The Wide Horizon

The Wide Horizon

Author: Loula Grace Erdman

Publisher: Bethlehem Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781932350128

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When fifteen year old Katie's mother leaves to take care of Katie's grandmother, Katie decides not to go away to school, but rather to stay home and take care of the family.


Wide Horizon

Wide Horizon

Author: Michael T. Kuester

Publisher: Michael T. Kuester

Published: 2024-03-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13:

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An epic space opera from Michael T. Kuester Once, humans were masters of their galaxy. Then they met the Others. They never communicated, or even showed their faces. They seemed driven by a single goal: the complete extinction of humanity. Amid their genocidal campaign, the survivors in the Sol system constructed the Lock: a Dyson sphere surrounding the inner planets, hiding them from the Others. Millennia later, what remains of humanity languishes within the Lock, oppressed by the shadowy Protectorate, which banned extrasolar travel. Now, their security forces work to uphold laws no one cares enough to break. Braylen Roads is content to serve as a ship captain, until a chance encounter with the enigmatic Declan March leads him to break the most inviolate law of the Protectorate: do not travel beyond the Lock. Banished with March for his crime, Braylen finds himself in command of an ancient and wondrous starship. With an unlikely crew including a tenacious reporter and a quasi-human child wise beyond her years, he must seek out survivors of the Others' purge, unravel the mysteries of the Protectorate, and restore humanity to its rightful place among the stars.


The Sociology of Howard S. Becker

The Sociology of Howard S. Becker

Author: Alain Pessin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 022636299X

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Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents —in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of deviance, professions, sociology of the arts, and a steady stream of books and articles on method. Becker, who lives part of the year in Paris, is by now part of the French intellectual scene, a street-smart jazz pianist and sociologist who offers an answer to the stifling structuralism of Pierre Bourdieu. French fame has brought French analysis, including The Sociology of Howard S. Becker, written by Alain Pessin and translated into English by Steven Rendall. The book is an exploration of Becker’s major works as expressions of the freedom of possibility within a world of collaborators. Pessin reads Becker’s work as descriptions and ideas that show how society can embody the possibilities of change, of doing things differently, of taking advantage of opportunities for free action. The book is itself a kind of collaboration—Pessin and Becker in dialogue. The Sociology of Howard S. Becker is a meeting of two cultures via two great sociological minds in conversation.


Far and Wide

Far and Wide

Author: Peart, Neil

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 1770908935

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35 concerts. 17,000 motorcycle miles. Three months. One lifetime. Now in paperback In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it’s an opportunity to explore backroads near and far on his BMW motorcycle. So if this was to be the last tour and the last great adventure, he decided it would have to be the best one, onstage and off. This third volume in Peart’s illustrated travel series shares all-new tales that transport the reader across North America and through memories of 50 years of playing drums. From the scenic grandeur of the American West to a peaceful lake in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains to the mean streets of Midtown Los Angeles, each story is shared in an intimate narrative voice that has won the hearts of many readers. Richly illustrated, thoughtful, and ever-engaging, Far and Wideis an elegant scrapbook of people and places, music and laughter, from a fascinating road — and a remarkable life.


Home on the Horizon

Home on the Horizon

Author: Sally Bayley

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781906165154

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In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the american home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel.