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Author: George Steiner Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022635041X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
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George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else “writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing,” while the New York Times says of his works that “the erudition is almost as extraordinary as the prose: dense, knowing, allusive.” Reading in many languages, celebrating the survival of high culture in the face of modern barbarisms, Steiner probes the ethics of language and literature with unparalleled grace and authority. A Long Saturday offers intimate insight into the questions that have absorbed him throughout his career. In a stimulating series of conversations, Steiner and journalist Laure Adler discuss a range of topics, including Steiner’s boyhood in Vienna and Paris, his education at the University of Chicago and Harvard, and his early years in academia. Books are a touchstone throughout, but Steiner and Adler’s conversations also range over music, chess, psychoanalysis, the place of Israel in Jewish life, and beyond. Blending thoughts on subjects of broad interest in the humanities—the issue of honoring Richard Wagner and Martin Heidegger in spite of their politics, or Virginia Woolf’s awareness of the novel as a multivocal form, for example—with personal reflections on life and family, Steiner demonstrates why he is considered one of today’s greatest minds. Revealing and exhilarating, A Long Saturday invites readers to pull up a chair and listen in on a conversation with a master.
Author: George Steiner Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022635041X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else “writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing,” while the New York Times says of his works that “the erudition is almost as extraordinary as the prose: dense, knowing, allusive.” Reading in many languages, celebrating the survival of high culture in the face of modern barbarisms, Steiner probes the ethics of language and literature with unparalleled grace and authority. A Long Saturday offers intimate insight into the questions that have absorbed him throughout his career. In a stimulating series of conversations, Steiner and journalist Laure Adler discuss a range of topics, including Steiner’s boyhood in Vienna and Paris, his education at the University of Chicago and Harvard, and his early years in academia. Books are a touchstone throughout, but Steiner and Adler’s conversations also range over music, chess, psychoanalysis, the place of Israel in Jewish life, and beyond. Blending thoughts on subjects of broad interest in the humanities—the issue of honoring Richard Wagner and Martin Heidegger in spite of their politics, or Virginia Woolf’s awareness of the novel as a multivocal form, for example—with personal reflections on life and family, Steiner demonstrates why he is considered one of today’s greatest minds. Revealing and exhilarating, A Long Saturday invites readers to pull up a chair and listen in on a conversation with a master.
Author: Lynn Wyatt Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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After helping rescue passengers from a float plane crash in Anchorage Jim and Ronnie are having a beer at the local pub when an old bush pilot gives them a hand drawn map to a secret lake deep in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska. It’s late October but the lakes are still ice free and the weather looks good, so they decide to fly out over the weekend for one last float plane trip of the year. The lake is beautiful and serene. The fishing is fantastic. An evening around the campfire with fresh grilled fish and Jim Beam, the Norther lights dazzling the sky, and more stars than imaginable. A lone wolf howls in the distance…It doesn’t get any better than this. Time for bed. They awake to a howling, blinding snow storm and freezing temperatures. This is the beginning of their incredible struggle for survival in one of the most remote unforgiving areas on the continent. Encountering hardships, danger, injuries and suffering. Pushing themselves beyond their physical limitations where others would have given up and perished. Never ending adversities threaten them daily until they finally reached the end of their strength and resolve. Lying in the cold snow barely able to move they are confronted by something so amazing and fantastical they question their own sanity. Something that could not be. This is barley the beginning of the hardships yet to come as they confront challenges of unbelievable magnitude to get back home. This is a story of hardship, strength, determination, skills, challenges, friendship, fantasy, and the acceptance of things that could not possibly be. Did they make it? Could you?
Author: Mimi Flood Publisher: Dreamy Morning Publishing ISBN: 1775353915 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Romance finalist for Kobo’s 2019 Emerging Writer Prize Spend some time in the enchanting small town of Frelighsburg in Mimi Flood's captivating debut novel, The Long Weekend. When a funeral draws Ellie Williams back to her sleepy hometown, she finds herself face to face with her old crush, Devon, reigniting dormant desires and stirring up complicated emotions. As their lives intertwine once again, Ellie and Devon embark on a weekend that defies their expectations. What starts as a brief fling turns into a journey of passion and self-discovery unlike anything Ellie has ever experienced. The Long Weekend is a sizzling contemporary romance that explores the complexities of small-town dynamics, lost connections, and the magnetic pull between the boy next door and the city girl who thought she had moved on. Lose yourself in this quick-read romance that will leave you craving more of Mimi Flood's enthralling storytelling.
Author: BJ Jones Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1452078327 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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Secret of Research 2022 In life things are not always as they appear. The research community views the vast majority of the researchers as honest, giving, devoted scientist, most of whom are. This is a story of two that have no clue as to the meaning of any of these qualities: Honest: If they can get away with it, so what if it takes a little lie? Giving: Sure, as long as they are the recipients. Devoted: By all means to the all mighty dollar. It is hard to comprehend anyone with such wonderful families could be so using, abusing and deceptive as these two Doctors. For years the two have used their positions in the research community to offer help to those with money and wish to start a family and for some reason are unable to conceive. For the right price they will help them, if things go wrong, so what. That's how it is with black market procedures preformed in a research lab, no matter how elegant they have made it. The customer has no-one to turn to if things go wrong. They are so intent upon doing others in, that they have forgotten one very important fact in business: `Be careful who you trust.' With the government moving in on them they have no clue as to who the true informant is. We can only hope they get what they deserve in the end!
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1328
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: Simon Herrmann Publisher: LIT Verlag ISBN: 3643964781 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 384
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Long before the Lele people of Papua New Guinea had significant contact with the Western world and Christianity, they had developed a framework for understanding sickness and healing with a strong emphasis on the unseen world. This study examines how mature Lele Christians of the Evangelical Church of Manus assess traditional health concepts in light of their Christian faith and Scripture. By using cognitive theory as an interpretive approach, this research serves as a case study to illustrate the mental processes that take place when Christians in an animistic context make sense of their traditional culture. Simon Herrmann spent 15 years in Papua New Guinea, the United States and Malaysia. He now works as a lecturer in Intercultural Theology at the Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (IHL).
Author: Rick Prashaw Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 145974277X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
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An intense account of Adam’s life and legacy, Soar, Adam, Soar is told both by his loving priest-turned-dad and by Adam himself, through his many included Facebook posts.
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