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Book Memories Under the Linden Tree

Download or read book Memories Under the Linden Tree written by G. Marie Meier and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdant, heart shaped leaves fragrant with white flower blossoms were drooping heavily from the Linden tree. The fragrant aroma from it's flowers wafted lazily through the air; making it seem as though I was drinking in creation at it's fullest. The awesome Linden tree truly appeared vibrantly green brimming with life and activity, as I listened to the humming, whirring sounds of millions of buzzing bees. Thus, it revealed itself as truly being a tree of life!

Book The Linden Tree

    Book Details:
  • Author : César Aira
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 0811227464
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book The Linden Tree written by César Aira and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful fictional account of the small town César Aira grew up in—not so long ago A delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as César Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning with his parents—an enigmatic handsome black father who gathered linden flowers for his sleep-inducing tea and an irrational, crippled mother of European descent—the narrator catalogs memories of his childhood: his friends, his peculiar first job, his many gossiping neighbors, and the landscape and architecture of the provinces. The Linden Tree beautifully brings back to life that period in Argentina when the poor, under the guiding hand of Eva Perón, aspired to a newly created middle class. As it moves from anecdote to anecdote, this charming short novella—touching, funny, and sometimes surreal—invites the reader to visit the source of Aira's extraordinary imagination.

Book The Linden Tree

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleanor Mathews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781571316738
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Linden Tree written by Eleanor Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm.

Book Walking with Trees

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  • Author : Glennie Kindred
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-03
  • ISBN : 9781856233262
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Walking with Trees written by Glennie Kindred and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking with trees takes us on an intimate journey with 13 native trees of Britain and Europe. Glennie leads us into their world, describes their unique characteristics, natural history, healing properties, mythologies and crafts, and opens us to their subtle 'signatures'; what each tree can teach us when our hearts are open. This is a book about our relationships with trees, their relationships with each other and the natural world around them, and the deep interconnection between trees and the web of life on earth. It reveals a transformative pathway for individuals and provides an empowering practice for active engagement in the great challenges of our time.--COVER.

Book Pictures of Memory

Download or read book Pictures of Memory written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U S  Literature and Culture

Download or read book Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U S Literature and Culture written by Christopher W. Clark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and migrant fiction in the twenty-first century, Christopher W. Clark creates a queer archive of transcultural U.S. texts as a way of destabilizing heteronormativity and thinking about productive spaces of queer world-building. Drawing on the fields of transcultural memory, queer studies, and transculturalism, this book raises important questions of queer bodies and subjecthood. Clark traces their legacies through texts by Sinan Antoon, Mohamedou Ould Slahi among others, alongside film and photography that includes artists such as Nina Berman and Hasan Elahi. In all, the book queers forms of cultural memory and national identity to uncover the traces of injury but also spaces of regeneration.

Book You Grow Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gayla Trail
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-06-16
  • ISBN : 1439103518
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book You Grow Girl written by Gayla Trail and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality. Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes -- whether you have access to a small backyard or merely to a fire escape. You Grow Girl eliminates the intimidation factor and reveals how easy and enjoyable it can be to cultivate plants and flowers even when resources and space are limited. Divided into accessible sections like Plan, Plant, and Grow, You Grow Girl takes readers through the entire gardening experience: Preparing soil Nurturing seedlings Fending off critters Reaping the bounty Readying plants for winter Preparing for the seasons ahead Gayla also includes a wealth of ingenious and creative projects, such as: Transforming your garden's harvest into lush bath and beauty products Converting household junk into canny containers Growing and bagging herbal tea Concocting homemade pest repellents ...and much, much more. Witty, wise, and as practical as it is stylish, You Grow Girl is guaranteed to show you how to get your garden on. All you need is a windowsill and a dream!

