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Book Synopsis Big Wonderful Thing by : Stephen Harrigan
Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Book Synopsis It Goes Big-- with Spectacular New Shape! by : General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division
Download or read book It Goes Big-- with Spectacular New Shape! written by General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Beautiful Business Model by : Peter Lyng Knudsen
Download or read book The Beautiful Business Model written by Peter Lyng Knudsen and published by Peter Lyng Knudsen. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written because of love of craftsmanship. The quiet rhythm of a pair of knitting needles. The softness and warmth of a baby alpaca. The smell of wood in a carpenter’s workshop. The feeling of wearing a bespoke suit. There is a business behind the craftsmanship we admire, and this book explores how this business model can be beautiful as well. Economist and craftsmanship consultant, Peter Lyng Knudsen, explores the business model of craftsmanship. The luxury industry is dominated by large conglomerates who only see craftsmanship and luxury as a way to high margins and profits. This book is written for those who admire honest craftsmanship and are interested in the ways a small atelier can overpower the luxury giants. The book explores the beauty of craftsmanship and shares photography from excellent ateliers, gives practical and theoretical insights into how to improve a craftsmanship company, and finally proposes a beautiful business model for the ideal atelier. An ideal atelier where artisans from many different crafts work passionately together under a coherent aesthetic. Where vertical integration ensures a high degree of care from raw material to finished product. Where clients have bespoke creations made for them and enjoy an insight into the whole creative process. This book is the foundation for the ideal atelier.
Book Synopsis Chevrolet 1958 by : General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division
Download or read book Chevrolet 1958 written by General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Download or read book Mrs. Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Book Synopsis 50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern by : Alison Hutchison
Download or read book 50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern written by Alison Hutchison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Shape and Pattern features activities and games filled with rich contexts for learning and discussion, as well as fun opportunities for consolidation and problem-solving. Alison Hutchison draws on her wealth of experience to present ideas in line with the Early Learning Goals for investigating shape and pattern in the world around us. She focuses on helping young children to make connections and develop language, knowledge and understanding of shape and pattern. Whether children build with fabric blocks to create patterns or explore symmetry while playing with natural materials, the easy-to-prepare activities in this book facilitate engaging learning opportunities for children's ideas and interests to be explored.
Download or read book Billboard Music Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beautiful Enemies by : Andrew Epstein
Download or read book Beautiful Enemies written by Andrew Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.
Book Synopsis The Insurance Times by : Stephen English
Download or read book The Insurance Times written by Stephen English and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memories of beautiful, somewhat adventurous travel experiences by : Richard Gruber
Download or read book Memories of beautiful, somewhat adventurous travel experiences written by Richard Gruber and published by novum publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountaineering on Kilimanjaro, swimming in the Amazon or crossing the Sahara - there is probably no adventure that Richard Gruber would say no to. He describes extraordinary vacation experiences in a pleasantly factual and knowledgeable manner, but also provides an insight into the culture and history of the countries he has visited. His memories focus on the highlights of his numerous trips, fascinating natural spectacles and unique encounters. Rounded off with numerous pictures, these travelogues will not only make adventurers' hearts beat faster, but will also make lovers of balconies visit their nearest travel agency.
Book Synopsis New Essays on Plato by : Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Download or read book New Essays on Plato written by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher. The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to the Laws and includes discussions of topics in ethics, political theory, psychology, epistemology, ontology, physics and metaphysics, and ancient literary criticism. The contributions by an international team of scholars represent a spectrum of diverse traditions and approaches, and offer new solutions to a selection of specific problems. Themes include the Happiness and Nature of the Philosopher-Kings, Law and Justice, the Tripartition of the Soul, Appearance and Belief, Conditions of Recognition, Ousia or What Something Is, the Reality of Change and Changelessness, Time and Eternity, and Aristotle on Plato.
Book Synopsis Garden Magazine and Home Builder by :
Download or read book Garden Magazine and Home Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beautiful Hand-stitched Jewelry by : Emi Iwakiri
Download or read book Beautiful Hand-stitched Jewelry written by Emi Iwakiri and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Hand-Stitched Jewelry is packed with alluring and stylish ideas from Japanese textile artist, Emi Iwakiri, for making your own designer necklaces and chokers, bracelets and bangles, brooches and pins. Using traditional Japanese crochet techniques, these adorable designs use fabrics, ribbons, beads, bows, and even the scraps in your sewing box. There are stunning ideas and designs here to suit every occasion, from a classic cream silk and pearl necklace—the perfect accessory to the little black dress—to a vintage-style floral belt made from old cashmere sweaters. Follow the step-by-step instructions to create the perfect finishing touch to a favorite outfit or charming gifts to give to friends. With designs tried and tested in Tokyo's fashionable Shibuya district, these unique pieces incorporating hand-stitched flowers, sparkling beads, and embellished buttons are guaranteed to be a hit for any dedicated follower of fashion. Whether you want to create original jewelry for yourself or to give as presents to friends and family, you are sure to love Emi's stylish Japanese designs. And when you have mastered her simple basic techniques, you will be able to create your own bespoke pieces.
Book Synopsis The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp by : Harry Hazelton
Download or read book The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp written by Harry Hazelton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp" (A Story of the War) by Harry Hazelton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
