Download or read book A Doubter s Almanac written by Ethan Canin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the author of America America and The Palace Thief, explores the nature of genius, rivalry, ambition, and love among multiple generations of a gifted family. Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley he realizes the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is a seduction, opening Milo’s eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there—and the rival he meets alongside her—will haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milo’s brilliance is entwined with a dark need that soon grows to threaten his work, his family, even his existence. Spanning seven decades as it moves from California to Princeton to the Midwest to New York, A Doubter’s Almanac tells the story of a family as it explores the way ambition lives alongside destructiveness, obsession alongside torment, love alongside grief. It is a story of how the flame of genius both lights and scorches every generation it touches. Graced by stunning prose and brilliant storytelling, A Doubter’s Almanac is a surprising, suspenseful, and deeply moving novel, a major work by a writer who has been hailed as “the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation.” Praise for A Doubter’s Almanac “551 pages of bliss . . . devastating and wonderful . . . dazzling . . . You come away from the book wanting to reevaluate your choices and your relationships. It’s a rare book that can do that, and it’s a rare joy to discover such a book.”—Esquire “[Canin] is at the top of his form, fluent, immersive, confident. You might not know where he’s taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hans’s voice rendered so precisely, that it’s impossible not to trust in the story. . . . The delicate networks of emotion and connection that make up a family are illuminated, as if by magic, via his prose.”—Slate “Alternately explosive and deeply interior.”—New York (“Eight Books You Need to Read”) “A blazingly intelligent novel.”—Los Angeles Times “[A] beautifully written novel.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Download or read book Male Almanac written by Michael Lafavore and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fine "Essential new information about sex, fitness and other male stuff."

Download or read book You and the Man in the Moon written by Jack R. Pyle and published by Parkway Pub. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyle and Reese present this complete guide to using the Farmer's Almanac in response to people's yearning for the slower times and simpler ways exemplified by the use of moon signs and almanacs.

Download or read book The Danbury News Man s Almanac written by James Montgomery Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Free Man s Almanac written by Leonard Edward Read and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early American Almanac Humor written by Robert K. Dodge and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a selection of comic items from almanacs published between 1776 and 1800. Dodge uses his smooth, astute writing style to unfold the humor in a section of American Heritage. The eight chapters are categorized by subject, including "Comic American Heroes," "The Tall Tale," and "Men, Women, Marriage, and Sex."

Download or read book Almanacs written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource for scholars contains facsimile reproductions of almanacs published by and for women during the period 1641-1700. These inexpensive volumes dispensed information on topics such as astrology, medicine, and prophecy and had a tremendous influence on popular opinion throughout the early modern period. Weber's (Cornell U.) introduction provides an overview of each writer's life and work and a summary of important scholarship. A key to difficult-to-read passages completes the volume. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Companion to the Almanac Or Yearbook of General Information for written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Women Men and News written by Paula Poindexter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored scholarly volume explores the divide between men and women in their consumption of news media, looking at how the sexes read and use news, historically and currently, how they use technology to access their news, and how today’s news pertains to and is used by women. The volume also addresses diversity issues among women’s use of news, considering racial, ethnic, international and feminist perspectives. The volume is intended to help readers understand adult news use behavior--a critical and timely issue considering the state of newspapers and television news in today’s multi-media news environment.

Download or read book Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf written by Daniel Martin Varisco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional information available, based on local almanacs, Arabic texts and poetry by Gulf individuals, ethnographic interviews, and online forums. A major feature of the book is tracing the history of terms and concepts in the local seasonal knowledge of the Gulf, including an important genre about weather stars, stemming back to the ninth century CE. Also covered are pearl diving, fishing, seafaring, and pastoral activities. This book will be of interest to scholars who study the entire Arab region, since much of the lore was shared and continues through the present. It will also be of value to scholars who work on the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Trade Network, as well as the history of folk astronomy in the Arab World.

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Download or read book The Reformer s Almanac and Companion to the Almanacs 1848 written by Joseph Barker and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information about the Chartist Movement, labor reform, social reform, and emigration to the United States.

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