Book Program

    Book Details:
  • Author : San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Program written by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forensic Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-10-14
  • ISBN : 331951766X
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Forensic Memory written by Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language, narration, and use of visual media? This volume examines how forensic literature provides an important corrective to the forensic paradigm and a means of exploring the relationship between visual and material evidence and various forms of testimony. This literary engagement with the past is investigated in order to challenge a forensic paradigm that aims to eliminate the problems related to human testimony through scientific objectivity, resulting in a fresh and original text in which Bøndergaard argues literature’s potential to explore the mechanisms of representation, interpretation, and narration.

Book Memory in World Cinema

Download or read book Memory in World Cinema written by Nancy J. Membrez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film itself is an artifact of memory. A blend of all the other fine arts, film portrays and preserves human memory, someone's memory, faulty or not, dramatically or comically, in a documentary, feature film or short. Hollywood may dominate 80 percent of cinema production but it is not the only voice. World cinema is about those other voices. Drawn initially from presentations from a series of film conferences held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this collection of essays covers multiple geographical, linguistic, and cultural areas worldwide, emphasizing the historical and cultural interpretation of films. Appendices list films focusing on memory and invite readers to explore the films and issues raised.

Book Belongings

Download or read book Belongings written by Zuzana Plesa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has substituted collecting dolls, books and dinnerware for a sense of belonging. Her travels to various places in the world were a search for finding her place in the sun. Where does she finally find her place of belonging?

Book The Musical World

Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Student Travel

Download or read book Transforming Student Travel written by Faye Brenner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” This resource guide explores ways educators can encourage students not only to see with “new eyes,” but also to understand how they know. The International Baccalaureate informs the first part of the book which includes educational research as well as practical suggestions for improving the tour experience, including an integration of academic subjects. Although much has been written about the impact of international travel, this book explores ways educators can transform domestic tours for public and parochial school students. The second part of the book offers resource guides for four cities – Washington, D.C.; New York; Philadelphia; and Boston. Teachers, tour directors, and tour operators, will find discussion questions activities as well as detailed background information for four of the most visited cities by students. Many of the questions and strategies can be adapted for other landscapes.

Book Speak  Memory

Download or read book Speak Memory written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"–the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate–which provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

Book The Destruction of Memory

Download or read book The Destruction of Memory written by Robert Bevan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the bombing of British cathedrals in World War II, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed by conflicts and the ravages of war, more than mere buildings are at stake. The Destruction of Memory reveals the extent to which a nation weds itself to its landscape; Robert Bevan argues that such destruction not only shatters a nation’s culture and morale but is also a deliberate act of eradicating a culture’s memory and, ultimately, its existence. Bevan combs through world history to highlight a range of wars and conflicts in which the destruction of architecture was pivotal. From Cortez’s razing of Aztec cities to the carpet bombings of Dresden and Tokyo in World War II to the war in the former Yugoslavia, The Destruction of Memory exposes the cultural war that rages behind architectural annihilation, revealing that in this subliminal assault lies the complex aim of exterminating a people. He provocatively argues for “the fatally intertwined experience of genocide and cultural genocide,” ultimately proposing the elevation of cultural genocide to a crime punishable by international law. In an age in which Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei, and Frank Lloyd Wright are revered and yet museums and temples of priceless value are destroyed in wars around the world, Bevan challenges the notion of “collateral damage,” arguing that it is in fact a deliberate act of war.

Book The Memory Tree

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Pittman
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 075828943X
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Memory Tree written by Joseph Pittman and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christmas descends on Linden Corners, Janey is worried about losing her traditions and longs for her birth parents, while Brian grieves over the loss of his soul mate and seeks to move on with newcomer Trina Winter.

Book Schubert s Winterreise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Franz Schubert
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780299186005
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Schubert s Winterreise written by Franz Schubert and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book/CD package guides readers and listeners on a journey through Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, in which the composer set the poetry of Wilhelm Muller to music. The complete text of the 24 poems is presented in both German and English, with 116 b&w photographs of winter scenes on the facing pages. An introductory essay by Susan Youens (musicology, U. of Notre Dame) offers a critical examination of the song cycle. The music CD features a new recording of Winterreise, performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer. Oversize: 10.25x10.25". Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).