An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic sixties, and their long aftermath. “We tend to write about what will not go away,” Doug Anderson says in this candid, darkly humorous journey of self-discovery. Beginning in 1943, in the pre–civil rights South filled with tobacco and war stories, he recalls the difficult childhood that propels him into service in Vietnam. In 1967, having returned home deeply shaken by his experience as a combat medical corpsman, Anderson plunges into the heady freedoms and excesses of the sixties. His downward spiral―through booze, substance abuse, and sex―brings him dangerously close to a total breakdown. Finally, in a return group visit to Vietnam in 2000, he meets with former enemies now become writers and poets. Moved by the realization that “the last time I saw these people they were trying to kill me,” Anderson confronts the past and calls upon a story―this powerful story―to rebuild a life.

Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery

Biographies & Memoirs

Anderson, Doug

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic sixties, and their long aftermath. “We tend to write about what will not go away,” Doug Anderson says in this candid, darkly humorous journey of self-discovery. Beginning in 1943, in the pre–civil rights South filled with tobacco and war stories, he recalls the difficult childhood that propels him into service in Vietnam. In 1967, having returned home deeply shaken by his experience as a combat medical corpsman, Anderson plunges into the heady freedoms and excesses of the sixties. His downward spiral―through booze, substance abuse, and sex―brings him dangerously close to a total breakdown. Finally, in a return group visit to Vietnam in 2000, he meets with former enemies now become writers and poets. Moved by the realization that “the last time I saw these people they were trying to kill me,” Anderson confronts the past and calls upon a story―this powerful story―to rebuild a life.

optical illusions, crosswords, card tricks, mysteries, games, etc.

The Little Giant Book of After School Fun

Humor & Entertainment

Sloane, Paul

Bullimore, Tom

Barry, Sheila Ann

Puzzles & Games

scholastic

Most church members would tell you that theirs is a friendly congregation, eager to welcome visitors and new members into their midst. Yet far too many of these same congregations have trouble translating this intention into action. Offering a friendly greeting to a new face is important, but it is only the first of many steps that congregations must take in order to turn visitors into members, and new members into committed disciples. The authors believe that to assimilate newcomers into the life and ministry of the congregation, the whole church system must be involved. Coyner and Anderson demonstrate how to identify and respond to visitors in a nonthreatening, yet interested way; how to share information about them with the leaders of those ministries and programs in which they would be most interested; how best to help them in their decision to become church members; and how to help them understand and fulfill their own call to ministry in the congregation. They insist that churches be motivated, not by a desire for institutional survival or advancement, but by a passion for people and their place in the Kingdom of God.

The Race to Reach Out: Connecting Newcomers to Christ in a New Century

Coyner, Michael J.

Religion & Spirituality

ABINGDON PRESS *

The second edition of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to situate Indigenous perspectives into the heart of Canadian educational settings and curricula, most notably in connection with environmental issThe second edition of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to situate Indigenous perspectives into the heart of Canadian educational settings and curricula, most notably in connection with environmental issues.
The Indigenous lens in this edition represents a cross-cultural encounter supporting what can become an ongoing dialogue and evolution of practice in environmental inquiry. Some important questions are raised that challenge us to think in very different ways about things as fundamental as the meaning of knowledge.
New in the Second Edition: Revision of the four branches of environmental inquiry (Lorraine Chiarotto), by Julie Comay; Indigenous lenses on each of the branches by Doug Anderson; 16 new educator stories; ues.

Natural Curiosity 2nd Edition: A Resource for Educators: Considering Indigenous Perspectives in Children's Environmental Inquiry

Science & Math

Comay, Julie

Chiarotto, Lorraine

Nature & Ecology

The Laboratory School at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, Ontario Institute for Studie

Do you have what it takes to be a good detective? Start by developing your powers of observation, memory, and deduction. The puzzles and games will serve as your training ground as you look for clues, note details, and test yourself to see how well you observe, remember, and put it all together. 128 pages, 176 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Tricky, Sneaky Puzzle Pictures

Children's Books

Sterling

Canyon De Chelly: The Story Behind the Scenery

Travel

Travel Writing

Kc Pubns

Text Book and Sacred. Textbook. 38 pages. Published by Hinshaw Music Inc.

Jazz and Show Choir Handbook II

Arts & Photography

Music

Hinshaw Music

Bamboo bridge: Poems (Amherst Writers & Artists chapbooks)

Amherst Writers & Artists Press

Poetry. "Doug Anderson's HORSE MEDICINE has grit and laughter as its main ingredients. We follow the compass needle to wherever it points, and before we realize it, we have crossed numerous borders, and are delivered to some engaging truths. These homages to friends and passing strangers, to everyday souls—being in and of the larger world—transport us to a fidelity that matters in our daily lives. These poems sing in a key we feel and know. HORSE MEDICINE, tinctured with wit and love, goes down so easily."—Yusef Komunyakaa

Horse Medicine

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Barrow Street Press

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