The Woman who Waits
Author : Frances R. Donovan
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN :
The Schoolma'am
Author : Frances R. Donovan
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Teachers
ISBN :
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307809676
Book Description
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor
Essayons
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781940804590
Book Description
The Social Construction of Reality
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468
Book Description
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
I Recall: Collections and Recollections
Author : Robert Henderson Croll
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
I Recall: Collections and Recollections is a memoir by Robert Henderson Croll. Croll was an Australian author, lyricist, bushwalker, and civic servant. Excerpt: "Central Australia, where I have now been five times, was long a place of desire. When my Sister Elizabeth and her husband, Albert Watts, went to live at Quorn, a township sitting at the foot of the Flinders Range in South Australia, I paid her two visits. They quickened my wish to see more of the remarkable country on the edge of which Quorn is placed. That was some forty years ago. The first, a Spring journey, left two vivid memories. One is of the seemingly endless fields of young wheat which made much of South Australia so beautiful just then; the other is of a shooting trip to which we were invited. Our hosts were two young men of the district, tall and powerful, sons of a German settler. The conveyance was a light open cart with one fixed seat which held the two brothers. Behind them, a board rested its ends on the sides of the cart and was secured to the front seat by a stout rope."
Antiquarian Bookman
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN :
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Intimate Communities
Author : Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520300467
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.
Shooting an Elephant
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1913724867
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Shooting an Elephant, the fifth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, with the words ‘when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys’ echoing from the page. 'A remarkable piece.' (Jeremy Paxman) 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' (Irish Times)
Education of Black People
Author : W. E. B. DuBois
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN :
