No Place Else
Title | No Place Else PDF eBook |
Author | Eric S. Rabkin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Writers have created fictions of social perfection at least since Plato’s Republic. Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intellectual history a name when he called his contribution to it Utopia, Greek for no place. With each subsequent author cognizant of his predecessors and subject to altered real-world conditions which suggest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, “no place” changed. The fourteen essays presented in this book critically assess man’s fascination with and seeking for “no place.” “In discussing these central fictions, the contributors see ‘no place’ from diverse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what ‘no place’ means today. While it may be true that ‘no place’ has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary actors through a costume dance no place else but here.”—from the Preface The contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J. Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, William Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, and James W. Bittner.
Nowhere Else on Earth
Title | Nowhere Else on Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Humphreys |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2001-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780141002064 |
In the summer of 1864, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Strong lives in the Lumbee Indian settlement of Robeson County, North Carolina, which has become a pawn in the bloody struggle between the Union and Confederate armies. The community is besieged by the marauding Union Army as well as the desperate Home Guard who are hell-bent on conscripting the young men into deadly forced labor. Daughter of a Scotsman and his formidable Lumbee wife, Rhoda is fiercely loyal to her family and desperately fears for their safety, but her love for the outlaw hero Henry Berry Lowrie forces her to cast her lot with danger. Her struggle becomes part of the community's in a powerful story of love and survival. Nowhere Else on Earth is a moving saga that magnificently captures a little-known piece of American history.
Nowhere Else on Earth
Title | Nowhere Else on Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Caitlyn Vernon |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1459800893 |
You don't have to live in the Great Bear Rainforest to benefit from its existence, but after you read Nowhere Else on Earth you might want to visit this magnificent part of the planet. Environmental activist Caitlyn Vernon guides young readers through a forest of information, sharing her personal stories, her knowledge and her concern for this beautiful place. Full of breathtaking photographs and suggestions for ways to preserve this unique ecosystem, Nowhere Else on Earth is a timely and inspiring reminder that we need to stand up for our wild places before they are gone. Visit http://www.greatbearrainforest.ca to find teacher and student resources, view the online photo gallery, or read a sample chapter from the book. To access the free teacher's guide for Nowhere Else on Earth, click here:http://orcabook.com/nowhereelseonearth/guides/teachersguide.pdf.
Valentin Weigel
Title | Valentin Weigel PDF eBook |
Author | Valentin Weigel |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780809105649 |
The first English translations of key works of this important German thinker and theologian (1533-1588), accompanied by an introduction to the context and sources of his thought.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Title | Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 748 |
Release | 1832 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
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Here and Nowhere Else
Title | Here and Nowhere Else PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Brox |
Publisher | North Point Press |
Total Pages | 113 |
Release | 2004-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466803673 |
In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Title | Catalog of Copyright Entries PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1118 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Copyright |
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