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Download or read book Descent of Man written by T.C. Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, T.C. Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimp; a Norse poet overcomes bard-block; collectors compete to snare the ancient Aztec beer can, Quetzacoatl Lite; and Lassie abandons Timmy for a randy coyote. Dark humor, delirious fantasy, and surreal satire come together in this collection that brilliantly expresses just what the "evolution" of mankind has wrought.
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man and Other Stories by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man by : Grayson Perry
Download or read book The Descent of Man written by Grayson Perry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become—with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye on the world of men to ask, what sort of man would make the world a better place? What would happen if we rethought the macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different ideal? In the current atmosphere of bullying, intolerance and misogyny, demonstrated in the recent Trump versus Clinton presidential campaign, The Descent of Man is a timely and essential addition to current conversations around gender. Apart from gaining vast new wardrobe options, the real benefit might be that a newly fitted masculinity will allow men to have better relationships—and that’s happiness, right? Grayson Perry admits he’s not immune from the stereotypes himself—yet his thoughts on everything from power to physical appearance, from emotions to a brand new Manifesto for Men, are shot through with honesty, tenderness, and the belief that, for everyone to benefit, updating masculinity has to be something men decide to do themselves. They have nothing to lose but their hang-ups.
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man and Other Stories by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man by : Edith Newbold Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man written by Edith Newbold Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Descent of Man and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current date of publication and publisher information from iPage.IngramContent.com.
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man; and Other Stories by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man; and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Descent written by Jeff Long and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999-11-12 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. With all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. Nations, armies, religions, and industries rush to colonize and exploit the subterranean frontier. A scientific expedition is launched westward to explore beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, both to catalog the riches there and to learn how life could develop in the sunless abyss. But in the dark underground, as humanity falls away from them, the scientists and mercenaries find themselves prey not only to the savage creatures, but also to their own treachery, mutiny, and greed. One thing is certain: Miles inside the earth, evil is very much alive.
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man; and Other Stories by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man; and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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Download or read book The Descent of Man and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the descent of man and other stories From Edith Wharton
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man, and Other Stories [and] Madame de Treymes by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man, and Other Stories [and] Madame de Treymes written by Edith Wharton and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Descent written by Tim Johnston and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Breakout NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller An Indie National Bestseller “Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone.” —Esquire “The story unfolds brilliantly, always surprisingly . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story; each somehow enhances the other . . . Read this astonishing novel.” —The Washington Post “Tim Johnston’s high-wire literary thriller . . . will leave you gasping.” —Vanity Fair “A riveting literary thriller of the can’t-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety.” —Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or seen on TV. As their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why weren’t they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin’s disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life? Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.
Book Synopsis The Descent of Man and Other Stories (Annotated) by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Descent of Man and Other Stories (Annotated) written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century (two stories, however, are set in Italy). Fidelity is only one problem; others may arise from the machinations and emotions of the protagonists or outsiders. Wharton handles the questions with her usual gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) irony and curiosity about human behavior. Contents The Descent of Man -- The Other Two -- Expiation -- The Lady's Maid's Bell -- The Mission of Jane -- The Reckoning -- The Letter -- The Dilettante -- The Quicksand -- A Venetian Night's Entertainment.
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Download or read book The Descent of Man written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Descent of Man written by Edith Wharton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Descent of Man: And Other Stories But if, from the outset, he found his idea the most agreeable of fellow - travellers, it was only in the aromatic solitude of the woods that he tasted the full savour of his adventure. There, during the long cool August days, lying full length on the pine needles and gazing up into the sky, he would meet the eyes of his com panion bending over him like a nearer heaven. And what eyes they were - clear yet unfathom able, bubbling with inexhaustible laughter, yet drawing their freshness and sparkle from the central depths of thought! To a man who for twenty years had faced an eye reflecting the commonplace with perfect accuracy, these escapes into the inscrutable had always been Peculiarly inviting; but hitherto the Professor 8 mental infidelities had been restricted by an unbroken and relentless domesticity. Now, for the first time since his marriage, chance had given him six weeks to himself, and he was coming home with his lungs full of liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis A Most Interesting Problem by : Jeremy DeSilva
Download or read book A Most Interesting Problem written by Jeremy DeSilva and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist." A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science communicators to investigate what Darwin got right—and what he got wrong—about the origin, history, and biological variation of humans. Edited by Jeremy DeSilva and with an introduction by acclaimed Darwin biographer Janet Browne, A Most Interesting Problem draws on the latest discoveries in fields such as genetics, paleontology, bioarchaeology, anthropology, and primatology. This compelling and accessible book tackles the very subjects Darwin explores in Descent, including the evidence for human evolution, our place in the family tree, the origins of civilization, human races, and sex differences. A Most Interesting Problem is a testament to how scientific ideas are tested and how evidence helps to structure our narratives about human origins, showing how some of Darwin's ideas have withstood more than a century of scrutiny while others have not. A Most Interesting Problem features contributions by Janet Browne, Jeremy DeSilva, Holly Dunsworth, Agustín Fuentes, Ann Gibbons, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Brian Hare, John Hawks, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Kristina Killgrove, Alice Roberts, and Michael J. Ryan.
Book Synopsis Greasy Lake and Other Stories by : T.C. Boyle
Download or read book Greasy Lake and Other Stories written by T.C. Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev.