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Author: Peter Cole
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811221726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dazzling new book by a writer with perhaps the most capacious command of the Jewish poetic tradition of any poet now writing in English(Religion and Literature)
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0300167601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 0345806298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. "Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780195112214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
Author: Walter J. Boyne
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1844151999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Influence of Air Power upon History is a thorough examination of how air power was applied from the very earliest days of the balloon down to the latest use of space technology. Including both air and aerospace military power in his considerations, Boyne (a retired U.S. Air Force colonel) surveys, in a celebratory fashion, the use of air power in international conflict. His analysis is perfectly in line with the technological fetishism of most U.S. war planners, almost invariably arguing that the imposition of superior air power is the most decisive factor in winning wars, and even suggesting that the American war in Vietnam would have been won with just a little more bombing. Chapters cover the development and deployment of air power doctrines by the United States, its allies, and its enemies in wars in which it was politically concerned
Author: Gerhard Falk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0761860800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people who work together to create each new invention. The book also shows the influences of technology on society and examines the beliefs and attitudes of those who partake in technological advances. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the past two hundred years.
Author: Paul H. Fry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0300183364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.
Author: Harold Bloom
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 157
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-04-15
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780226036281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums. Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
