Author: Tomasz RóżyckiPublisher: New Polish Writing
ISBN: 9780983297048
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrated mock heroic poem now available in English translation.
Twelve Stations
Author: Tomasz RóżyckiPublisher: New Polish Writing
ISBN: 9780983297048
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrated mock heroic poem now available in English translation.
The Forgotten Keys
Author: Tomasz RóżyckiPublisher: New Polish Writing
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : pl
Pages : 140
Book Description
First English collection of celebrated contemporary Polish poet.
Stone Upon Stone
Author: Wieslaw MysliwskiPublisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Winner of the PEN Translation Prize A “sweeping . . . irreverent” masterpiece of postwar Polish literature that “chronicles the modernization of Poland and celebrates the persistence of desire” (The New Yorker) Hailed as one of the best ever books in translation, Stone Upon Stone is Wieslaw Mysliwski’s grand epic in the rural tradition—a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate, Szymek recalls his youth in their village, his time as a guerrilla soldier, as a wedding official, barber, policeman, lover, drinker, and caretaker for his invalid brother. Filled with interwoven stories and voices, by turns hilarious and moving, Szymek’s narrative exudes the profound wisdom of one who has suffered, yet who loves life to the very core.
Granting the Seasons
Author: Nathan SivinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387789561
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
Railroad Brakemen's Journal
Author: STATIONS ALONG THE WAY
Author: URSULA MARTENS and MARK SHAWPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499045131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Written in the spirit of The Diary of Anne Frank and beginning where the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners leaves off, Stations along the Way is a true story chronicling the spiritual transformation of former Hitler Youth leader Ursula Martens. Consumed with guilt and shame over having been used by Adolf Hitler and Nazis during WWII, Ursula travels to America, where she experiences prejudice similar to that forced upon the Jews in Nazi Germany. Confused about what lies ahead, she suddenly discovers self-forgiveness in the most unlikely of places--through the love of three Holocaust survivors. One has romantic intentions; the other two accept her despite her past. As God becomes the essence of her life, Ursula turns full circle from worshipping the swastika to now worshipping the cross.
Lang V. U. S. Reduction Company
Author: Senate documents
Author: Financial and Operating Data Relative to Standard Broadcast Stations and Networks
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
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