Download or read book Engineers of Happy Land written by Rudolf Mrázek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an original way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature. The central chapters comprise vignettes and take up, in turn, transportation (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), optical technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters around a group of fascinating recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, inevitable presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer IJzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife. In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, people employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this observation to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that society off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The result is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the social sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly.
Download or read book Happy Land A Novel written by Ty Rosenow and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Land is the happiest place to visit, or is it? Daily, Happy Land becomes threatened by the politics, sexuality, and a little terrorist hiding in Happy Land. Happy Land: A Novel will taking you on a roller coaster ride of all myths related to a single college, Bartholomew University of Delaware (BUD for short). Join the characters as they try to prevent Happy Land from total destruction at Bartholomew University of Delaware and try to make it their school. Happy Land: A Novel is a story line based off of the myths and stories of The Evergreen State College. Pictures were taken of the real Happy Land in the College Activities Building before it was destroyed in 2009. The book is dedicated to Happy Land from RIP 1989-2009
Download or read book There is a Happy Land written by Keith Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the rhubarb fields, quarries and Clerk of Works yard that are his playground. Unlike most boys portrayed in fiction he is not an ultrasensitive soul but an ordinary boy, occasionally cowardly, sometimes a liar, tough in his own eyes and often insecure in his dealings with others.
Download or read book Happy The Land written by Louise Rich Dickinson and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with? someone once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. In her early thirties, she took to the woods with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote Maine backcountry. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives, and these magnificent books are the result. They are still captivating readers a half-century later.
Download or read book Happy Land A Lover s Revenge written by OJ Modjeska and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scene was paralyzing. We stood there, numb. No one spoke. There were 69 bodies spread about the 24x50 foot area. They all could have been sleeping. In the small hours of the annual Punta Carnivale celebrations held by Central American communities of the West Bronx, residents witness flames and smoke coming from a popular nightspot known as Happy Land. Fire and rescue personnel arrive at the scene within three minutes, only to find all 87 party-goers trapped inside already dead. The victims have died at an unfathomable speed, succumbing to suffocation and the effects of lethal gases before the flames could even reach them. Detectives soon realize that the disaster, epic and tragic in proportions, is no accident. The fire has been deliberately lit by an arsonist, the man responsible for what is to be the worst mass murder in American history. Happy Land - A Lover's Revenge untangles the shocking story behind one of the worst fires in New York history. Exploring in detail a tragedy little remembered today, but rich with contemporary meaning, the story provides an unnerving snapshot of the possible consequences of societal indifference to violence against women and the plight of the most vulnerable in our communities.
Download or read book Lola Mazola s Happyland Adventure written by Robert J. Morgan and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girls desire to visit the ultimate theme park parallels Gods promise in John 3: 16, giving parents a unique way of sharing the gospel with their children.
Download or read book Happyland written by Curtis R. McManus and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Happyland, Curtis McManus contends that the "Dirty Thirties," actually began much earlier and were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself.
Download or read book Happyland Vol 1 written by Shingo Honda and published by Ablaze Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Happyland, an extreme amusement park! The Komiya family is not unusual is any way, two parents love each other and their two children, who are healthy, happy, and accomplished at school and with extracurriculars. In appearance, they’re an ideal family that has everything going for them! At least… That's what they believed until the father decided to take them to spend a day at Happyland Park. In this park with its extreme attractions, the most shameful secrets will emerge in the most literally explosive way possible! A horrifying and gory tale of survival begins in this first of two volumes by Shingo Honda!
Download or read book Engineers of Happy Land written by Rudolf Mrázek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an original way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature. The central chapters comprise vignettes and take up, in turn, transportation (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), optical technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters around a group of fascinating recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, inevitable presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer IJzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife. In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, people employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this observation to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that society off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The result is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the social sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly.
Download or read book Big Berry written by Dan Yaccarino and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Big Berry, the subject is one that every child can relate to, the gimmes—and why the hero Bink should be happy with what she has. HAPPYLAND introduces three friends—Bink, Clyde, and Glub-Glub—in a series of delightful adventures that illustrate issues including sharing, gratitude, and worry. There’s nothing more important for little kids entering preschool than to be emotionally ready—ready to separate from their parents, to mix and play with new children, to broaden their sense of the world. HAPPYLAND, from award-winning children’s author Dan Yaccarino, is the board book series that gives kids, and their parents, the language they need to take these emotional steps.
Download or read book Dixieland is Happyland written by Lynn F. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventure to Adelie Land written by Sophia Kelly and published by Price Stern Sloan. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik feels he does not fit in with the other penguins in Emperor Land and decides to travel to Adelie Land.
Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Download or read book Welcome to Happyland written by Henry L. Wellsprings and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful tale full of mystery and humour A magical, wonderful tale. A rather peculiar police investigation. A group of fascinating, charming and quite unique characters. A town, Happyland, is shaken by a mystery that needs to be investigated to the end by an unusual detective and his newly arrived assistant. Dare to enter this twighlight world and discover the secret that Happyland and its inhabitants are hiding. This novella will make you laugh, think and, in the end, it will leave you feeling that reading this fascinating tale was really worth your while.
Download or read book Pieces for the Left Hand written by J. Robert Lennon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared "unsettlingly brilliant" Astudent's suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd—and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair of identical twins aren't identical at all—or even related. A man finds his own yellowed birth announcement inside a bureau bought at auction. Set in a small upstate New York town, told in a conversational style, Pieces for the Left Hand is a stream of a hundred anecdotes, none much longer than a page. At once funny, bizarre, familiar, and disturbing, these deceptively straightforward tales nevertheless shock and amaze through uncanny coincidence, tragic misunderstanding, strange occurrence, or sudden insight. Unposted letters, unexpected visitors, false memories—in J. Robert Lennon's vision of America, these are the things that decide our fate. Wry and deadpan, powerful and philosophical, these addictive little tales reveal the everyday world as a strange and eerie place.
Download or read book Birthday Cake written by Dan Yaccarino and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing more important for kids entering preschool than to be emotionally ready—ready to separate from their parents, to mix and play with new children, to broaden their sense of the world. HAPPYLAND, from award-winning children’s author Dan Yaccarino, is a new series that gives kids, and their parents, the language they need to take these emotional steps. HAPPYLAND introduces three friends—Bink, Clyde, and Glub-Glub—in a series of delightful adventures. BIRTHDAY CAKE tackles the ever-important issue of sharing, as Clyde learns it’s as much fun to give as it is to receive. Dan Yaccarino’s bold, colorful art and simple, direct style lifts these moral stories into the realm of perfectly engaging parables.
Download or read book There is a Happy Land written by Albert Isaac Bezzerides and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A man and his family leave the Midwest and settle in a tent near the Stanislaus River. They go on relief and the father goes from one farm job to another, always on a subsistence wage." --
