Download or read book Vanished Act written by James Reidel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists—the so-called middle generation, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. His dramatic disappearance (a probable suicide) at the age of forty-one, his movie-star good looks, his role in various movements of the day, and his shifting relationships with key figures in the arts have made him one of the more intriguing—and elusive—artists of the time. In this long-awaited biography, James Reidel presents the first full account of Kees’s troubled yet remarkably accomplished life. Reidel traces Kees’s career from his birth in 1914 and boyhood in Beatrice, Nebraska, to his stint as an award-winning short-story writer and novelist, his rise as a poet and critic in New York, his branching off into abstract expressionism, jazz music, and theater, and his experimental and scientific filmmaking and photography. Going beyond the cult status that has grown up around Kees over the years, this work fairly and judiciously places him as a cultural adventurer at a particularly rich and significant moment in postwar twentieth-century America.

Download or read book In Hora Mortis written by Thomas Bernhard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In Hora Mortis', and 'Under the Iron of the Moon' are Thomas Bernhard's second and third collections of published verse.

Download or read book My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg written by James Reidel and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Reidel's first collection of poetry is a delight of oddities in both topic and perspective.

Download or read book The Review of Contemporary Fiction written by John O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jim s Book written by James Reidel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "'The lean, striped shadow waiting against the stairwell' fetches up at 'a bed and breakfast serving no breakfast.' A cool breeze stirs in these restive, sometimes dark, sometimes funny poems as their lines click into place, always a place other than the one you were expecting. Reidel's is a wry, ultimately generous voice that will surprise your listening." John Ashbery"

Download or read book Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction written by Beth L. Hewett and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction addresses administrators’ and instructors’ questions for developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field, this book uniquely attends to issues of inclusive and accessible online writing instruction in technology-enhanced settings, as well as teaching with mobile technologies and multimodal compositions.

Download or read book Stalin in Aruba written by Shelley Puhak and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems cast light on figures at history's margins whose perspectives are often overlooked or ignored.

Download or read book Pale Blue Ink in a Lady s Hand written by Franz Werfel and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov.

Download or read book Cartographies of Disease written by Tom Koch and published by Esri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease. This look at medical mapping advances the argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but a way of thinking about relationships between viral and bacterial communities, human hosts, and the environments in which diseases flourish. Cartographies of Disease traces the history of medical mapping from its growth in the 19th century during an era of trade and immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization. Referencing maps older than John Snow's famous cholera maps of London in the mid-19th century, this survey pulls from the plague maps of the 1600s, while addressing current issues concerning the ability of GIS technology to track diseases worldwide. The original chapters have some minor updating, and two new chapters have been added. Chapter 13 attempts to understand how the hundreds of maps of Ebola revealed not simply disease incidence but the way in which the epidemic itself was perceived. Chapter 14 is about the spatiality of the disease and the means by which different cartographic approaches may affect how infectious outbreaks like ebola can be confronted and contained.

Download or read book Southern Kith and Kin written by Jewel Davis Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestors include: Captain Edmond Scarborough (1584-1634) of North Walsham, England; and Virginia -- John Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Virginia; and his grandson, William Davis (1798-1870) of Georgia and Salem, Alabama -- Thomas Lockett (d. 1686) of England and Henrico County, Virginia.

