Author: Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469615347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Final Passages
Author: Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469615347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469615347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
The Passage
Author: Justin Cronin
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .
Mindprints
Author: Ivan Gaskell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226836193
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and he called such objects “mindprints.” Thoreau believed that these collections could teach him how his experience, his world, fit into the wider, more diverse (even incoherent) assemblage of other worlds created and re-created by other beings every day. In this book, Ivan Gaskell explores how a profound environmental aesthetics developed from this insight and shaped Thoreau’s broader thought.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226836193
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and he called such objects “mindprints.” Thoreau believed that these collections could teach him how his experience, his world, fit into the wider, more diverse (even incoherent) assemblage of other worlds created and re-created by other beings every day. In this book, Ivan Gaskell explores how a profound environmental aesthetics developed from this insight and shaped Thoreau’s broader thought.
A Passage of Stars
Author: Alis A. Rasmussen
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 9780553283723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Born to a powerful clan on the storm-wracked colony of Unruli, Lilyaka Hae Ransome had grown up willful, independent and strong, respecting only Heredes, the man who tutored her in history and the martial arts. And when alien bounty hunters kidnapped Heredes, she threw away her heritage and set out after him on an awesome odyssey through the unknown reaches of space.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 9780553283723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Born to a powerful clan on the storm-wracked colony of Unruli, Lilyaka Hae Ransome had grown up willful, independent and strong, respecting only Heredes, the man who tutored her in history and the martial arts. And when alien bounty hunters kidnapped Heredes, she threw away her heritage and set out after him on an awesome odyssey through the unknown reaches of space.
Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages
Author: Robert Southey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Birds of Passage
Author: Michael J. Piore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521280587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521280587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.
Passage Through Crisis
Author: Fred Davis
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412830515
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis, Passage Through Crisis, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating—and, for its time, innovative—analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpretation of the meaning of physical disability in American society.This book retains for today's readers that essential quality that most engaged readers upon its original publication: its vivid and probing ethnographic account of the impact of serious illness on the family, the difficult processes of adjustment that ensue and, in these connections, the role played (and toll exacted) by American values.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412830515
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis, Passage Through Crisis, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating—and, for its time, innovative—analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpretation of the meaning of physical disability in American society.This book retains for today's readers that essential quality that most engaged readers upon its original publication: its vivid and probing ethnographic account of the impact of serious illness on the family, the difficult processes of adjustment that ensue and, in these connections, the role played (and toll exacted) by American values.
The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain During the Years 1772-1776
Author: Bolton Glanvill Corney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spaniards
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spaniards
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Writing the Self
Author: Peter Heehs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441153446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in the works of Montaigne. In the seventeenth century, philosophers such as Descartes formulated notions of selfhood that did not require a divine foundation; in the next century, Hume grew skeptical of the self's very existence. Ideas of the self have changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today regard it as at best a mental construct. First-person genres such as diaries and memoirs have provided an outlet for self-expression. Protestant diaries replaced the Catholic confessional, but secular diaries such as Pepys's may reveal yet more about the self. After Richardson, novels competed with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of self-expression, though memoirs survived and continue to thrive, while the diary has found a new incarnation in the personal blog. Writing the Self narrates the intertwined histories of the self and of self-expression through first-person literature.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441153446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in the works of Montaigne. In the seventeenth century, philosophers such as Descartes formulated notions of selfhood that did not require a divine foundation; in the next century, Hume grew skeptical of the self's very existence. Ideas of the self have changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today regard it as at best a mental construct. First-person genres such as diaries and memoirs have provided an outlet for self-expression. Protestant diaries replaced the Catholic confessional, but secular diaries such as Pepys's may reveal yet more about the self. After Richardson, novels competed with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of self-expression, though memoirs survived and continue to thrive, while the diary has found a new incarnation in the personal blog. Writing the Self narrates the intertwined histories of the self and of self-expression through first-person literature.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.