The Remembered Visit

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764950630

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The Remembered Visit by Edward Gorey Pdf

On a long trip abroad, Gorey's young Drusilla is introduced to high art and gourmet meals. She gamely tries to appreciate the museums, rich food, and architectural wonders that delight her parents, only to find herself drifting along in a puzzling world. But then Miss Skrim-Pshaw takes her for tea with Mr Crague, a sockless, elderly man with a notable past, and their brief encounter is what will haunt Drusilla years later. Her casual promise to the old man has led to sudden recollection, then sad regret. curious coming-of-age tale, Edward Gorey employs his signature dark humor and exquisite illustrations to deftly portray the precociousness of a child on the brink of adulthood. One of the most enigmatic of Gorey's many books, The Remembered Visit has been a favorite of Gorey fans, young and old, since its original release in 1965.

Author : M. N. Srinivas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520341630

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The Remembered Village by M. N. Srinivas Pdf

"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of New Books

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813596068

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The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.

Author : Markus N. A. Bockmuehl
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Apostles
ISBN : 3161505808

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The Remembered Peter by Markus N. A. Bockmuehl Pdf

Collection of texts partly published previously, all rev. and updated.

Author : Jay Lamar,Jeanie Thompson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817350543

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The Remembered Gate by Jay Lamar,Jeanie Thompson Pdf

In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural to the urban, and in time from the first years of the 20th century to the height of the Civil Rights era and beyond.

Author : Victor Burgin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1861892152

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The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin Pdf

The Remembered Film addresses a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life.

Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061965104

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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Pdf

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Author : Miep Gies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439127476

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Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies Pdf

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.

Author : Jim Leary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474245937

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The Remembered Land by Jim Leary Pdf

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life – with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land – the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed – would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today.

Author : Pil Hansen,Bettina Bläsing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474284721

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Performing the Remembered Present by Pil Hansen,Bettina Bläsing Pdf

This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as: * collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts; * autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception; * the journey from learning to memory in performance training; * the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and * memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts. This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology.

Author : Lorretta Riegel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493109777

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His Eye Is on the Sparrow by Lorretta Riegel Pdf

At the Blue Bell Amish School, fourteen-year-old Amelia Stoltzfus has been asked by her teacher, Miss Horning, to stay after school. It's an unusual request, and she's felt edgy and fearful all day long. Worse, Miss Horning has been acting peculiar. Miss Horning asks Amelia to be a substitute teach while she leaves for a month to take care of her ailing mother. After much consideration, Amelia agrees, but she still wonders why Miss Horning is beings so fidgety. By the time she starts making her way home, it's dark out, and Amelia feels nervous and fearful. Footsteps begin following her. Suddenly, she's struck from behind and slumps to the ground. At Amelia's home, her parents, Ben and Elizabeth, are deeply worried. Amelia should have returned from school long before now. They start searching for her, and they soon discover that Miss Horning is missing, too. Neighbors, friends, and even the state police come to help. But there is also a silent, sullen stranger who lends a hand. Is he somehow connected to the disappearances? As events begin to unfold and dark secrets come to light, it becomes clear that the Amish community and their neighbors worked together to help those in need.

Author : Jefferson A. Singer,Peter Salovey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015029958942

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The Remembered Self by Jefferson A. Singer,Peter Salovey Pdf

Finally, the authors propose that a renewed emphasis on conscious thought and narrative memory may provide an integrative bridge among personality, social, clinical, and cognitive psychologists. Such an approach, the authors argue, could reduce the tension between heavily quantitative psychologists and qualitatively oriented phenomenologists, leading to a more inclusive and complex vision of the whole person. Organized in four parts, the book begins by introducing a new theoretical perspective on memory content and organization in personality and goes on to present research evidence in support of this theory. The second part illustrates how memory content can be influenced by mood states, attentional processes, and biases of the self. The third part of the book links the previous theoretical and experimental work to the practice of psychotherapy.

Author : F. Richard Sanchez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9780865347861

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White Shell Water Place by F. Richard Sanchez Pdf

This anthology, a companion to the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemoration publication, "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe," affords Native American authors the opportunity to unreservedly express their ideas, opinions and perspectives on the historical and cultural aspects of Santa Fe using their own voice and preferred writing styles that are not necessarily in accord with western academic and writing conventions. One cannot truly contemplate the history and culture of Santa Fe without the voices of the Native Americans-the original inhabitants of "Po'oge," "White Shell Water Place". Indeed, much of Santa Fe's story is conveyed from a western colonial perspective, which, until fairly recently, has predominantly relegated Native Americans to the fringes. However, over the last thirty years colonial narratives regarding Native American history and culture have been, and continue to be, disputed and amended as the pursuit of academic, intellectual and cultural self determination gains momentum in respective Native American tribal and academic communities. The Santa Fe 400th Commemoration has created an opportunity for the Native American voice to be heard. This anthology is a ceremony of Native voices, a gathering of Native people offering scholarly dialogue, personal points of view, opinions, and stories regarding the pre and post-historical and cultural foundations of Santa Fe. Includes Study Guide and Index.

Author : John Meredith Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Bern (Switzerland)
ISBN : NYPL:33433066611678

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Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy by John Meredith Read Pdf

Author : Alan Livingstone MacLeod
Publisher : Heritage House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Sculptors
ISBN : 1772031526

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Remembered in Bronze and Stone by Alan Livingstone MacLeod Pdf

"Highlighting more than 130 monuments from coast to coast, Remembered in Bronze and Stone tells the story of Canada's war memorials--including the artists who conceived them, the communities that built them, and the soldiers who were immortalized in these stunning sculptures raised in their honour."--