Baker Towers

Author : Jennifer Haigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061738661

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Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh Pdf

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.

Author : Jennifer Haigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : 0060787244

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Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh Pdf

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.

Author : Keith Baker
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786956593

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City of Towers by Keith Baker Pdf

The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coast’s newest D&D® campaign setting. Author Keith Baker’s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games. AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. From the Paperback edition.

Author : Jennifer Haigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062097385

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News from Heaven by Jennifer Haigh Pdf

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments. Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly, entrancingly alive on the page," comparable to Richard Russo's Empire Falls.

Author : Michael G. Shapland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192537225

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Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship by Michael G. Shapland Pdf

It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences all across England over the course of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Initially these towers were exclusively of timber, and quite modest in their scale, although only a handful are known from archaeological excavation. There followed the so-called 'tower-nave' churches, towers with only a tiny chapel located inside, which appear to have had a dual function as buildings of elite worship and symbols of secular power and authority. For the first time, this book gathers together the evidence for these remarkable buildings, many of which still stand incorporated into the fabric of Norman and later parish churches and castles. It traces their origin in monasteries, where kings and bishops drew upon Continental European practice to construct centrally-planned, tower-like chapels for private worship and burial, and to mark gates and important entrances, particularly within the context of the tenth-century Monastic Reform. Adopted by the secular aristocracy to adorn their own manorial sites, it argues that many of the known examples would have provided strategic advantage as watchtowers over roads, rivers and beacon-systems, and have acted as focal points for the mustering of troops. The tower-nave form persisted into early Norman England, where it may have influenced a variety of high-status building types, such as episcopal chapels and monastic belltowers, and even the keeps and gatehouses of the earliest stone castles. The aim of this book is to finally establish the tower-nave as an important Anglo-Saxon building type, and to explore the social, architectural, and landscape contexts in which they operated.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : MINN:31951D03556034R

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Investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority by United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate Tennessee Valley Authority Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Corporations, Government
ISBN : UOM:39015068077059

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Investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority by United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority Pdf

Author : John Woody Papworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Heraldry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014276836

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An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland by John Woody Papworth Pdf

Author : James Norris Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Architecture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024326654

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The Beauties of Ireland by James Norris Brewer Pdf

Author : Amber Casali
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781680510614

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Hiking Washington's Fire Lookouts by Amber Casali Pdf

This new guide to hiking the fire lookouts of Washington’s Cascades and Olympics is the quintessential Northwest guide and will appeal to a wide range of hikers. Features of Hiking Washington’s Fire Lookouts include: 44 fire lookouts—those that feature access by trail All lookouts are accessible during the typical summer season Only lookouts that are still standing—no hiking up to a barren mound of broken concrete! Routes are not technical—hikers just need boots, trekking poles, and, probably, lunch Lookout history, anecdotes, and full-color photos throughout Each lookout description features the year it was constructed; access details, including overnight stays and winter access; location and land manager; roundtrip distance on trail; trail elevation gain; lookout’s elevation; map info; trailhead GPS coordinates; information about any permits or fees; and driving directions to the trailhead. Introductory chapters provide an overview of Washington State’s lookouts, as well as information about their upkeep, lookout architectural types, and general hiking tips, while an appendix provides an overview to a handful of additional lookouts in the state that are not hikable.

Author : Judith Pearl Summerfield
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004370975

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A Man Comes from Someplace by Judith Pearl Summerfield Pdf

A story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a lost world, a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. Explores narrative as cultural study, cultural performance, meta-narrative, and auto-ethnography. Story as antidote to trauma, the insistence that we know the past, and remember those who came before.

Author : Kenneth W. Harmon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798888452172

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In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow by Kenneth W. Harmon Pdf

When the spirit of an American airman befriends a Japanese woman and her daughter in the days before the Hiroshima bomb, he races against time to save the ones he loves the most. When American WWII bombardier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Japan, his spirit remains trapped as a yurei ghost. Dazed, he follows Kiyomi Oshiro, a war widow struggling to care for her young daughter, Ai, as food is scarce, work at the factory is brutal, and her in-laws treat her like a servant. Watching Kiyomi and Ai together, Micah’s intolerance for the enemy is challenged. As his concern for the mother and daughter grows, so does his guilt for his part in their suffering. Micah discovers a new reality when Kiyomi and Ai dream—one which allows him to interact with them. While his feelings for them deepen, imminent destruction looms. Hiroshima is about to be bombed, and Micah must warn Kiyomi and her daughter. In a place where dreams are real, Micah races against time to save Kiyomi and Ai, while battling the old beliefs he embodied as a soldier and his idea of family. In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow is a tale about love in its most extraordinary forms—forgiveness, sacrifice, and perseverance against impossible odds.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2542 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : London (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044098323892

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The Post Office London Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015012360528

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Building News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tracy McDonald,Daniel Vandersommers
Publisher : MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780773558151

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Zoo Studies by Tracy McDonald,Daniel Vandersommers Pdf

Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time? In response to the emergence of environmental and animal studies, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theorists, literature scholars, and historians around the world have begun to explore the significance of zoological parks, past and present. Zoo Studies considers the modern zoo from a range of approaches and disciplines, united in a desire to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman animals. The volume begins with an account of the first modern mental hospital, La Salpêtrière, established in 1656, and the first panoptical zoo, the menagerie at Versailles, created in 1662 by the same royal architect; the final chapter presents a choreographic performance that imagines the Toronto Zoo as a place where the human body can be inspired by animal bodies. From beginning to end, through interdisciplinary collaboration, this volume decentres the human subject and offers alternative ways of thinking about zoos and their inhabitants. This collection immerses readers in the lives of animals and their experiences of captivity and asks us to reflect on our own assumptions about both humans and animals. An original and groundbreaking work, Zoo Studies will change the way readers see nonhuman animals and themselves.