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Hej då, vi ses i morron
av William Maxwell
»Efter att ha läst Hej då, vi ses i morron tänkte jag: Det är alltså så här det ska göras. Jag tänkte: Om jag bara kunde gå tillbaka och skriva om varenda sak jag skrivit.« ALICE MUNRO

I staden där William Maxwell växte upp inträffade en tragedi på tjugotalet: ett mord begicks i en familj i samband med en skilsmässa. Författaren minns sig själv som liten och frågar sig varför han inte kunde ge en hjälpande hand till den stackars skolkamrat som var mördarens son.
Hej då, vi ses i morgon är en metafiktiv självbiografi, en konfrontation med förlust, ensamhet, rädsla och vänskapens tillkortakommanden, som kort efter att den kom ut 1980 belönades med The National Book Award.
En modern amerikansk klassiker i översättning och med ett nyskrivet efterord av Staffan Holmgren.

WILLIAM MAXWELL [19082000] var en amerikansk författare, essäist och skönlitterär redaktör på The New Yorker (en roll i vilken Maxwell blev legendarisk för sitt arbete med J. D. Salinger, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Bashevis Singer och många fler). Hej då, vi ses i morron [So Long, See You Tomorrow, 1980] var Maxwells hyllade återkomst till romanformen efter arton år.

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Om Hej då, vi ses i morron av William Maxwell
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Nyskrivet efterord av översättaren Staffan Holmgren till William Maxwells Hej då, vi ses i morron.

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»Efter att ha läst Hej då, vi ses i morron tänkte jag: Det är alltså så här det ska göras. Jag tänkte: Om jag bara kunde gå tillbaka och skriva om varenda sak jag skrivit.« ALICE MUNRO

I staden där William Maxwell växte upp inträffade en tragedi på tjugotalet: ett mord begicks i en familj i samband med en skilsmässa. Författaren minns sig själv som liten och frågar sig varför han inte kunde ge en hjälpande hand till den stackars skolkamrat som var mördarens son.
Hej då, vi ses i morgon är en metafiktiv självbiografi, en konfrontation med förlust, ensamhet, rädsla och vänskapens tillkortakommanden, som kort efter att den kom ut 1980 belönades med The National Book Award.

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Victories Of The British Armies - Vol. II

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Victories Of The British Armies - Vol. II
av Sir William Hamilton Maxwell
The British Army gained a coalesced identity and a European reputation from its exploits in the Peninsular War against the much vaunted French army. A veteran of the fighting himself, Sir William recounts the exploits and deeds of the British army from the battle-fields strewn across Portugal and Spain. Written in rollicking style, the anecdotes of Barossa, Vimiero, Talavera, Fuentes D'Onoro, Salamanca and Vittoria still remain of fresh interest to this day.Sir William Hamilton Maxwell was a Scots-Irish novelist, noted for his many works in both fiction and non-fiction, and a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the time. His three-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington and his stories of Waterloo are still quoted as authoritative today.This second volume picks up the narrative after the battle of Salamanca in 1812 to the end of the war.Author - Maxwell, Sir William Hamilton, 1792-1850.Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Henry G. Bohn, 1847. Original Page Count - 402 pages.

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F.B. Eyes
av William J Maxwell
How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship.Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature.

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Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management

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Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management
av Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley, Sabina Di Prima
It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa. Analyses of four contrasting African countries (Ghana, Morocco, South Africa and Uganda) show that as communities directly face the challenges of land degradation, they are likely to develop initiatives themselves in terms of sustainable land management. These initiatives (or 'innovations') may be more appropriate and sustainable than those emanating from research stations located far from the communities. The book describes the rationale of the approach used, the set of steps followed, how the project managed to engage the communities to understand the importance of the activities they were undertaking, and how they were stimulated to improve and extend their initiatives and innovativeness. Examples covered include soil fertility, community forestry, afforestation, water, invasive species and grazing land management. Central to the book is the way communities, and scientists, interacted between the four countries and learnt from each other. The book also shows how the initiatives were outscaled locally.

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They Came Like Swallows
av William Maxwell
Discover William Maxwell?s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

''A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic? Will melt many a reader to tears? TIME

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable.

As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family.

