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The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History
Par John B. Bury. 1998
This classic biography first appeared in 1905 and still offers a valuable resource to scholars, theologians, and others interested in…
Irish history. The well-documented study depicts St. Patrick's early life in 4th-century Britain during the Roman occupation, his abduction by Irish raiders, his conversion to Christianity, and his lifelong efforts to convert pagans and found churches.The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin
Par Rosemary Ahern. 2012
For many book Lovers, there is no more pleasing start to a book than a well-chosen epigraph. These intriguing quotations,…
sayings, and snippets of songs and poems do more than set the tone for the experience ahead: the epigraph informs us about the author's sensibility. Are we in the hands of a literalist or a wit? A cynic or a romantic? A writer of great ambition or a miniaturist? The epigraph hints at hidden stories and frequently comes with one of its own. The Art of the Epigraph collects more than 250 examples from across five hundred years of literature and offers insights into their meaning and purpose, including what induces so many writers to cede the very first words a reader will encounter in their book to another writer. With memorable quotations ranging from Dr. Johnson to Dr. Seuss, Herodotus to Hemingway, Jane Austen to Karl Marx, and A. A. Milne to Marcel Proust, here is a book that allows us a glimpse of the great writer as devoted reader. This lively and distinctive literary companion traces not only the art of the epigraph but the history of the book.Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America's Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris
Par David Mccullough, Michael Hill. 2012
This is the remarkable and inspiring story--told largely in his own words-- of American diplomat Elihu Washburne, who heroically aided…
his countrymen and other foreign nationals when Paris was devastated by war and revolutionin1870-71. Elihu Washburne rose from a hardscrabble existence in New England and the Midwest to become a congressman and diplomat. A confidante of Lincoln and Grant during the Civil War, Washburne was appointed Minister to France by Grant in 1869, arriving in Europe shortly before the outbreak of the Franco- Prussian War. When Bismarck ordered the Prussian army to lay siege to Paris, intent on forcing the French to surrender, Minister Washburne--alone among major power diplomats--remained at his post, determined to protect Americans and German nationals trapped in Paris. After the French capitulation, new horrors struck Paris. The government was toppled by a band of violent revolutionaries, known as the Commune, who embarked on a reign of terror that filled the streets with blood. Once again, Washburne stepped forward to help wherever he could until the Commune collapsed and its bloody orgy ended. During his ordeal Washburne endured cannon bombardments, brutally cold weather, dwindling food supplies, bouts of ill health, and long separations from his family. He witnessed the plight of starving women and children, riots in the streets, senseless executions, and countless acts of unspeakable violence and bloodshed. In the midst of it all, Washburne kept a remarkable personal diary that chronicled the monumental events swirling about him. He knew he was at the center of history and was determined to record what he saw. The diary--and letters he wrote to family and officials in Washington--provides a vivid personal account of life during some of Paris's darkest days. Filled with political and military insight, Washburne's writings also have an unmistakable charm, at times blending homespun expressions with quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible. Michael Hill provides essential background information and historical context to the excerpts from Washburne's diary and letters, which are drawn from the original manuscript sources and collected into one volume for the first time. Through his own words, we come to know and admire Washburne as he struggles to stay alive, perform his duty, and not let his country down. The story of Elihu Washburne is a great American story--the tale of an American hero rising to greatness in the midst of difficult and extraordinary times.Pictures in the Air: The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf
Par Stephen C. Baldwin. 1993
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History
Par Laurent Dubois, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Joseph C. Miller, Vincent Brown. 2015
Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history--through maritime exploration, commercial…
engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book, the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics of change and the perspectives and motivations of the peoples who made it happen. The entries--all specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of leading scholars--synthesize the latest scholarship on central themes, including economics, migration, politics, war, technologies and science, the physical environment, and culture.Part one features five major essays that trace the changes distinctive to each chronological phase of Atlantic history. Part two includes more than 125 entries on key topics, from the seemingly familiar viewed in unfamiliar and provocative ways (the Seven Years' War, trading companies) to less conventional subjects (family networks, canon law, utopias).This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in a range of fields, from early American, African, Latin American, and European history to the histories of economics, religion, and science.The first encyclopedic reference on Atlantic historyFeatures five major essays and more than 125 alphabetical entriesProvides essential context on major areas of change:Economies (for example, the slave trade, marine resources, commodities, specie, trading companies)Populations (emigrations, Native American removals, blended communities)Politics and law (the law of nations, royal liberties, paramount chiefdoms, independence struggles in Haiti, the Hispanic Americas, the United States, and France)Military actions (the African and Napoleonic wars, the Seven Years' War, wars of conquest)Technologies and science (cartography, nautical science, geography, healing practices)The physical environment (climate and weather, forest resources, agricultural production, food and diets, disease)Cultures and communities (captivity narratives, religions and religious practices)Includes original contributions from Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter A. Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga H. Gould, David S. Jones, Wim Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard Price and Sophia Rosenfeld, and many moreContains illustrations, maps, and bibliographiesOtra idea de Galicia
