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Book A Book of Nonsense

Download or read book A Book of Nonsense written by Mervyn Peake and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illustrated nonsensical poems from the celebrated author and illustrator of the Gormenghast Trilogy.

Book Marcel Mauss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy James
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 1998-12-01
  • ISBN : 1789205697
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Marcel Mauss written by Wendy James and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased noticeably as witnessed by several reassessments of its relevance to current social theory. This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current re-evaluation of his ideas in continental Europe. Themes include the post-structuralist appraisal of "exchange", the anthropology of the body, practical techniques, gesture systems, the notions of substance, materiality, and the social person. There are fresh insights into comparative politics and history, modern forms of charity, and new readings of some political and historical aspects of Mauss's work that bear on the analysis of regions such as Africa and the Middle East, relatively neglected by the Durkheimian school and by structuralism. This volume is a timely tribute to mark the centenary of Mauss' early work and confirms the continuing relevance of his ideas.

Book Truman  a Centenary Remembrance

Download or read book Truman a Centenary Remembrance written by Robert H. Ferrell and published by Viking. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures and text trace the outstanding events of the career of President Truman.

Book Corinth  the Centenary  1896 1996

Download or read book Corinth the Centenary 1896 1996 written by Charles K. Williams and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five papers presented at the December 1996 symposium held in Athens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies excavations at ancient Corinth. The papers are intended to illustrate the range in subject matter of research currently being undertaken by scholars of ancient Corinth, and their inclusion in one volume will serve as a useful reference work for nonspecialists. Each of the topics (which vary widely from Corinthian geology to religious practices to Byzantine pottery) is presented by the acknowledged expert in that area. The book includes a full general bibliography of articles and volumes concerning material excavated at Corinth. As a summary of one hundred years' research it will be useful to generations of scholars to come.

Book The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses  The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes

Download or read book The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes written by James Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.

Book Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition

Download or read book Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition written by William Golding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel by William Golding With a new Introduction by Stephen King "To me Lord of the Flies has always represented what novels are for, what makes them indispensable." -Stephen King Golding's classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature remains as provocative today as when it was first published. This beautiful new edition features French flaps and rough fronts, making it a must-have for fans of this seminal work. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.

Book Centenary Classics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fearghal McGarry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781910820032
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Centenary Classics written by Fearghal McGarry and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2016 marks the beginning of the centenary period of the Irish Free State's establishment. This limited edition series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago. Each volume is a first-hand account of individuals or events during the 1913-23 revolutionary period.

Book The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky

Download or read book The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky written by Benedict Joseph Webb and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Durkheim in Dialogue

Download or read book Durkheim in Dialogue written by Sondra L. Hausner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim1s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography, this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in which Durkheim1s work on religion remains relevant to our thinking about culture.

Book Alfred Hitchcock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Allen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-07-25
  • ISBN : 183871426X
  • Pages : 641 pages

Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Richard Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.

Book Sinatra

Download or read book Sinatra written by James Kaplan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the Chairman’s centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan’s bestselling Frank: The Voice—which completes the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed the “Entertainer of the Century,” deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) accomplished actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous. In 2010’s Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively readable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra’s meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. The story of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after he claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist. Sinatra’s life post-Oscar was astonishing in scope and achievement and, occasionally, scandal, including immortal recordings almost too numerous to count, affairs ditto, many memorable films (and more than a few stinkers), Rat Pack hijinks that mesmerized the world with their air of masculine privilege, and an intimate involvement at the intersection of politics and organized crime that continues to shock and astound with its hubris. James Kaplan has orchestrated the wildly disparate aspects of Frank Sinatra’s life and character into an American epic—a towering achievement in biography of a stature befitting its subject.

Book Rosa Ponselle

Download or read book Rosa Ponselle written by James A. Drake and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and career of the great soprano

Book Victory and Woe

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  • Author : Mossie Harnett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781906359980
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Victory and Woe written by Mossie Harnett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of life at the grassroots during the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War by the Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion, West Limerick Brigade of the Irish Volunteers.

Book Ode on the Centenary of Abraham Lincoln

Download or read book Ode on the Centenary of Abraham Lincoln written by Percy MacKaye and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1909 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jimmy s Blues

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  • Author : James Baldwin
  • Publisher : St Martins Press
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780312051044
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book Jimmy s Blues written by James Baldwin and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry echoes many of the themes and lyricism of Baldwin's essays and novels

Book Collected Lyrics of Edna St  Vincent Millay

Download or read book Collected Lyrics of Edna St Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States Catalog

Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 2162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: