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Author: Wayne Cresser
Publisher: Wayne Cresser
Published: 2021-08-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0578967634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a chapbook comprised of 14 flash fiction stories built on the notion of cycles: the cycle of a day, the seasons, a life. The book was published by Open: Journal of Arts and Letters as part of their 2021 Chapbook Series. I reserved the right to print it. There are a limited number of copies for sale.
Author: Wayne Cresser
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2024-07-26
Total Pages: 25
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a kid, Norman Winters aspired to be good at something, baseball, canoe-racing, anything at all. As an adult he wants to teach eager minds and keep his house free of smoke and frauds. And in his old age, he just wants to burn the money and hold on to the clams. Does Mr. Winters want all these things too much? Readers will wonder as they follow him over the course of a life, loosely chronicled in a fresh collection of interconnected short stories by author, broadcaster, and teacher Wayne Cresser. The Book of Norman deals with such topics as sibling rivalry, bullying, forgiveness, mercy, and love at first sight and promises readers, to paraphrase the great comic, many “a laugh and a tear.” “Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman is a powerful excavation of our collective lives and the strange world we inhabit. With crystalline prose and an eye for the absurd and mundane, Cresser’s Norm is both an “everyman,” an American adrift within the morass of time and memory, and also singular, a creator who sees his peripatetic life as an ongoing construction of art. In “The Last Time Norm took Acid,” the eponymous narrator muses how he, at one time, “believed it possible to navigate the world in a decrepit car with no reverse,” and how he “wasn’t afraid to make mistakes. In fact, he knowingly made them and hoped he wouldn’t get caught.” The Book of Norman is Cresser at the height of his powers: dark, comical, warm; a stylist who brings Norm to life as equal parts navigator and wanderer.” ---Charles Kell, author of Ishmael Mask (Autumn House Press)
Author: John Burrow
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-04-07
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 0375727671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTreating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.
Author: Rebecca Stott
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0385531478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBONUS: This edition contains a The Coral Thief discussion guide and an excerpt from Rebecca Stott's Ghostwalk. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND BOOKLIST Paris, 1815. Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has arrived to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes—only to realize that his letters of introduction and precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen. His thief turns out to be a beautiful woman who lives in a shadowy realm of outlaws, philosophers, and émigrés. As Daniel falls in love with her, he discovers a radical theory of evolution that irrevocably changes his conception of the world.
Author: Katherine Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0192552376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself. Focusing on his presentation of the natural world through careful geographical descriptions, ranging from continents and river and mountain networks on a vast scale down to the local settings for individual episodes, it also examines how these landscapes are charged with greater depth and resonance through Herodotus' use of mythological associations and spatial parallels. Man's interaction with, and alteration of, the physical world of the Histories adds another critical dimension to the meaning given to space in Herodotus' work, as his subjects' own agency serves to transform their geography from a neutral backdrop into a resonant landscape with its own role to play in the narrative, in turn reinforcing the placing of the protagonists along a spectrum of positive or negative characterizations. The Persian imperial bid may thus be seen as a war on nature, no less than on their intended subjects: however, as Herodotus reflects, Greece itself is waiting in the wings with the potential to be no less abusive an imperial power. Although the multi-vocal nature of the narrative complicates whether we can identify a 'Herodotean' world at all, still less one in which moral judgements are consistently cast, the fluid and complex web of spatial relationships revealed in discussion nevertheless allows focalization to be brought productively into play, demonstrating how the world of the Histories may be viewed from multiple perspectives. What emerges from the multiple worlds and world-views that Herodotus creates in his narrative is the mutability of fortune that allows successive imperial powers to dominate: as the exercise of political power is manifested both metaphorically and literally through control over the natural world, the map of imperial geography is constantly in flux.
Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-18
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521541206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general view on the history of science. The starting point for the enquiry is geometry and the lettered diagram. Reviel Netz exploits the mathematicians' practices in the construction and lettering of their diagrams, and the continuing interaction between text and diagram in their proofs, to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes. A close examination of the mathematical use of language follows, especially mathematicians' use of repeated formulae. Two crucial chapters set out to show how mathematical proofs are structured and explain why Greek mathematical practice manages to be so satisfactory. A final chapter looks into the broader historical setting of Greek mathematical practice.
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 2258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sebastian Conrad
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-08-29
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0691178194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is not Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole, historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our globalized present.
Author: P. Manning
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-05-15
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1403973857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph.Ds in history are required to teach the subject. They must be current on topics from human evolution to industrial development in Song-dynasty China to today's disease patterns - and then link these disparate topics into a coherent course. Numerous textbooks in print and in preparation summarize the field of world history at an introductory level. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians. In this book, Patrick Manning provides the first comprehensive overview of the academic field of world history. He reviews patterns of research and debate, and proposes guidelines for study by teachers and by researchers in world history.
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 990
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