Fallen Land

Author : Taylor Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466893078

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Fallen Land by Taylor Brown Pdf

An Indie Next pick and an Okra 2016 Winter Selection! Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake. Ava and Callum have only each other in the world and their remarkable horse, Reiver, who carries them through the destruction that is the South. Pursued relentlessly by a murderous slave hunter, tracking dogs, and ruthless ex-partisan rangers, the couple race through a beautiful but ruined land, surviving on food they glean from abandoned farms and the occasional kindness of strangers. In the end, as they intersect with the scorching destruction of Sherman's March, the couple seek a safe haven where they can make a home and begin to rebuild their lives. Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, Fallen Land is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award-winning young author Taylor Brown.

Author : Patrick Flanery
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857898807

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Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery Pdf

From the author of the critically acclaimed Absolution, an astonishing, nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream, and the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia and Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son, Copley, and buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision and settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land, and simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness, Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse, and as reality shifts, and the edges of what is right and wrong blur and are lost, Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.

Author : Keith Wilhite
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609388584

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Contested Terrain by Keith Wilhite Pdf

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.

Author : Fennie van Straalen,Thomas Hartmann,John Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315520070

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Property Rights and Climate Change by Fennie van Straalen,Thomas Hartmann,John Sheehan Pdf

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land use, share common issues regarding the relation between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, and stimulate pathways for further research. This book is essential reading for lawyers, planners, property rights experts and environmentalists.

Author : Mike Mearls,Bill Slavicsek,Rodney Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN : 0786956208

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Heroes of the Fallen Lands by Mike Mearls,Bill Slavicsek,Rodney Thompson Pdf

Presents guidelines for creating characters in the popular role playing game, from brave fighters to wily rogues, and includes each character class's list of feats, weapons, armor, and adventuring gear.

Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015004021252

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Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application by Thomas Robert Malthus Pdf

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris,Rafael R. Ioris,Sergei V. Shubin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498594721

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Frontiers of Development in the Amazon by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris,Rafael R. Ioris,Sergei V. Shubin Pdf

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers. This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that question the methods of development and the range of socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces, placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive—at times violent—clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and multiple programs of modernization and national integration. Scholars of Latin American studies, international development, environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Samuel Hollander
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802007902

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The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus by Samuel Hollander Pdf

Hollander investigates the relation of Malthusian economics to that of the other great classicists - particularly Smith, Ricardo, J.B. Say, and the French physiocrats. He redefines our common perception of Malthus's method and character.

Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487002275

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Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga Pdf

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.

Author : Samuel Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134823024

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The Literature of Political Economy by Samuel Hollander Pdf

Samuel Hollander is widely recognized as one of the most important and controversial historians of economic thought. This second volume collects together essays extending beyond classical economics, the subject with which he is most associated. This collection includes: * studies in Scholastic, Smithian and Marshallian literature * papers on the Corn-Law pamphlet literature of 1815, the post-Ricardian dissension, and the marginal revolution * essays on T.R. Malthus, including four bibliographical studies The volume also includes an autobiographical section and reviews of a broad range of important books published in the last thirty years.

Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Rent
ISBN : UCAL:B4518741

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Thomas Robert Malthus on the Nature and Progress of Rent by Thomas Robert Malthus Pdf

Author : Keith Pluymers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812253078

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No Wood, No Kingdom by Keith Pluymers Pdf

No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

Author : Henry Charles Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000080053

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Principles of Political Economy by Henry Charles Carey Pdf

Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Classical school of economics
ISBN : 0521247756

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Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Robert Malthus Pdf

This set provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. It contains the full text of the first 1820 edition, including Malthus's own invaluable 70-page summary, and contains details of all the additions, omissions, and emendations that occurred between the first and the second, posthumous, edition of 1836. The first edition is extremely rare, and for over 150 years confusions and disagreements have inevitably occurred in the interpretation of Malthus's economics because of the absence of any systematic record of the differences between the two editions. The editor has written a lengthy and authoritative introduction giving an account, derived mainly from contemporary correspondence, of the events and circumstances surrounding the publication of the two editions. It shows the relationship between the Principles and Malthus's other writings and activities as a political economist. there is also an editorial commentary that aims to explain the significance and origin of the alterations.

Author : Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024513172

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An inquiry into the nature and progress of rent, etc by Thomas Robert Malthus Pdf