Pittsburgh Characters
Author : Roy McHugh
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Roy McHugh
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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Author : Paul King
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 143967941X
Beyond the world famous artists, singers, actors and more from Pittsburgh are the city's celebrities known locally for their quirky style, unique mannerisms, and outlandish behavior. From Joe Barker, the violent "street preacher" who was elected mayor in 1850--while in prison!--to Curt Wootton, the comedian whose celebrity status comes from being "Pittsburgh Dad," on Youtube, the Steel City has had a number of colorful characters throughout its history that defy category.
Author : Charles L. Davis II
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0822986639
In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1953368131
Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453234098
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Author : Lisa Keränen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081731704X
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the "Datagate" controversy.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : Ken Gormley
Publisher : Milford House Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620065242
New York Times bestselling author Ken Gormley delivers a powerful courtroom drama about the decent, largely-forgotten qualities that once were the bedrock of the simple towns that built America. The Heiress of Pittsburgh reawakens hope that the precious qualities of past generations can be reimagined to create a dazzling new future. But only if success is boldly redefined.
Author : William Wall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822983133
William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters' lives, each taking place on an island—in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.
Author : Paul Schwaber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300078053
Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this book, Paul Schwaber, both a professor of literature and a psychoanalyst, brings a clinician’s attentiveness and a scholar-critic’s literary commitment to the study of characterization in Ulysses.