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A Social History of American Technology

Author : Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195387261
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of American Technology written by Ruth Schwartz Cowan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to the technological systems--cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics--that we are familiar with today. Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and examine the important mutual relationships between social history and technological change. They explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years--and also the reverse: how those technologies have affected the daily lives, the unique cultures, and the environments of all Americans.

Yvain

Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Charles Pettigrew, First Bishop-elect of the North Carolina Episcopal Church

Author : Bennett H Wall
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015031500
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Charles Pettigrew, First Bishop-elect of the North Carolina Episcopal Church written by Bennett H Wall and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Tiddas

Author : Anita Heiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922052280
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Tiddas written by Anita Heiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about what it means to be a friend … Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books … and life, love and the jagged bits in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world – and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they? But each woman harbours a complex secret and one weekend, without warning, everything comes unstuck. Izzy, soon to be the first Black woman with her own television show, has to make a decision that will change everything. Veronica, recently divorced and dedicated to raising the best sons in the world, has forgotten who she is. Xanthe, desperate for a baby, can think of nothing else, even at the expense of her marriage. Nadine, so successful at writing other people’s stories, is determined to blot out her own. Ellen, footloose by choice, begins to question all that she’s fought for. When their circle begins to fracture and the old childhood ways don’t work anymore, is their sense of sistahood enough to keep it intact? How well do these tiddas really know each other? Praise for Tiddas ‘Generous and witty’ Susan Johnson ‘This enjoyable and human story is impressively interwoven with historical and contemporary Aboriginal issues.’ Sun Herald ‘A celebration of female friendships’ Sunday Territorian ‘Will resonate with many readers … a novel that asks whether a strong sense of sisterhood is enough to keep friends together.’ Burnie Advocate

The Coalwood Way

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Island Books
ISBN 13 : 0307423328
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Coalwood Way written by Homer Hickam and published by Island Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys

The Girl from Nongrim Hills

Author : Ankush Saikia
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183238
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Girl from Nongrim Hills written by Ankush Saikia and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given a week to repay the money, and the only person he can turn to is his laidback younger brother. Bok is helpless until a chance encounter with a beautiful woman provides him with a desperate solution. But fate can’t be cheated and soon the hapless musician is tangled in her web of lies. He must outmanoeuvre her and the trail of politicians, militants and cops she leaves in her wake, and find the 50 lakh in time if he is to save his brother. Dark, atmospheric and utterly gripping, The Girl from Nongrim Hills is a superb thriller and a great Shillong novel.

Sigmund Freud

Author : Helen W. Puner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000679047
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sigmund Freud written by Helen W. Puner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance, prejudice and refusal that so often attend major breakthroughs and innovations. Helen Puner's biography is far more than a professional appreciation. It is the story of a complex, by no means flawless individual, whose personal characteristics helped sow the seeds of controversy as well as ultimately establish a new field. Upon its initial appearance, the Herald Tribune identified the book as "the first authoritative and profoundly perceptive biography of the man who more than any other has shaped the thinking of the Western World." It was summarized as a "brilliant performance, done without fear."Puner did precisely what irritated Freud most: probe the sources, social no less than personal, religious no less than scientific, that made Freud such a towering figure. Dorothy Canfield caught the spirit of this work when she noted that in this book, we see Freud "as we never saw him before, as most of us never knew he was, a rigidly virtuous, deeply troubled, upright, dutiful Jewish son, husband and father. We see him tracing the significance of clues he hit upon in the practice of medicine, and then fit these clues into the bewildering mastery of human behavior."In his Foreword, Erich Fromm indicates that Puner looks at Freud with genuine admiration, but without idolatry. "She understands his own psychological problems and has a full appreciation of the pseudo-religious nature of the movement which he created." And the late Ernest Becker, in The Denial of Death, seconded this estimate by calling the Helen Walker Puner effort "a brilliant critical biography." This new edition contains a new introduction by Paul Roazen; with this, and the appreciation of the author by her husband, Samuel Puner, we can better locate the author of the book as well as the famous object of her analysis.

Machiavelli for Moral People

Author : Pavan Choudary
Publisher : Wisdom Village Publications
ISBN 13 : 9380710119
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli for Moral People written by Pavan Choudary and published by Wisdom Village Publications. This book was released on with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli is the Father of Realpolitik. A politician and a writer, he wrote his masterpieces The Prince and Discourses on Livy in 16th Century AD. These writings, banned till early 18th century for their controversial and devious content, are now considered the Bible of Realpolitik. Pavan Choudary explores how, Machiavelli - reviled down the years for promoting deviousness - has actually made an invaluable contribution in enhancing our understanding of evil. This understanding can help the principled person win.

