Giffords, Gabrielle; Mark Kelly:GABBY~A STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE
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Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. Original cloth. Near Fine. A facsimile of the original edition of 1818.pp. 36+ Folio Society cloth hardcover. #140822Michael Howe (1787 – 21 October 18… Mehr…
Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. Original cloth. Near Fine. A facsimile of the original edition of 1818.pp. 36+ Folio Society cloth hardcover. #140822Michael Howe (1787 – 21 October 1818) was a British convict who became a notorious bushranger and gang leader in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia.On 31 July 1811 he was sentenced to seven years transportation for robbing a miller on the highway. He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in October 1812 in the Indefatigable, and was assigned to a Mr. John Ingle, a merchant and grazier.[1] Howe refused the assignment, declaring that, ""having served the King, he would be no man's slave"".[1] He escaped, and joined a large party of escaped convicts in the bush.[2]In May 1814 Howe gave himself up to the authorities in response to an offer of clemency made by Governor Macquarie. (For copy of proclamation see Historical Records of Australia, Series I, Vol. VIII, p. 264). Howe, however, took to the bush again and joined a band of bushrangers led by John Whitehead.[2] Houses were robbed and ricks burned by his gang, and being pursued by an armed party of settlers, two of the latter were killed and others wounded in a fight which followed. Rewards were offered for the apprehension of the bushrangers and parties of soldiers were sent out to search for them. On one occasion the bushrangers fired a volley through the windows of a house in which soldiers were stationed, and Whitehead was killed by the return fire. Before death, Whitehead begged Howe to cut off his head, and take it, so that it couldn't be taken by his pursuers, and used as evidence to claim the offered reward.[3] Howe complied with the request.[3]Howe then became the leader of the bushrangers, and although two of the gang were caught and executed, many robberies ensued. In February 1817 two more bushrangers were shot and another captured, and in the following month Howe left the party accompanied only by an Aboriginal girl. On one occasion, finding the military close on his heels, he attempted to shoot the girl, but only succeeded in wounding her slightly.Howe found means of sending a letter to Governor Sorell offering to surrender and give information about his former associates on condition that he should be pardoned. He gave himself up to a military officer on this understanding, and was taken to Hobart gaol on 29 April 1817 where he was examined by the magistrates. Howe would quite probably have been pardoned, but at the end of July he escaped and again took to the bush.Howe had pleaded ill-health and was allowed to walk freely to a doctor in the company of a constable, and he walked ahead of the constable who was distracted and then made his escape. He quickly fell in with some bushrangers which included some of his old companions in arms. He quickly rose to leader but not without tension, two of the gang having incurred his anger so he made short work of them. At midnight, while both were sleeping Howe crept upon them and cut the throat of one and clubbed the others head in with the stock of his gun.In October 1817 he was betrayed by one of his own men, George Watson and William Drew a shopkeeper. Howe's hands had been tied but he managed to free them, stabbed Watson, and then taking Watson's gun, shot Drew dead.[4] Watson died weeks later from his wounds. For nearly a year he hid in the bush, but needing ammunition, on 21 October 1818 he was decoyed to a hut where William Pugh of the 48th regiment and a stock-keeper, Thomas Worrall, were hidden. All three fired and missed but during the struggle which followed, Howe was killed by blows on the head with a musket. Worrall later recalled those final minutes when he faced Howe:We were then about 15 yards from each other... He stared at me with astonishment, and, to tell you the truth, I was a little astonished at him, for he was covered with patches of kangaroo skins, and wore a black beard – a haversack and powder horn slung across his shoulders, I wore my beard also as I do now, and a curious pair we looked. After a moment's pause he cried out, ""Black beard against white beard for a million!"" and fired; I slapped at him, and I believe hit him, for he staggered, but rallied again, and was clearing the bank between me and him when Pugh ran up, and with the butt end of his firelock knocked him down, jumped after him, and battered his brains out just as he was opening a clasp-knife to defend himself.[5]He was 31. Howe's head was cut off to take to Hobart,[6] while his body ""was left to bleach in the woods"".[7] Worrall received a third share of the reward, a pardon from his convict sentence, and free passage back to England.[6]His bones were interred in the same spot where he met his death, close to the old Shannon hut. Many of the bones appeared above ground, either from the effects of time and weather, or animals of prey, William Patterson, Superintendent of Convicts, took the pains to collect them together, to inter them in a deeper grave, and to distinguish the spot by a large stone and other memorials of the dead.[8]Some of the most powerful men in Hobart and Launceston had arrangements with Howe and the most profitable of these partnerships was with the colony's wealthiest man, Edward Lord. Understandings were reached between them. Lord's wife, Maria played a crucial role in this connection. Maria Lord not only ran her husband's affairs in his absence, but as an ex-convict herself, she had the contacts and cultural understanding to negotiate with the bushrangers.The official investigations into Howe's relationship with Edward Lord and Robert Knopwood did not go far, as no documents from his testimonies have survived. As Carlo Canteri wrote in his Origins of Australian Social Banditry, ""...a complete exposure of all the bushrangers, interconnecting linkages would shake Van Diemen's Land to its very rum-cellars.""In 1818, T. E. Wells, a cousin of Samuel Marsden, wrote an account of Howe's life and crimes, called The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land.[9]Howe's exploits inspired the earliest play about Tasmania. Titled Michael Howe: The Terror! of Van Diemen's Land, it used William Wentworth's writings on Australia as its source material, and premiered at The Old Vic in London in 1821. Another early play about Howe was William Thomas Moncrieff's Van Diemen's Land: An Operatic Drama (1830).Howe is commemorated in two Tasmanian place names: Mike Howes marsh,[10] near Oatlands and a gully on the River Derwent.[11]There were a number of curious relics of the past eventful life of Michael Howe, it is unknown whether any of these still exist. Dr Robert Espie claimed to have dissected Howe's body and placed his thigh bone in the wall of his house at Sayes Comb, Tasmania. The bone was discovered in 1914.[12] Dr James Ross collected a large iron pot from the place of Howes death and continued to use it.[13] Frank and Philip Pitt had a volume returned that Howe had stolen and the book cover was secured with kangaroo skin and very neatly sewed with sinews.[14] The Campbell Town museum once displayed a photograph of the original letter, written by Michael Howe, to Governor Thomas Davey in 1816, and signed by all the members of the gang.[15]In 2011, Screen Australia announced that a film called The Outlaw Michael Howe was in development.[16] The film was directed by Brendan Cowell and starred Damon Herriman, Mirrah Foulkes, Rarriwuy Hick, Darren Gilshenan and Matt Day.The Outlaw Michael Howe aired in Australia on the ABC television network on 1 December 2013[17] and again for Australia Day week in 2016. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover. Original cloth Near Fine, Folio Society, 1977, 4, New York, NY, USA.: Simon and Schuster./ Frommer Pasmantier / Fleetbooks, 1952. 190 pages. CLASSIC B&W Comic Strips, by one of the great masters of Comic Art! Contents/ Stories Included; (1)"Slightly Holidazed"; (2) "No Rhyme for Reason"; (3) "Blanker Verse Was Ne'er Blunk!" (4) "It is Hard to Keep a Head"; (5) "A Few Stars and Some Stripes"; (6) "Tiger Ragout"; (7) "The Safer Safari"; (8) "Whirled Series"; (9) "Don't Write Don't Wire!"; (10) "Magna Cum Lhude Sing Cuccu"; (11) "Peace of Change" (12) "The Candidature"; (13) "Right on the Button"; (14) "Left at the Post" (15) "Free to Get Ready and Sore to Go". >>>[Book Weight= approx 250 grams] >> moderate writing on inside front cover; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Collected Edition, PBO thus!.. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Illus. by Walt Kelly.. Trade Paperback/Comic Graphic., Simon and Schuster./ Frommer Pasmantier / Fleetbooks, 1952, 3, Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover Paperback. New Book. 18cm x 13cm. [viii], 289, [7] pages. Pictorial wrappers. "The Revolution We Expected presents a call for individual and societal transformation in order to rebuild and humanize our institutions and our communities to realize a post-patriarchal world and elevated consciousness as a global community. In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo uses The Revolution We Expected to make a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present. The book presents a map that argues not only for collective individual awakening but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that our educational and cultural lessons are in service to a better world. The author targets traditional education and our global economic system that increasingly neglect human development and must transform to meet the needs of future social evolution. He stresses the need for education to teach wisdom over knowledge and he suggests meditation and contemplative practices can help us realize new ways to learn. Ultimately, we need to embark on a collective process of re-humanizing our systems and establishing self-awareness as individuals to create the necessary global consciousness to realize a new way forward." (publisher's blurb) Shipped Weight: .29 kilos. ISBN/EAN: 9780907791805. BZDB407 Psychology & Psychiatry; Philosophy. Unbranded EAN: 9780907791805 Claudio Naranjo The Revolution We Expected: Cultivating a New Politics of Consciousness, Synergetic Press, 2020, 6, New York. 1972. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 015185100x. Translated by Lovett F. Edwards. 238 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. keywords: Literature Translated Yugoslavia Eastern Europe . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A thread runs through this new collection of short stories by Milovan Djilas, tying together the lives of people who are separated by time and by circumstance. However disparate their roles, they are united by a fierce national identity. Survival is all. It is a dictum that Djilas, a skillful storyteller, shows in these thirteen varied tales of Montenegro. One of the characters says, ‘Life is merciless and abounding in dilemmas,' The dilemma may arise out of war, as in ‘The Stone and the Violets,' in which partisans are faced with the cruel choice of deciding who has first claim on loyalty - one's kin or one's revolutionary ideals, Or it may arise out of man's struggle to wrest a living from the rocky, barren land of Montenegro, as in ‘Two Wolves' and ‘The Doctor and the Eagle.' The moral predicament becomes most acute when a man must at last confront his own conscience, as the idealistic narrator does in ‘The Brothers and the Girl' All of the people in these stories - students, peasants, outlaws, heroic women - confront the dilemma of survival in ways that reveal their character, and their culture. Few contemporary writers bring to fiction the qualities of realism and subtlety that characterize the writing of Milovan Djilas. He writes in the tradition of Tolstoy - a tradition that brings together in storytelling both a strong feeling for people who live close to the earth and a fervent romantic and politically revolutionary vision. inventory #14941 ISBN: 015185100x., 0, Germany: Die Certel Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1984. First Printing. Wrappers. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper "For Marie In the spirit of struggle & love-Melba 2/6/84 Light wear and minor toning to covers. Melba Joyce Boyd is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of eleven books. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (Columbia University Press) which received the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Book Honor for Nonfiction. She is the writer, producer and director of the documentary film, The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (1996) , and the editor of Roses and Revolutions: the Collected Writings of Dudley Randall, forthcoming (2006) . Six of her books are works of poetry, the most recent of which is The Province of Literary Cats (2002) , and Blues Music Sky of Mourning: the German Poems (forthcoming) . She has won a number of awards for her poetry including, a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award. She was commissioned to write the official poem for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which was inscribed in bronze in the museum wall. Lines from her poem, We Want Our City Back, were chiseled into the sculpture, Transcending: Michigans Tribute to Labor, installed in downtown Detroit. Her poetry has been translated into German, Italian, and Spanish, and has been widely published in journals and anthologies. Her 1994 book, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911, was widely reviewed and praised by critics. She has lectured at universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad, and she is the author of 50 published essays on African American literature and film. She is a series coeditor with Ron Brown, for the African American Life Series at WSU Press, and the coeditor with M. L. Liebler of Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. In 1983-4, she was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Bremen in Germany and has held professorial positions at the University of Iowa, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, where she received a Doctor of Arts in English 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. ; Monika Shafer; Signed by Author ., Die Certel Press, 1984, 3, Scribner, New York, 2011, 2011. Hardcover. Collectible, Fine/Fine. SIGNED by author on title page, "To Kristina, best wishes!" then Gabrielle's scrawl. Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine blue pictorial dj. First printing. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with her constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby Giffords was the victim of an assassonation attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Giffords was shot in the head; doctors called her survival miraculous. Hardcover, vii, 309 pp., color photos,unclipped jacket., Scribner, New York, 2011, 2011, 5<
