Author: Marnie O. Mamminga
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020825X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this dazzling collection, best-selling author Marnie O. Mamminga details the common experiences that unite those of us who live, love, and work in the heart of the country. With insight and humor, Mamminga chronicles a wide range of small but significant everyday moments: the anxiety of taking a teenager out for driving lessons, the nostalgic pleasure of watching the Cubs at Wrigley Field, the heartache of moving an aging parent into a nursing home, and the quiet bliss of sitting on a cabin’s porch, listening for loons and wolves under the Northwoods’ starry sky. Combining elements of the personal and the universal, these essays chart the passage of time from childhood to adulthood, sickness to health, working life to retirement, parenthood to grandparenthood, and everything in between. These sharply observed vignettes highlight the importance of taking time to appreciate the ordinary occurrences that profoundly shape our lives and the places we call home.
On a Clear Night
Author: Marnie O. Mamminga
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020825X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this dazzling collection, best-selling author Marnie O. Mamminga details the common experiences that unite those of us who live, love, and work in the heart of the country. With insight and humor, Mamminga chronicles a wide range of small but significant everyday moments: the anxiety of taking a teenager out for driving lessons, the nostalgic pleasure of watching the Cubs at Wrigley Field, the heartache of moving an aging parent into a nursing home, and the quiet bliss of sitting on a cabin’s porch, listening for loons and wolves under the Northwoods’ starry sky. Combining elements of the personal and the universal, these essays chart the passage of time from childhood to adulthood, sickness to health, working life to retirement, parenthood to grandparenthood, and everything in between. These sharply observed vignettes highlight the importance of taking time to appreciate the ordinary occurrences that profoundly shape our lives and the places we call home.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020825X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this dazzling collection, best-selling author Marnie O. Mamminga details the common experiences that unite those of us who live, love, and work in the heart of the country. With insight and humor, Mamminga chronicles a wide range of small but significant everyday moments: the anxiety of taking a teenager out for driving lessons, the nostalgic pleasure of watching the Cubs at Wrigley Field, the heartache of moving an aging parent into a nursing home, and the quiet bliss of sitting on a cabin’s porch, listening for loons and wolves under the Northwoods’ starry sky. Combining elements of the personal and the universal, these essays chart the passage of time from childhood to adulthood, sickness to health, working life to retirement, parenthood to grandparenthood, and everything in between. These sharply observed vignettes highlight the importance of taking time to appreciate the ordinary occurrences that profoundly shape our lives and the places we call home.
Country Music
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.
Black Zodiac
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
An anthology of poetic reflections. In Envoi, he writes: "No angst in the anthill / What happens is what happens / And what happened to happen never existed to start with / Still, who wants a life like that / No next and no before, no yesterday, no today."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
An anthology of poetic reflections. In Envoi, he writes: "No angst in the anthill / What happens is what happens / And what happened to happen never existed to start with / Still, who wants a life like that / No next and no before, no yesterday, no today."
Night Sky With the Naked Eye
Author: Bob King
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1624143091
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Advance your knowledge in learning what's up with the night sky with Bob King. You'll gain a deeper appreciation of the universe and our place in it. Covering both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Bob lays out a series of activities that are fun and educational while teaching you how to track and see the international space station as well as find a meteor shower and traditional night sky activities like identifying constellations. In Face to Face with the Planets, there's an introduction to the best way to see the planets and follow the phases of the moons. Along the way, Bob shows readers how to use the Internet, iPads and other resources to enhance and help our experience, making this a truly modern and updated night sky book.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1624143091
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Advance your knowledge in learning what's up with the night sky with Bob King. You'll gain a deeper appreciation of the universe and our place in it. Covering both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Bob lays out a series of activities that are fun and educational while teaching you how to track and see the international space station as well as find a meteor shower and traditional night sky activities like identifying constellations. In Face to Face with the Planets, there's an introduction to the best way to see the planets and follow the phases of the moons. Along the way, Bob shows readers how to use the Internet, iPads and other resources to enhance and help our experience, making this a truly modern and updated night sky book.
National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition
Author: Andrew Fazekas
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN: 1426220154
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Volume packed full of information that illuminates key astronomical concepts along side the history and legends surrounding the stars and planets.
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN: 1426220154
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Volume packed full of information that illuminates key astronomical concepts along side the history and legends surrounding the stars and planets.
Report of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Nature
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Monthly Evening Sky Map
Author:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
Author: Chet Raymo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719163
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the year on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. Raymo's commentaries amplify the maps, offering intriguing details and tips on identifying stars, planets, and constellations. On another level, Chet Raymo challenges our imagination-to see what is unseeable in the universe, to perceive distance and size and shape that is inconceivable, to appreciate ever more fully our extraordinary place in the cosmos. His elegant essays on the heavens blend science and history, mythology and religion, making clear why he is one of the most insightful and passionate science writers of our time.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719163
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the year on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. Raymo's commentaries amplify the maps, offering intriguing details and tips on identifying stars, planets, and constellations. On another level, Chet Raymo challenges our imagination-to see what is unseeable in the universe, to perceive distance and size and shape that is inconceivable, to appreciate ever more fully our extraordinary place in the cosmos. His elegant essays on the heavens blend science and history, mythology and religion, making clear why he is one of the most insightful and passionate science writers of our time.
Popular Errors about Plants
Author: Arthur Alger Crozier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description