Download or read book My Youth and Early Deaths written by Allen Stein and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late one night in the summer of 1897, Morris Massimo Levy, nearly sixteen, of mixed Italian-Catholic and East-European Jewish background, watches as the father of the girl he loves is dropped from the Brooklyn Bridge by the notorious Jewish gang leader (and actual historical figure) Monk Eastman. The event helps propel Morris into a dangerous involvement in the notorious wars between the ethnic gangs of the Lower East Side of New York City and prompts his initiation, despite his idealistic impulses, into the ruthless means one often needed to survive and flourish in early modern America.
Download or read book Friend of My Youth written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.
Download or read book In the Days of My Youth written by Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
Download or read book Early Death Not Premature written by Charles Popham Miles and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Years of My Youth written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Days of My Youth written by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Days of my Youth written by Amelia B. Edwards and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Thomas Kemple and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique and accessible way of conceptualizing the vocations of art, science, and politics in the capitalist world through an examination of some neglected features of the work of the scholar who first traced their origins and consequences in 'the West': Max Weber.
Download or read book From My Youth Up written by Marion Harland and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Max Weber written by Marianne Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," "The Economic Ethics of the World Religions" and his magnum opus, "Economy and Society," with its treatment of the relations of economics, politics, law and religion, belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne, a well-known feminist writer, who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago, the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it "a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir." Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as "the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence." Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years, Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student, young lawyer, scholar and political writer, quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897, which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies, provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War, describing many scholars, social reformers, politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception.
Download or read book Annals of the American Pulpit written by William Buell Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Youth written by Bryan De Vouge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Th is book describes the authors childhood growing up on a farm, living with four generations of family including his sister, parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. The author describes many varied experiences, from helping his 90 year-old great grandmother churn butter the old-fashioned way to helping his grandfather feed the pigs and other animals on the farm. He writes about his interactions with many of the other people who lived in the same community, and some of the naughty things he and his friends did such as raiding apple orchards. This book gives the reader a clear idea of how life was on a farm in rural Quebec in the 1950s.
Download or read book The Psalms Volume 3 Psalms 51 100 written by Christopher Ash and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentary from Christopher Ash Sets Out a Deeply Christian Study of Psalms 51–100 While reading Psalms, it is common for commentaries to focus on Old Testament meaning, without connecting it deeply to Christ's fulfillment in the New Testament. By studying Scripture this way, believers miss out on the fullness of God's word. The key to experiencing authentically Christian worship is learning a Christ-focused approach to praying and singing the Psalms. In this thorough commentary, Christopher Ash provides a careful treatment of Psalms 51–100, examining each psalm's significance to David and the other psalmists, to Jesus during his earthly ministry, and to the church of Christ in every age. Ash includes introductory quotations, a deep analysis of the text's structure and vocabulary, and a closing reflection and response, along with selected quotations from older readings of the Psalms. Perfect for pastors, Bible teachers, and students, this commentary helps readers sing and pray the Psalms with Christ in view. Exhaustive: Christopher Ash's exegesis explores how the Psalms are quoted and echoed throughout the New Testament Applicable and Heartfelt: Explains how a Christ-centered approach to reading the Psalms influences doctrines of prayer, prophecy, the Trinity, ecclesiology, and more Ideal for Pastors and Serious Students of Scripture: Written for Bible teachers, Sunday school and youth leaders, and small-group leaders
Download or read book Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing written by Mark Chinca and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the practice of meditating on death and the afterlife in medieval and early modern culture.
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Download or read book History Derailed written by Ivan T. Berend and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and cultural history of the region that we possess." Now, having brought together and illuminated this region's storm-tossed history in the twentieth century, Berend turns his attention to the equally turbulent period that preceded it. The "long" nineteenth century, extending up to World War I, contained the seeds of developments and crises that continue to haunt the region today. The book begins with an overview of the main historical trends in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, during which time the region lost momentum and became the periphery, no longer in step with the rising West. It concludes with an account of the persisting authoritarian political structures and the failed modernization that paved the way for social and political revolts. The origins of twentieth-century extremism and its tragedies are plainly visible in this penetrating account.