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The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (p)

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Author : Christopher Bursk
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754163
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (p) written by Christopher Bursk and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The titles sing their lettered songs: "An Ode to j," "M-m-m Good!" and "O in Trouble."" "Here are "reading lessons," the author's exploration of the curses and blessings of the word. It is about the fall from paradise and the gifts that fall makes possible. And over the whole book broods the great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, that deeply troubled caretaker of the mother tongue. More than an ABC book, this collection asks questions at the very heart of how we understand the world and shows us the glory and silliness at the heart of human life"--

The First Inhabitants of Arcadia

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Author : Christopher Bursk
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557288135
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The First Inhabitants of Arcadia written by Christopher Bursk and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk's new collection. But the main cast of characters for these poems is the alphabet itself, "the first inhabitants of Arcadia, / now homesick, curious exiles from Eden." Here are a boy's first investigations into the nature of language as he studies the backs of baseball cards, and a young man's infatuation with the "F-word". The poems carry us from the picket line and a county jail and the canals of Venice all the way to a hotel room and a father's suicide note. They conclude with September 11 and a confrontation of the potential and painful limits of language. The titles sing their lettered songs: "An Ode to j," "M-m-m Good!" and "O in Trouble." Here are "reading lessons," the author's exploration of the curses and blessings of the word. It is about the fall from paradise and the gifts that fall makes possible. And over the whole book broods the great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, that deeply troubled caretaker of the mother tongue. More than an ABC book, this collection asks questions at the very heart of how we understand the world and shows us the glory and silliness at the heart of human life.

Arcadia

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Author : Lauren Groff
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401342787
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Arcadia written by Lauren Groff and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this "timeless and vast" novel filled with the "raw beauty" beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State -- and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor."---Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in."---Ron Charles, The Washington Post In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia's inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He falls in love with Helle, Handy's lovely, troubled daughter. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia. In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect. "Fascinating."---People (****) "It's not possible to write any better without showing off."---Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire Falls "Dazzling."---Vogue

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Author : Alex Paknadel
Publisher : BOOM
ISBN 13 : 1613984944
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Arcadia written by Alex Paknadel and published by BOOM. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s to Love: Our long tradition of breaking new talent—like Rafael Albuquerque (The Savage Brothers, American Vampire), Emma Rios (Hexed, Pretty Deadly), and Declan Shalvey (28 Days Later, Moon Knight)—continues with the debut of Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeiffer, two new creators whose extensive world-building in the sci-fi thriller Arcadia evokes comparisons to epics like Game of Thrones, The Matrix, and Astro City. What It Is: When 99% of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins to rapidly deplete the energy resources upon which the handful of survivors in the real world (aka “The Meat”) depends, how long will The Meat be able—and willing—to help? Collects the entire eight-issue series.

The Meaning of Everything

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Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192805768
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Everything written by Simon Winchester and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Saving Arcadia

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Author : Heather Shumaker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814342051
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Saving Arcadia written by Heather Shumaker and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A David and Goliath conservation story set on Lake Michigan. Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to "preserve" land over time. This is the story of a small band of determined townspeople and how far they went to save beloved land and endangered species from the grip of a powerful corporation. Saving Arcadia is a narrative with roots as deep as the trees the community is trying to save, something set in motion before the author was even born. And yet, Shumaker gives a human face to the changing nature of land conservation in the twenty-first century. Throughout this chronicle we meet people like Elaine, a nineteen-year-old farm wife; Dori, a lakeside innkeeper; and Glen, the director of the local land trust. Together with hundreds of others they cross cultural barriers and learn to help one another in an effort to win back the six-thousand-acre landscape taken over by Consumers Power that is now facing grave devastation. The result is a triumph of community that includes working farms, local businesses, summer visitors, year-round residents, and a network of land stewards. A work of creative nonfiction, Saving Arcadia is the adventurous tale of everyday people fighting to reclaim the land that has been in their family for generations. It explores ideas about nature and community, and anyone from scholars of ecology and conservation biology to readers of naturalist writing can gain from Arcadia's story. Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award; The Next Generation Indie Book Award; and the Michigan Notable Book Award.

Arcadia

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Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101946830
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Arcadia written by Iain Pears and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

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Author : Philip Sidney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia written by Philip Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Formation of the Greek People

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Author : Auguste Jardé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formation of the Greek People written by Auguste Jardé and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

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Author : Christopher Bursk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990741
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Improbable Swervings of Atoms written by Christopher Bursk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Improbable Swervings of Atoms follows the comedic, often painful, physical and emotional travails of a young boy growing up in 1950s America. He watches the McCarthy hearings, conquers the Congo, assassinates the president, has his head stuffed into a toilet, drops his uniform on the fifty-yard line, and tries to make sense of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. The poems engage history in a very intimate way, revealing how a boy, as he matures, attempts to understand the world around him, his own physical development, the people in his life, and what it means to live in a country and time where it is impossible to disengage oneself from world events—where, in fact, the quest for identity is an act that requires one to rewrite history in personal terms.

A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology

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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141902868
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology written by Samuel Johnson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal, will contain a selection from the original, offering memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.

History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana Counties, Michigan ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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The Ville, St. Louis

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Author : John Aaron Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738508153
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Ville, St. Louis written by John Aaron Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few miles from downtown St. Louis, The Ville was once locked off from much of the area. In spite of racial obstacles, this small community became nationally known as the cradle of black culture and intellect in St. Louis. Current and former residents will recognize photographs of Sumner High School and Homer G. Phillips Hospital, as well as many famous former residents. Over the years this once thriving community fell into decline, and is now struggling to recapture some of its former glory.

Early Pomona

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Author : Mickey Gallivan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547763
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Early Pomona written by Mickey Gallivan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first settlers to carve the Pomona Valley out of the California wilderness were Ricardo Vejar and Ygnacio Palomares, who received land grants in 1837 for fighting for Mexico's independence. Nearly three decades after California was ceded to the United States, Southerners escaping the aftermath of the Civil War migrated to the area, and the city was incorporated in 1888. Pomona's landscape evolved from vast Mexican ranchos into prosperous vineyards and orchards, and later into one of Los Angeles's major suburbs. Pomona today is home to the world's largest county fair, the Los Angeles County Fair, as well as to California Polytechnic University and Western University of Health Sciences. The city boasts a thriving art colony, three historic districts, and a unique mix of architecture, including Victorian, Craftsman, transitional, and Spanish-style homes. The more than 150,000 Pomona residents pride themselves on a neighborly small-town flavor that belies the city's large population.

Arcadia

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Author : Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1644210541
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Arcadia written by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English-language debut that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation. Winner, Prix du Livre Inter, 2019 Shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Medicis, Prix de Flore Longlisted for the Prix France-Culture, Prix Wepler Farah moves into Liberty House—an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature—at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune’s spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks, or ability. At fifteen, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to go beyond the confines of gender, as she explores the arc of her own desires. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What does it mean to be part of a community? What is utopia when there are refugees nearby seeking shelter who cannot enter? Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam delivers a magisterial novel, both a celebration and a critique of innocence in the contemporary world.

A Classical Dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors ... Together with an account of coins, weights and measures, etc

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Author : Charles ANTHON (LL.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Classical Dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors ... Together with an account of coins, weights and measures, etc written by Charles ANTHON (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Samuel Johnson

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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732695603
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson