Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062566180
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 by : Margaret Mead

Download or read book Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 written by Margaret Mead and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field “to make a little more real for them” the exotic worlds that absorbed her. In this complement to her bestselling memoir Blackberry Winter, Mead has assembled selected letters she wrote from Samoa in 1925-26; from Peré Village, Manus, in the Admiralty Islands, in 1928-29; from the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli, New Guinea, in 1932-33; from Bali and the Iatmul, New Guinea, in 1936-39; from Manus again in 1953; and during brief visits in the sixties and seventies to Manus, several new Guinea sites, and Montserrat in the West Indies. Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny and sometimes poetic letters help us share with Mead “the unique, but also cumulative, experience of immersing oneself in the on-going life of another people, . . .attempting to understand mentally and physically this other version of reality.”

Letters from the Field

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Field written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last to Leave the Field

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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337931
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Book Synopsis Last to Leave the Field by : Timothy J. Orr

Download or read book Last to Leave the Field written by Timothy J. Orr and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the private letters of Ambrose Henry Hayward, a Massachusetts native who served in the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Hayward’s service, which began with his enlistment in the summer of 1861 and ended three years later following his mortal wounding at the Battle of Pine Knob in Georgia, took him through a variety of campaigns in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the war. He saw action in five states, participating in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg as well as in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. Through his letters to his parents and siblings, we observe the early idealism of the young recruit, and then, as one friend after another died beside him, we witness how the war gradually hardened him. Yet, despite the increasing brutality of what would become America’s costliest conflict, Hayward continually reaffirmed his faith in the Union cause, reenlisting for service late in 1863. Hayward’s correspondence takes us through many of the war’s most significant developments, including the collapse of slavery and the enforcement of Union policy toward Southern civilians. Also revealed are Hayward’s feelings about Confederates, his assessments of Union political and military leadership, and his attitudes toward desertion, conscription, forced marches, drilling, fighting, bravery, cowardice, and comradeship. Ultimately, Hayward’s letters reveal the emotions—occasionally guarded but more often expressed with striking candor—of a soldier who at every battle resolved to be, as one comrade described him, “the first to spring forward and the last to leave the field.” Timothy J. Orr is an assistant professor of military history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Field of Letters

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ISBN 13 : 9781546820932
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Field of Letters by : Taylor C. Bennett

Download or read book Field of Letters written by Taylor C. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field of Letters is a historical narrative timeline of womankind in ancient times, with thirty stories and twenty adult coloring illustrations. Beginning with the earliest woman known by name, this book tells the tales of women whose lives made an impact on early human civilization.

Letters to a Friend

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393062953
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to a Friend by : Diana Athill

Download or read book Letters to a Friend written by Diana Athill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epistolary memoir—rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance and honesty—describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. For thirty years, Athill corresponded with the American poet Edward Field, freely sharing jokes, pleasures, and pains with her old friend. Letters to a Friend is an epistolary memoir that describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Written with intimacy and spontaneity, candor and grace, it is perhaps more revealing than any of her celebrated books. Edited, selected, and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collection—rich with Athill’s characteristic wit, humor, elegance, and honesty—reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase, and a wicked sense of humor. Covering her career as an editor, the adventure of her retirement, her immersion in her own writing, and her reactions to becoming unexpectedly famous in her old age—including gossip about legendary authors and mutual friends, sharp pen-portraits, and uninhibited accounts of her relationships—Letters to a Friend describes a flourishing friendship and offers a portrait of a woman growing older without ever losing her zest for life.

Letters from Yellowstone

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101119098
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters from Yellowstone by : Diane Smith

Download or read book Letters from Yellowstone written by Diane Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end of the nineteenth century “I loved this book in a way that I haven’t loved a book in some time.” —James Welch, author of Fools Crow In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram—a spirited young woman with a love for botany—is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study’s leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a man, and is less than pleased to discover the truth. Once the scientists overcome the shock of having a woman on their team, they forge ahead on a summer of adventure, forming an enlightening web of relationships as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry. But as they make their way collecting amid Yellowstone’s beauty, the group is splintered by differing views on science, nature, and economics. Brimming with humor, excitement, and the romance of the Yellowstone landscape, Letters from Yellowstone is a love letter to the joys of scientific discovery and America’s majestic natural beauty, as well as a thoughtful reflection on environmentalism, Native American displacement, and feminism at the dawn of a new century.

From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan

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ISBN 13 : 9781680400014
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan by : Benjamin Paul Hegi

Download or read book From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan written by Benjamin Paul Hegi and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers. His efforts yielded advancement through the chain of command to the rank of Major General in command of the XXIst Bomber Command, the most effective strategic bombing force of the war.LeMay's activities in World War II are well-documented, but his personal history is less thoroughly recorded. Throughout the war he wrote hundreds of letters to his wife, Helen, and daughter, Jane. They are published for the first time in this volume, weaved together with meticulously researched narrative essays buttressed by both official and unofficial sources and supplemented with extensive footnotes. History remembers "LeMay, the Commander" well. From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan, will yield a better understanding of "LeMay, the Man."

