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The contortionist whispers
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Refractive Africa : ballet of the forgotten
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""The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo-two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance-incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery"--
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Clinical skills for adult primary care
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Here is a practical, reliable guide to the most crucial task confronting the primary care physician: acquiring maximum clinical information through the bedside skills of history-taking and physical examination. Written by a group of experienced clinicians, this book is filled with "pearls" of information that will improve the diagnostic skills of every practitioner. In keeping with today's managed-care constraints on laboratory testing, this text emphasizes diagnosis based on clinical findings and judicious use of laboratory tests.
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The train from Katanga : a novel
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"In this swift, suspenseful novel of modern Africa, four white mean, mercenaries hired by the Army of Katange, take a native task force by train into the Congo interior to a little mining town threatened by hostile tribes. The boiling excitement of the story is heightened by the personal gethsemanes of the other white mercenaries. All find their destinies on the train from Katange, whether in death or in new life, or, in the case of Bruce Curry, in the rebirth of himself as a man able to believe again in love"--From dust jacket flap.
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A speech, delivered by a woman, about conditions in California
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This undated and unattributed essay examines the history and formation of the territory that would eventually become the state of California. The establishment of religion is discussed, as are various southern California railroads, and the city of San Francisco. The presence of the Chinese in San Francisco is described in a very unfavorable manner, being described as "a detriment to modern civilization," and yet, the author also writes "I am in favor of the Chinese" for "the Chinese are neither better nor worse than ourselves" because "human nature is much the same everywhere."
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Gideon Johnson Pillow letter
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This is a letter Pillow wrote to his wife, Mary E. Pillow, on September 28, 1847. He describes his role in the battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the psychological toll the carnage of war has taken on him
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