Author : Brenda Navarro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911547682
Empty Houses
Brenda Navarro
Empty Houses
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Interpreting Empty Houses
Ana Ruiz,Ruiz
Author : Ana Ruiz,Ruiz
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780866905695
Interpreting Empty Houses by Ana Ruiz,Ruiz Pdf
How often do we tend to skip the houses without planets when looking at one's birth chart for the very first time? Interpreting Empty Houses provides a detailed account of these houses that are most often overlooked when delineating horoscopes as they, like houses holding planets, provide valuable insight pertaining to the department of life they each rule. The author explains the meanings of each of the twelve houses when empty as determined by the condition of its planetary ruler as it may be positioned throughout the remaining eleven houses of the horoscope. About the Author: Ana Ruiz was born in Spain and resides in Canada. She has been contributing columns and articles on astrology since she began her path down this road of stellar wisdom during the mid-eighties. Her writings have appeared in various newspapers and magazines such as American Astrology and Dell Horoscope. She has also contributed many articles to the American Federation of Astrologers bulletin; Today's Astrologer, as well as a monthly Sun sign column to their Web site. She is also the author of The Spirit of Ancient Egypt, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, Prediction Techniques Regarding Romance and The Soul of Andalusia. The author's interest in this area of astrology arose from the fact that she has five planets in the 7th house, leaving exactly half of her natal chart with empty houses. The lack of information on this subject, or books for that matter, further inspired Ruiz to study these houses and share her research with the hopes of filling this gap.
Empty Houses
David Kurnick
Author : David Kurnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691153162
Empty Houses by David Kurnick Pdf
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly--the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin--writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies--this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, David Kurnick reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Exploring neglected texts in order to reread canonical ones, Kurnick shows that the theatrical ambitions of major novelists had crucial formal and ideological effects on their masterworks. Investigating a key stretch of each of these novelistic careers, he establishes the theatrical genealogy of some of the signal techniques of narrative interiority. In the process he illustrates how the novel is marked by a hunger for palpable collectivity, and argues that the genre's discontents have been a shaping force in its evolution. A groundbreaking rereading of the novel, Empty Houses provides new ways to consider the novelistic imagination.
Empty Houses
Betsy Thornton
Author : Betsy Thornton
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780106526
Empty Houses by Betsy Thornton Pdf
Mystery series debut: Newly arrived in Arizona, Kate finds her hideaway shattered by the murder of two tourists—and Kate fears she may be next. Dudley, Arizona, is an isolated desert town that attracts people who need to escape: Kate Waters flees there following an abusive relationship and Phoenix cop Malcolm MacGregor comes to recover from the death of his wife. No one knows why Carrie and Wes Cooper arrived. But when they are shot dead, the police try to protect the tourist trade by making a quick arrest—without asking too many questions. Having met Carrie briefly, Kate is still unsettled by the encounter—and convinced that the wrong man has been arrested for the crime. Was the shooting random, or is there something in the victims’ history back east that would explain it? When she teams up with Malcolm MacGregor, Kate uncovers disturbing links between her own past and Carrie’s. Is Kate herself at risk? The first in the Kate Waters series by the author of the Chloe Newcomb mysteries.
The Empty Houses
John Paulits
Author : John Paulits
Publisher : Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619503403
The Empty Houses by John Paulits Pdf
Dougie’s best friend Curly dies in an accident. Yet, Dougie keeps hearing Curly’s voice coming from the strangest places. When Dougie’s mom sees him talking to… nothing, she gets very worried. When Curly’s voice tells Dougie it wasn’t an accident that sent him off the second floor porch, Dougie promises to do what he can to bring the two men responsible to Justice—if only Curly’s twin sister didn’t have to be involved.
Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
Samanta Schweblin
Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525541417
Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) by Samanta Schweblin Pdf
Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
The Full House and the Empty House
LK James
Author : LK James
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798890680303
The Full House and the Empty House by LK James Pdf
*Audio Enhanced Read-Along EbookThe Full House and the Empty House are very good friends— when they dance they admire in each other the qualities they lack within themselves. Even though the houses are different on the inside, it doesn't reflect how they feel on the outside. The bathroom of the full house was full of many bathroom-y things. There was a big bathtub with gold clawed feet, a sink shaped like a seashell, a hairbrush and comb made of bone,and cakes of lilac soap. In the bathroom of the empty house was just a toilet and a sink. In the evening when the two houses grew tired of dancing, they would rest on the hillside and look out at the world together.
Home and Foreign Investment, 1870–1913
A. K. Cairncross
Author : A. K. Cairncross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107586840
Home and Foreign Investment, 1870–1913 by A. K. Cairncross Pdf
Originally published in 1953, this book presents studies of capital accumulation and investment, both in Britain and internationally, from 1870 to 1913.
Empty Mansions
Bill Dedman,Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Author : Bill Dedman,Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345534538
Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman,Paul Clark Newell, Jr. Pdf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.
Houses for Sale
Michael Meredith,Hilary Sample
Author : Michael Meredith,Hilary Sample
Publisher : Corraini
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8875707049
Houses for Sale by Michael Meredith,Hilary Sample Pdf
Journey with architects Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample through the history of architecture on their quest to find a perfect home In Houses for Sale, architects Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS Architects invite readers on their family's quest for a new home through the annals of architectural history, exploring details and peculiarities from some of the greatest names in architecture. When they realize that there isn't any one house that suits them perfectly, they decide to design their own. In doing so, Meredith and Sample come to the conclusion that no building is perfect and that architecture is an exciting, ever-evolving project in which the process of bringing a new building to life through design and construction can be even more satisfying than the final product itself.Published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Houses for Sale is a charming and thoughtful introduction to architecture's varied history, with full-color illustrations and simple text that are suitable for aspiring young designers and experienced architects alike.
The Adventure of the Empty House
Arthur Conan Doyle
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180945769
The Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf
»The Adventure of the Empty House« is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, about the brilliant Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in 1903. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE [1859-1930], was a Scottish physician and author, best known for his stories about the groundbreaking master detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle wrote a total of 56 short stories and four novels about Sherlock Holmes and his constant companion Dr. Watson.
Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027996680
Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf
The Empty House Next Door
Alan Mallach
Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 1558443754
The Empty House Next Door by Alan Mallach Pdf
Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategies for community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant properties in the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused by vacant properties, jump-start housing markets in struggling neighborhoods, create the potential for future revival, and transform vacant properties into community assets.
First Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Housing of the Working Classes
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Housing
ISBN : MINN:31951D02309857K
First Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Housing of the Working Classes by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes Pdf
The Clear Stream
Marion Shaw
Author : Marion Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405514774
The Clear Stream by Marion Shaw Pdf
Winifred Holtby was a prolific journalist and writer whose most famous work South Riding is on many university courses. She was an active campaigner for several progressive causes during the inter-war period such as pacifism, feminism and most important to her, racial equality and harmony in South Africa. She was the subject of Vera Britain's Testament of Friendship. She was essentially a 'woman in her time' and yet could also be seen as an index to many of the progressive movements which were around in the pre-war days and in this sense she was indeed a 'clear stream'. Written in a wonderfully accessible style interspersed with excellent research as well as warmth from one born in the same district as Winifred herself this is the definitive biography of a woman ahead of her time.