Author: Gene WolfePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312890184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.
Sword & Citadel
Author: Gene WolfePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312890184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.
Wayne White Selected Drawings Vol. 1
Author: Will AmatoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781953227003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This monograph collects more than fifty drawings by the artist Wayne White in a variety of mediums
Second Suns: Two Trailblazing Doctors and Their Quest to Cure Blindness, One Pair of Eyes at a Time
Author: David Oliver RelinPublisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615193634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Now in paperback: a #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s gripping chronicle of “two doctors . . . bringing light to those in darkness” (Time) Second Suns is the unforgettable true story of two very different doctors with a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. Dr. Geoffrey Tabin was the high-achieving “bad boy” of his class at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanduk Ruit grew up in a remote village in the Himalayas, where cataract blindness—easily curable in modern hospitals—amounts to an epidemic. Together, they pioneered a new surgical method, by which they have restored sight to over 100,000 people—all for about $20 per operation. Master storyteller David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of their patients, from old men who can once again walk treacherous mountain trails, to children who can finally see their mothers’ faces. The Himalayan Cataract Project is changing the world—one pair of eyes at a time.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Beneath the Second Sun
Author: Adam W. SweetingPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.
The Second Sun
Author: Chris StewartPublisher:
ISBN: 9781606416846
Category : Political fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The second son
Author: Margaret Oliphant OliphantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lake of the Long Sun
Author: Gene WolfePublisher: Tor Science Fiction
ISBN: 1429966203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Lake of the Long Sun is the second volume in the Book of the Long Sun series from science fiction and fantasy master Gene Wolfe It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has travelled for forgotten generation towards its destination. Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that you can see whole cities in the sky. And now the gods of The Whorl begin to intervene in human affairs. A god speaks to Patera Silk, a clergyman at work in the schoolyard of his church. Silk must go on a quest to save his church and his people. "Stylistic excellence and topnotch storytelling."--Library Journal At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Doggerel & Lyrics
Author: Jonathan LethemPublisher:
ISBN: 9781953227027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
Book Description