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Spadework

Author : Timothy Findley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443402230
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Spadework written by Timothy Findley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer evening in Stratford, Ontario, the errant thrust of a gardener’s spade slices a telephone cable into instant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when a Bell Canada repairman arrives to mend the broken line, his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences. In Spadework, Timothy Findley—a master storyteller and playwright, has created an electric word-play of infidelity and morality, set on the stage of Stratford, Ontario—Findley’s home territory. In this insider’s fictional portrait of Canada’s preeminent theater town, intrigue, passion and ambition are always waiting in the wings. He peoples the town with theater makers, artists, writers, and visitors, both welcome and unwelcome— and with lives that are immediately recognizable as “Findleyesque”—the lonely, the dispossessed and the sexually troubled whose foibles confound their families, their friends and even their pets. A story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual and completely absorbing read, Spadework is another Timothy Findley winner.

Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series)

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122841X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series) written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “constantly conscious of his connectedness” to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the “drunkard Lowry” and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to “a Serene Paradise of Knowledge.” Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but “people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence.” And his dream will be “realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time—may I say this?—actually a Keeper of the Palace."

Archaeologists in Print

Author : Amara Thornton
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352587
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologists in Print written by Amara Thornton and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses women’s experiences in archaeology alongside better known male contemporaries as shown in their books and archives. In the background of this narrative is the history of Britain’s imperial expansion and contraction, and the evolution of modern tourism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Archaeologists exploited these factors to gain public and financial support and interest, and build and maintain a reading public for their work, supported by the seasonal nature of excavation and tourism. Reinforcing these publishing activities through personal appearances in the lecture hall, exhibition space and site tour, and in new media – film, radio and television – archaeologists shaped public understanding of archaeology. It was spadework, scripted. The image of the archaeologist as adventurous explorer of foreign lands, part spy, part foreigner, eternally alluring, solidified during this period. That legacy continues, undimmed, today. Praise for Archaeologists in Print This beautifully written book will be valued by all kinds of readers: you don't need to be an archaeologist to enjoy the contents, which take you through different publishing histories of archaeological texts and the authors who wrote them. From the productive partnership of travel guide with archaeological interest, to the women who feature so often in the history of archaeological publishing, via closer analysis of the impact of John Murray, Macmillan and Co, and Penguin, this volume excavates layers of fascinating facts that reveal much of the wider culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The prose is clear and the stories compulsive: Thornton brings to life a cast of people whose passion for their profession lives again in these pages. Warning: the final chapter, on Archaeological Fictions, will fill your to-be-read list with stacks of new titles to investigate! This is a highly readable, accessible exploration into the dynamic relationships between academic authors, publishers, and readers. It is, in addition, an exemplar of how academic research can attract a wide general readership, as well as a more specialised one: a stellar combination of rigorous scholarship with lucid, pacy prose. Highly recommended!' Samantha Rayner, Director of UCL Centre for Publishing; Deputy Head of Department and Director of Studies, Department of Information Studies, UCL

The Romance of American Communism

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178873551X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of American Communism written by Vivian Gornick and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.

Labour-copartnership

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour-copartnership written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Labour Co-partnership

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Labour Co-partnership written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial Plots

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887558184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Plots written by Sarah Carter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Water Resources and Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Water Resources and Power and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minutes of the Legislative Council and Votes and Proceedings of the House of Assembly ...

Author : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Minutes of the Legislative Council and Votes and Proceedings of the House of Assembly ... written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

So What? who Cares? why You?

Author : Wendy Kennedy
Publisher : wendykennedy.com inc.
ISBN 13 : 0973988401
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book So What? who Cares? why You? written by Wendy Kennedy and published by wendykennedy.com inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a toolkit for inventors and technology entrepreneurs to help in assessing the value and validity of a technology idea, and to seek funding and support for that that idea. Demonstrates how the 'So what? Who cares? Why you?' framework can be used for attracting investors, customers and other business backers.

Report of the Select Committee on Native Education

Author : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament. House. Select Committee on Native Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on Native Education written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament. House. Select Committee on Native Education and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chasing Homer

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227987
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Homer written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed—careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed—a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation … Krasznahorkai—celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose—outdoes himself in Chasing Homer. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and—reaching out of the book proper—the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).

North America

Author : Raili Põldsaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North America written by Raili Põldsaar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Punch

Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Labor-management Relations

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor-management Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Character Parts

Author : Brian Busby
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368580
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Character Parts written by Brian Busby and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered where novelists get the inspiration for their characters? Why the hero or villain of your favourite book seems oddly familiar? Who inspired Mordecai Richler to create Bernard Gursky; Margaret Atwood to create Zenia in The Robber Bride? In which novel does Northrop Frye appear (as a character named Morton Hyland)? The answers can be found in Character Parts, Brian Busby’s irreverent yet authoritative guide to who’s really who in Canadian literature. The most original and entertaining reference book to be published in years, Character Parts is the behind-the-scenes look at CanLit we have all been waiting for. Brian Busby settles the suspicions that arise when a fictional character reminds you of a real-life one, listing the sources for characters from the whole of Canadian literature. His canvas stretches from the settlers who inspired 1852’s Roughing It in the Bush to Glenn Gould’s appearance as Nathaniel Orlando Gow in Tim Wynne-Jones’ The Maestro, and beyond. But Character Parts is also chock-full of fascinating, less famous people who have been immortalized in Canadian books: seductive Alberta politicians, British army generals, anarchists, models, aristocrats -- and, of course, parents, siblings and ex-spouses. Authoritative, but presented with a light touch, Character Parts is as at home in a university library as on a bathroom shelf. It’s that rare find: an exemplary reference book that is also an absolutely entertaining read in its own right.