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Unquiet Lives

Author : Joanne Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139439936
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet Lives written by Joanne Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges preconceptions about authority in the household, by showing the extent to which husbands depended upon their wives' vital economic activities: household management and child care. Not only did this forge co-dependency between spouses, it undermined men's autonomy. The power balance within marriage is further revised by evidence that the sexual double standard was not rigidly applied in everyday life. The book also shows that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved in the eighteenth century, influenced by new models of masculinity and femininity.

Library: An Unquiet History

Author : Matthew Battles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078620
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Library: An Unquiet History written by Matthew Battles and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.

Unquiet

Author : Linn Ullmann
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241464625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet written by Linn Ullmann and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Years later, when she is grown with children of her own and he's in his eighties, they plan to write a book together. It will be about age and time, language and memory. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the man is gone, only memories - both remembered and recorded - remain. Heart-breaking and spellbinding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.

Unquiet Dreams

Author : Mark Del Franco
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441015696
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet Dreams written by Mark Del Franco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connor Grey, a consultant for the Boston P.D., must stop the war between Celtic fairies and Teutonic elves that, fueled by a mysterious new drug, locks down the entire city of Boston and puts the human race in grave danger. Original.

The Unquiet Past

Author : Kelley Armstrong
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459806573
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Past written by Kelley Armstrong and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paranormal YA thriller, Tess embarks on a quest to find out the truth about her parents and realizes that she possesses unusual powers that link her to the past.

The Unquiet Earth

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393030969
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unquiet Earth by : Denise Giardina

Download or read book The Unquiet Earth written by Denise Giardina and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dillon Freeman returns from World War II to Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, where he confronts the coal mining industry as a union organizer and falls in love with his conventional cousin, Rachel. By the author of Storming Heaven.

The Unquiet

Author : Jeannine Garsee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599907232
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet written by Jeannine Garsee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological thriller starring a teen who sees ghosts--both real and imagined

The Unquiet American

Author : Derek Chollet
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390792
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet American written by Derek Chollet and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations. He had a key role in brokering a peace agreement among warring factions in Bosnia that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him best survey his accomplishments as a diplomat, activist, and author. Excerpts from Holbrooke's own writings further illuminate each significant period of his career. The Unquiet American is both a tribute to an exceptional public servant and a backstage history of the last half-century of American foreign policy.

The Unquiet

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501122665
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The P.I. is hired by the daughter of a missing child psychiatrist being stalked by a man who insists that she knows where her father is.

Unquiet Landscape

Author : Christopher Neve
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775508
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet Landscape written by Christopher Neve and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Neves classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? Painting, says Neve, is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis. What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, the spirit in the mass to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden.

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039365107X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene written by Richard Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.

Storming Heaven: A Novel

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076261
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Storming Heaven: A Novel by : Denise Giardina

Download or read book Storming Heaven: A Novel written by Denise Giardina and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the miners and the union they wanted, of the people who loved them and the people who wanted to kill their dreams. Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy—land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely, Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines. They all bear witness to nearly forgotten events of history, culminating in the final, tragic Battle of Blair Mountain—when the United States Army greeted ten thousand unemployed pro-union miners with airplanes, bombs, and poison gas. It was the first crucial battle of a war that has yet to be won.

Science

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science.

Unquiet Women

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788543408
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet Women written by Max Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. History is polyphonic; it must be told by many voices. In Unquiet Women, Max Adams brings to life the voices and experiences of women living between the last days of Rome and the Enlightenment, whose stories of creativity, intellect and influence are all too rarely told. From Wynflæd, the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns, to Mary Astell, the philosopher who out-thought John Locke, this is a kaleidoscopic study of women's history before the Enlightenment changed everything. In this rigorous work of rescue and recovery, their voices can be heard across the centuries – still passionate and still strong. Reviews: 'A centuries-spanning study that rescues women's lives from the margins of history' BBC History Magazine 'Illuminating and wise... An important book' Herald 'A timely work which is beautifully designed and executed, embodying the charm and power of the remarkable women within its pages' All About History

The Unquiet Grave

Author : Steve Hendricks
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568583648
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Grave written by Steve Hendricks and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota — or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up that stretches from the plains of South Dakota to the polished corridors of Washington, D.C. First-time author Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of unseen documents about the events. His work was supported by the prestigious Fund for Investigative Journalism. Hendricks, who has freelanced for The Nation, Boston Globe, Orion, and public radio, is one of those rare reporters whose investigative tenacity is accompanied by grace with the written word.

An Unquiet Mind

Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307498484
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book An Unquiet Mind written by Kay Redfield Jamison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.

All Unquiet Things

Author : Anna Jarzab
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375894071
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book All Unquiet Things written by Anna Jarzab and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting thriller set at a California prep school! Carly: She was sweet. Smart. Self-destructive. She knew the secrets of Brighton Day School’s most privileged students. Secrets that got her killed. Neily: Dumped by Carly for a notorious bad boy, Neily didn’t answer the phone call she made before she died. If he had, maybe he could have helped her. Now he can’t get the image of her lifeless body out of his mind. Audrey: She’s the reason Carly got tangled up with Brighton’s fast crowd in the first place, and now she regrets it—especially since she’s convinced the police have put the wrong person in jail. Audrey thinks the murderer is someone at Brighton, and she wants Neily to help her find out who it is. As reluctant allies Neily and Audrey dig into their shared past with Carly, her involvement with Brighton’s dark goings-on comes to light. But figuring out how Carly and her killer fit into the twisted drama will force Audrey and Neily to face hard truths about themselves and the girl they couldn’t save.