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The Roots of Things

Author : Maxine Kumin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126486
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Things written by Maxine Kumin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of poetry, and our place in the natural world. The Roots of Things gathers into one volume her best essays on the issues that have been closest to her throughout her storied career. Divided into sections on "Taking Root," "Poets and Poetry," and "Country Living," these pieces reveal Kumin honing her views within a variety of forms, including speeches, critical essays, and introductions of other writers’ work. Whether she is recollecting scenes from her childhood, ruminating on the ups and downs of what she calls "pobiz" (for "poetry business"), describing the battles she’s fought on behalf of women, or illuminating the lives of animals, Kumin offers insight that can only be born of long and closely observed experience.

The Roots in a Woman

Author : Paige Loehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Roots in a Woman written by Paige Loehr and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As women, we are a force to be reckoned with, But do you ever feel like you keep hitting a wall? You want to be an influential woman that takes the world by storm, but certain areas just keep holding you back? You are not the only one. We're all dealing with so many ugly "roots" that infect our inner and outer worlds and Paige Loehr is no stranger to this. With each chapter, she lays her heart on the line by sharing authentic, personal stories of the struggles she's faced in her family life, friends circles, and business pursuits while also sharing her secrets on how to have victory dealing with topics like Anxiety, Pride, Comparison, Approval Addiction, etc. She speaks right to you, helping you feel understood and not so alone while at the same time encouraging you to do the dirty work of becoming a truly free and powerful woman. This book will equip you with very tangible, practical steps to tackle those dark areas and you'll be that much closer to mental, emotional, and personal freedom!

Things Fall Apart

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0385474547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Mo' Meta Blues

Author : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455501360
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Mo' Meta Blues written by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau MO' META BLUES The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Blues really is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.

What Do Roots Do?

Author : Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Publisher : NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781559719803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book What Do Roots Do? written by Kathleen V. Kudlinski and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what roots look like and how they function in plants.

The Need for Roots

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082792
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Need for Roots written by Simone Weil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

The Roots of Things

Author : Alan A. Grometstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461548782
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Things written by Alan A. Grometstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit and insight. As he presents the usual milestones in the history of modern physics, his central focus is the historical debate regarding the nature of light: is it a particle or is it a wave? This book will be read by generations of students in physical science who seek a well written discussion of these important issues. Grometstein includes material which is quite recent, thus making the present volume particularly useful.

Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy written by Friedrich Engels and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy', sometimes also known as 'Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy' is a book published by Friedrich Engels. According to Engels, the seed for this book was planted 40 years before, in The German Ideology written by Marx and Engels, but unpublished in their lifetime. The undertaking is performed to deal critically with German philosophy from a dialectical materialist position. Here Engels emphasized the importance of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ludwig Feuerbach for their own theories.

Understanding Roots

Author : Robert Kourik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961584863
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Roots written by Robert Kourik and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Roots uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground—the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet. Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling over: they gather water and nutrients, exude wondrous elixirs to create good soil, make friends with microbes and fungi, communicate with other roots, and adapt themselves to all manner of soils, winds, and climates, nourishing and sustaining our gardens, lawns, and woodlands. Understanding Roots contains over 115 enchanting and revealing root drawings that most people have never seen, from prairies, grasslands, and deserts, as well as drawings based on excavations of vegetable, fruit, nut, and ornamental tree roots. Every root system presented in this book was drawn by people literally working in the trenches, sketching the roots where they grew. The text provides a verydetailed review of all aspects of transplanting; describes how roots work their magic to improve soil nutrients; investigates the hidden life of soil microbes and their mysterious relationship to roots; explores the question of whether deep roots really gather more unique nutrients than shallow roots; shares the latest research about the mysteries of mycorrhizal (good fungal) association; shows you exactly where to put your fertilizer, compost, water, and mulch to help plants flourish; tells you why gray water increases crop yields more than fresh water; and, most importantly, reveals the science behind all the above (with citations for each scientific paper). This book contains at least eighty percent more new information, more results of the latest in-depth and up-to-date explorations, and even more helpful guidelines on roots than the author’s previous book (Roots Demystified: Change Your Garden Habits to Help Roots Thrive). This is not a revised edition—it’s a whole new stand-alone book.

THE GREAT LEARNING

Author : Confucius
Publisher : Musaicum Books
ISBN 13 : 8027233690
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book THE GREAT LEARNING written by Confucius and published by Musaicum Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism. Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death. Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", an early version of the Golden Rule. Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

The Roots of Evil

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801473814
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Evil written by John Kekes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. This text explains why people act in these ways and what can be done about it.

The Roots of Reference

Author : W. V. Quine
Publisher : Paul Carus Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9780812691016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Reference written by W. V. Quine and published by Paul Carus Lectures. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call naturalized epistemology. The Roots of Reference falls within that domain. Its more specific concern, within that domain, is reference to concrete and abstract objects: what such reference consists in, and how we achieve it. "Part I is a statement of general psychological presumptions regarding perception and learning. The underlying notions of cause and disposition are examined in a philosophical spirit. In Part II those considerations are brought to bear more particularly on the learning of language. "Part II comes firmly to grips with the nature of reification and reference. The process is inseparable from language, and unequivocally identifiable only to the degree that the language resembles ours in certain structural respects. Stages of reification are sorted out, rudimentary to full-fledged. The full phase is heralded by the use of the relative clause with its relative pronoun and subsidiary pronouns. It is these pronouns that recur in logical notation as the bound variables of quantification. "Part III concludes with a conjectural sketch of the development of reification in the race and the individual. Especial attention is directed to the positing of abstract objects: properties, classes, numbers. It is traced in large part to the serendipity of fruitful confusions. Truth, after all, can issue fromfallacious proofs; to condemn the outcome for its fallacious origin is simply to add the genetic fallacy to what had gone before. Let us count our blessings".

Proceedings of the American Political Science Association

Author : American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Political Science Association written by American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Deepest Roots

Author : Miranda Asebedo
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062747096
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Deepest Roots written by Miranda Asebedo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Matson meets Maggie Stiefvater in a story that will make you believe in friendship, miracles, and maybe even magic. Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, is a strange place. For the past century, every girl has been born with a special talent, like the ability to Fix any object, Heal any wound, or Find what is missing. To best friends Rome, Lux, and Mercy, their abilities often feel more like a curse. Rome may be able to Fix anything she touches, but that won’t help her mom pay rent. Lux’s ability to attract any man with a smile has always meant danger. And although Mercy can make Enough of whatever is needed, even that won’t help when her friendship with Rome and Lux is tested. Follow three best friends in this enchanting debut novel as they discover that friendship is stronger than curses, that trust is worth the risk, and sometimes, what you’ve been looking for has been under your feet the whole time.

How to Do Things

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book How to Do Things written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Laws of Living Things

Author : Edward John von Komorowski Menge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Living Things written by Edward John von Komorowski Menge and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fewer, Better Things

Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869640
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Fewer, Better Things written by Glenn Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.