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Author : Glen David Short
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781552126028
This book is about the author's five and a half month journey through Mexico and Central America. It describes the places he visited, people he met, and his experiences through ten different countries while Hurricane Mitch struck the region.
Author : Paul Sutcliffe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595364770
This Odyssey of an Octogenarian is certainly different. From 1920, when at age 5, my first disastrous adventure occurred until the present time, I have experienced moment after moment of unexpected surprises, of traumatic panics, of impossible coincidences and finally of idiotic decisions I made which some how have always turned into very happy memories. I know that most books are written for monetary profit. At ninety years of age, and with out any close relatives, my writing for profit is kind of ridiculous. Of the two other choices, I hope this effort will be construed as a labor of love rather than as an ego trip. In any event I have arranged for any possible royalties to be donated to Bakersfield and other American worth while endeavors. So please read and enjoy! In any event I have arranged for any possible royalties to be set aside and donated directly to the Katrina-Rita disaster fund.
Author : Alan Pietsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949616053
Ophelia is a little sixth-grader who loves to read. She's a loner and doesn't have many friends, so she gets lost in the characters in her book. Her journey this time, though, takes her inside the stories that she loves in her crazy odyssey.
Author : Benni Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1626942811
Philomela Nightingale and her employee, Janice McGill, take the trip of a lifetime--around the world. They fly to amazing places, stay in lovely hotels, meet fascinating people, and experience different cultures. To their horror they also become involved with kidnapping and murder. Will Philomela's observational powers and intuition enable her to help the police solve these puzzling mysteries or has she finally bitten off more than she can handle?
Author : David Slavin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062839565
Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson in Odd Gods, the critically acclaimed and hilarious illustrated series about the middle school gods you never hear about in myths. In book two, Oddonis must embark on the strangest odyssey ever to save Zeus from the world’s cutest curse. Sometimes it feels like Oddonis can’t do anything right. Especially compared to his literally perfect twin brother, Adonis. But this time, Oddonis has really messed up by accidentally turning his father, the all-powerful king of the gods, Zeus, into a giant baby. Now it’s up to Oddonis to assemble a team of his odd friends—Mathena, Gaseous, and Puneous—and journey to the underworld to get the curse reversed. Along the way, Oddonis will have to overcome a series of dangerous obstacles, his obnoxious brother, his own self-doubt, and the horrible scents of his best friend Gaseous. Can Gods as unlikely, unusual, and unheroic as Oddonis and his friends really save the day? Get ready to overcome the odds in the second hilarious book about the Odd Gods from author David Slavin, filled with dozens of black-and-white illustrations by award-winning artist Adam Lane.
Author : Frederick Reiken
Publisher : Delta
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385333382
“A haunting first novel that takes a horrifying family calamity and turns it into a form of magic.”—The New York Times On a sunny spring morning, sixteen-year-old Ethan Shumway walks down his gravel driveway, turns the bend, and vanishes without a trace. As police search for clues, Ethan's devastated family and friends—from his parents and four siblings to the older woman who was more than a teacher to Ethan—grapple for answers in the teenager's enigmatic life. As this elusive mystery slowly weaves its way into the fabric of the family, Ethan's younger brother, Philip, becomes the last, most stubborn searcher of all: a boy caught between the power and fragility of youth, between the bonds and fissures of family, searching for understanding in the unbearable presence of loss. Praise for The Odd Sea “A powerful debut novel.”—People “[An] extraordinarily good first novel . . . The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama nor any word out of place.”—Time “A luminous parable about growing up, about the necessity of dealing with inevitable loss and questions that cannot be answered . . . Reiken is a smoothly seductive storyteller. He has talent for telling but not telling, for revealing only enough information to whet our appetite.”—Newsday
Author : Francis M. Dunn,Thomas Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521413190
This volume explores the various ways in which literary works begin, with essays on nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature (including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, philosophy, and biography). This collection offers an important perspective by bringing together a variety of authors and a broad range of approaches, from formal analysis of opening devices to post-structural interpretation.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520293632
"This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Justin Arft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780192663603
Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : MINN:31951D024060073
Author : Marco Cáceres di Iorio
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Honduras
ISBN : 9781926918075
Honduras is known as the classic "Banana Republic" - a characterization of a politically backward country ruled by a tiny wealthy class. The phrase was coined by the North American writer O. Henry in his book, Cabbages and Kings. It conveys the image of a nation plagued by military coup d'états... historically undeniable in the case of Honduras. The controversial overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009 represents a watershed in Honduran history. Was President Zelaya an innocent victim of the military and judicial systems, or did government officials act wisely in rescuing Honduras from a president intent on remaining in power indefinitely and dismantling the country's democratic institutions? Although it awakened memories of past coups, it is unclear whether this was a traditional or a "hybrid coup", featuring some elements of what the world tends to associate with coups, but lacking others. The collection of short essays in this book offers personal insights on these questions and on a wide range of events, themes, and philosophical struggles that defined the political crisis in Honduras. About the Author: Marco Cáceres di Iorio is the editor of the online newspaper Honduras Weekly. He is also the cofounder of projecthonduras.com, an international network of volunteers involved in humanitarian development projects aimed at empowering the people of Honduras. He directs the annual Conference on Honduras in the town of Copán Ruinas in northwestern Honduras. He was born in Tegucigalpa.
Author : Joseph Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1726
Category : Greek language
ISBN : OXFORD:590932180
Author : Roger G. Schroeder,Barbara B. Flynn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471008705
The most thorough, valid set of findings on global manufacturing and winning practices worldwide This eye-opening resource sets a new standard for how manufacturing practices are viewed in today's business world. The results of an extensive research project spanning 164 factories in the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom determine the best path to high performance manufacturing. This is one of the first books to offer comparisons of manufacturing in these five countries, addressing their current issues and providing insights that affect manufacturing worldwide. Researchers from such universities as the London Business School, Wake Forest University, Yokohama University, and the University of Minnesota detail how manufacturing leaders are raising the bar on practices in product development, organizational alignment, quality management, and more. Covering the vital areas of machinery, electronics, and auto components, they examine the most effective methods and techniques across a host of functions within manufacturing-looking at how everything from new technology and information systems to human resource practices and manufacturing strategy should be introduced into a plant environment to achieve high performance manufacturing. Using data from companies such as Texas Instruments, Honda, Sony, Prince, John Deere, and Caterpillar, High Performance Manufacturing takes a comprehensive view by showing how to select and integrate the practices that best fit a plant's particular situation-the most critical and difficult task to achieve in practice. With its strong research base and high caliber of contributors, this unique volume will inspire managers of any country or industry to set their own path to high performance manufacturing.
Author : Erica Rowell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780810858503
The Brothers Grim examines the inner workings of the Coens' body of work, discussing a movie in terms of its primary themes, social and political contexts, narrative techniques, influences, relationship to their other films, and the Coens' referential modus operandi that retreads cinema, literature, history, philosophy, and art to amplify their films' themes.
Author : Gerald Weeks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664122703
I now introduce my second Anthology: " Lengths and Breadths of Wonder " as a follow up to my previous: " Heights and Depths of Wonder " published in 2017. I have again compiled wisely to glean the quality therein from my 2018 - 2020 collection of eclectic poetry of many themes to interest both esoteric and generic taste for my readers digest.