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Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry, three central poets of the modern French tradition, form a noble poetic lineage: Mallarmé proceeded from Baudelaire, Valéry from Mallarmé; yet each went his separate way and attained a high degree of originality. All three reflected deeply on the principles of poetic creation; all three sought to apply these principles in the practice of writing. The central theme of the eighteen papers collected here is the constant confrontation of theory and practice. The majority are close studies of individual poems, based on rigourous textual analysis, but placing each poem, implicitly or explicitly, in the total context of each poet's work as a whole. The impact of these poets on the development of modern poetry has been felt far beyond the frontiers of France; their writings are at the centre of more recent reflection on literature in genera, and poetry in particular, as the application of certain properties of language. Above all, their poems remain a constant source of delight; to share that delight with the reader is the main object of this book.
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9780670025398 | Viking Pr, February 5, 2015, cover price $28.95
9780521327374, titled "Poetic Principles and Practice: Occasional Papers on Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Valery" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $89.95 | also contains Poetic Principles and Practice: Occasional Papers on Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Valery | About this edition: Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry, three central poets of the modern French tradition, form a noble poetic lineage: Mallarmé proceeded from Baudelaire, Valéry from Mallarmé; yet each went his separate way and attained a high degree of originality.
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9780143128342 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 5, 2016), cover price $18.00
In Vietnam, Gary R. Hess describes and evaluates the main arguments of scholars, participants, and journalists, both revisionist and orthodox in their approach, as they try to answer fundamental questions of the Vietnam War. Clearly examines the historiography of the Vietnam War Questions whether the Vietnam War was lost due to poor strategy and leadership, or was inherently doomed to failure Includes a bibliographic essay which complements the literature discussed in the text
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9781405125277 | Blackwell Pub, May 2, 2008, cover price $115.95 | About this edition: In Vietnam, Gary R.
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9781118948996 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, May 26, 2015), cover price $44.95
9781405125284 | Blackwell Pub, May 2, 2008, cover price $48.95
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9780786495092 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 28, 2014, cover price $39.95
9780373691081, titled "Everybody's Hero" | Harlequin Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $4.25 | also contains Everybody''s Hero | About this edition: Everybody's Hero
Product Description: For Armyâs players, their 1964 football game against a Navy team led by its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, Roger Staubach, was a do-or-die battle. Army had lost to Navy five years in a row. This time a stunning victory by Army changed the Cadetsâ fortunes and made headlines across the country...read more
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9781442239852 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 13, 2014, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: For Armyâs players, their 1964 football game against a Navy team led by its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, Roger Staubach, was a do-or-die battle.
Product Description: Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan...read more
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9780804785815 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 26, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades.
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9780804793377 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades.
Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars. In Forever Vietnam, David Kieran shows how the contested memory of the Vietnam War has affected the commemoration of other events, and how those acts of remembrance have influenced postwar debates over the conduct and consequences of American foreign policy.Kieran focuses his analysis on the recent remembrance of six events, three of which occurred before the Vietnam War and three after it ended. The first group includes the siege of the Alamo in 1836, the incarceration of Union troops at Andersonville during the Civil War, and the experience of American combat troops during World War II. The second comprises the 1993 U.S. intervention in Somalia, the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.In each case a range of actorsâmilitary veterans, policymakers, memorial planners, and the general publicâused memorial practices associated with the Vietnam War to reinterpret the contemporary significance of past events. A PBS program about Andersonville sought to cultivate a sense of national responsibility for the My Lai massacre. A group of Vietnam veterans occupied the Alamo in 1985, seeing themselves as patriotic heirs to another lost cause. A World War II veteran published a memoir in 1980 that reads like a narrative of combat in Vietnam. Through these and other examples, Forever Vietnam reveals not only the persistence of the past in public memory but also its malleability in the service of the political present.
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9781625340993 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 31, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory.
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9781625341006 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 31, 2014, cover price $27.95
Product Description: The National Book Awardâwinning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the warâs fiftieth anniversary. Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emersonâs powerful portrait of the Vietnam War...read more
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9780393349337, titled "Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War" | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 21, 2014), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The National Book Awardâwinning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the warâs fiftieth anniversary.
9780393309256 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1992), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: âSensitive, moral, compellingâ¦a book of genuine greatness and largeness of spirit.
Product Description: Much has been written about the seismic shifts in American culture and politics during the 1960s. Yet for all the analysis of that turbulent era, its legacy remains unclear. In this elegantly written book, David Wyatt offers a fresh perspective on the decade by focusing on the pivotal year of 1968...read more
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9781625340603 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, January 31, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Much has been written about the seismic shifts in American culture and politics during the 1960s.
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9781625340610 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, January 31, 2014, cover price $28.95
Product Description: In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese at the war's end—including rebuilding a nation and consolidating a socialist revolution while fending off China and the Khmer Rouge—and "the Vietnam syndrome," the cynical, frustrated, and pessimistic sense that colored America's views of the rest of the world after its humiliating defeat in Vietnam...read more
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9780822354628 | Duke Univ Pr, June 6, 2013, cover price $89.95
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9780822354741 | Duke Univ Pr, June 6, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam.
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9780192803498 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 15, 2009), cover price $29.95
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9780199657988 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 29, 2012, cover price $19.95
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9780815721314 | Brookings Inst Pr, May 26, 2011, cover price $29.95
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9780815723899 | 2 reprint edition (Brookings Inst Pr, August 22, 2012), cover price $19.95
Product Description: Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam todayâin official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism...read more
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9780253353061 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 22, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam todayâin official and unofficial histories and in everyday life.
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9780253220769 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 22, 2009, cover price $26.00
Product Description: Douglas Pike, an eminent authority on Southeast Asia and particularly on Vietnam, wrote: âDr. Nguyen Anh Tuan is a highly respected economist and political thinker. Even perhaps for our purpose here, he is a man of great breadth of view, a philosopher in the true meaning of the wordâ¦â In America Coming to Terms, Dr...read more
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9781436329446 | Xlibris Corp, December 1, 2008, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Douglas Pike, an eminent authority on Southeast Asia and particularly on Vietnam, wrote: âDr.
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9781436329439 | Xlibris Corp, December 1, 2008, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Douglas Pike, an eminent authority on Southeast Asia and particularly on Vietnam, wrote: âDr.
Product Description: Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle...read more
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9781433260391 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America.
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9780373691081, titled "Everybody's Hero" | Harlequin Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $4.25 | also contains New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact | About this edition: Everybody's Hero
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