Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578067749
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South's comic geniuses
Early Escapades
Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578067749
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South's comic geniuses
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578067749
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South's comic geniuses
Saving the Wild South
Author: Georgann Eubanks
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664917
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the edge of erasure. Even as she reveals the intricate beauty and biology of the South's plant life, she also shows how local development and global climate change are threatening many species, some of which have been graduated to the federal list of endangered species. Why should we care, Eubanks asks, about North Carolina's Yadkin River goldenrod, found only in one place on earth? Or the Alabama canebrake pitcher plant, a carnivorous marvel being decimated by criminal poaching and a booming black market? These plants, she argues, are important not only to the natural environment but also to southern identity, and she finds her inspiration in talking with the heroes the botanists, advocates, and conservationists young and old on a quest to save these green gifts of the South for future generations. These passionate plant lovers caution all of us not to take for granted the sensitive ecosystems that contribute to the region's long-standing appeal, beauty, and character.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664917
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the edge of erasure. Even as she reveals the intricate beauty and biology of the South's plant life, she also shows how local development and global climate change are threatening many species, some of which have been graduated to the federal list of endangered species. Why should we care, Eubanks asks, about North Carolina's Yadkin River goldenrod, found only in one place on earth? Or the Alabama canebrake pitcher plant, a carnivorous marvel being decimated by criminal poaching and a booming black market? These plants, she argues, are important not only to the natural environment but also to southern identity, and she finds her inspiration in talking with the heroes the botanists, advocates, and conservationists young and old on a quest to save these green gifts of the South for future generations. These passionate plant lovers caution all of us not to take for granted the sensitive ecosystems that contribute to the region's long-standing appeal, beauty, and character.
The Two Carlyles
Author: Osbert Burdett
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Escapades of a Self-Styled Gandhian
Author: VITHAL RAJAN
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1644295709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Escapades of self-serving do-gooders, national leaders, babus, and other frauds, Indian and International.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1644295709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Escapades of self-serving do-gooders, national leaders, babus, and other frauds, Indian and International.
The Standard
A Bit Mental
Author: Jimi Hunt
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743313837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river on an inflatable mattress.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743313837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river on an inflatable mattress.
All the Year Round
Carmen and the Staging of Spain
Author: Michael Christoforidis
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195384563
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Georges Bizet's Carmen and its staging of an exoticized Spain was progressively reimagined between its 1875 Paris premiere and 1915. This book explores Carmen's dynamic interaction with Spanishness in this cosmopolitan age of spectacle, across operatic productions, parodies, and theatrical adaptations from Spain to Paris, London, and New York.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195384563
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Georges Bizet's Carmen and its staging of an exoticized Spain was progressively reimagined between its 1875 Paris premiere and 1915. This book explores Carmen's dynamic interaction with Spanishness in this cosmopolitan age of spectacle, across operatic productions, parodies, and theatrical adaptations from Spain to Paris, London, and New York.
Omerta Mafia Code of Silence
Author: Mark Biermann
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493122711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Marko Bennett a handsome young marine recently returned home from two and a half years in the Special Services, in the front line in Afghanistan, fighting against the Taliban. Complete adrenalin junkie, spoilt rich kid who enjoys hanging out with Head of the Crips, Leroy Brown reputed L.A. gangster. Racing Nascars for his big name sponsors, stealing expensive luxury sports cars, Marko street races for Leroy and is linked with the gambling syndicate doing cocaine deals on the side. He winds up in trouble with the law and is sent to New York, by his father the head of the LAPD, who has firm ties to the mafia. Edward Martin, Head Attorney for the Mafia, based in New York, takes young Marko under his wing setting him up as personal assistant to his wife Alessandra who has a label in the Fashion Industry. He has a steamy romance with their daughter Georgia who also works for the massive Fashion Enterprise. He becomes a made man hanging out with hard core mobsters and now enjoys very close relations with Ciro Pistone, (The Don), Frankie Napatano, (Underboss) and other core gang members. Actively entrenched in the Mafia as activities and hanging out with the Cartels son, he becomes involved with the Cartels daughter Francesca and falls madly in love. A twist of fate leads him back to New York on a revenge fuelled rampage of murder and bloodshed linking all the way to the White House. Now a Captain with the mob, he is fully entrenched in the day to day activities of the mob, Jet setting to Sicily, Ibiza and Monaco living the life of a movie star, doing arms deals with the Bosnians and contract hits for the mob. A powerful story full of action, murder, extortion and romance as Marko becomes one of the untouchables, but will he survive to rise up the Mafia ranks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493122711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Marko Bennett a handsome young marine recently returned home from two and a half years in the Special Services, in the front line in Afghanistan, fighting against the Taliban. Complete adrenalin junkie, spoilt rich kid who enjoys hanging out with Head of the Crips, Leroy Brown reputed L.A. gangster. Racing Nascars for his big name sponsors, stealing expensive luxury sports cars, Marko street races for Leroy and is linked with the gambling syndicate doing cocaine deals on the side. He winds up in trouble with the law and is sent to New York, by his father the head of the LAPD, who has firm ties to the mafia. Edward Martin, Head Attorney for the Mafia, based in New York, takes young Marko under his wing setting him up as personal assistant to his wife Alessandra who has a label in the Fashion Industry. He has a steamy romance with their daughter Georgia who also works for the massive Fashion Enterprise. He becomes a made man hanging out with hard core mobsters and now enjoys very close relations with Ciro Pistone, (The Don), Frankie Napatano, (Underboss) and other core gang members. Actively entrenched in the Mafia as activities and hanging out with the Cartels son, he becomes involved with the Cartels daughter Francesca and falls madly in love. A twist of fate leads him back to New York on a revenge fuelled rampage of murder and bloodshed linking all the way to the White House. Now a Captain with the mob, he is fully entrenched in the day to day activities of the mob, Jet setting to Sicily, Ibiza and Monaco living the life of a movie star, doing arms deals with the Bosnians and contract hits for the mob. A powerful story full of action, murder, extortion and romance as Marko becomes one of the untouchables, but will he survive to rise up the Mafia ranks
Adventure
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description