Author: Margaret Gibson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771036582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Margaret Gibson’s powerful first novel, a daughter’s poignant attempt to understand her dying father illuminates both their lives. Writer Maggie Glass watches her father fade into the murky realm of Alzheimer’s. To understand the man Timothy Glass was, Maggie pieces together fragments of his life, and, in doing so, gradually tells her own harrowing story. Spanning decades, the novel brilliantly interweaves the strands of a family’s past and present, vividly evoking an Ontario farm in the ’30s; the North African desert in wartime; a hospital in British Columbia, where a returning soldier’s dreams for the future alter irrevocably; Toronto in the ’50s, and in the decades that follow. Infused with startling imagery and with language that cuts straight to the bone of meaning, Opium Dreams is a moving and life-affirming novel from one of Canada’s most gifted writers.
Opium Dreams
Author: Margaret Gibson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771036582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Margaret Gibson’s powerful first novel, a daughter’s poignant attempt to understand her dying father illuminates both their lives. Writer Maggie Glass watches her father fade into the murky realm of Alzheimer’s. To understand the man Timothy Glass was, Maggie pieces together fragments of his life, and, in doing so, gradually tells her own harrowing story. Spanning decades, the novel brilliantly interweaves the strands of a family’s past and present, vividly evoking an Ontario farm in the ’30s; the North African desert in wartime; a hospital in British Columbia, where a returning soldier’s dreams for the future alter irrevocably; Toronto in the ’50s, and in the decades that follow. Infused with startling imagery and with language that cuts straight to the bone of meaning, Opium Dreams is a moving and life-affirming novel from one of Canada’s most gifted writers.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771036582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Margaret Gibson’s powerful first novel, a daughter’s poignant attempt to understand her dying father illuminates both their lives. Writer Maggie Glass watches her father fade into the murky realm of Alzheimer’s. To understand the man Timothy Glass was, Maggie pieces together fragments of his life, and, in doing so, gradually tells her own harrowing story. Spanning decades, the novel brilliantly interweaves the strands of a family’s past and present, vividly evoking an Ontario farm in the ’30s; the North African desert in wartime; a hospital in British Columbia, where a returning soldier’s dreams for the future alter irrevocably; Toronto in the ’50s, and in the decades that follow. Infused with startling imagery and with language that cuts straight to the bone of meaning, Opium Dreams is a moving and life-affirming novel from one of Canada’s most gifted writers.
Deadly Dreams
Author: J. Y. Wong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
The Opium War
Author: Julia Lovell
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468313231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468313231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.
The Chinese Encounter with Opium
Author: K. Flow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"This work does not focus on the purley political role played, but indicates the impact on daily life and the genesis of a narcotic culture which soon evolved." -- Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"This work does not focus on the purley political role played, but indicates the impact on daily life and the genesis of a narcotic culture which soon evolved." -- Jacket.
Principles of Mental Physiology, with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions
Author: William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Principles of Mental Physiology
Author: William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Principles of Mental Physiology, with Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of Its Morbid Conditions
Author: William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385501806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385501806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Illustrated Materia Medica of Dreams, Delusions, Dreads
Author: Meera
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788180560521
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
In the era of television, computers and more sophisticated techniques, to grasp the knowledge of any subject is quite easy and interesting which make a long-lasting impact on the mind. This book has pictorial illustrations concerning Dreams. Delusions and Dreads to create a long-lasting impression on the minds of neophytes for easy understanding of the Materia Media. The book is in three parts: the first part covers the Dreams, second the Delusions and third the Dreads (fears).
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788180560521
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
In the era of television, computers and more sophisticated techniques, to grasp the knowledge of any subject is quite easy and interesting which make a long-lasting impact on the mind. This book has pictorial illustrations concerning Dreams. Delusions and Dreads to create a long-lasting impression on the minds of neophytes for easy understanding of the Materia Media. The book is in three parts: the first part covers the Dreams, second the Delusions and third the Dreads (fears).
Principles of Mental Physiology ... Sixth Edition
Author: William Benjamin CARPENTER
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
David Bowie and Romanticism
Author: James Rovira
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303097622X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie’s oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie’s work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303097622X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie’s oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie’s work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.