The Sum of Trifles
Author: Julia Ridley Smith
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0820368555
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Author: Julia Ridley Smith
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0820368555
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 3
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033037959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maria Popova
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 1524748145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman—and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
Author: Halldor Laxness
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0307486265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
Author: conte Baldassarre Castiglione
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 526
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Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 1971-03-01
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ISBN-13: 9780871402431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiagrams and photographs supplement formulas for knitting well-tailored garments and advice on the sources and qualities of materials
Author: Glaspell
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Published: 1981-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780772503220
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 330
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