Author: Pío Baroja
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Córdoba (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Second title in the series La Raza.
The City of the Discreet
Author: Pío Baroja
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Córdoba (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Second title in the series La Raza.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Córdoba (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Second title in the series La Raza.
The city of the discreet
Author: Pío Baroja
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The city of the discreet" by Pío Baroja. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The city of the discreet" by Pío Baroja. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Unseen City
Author: Nathanael Johnson
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623363853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
It all started with Nathanael Johnson's decision to teach his daughter, Josephine, the names of every tree they passed as they walked up the hill to daycare in San Francisco, CA. it was a ridiculous project, not just because she couldn't even say the word "tree" yet, but also because he couldn't name a single one of them. When confronted with the futility of his mission, his instinctive response was to expand it, Don Quixote-style, until its audacity obscured its stupidity. And so the project expanded to include an expertise in city-dwelling birds (the raptors, the shockingly shrewd crows, the gulls, the misunderstood pigeons), rodents (raccoons, rats, squirrels), and tiny crawling things (the superpowers of snails, the vast intercontinental warfare of ants). There's an unseen world all around us. There are wonders that we walk past every day without noticing. Johnson has written a book that will widen the pinhole through which we see the world. What does the world look like through the eyes of a peregrine falcon, or a raccoon, or an ant? What does a sidewalk Gingko balboa "see?" What would you learn each morning if you understood how to speak pigeon? If we look closely enough, Johnson believes that the walk to the subway can be just as entrancing as a walk through the forest. Follow along as the author and his family search for the beauty and meaning of nature in an urban jungle.
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623363853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
It all started with Nathanael Johnson's decision to teach his daughter, Josephine, the names of every tree they passed as they walked up the hill to daycare in San Francisco, CA. it was a ridiculous project, not just because she couldn't even say the word "tree" yet, but also because he couldn't name a single one of them. When confronted with the futility of his mission, his instinctive response was to expand it, Don Quixote-style, until its audacity obscured its stupidity. And so the project expanded to include an expertise in city-dwelling birds (the raptors, the shockingly shrewd crows, the gulls, the misunderstood pigeons), rodents (raccoons, rats, squirrels), and tiny crawling things (the superpowers of snails, the vast intercontinental warfare of ants). There's an unseen world all around us. There are wonders that we walk past every day without noticing. Johnson has written a book that will widen the pinhole through which we see the world. What does the world look like through the eyes of a peregrine falcon, or a raccoon, or an ant? What does a sidewalk Gingko balboa "see?" What would you learn each morning if you understood how to speak pigeon? If we look closely enough, Johnson believes that the walk to the subway can be just as entrancing as a walk through the forest. Follow along as the author and his family search for the beauty and meaning of nature in an urban jungle.
The City
Author: Jacques Lévy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135189269X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135189269X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.
The Discreet Hero
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In this tale of two Peruvians in separate cities who each stand up to injustice, the Nobel laureate is “a master playing at his craft” (Los Angeles Times). Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in the Peruvian city of Piura, finds himself the victim of blackmail—and finds within himself the will to refuse. Meanwhile, Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. As their small acts of rebellion unfold, their lives are destined to intersect. In The Discreet Hero, Vargas Llosa examines the possibilities of honorable individuals who insist on taking control of their destinies. He also revisits some unforgettable characters from his previous novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman’s masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In this tale of two Peruvians in separate cities who each stand up to injustice, the Nobel laureate is “a master playing at his craft” (Los Angeles Times). Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in the Peruvian city of Piura, finds himself the victim of blackmail—and finds within himself the will to refuse. Meanwhile, Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. As their small acts of rebellion unfold, their lives are destined to intersect. In The Discreet Hero, Vargas Llosa examines the possibilities of honorable individuals who insist on taking control of their destinies. He also revisits some unforgettable characters from his previous novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman’s masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today.
The Public
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 726
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A Concise History and Description of the City and Cathedral of Worcester
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Category : Worcester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Category : Worcester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Document
Author: Boston (Mass.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
Book Description
An Authentic Copy of the Charter and Bye-laws of the City of Rochester
Author: Rochester (Kent, England)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Proceedings and Addresses, at the Durham City Election; with the Poll at the election of ... citizens to serve in Parliament, ... as taken ... 1830 (-1832, 1835, 1837, 1843, 1852, 1853). Also, the Poll Book ... to which are annexed the Bye-Laws of the Corporation of 1728; the Charter granted by Bishop Egerton, 1780 ... Second edition ... enlarged
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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