Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520256569
This anthology of Solnits essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from open sky to the deepest mines and offers a panoramic world view enriched by the authors characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520251091
This anthology of Solnits essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from open sky to the deepest mines and offers a panoramic world view enriched by the authors characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
Author : Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423179129
Schuyler Van Alen is running out of time. The Dark Prince of Hell is storming the Gates of Paradise, intent on winning the heavenly throne for good. Will Bliss and the wolves she has recruited to join her win the battle for the vampires? Is Schuyler prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice? Love and vengeance, duty and and loyalty, life and death, are all at odds in the gripping, heartbreaking finale of the Blue Bloods series.
Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439187762
Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.
Author : Amy R. Bloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 131640465X
This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.
Author : Thomas Watson, Sir
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781498186926
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1810 Edition.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520282280
"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."--
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520262492
What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101459018
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781391730
"Including Paradise lost, Paradise regain'd & 50 other works" -- Cover.
