Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Select Works
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
Author: Reif Larsen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698148231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut. Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698148231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut. Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.
Select Works: Reflections on the revolution in France. 1881; copies 2-4, 1888
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Select Works: Thoughts on the present discontents. The two speeches on America. New ed
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie
Author: John Aikin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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NPNF2-04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters
Author:
Publisher: CCEL
ISBN: 1610250656
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1485
Book Description
Publisher: CCEL
ISBN: 1610250656
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1485
Book Description
Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya
Author: S. Venkataramanan
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465554203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465554203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Select Works of Porphyry
Author: Porphyry
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Lord Byron's Select Works
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Select Works of Thomas Chalmers
Author: Thomas Chalmers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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