First Year Letters

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Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 160734243X
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis First Year Letters by : Julie Danneberg

Download or read book First Year Letters written by Julie Danneberg and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children in Mrs. Sarah Jane Hartwell's class write letters to her.

The Eugene Field Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Eugene Field Book written by Eugene Field and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kate Field

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320783
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Kate Field written by Kate Field and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although famous during her lifetime, Kate Field (18381896) subsequently slipped into such a state of obscurity that in 1964, when the "St. Louis" "American" published a bicentennial article to honor one of the city s most distinguished daughters, the eulogy bore the title "Who Was Kate Field?" Carolyn Moss has collected correspondence ranging over more than fifty years to allow Field to answer that question herself.Field was acquainted with, among numerous others, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Julia Ward Howe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, the Brownings, and the Trollopes. Outside the world of literature, she hobnobbed with such men andwomen as Harriet Hosmer, Horace Greeley, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stanley and Livingstone, and Alexander Graham Bell. That Field s contemporaries attached much importance to her correspondence is demonstrated by the fact that her letters were preserved and found their way into more than thirty archives. For those of usheading into the twenty-first century, the letters enrich our knowledge of Field s contemporaries and help illuminate an epoch. Taking a chronological approach, Moss has divided the correspondence into ten parts. Part 1 covers Field s St. Louis childhood, her days as a Boston schoolgirl, and her trip to Europe. Part 2 deals with her stay in Florence and her friendship with the Brownings, the Trollopes, and other literary visitors. In part 3, Field returns to America, where she achieves fame as a journalist, lecturer, and author. In part 4, she writes of her voyage to London and the grief and readjustment occasioned by the death of her mother. She becomes, in part 5, " "a playwright and actress, promotes Bell s telephone, and helps establish the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Part 6 finds Field founding the Ladies Cooperative Dress Association. Part "7 "deals with her campaign against the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. In part 8, Field crosses America to promote Alaska and to lecture against prohibition. Part 9 contains Field s correspondence as owner and editor of "Kate Field s Washington, "and part 10 shows her final days. While Field s achievements are indeed impressive, Moss points out that the dauntless spirit of this voteless, unmarried, and at times destitute woman is more impressive still."

Cultures of Letters

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075266
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultures of Letters by : Richard H. Brodhead

Download or read book Cultures of Letters written by Richard H. Brodhead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186541
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Leonard Bernstein Letters written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein’s letters blow all biographies out of the water.”—The Economist (2013 Book of the Year) Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life—musical and personal—and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities. Bernstein’s letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein’s musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor. “The correspondence from and to the remarkable conductor is full of pleasure and insights.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Exhaustive, thrilling [and] indispensable.”—USA Today (starred review)

Letters to a Young Scientist

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871407000
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to a Young Scientist by : Edward O. Wilson

Download or read book Letters to a Young Scientist written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. From the collapse of stars to the exploration of rain forests and the oceans’ depths, Wilson instills a love of the innate creativity of science and a respect for the human being’s modest place in the planet’s ecosystem in his readers.

Letters from the Avant-Garde

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Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568980522
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters from the Avant-Garde by : Ellen Lupton

Download or read book Letters from the Avant-Garde written by Ellen Lupton and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best letterhead designs from 1915 to 1950.

Instead of a Book

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book Instead of a Book written by Diana Athill and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters from the Field

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ISBN 13 : 9781498406420
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters from the Field by : Johnnie M. Goolsby

Download or read book Letters from the Field written by Johnnie M. Goolsby and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I believe that the Word of God is like a love letter that God has written to His precious children..." -Johnnie Goolsby- Letters from the Field is the latest book by Christian author and motivational speaker Johnnie M. Goolsby. This devotional contains a series of testimonies of Miss Goolsby's life experiences. It also includes bible verses which will be constant reminders to you that the Lord loves you and will never leave nor forsake you... The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Jeremiah 31:3 In one special devotional, Miss Goolsby reveals her heart during one of the most painful moments of her life. In this writing she shares how the Lord took a moment of her deepest sorrow and turned it into one of true happiness, peace, and joy. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89:1 Letters from the Field has been written just for you! May this precious book leave you encouraged, motivated, and strengthened every day! Johnnie M. Goolsby is an author and motivational speaker. Her books, which are writings of her faith-filled personal testimonies, have inspired and motivated people of all ages and from all over the world. Through her speaking engagements, scores of people have been encouraged to seek, embrace, and develop a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ."

Letters and Reports from the Field

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Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Letters and Reports from the Field by : American Universities Field Staff

Download or read book Letters and Reports from the Field written by American Universities Field Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: