Author: Stephen G. Bunker
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses.
The Snake with Golden Braids
Author: Stephen G. Bunker
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses.
The Golden Braid
Author: Melanie Dickerson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718026276
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author comes The Golden Braid, a Rapunzel retelling that proves the one who needs rescuing isn’t always the one in the tower. Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzel’s hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once again—this time, to the large city of Hagenheim. The journey proves treacherous, and after being rescued by a knight—Sir Gerek—Rapunzel in turn rescues him farther down the road. As a result, Sir Gerek agrees to repay his debt to Rapunzel by teaching her to read. Could there be more to this knight than his arrogance and desire to marry for riches and position? As Rapunzel acclimates to life in a new city, she uncovers a mystery that will forever change her life. In this Rapunzel story unlike any other, a world of secrets and treachery is about to be revealed after seventeen years of lies. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to? “The Golden Braid is a delightful, page-turning retelling of the story of Rapunzel. Dickerson brings this familiar fairy tale to life with a fresh and unique plot that is full of complex characters, a sweet romance, and danger at every turn. Rapunzel’s search to understand her place in the medieval world is a timeless identity struggle that modern readers will relate to. Her growing courage and faith are inspirational and will have readers cheering her on and sad to see the story come to an end.” —Jody Hedlund, bestselling author of An Uncertain Choice
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718026276
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author comes The Golden Braid, a Rapunzel retelling that proves the one who needs rescuing isn’t always the one in the tower. Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzel’s hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once again—this time, to the large city of Hagenheim. The journey proves treacherous, and after being rescued by a knight—Sir Gerek—Rapunzel in turn rescues him farther down the road. As a result, Sir Gerek agrees to repay his debt to Rapunzel by teaching her to read. Could there be more to this knight than his arrogance and desire to marry for riches and position? As Rapunzel acclimates to life in a new city, she uncovers a mystery that will forever change her life. In this Rapunzel story unlike any other, a world of secrets and treachery is about to be revealed after seventeen years of lies. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to? “The Golden Braid is a delightful, page-turning retelling of the story of Rapunzel. Dickerson brings this familiar fairy tale to life with a fresh and unique plot that is full of complex characters, a sweet romance, and danger at every turn. Rapunzel’s search to understand her place in the medieval world is a timeless identity struggle that modern readers will relate to. Her growing courage and faith are inspirational and will have readers cheering her on and sad to see the story come to an end.” —Jody Hedlund, bestselling author of An Uncertain Choice
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal
Author:
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Locomotive Engineers Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Wehrmacht Auxiliary Forces
Author: Nigel Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782002596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Though the 'Wehrmachtsgefolge' (Armed Forces Auxiliaries) were generally inferior to their armed forces equivalents, their contribution to the German war-effort was far from negligible. Auxiliaries including the NSKK, Transportkorps Speer, Reichsarbeitsdienst and Organization Todt supported the Wehrmacht in their duties. In 1944, the strength of these organizations peaked at 3,800,000-40% of the size of the armed forces. As they became increasingly aware of their importance, the Auxiliaries introduced uniform and insignia modifications which made them virtually indistinguishable from their comrades in the armed forces. This book examines the organization, uniforms and history of the various Wehrmacht auxiliary forces.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782002596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Though the 'Wehrmachtsgefolge' (Armed Forces Auxiliaries) were generally inferior to their armed forces equivalents, their contribution to the German war-effort was far from negligible. Auxiliaries including the NSKK, Transportkorps Speer, Reichsarbeitsdienst and Organization Todt supported the Wehrmacht in their duties. In 1944, the strength of these organizations peaked at 3,800,000-40% of the size of the armed forces. As they became increasingly aware of their importance, the Auxiliaries introduced uniform and insignia modifications which made them virtually indistinguishable from their comrades in the armed forces. This book examines the organization, uniforms and history of the various Wehrmacht auxiliary forces.