Download or read book The Captives of Abb s Valley written by James Moore and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragedy of Virginian colonial frontier In the summer of 1786 a large war party of Shawnee Indians entered Abb's Valley, Virginia, and descended on the household of militia officer Captain John Moore which included members of his immediate family together with hired labourers. The family occupied a substantial log building and were well armed, so Moore believed that his family was well placed to fight off a small Indian attack. The nearest homestead was six miles away and Moore, relying on his own abilities, thought it unnecessary to follow the example of neighbours by taking refuge in the nearest fort. The attack achieved complete surprise and Moore was killed before he could reach the safety of the house. What followed was an appalling, but typical, Indian massacre of the colonial period frontier in the 18th century. Various family members, young and old, were slaughtered on the spot, the property was set alight and a substantial herd of livestock was taken. Surviving members of the Moore family were taken as captives to the Indian townships, several of them being murdered on the journey. Once the survivors reached the Indian village there followed another period of torture which for Mrs. Moore and a teenage daughter proved fatal. Two young women survived their ordeals to eventually be ransomed. The story of this notable frontier tragedy was written by James Moore, a son of Mary Moore, who was one of the two ransomed captives. This a vital account of the struggles endured by the early settlers of the American wilderness and will be of essential interest to anyone interested in the early history of the state of Virginia. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Download or read book World Disasters Report 2020 COME HEAT Or HIGH WATER written by IFRC and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world was to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to help communities and countries to adapt to the realities of it.The impacts of global warming are already killing people and devastating lives and livelihoods every year, and they will only get worse without immediate and determined action. The frequency and intensity of climatological events are increasing substantially, with more category 4 and 5 storms, more heatwaves breaking temperature records and more heavy rains, among many other extremes. Loss of natural resources, food insecurity, direct and indirect health impacts, and displacement are likewise on the rise. Many communities are being affected by concurrent and consecutive disasters, leaving them with little time to recover before the next shock arrives.But it doesn't have to be like this. The 2020 World Disasters Report argues that there has never been a better time to face up to climate disasters, because climate change won't wait for COVID-19 to be brought under control.

Download or read book David Goes to Greenland written by David Binney Putnam and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's. This book was released on 1926 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account by a 13 year old of his travels with the American Museum Greenland Expedition. Sketches are by the Eskimo, Kakutia. Also illustrated with photos. Suitable grades 6 and up.

Download or read book The World Bank Legal Review written by Hassane Cissé and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities for International Financial Institutions in the post-crisis world. It includes contributions from academics, practitioners and Bank staff. The contributions cover a broad array of issues, included governance reform and constitutional framework of IFIs, privileges and immunities, responsibility of international organizations, issues related to fragile and conflict-affected states, climate finance, and the recent financial crisis. The book is organized in three main areas, namely (i) Law of International Organizations: Issues Confronting IFIs; (ii) Legal Obligations and Institutions of Developing Countries: Rethinking Approaches of IFIs; and (iii) International Finance and the Challenges of Regulatory Governance.

Download or read book The Davidson Genealogy written by Mary Elizabeth Davidson Harbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the family from antiquity, to England and the time of the Norman Conquest, then to the United States.

Download or read book Man Descending written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life’s joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe’s brilliant first book of fiction.

Download or read book Beatdom 20 written by David S Wills and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatdom #20 is the Post-Beat issue, in which we bring you essays, interviews, and reviews focused on people like Bob Kaufman, Hunter S. Thompson, Diane di Prima, and Denise Levertov. There are, of course, a few mentions of the usual suspects - Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg - but we have decided to branch out and feature those writers whom we have previously overlooked. Contents"Hunter S. Thompson and the Beat Generation" by David S. Wills"Pregnancy always makes me want to fuck more: Sexual and Maternal Desire Entanglements in Diane di Prima" by Ambar Geerts Zapién Two Poems by Eliot Katz"The Encounter Robinsonian: Weldon Kees and Denise Levertov, April-October 1955" by James Reidel"Review of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century" by Robert Niemi"Interview with John Sampas" by David Daniel"William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Drugs, and Control: When the Beats Split into the Hippies and the Punks" by Westley Heine"Chasing Hunter's Literary Persona Through the Pages: A conversation with Hunter S. Thompson scholar, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan" by Noel Dávila"The Beaten Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg, Thompson... and the Battle of Chicago" by Leon Horton"A Shoe that Fits the Mind: A Review of Ginsberg's South American Journals" by David S. Wills"The Deconstruction and Resurrection of Bob Kaufman" by Ryan Mathews"Fear and Loathing in Utero" by Leon Horton