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Young Man, Muddled

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610885645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Young Man, Muddled written by Robert Kanigel and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My story is not one of life and death, but of love and work," Robert Kanigel says in his new memoir, Young Man, Muddled. It is also a story deeply rooted in the city - and the culture - of Baltimore. Kanigel invites the reader back in time with him as he reconstructs his meandering, often haphazard journey from straight-laced, dull engineer to renowned writer. Kanigel's memoir is a timely look at how an underappreciated giant of biographies, essays, and science writing found his way into the field, and is a piece of encouragement for budding and unlikely writers alike.

On an Irish Island

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307389871
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book On an Irish Island written by Robert Kanigel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous men and women who visited and were inspired by it. In a love letter to a vanished way of life, Robert Kanigel brings to life this wildly beautiful island, notable for the vivid communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke well into the twentieth century. With the Irish language rapidly disappearing, Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars, linguists, and writers during the Gaelic renaissance. As we follow these visitors—among them John Millington Synge, author of The Playboy of the Western World—we are captivated both by the tiny group of islanders who kept an entire country’s past alive and by their complex relationships with those who brought the island’s story to the larger world.

Hearing Homer's Song

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520945
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Homer's Song written by Robert Kanigel and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.

Apprentice to Genius

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801847578
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Apprentice to Genius written by Robert Kanigel and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science.

Eyes on the Street

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803337
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Eyes on the Street written by Robert Kanigel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.

Faux Real

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205596
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Faux Real written by Robert Kanigel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know. Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself—or at least to convince consumers that it does. Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.

A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385755015
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City. Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken parents. While working as a street musician, he meets the boys of the infamous Bandits' Roost, who teach him the art of pickpocketing. Rocco embraces his new life of crime—he's good at it, and it's more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. But when he meets Meddlin' Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl who's determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change. Rocco begins to reexamine his life—and take his future into his own hands.

Chicken

Author : David Henry Sterry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593765673
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Chicken written by David Henry Sterry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled up below the knee pushing shopping carts full of everything they own; Mustangs rubbing up against muscular Mercedes and Hell's Angels hogs. It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice. Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world — servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night. Chicken—the word is slang for a young male prostitute—revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth—spent in the awkward bosom of a disintegrating dysfunctional family—to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post—sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Felliniesque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus. And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave an indelible mark on readers' minds and hearts.

Mr. Muddle

Author : Roger Hargreaves
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698177657
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Muddle written by Roger Hargreaves and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Muddle botches absolutely everything he tries to do. His friend George is determined to figure out how to help him. Can he discover the secret of how to unmuddle Mr. Muddle?

Paper Castles

Author : B Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Paper Castles written by B Fox and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreclosures are hitting record highs; unemployment is skyrocketing, and the economy is in shambles. Equally broke and futureless, 28-year-old James Brooke, a graduate architect, coffee-addict, and self-described average nobody has returned to his small hometown in West Ohio. Torn between his fanciful dreams and the need to pay off bills, he struggles to find his own identity while facing a harder-than-ever reality. But living under his father's rooftop while keeping his head in the clouds soon turns out to be a bad combination, and the mounting student debt forces him to settle for any job he can find. That's when he stumbles across a new coffee shop, a wayward girl with a talent for storytelling, and his own unresolved past. This unexpected set of things could help him figure out what his place in the world is-if that place even exists. Paper Castles is a story about the search for meaning in times when everything seems meaningless.

A Young Man's Tale

Author : Adam Glennon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434359468
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book A Young Man's Tale written by Adam Glennon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Others

Author : Raul Garrigasait
Publisher : Fum d'Estampa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781913744007
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Others written by Raul Garrigasait and published by Fum d'Estampa Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, at the height of the Carlist Wars and a time of conflict between the past and future, a young Prussianman crosses the Pyrenees to fight for the 'Order'. Finding himself trapped in the ruins of an abandoned city,his bewilderment at the war and what it means increases. Friendship, family, religion and politics: everythingis distorted, transformed or destroyed. The Others oscillates masterfully between humour and tragedy and is anovel full of music, eccentric characters and extraordinary scenes.

Let it Bang

Author : R. J. Young (Writer)
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328826333
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Let it Bang written by R. J. Young (Writer) and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest--funny and searing--of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white person

Muddle and Match

Author : Autumn Publishing
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781610672894
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Muddle and Match written by Autumn Publishing and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine your own funny stories and create crazy characters as you flip through the split pages and muddle things up!

I Am Morgan le Fay

Author : Nancy Springer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101142626
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book I Am Morgan le Fay written by Nancy Springer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans who love King Arthur's legend, Camelot, Merlin, and similar tales will love reading about Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uther Pendragon murders her father and steals away her mother. Then Pendragon dies and, in a warring country with no one to claim the throne, there are many who want Morgan dead. But Morgan has power, and magic. She is able to change the course of history, to become other, to determine her own fate-and, thus the fate of Britain. She will become Morgan le Fay. "Springer wields language like a sword, and both blood and flowers spring to these pages in vivid hues." (Booklist, starred review)

Young Men in Spats

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348512
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Young Men in Spats written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sublime comic genius”—Ben Elton These eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle “Eggs,” “Beans,” and “Crumpets” that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats, starting spats, and landing in sticky spots. For the first of his many appearances in the Wodehouse canon, Uncle Fred comes to what he believes to be the rescue.

Rewind

Author : Jan Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802789951
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Rewind written by Jan Page and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accident at a concert turns Liam into a ghost and takes him back in time to when his abusive father and dominated mother were teenagers.