The Book of Grace
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 155936646X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"[Suzan-Lori Parks'] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."—Time "An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."—August Wilson Named one of the "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks is a truly original voice of the American theater. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur "Genius" Award, Parks is renowned for her groundbreaking language, theatricality, and an aesthetic that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Her first full-length play since her award-winning Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace is a scorching three-person drama in which a young man returns home to south Texas to confront his father, unearthing deep-seated passions and ambition. The play premiered in spring 2010 at the Public Theater, where Parks is in the midst of a three-year residency as the first recipient of the theater's master writer chair. Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and novelist. Her plays include Topdog/Underdog (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (OBIE Award winner) and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play).
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 155936646X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"[Suzan-Lori Parks'] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."—Time "An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."—August Wilson Named one of the "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks is a truly original voice of the American theater. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur "Genius" Award, Parks is renowned for her groundbreaking language, theatricality, and an aesthetic that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Her first full-length play since her award-winning Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace is a scorching three-person drama in which a young man returns home to south Texas to confront his father, unearthing deep-seated passions and ambition. The play premiered in spring 2010 at the Public Theater, where Parks is in the midst of a three-year residency as the first recipient of the theater's master writer chair. Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and novelist. Her plays include Topdog/Underdog (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (OBIE Award winner) and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play).
The Braided Dream
Author: Randolph Paul Runyon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Robert Penn Warren's reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America's first poet laureate. The Braided Dream is one of the first book-length studies of the poetry that has led to Warren's recent rise to eminence and the first to consider his final collection, Altitudes and Extensions. In a communicable, jargon-free style that will appeal to the nonacademic reader as well as the serious scholar, Randolph Paul Runyon provides a detailed and illuminating guide to a body of poetry that, despite its greatness, has until now seemed resistant to full understanding. Every poem of Warren's last four sequences—Now and Then, Being Here, Rumor Verified, and Altitudes and Extensions—is given a close reading, with a precise laying-out of words, phrases, and recurring images that not only enrich the texture of the poetry but are themselves the texture. Runyon demonstrates the relevance of Freud's concept of the dream work of the unconscious to a reading of this tightly interwoven poetry. He shows how Warren's poems assume additional meanings by the poet's very arrangement of them, deepening his thesis by arguing that "poems eat poems" as each reuses and reconceptualizes the imagery of its predecessor, frequently with ironic or parodic effect.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Robert Penn Warren's reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America's first poet laureate. The Braided Dream is one of the first book-length studies of the poetry that has led to Warren's recent rise to eminence and the first to consider his final collection, Altitudes and Extensions. In a communicable, jargon-free style that will appeal to the nonacademic reader as well as the serious scholar, Randolph Paul Runyon provides a detailed and illuminating guide to a body of poetry that, despite its greatness, has until now seemed resistant to full understanding. Every poem of Warren's last four sequences—Now and Then, Being Here, Rumor Verified, and Altitudes and Extensions—is given a close reading, with a precise laying-out of words, phrases, and recurring images that not only enrich the texture of the poetry but are themselves the texture. Runyon demonstrates the relevance of Freud's concept of the dream work of the unconscious to a reading of this tightly interwoven poetry. He shows how Warren's poems assume additional meanings by the poet's very arrangement of them, deepening his thesis by arguing that "poems eat poems" as each reuses and reconceptualizes the imagery of its predecessor, frequently with ironic or parodic effect.
The Navy List
Author: Great Britain. Admiralty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
Book Description
Snake's Nest, Or, A Tale Badly Told
Author: Lêdo Ivo
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ivo, Snakes' Nest. A "tale badly told" in the most artful manner.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ivo, Snakes' Nest. A "tale badly told" in the most artful manner.
Last Train to Coaltown
Author: Robert N. Henry
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1553952472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the shadowy recesses of time, in the constellation of Orion, a civilization of extraordinary richness emerged to take its place among the stars. And as this civilization became ever newer and more amazing, the biological creatures from its beginnings began to fade from memory. Resolved to record and document the process of biological evolution that had formed their own world, these creatures from beyond our imagination found a place similar to their own distant past. The place they found was earth ... our earth ... and for over 300 million years, they documented and recorded the horrific splendor of the "survival of the fittest" that went before us until... Twenty five hundred years ago, at the nexus of the Greek and Roman worlds, these "visitors", perhaps out of boredom, perhaps for reasons no one may ever fully understand, created a virtual reality world of extraordinary beauty. They called this world Elysium and they populated it with Amazons, Romans and tools to make amazing lands. To its creators it was just another clever amusement, now long forgotten, but to the inhabitants of Elysium their world was very real and they plotted and schemed in the time-honored tradition of our kind. Collectors on earth sent them people to populate their lands and to keep them informed of earths changing technology. Great recursion zones were erected to separate the lands of Vallis Luna ruled by a regal Amazon Queen from those of New Rome controlled by an all-powerful Emperor. Wars raged, amazing lands were built (including some from earth's fictional tales) until... In a hospital in Tarzana at the dawn of the 21st century, a new story begins to unfold. There a precocious 10-year old lies dying. And there, for the first time in his life, Gregory Tulliver, a playboy doctor, truly connects with a patient. That patient is the extraordinary Erica O'Shea. Little does he know that he is connected to the Boticelli Erica in ways he could never imagine. And little does he know that in a few days the cosmic tumblers are about to line him up and take him on a journey that will change his life forever. Awaiting him in a strange new land are the beautiful Diana Lucifera - High Priestess of the Temple of Artemis, Livia - Queen of the Valley of the Moon (where all men are slaves) and the builder-made Knot Monday, Consul to Braccus, King of the Thousand Lands of New Rome. And waiting to play a part in the life of young Erica O'Shea and Dr. Gregory Tulliver are collected immortals from earths past.... Emily Dickinson, Jackie Robinson, Lewis Carol, Stonewall Jackson, Frank Baum, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a cast of thousands. And waiting to take someone to the land of eternal damnation (that all on Elysium fear) is ... the Last Train to Coaltown. Book I of the New and Amazing series awaits you.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1553952472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the shadowy recesses of time, in the constellation of Orion, a civilization of extraordinary richness emerged to take its place among the stars. And as this civilization became ever newer and more amazing, the biological creatures from its beginnings began to fade from memory. Resolved to record and document the process of biological evolution that had formed their own world, these creatures from beyond our imagination found a place similar to their own distant past. The place they found was earth ... our earth ... and for over 300 million years, they documented and recorded the horrific splendor of the "survival of the fittest" that went before us until... Twenty five hundred years ago, at the nexus of the Greek and Roman worlds, these "visitors", perhaps out of boredom, perhaps for reasons no one may ever fully understand, created a virtual reality world of extraordinary beauty. They called this world Elysium and they populated it with Amazons, Romans and tools to make amazing lands. To its creators it was just another clever amusement, now long forgotten, but to the inhabitants of Elysium their world was very real and they plotted and schemed in the time-honored tradition of our kind. Collectors on earth sent them people to populate their lands and to keep them informed of earths changing technology. Great recursion zones were erected to separate the lands of Vallis Luna ruled by a regal Amazon Queen from those of New Rome controlled by an all-powerful Emperor. Wars raged, amazing lands were built (including some from earth's fictional tales) until... In a hospital in Tarzana at the dawn of the 21st century, a new story begins to unfold. There a precocious 10-year old lies dying. And there, for the first time in his life, Gregory Tulliver, a playboy doctor, truly connects with a patient. That patient is the extraordinary Erica O'Shea. Little does he know that he is connected to the Boticelli Erica in ways he could never imagine. And little does he know that in a few days the cosmic tumblers are about to line him up and take him on a journey that will change his life forever. Awaiting him in a strange new land are the beautiful Diana Lucifera - High Priestess of the Temple of Artemis, Livia - Queen of the Valley of the Moon (where all men are slaves) and the builder-made Knot Monday, Consul to Braccus, King of the Thousand Lands of New Rome. And waiting to play a part in the life of young Erica O'Shea and Dr. Gregory Tulliver are collected immortals from earths past.... Emily Dickinson, Jackie Robinson, Lewis Carol, Stonewall Jackson, Frank Baum, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a cast of thousands. And waiting to take someone to the land of eternal damnation (that all on Elysium fear) is ... the Last Train to Coaltown. Book I of the New and Amazing series awaits you.