Explore tips, opinions, and features on Bertrand Place Format Hardcover sold at 20.06 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos filmmakers and housewives all tied to a suburban Washington DC culdesac Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines they respond to lifes bruises by grabbing power sex or the family silver As they atone and forgive they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences
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A photograph of an image of a woman with a triangular slice where her eyes should be a twopage aerial shot of a forest a train coming straight at us Bertrand Fleurets artists book Landmasses and Railways juxtaposes such enigmatic and striking blackandwhite images to create a pleasantly unsettling difficulttodecipher narrative Edited by photographer Jason Fulford whose own influential publications are helping to define a new generation of photobooks this exquisitely designed 200page volume is dreamlike taking us on a journey through rural and urban landscapes construction and decay chaos and clarityBertrand Fleuret currently based in Berlin was born in Versailles in 1969 His first book The Risk of an Early Spring was published by Artimo in 2004 and described thus by photo critic and publisher Darius Himes From the minute you open the book you are the eyes and mind of Fleuret a participant in a tightly edited streamofconsciousness exercise
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Find tips, reviews, and features on A Place for Us Format sold for 30.35 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
From its Broadway debut to the Oscarwinning film to countless amateur productions West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstonean updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L Foulkess A Place for Us A lifelong fan of the show Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery scenes for the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site destined to become part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment areaa crowning jewel of postwar urban renewal Foulkes interweaves the story of the creation of the musical and film with the remaking of the Upper West Side and the larger tale of New Yorks postwar aspirations Making unprecedented use of director and choreographer Jerome Robbinss revelatory papers she shows the crucial role played by the political commitments of Robbins and his fellow gay Jewish collaborators Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents Their determination to evoke life in New York as it was actually lived helped give West Side Story its unshakable sense of place even as it put forward a vision of a new vigorous determinedly multicultural American city Beautifully written and full of surprises for even the most dedicated West Side Story fan A Place for Us is a revelatory new exploration of an American classic nbsp
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Longtime readers have come to understand that Outsides true gift is in chronicling misadventure The Darkest Places chronicles mysterious disappearances unsolved murders and deadly disasters taking us to farflung places no sane person would want to go
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Why Old Places Matter how sold at 37.67 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives they dont have the words to express why This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with illustrative images for a broad audienceThe book reveals the fundamentally important yet underrecognized role old places play in our lives While many people feel a deepseated connection to old places from those who love old houses to the millions of tourists who are drawn to historic cities to the pilgrims who flock to ancient sites throughout the world few can articulate why The book explores these deep attachments people have with old places the feelings of belonging continuity stability identity and memory as well as the more traditional reasons that old places have been deemed by society to be important such as history national identity and architectureThis book will be appealing to anyone who has ever loved an old place But more importantly it will be an useful resource to articulate why old places are meaningful to people and their communities This book will help people understand that the feeling many have for old places is supported by a wide variety of fields and that the continued existence of these old places is good It will give people the words and phrases to understand and express why old places matter
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Places for the Spirit Format sold for 23.38 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Places for the Spirit is a stunning collection of over 80 documentary photographs of African American folk gardens and their creators in the Deep South Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina These landscapes have a unique historical significance due to the design elements and spiritual meanings that have been traced to the yards and gardens of American slaves and further back to their prior African heritage These deceptively casual or whimsical foliage arrangements are subtle and symbolic reminders of the divine in everyday life the cycles of nature and implied right and wrong ways to live In the spirit of outsider art traditions blues musical roots and other such folk manifestations these gardens have a unique aesthetic and cultural significance Over 20 years in the making this is the first collection of fine art photography to document this subject and as such it adds greatly to our understanding and appreciation of this disappearing element of African American culture
