The World Beyond The House

Author : Catherine Prince
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759644274

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It began for Ariel and Barry Engel on a bright, sunny summer day in May. Leaving out for an extended journey from their now empty home in Houston, Texas, they take with them their hopes to save a struggling marriage, as well as an obsession to search out and find their identities in this world and what their future holds. They have no idea that another search is simultaneously taking place, a search that will become relentless in its quest to obliterate their very presence on this earth. A dark entity, the evil force behind the driving pursuit to kill the Engels, has been preparing for this moment for millenniums, for it knows that in the near future, Ariel Engel will conceive and give birth to a child that will grow to become a great leader. This leader shall bring peace to all nations--a peace this malevolent creature knows shall annihilate its very existence. Empowered by supernatural abilities, Billy Baxter, the faithful and loyal servant to this dark beast, has no qualms about completing this final heinous act. It is his job and he has always done his job well. Fate brings to the Engels the realization that their "vacation" has turned into the "trip from Hell," and as they struggle for their very lives, they unite under a common bond of survival and discover the stamina and fortitude it takes to endure in the face of such an incarnate evil.

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women
ISBN : 0801484626

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Beyond the Household by Cynthia A. Kierner Pdf

Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end--rather than the beginning--of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere--and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.

Author : John Doughty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Eschatology
ISBN : UCAL:$B260663

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Author : Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780374708443

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The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford Pdf

A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.

Author : Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Acting
ISBN : CORNELL:31924027177389

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Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816639515

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Arts of Possession by D. Vance Smith Pdf

An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between economic sophistication and cultural practices. Smith reads well-known and less-appreciated works -- such as Winner and Waster, Sir Launfal, The Canterbury Tales, and Piers Plowman -- for what they can tell us about the surpluses and economies that drew the medieval imagination, and about the complex ethics of possession at the heart of the fourteenth-century household. In bringing this to light, Smith's book itself becomes an eloquent meditation on the poetics and ethics of possession.

Author : Pam Morris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474419147

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Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism by Pam Morris Pdf

Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.

Author : The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1920744983

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100 More of the World's Best Houses by The Images Publishing Group Pdf

Popular demand has led IMAGES' team of researchers to scour the world for yet another stunning

Author : Jos D. M. Platenkamp,Almut Schneider
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030167035

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Integrating Strangers in Society by Jos D. M. Platenkamp,Almut Schneider Pdf

This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.

Author : C. R. Wiley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532614781

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Man of the House by C. R. Wiley Pdf

What is your plan for the end of the world as we know it? How will you protect the people you love? What will you leave to them when you are gone? The good news is this is not the first time the world has ended. What's more, men were made for times like these. And the men of the past--the good ones, anyway--have left us a plan to follow. They built houses to last--houses that could weather a storm. This book contains their plan.

Author : Yusra Khan
Publisher : Orangebooks Publication
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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And the World beyond by Yusra Khan Pdf

“When I am the Creator then I am the Destroyer too” This book is a compilation of three fictional stories ranging from imaginative adventures to even possible ones. Bubbling with riddles, bizarre creatures and unexplained mysteries, these stories will introduce you to relatable characters and open your mind to a world you never knew could exist. A trip of two friends to an island so deadly that it is deemed impossible, a girl’s sudden ability to predict the future contributes to life and death situations and lastly the unexpected spawning of an adventure from nothing but a single book.

Author : Anne Walbank Buckland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Italy
ISBN : NYPL:33433081558672

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The World Beyond the Esterelles by Anne Walbank Buckland Pdf

Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706279

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The Lure of Faraway Places by Herb Pohl Pdf

The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada's most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl's friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb's book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There's nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It's part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Author : Paul Halpern
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470325322

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The Great Beyond by Paul Halpern Pdf

The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr, whose theories of uncertainty threatened the order Einstein believed was essential to the universe, and it was his rejection of uncertainty that drove him to ponder the existence of a fifth dimension. Beginning with this famous disagreement and culminating with an explanation of the newest "brane" approach, author Paul Halpern shows how current debates about the nature of reality began as age-old controversies, and addresses how the possibility of higher dimensions has influenced culture over the past one hundred years.

Author : Rumaan Alam
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062667656

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Pdf

Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?