Download or read book The Inverted Forest written by John Dalton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of joyous female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set to start in just two days. He fires them all. As a result, new counselors must be quickly hired and brought to the Kindermann Forest Summer Camp. One of them is Wyatt Huddy, a genetically disfigured young man who has been living in a Salvation Army facility. Gentle and diligent, large and imposing, Wyatt suffers a deep anxiety that his intelligence might be subnormal. All his life he’s been misjudged because of his irregular features. But while Wyatt is not worldly, he is also not an innocent. He has escaped a punishing home life with a reclusive and violent older sister. Along with the other new counselors, Wyatt arrives expecting to care for children. To their astonishment, they learn that for the first two weeks of the camping season they will be responsible for 104 severely developmentally disabled adults, all of them wards of the state. For Wyatt it is a dilemma that turns his world inside out. Physically, he is indistinguishable from the state hospital campers he cares for. Inwardly, he would like to believe he is not of their tribe. Fortunately for Wyatt, there is a young woman on staff who understands his predicament better than he might have hoped. At once the new counselors and disabled campers begin to reveal themselves. Most are well-intentioned; others unprepared. Some harbor dangerous inclinations. Among the campers is a perplexing array of ailments and appearances and behavior both tender and disturbing. To encounter them is to be reminded just how wide the possibilities are when one is describing human beings. Soon Wyatt is called upon to prevent a terrible tragedy. In doing so, he commits an act whose repercussions will alter his own life and the lives of the other Kindermann Forest staff members for years to come. Written with scrupulous fidelity to the strong passions running beneath the surface of camp life, The Inverted Forest is filled with yearning, desire, lust, banked hope, and unexpected devotion. This remarkable and audacious novel amply underscores Heaven Lake’s wide acclaim and confirms John Dalton’s rising prominence as a major American novelist.
Download or read book Almost Completely Decomposable Groups written by A Mader and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almost completely decomposable abelian (acd) group is an extension of a finite direct sum of subgroups of the additive group of rational numbers by a finite abelian group. Examples are easy to write and are frequently used but have been notoriously difficult to study and classify because of their computational nature. However, a general theory of acd groups has been developed and a suitable weakening of isomorphism, Lady's near-isomorphism, has been established as the rightconcept for studying acd groups. A number of important classes of acd groups has been successfully classified. Direct sum decompositions of acd groups are preserved under near-isomorphism and the well-known pathological decompositions can actually be surveyed in special cases.
Download or read book A Sonnet for Every Day written by DEVIDASAN VELLAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India to Vattompadath Madhavan Nair and Vellat Kalyanikutty Amma as the youngest of their four children. His father was a farmer and he helped his father in agriculture along with his two brothers and one sister. After his primary and secondary education in AUP School and MNKMHS, Chittilamchery respectively, he got graduated in Physics from NSS College Nemmara and took his postgraduate degree in English Literature from Government Victoria College, Palakkad. Devidasan Vellat entered into his teaching career as Junior Lecturer in English at NSS College in 1986 and continued in his alma mater for 32 years until his retirement as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English. After his retirement, he went to Thunchathezhuthachan College and VR Krishnanezhuthachan College of Law, Elavancheri as visiting faculty of English for two years and currently works as Principal of Aashrayam College of Arts and Science, a unit of Samarpitham Educational and Charitable Trust, Nenmeni. During his teaching career, he developed a passion for translation and was a much sought-after expert in the genre. He took up a Research Project on "Translation: A Postcolonial Stratagem" sponsored by UGC and translated popular verse in Malayalam into English which won him great appreciation. He published a collection of bilingual poems titled 'Macaronic Verse' in 2006. Devidasan Vellat has started a blog - ddvellat62. blogspot. com - through which he brings to light some of his poems. Further, he has collaborated with the national award-winning film director Jayaraj in the production of a documentary on the Malayalam poet Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan by translating some of his poems including 'Devisthavam' and 'Kurathi' which was highly challenging. Devidasan Vellat lives in Kollengode and is married to Sasikalakumari Kambrath and has a son Siddharth and a daughter Sreedevi, both employed in the United Arab Emirates.
Download or read book Salinger written by David Shields and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” (Entertainment Weekly). This “revealing” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography, “fascinating and unique” (The Washington Post) and “an unmitigated success” (USA TODAY), has redefined our understanding of one of the most mysterious figures of the twentieth century. In nine years of work on Salinger, and especially in the years since the author’s death, David Shields and Shane Salerno interviewed more than 200 people on five continents, many of whom had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger’s World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his own family. Their intimate recollections are supported by more that 175 photos (many never seen before), diaries, legal records, and private documents that are woven throughout; in addition, appearing here for the first time, are Salinger’s “lost letters”—ranging from the 1940s to 2008, revealing his intimate views on love, literature, fame, religion, war, and death, and providing a raw and revelatory self-portrait. The result is “unprecedented” (Associated Press), “genuinely valuable” (Time), and “strips away the sheen of [Salinger’s] exceptionalism, trading in his genius for something much more real” (Los Angeles Times). According to the Sunday Times of London, Salinger is “a stupendous work…I predict with the utmost confidence that, after this, the world will not need another Salinger biography.”
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Download or read book The Devil s Mouth written by Thomas Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political conspirators murder his father, Prince Lanson of Lochlaund flees for his life. He falls in love with a beautiful tavern maid who is hiding from the moral condemnation of the powerful Lochlaund church, which has a stranglehold on the kingdom. Ultimately Lanson must decide whether to release her to the church's legalistic justice or defy the church and save her life by wedding her. This mythical story of freedom, justice, and forbidden love is the second book in "The Seven Kingdoms Chronicles."
Download or read book The Complete Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A childs garden of verses Underwoods Songs of travel Moral emblems written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Earth After Us written by Jan Zalasiewicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact.
Download or read book The Ends of Knowledge written by Rachael Scarborough King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done. In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular ends, both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common? Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Forest Ecology written by J. P. Kimmins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forest Ecology" uses an ecosystem approach to understanding the ecology of forests. It examines the form and function of forest ecosystems and how they change over time in response to natural and human-caused disturbances. A complete treatment of the ecosystem including all the major structural components and functional processes of the forest ecosystem. This book examines forest ecology in the context of sustainable development and population growth. Gives equal emphasis to ecosystem function, the physical environment, the biotic processes (population and community ecology) and ecosystem change overtime.
