Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCAL:B3575856
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004707696
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031909610
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
Reluctant Capitalists
Laura J. Miller
Author : Laura J. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226525921
Reluctant Capitalists by Laura J. Miller Pdf
Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate. What drives that debate? And why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit? In Reluctant Capitalists, Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began one hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960s with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of “superstores” in the 1990s. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should somehow be “above” market forces and instead embrace more noble priorities. Miller uses interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers have such fierce loyalty to certain bookstores and why they identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that any type of consumer behavior is inevitably political, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.
H.I.V.E.
Mark Walden
Author : Mark Walden
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416935711
H.I.V.E. by Mark Walden Pdf
HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world's next supervillain. That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class. The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades. All the kids are elite; they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country. Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101. But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six-year program, and leaving is not an option. With the help of his new friends: an athletic martial-arts expert; a world-famous, beautiful diamond thief; and a spunky computer genius -- the only other people who seem to want to leave -- can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.?
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781400880799
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" and "Brute Neighbors" to the serene "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.
Spinning
Tillie Walden
Author : Tillie Walden
Publisher : First Second
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250176240
Spinning by Tillie Walden Pdf
Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning graphic memoir Spinning captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion—and she finally needed to find her own voice. This title has Common Core connections. A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017 A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic Novel A 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
Walden Two
B. F. Skinner
Author : B. F. Skinner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781603840361
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner Pdf
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
Walden Warming
Richard B. Primack
Author : Richard B. Primack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226062211
Walden Warming by Richard B. Primack Pdf
“An unnervingly close-to-home perspective [on] the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us.”—Booklist In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. Warming temperatures have pushed blueberry flowering three weeks earlier, and in 2012, following a period of record-breaking warmth, blueberries began flowering on April 1—six weeks earlier than in Thoreau’s time. In Walden Warming, Richard B. Primack uses Thoreau and Walden, icons of the conservation movement, to track the effects of a warming climate on Concord’s plants and animals, with the notes that Thoreau made years ago transformed from charming observations into scientific data sets. Primack finds that many wildflower species that Thoreau observed, including familiar groups such as irises, asters, and lilies, have declined in abundance or disappeared from Concord. Primack also describes how warming temperatures have altered other aspects of Thoreau’s Concord, from the dates when ice departs from Walden Pond in late winter, to the arrival of birds in the spring, to the populations of fish, salamanders, and butterflies that live in the woodlands, river meadows, and ponds. Demonstrating the effects of climate change in a unique, concrete way using this historical and literary landmark as a touchstone, Richard Primack urges us to heed the advice Thoreau offers in Walden: to live simply and wisely. In the process, we can minimize our own contributions to our warming climate.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192839213
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond. - ;`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond. -
Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679642022
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
The Senses of Walden
Stanley Cavell
Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226075013
The Senses of Walden by Stanley Cavell Pdf
Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.
Clementine Book Two
Tillie Walden
Author : Tillie Walden
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534325190
Clementine Book Two by Tillie Walden Pdf
FROM THE WORLD OF ROBERT KIRKMAN'S THE WALKING DEAD Clementine andher new friends are rescued by an island community led by an enigmatic doctorcalled Miss Morro, but just as Clementine's scars are finally beginning toheal, she discovers dark secrets that threaten to tear her new lifeapart. Can Miss Morro be trusted? What about the rest of the islanders? And just how far will Clementine go to protect the ones she loves? Tilllie Walden's acclaimed trilogy continues!
Are You Listening?
Tillie Walden
Author : Tillie Walden
Publisher : First Second
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250754448
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden Pdf
The graphic novel Are You Listening? is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship, grief, and healing from Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden. Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To stay safe, Bea and Lou must trust each other as they are driven to confront buried truths. The two women share their stories of loss and heartbreak—and a startling revelation about sexual assault—culminating in an exquisite example of human connection. This magical realistic adventure from the celebrated comics creator of Spinning and On a Sunbeam will stay with readers long after the final gorgeously illustrated page. 2020 Eisner Award Winner, Best Graphic Album--New A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019 A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019 An O Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019 One of The Comics Beat's Best Comics of 2019 A Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Life Amongst the Modocs
Joaquin Miller
Author : Joaquin Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Social Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB11156673