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The Army Brat Becomes an Author 군인의 딸이 작가가 되기까지
This is the story of how I was able to co-write and publish a Korean War diary book in a short time, while also reflecting on my life as an ESL teacher for nearly 20 years. It is an incredible journey rooted in my family’s military legacy, which ultimately inspired me to bring my grandfather’s words to life. My grandfather, Colonel Alfredo L Cayton, was a Filipino Korean War veteran and Supply Officer of the 10th Battalion Combat Team of the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK). His diary, written while serving in Korea from 1950 to 1951, captures a pivotal moment in history through his eyes. This book is also a tribute to my father, Brigadier General Emmanuel S Cayton (RET)...
Urban Rivers
Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present. Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and ...
Beaten Down
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word “violence” conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force—a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the “better man.” David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this “white noise” that has always been with us, humming quietly between more explosive acts of violence. Broad in its chronological and cultural sweep, Beaten Down examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Orego...
Elusive Empires
A fascinating story that offers a striking interpretation of the origins, progress, and effects of the American Revolution.
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