Riding Shotgun With Norman Wallace

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826361424

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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace by William Wyckoff Pdf

In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to survey every corner of the Grand Canyon State. Possessing a passion for photography, Wallace documented Arizona throughout his travels. From 1906 to 1969 Wallace photographed the state’s natural and rural landscapes; its burgeoning infrastructure including roads, bridges, and dams; and its towns and cities, some of which experienced exponential growth following World War II. Nearly one hundred years later, Wyckoff retraces Wallace’s southwestern travels using the engineer’s photographs and meticulous notebooks as a guide. The author rephotographs many of Wallace’s iconic vantage points, giving us a historical tour of Arizona, a “then-and-now” viewpoint that also tells the personal story of Wyckoff’s own vicarious travels with Wallace through Arizona’s vast countryside and its urban centers and small towns.

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826361417

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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace by William Wyckoff Pdf

2021 Southwest Books of the Year In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to survey every corner of the Grand Canyon State. Possessing a passion for photography, Wallace documented Arizona throughout his travels. From 1906 to 1969 Wallace photographed the state's natural and rural landscapes; its burgeoning infrastructure including roads, bridges, and dams; and its towns and cities, some of which experienced exponential growth following World War II. Nearly one hundred years later, Wyckoff retraces Wallace's southwestern travels using the engineer's photographs and meticulous notebooks as a guide. The author rephotographs many of Wallace's iconic vantage points, giving us a historical tour of Arizona, a "then-and-now" viewpoint that also tells the personal story of Wyckoff's own vicarious travels with Wallace through Arizona's vast countryside and its urban centers and small towns.

Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816553280

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Rim to River by Tom Zoellner Pdf

A sharp examination of Arizona by a nationally acclaimed writer, Rim to River follows Tom Zoellner on a 790-mile walk across his home state as he explores key elements of Arizona culture, politics, and landscapes. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about a vibrant and baffling place.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780816542550

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Postcards from the Baja California Border by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Author : Yolonda Youngs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Composition (Photography)
ISBN : 9781496238351

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Framing Nature by Yolonda Youngs Pdf

Author : Jared Orsi
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780806193533

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Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis by Jared Orsi Pdf

In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer. The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito—now further threatened by the looming border wall—reemerge in Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to “reclaim” Quitobaquito’s pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the O’odham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of “preservation.” Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with O’odham peoples to restore their rightful heritage. Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks—and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.

Author : Rachel McLean Sailor
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780826354235

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Meaningful Places by Rachel McLean Sailor Pdf

The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn’t just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place—revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement. The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

Author : Vicki Goldberg
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0826310915

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Photography in Print by Vicki Goldberg Pdf

Essays by photographers, critics, and philosophers.

Author : Dan Wallace,Lucasfilm Ltd.
Publisher : Dark Horse Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506714851

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The Art of Star Wars Rebels Limited Edition by Dan Wallace,Lucasfilm Ltd. Pdf

In the early days of the rebellion, a tight-knit group of rebels from various backgrounds banded together against all odds to do their part in the larger mission of defeating the Galactic Empire, sparking hope across the galaxy. The award-winning team from Lucasfilm Animation brought the beloved occupants of the Ghost into our homes five years ago, now, take a step behind-the-scenes to witness the journey from paper to screen with The Art of Star Wars Rebels. Featuring never-before-seen concept art and process pieces along with exclusive commentary from the creative team behind the show.

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316175296

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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace Pdf

The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time. "The Pale King is by turns funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying, and rousing." --Laura Miller, Salon

Author : Hana Samek
Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013236941

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The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920 by Hana Samek Pdf

Author : Elvin K. Wyly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1949199088

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Geography's Quantitative Revolutions by Elvin K. Wyly Pdf

Do you have a smartphone? Billions of people on the planet now navigate their daily lives with the kind of advanced Global Positioning System capabilities once reserved for the most secretive elements of America's military-industrial complex. But when so many people have access to the most powerful technologies humanity has ever devised for the precise determination of geographical coordinates, do we still need a specialized field of knowledge called geography? Just as big data and artificial intelligence promise to automate occupations ranging from customer service and truck driving to stock trading and financial analysis, our age of algorithmic efficiency seems to eliminate the need for humans who call themselves geographers--at the precise moment when engaging with information about the peoples, places, and environments of a diverse world is more popular than ever before. How did we get here? This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's "quantitative revolution." It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage--a dangerous, cybernetic form of thought known as militant neo-Kantianism--into the network architectures of today's pervasive worlds of surveillance capitalism.

Author : Nate Bennett,Stephen Miles
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503601000

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Riding Shotgun by Nate Bennett,Stephen Miles Pdf

The role of Chief Operating Officer is clearly important. In fact, it's arguable that the number two position is the toughest job in a company. COOs play a critical part in executing the strategies developed by top management. And, in many cases, they are being groomed—or test-driven—as the firm's CEO-elect. Riding Shotgun provides unique insight into this little-understood role. The authors develop a framework that illustrates who the COO is, why a company should create this position, and what the challenges associated with this job entail. Drawing heavily on first-person accounts from top executives, the authors offer a set of strategies to inform individuals who aspire to serve as COO. With a new preface and conclusion, and even more interviews from some of the most established and important companies in today's economy, this book is a one-of-a-kind resource for the C-suite and the boardroom.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316535625

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Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell Pdf

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351187653

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The Kitemaker by Ruskin Bond Pdf

Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classics ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Time Stops at Shamli’. Two of his autobiographical works, ‘Life with Father’ and ‘My Father’s Last Letter’, are also included in this selection. Filled with characteristic warmth, gentle humour and keen observations on daily life, this collection brings together some of the fi nest short fiction by one of India’s best-loved authors.