The View From The Train

Author : Patrick Keiller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781781687765

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The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller Pdf

“Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events, and in this way he hoped to see into the future.” In his sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. Now, in this brilliant collection of essays, he offers a new perspective on how Britain works and sees itself. He discusses the background to his work and its development – from surrealism to post-2008 economic catastrophe – and expands on what the films reveal. Referencing writers including Benjamin and Lefebvre, the essays follow his career since the late 1970s, exploring themes including the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture and film; how cities change over time, and how films represent this; as well as accounts of cross-country journeys involving historical figures, unexpected ideas and an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain.

Author : Nelson Moe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520248267

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The View from Vesuvius by Nelson Moe Pdf

This book shows that the Southern Question is far from just an Italian issue, for its origins are deeply connected to the formation of European cultural identity between the mid-eighteenth and late-nineteenth centuries."--Jacket.

Author : Deejay Arens
Publisher : Writers Amuse Me
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1927044340

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The View from a Rusty Train Car by Deejay Arens Pdf

"'No one talks about what happens when you fall in love with the boy next door -- not when you're the boy living beside the boy next door.' Jared didn't want to do it, but it had to be done. Someone had to sit before the government hearing to explain why a gay man was nothing to be vilified, nothing to be hated or feared... that he was just a man. That is what Jared Montgomery is determined to do. He does so by sharing his story -- his and Luke's story -- in the hopes that perhaps even just one more person could understand. Luke and Jared were battling the odds from the beginning. Growing up beside each other, being best friends, they soon learned that if they wanted to share each other's company, it had to be done in secret, in the confines of the old train car behind the junkyard. There, they were free of the taunts and jibes, the ridicule and hatred... or were they? Unable to embrace who he is, unable to deal with the tactics used by his family to 'cure' him, Luke forces himself into a traditional marriage that is doomed from the start. His true, self-denied love for Jared, and the hatred surrounding it, is killing him. The question is, can Jared get to him before it is too late?" --From publisher description.

Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456877972

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The View from Cracker Hill by Bettejane Synott Wesson Pdf

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781465436580

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Train by DK Pdf

This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world. Your first stop in The Train Book is the groundbreaking steam locomotives of the 19th century and your final destination is the high-speed bullet trains of today. From the Union-Pacific Railroad to the Trans-Siberian Railway, you'll cross the continents to experience epic journeys and staggering scenery. You'll pick a seat on the most iconic locomotives, including the Orient Express, the Blue Train, and the Eurostar. You can also inspect the engines of famous British trains, such as Rocket, Mallard, and Javelin, and international trains, such as India's Palace on Wheels and America's Thatcher Perkins. You'll meet the true pioneers of train and track, including "Father of the Railways" George Stephenson, engineering legend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Métro maestro Fulgence Bienvenüe. For train-spotters and transport enthusiasts everywhere, this is your trip of a lifetime.

Author : Jean K. Mason
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440179839

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The View From #410 by Jean K. Mason Pdf

Author : Jerry Wheaton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663202055

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The View from the End of the Road by Jerry Wheaton Pdf

This is the life story of a family branch rooted in America in 1636 represented by a man who graduated from Colgate University, New York Medical College during World War II and Harvard with a post graduate degree who learned the practice of medicine in a small coal mining town with a young family doing medical procedures that would be impossible today. He, with the support of his wife, spent an innovative problem solving Air Force career that included many incredible situations, Vietnam War combat, hospital construction, medical quality control, Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner training. This was followed by cost effective public sector practice and administration as well as corporate medical practice and administration followed by retirement and active resident participation in a continuing care retirement community with a structured approach to resident participation.

Author : Mark Clegg,David Wilmot
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476685069

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The View from Hadrian's Wall by Mark Clegg,David Wilmot Pdf

Built almost 2,000 years ago by the Roman occupiers of Britain, Hadrian's Wall is one of the most famous and identifiable World Heritage Sites. When two old friends, one American and one British, reunited to trek the length of the Wall, they reminisced about the past while sharing apprehension about the future. This memoir of their coast-to-coast voyage examines Roman history, drawing parallels between the fall of the Roman Empire and the recent political developments and uncertainties in the United Kingdom and the United States. The authors also share their often humorous encounters with locals they met along the way while hiking in incessant rain.

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307387769

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The View From the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier Pdf

Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and playful, The View from the Seventh Layer cements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.

Author : Aaron Hamburger
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812970937

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The View from Stalin's Head by Aaron Hamburger Pdf

Set in post-Cold War Prague during the 1990s, chronicles the lives and fortunes of an array of characters, including a self-appointed rabbi who runs a synagogue for non-Jews and a would-be socialist trying to rouse the oppressed masses.

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802097484

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The View from Murney Tower by Richard Allen Pdf

Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel movement. He was also a man who struggled with the polarities of evangelical faith and worldly culture, and who sought a unifying world-view in the mentoring of Sir J. William Dawson in the sciences, George Monro Grant in public affairs, and John Watson in philosophy. The View from the Murney Tower is a two-volume biography of Salem Bland by Richard Allen, author of The Social Passion: Religion and Reform in Canada, 1914-28. This first volume begins with Bland's upbringing in the home of an educated industrialist turned preacher. It goes on to explore his emergence as a liberating mind and eloquent speaker prepared to support new currents of scientific and social thought, as well as to discuss their implications for Christian faith and life. Allen concludes this first volume with Bland's departure from central Canada for the west in 1903, by which time he had become a somewhat controversial figure amongst conservative evangelicals throughout the country. More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Tower is also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation.

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825433764

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The View from Mount Calvary by John Phillips Pdf

Without Jesus, the Bible makes no sense. And without his atoning death on the cross, the Bible makes no difference. In The View from Mount Calvary, renowned Bible commentator John Phillips surveys the entire Bible and shows how its many sections, books, and subjects all revolve around the death of Jesus on Mt. Calvary. Recommended reading especially during the Easter season, The View from Mount Calvary will deepen readers' appreciation of the finished work of Christ.

Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472021888

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The View from the Helm by James J. Duderstadt Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt—who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996—presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency was a time of growth and conflict: of sweeping new affirmative-action and equal-opportunity programs, significant financial expansion, and reenergized student activism on issues from apartheid to codes of student conduct. Under James Duderstadt’s stewardship, Michigan reaffirmed its reputation as a trailblazer among universities. Part memoir, part history, part commentary, The View from the Helm extracts general lessons from his experiences at the forefront of change in higher education, offering current and future administrators a primer on academic leadership and venturing bold ideas on how higher education should be steered into the twenty-first century.

Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Rural tourism
ISBN : 1584655917

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The View from Vermont by Blake A. Harrison Pdf

With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.

Author : Jodie Callaghan
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772601992

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The Train by Jodie Callaghan Pdf

Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their community in Nova Scotia. Ashley sees his sadness, and Uncle tells her of the day years ago when he and the other children from their community were told to board the train before being taken to residential school where their lives were changed forever. They weren't allowed to speak Mi'gmaq and were punished if they did. There was no one to give them love and hugs and comfort. Uncle also tells Ashley how happy she and her sister make him. They are what give him hope. Ashley promises to wait with her uncle by the train tracks, in remembrance of what was lost.