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Wasteland with Words

Author : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897332
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland with Words written by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland is an enigmatic island country marked by contradiction: it’s a part of Europe, yet separated from it by the Atlantic Ocean; it’s seemingly inhospitable, yet home to more than 300,000. Wasteland with Words explores these paradoxes to uncover the mystery of Iceland. In Wasteland with Words Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon presents a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of the island’s history that examines the evolution and transformation of Icelandic culture while investigating the literary and historical factors that created the rich cultural heritage enjoyed by Icelanders today. Magnússon explains how a nineteenth-century economy based on the industries of fishing and agriculture—one of the poorest in Europe—grew to become a disproportionately large economic power in the late twentieth century, while retaining its strong sense of cultural identity. Bringing the story up to the present, he assesses the recent economic and political collapse of the country and how Iceland has coped. Throughout Magnússon seeks to chart the vast changes in this country’s history through the impact and effect on the Icelandic people themselves. Up-to-date and fascinating, Wasteland with Words is a comprehensive study of the island’s cultural and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power.

Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666742538
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word features an English translation of a recently discovered and until-now unpublished essay of Jacques Ellul’s that examines the significance of the desert from biblical, theological, and ethical perspectives. It also provides an introduction that contextualizes Ellul’s piece, and five incendiary essays that critically reflect on Ellul’s work. Altogether, this volume offers fresh and provocative insight into the writings of Jacques Ellul during a historical moment that appears to be on its way to, or already in, a desert, wilderness, and wasteland, with many people in it who are desperate for encounters with a new, revitalizing Word.

Wasteland

Author : Francesca Lia Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061757470
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.

Wasteland

Author : Kristin Keppler
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635559340
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Kristin Keppler and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danielle Clark is done with the Resistance. After years of leading a relentless charge against the National Armed Forces, she has nothing left to give. Her brother Lucas in tow, Dani leaves the frontlines for the solitude of the wastelands, content to start a new life as a scavenger. Dani thought she’d finally found peace until the general’s daughter, Katelyn Turner, shows up on her doorstep and brings the fight right back to her. Now Dani has to decide what to do about Kate, ranking member of the NAF, a once-sworn enemy…and a woman she can’t keep out of her head. The growing spark of attraction forces Dani into an impossible choice between her newfound life and Kate’s fate. She must act quickly or risk losing everything.

The History of Iceland

Author : Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816635894
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The History of Iceland written by Gunnar Karlsson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.

Corporate Wasteland

Author : Steven High
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1926662075
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Wasteland written by Steven High and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fascinating Investigation of Industry’s Modern Ruins and the "Deindustrial Sublime."

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Author : Patton Oswalt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439156271
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland written by Patton Oswalt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertainment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the films Big Fan and Ratatouille, as well as the television hit The King of Queens, Patton Oswalt—a staple of Comedy Central—has been amusing audiences for decades. Now, with Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual, and lovable, mindscape. Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons & Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. He remembers his teen summers spent working in a movie Cineplex and his early years doing stand-up. Readers are also treated to several graphic elements, including a vampire tale for the rest of us and some greeting cards with a special touch. Then there’s the book’s centerpiece, which posits that before all young creative minds have anything to write about, they will home in on one of three story lines: zombies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he has been mining our society’s wasteland for perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single-malt scotch. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is an inventive account of the evolution of Patton Oswalt’s wildly insightful worldview, sure to indulge his legion of fans and lure many new admirers to his very entertaining “wasteland.”

Oraefi

Author : Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920683
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Oraefi written by Ófeigur Sigurðsson and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very close to him?

Words from the Wasteland

Author : Bret W. Swain
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483609162
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Words from the Wasteland written by Bret W. Swain and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an early age music has been a stgrong influence in my life. It inspired me to start writing when I was 12 or 13 years old. I'm now 43 and publishing my first book. I've poured my heart and soul into these pages. Some of these poems offer hope for true love and happiness. Others deal with the reality of faltering relationships trying to find peace with ourselves, overcoming addiction and failure.

The Waste Land and Other Writings

Author : T.S. Eliot
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307425045
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Waste Land and Other Writings written by T.S. Eliot and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience.

Apocalypse

Author : Kyle West
Publisher : Ragnarok Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse written by Kyle West and published by Ragnarok Press. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival is a luxury in the post-apocalyptic world Alex Keener knows. At sixteen, he leaves the confines of Bunker 108, escaping a deadly viral outbreak. But freedom means facing the brutal aftermath of the meteor Ragnarok, which devastated Earth thirty years ago. With every breath a battle for survival, Alex navigates through a barren world, haunted by monstrous remnants of the past. Discover the thrilling journey of Alex in this young adult sci-fi survival novel. Venture through a ravaged world where the past is obliterated, and survival is the only law. Perfect for fans of intense, post-apocalyptic tales and survivalist narratives. Delve into a landscape where the fight for existence eclipses all else. Ideal for readers searching for YA dystopian books, teen survival stories, post-meteor apocalypse narratives, or thrilling science fiction adventures.

The Old Man and the Wasteland

Author : Nick Cole
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062268538
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Old Man and the Wasteland written by Nick Cole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One survivor's most prized possession is Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea. With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a living victim of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway's classic tale of man versus nature. Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole.

The Wasteland

Author : K a Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399964197
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Wasteland written by K a Knight and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world ended and with it so did the rules. I was stolen from my family and raised in the Wastelands to the North. I did what I had to ensure my survival. I became The Champion, with my history carved into my skin for all to see. Now I spend my days drinking and hiding from my past until four newcomers offer me a job I can't refuse. When my past and future mix I must once again rise and fight. This time it's not for my freedom, it's for my happiness.

The Wasteland

Author : Harper H. Jameson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646300426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Wasteland written by Harper H. Jameson and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot. In the midst of the roaring twenties, Eliot, an obscure bank clerk, intervenes to save a gay man being badly beaten and is thrust into a journey of sexual awakening. But even as love opens the floodgates for his poetry, he is set on a crash course with the homophobic society he will do anything to join.

Wastelands

Author : Corban Addison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593315324
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Wastelands written by Corban Addison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his family’s ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors’ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community.

Wasteland

Author : Vittoria Di Palma
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300197799
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Vittoria Di Palma and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an eloquent history of landscape and land use, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque”—how landscapes that elicit fear and disgust have shaped our conceptions of beauty and the sublime.

T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland

Author : Seamus Perry
Publisher : Connell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781907776274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland written by Seamus Perry and published by Connell Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is not far from a century old, and it has still not been surpassed as the most famous of all modern poems. In many ways, it continues to define what we mean by modern whenever we begin to speak about modern verse. At the same time, as Ted Hughes once observed, it is also genuinely popular, and not just among the cogniscenti or the degree-bearing. “I remember when I taught fourteen-year-old boys in a secondary modern school,” Hughes once said, “of all the poetry I introduced them to, their favourite was The Waste Land.” Not for nothing was it included, in its entirety, in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973), edited by Philip Larkin, a poet not known otherwise for his hospitality to modernism. The poem’s appeal is intellectual, certainly, but also visceral. It fulfils in miniature the demands that Eliot made of the great poet at large: “abundance, variety, and complete competence” – the first of those criteria of greatness all the more surprising, and moving, to find accomplished in a poem that has its starting place in so barren a human territory. The poetry is modern in a wholly self-conscious way, but the modernity of Eliot’s poem stems in large part from a strikingly powerful awareness of what’s past. In this book, the Oxford scholar Seamus Perry points out some of the fruits of that acute historical awareness – and shares his own admiration of, and pleasure in, the extraordinary voicings and counter-voicings of this perpetually great work.