Par Miguel. 2008
Galicia es sin duda alguna la nacionalidad hist rica de la que menos suelen ocuparse los medios…
de comunicaci n pese a tratarse de una de las m s singulares Para despejar esas brumas Miguel-Anxo Murado ofrece al lector un recorrido mapa en mano de la historia la sociolog a la pol tica y la geograf a gallegas Se trata de un recorrido moderadamente heterodoxo y en muchas ocasiones sorprendente en el que desechando los t picos acumulados sobre este pa s tanto por sus visitantes como por los propios gallegos se lanza una mirada fresca a fen menos como la emigraci n el caciquismo el supuesto conservadurismo de su sociedad o incluso los malentendidos acerca de su clima y su paisaje Son los gallegos realmente celtas Por qu en Galicia apenas se venden productos contrala cal de las lavadoras Qu hac a el rey castellano Alfonso X escribiendo su poes a en gallego Este libro desmitificador ir nico y ameno procura dar respuesta a muchas de las preguntas que el lector pueda haberse planteado alguna vez sobre Galicia y sobre todo a aquellas que ni siquiera se hab a planteado hasta ahoraGerman History in Global and Transnational Perspective
Par David Lederer. 2017
This is a collection of essays from three of the world s pre-eminent historians of Germany which…
consider German history in global and transnational contexts It is well known that transnationalism has exploded in the last decade or so as a new academic subfield of international and global history What the transnationalism literature often ignores or downplays however is the role of the nation-state in making the transnational possible in the first place as noted in its very etymological origins This volume traces this dynamic from a different vantage-point namely the relationship between German history and transnationalism Each essay applies a transnational framework in fresh and original ways in order to illuminate different facets of the connections between Germany and the wider world in the modern period Together they will encourage the rethinking of assumptions about key moments and developments in the history of modern Germany and foster reflection on the evolving nature of German history as a subject studied in the twenty-first centuryBy Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare
Par Sean Mcglynn. 2013
Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which…
we would consider war crimes. Lands laid waste, civilians slaughtered, prisoners massacred: this was standard fare justified by tradition and practical military necessity. It was unbelievably barbaric, but seldom uncontrolled.Such acts of atrocity were calculated, hideous cruelties inflicted in order to achieve a specific end. Sean McGlynn examines the battles of Acre and Agincourt, sieges like Béziers, Lincoln, Jerusalem and Limoges as well as the infamous chevauchées of the Hundred Years War that devastated great swathes of France. He reveals how these grisly affairs form the origin of accepted ¿rules of war¿, codes of conduct that are today being enforced in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.Conscious Money: Living, Creating, and Investing with Your Values for a Sustainable New Prosperity
Par Patricia Aburdene. 2012
Why not make money and make a difference, too? A revolutionary blueprint for growing wealth, finding fulfillment, and changing the…
world by living your values. In the emerging era of Conscious Money, we achieve prosperity by tapping into the power of values, consciousness, and sound economic principles. By applying the wisdom of Conscious Money to your personal finances, you can build a foundation for sustainable wealth and true fulfillment. No longer will you need to choose between your core values and your paycheck. Instead you'll expand on-the-job creativity, grow income through conscious practices, and change the world as you: * identify your unique personal values; * break down barriers to financial success; * partner with companies that reflect your values; * express your values through conscious shopping; * tap into higher consciousness at the office; * harness your intuition to clarify financial choices; and * invest in enterprises that honor the planet.F.B. Eyes
Par William J. Maxwell. 2015
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind…
the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem's renaissance and Hoover's career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover's death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau's close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship. Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature.García Márquez
Par Gene H. Bell-Villada. 2003
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in…
the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent oeuvre.In a beautifully written examination, Gene Bell-Villada traces the major forces that have shaped the novelist and describes his life, his personality, and his politics. For this edition, Bell-Villada adds new chapters to cover all of Garcia Marquez's fiction since 1988, from The General in His Labyrinth through Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account, News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about Garcia Marquez's biography and artistic development make this the most comprehensive account of his life and work available.On Writers & Writing: On Becoming A Novelist, On Writers And Writing, And On Moral Fiction
Par John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan. 2010
John Gardner's essential collection encompassing the fundamentals of fiction writingIn this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed…
novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights into and exacting critiques on such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, while addressing his personal influences and delivering broad-ranging observations on literary culture. Provocative and poignant, On Writers & Writing is a must-read for both aspiring writers and careful readers of American literature.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.Rightsize... Right Now!
