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"Bilingual Spanish/English edition of the Chilean poetry collection by Nicanor Parra"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nicanor Parra
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780924047633
"Bilingual Spanish/English edition of the Chilean poetry collection by Nicanor Parra"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Randy Singer
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1414341520
Thomas and Theresa Hammonds believe in tough love and old-fashioned discipline. They do not believe in doctors. When their controversial beliefs lead to personal tragedy, the Hammonds face heartbreaking loss, a crisis of faith—and a charge of negligent homicide by a relentless prosecutor. Defending Thomas and Theresa is freewheeling lawyer Charles Arnold. He believes in grace and mercy, but nothing in his colorful past has prepared him for the challenges of this shocking case, or for the dangerous conspiracy at its heart.
Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307399036
Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now.
Author : John Hockenberry
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786881628
A journalist for National Public Radio and ABC News recounts the challenges he has faced as a paraplegic at home and abroad, from the dangers of war-torn Iraq and Jerusalem to discrimination at home. Reprint.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
The acclaimed author of A People's History of the United States presents an honest and piercing look at American political ideology.
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0307791955
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.
Author : Scott Ferguson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1496201922
Critique after modern monetary theory -- Transcending the aesthetic -- Declarations of dependence -- Medium congruentissimum -- Allegories of the aesthetic -- Becoming second nature
Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594743304
Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
Author : Julia Cameron
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 1998-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780874779066
Through her workshops and writings (including her bestseller The Artist's Way), Julia Cameron has inspired millions to pursue their dreams. In the tradition of Heart Steps, Blessings reveals the keys she uses to reconnect herself with the source of her creative spirit. Focusing on gratitude and recognizing the power to change one's surrounding world by changing one's thinking, Cameron explains how she surrenders to the "deeper flow of life rather than willfully forcing artificial solutions." By acknowledging the beauty, harmony, and synergy of life, readers learn through Cameron's inspiring prose how to cherish the gifts they have been given and use them to their fullest. Those who read and follow Cameron's advice and prayers and listen to Tim Wheater's healing music in the audiobook will realize how to achieve harmony in their lives and embrace the notion that they are part of a larger whole that holds them in a benevolent and protective view. With Blessings, readers will understand the secrets of a life that is rich, beautiful, intricate, and valuable.
Author : Landis Wade
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781736305584