John Fraser, Desires: Sixty-five French poems and one small but famous German one, translated and introduced by John Fraser.The core of Desires is a mini-anthology of sixty-five French poems translated by John Fraser and described in the foreword by scholar-translator Benoit Tadié as "beautiful" and "intensely empathetic." Taken from Fraser's major online anthology A New Book of Verse, they belong in an emergent re-seeing of French poetic history.Part I consists largely of...

The death of the Queen was only the beginning for the men and women behind the Crown.On September 8, 2022, an announcement was posted on the gates of Balmoral Castle in Scotland and Buckingham Palace in London that Queen Elizabeth II, the longest serving monarch in British history, had died. That set in motion a remarkable ten days of official mourning and ceremony unlike anything seen in any nation for decades.Members of the royal family gathered—the new K...

After years of intellectual nourishment from thrillers, along with the delights of suspense, Fraser explores the thought-processes of representative thriller characters coping with high-tension situations that require intelligent problem-solving and bring their values into a sharper focus.With alert empathy, he follows Jack Carter as he hunts down his brother's killers in Ted Lewis's masterpiece Jack's Return Home ("a kind of dark English Gatsby") ; suffers along with violence-aver...

A collection of some of my poems, written in the past two decades.

The purpose of this short ebook is to introduce the reader to some of the key concepts that underpin Six Sigma; making businesses faster and more competitive by understanding and eliminating the sources of variation in processes. It is not intended as an exhaustive text on the subject, more as a summary with some Soccer examples and anecdotes that will help the reader understand Six Sigma

With 50mm lenses and available light, John Fraser took these classic humanist photos in Minneapolis, New York, London, Nova Scotia, Provence, starting in 1957.In the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, there's no cropping. What you see is what was there—street interactions caught lightning fast, informal portraits, oldsters, kids, a Blues group, a campaigning JFK within arms-length, and always the impeccable composition and feel for the symbolic.The images are arranged in poem-li...

Combining anecdotes with scientific data, this book is a journalistic inquiry into what is currently known about zoos and aquariums as sociocultural intersections of mission, public perception, and on-site meaning making. The authors draw on conservation psychology and other social science research to explore how zoos might develop and deliver more effective learning experiences to promote and nurture conservation values and collective action. While people use zoos with specific priorities...

A major revision, the merely documentary gone, the symbolist-poetic intensified. Past and present, nature raw and cooked, imagistic juxtapositions, sunlit urn with cypresses, flames glowing as the ground thaws for a midwinter Minnesota grave. Enigmatic mannequin, pensive boys, racing girls, sentinel in the sky.You don't need specific locations. This is all about possibilities, emblems, icons, moods, never settling down into a single mode, a single statement. Everything is in motion...

Faces faces faces–thirty-four, if you count a delightful movie-crew group. Fascinating faces, those major elements in movies, photography, art. Mostly one-shots, taken spontaneously in a human-scale North Atlantic city-by-the-sea in the 1990s. No predatory irony or condescension, but strong reactions– surprise, wariness, delight, self-theatricalizing, etc.Interesting individuals, including a couple of poets, two photographers, an artist, a movie-maker, a scholar, a peace activist, ...

From the acclaimed landscape historian and geographer, a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn this book, John Fraser Hart offers a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape—those regions that lie at or beyond the fringes of modern metropolitan life. Though the last two centuries have seen an inv...

INLEIDING. Daar is maar één spel, dat mij hartstocht is en weelde, Daar 'k alles voor laat staan en dat mij nooit verveelde,” zong De Genestet, toen hij nog jong en jolig” was en 't groene veld hem meer trok dan het groene laken.” Dat spel was het raketten. Deze regelen zijn mede van toepassing op het kaatsen, dat Oud-Hollandsch balspel. Immers op den dag van den grooten wedstrijd van den Ned. Kaatsbond zijn reeds 's morgens vele honderden naar de kampplaats opgetrokken, die in den middag ...

Explore the rich heritage of the Samoan people through The Samoan Story of Creation by Dr. John Fraser. This book delves into the ancient origins of Samoa, a land known for its profound cultural legacy and seafaring prowess.Dr. Fraser illuminates the intricate creation myths that have shaped Samoan identity, offering readers a window into the beliefs that have guided the Samoan people for generations. Through its exploration of the islands' unique history and cultural evolution, th...