?As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you''re gripping the pages? There isn''t a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow? Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

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Romance in Marseille
av Claude McKay, Gary Edward Holcomb, William J Maxwell, Gary Edward Holcomb, William J Maxwell
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice/Staff PickBuried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor. While stowing away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked in a frigid closet. Badly frostbitten by the time the boat docks, the once-nimble dancer loses both of his lower legs, emerging from life-saving surgery as what he terms "an amputated man." Thanks to an improbably successful lawsuit against the shipping line, however, Lafala scores big in the litigious United States. Feeling flush after his legal payout, Lafala doubles back to Marseille and resumes his trans-African affair with Aslima, a Moroccan courtesan. With its scenes of black bodies fighting for pleasure and liberty even when stolen, shipped, and sold for parts, McKay's novel explores the heritage of slavery amid an unforgiving modern economy. This first-ever edition of Romance in Marseille includes an introduction by McKay scholars Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell that places the novel within both the "stowaway era" of black cultural politics and McKay's challenging career as a star and skeptic of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Conversations with William Maxwell
av Barbara Burkhardt
Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell's words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his Midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) - A pocket guide

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) - A pocket guide
av William Gamble, Maxwell
The United States DoD (Department of Defense) is one of the largest employers in the world, with about 2.87 million employees. It spends more than a year among more than 350,000 contractors and subcontractors throughout its supply chain.Information in the DoD network is shared digitally across the contractor and subcontractor supply chain, offering an irresistible target for nation-states and cyber criminals.Protecting the DoD supply chainThe CMMC was developed to step up measures for protecting the DoD supply chain. Its objectives are to standardize cybersecurity controls and ensure that effective measures are in place to protect CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information) on contractor systems and networks.All companies doing business with the DoD, including subcontractors, must become certified by an independent third-party commercial certification organization.Your essential guide to understanding the CMMCTo help you get to grips with the CMMC, this essential pocket guide covers:What the CMMC is and why it has been introducedWho needs to comply with the CMMCThe implementation processThe road to certificationCMMC implications for firms doing business with the US governmentSuitable for senior management and the C-suite, general or legal counsel, IT executives, IT organizations, and IT and security students, this pocket guide will give you a solid introduction to the CMMC and its requirements.About the authorWilliam Gamble is an international cybersecurity and privacy compliance expert. He is one of the few lawyers to hold advanced cybersecurity professional qualifications, and has an in-depth understanding of the design, management, and deployment of technology within the ISO 27001 framework.With more than 30 years' experience of international regulatory practice in the U.S., EU, China, and other countries, William has had hundreds of articles published globally, written three books, and appeared on numerous radio and television programs around the world.William is a member of the Florida Bar and several federal courts. His qualifications include Juris Doctor (JD),Master of LawsLLM), CompTIAA+, Network+, Security+, CASP (Advanced SecurityPractitioner), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer, and GDPR Practitioner (GDPR P).

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Peninsular Sketches; by Actors on the Scene. Vol. II.

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Peninsular Sketches; by Actors on the Scene. Vol. II.
av William Hamilton Maxwell, William Hamilton Maxwell
Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their accounts and published them as a collection. The accounts are not published in chronological order, but this does not detract from their value: the recollections are taken not just from the officers involved, but also the rank and file soldiers.In this first volume you will find the following narratives:-March To Madrid, And Retreat From Burgos.The Battle Of Vittoria.Advance From Vittoria.The Battles Of The Pyrenees.The British Cavalry On The Peninsula.The Action In Front Of Bayonne."Take The Hill Before Dark!"Reminiscences Of Bayonne.A Night In The Peninsular WarRecollections Of The Late War In Spain And Portugal.Recollections Of The PeninsulaDolores - An Incident In The Peninsular War.Journey To Head-Quarters Near Burgos.Seven Weeks' Captivity In St. Sebastian, In 1813Arroyo De MolinoThe Twenty-Ninth At Albuera.Out-Post Anecdotes, Etc.William Hamilton Maxwell was an Irish author of prodigious output: his output was varied from historical novels and biographies to local legends of the Cheviots and Irish travelogues. The author's history is slightly shrouded, although he seems to have had some military background in British service. His most enduring works, however, are those he wrote on the military history of the Napoleonic Wars: his biography of the Duke of Wellington is still frequently referred to and quoted from. Author/Editor - William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850)

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OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Norway 2011

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OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Norway 2011
av Deborah Nusche, Lorna Earl, William Maxwell, Claire Shewbridge
How can student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation and system evaluation bring about real gains in performance across a country's school system? This book provides, for Norway, an independent analysis from an international perspective of major issues facing the evaluation and assessment framework in education along with current policy initiatives and possible future approaches. This series forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes

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Victories Of The British Armies - Vol. I

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Victories Of The British Armies - Vol. I
av Sir William Hamilton Maxwell
The British Army gained a coalesced identity and a European reputation from its exploits in the Peninsular War against the much vaunted French army. A veteran of the fighting himself, Sir William recounts the exploits and deeds of the British army from the battle-fields strewn across Portugal and Spain. Written in rollicking style, the anecdotes of Barossa, Vimiero, Talavera, Fuentes D'Onoro, Salamanca and Vittoria still remain of fresh interest to this day.Sir William Hamilton Maxwell was a Scots-Irish novelist, noted for his many works in both fiction and non-fiction, and a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the time. His three-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington and his stories of Waterloo are still quoted as authoritative today.This first volume brings the action from 1808 to 1812.Author - Maxwell, Sir William Hamilton, 1792-1850.Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Henry G. Bohn, 1847. Original Page Count - xi and 406 pages.