Par Regina Leeds. 2015
Get ready for moving day the stress-free way Whether your new home is across the country or across the street,…
moving is never easy. Between the packing, the hauling, and the unpacking--let alone the clutter of boxes, the misplaced items, and the upheaval of leaving the old place behind--the stress can overwhelm even the most easygoing person. But with the right plan, it doesn't have to be that way! For over 25 years, bestselling author and professional organizer Regina Leeds has helped her clients prepare for new homes with practical support and a fresh perspective. She sees moving as an opportunity to simplify and start fresh. In Rightsize . . . Right Now! Regina outlines her 8-week plan to clear clutter, organize, pack, and relocate without stress, with: Helpful guidance on making a moving plan, from hiring movers down to forwarding mail Strategies to tackle each room in the house in a smart, efficient way Rightsizing projects to weed out unneeded possessions Expert advice on organizing your belongings for the move and the new home Weekly self-care tips to keep you from getting bogged down No matter if you're going from dorm to apartment, house to house, castle to condo, or you're preparing for retirement, Rightsize . . . Right Now! will help you to conquer the chaos of moving and settle into a simpler, cleaner home.The New Greenmarket Cookbook
Par Gabrielle Langholtz. 2014
Founded in 1976 with 12 farmers in a parking lot, New York's famed Greenmarket has now grown to become the…
largest and most diverse network of outdoor urban farmers' markets in the country, with 54 markets and more than 230 participating family farms, bakeries, and fishermen. Celebrated chefs have long touted the produce available at these markets, sourcing ingredients for some of their best dishes.Now,The New Greenmarket Cookbook brings to life the variety, flavor, and personal connections that have made the Greenmarket a culinary destination known the world over. Following the natural cycle of a year at the market, with chapters organized by season, the book offers easy, delicious restaurant recipes from the top chefs who frequent the stands for ingredients and inspiration.With full-color photos to illustrate the simple- yet- spectacular dishes-think sugar snap peas with mint, pavlova with strawberries, basil cider-braised pork shoulder, dandelion greens salad, cantaloupe and hyssop popsicles, and lemon thyme panna cotta--The New Greenmarket Cookbook is a gorgeous, flavorful journey through a bountiful year at the Greenmarket.Dividing and Uniting Germany (The Making of the Contemporary World)
Par Bill Niven, J. K. Thomaneck. 2001
A concise introduction to the process which led to the division of Germany in 1949, and its unification in 1990,…
this book also explores the economic, social and cultural divisions between and east and west, which still exist in post-unification Germany. Dividing and Uniting Germany covers all important aspects of the subject including: the role of the allies in the post-war division of the country the integration of West and East Germany into their respective blocs the problems of integrating east and west after 1990 Germany's Nazi and socialist past.Irish Impressions
Par G. K. Chesterton. 2013
Personal impressions of the author's visit to Ireland under the direction of the War Aims Committee. Mr. Chesterton understands teh…
Irish thoroughly and says many fine things finely in this refreshing and stimulating book.Who would you be if you felt at peace and had more time and money? An organized life enables you…
to have more freedom, less aggravation, better health, and to get more done. For nearly twenty years, Regina Leeds-named Best Organizer by Los Angeles magazine-has helped even the messiest turn their lives around. Anyone can get organized-she’ll prove it to you! One Year to an Organized Life is a unique week-by-week approach that you can begin at any time of year. Regina helps you break down tasks and build routines over time so that life becomes simple, not overwhelming. Master time management Make your kitchen efficient Permanently organize closets and drawers Deal with your finances Reclaim dumping grounds” like the guest room, garage and basement Declutter the kids’ rooms Organize your travel plans-and the vacation photos and souvenirs Entertain with joy Regina reveals her magic formula for organizing anything, plus her method to stop the chronic cycles of clutter, misplaced items, and lateness. Whether you’re living in chaos or just looking for new ways to simplify, this essential book will help you get the whole household organized-and stay that way.Best Food Writing 2011
Par Holly D. Hughes. 2011
Best Food Writing 2011 authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters,…
and websites, featuring both established food writers, rising stars, and some literary surprises.A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary…
basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts--that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes--and the literary codes--of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor.What does it mean when a literary hero travels along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature--a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower--and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface, and a new epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.Action Whirligigs: 25 Easy-to-Do Projects
Par Anders S. Lunde. 1989
Whirligigs -- those charming little wind-driven toys -- make excellent introductory woodworking projects because they are easy to do, inexpensive…
and -- most of all -- great fun! Hobbyists at all levels of ability will love creating the 25 delightful projects described in this book, from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the double-armed Woman at the Computer. Other figures include a Man/Woman Fishing, Oil Well Pump, Saluting the Flag, See-Saw, and Bucking Bronco. Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings explain everything from selecting and using proper tools and creating the driving mechanism to finishing and displaying the completed project.