Author: John Russell AmberleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387094582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
An Analysis of Religious Belief
Author: John Russell AmberleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387094582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis JohnsonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374279127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
The American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Multimodal Level of Service Analysis for Urban Streets
Author: Richard Gerhard DowlingPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309117429
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 616: Multimodal Level of Service Analysis for Urban Streets explores a method for assessing how well an urban street serves the needs of all of its users. The method for evaluating the multimodal level of service (MMLOS) estimates the auto, bus, bicycle, and pedestrian level of service on an urban street using a combination of readily available data and data normally gathered by an agency to assess auto and transit level of service. The MMLOS user's guide was published as NCHRP Web-Only Document 128"--Publisher's description.
Suggested Books for Indian Schools; an Annotated List Which Includes Library Books, Recommended Textbooks, Reference Material, and Maps, Selected with Special Reference to the Interests and Activities of Rural Communities
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Futurama: Looking Backward at Present Day America
Author: Christian SchlegelPublisher: diplom.de
ISBN: 3954897970
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Matt Groening developed together with his friend and colleague David X. Cohen the TV-Show Futurama, set in New York in the year 3000. Groening describes his ‘vision of the future’ in Futurama as corporate, commercial and confusing which is not what he expects it to be, and it is not necessarily valuing this world as good or bad. Thus, the assumption of this study is that Futurama presents a stereotyped science fiction-world that deals with themes and problems of our present time. This becomes clear when looking at the excessive use of allusions and references to political and historical events as well as to popular and classical culture. The creators comment that way on topics that concern us – or at least should concern us – today. The task of this study is to identify these topics and references (focusing on America as a political entity), and thereby discuss the points of criticism Futurama raises.
The Yellow Flag; A Novel, In Three Volumes
Author: Edmund YatesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368377159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The First Last Man
Author: Eileen M. HuntPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature—Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanity—if not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the “last man” into the globally familiar filmic images of the “invisible man” and the “final girl.” Reading Shelley’s work against the background of epidemic literature and political thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley’s postapocalyptic imagination has shaped science fiction and dystopian writing from H. G. Wells, M. P. Shiel, and George Orwell to Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and Emily St. John Mandel. Through archival research into Shelley’s personal journals and other writings, Hunt unearths Shelley’s ruminations on her own personal experiences of loss, including the death of young children in her family to disease and the drowning of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley’s grief drove her to intensive study of Greek tragedy, through which she developed the thinking about plague, conflict, and collective responsibility that later emerges in her fiction. From her readings of classic works of plague literature to her own translation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, and from her authorship of the first major modern pandemic novel to her continued influence on contemporary popular culture, Shelley gave rise to a tradition of postapocalyptic thought that asks a question that the Covid-19 pandemic has made newly urgent for many: What do humans do after disaster?
American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Harry Noyes GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735
Author: Marco CaboaraPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.