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Author : Roy McHugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Characters written by Roy McHugh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul King
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143967941X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Colorful Characters of Pittsburgh written by Paul King and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the world famous artists, singers, actors and more from Pittsburgh are the city's celebrities known locally for their quirky style, unique mannerisms, and outlandish behavior. From Joe Barker, the violent "street preacher" who was elected mayor in 1850--while in prison!--to Curt Wootton, the comedian whose celebrity status comes from being "Pittsburgh Dad," on Youtube, the Steel City has had a number of colorful characters throughout its history that defy category.
Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453234098
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Author : Charles L. Davis II
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986639
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Building Character written by Charles L. Davis II and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
Author : Lisa Keränen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731704X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Scientific Characters written by Lisa Keränen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the "Datagate" controversy.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darrell Spencer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bring Your Legs with You written by Darrell Spencer and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2004-10-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boxer who brings his legs with him comes to the ring with the strength and stamina to make it through every round of a tough fight. In this new collection, winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Darrell Spencer delivers fiction with just that kind of power. Bring Your Legs with You contains nine interconnected stories set in Las Vegas. Featuring various perspectives and narrators, they are filled with unforgettable characters, including Carl T. Plugg, a sharp-dressed, smooth-talking, non-hustling pool shark; Spinoza, the philosophical day laborer with “Department of Big Thoughts” lettered on the door of his pickup; Jacob, an arrogant lawyer who learns too late the dangers of swimming with the sharks; Gus, a man who has never seen his son fight despite his insatiable fascination with the sweet science; and Jane, a woman wary of her ex-husband, but still in love enough to share her bed with him. Above them all looms Tommy Rooke, retired prizefighter and self-employed roofer. Undefeated in the ring, Rooke walked away from boxing at the top of his game, to the confusion and consternation of his friends and family. As his father, former manager, and various other hangers-on encourage him to stage a comeback, Tommy moves through the gated communities and sun-blasted strip malls of Las Vegas, wrestling with personal choice, the caprices of fate, and the price the gods demand for our sins. More than a book about boxing, gambling, luck, and broken dreams, Bring Your Legs with You delves deeply into the life of its flawed but intelligent hero, a man deeply devoted to his friends but lost in a violent world. A writer unafraid to show the connections between people, Spencer delivers a hard-hitting collection filled with rich dialogue and spare prose.
Author : Ken Gormley
Publisher : Milford House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620065242
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)
Download or read book The Heiress of Pittsburgh written by Ken Gormley and published by Milford House Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Ken Gormley delivers a powerful courtroom drama about the decent, largely-forgotten qualities that once were the bedrock of the simple towns that built America. The Heiress of Pittsburgh reawakens hope that the precious qualities of past generations can be reimagined to create a dazzling new future. But only if success is boldly redefined.
Author : Paul Schwaber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300078053
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Cast of Characters written by Paul Schwaber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this book, Paul Schwaber, both a professor of literature and a psychoanalyst, brings a clinician’s attentiveness and a scholar-critic’s literary commitment to the study of characterization in Ulysses.
Author : Carnegie Institute of Technology
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin:mining and Metallurgical Investigations written by Carnegie Institute of Technology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Institute of Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cooperative Bulletin: Mining and Metallurgical Investigations written by Carnegie Institute of Technology and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732714113
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Secret Under Pittsburgh written by Jon Klein and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1975, and three young boys stumble onto an abandoned mineshaft in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Follow renowned archaeologist Peter Hawn and the boys, as they deal with a mysterious device, and the men who will kill to keep it their own.
Author : Adria Bernardi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978741
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book In the Gathering Woods written by Adria Bernardi and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize WinnerSelected by Frank ConroyIn the Gathering Woods, contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator's boyhood recollections of gathering mushrooms with his grandfather—a narrator who seems still haunted by a terrifying local legend that tormented him as a boy. We skip backward to a young shepherd-artist in the Apennine mountains in the 1500s, who yearns to be discovered, as Giotto was. Later, a preverbal baby accumulates bits of the conversation carried on by adults at the table above her head; a neurologist from Chicago returns to the Apennines to deposit shards of glass at a grave.Whether they speak in the lost dialect of an immigrant, of infancy, or of an adolescent girl's school lessons, these stories call up fragments of language in a struggle to understand and attempt to console through the act of reassembling. The language of these stories is both lyrical and comic, providing insight through the details of Bernardi's writing.
Author : Reinhardt Thiessen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Correlation of Coal Beds in the Monongahela Formation of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia written by Reinhardt Thiessen and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Guy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1436364442
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Something Sensational written by William Guy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of travel essays, but it is not about what is commonly meant today by "travel," e.g. package tours for middle-aged, middle-class tourists who pile in and out of airconditioned buses around the world for their hour at the obligatory sights-- passive entertainment. These essays are about travel, warts and all, the "agony and the ecstasy" of a do-it-yourself process: from traffic jams in southern Italy to swiftly gliding dream trains in northern Germany and quite a bit in between. They depict a passionate quest for art, music, beauty; journeys to that realm of supreme aesthetic experience which is to be found in front of paintings by the masters and at great performances of operas in Tyrolian villages; epiphanies in dusty Italian squares or in Imperial palaces. They describe an immersion in the history, the landscape and the daily life of other countries. They also describe the "complex fate" of being an American in strange lands. They sometimes toy with the Jamesian question: where can Americans possibly, truly belong?
Author : Barbara Johnstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199945705
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Speaking Pittsburghese written by Barbara Johnstone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.
Author : William Wall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983133
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Islands written by William Wall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters' lives, each taking place on an island—in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.