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Time Will Darken It
av William Maxwell
The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers the seeds of potential tragedy at the heart of a happily-established family.

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Heart of a Blackman
av William B Maxwell
The words written on these pages are meant to be thought provoking as well as inspiring in some way hopefully in a positive manner. These are times of my young life in Detroit, military life and life in general. There may be some that have had a similar experience. some experiences are of the physical and there are some of the mind. There is some comedy and some heart felt but all are my feelings. 1 hope these words are enjoyable to everyone. Learn everything you can then let your imagination run free. maxwellwilliam722@yahoo.com

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Ancestors
av William Maxwell
The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.

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Folded Leaf
av William Maxwell
The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.

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Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management
av Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley, Sabina Di Prima
It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa. Analyses of four contrasting African countries (Ghana, Morocco, South Africa and Uganda) show that as communities directly face the challenges of land degradation, they are likely to develop initiatives themselves in terms of sustainable land management. These initiatives (or 'innovations') may be more appropriate and sustainable than those emanating from research stations located far from the communities. The book describes the rationale of the approach used, the set of steps followed, how the project managed to engage the communities to understand the importance of the activities they were undertaking, and how they were stimulated to improve and extend their initiatives and innovativeness. Examples covered include soil fertility, community forestry, afforestation, water, invasive species and grazing land management. Central to the book is the way communities, and scientists, interacted between the four countries and learnt from each other. The book also shows how the initiatives were outscaled locally.

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Analytic Trigonometry
av William J Bruce, W J Langford, E A Maxwell, I N Sneddon
Analytic Trigonometry details the fundamental concepts and underlying principle of analytic geometry. The title aims to address the shortcomings in the instruction of trigonometry by considering basic theories of learning and pedagogy. The text first covers the essential elements from elementary algebra, plane geometry, and analytic geometry. Next, the selection tackles the trigonometric functions of angles in general, basic identities, and solutions of equations. The text also deals with the trigonometric functions of real numbers. The fifth chapter details the inverse trigonometric functions, while the sixth chapter covers the procedures for sketching graphs of trigonometric functions. The coverage of the selection also includes logarithm, solutions of triangles, polar coordinates, and complex numbers. The book will be of great use to both instructors and students of trigonometry.

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Be the Unicorn
av William Vanderbloemen, John C Maxwell
';This book is one of the most worthwhile and immediately usable reads I have come across in a long time.' KiplingerWant to stand out from the crowd? We have studied 30,000 top leaders and have discovered the 12 habits they share that make them as rare as a unicorn. Learn these habits, and you'll be one of the best at whatever you do!How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking.William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world's top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits that the best of the best have in common. Traits such as authenticity, responsiveness, agility, and the ability to problem solve, among others.Each habit includes information on What We Know (the hard data behind why the habit is so transformative), What We've Seen (first-hand accounts by high-achieving professionals on how they live the habit), and What We Do (simple ways to build this habit into your daily routine). Be the Unicorn will help you:Discover the top twelve soft skills the most successful leaders, the top 1%, have. Understand how to develop these soft skills in your own life for better job success. Learn how to apply soft skills to interpersonal relationships outside of work. Understand how these soft skills can be applied in different work environments and job fields, especially with the rise of AI technology.

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Chateau
av William Maxwell
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

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William Maxwell

av William Maxwell

av Staffan Holmgren

av Sir William Hamilton Maxwell

av William J Maxwell

av Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley, Sabina Di Prima

av William Maxwell

av Claude McKay, Gary Edward Holcomb, William J Maxwell, Gary Edward Holcomb, William J Maxwell

av Barbara Burkhardt

av William Gamble, Maxwell

av William Hamilton Maxwell, William Hamilton Maxwell

av Deborah Nusche, Lorna Earl, William Maxwell, Claire Shewbridge

av Sir William Hamilton Maxwell

av William Maxwell

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av William Maxwell

av William Maxwell

av Maxwell Mudhara, Saa Dittoh, Mohamed Sessay, William Critchley, Sabina Di Prima

av William J Bruce, W J Langford, E A Maxwell, I N Sneddon

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av William Maxwell