The Ballad of William Bloat
Author : Raymond Calvert
Publisher : Longwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Etching
ISBN : 9780856402739
The Sailor's Word-book
Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher : London : Blackie and son
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
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Seamus Heaney
Author : Michael Parker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780877453987
Book Description
In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the complex and violent history that has formed modern Ireland. Michael Parker's extensive research includes a considerable amount of original material, such as photographs and interviews with Heaney and with many key personalities from his past and present. Parker presents fresh insights into the background and possible sources of Heaney's poems, commentaries on unpublished poems and drafts, and careful readings of each of the poet's collections up to and including the 1991 Seeing Things.
The Lady of the Lake
Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 1816
Category :
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The Listing Attic
Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Humor
ISBN :
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Gather Round Me
Author : Christopher Cahill
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2005-02-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807068731
Book Description
Gather round me, all ye ladies fair, And ye gentlemen of renown; Listen, listen, and to me repair, Whilst I sing of beauteous Dublin town. The Irish have long been associated with great writing generally and with poetry specifically. The love of language pervades this strong culture, and the Irish people have long shared poetry with each other, whether in the street, in the home, or in the pub. These poems may be bawdy or tragic, but there is always something quintessentially Irish about them. In Gather Round Me, Christopher Cahill has put together a collection of the best of these popular poems, found in newspapers, heard in pubs, or put down in diaries. With explanatory notes that make the verse more accessible, these poems give voice to the Irish character, full of humor, mischief, and wit.
Ubik
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547572298
Book Description
A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Author : James Hearst
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
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Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393069192
Book Description
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly
The Art of Being Human
Author : Michael Wesch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781724963673
Book Description
Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.
