albuquerque to Seattle), technical writer Russell Borland, programmer Richard Brodie, senior vice president Scott Oki, chief information officer Neil Evans, CPA Dave Neir, Ida Cole (the first female VP), CD-ROM author Min Yee, technical manager Ron Harding, publishing-systems manager Russell Steele, Asian-business-development manager Paul Sribhibhadh, and senior diversity administrator Trish Millines Dziko. "The people who comprised Microsoft's first generation were exactly right for their time. They were the pioneers," Tsang writes. "The founders of Microsoft were shrewd to have hired them, for the company's monumental and continuing success would not have been possible without [their] exceptional work and passion." --Howard Rothman

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What began as a modest start-up partnership only twenty-five years ago has already surpassed all the giants of contemporary capitalism, including General Electric and IBM, and has achieved a value estimated at nearly $500 billion. How did Microsoft achieve all of this in so short a time? What was the true nature of the Microsoft environment in the beginning, and what are the secrets behind its triumph?

Find the answers here. With Microsoft First Generation, Cheryl Tsang skillfully renders recent history in bold, colorful strokes, highlighting each of the specific business qualities and entrepreneurial traits that turned Microsoft's dreams into reality. Meet the early builders of Microsoft, and step inside the famous culture of loyalty, the storied "maniacal work ethic," and the hardcore world of reckless risk-taking that remains so integral to the computer giant's matchless and ongoing success.

Here, up close and personal, Tsang introduces readers to twelve members of Microsoft's mythic first generation, each of whom has walked away from Microsoft as a multimillionaire. The collection spans a diverse collection of creative geniuses and business wizards, from Bob O'Rear, employee number seven, who joined the team in 1977 and wrote the original MS-DOS program on the first IBM PC; to bestselling author Russell Borland who, after innocently answering a help wanted ad for a technical copywriter in 1980, suddenly became the mouthpiece of an entire company, singlehandedly familiarizing the world with Microsoft products; to Trish Millines, who began as a software tester in 1988 and then blazed a trail and effected lasting change as a powerful advocate for ethnic diversity in the technological arena.

Featuring candid appraisals of the idiosyncrasies of software culture, fascinating portraits of the enigmatic Bill Gates, and rare photographs of the company's early days, Microsoft First Generation uncovers a range of surprising success secrets-and reveals, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.

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not up to the mark.......2004-11-10

Just another book. Nothing special. As the name suggests, I wanted to have a look into the way these first guys faced compitition. That is missing. The stories lack in detail. Also its does not cover the complete Diaspora of the kind of people working at Microsoft.

Truly awful.......2004-07-14

It is such a shame. Imagine a party where everyone is telling the best reditions (often exaggerated) of their life choices and career path. These party goes will be slapping each other on the back for their good judgement, their luck, their brilliance. They are unlikely to tell the truth such that you would ever use the story as a basis for your own decision making. The story is also unlikely to provide access into what actually happened so that you get a sense of being there or give lessons to repeat it. Record these stories at your next party. Transcribe them. Publish as a book.

Does what it says.......2001-12-10

I picked this book up and I think that it is very good. I started reading it right after finishing up a book on Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux. Thus this is almost the flip side of that coin, showing how Microsoft became. One thing that surprised me was that Bill Gates was not one of the main focuses of this particular book, though he is mentioned quite frequently. Rather it shows some of the others responsible for possibly the most successful computer company ever. This is not all just programmers either, but a good selection of people from various different aspects of the microsoft realm.

Dull..........2001-08-01

Unfortunately, this book simply isn't very well written... it reads like an 8th grader's English homework. The interviewees don't really shed any light on Microsoft, and their stories are so lacking in detail as to be pointless. Read "Gates" for a far better treatment of the topic.

First Generation: A wonderful example to today's society........2000-01-13

Tsang's book, Microsoft: First Generation, display's a great example to today's society, and generation. The book focuses on 12 key members of Microsoft in it's earliest stages, which, in a way, helped create the infrastructure of the company. The interviews show how all 12 ex-ms employees ended up where they were, and what it took to be successful. I applaud Mrs. Tsang for her hard work. I recommend this book to anyone interested in business, or Microsoft itself.

An American Family: The Kennans: The First Three Generations

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An American Family: The Kennans: The First Three Generations
George F. Kennan
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393050343

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An esteemed American scholar's reconstruction of his earliest forebears, and a moving glimpse of our nation's vanished, agrarian past. George F. Kennan has had one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of American arts and letters. Whether writing prophetically about the origins of the Cold War in his seminal American Diplomacy, or recollecting his diplomatic journeys in his best-selling Sketches from a Life, he has distinguished himself as a consummate statesman and engaging writer. Now in his nineties, Kennan has traced the origins of his family in America, beginning his tale with the Kennans' decision to flee relentless poverty in Scotland and detailing the travails they faced as early settlers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. An American Family is filled with lively, sometimes haunting vignettes, and vividly captures what life at New England's most remote fringes must have felt like two centuries ago. Part genealogical journey, part detective story, An American Family is a celebration of history, America, and one of its most remarkable sons. 10 photographs, 3 maps.

The First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940

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The First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940
David Dicaire
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ASIN: 0786430214

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This book focuses on fifty of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the folk music of early America through the 1970s. Divided into five distinct categories, it discusses the pioneers who brought mountain music to mass audiences; cowboys and radio stars who spread country music countrywide; honky-tonk and bluegrass musicians who differentiated country music during the 1940s; the major contributions that female artists made to the genre; and the modern country sound which dominated the genre from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Each entry includes a brief biography of the chosen artist with special emphasis on experiences which influenced their musical careers. Covered musicians include Fiddlin' John Carson, Riley Puckett, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bob Willis, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Sr., Dale Evans, June Carter Cash, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

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First Generation: An Autobiography
Ernest Sirluck
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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