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Author : Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789937708050
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Witch Doctor and Other Essays written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311334
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Revolution, and Other Essays written by Jack London and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revolution, and Other Essays" by Jack London is a collection of stories. Most, but not all, of its contents concern socialism and injustice. Some of the essays are: - Revolution: a story on capitalism's flaws and how everything will be flawless after one socialist revolution. - The Somnambulists: an essay about how we lose touch with our true nature and deceive ourselves about our motivations and moral standards. The honest effort of prizefighters is contrasted with the untruthful exploitation of forced child labor. - The Dignity of Dollars: an essay about how powerful the money in your pocket is. As it makes you more honorable. - Goliah: a story of a man who has become so powerful that he can push the world towards becoming a Utopia. He defines his acts as socialism, a centralized economy, gov't restrictions on who can produce offspring, and re-education camps for those who may not agree. - The Shrinkage of the Planet: an essay on how the world appears to be shrinking as a result of speedier communication and transportation - The House Beautiful: a beautiful dream of building a house-boat no one has ever built...
Author : Джек Лондон
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040894236
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Revolution, and Other Essays written by Джек Лондон and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Revolution, and Other Essays written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London was a Socialist at heart, having been born into the working class and rising through hard work to be one of the most successful writers in the world. Though it was that system that made him rich, he had disdain for capitalism in general. His stories told of rugged individualism, but he believed in socialism. This book contains 13 short essays that convey those beliefs.
Author : Dana Gioia
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589881958
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays written by Dana Gioia and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that will appeal to tenured professors and armchair aficionados alike.”―Booklist Dana Gioia, one of America's leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it in this sparkling collection of essays. More personal than any of Gioia’s earlier works, Poetry as Enchantment reflects a lifetime of thought and experience. Gioia, the author of Can Poetry Matter?, talks about poetry in a radically different way than it is currently being taught or discussed. In the title essay, he explains that poetry is speech raised to the level of song, and though poetry may often be misunderstood as intellectual, it moves us the way music does. Poetry charms its readers, creating a heightened experience of attention. It addresses readers in the fullness of their humanity, simultaneously speaking to the mind, emotions, imagination, memory, and physical senses. Without academic jargon, Poetry as Enchantment relates literature to the questions of life.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (神祕主義與邏輯及其他論文集) written by Bertrand Russell and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 949 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.
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317833864
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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Author : Gerald Weissmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Doctor with Two Heads and Other Essays written by Gerald Weissmann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Grierson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Celtic Temperament and Other Essays written by Francis Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.F. Strawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134060866
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays written by P.F. Strawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking on such topics as the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics. Beginning with the title essay Freedom and Resentment, this invaluable collection is testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics. The book is perhaps best-known for its three interrelated chapters on perception and the imagination, subjects now at the very forefront of philosophical research. This reissue includes a substantial new foreword by Paul Snowdon and a fascinating intellectual autobiography by Strawson.
Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691074429
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Modern Architecture and Other Essays written by Vincent Scully and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.
Author : Michael North
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288094
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Reading 1922 written by Michael North and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modernism but which served as the cradle for a host of major political and aesthetic transformations resonating around the globe. In his previous study, the acclaimed Dialect of Modernism (OUP, 1994), Michael North looked at the racial and linguistic struggles over the English language which gave birth to the many strains of modernism. Here, he expands his vision to encompass the global stage, and tells the story of how books changed the future of the world as we know it in one unforgettable year.
Author : Frank Worthington
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537512990
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Witch Doctor and Other Rhodesian Studies written by Frank Worthington and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Witch Doctor and Other Rhodesian Studies
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969677
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays written by Adam Hochschild and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.
Author : Félix Martí-Ibáñez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Souls, and Other Essays written by Félix Martí-Ibáñez and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
