Book Description
The author relates experiences and impressions of an extended tour of the United States undertaken in a motor home, describing plantations, deserts, national parks, cities, and towns off the beaten track
Author : Richard B. McAdoo
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin School
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1991-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780395524411
The author relates experiences and impressions of an extended tour of the United States undertaken in a motor home, describing plantations, deserts, national parks, cities, and towns off the beaten track
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Mathematics
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Author : Larry Duberstein
Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781877946202
At a young man's funeral, the undertaker offers his thoughts on lifestyle, along with a hot tip on the big stakes race that afternoon. In another bizarre burial twist, two feuding misfit brothers speed across America in a battered Chevy, trying to fulfill their mother's dying wish. Meanwhile, the second craziest person in Casper, Wyoming, contemplates infidelity with the first, a young beauty who climbs through his window; a chance meeting with a nine-year-old boy on a bicycle finishes off a marriage; and a nude dancer in New Orleans, mistaken for a prostitute, is asked to take a check. ("The check is good, Catherine. Absolutely.) These are just a few of the compelling people and situations you will encounter in this wide-ranging selection of short fiction from Larry Duberstein. Some of Duberstein's characters do move in eccentric social circles and the patterns of his literary art make larger and even more eccentric circles. No one is exempted, however, from the clear truth of consequence: "The lizard's egg will hatch, and out will come the lizard." Humming with irony, humor, and an infectious enthusiasm for life at every level, these tales feature the same crystalline diction, the unique mix of sympathy, wit, and insight, that distinguish Larry Duberstein's highly acclaimed novels.
Author : AMATEUR.
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1818
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Author : John Holt IBBETSON
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : Jñānarāja
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1421414422
The first English translation of this major work of classical Indian astronomy and mathematics. A treasure for anyone interested in early modern India and the history of mathematics, this first English translation of the Siddhāntasundara reveals the fascinating work of the scholar-astronomer Jñānarāja (circa 1500 C.E.). Toke Lindegaard Knudsen begins with an introduction to the traditions of ancient Hindu astronomy and describes what is known of Jñānarāja’s life and family. He translates the Sanskrit verses into English and offers expert commentary on the style and substance of Jñānarāja's treatise. The Siddhāntasundara contains a comprehensive exposition of the system of Indian astronomy, including how to compute planetary positions and eclipses. It also explores deep, probing questions about the workings of the universe and sacred Hindu traditions. In a philosophical discussion, the treatise seeks a synthesis between the cosmological model used by the Indian astronomical tradition and the cosmology of a class of texts sacred in Hinduism. In his discourse, which includes a discussion of the direction of down and adhesive antipodeans, Jñānarāja rejects certain principles from the astronomical tradition and reinterprets principles from the sacred texts. He also constructs a complex poem on the seasons, many verses of which have two layers of meaning, one describing a season, the other a god's activities in that season. The Siddhāntasundara is the last major treatise of Indian astronomy and cosmology to receive serious scholarly attention, Knudsen’s careful effort unveils the 500-year-old Sanskrit verses and shows the clever quirkiness of Jñānarāja's writing style, his keen use of mathematics, and his subtle philosophical arguments.
Author : Rebecca Lickiss
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441008285
Where is Joe Merchant? That’s what his sister Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid ointment heiress, wants to know. For South Seas psychic Desdemona, Merchant is the missing link needed to connect her with other worlds. And the mystery of the presumed dead but often-sighted rock star’s disappearance is turning renegade seaplane pilot Frank Bama’s life upside down. Jimmy Buffet fans will be enchanted with this modern-day pirate tale.
Author : Norman Allison Calkins
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Object-teaching
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Author : Walter Herman James
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Steam power plants
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Author : Thomas Taylor Eyre
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Internal combustion engines
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