A Play for the End of the World
A Play for the End of the World

Author: Jai Chakrabarti

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0525658920

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A dazzling novel—set in early 1970's New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of World War II, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. “Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history ... an impressive debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female Persuasion New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between the survivor's guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. An unforgettable love story, a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present, A Play for the End of the World is a remarkable debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.

1996 Writer's Market
1996 Writer's Market

Author: Mark Garvey

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 9780898797015

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The ideal resource for up-and-coming (and already arrived) writers, the Writer's Market features information vital to the success of an author's career. This edition contains the facts on 4,000 opportunities, including up-to-date listings of buyers of books, articles, and stories and listings of contests and awards, plus articles and interviews with top professionals.

The University of Illinois
The University of Illinois

Author: Frederick E Hoxie

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 967

ISBN-13: 025209932X

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The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's education and wheelchair accessibility have helped shape the university's mission into a double helix of innovation and real-world change. These essays explore the university's celebrated accomplishments and historic legacy, candidly assessing both its successes and its setbacks. Experts and students tell the eye-opening stories of campus legends and overlooked game-changers, of astonishing technical and social invention, of incubators of progress as diverse as the Beckman Institute and Ebertfest. Contributors: James R. Barrett, George O. Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A. Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H. Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E. Norwood, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Leslie J. Reagan, Susan M. Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U. Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F. Tracy, and Joy Ann Williamson-Lott.

Library of Congress Subject Headings in Philosophy
Library of Congress Subject Headings in Philosophy

Author: Barbara L. Berman

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Designed for both catalogers and library users, this thesaurus presents terms already in use as Library of Congress subject headings. The introduction gives the history of the Library of Congress subject heading system as well as instructions for using the book. The volume will aid the user in successfully performing searches by using fruitful terminology. It will aid the cataloger in assigning subjects to works in a consistent fashion, continuing the crucial process that provides the library with its orderliness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

e-Learning Ecologies
e-Learning Ecologies

Author: Bill Cope

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1317273362

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e-Learning Ecologies explores transformations in the patterns of pedagogy that accompany e-learning—the use of computing devices that mediate or supplement the relationships between learners and teachers—to present and assess learnable content, to provide spaces where students do their work, and to mediate peer-to-peer interactions. Written by the members of the "new learning" research group, this textbook suggests that e-learning ecologies may play a key part in shifting the systems of modern education, even as technology itself is pedagogically neutral. The chapters in this book aim to create an analytical framework with which to differentiate those aspects of educational technology that reproduce old pedagogical relations from those that are genuinely innovative and generative of new kinds of learning. Featuring case studies from elementary schools, colleges, and universities on the practicalities of new learning environments, e-Learning Ecologies elucidates the role of new technologies of knowledge representation and communication in bringing about change to educational institutions.

The Mathematical Theory of Communication
The Mathematical Theory of Communication

Author: Claude E Shannon

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998-09-01

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 025209803X

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Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative reprinting of a classic.