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A Short History of a Small Place

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101126930
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of a Small Place written by T. R. Pearson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

A Small Place

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828838
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Small Place written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

Reflections on the History of Art

Author : Ernst Hans Gombrich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061897
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the History of Art written by Ernst Hans Gombrich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics

A Short History of the World in 50 Places

Author : Jacob F. Field
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1789291984
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the World in 50 Places written by Jacob F. Field and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet's story, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century.

A Little History of the World

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213972
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Little History of the World written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.

Life Takes Place

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351212494
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Life Takes Place written by David Seamon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa

Author : Donald R. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453883
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The World and a Very Small Place in Africa written by Donald R. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niumi, a small, little-known territory located on the bank of the Gambia River in West Africa, is seemingly far from the reaches of world historical events. And yet the outside world has long had a significant - and increasingly profound - impact on Niumi. This fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in this small region in Africa's smallest country. Drawing on written and oral testimony, and writing in a clear and personal style, Donald R. Wright connects 'globalization' with real people in a real place. This new edition updates discussions of global history and African history based on current studies and new developments that have been factored into the interpretive framework. Reflecting on recent visits to Niumi, Wright extends the story into 2009, to consider the impact of global recession and domestic political repression under a regime in power for the past fifteen years. Punctuating the narrative are photographs, maps, and 'Perspectives' boxes on selected topics such as the sale of slaves five centuries ago, colonial sexism, the fate of press freedom, and how popular culture affects growing up in a traditional society. Throughout, the author deals with African history seriously, global trends critically, and human lives sensitively.

A Short History of Architecture Europe

Author : Russell Sturgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Architecture Europe written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899526
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont written by Georgann Eubanks and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.

A Short History of the English People

Author : John Richard Green
Publisher : New York, Harper & brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the English People written by John Richard Green and published by New York, Harper & brothers. This book was released on 1894 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of Gondal

Author : Harikrishna Lalshankar Dave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Gondal written by Harikrishna Lalshankar Dave and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of the Late Mr. Peter Anthony Motteux, a Native of France Whilom Dramatist, China Merchant and Auctioneer ...

Author : Henri Van Laun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Late Mr. Peter Anthony Motteux, a Native of France Whilom Dramatist, China Merchant and Auctioneer ... written by Henri Van Laun and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Writers of the South

Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820309248
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The New Writers of the South written by Charles East and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and selections from novels by twenty writers depict the complexities of life in the modern South

Elements of The Writing Craft

Author : Olmstead Robert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599635003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Elements of The Writing Craft written by Olmstead Robert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great narratives are built piece by piece, through myriad small tasks and careful moves. In this landmark book, Robert Olmstead shows how distinguished writers past and present have built their fiction and nonfiction. Through this writer's-eye analysis of more than 150 of literature's most finely crafted passages, you'll learn to read like a writer. Then, more than 500 innovative exercises challenge you to experiment with - and expand upon - the techniques of the masters, so you can use them for great narratives of your own.

Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century

Author : Barbara K. Olson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753163
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century written by Barbara K. Olson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God." "Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God." "The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast them - transcendence vs. immanence, providential care vs. cosmic capriciousness, determinism vs. freedom. Not surprisingly, such atheists as John Fowles and Ronald Sukenick have aimed their narrational experiments in omniscience at subverting what Fowles has called the "godgame" that this device requires. Such other writers as Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, and Murial Spark have predictably relied on the device as one consonant with their theistic assumptions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Augie's Quest

Author : Augie Nieto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596914688
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Augie's Quest written by Augie Nieto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fitness pioneer and ALS patient documents his creation of a new model for private medical research and development for less common and less profitable diseases, describing how his entrepreneurial partnership with the Muscular Dystrophy Association enabled significant results in its first two years.

A Short History of Economic Progress

Author : Y.S. Brennor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136926089
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Economic Progress written by Y.S. Brennor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Y. S. Brenner is an economist whose main concern is with development, and this attitude is reflected in his approach to economic history.He begins this seminal study in the era of the Reformation in Europe, and bases it on the hypothesis that once started, economic progress will spread over ever-increasing parts of the earth wherever and whenever conditions become suitable. From this point of view, he examines the nature of the impediments which prevent the more rapid and general progress of mankind towards greater material affluence, while at the same time considering the positive growth promoting factors in the various economies. Thus, he provides an analysis of economic progress in the developed countries showing which natural, social, political and cultural forces promoted such progress and which delayed or hindered it. He attempts to explain why European nations took several decades to emulate the achievements of Britain and why nations in other parts of the world, such as Japan and Russia, were unable for a considerable time to match the advances made in parts of Western Europe and the United States. Finally, he attempts to explain why the developing countries are still finding it so difficult to catch up with the economic progress of the more advanced nations.Y. S. Brenner was Head of the Department of Economics at Cape Coast University in Ghana. The book arose from a series of lectures on economic development he delivered there during the years 1966-1967. This book was first published in 1969.