Along These Highways

Author : Rene S. Perez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816599608

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Along These Highways by Rene S. Perez Pdf

Rene Perez has the ability to stop time. In fact, time stops as soon as you start reading one of his short stories. You find yourself transported into the minds and lives of people you thought you didn't know. Suddenly they are your best friends. They live in Texas. Most of them are Hispanic. But their problems are universal. Like Alfredo, driving home from Dallas to Greenton with the body of his friend "Frankie" Ochoa in the back of his hearse and his son Ramon ready to drive if Alfredo's eyesight fails again. Or Joey, just back from basic training and ready to ship out with his Marine platoon. He's having beers with his best friend J.R. at Flojo's, a bar outside of Greenton run by Liz and Vicente, "the toughest couple in town." Or Benny, who drops into Flojo's for the first time in years and finds his one-time friend Gumby drinking himself into oblivion. Turns out Gumby's luck is even worse than Benny's. Or Virginia, the schoolteacher who's trying to become better educated in the hope that her son who went to Stanford will come back home to Corpus Christi. Or Eric, who spent all his money on two flashy wheels for his car and put them both on the passenger side so that they'll impress everyone on the sidewalk as he passes. Or Andy, who breaks into a home he's always wanted to see from the inside. You'll want to know them all. And you will count yourself fortunate to have met them.

Author : Joann Rita Vega
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781663209146

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Along These Roads We Travel by Joann Rita Vega Pdf

Along These Roads We Travel, and each one of us walks on a different path towards learning, suffering, and happiness. . . These roads unite and confound themselves as we advance through life. Our job as a people is to enjoy and assist those, who in one form or another, have entered our road, without losing sight of our own and destination. This book is a multicultural and intimate overview of humanity’s intrinsically existential struggles and expectations today, as well as of our responsibilities toward each other and our planet. These words are inner reflections that include a marked observation of the inequalities and suffering present on this level of life manifestation, and for which we must claim responsibility. Through inner contemplation of our happy moments and devotion to a higher energy, we are able to find the interconnection that Carl Jung referred to as Synchronicity, which, hopefully, will bring us to the discovery of our true Identities and possibilities as human race – capable for caring for and accepting each other.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222373

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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : Eric Denis,Marie-Hélène Zérah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788132236160

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Subaltern Urbanisation in India by Eric Denis,Marie-Hélène Zérah Pdf

​This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104231305

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1914 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02196679T

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Reports and Documents by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031230824

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Roseburg District Area Resource(s) Management Plan (RMP) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXISR

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Good Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Georgia. State Geologist,Joseph William Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Geology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055490817

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The Paleozoic Group by Georgia. State Geologist,Joseph William Spencer Pdf

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316218542

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Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045215097

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East Capitol Street Bridge by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:096831774

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Bulletin by United States. Office of Experiment Stations Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Roads
ISBN : OSU:32435061957064

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Work of the Public Roads Administration by United States. Bureau of Public Roads Pdf

Author : Linda L. Lowry
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2878 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483368962

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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism by Linda L. Lowry Pdf

Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion. By looking at travel trends and countries large and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In taking a comprehensive and global approach, the Encyclopedia approaches the field of travel and tourism through the numerous disciplines it reaches, including the traditional tourism administration curriculum within schools of business and management, economics, public policy, as well as social science disciplines such as the anthropology and sociology. Key features include: More than 500 entries authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries on individual countries that details the health of the tourism industry, policy and planning approaches, promotion efforts, and primary tourism draws. Additional entries look at major cities and popular destinations Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism Cross-references and further readings A Reader’s Guide grouping articles by disciplinary areas and broad themes

Author : David A. Dorsey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532660894

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The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel by David A. Dorsey Pdf

Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, David A. Dorsey examines the road system in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 B.C.). He offers a comprehensive investigation of the nature and physical characteristics of roads in ancient Israel and reconstructs Israel’s road network as it existed during the Old Testament period.