I Speak Of The City

Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226792736

Get Book

I Speak of the City by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Pdf

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience. From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.

Author : Stephen Wolf
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0231140657

Get Book

I Speak of the City by Stephen Wolf Pdf

I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of Hudson's arrival, Stuyvesant's prejudice, and the city's astonishing growth and gentrification. They speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements. They portray the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and the decay, fear, and unexpected kindness on a subway ride. They take place on sidewalks, bridges, and docks; in taxis, buses, and ferries; and even within nature. The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, and other familiar landmarks are recast through the prism of individual experience yet still reflect the seeming invincibility of New York and its status as a cultural magnet for the freethinking and experimental. While certain subjects and themes can be found in all urban verse, poems about New York have their own restless rhythm and ever-changing style, much like the city itself. Whether writing sonnets, epics, or experimental or imagistic verse, each of these poets has been inspired by the marvels and madness, humor and heartbreak of an enduring city.

Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 022627358X

Get Book

I Speak of the City by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Pdf

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience. From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : OCLC:1159976672

Get Book

I Speak of the City by Anonim Pdf

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811211738

Get Book

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz Pdf

Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : S.F. Masterworks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 0575105232

Get Book

City by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?

Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466897878

Get Book

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson Pdf

The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless—an outcast—because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. With powerful illustrations by Emily Carroll, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak: The Graphic Novel comes alive for new audiences and fans of the classic novel. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345515667

Get Book

The City & The City by China Miéville Pdf

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.

Author : James Altucher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1490313370

Get Book

Choose Yourself! by James Altucher Pdf

The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It's all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself. New tools and economic forces have emerged to make it possible for individuals to create art, make millions of dollars and change the world without “help.” More and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real inward success (personal happiness and health) and outward success (fulfilling work and wealth). This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples–including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher's own heartbreaking and inspiring story–Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.

Author : Arianna Davis
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781541646315

Get Book

What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis Pdf

Having doubts about your next step? Ask yourself what artist Frida Kahlo would do in this “beautiful volume . . . sure to inspire” (Boston Globe). NAMED A BEST GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Instyle, Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Esquire, Boston Globe, and Redbook Revered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a feminist symbol of daring creativity. Her paintings have earned her admirers around the world, but perhaps her greatest work of art was her own life. What Would Frida Do? celebrates this icon’s signature style, outspoken politics, and boldness in love and art—even in the face of hardship and heartbreak. We see her tumultuous marriage with the famous muralist Diego Rivera and rumored flings with Leon Trotsky and Josephine Baker. In this irresistible read, writer Arianna Davis conjures Frida’s brave spirit, encouraging women to create fearlessly and stand by their own truths.

Author : Matthew Vitz
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0822370298

Get Book

A City on a Lake by Matthew Vitz Pdf

In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering. From the prerevolutionary efforts to create a hygienic city supportive of capitalist growth, through revolutionary demands for a more democratic distribution of resources, to the mid-twentieth-century emergence of a technocratic bureaucracy that served the interests of urban elites, Mexico City's environmental history helps us better understand how urban power has been exercised, reproduced, and challenged throughout Latin America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074657050

Get Book

Homiletic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Brody
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593173688

Get Book

I Speak Boy by Jessica Brody Pdf

A phone-obsessed twelve-year-old girl, frustrated by the cryptic boys in her life, discovers a magic app that can read boys' thoughts in this modern-day retelling of Emma by Jane Austen. After a matchmaking attempt for her best friend, Harper, goes wrong, Emmy is fed up. Why are boys so hard to figure out? But then something amazing happens--she wakes up with a new app on her phone: iSpeak Boy! Suddenly Emmy has the information every girl wants to know--the super-secret knowledge of how boys think . . . and who they like! Now Emmy is using her magical app to make matches left and right. But can she use it to help Harper, the only person who doesn't seem to buy into Emmy's "gift"? And when her secret gets out and the app ends up in the wrong hands, can Emmy figure out how to undo the damage she's caused?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015068432825

Get Book

Sessional Papers by Anonim Pdf

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Author : Elana Goldberg Shohamy,Eliezer Ben Rafael,Monica Barni
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847692979

Get Book

Linguistic Landscape in the City by Elana Goldberg Shohamy,Eliezer Ben Rafael,Monica Barni Pdf

Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space. --