Author: Myron Uhlberg File Type: mobi Amazon.com Review With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as dummies. Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir. Hands of My Father is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me, he explains, was the feel of his arms around me. Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlbergs stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. - Dave CallananFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several childrens books (including Dad, Jackie, and Me, which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his fathers hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his familys situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teachers constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents cant hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinsons arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding. (Apr.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, February 2009 With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as dummies. Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir. Hands of My Father is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me, he explains, was the feel of his arms around me. Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlbergs stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. - Dave CallananFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several childrens books (including Dad, Jackie, and Me, which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his fathers hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his familys situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teachers constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents cant hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinsons arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding. (Apr.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Author: Jack Cashill File Type: epub If I had a son, hed look like Trayvon, President Barack Obama said in March 2012 about the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin four weeks earlier. In so saying, Obama gave the White House imprimatur to a politically irresistible campaign that both stoked the grievances of his racially sensitive base and energized his partys gun-control advocates. That the shooting took place in Florida, the most highly contested state in that years presidential election, made its politicization all the more inevitable. From the start, major media worked overtime to convict shooter George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion. To promote their grudge against guns and their skewed view of race, the media ignored or denied the truth.In another time and place, they might have succeeded, but in the age of social media, their carefully crafted narrative has been thoroughly picked apart. If I Had A Son is a thrill-packed David and Goliath story, the ending of which is still not known.**

Author: Akira Lippit File Type: pdf What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex-meaning from, outside, and no longerAkira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.** What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex-meaning from, outside, and no longerAkira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.**

Author: John F. Hoffecker File Type: pdf For the first time in recent years, we have a synthesis of the latest thinking and discoveries by a younger scholar with an authoritative grasp of the subject. This book is an important contribution to the general literature of human prehistory, unique for its comprehensive coverage of the circumpolar regions.Brian Fagan, author of The Long Summer How Climate Changed CivilizationA uniquely authoritative, highly readable, and well-illustrated account of how stone-age people managed to colonize the Far North.Richard G. Klein, Stanford UniversityEarly humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlement of places like Europe and northern Asia, as well as the later movement into the Arctic and the Americas, actually occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. A Prehistory of the North is the first full-length study to tell the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth.In an account rich with illustrations, John Hoffecker traces the history of anatomical adaptations, diet modifications, and technological developments, such as clothing and shelter, which allowed humans the continued ability to push the boundaries of their habitation. The book concludes by showing how in the last few thousand years, peoples living in the circumpolar zonewith the exception of western and central Siberiadeveloped a thriving maritime economy.Written in nontechnical language, A Prehistory of the North provides compelling new insights and valuable information for professionals and students.About the AuthorJohn F. Hoffecker is a Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder and is the author of Desolate Landscapes Ice Age Settlement in Eastern Europe (Rutgers University Press).