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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover

Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839116
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

A Commonplace Book of Pie

Author : Kate Lebo
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0985041684
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A Commonplace Book of Pie written by Kate Lebo and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection, award-winning poet and baker Kate Lebo redefines everything we thought we knew about pie. An eclectic mix of prose poems, fantasy zodiac, and humor, A Commonplace Book of Pie explores the tension between the container and the contained while considering the real and imagined relationships between pie and those who love it. Expanding on Lebo's successful chapbook of the same name, this volume includes new poems as well as more than two dozen Americana-themed illustrations by artist Jessica Lynn Bonin. Bonin's art adds a sense of nostalgia alongside Lebo's modern style, and together with the text, puts pie and the art of baking in a fresh, contemporary context. Kate Lebo makes poems and pies in Seattle. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Gastronomica, and Poetry Northwest. When Kate is not creating poems, she is hosting her semi-secret pie social, Pie Stand, around the US, teaching creative writing at the University of Washington and Richard Hugo House, and pie-making at Pie School, her cliche-busting pastry academy. Jessica Lynn Bonin is an illustrator and mixed-media artist whose work adds a modern twist to familiar images of American culture. Bonin's murals are displayed in New York,Oregon and Washington state. She lives and works in a former hardware store and lumberyard in Edison, Washington.

A New Method of Making Common-place-books

Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book A New Method of Making Common-place-books written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Notes and Commonplace Book

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645508724
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Notes and Commonplace Book written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notes and commonplace book employed by H. P. Lovecraft, including his suggestions for story-writing, analyses of the weird story, and a list of certain basic underlying horrors etc. etc. designed to stimulate the imagination.

The Common Place of Law

Author : Patricia Ewick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621270X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Common Place of Law written by Patricia Ewick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways that people use and experience it. Their fascinating and original study identifies three common narratives of law that are captured in the stories people tell. One narrative is based on an idea of the law as magisterial and remote. Another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage. A third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power that is actively resisted. Drawing on these extensive case studies, Ewick and Silbey present individual experiences interwoven with an analysis that charts a coherent and compelling theory of legality. A groundbreaking study of law and narrative, The Common Place of Law depicts the institution as it is lived: strange and familiar, imperfect and ordinary, and at the center of daily life.

Common Place

Author : Sarah Pinder
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770565132
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Common Place written by Sarah Pinder and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Place negotiates intimacy while navigating the complexities of memory, addressing shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes challenged by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush hour transit, Sarah Pinder explores seeing and being seen in our most private and public of moments. With considered, quiet urgency, these poems name our ambiguous, aching present and look towards what comes next.

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book

Author : Kate Milford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 035841122X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Raconteur's Commonplace Book written by Kate Milford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this standalone mystery set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Greenglass House by an Edgar Award–winning author, a group of strangers trapped in an otherworldly inn slowly reveal their secrets, proving that nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories—each a different type of folklore—that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down—an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain—the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough? "Will dazzle seasoned Milford fans and kindle new ones." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

A Little Common Place Book

Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932698503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Little Common Place Book written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is perhaps best understood as a peculiar form of writing, and vice versa. Renaissance thinkers took this paradox seriously, giving it concrete form in their "commonplace books," manuscript journals of passages copied from assorted texts and organized under various headings. The origins of the practice lay in the preparatory methods of classical oratory and medieval sermon composition, but commonplacing achieved the status of a true art among humanists like Erasmus and Montaigne, who used these notebooks to maintain command over an ever-expanding body of published texts, while culling material for their own correspondence, essays and literary compositions. The perfect gift for the itinerant thinker, this handsome volume is a facsimile of a notebook originally printed in 1797--the only remaining copy of which is held in the rare books collection of Princeton University--and reprints its introduction to the principles of commonplacing as practiced by the philosopher John Locke, as well as 144 blank pages for collecting and cataloguing your own thoughts.

A Certain World

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571119400
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book A Certain World written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poesi og prosa - og meget andet - i udvalg

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150116631X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city. After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. A powerful story about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters.

Commonplace Book

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804714228
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Book written by E. M. Forster and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Author : Ann Moss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought written by Ann Moss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.

Common Place

Author : Doug Kelbaugh
Publisher : Samuel and Althea Stroum Book
ISBN 13 : 9780295975900
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Common Place written by Doug Kelbaugh and published by Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Place is about how we can develop community and create convivial and sustainable places in the face of disjointed and fast-placed growth. It offers strategies for reclaiming and improving our neighborhoods and cities, which today are increasingly dominated by fear and disintegration and the automobile. Douglas Kelbaugh offers here a personal, passionate statement of how architecture and urban design can enrich our lives. At the heart of the book are summaries of eight design workshops, or charrettes, each consisting of five days of brainstorming by university students, community leaders, and design professionals. The charrettes apply design concepts to real problems such as housing, transportation, and suburban sprawl. Thousands of hours of creative effort have produced a blueprint for the Seattle region that is pertinent to other regions. Bridging academic theory and on-the-ground practice, Common Place is an indispensable book for designers, planners, city officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.

Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book

Author : Eileen A. Joy
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447084
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book written by Eileen A. Joy and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina McPhee's 'commonplace book' draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art - all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video installation and poetics engage with her 'open-work' practice. Christina McPhee's images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the dazzle ships of camouflage in war. This 'commonplace book' develops a view of recent work in collaged paintings, drawings, photomontage and video installation, around themes of environmental transformation and 'post-natural' community. The book includes conversations, essays, interviews and notes by Ina Blom, Phil King, James MacDevitt, Donata Marletta, Melissa Potter, Judith Rodenbeck, Esztar Timár, and Frazer Ward. "McPhee's drawing, extended to and infiltrated with digital video, seems to outline a different and stranger project: that of creating as yet unknown material composites by aligning the rapid time-processing of our nervous systems with the emergent natures at actual sites of energy production or extraction." Ina Blom Christina McPhee's work is in museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the International Center for Photography, New York, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland, and elsewhere. Her work has shown in solo exhibitions at American Unversity Museum, Washington, DC; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, and in group exhibitions including documenta 12 and Bucharest Biennial 3. She lives and works in California, and you can see more of her work at: http: //www.christinamcphee.net/.

A Writer's Commonplace Book

Author : Rosemary Friedman
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 9781843172277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Commonplace Book written by Rosemary Friedman and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In effect the personal notebook of a distinguished and highly individualistic novelist and writer, this is an eclectic collection of more than 1,000 short quotations that have struck a chord with the author in the course of her life and work. Drawing on the works of writers and commentators from many eras, this beautifully designed book displays not only its author's wide reading, but also great sensibility, profound good sense, and fine, if understated, wit. A writer's book for anyone who wishes to live a fulfilling life.

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674903463
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.

The Art of the Commonplace

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439249
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Commonplace written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography—these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the whole community of creation.