Genius Of Place

Author : Justin Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306819841

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Genius of Place by Justin Martin Pdf

The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.Most of all, he was a social reformer. He didn't simply create places that were beautiful in the abstract. An awesome and timeless intent stands behind Olmsted's designs, allowing his work to survive to the present day. With our urgent need to revitalize cities and a widespread yearning for green space, his work is more relevant now than it was during his lifetime. Justin Martin restores Olmsted to his rightful place in the pantheon of great Americans.

Author : Max Putzel
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807112054

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Genius of Place by Max Putzel Pdf

Until recently most discussions of William Faulkner have centered exclusively on his novels. Yet no chronicle of Faulkner's Growth as a literary artist, perhaps America’s foremost in this century, can afford to overlook the years he spent struggling to establish himself as a writer of short stories. To trace in detail Faulkner's personal and artistic growth during the prolific years 1925-1931, when he was approaching artistic ripeness and earning belated recognition, has hitherto been impossible. There seemed to be no means of dating the innumerable drafts, the false starts and fumbling revisions, among the thousands of sheets left behind when he died in 1962. Max Putzel’s critical study of these crucial formative years fills this gap—assigning dates to the sketches and drafts of stories and relating them both to Faulkner’s jealously guarded private life and the several critical histories of the novels that have recently appeared. Putzel maintains there is a necessary, a “symbiotic” relation between the novels and the stories. He also finds that the short story form Faulkner found so hard to master liberated a lyrical power that had been stifled during his confused dilettante period as a poet in a provincial southern town. Yet his turbulent, ambivalent feelings about that town and its inhabitants were essential to his development, however slowly and reluctantly he surrendered to their benign influence—the genius of his homeplace. Faulkner also was sensitive to the monumental revolutionary changes, even the trivial fads and foibles, of his own time—the changes that swept the world outside of Oxford, Mississippi, after the Great War he so regretted having missed. Faulkner’s maturing vision of man, history, and class and caste relations was affected by Einstein’s theory of relativity, Freud’s probing into the hidden wellsprings of human behavior, Eliot’s borrowings from anthropology, Joyce’s new rhetoric, Diaghilev’s eclecticism, Picasso’s ventures in cubism and classicism---not to mention the Treaty of Versailles, Prohibition, jazz, free love, free spending, gang violence, false prosperity, the crash, and the depression. These factors also helped shape a style capable of evoking passion and tenderness, anger and laughter, and every intermediate shade of feeling---a style demanding the creative effort of readers. Genius of Place takes all this into account while seeking to determine what is likely to endure and reward future readers of works like “Carcassonne” and The Sound and the Fury, the Snopes trilogy and As I Lay Dying, “Dry September” and Sanctuary.

Author : Christopher C. Apap
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611689266

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The Genius of Place by Christopher C. Apap Pdf

The Genius of Place examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental reorientation of American identity away from the Atlantic or global ties that held sway in the early republic and toward more localized forms of identification. Instead of addressing the sweep of the nation, American authors, artists, geographers, and politicians shifted from the larger reach of the globe to the more manageable scope of the local and sectional. Paradoxically, that local representation became the primary mode through which early Americans construed their emerging national identity. This newfound cultural obsession with locality impacted the literary consolidation and representation of key American imagined places - New England, the plantation, the West - in the decades between 1816 and 1836. Apap's examination of the intersections between local and national representations and exploration of the myths of space and place that shaped U.S. identity through the nineteenth century will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary readership.

Author : Justin Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1459622812

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This definitive, first full - scale biography of Olmsted - famed designer of New York's Central Park - reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.

Author : John Dixon Hunt,Peter Willis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262580926

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The Genius of the Place by John Dixon Hunt,Peter Willis Pdf

A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteenth century when its distinctive feature emerged, to the heyday of the landscape garden under "Capability" Brown and the reactions to his pure formalism under Repton and Loudon in the 1800s. This edition contains a new introduction and bibliography covering the many developments in garden history during the last dozen years.