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Find tips, reviews, and features on How to Talk About Places sold for 21.97 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Havent Read a critical and commercial success Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places weve never been Practical funny and thoughtprovoking How to Talk About Places Youve Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jetsetters all while never having to leave the comfort of the living roomBayard examines the art of the nonjourney a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers unconcerned with moving away from their home turf have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places hes never been and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical adviceHow to Talk About Places Youve Never Been is a compelling and delightful book that will expand any travel enthusiasts horizon well beyond the places its even possible to visit in a single lifetime
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Your Place in the Milky sold for 20.11 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
An astrophysicist presents an indepth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers while conveying the excitement of astronomyHow is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night In this exciting tour of a universe far larger than we can imagine cosmologist Paul M Sutter emphasizes how amazing it is that we are part of such a huge complex and mysterious place Through metaphors and uncomplicated language Sutter breathes life into the science of astrophysics unveiling how particles forces and fields interplay to create the greatest of cosmic dramas Touched with the authors characteristic breezy conversational stylewhich has made him a breakout hit on venues such as The Weather Channel the Science Channel and his own popular Ask a Spaceman podcasthe conveys the fun and wonder of delving deeply into the physical processes of the natural universe He weaves together the past and future histories of our universe with grounded descriptions of essential modernday physics as well as speculations based on the latest research in cosmology Topics include our place in the Milky Way galaxy the cosmic weba vast weblike pattern in which galaxies are arranged the origins of our universe in the big bang the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy how science has dramatically changed our relationship to the cosmos conjectures about the future of reality as we know it and moreFor anyone who has ever stared at the starry night sky and wondered how we humans on Earth fit into the big picture this book is an essential roadmap
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Maori Times Places Format Hardcover sold at 123.28 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Today the Maori must live in a world that is dominated by European institutions The ability to do this successfully depends on their constant vigilance in sustaining their beliefs their views of themselves and their notions of how the world works Their membership in Maramatanga permits them to feel selected while they cautiously traverse a landscape which has lost its familiar outlines This book is a compilation of twentyfive years of fieldwork with a group of Maori It is an examination of oral histories notebooks of songs diaries accounts of pilgrimages and life histories Critical issues are addressed including written and unwritten histories colonialism gender and membership in Maramatanga This book examines in great detail what scholars of New Zealand have grown to understand there is no monolithic Maori voice
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Dwelling Places Format Hardcover sold at 100.03 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Hailed as one of the best contemporary poets writing in the English language David Ferry meditates unsentimentally in many of these powerful and often wrenching poems on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness homelessness or other forms of wildness The voices in all the poems in this book demonstrate how for each of us there is no certain dwelling placeDavid Ferrys Dwelling Places is a marvelous extremely moving book distinguished by Ferrys characteristic formal virtuosity extraordinarily fresh and inner translations and a kind of driven anguished rage at both the social conditions in which human beings have to live and the mysteriously unchangeable tragedies of individual human lives The translations amplify and deepen the contemporary scenes I feel that in the future this will be perceived as a great bookFrank BidartNot until I had read Dwelling Places several times did I see how ingeniously resourceful ambitious and admirably modest a book David Ferry has madeBoston Review
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Discover information, advice, and prices for An Illini Place Format Hardcover sold for 30.38 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Why does the University of Illinois campus at UrbanaChampaign look as it does today Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the universitys evolution through its buildings Oral histories official reports dedication programs and developmental plans both practical and quixotic inform the story The authors also provide special chapters on campus icons and on the buildings arenas and other spaces made possible by donors and friends of the university Adding to the experience is a web companion that includes profiles of the planners architects and presidents instrumental in the campuss growth plus an illustrated inventory of current and former campus plans and buildings
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on A Place of Belonging Format sold at 25.63 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Alaska has always attracted people from varied backgrounds In A Place of Belonging Phyllis Movius introduces us to five women who settled in Fairbanks between 1903 and 1923 and who typify the disparate population that has long enriched Alaska The womens daily lives and personal stories are woven together in these biographical portraits drawn from the womens letters memoirs personal papers club records their own oral histories and published writings Enriched by many neverbeforepublished historical photos Moviuss research gives us a unique inroad into life on the frontier
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Bertrand Russell on God and sold at 20.61 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
I think all the great religions of the world Buddhism Hinduism Christianity Islam and Communism both untrue and harmful It is evident as a matter of logic that since they disagree not more than one of them can be trueBertrand Russell wrote these words in his famous essay Why I Am Not A Christian In Bertrand Russell on God and Religion Al Seckel presents in one volume the severe scrutiny Russell brought to bear on organized religion in his best essaysBertrand Russell on God and Religion is an exhaustive compilation of Russells best essays on religion freethought and rationalism Al Seckel has rescued many of the writings from obscure pamphlets chapters buried in books and from outofprint periodicalsFrom the outset of his career Russell struggled to uproot and expose the remnants of Puritanisms emphasis upon guilt sin and moral condemnation In Why I Am Not A Christian he wrote Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear fear of the mysterious fear of defeat fear of death Fear is the parent of cruelty and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in handIt is in this vein that Russell approached religion The essays in this book are representative of the full range of his thinking on the subject Some of the essays included are My Religious Reminiscences A Debate On The Existence of God What Is An Agnostic and Are the Worlds Troubles Due to Decay in FaithBertrand Russell was the recipient of countless awards for excellence during his long lifetime 18721970 including the Nobel Prize for literature which he won in 1950 The range of his critical inquiry is without parallel in contemporary Western culture
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Bertrand Russell on Ethics Sex sold at 21.75 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
During his long life 18721970 Bertrand Russell was one of a handful of social thinkers let alone internationally recognized philosophers whose views on contemporary issues won for him a devoted and supportive audience on the one hand and a host of vituperative critics on the other Russells revolutionary writings frequently placed him in the center of controversy with conservatives and all those who were unwilling to consider moral questions from a rational rather than an emotional stanceAl Seckel has compiled an exhaustive collection of Russells very best and most thoughtprovoking essays on ethics social morality happiness sex adultery marriage and divorce Often hidden in obscure journals pamphlets outofprint periodicals and hardtofind books the works assembled here comprise a comprehensive volume that is augmented by valuable section introductions and editors comments This volume also includes Morality and Instinct which is published here for the first time
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Frederick Starr Format Hardcover sold for 125.48 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
This definitive detailpacked biography is the first of Frederick Starr 18561933 a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago It presents a major reevaluation of Starrs place as the missionizer of anthropology illuminates the consequences of the professionalization of anthropology and yields a greater understanding of the United States as it moved into a position of global power Donald McVicker considers Frederick Starrs colorful life in the context of the times In many respects Starrs early career paralleled that of Franz Boas the architect of American anthropology Nonetheless as Boas led professional anthropology into the twentieth century in the United States Starr the popularizer increasingly fell behind Today if Starr is remembered at all he is usually described in terms of his intellectual professional and ethical failings Yet his collections publications and photographic and paper archives provide a rich set of resources for archaeologists ethnologists folklorists and historians McVicker argues that Starrs mission to bring anthropology to the public and enlighten them was as valid a goal during his career as was Boass goal to professionalize the field
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Born and raised in Norway Lise LungeLarsen known to many as the Troll Lady met her first troll at the age of three and the experience shaped her understanding of the natural world as a place alive and full of mysterious creatures and stories She has been a storyteller for more than thirty years and children still beg for just one more troll story What are trolls and why do children love them so much As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come trolls are some of folklores most fascinating and varied creatures In this collection of nine troll tales LungeLarsen brings a combination of childhood memories and careful research to the retelling of each story while Betsy Bowens striking woodcuts are as timeless and rare as the trolls themselves
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In this beautiful and empowering book Jennifer Jewellhost of public radios awardwinning program and podcast Cultivating Placeintroduces 75 inspiring women Working in widereaching fields that include botany floral design landscape architecture farming herbalism and food justice these influencers are creating change from the ground up Profiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman plantswomannbspFlora Grubb edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett CaribbeanAmerican writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid soil scientist Elaine Ingham landscape designer Ariella Chezarnbspfloral designer Amy Merrick and many more Rich with personal stories and insights Jewells portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age locale and background reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our worldand our lives nbsp
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