So Many Ways to Begin

Author : Jon McGregor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919590
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book So Many Ways to Begin written by Jon McGregor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this potent examination of family and memory, Jon McGregor charts one man's voyage of self-discovery. Like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, So Many Ways to Begin is rich in the intimate details that shape a life, the subtle strain that defines human relationships, and the personal history that forms identity. David Carter, the novel's protagonist, takes a keen interest in history as a boy. Encouraged by his doting Aunt Julia, he begins collecting the things that tell his story: a birth certificate, school report cards, annotated cinema and train tickets. After finishing school, he finds the perfect job for his lifetime obsession-curator at a local history museum. His professional and romantic lives take shape as his beloved aunt and mentor's unravels. Lost in a fog of senility, Julia lets slip that David had been adopted. Over the course of the next decades, as David and his wife Eleanor live out their lives-struggling through early marriage, professional disappointments, the birth of their daughter, Eleanor's depression, and an affair that ends badly- David attempts to physically piece together his past, finding meaning and connection where he least expects it.

The Alleys of Eden

Author : Robert Olen Butler
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805031416
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Alleys of Eden written by Robert Olen Butler and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford Wilkes, a deserter, and Lanh, a former prostitute, are among the last to escape Saigon and attempt to start a new life together in the United States

City of the Mind

Author : Penelope Lively
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190996X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book City of the Mind written by Penelope Lively and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.' In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London in Docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own. 'A glorious novel' Observer 'The descriptions of the London Blitz are achingly real' Sunday Telegraph Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.

Cage on the Sea

Author : Kaoru Ohno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983951377
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Cage on the Sea written by Kaoru Ohno and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1944, three Japanese military supply ships near the tiny South Pacific island of Anatahan came under American air attack. The ships were sunk and their crews left stranded on the island. The survivors-ignorant that the war was long over-were forgotten until 1950, when the Americans began making serious rescue attempts. In the 1950s, the story of the Anatahan holdouts became the basis for multiple films, books, and lurid yellow journalism. Why? Because the Anatahan story contains an intriguing twist in the form of a lone woman-Kazuko Higa-among the dozens of military survivors. Inspiring rivalries, fights, and even murder, it was her presence that made the holdouts reluctant to go home. Cage on the Sea is a novel based on painstaking research by author Kaoru Ohno, a journalist and nonfiction author. It goes well beyond stereotypes to explore the psychology of both victors and the vanquished. Kirkus Reviews calls Cage on the Sea a "crisp translation" and "an appealing historical novel of World War II"

Eternity

Author : Michael Hanlon
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Eternity written by Michael Hanlon and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme weather, droughts, famines and floods that will overtake humanity within the century, or sooner. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or natural plagues will get us. But whatever happens, Michael Hanlon believes that humankind will go on...and on. The shape of things to come will be strange, and somewhat terrifying, but will very likely seem banal to the people who inhabit it in the future. Humankind may be thrown back to the Stone Age on hundreds of occasions and may come close to extinction. But recovery will follow--each time more rapidly than the last. The world of 10,000 years hence, let alone 100,000,000 years hence, will be strange and almost unrecognizable. But no matter how battered and re-born, it will still be our world, populated by us through eternity.

The Singing Stone

Author : O. R. Melling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862783563
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Singing Stone written by O. R. Melling and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baruch

Author : Bernard Mannes Baruch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568490953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Baruch written by Bernard Mannes Baruch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baruch: My Own Story is the memoirs of Bernard M. Baruch, a man whose life spanned the late nineteenth century and over half of the twentieth century. Given the time period, he is a man who has seen much having met seven presidents, witnessing two wars and working on Wall Street for a time. In these memoirs, Baruch has tried to set forth the philosophy through which he had sought to harmonize a readiness to risk something new with precautions against repeating the errors of the past.

Mira, Mirror

Author : Mette Ivie Harrison
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780142406434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Mira, Mirror written by Mette Ivie Harrison and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters. One a witch and a queen. The other transformed by her sister's touch into a mirror--a mirror with voice and memory and magic, but no power to transform herself back to the girl she once was. And then, mysteriously, the queen disappears and another girl finds the mirror. This girl has troubles of her own, but she is also a means to escape and soon the girl and the mirror are on their way to find the magic that will bring both pain and hope to both of them. Mette Harrison's mesmerizing voice spins a breathtaking tale of love, lies, and redemption.