Author : Wes Jackson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781582438481

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Consulting the Genius of the Place by Wes Jackson Pdf

Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, if one prefers, nature in general—as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices. Jackson believes the time is right to do away with annual monoculture grains, which are vulnerable to national security threats and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs. Soil erosion and the poisons polluting our water and air—all associated with agriculture from its beginnings—foretell a population with its natural fertility greatly destroyed. In this eloquent and timely volume, Jackson argues we must look to nature itself to lead us out of the mess we've made. The natural ecosystems will tell us, if we listen, what should happen to the future of food.

Author : Tom Clark,Robert Creeley
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811212505

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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place by Tom Clark,Robert Creeley Pdf

An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Creeley and Clark--together with Creeley's own "Autobiography" (1990), a talk he gave on poetry and "the commonplace" at New College of California (1991), and many personal photographs of himself and family and friends. Published by New Directions, 80 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10011. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:420274670

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Le Prélude ou la Croissance de l'Esprit d'un Poète by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Linda A. Hill,Greg Brandeau,Emily Truelove,Kent Lineback
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422187593

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Collective Genius by Linda A. Hill,Greg Brandeau,Emily Truelove,Kent Lineback Pdf

Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there’s only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it—and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a “good” leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the “collective genius” of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen, Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don’t create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation is allowed to happen again and again—an environment where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the fabric of your business.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UVA:X030216384

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z287777809

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“The” Archaeological Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UIUC:30112117961752

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Proceedings by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Pdf

Author : Richard Holt Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090311317

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Literary: Goethe and his influence. Wordsworth and his genius. Shelley's poetical mysticism. Mr. Browning. The poetry of the Old Testament. Arthur Hugh Clough. The poetry of Matthew Arnold Tennyson. Nathaniel Hawthorne by Richard Holt Hutton Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798822536692

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Summary of Justin Martin's Genius of Place by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 John and Charlotte Olmsted welcomed a baby boy named Fred in 1822. He was the first child for John, age thirty, and Charlotte, age twenty-one. He was named after Frederick Olmsted, John’s older brother who had died a few years earlier. #2 John Olmsted was a soft man who was capable of real sweetness toward those he loved. He was a seventh-generation descendant of one of the city’s founders, James Olmsted. Fred’s mother, Charlotte, died of an overdose of laudanum six months after the birth of her second child. #3 Following his mother’s death, John Olmsted briefly stopped writing in his diary. He then picked back up with: No a/c kept of expenses from February 24 to March 12. He left the care of his two young sons to a live-in nurse. #4 Fred’s parents took him to a school that used a curriculum based on the work of Hartford residents. The first Puritan settlers had been fervent about education, believing that if they taught their children to read and reason, their principles might be passed along to subsequent generations.

Author : Brian Bouldrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Gay youth
ISBN : UOM:39015028871708

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The Genius of Desire by Brian Bouldrey Pdf

"Michael Bellman is not your average little boy. He speaks to plates, banisters, and other household objects (preferring them to people). He frequently confesses to sins he never committed (like adultery). And he's hopelessly drawn to the romantic notion of the double life. Though Michael blends into the furniture like the soft patterns in the fabric, he longs for - and imagines - a secret wild self that could break free of convention." "Michael spends summers in Monsalvat, Michigan, coming of age in a loving tangle of great aunts, great uncles, cousins once-removed (but ever-present), and one tough-looking, silently scary great-grandmother. The Kaisers are a very wild, highly eccentric bunch: Great Aunt Teresa reads Michael the original Cinderella story at bedtime, cutting out the gruesome details of blinded step-sisters and severed feet; Great Uncle Jimmy speaks to his dead wife during meals and proudly proclaims himself the Fattest Man in the World; Cousin Ann torments and taunts Michael beyond recognition; reckless Cousin Tommy secretly smokes cigars and can't wait to "kick butt in 'Nam" - and Michael watches every magical move he makes." "A few years and one driver's license later, as family alliances change and long-silent desires surface, Michael begins to understand his attraction to the double life because he's living one - at road-side rest stops, in library washrooms and public parks. Coming out is the first step, coming to terms is the next...." "In The Genius of Desire, Brian Bouldrey performs an amazing feat - beautifully and painfully showing how a very Catholic family can punish their own, without ceasing to love them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved