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Book Visions of Michigan

Download or read book Visions of Michigan written by Richard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Michigan is a visual journey celebrating the natural beauty of Michigan's landscapes and lakeshores. This 148-page hardcover photographic book features nearly 140 captivating photographs by Michigan photographer Richard Thompson. From sweeping shorelines, windswept dunes, and roaring waterfalls, to lonely lighthouses, tranquil lakes, and timid wildlife, Visions of Michigan explores the breadth of Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas and further abroad the Great Lakes.

Book Visions of Michigan

Download or read book Visions of Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Michigan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard J. Hathaway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Michigan written by Richard J. Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Michigan's varied and fascinating history, its people have been leaders. They have led the nation in the production of automobiles, iron and copper, lumber, and many agricultural products. Of even grater importance, Michigan citizens have been leaders in the movement for equitable working condicitons, civil rights, and a clean environment.

Book The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess

Download or read book The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess written by Jonathan Green and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and the interconnectedness of textual and print history

Book Peripheral Visions

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  • Author : Ted Hopf
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780472105403
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Peripheral Visions written by Ted Hopf and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus, the United States became involved militarily in various Third World conflicts more to deter the Soviet Union than to protect any specific U.S. interest. Peripheral Visions argues that this policy was unnecessary and counterproductive.

Book Black and White Visions of Bay City Michigan

Download or read book Black and White Visions of Bay City Michigan written by Patrick B. Humphreys and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this book contains black and white photographs of bay city michigan

Book Grand Rapids Visions

Download or read book Grand Rapids Visions written by Richard DeVos and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Washtenaw County

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  • Author : Dale Fisher
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-20
  • ISBN : 9780961562373
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Washtenaw County written by Dale Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 288 page, hardcover pictorial book of the cities, towns and villages of Washtenaw County.

Book Visions of History

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  • Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780719010675
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Visions of History written by Edward Palmer Thompson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Visions of the Way

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  • Author : Alan K. L. Chan
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1991-01-22
  • ISBN : 0791498727
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Two Visions of the Way written by Alan K. L. Chan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visions of the End

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  • Author : Bernard McGinn
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780231112574
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Visions of the End written by Bernard McGinn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period A.D. 400 to 1500, masterfully selected and complete with a comprehensive introduction and new preface.

Book Intimate Reading

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  • Author : Jessica Barr
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2020-04-20
  • ISBN : 0472131699
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Jessica Barr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Book Visions of Sodom

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  • Author : H. G. Cocks
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-03-29
  • ISBN : 022643866X
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Visions of Sodom written by H. G. Cocks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Sodom -- City of destruction -- The end of the world -- Laws -- Histories -- Lust and morality in the (long) eighteenth century -- The discovery of Sodom, 1851

Book The Light People

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  • Author : Gordon Henry
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2003-04-30
  • ISBN : 1628954531
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book The Light People written by Gordon Henry and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Light People is a multi-genre novel that includes a series of nested stories about a tribal community in Northern Minnesota. Major themes include Oskinaway’s search for his parents and the legal wrangling over the possession of a leg that has been removed from a tribal elder. Each story is linked to previous and successive stories to form a discourse on identity and cultural appropriation, all told with humor and wisdom. Taking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People, a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques to create a multifaceted, deeply rooted, and vibrant portrait of the author's own tribal culture. Keenly aware of Eurocentric views of that culture, Henry offers a "corrective history" where humor and wisdom transcend the political. In the contemporary Minnesota village of Four Bears, on the mythical Fineday Reservation, a young Chippewa boy named Oskinaway is trying to learn the whereabouts of his parents. His grandparents turn for help to a tribal elder, one of the light people, Jake Seed. Seed's assistant, a magician who performs at children's birthday parties, tells Oskinaway's family his story, which gives way to the stories of those he encounters. Narratives unfold into earlier narratives, spinning back in time and encompassing the intertwined lives of the Fineday Chippewas, eventually revealing the place of Oskinaway and his parents in a complex web of human relationships.

Book Gasp

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  • Author : Lisa McMann
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1442466308
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Gasp written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing, and that it is on Jules and Sawyer and their friends to once again prevent disaster.

Book Visions of Belonging

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  • Author : Judith E. Smith
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2004-09-01
  • ISBN : 023150926X
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Visions of Belonging written by Judith E. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun—entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. These stories helped define widely shared conceptions of who counted as representative Americans and who could be recognized as belonging. The book listens in as white and black authors and directors, readers and viewers reveal divergent, emotionally textured, and politically charged social visions. Their diverse perspectives provide a point of entry into an extraordinary time when the possibilities for social transformation seemed boundless. But changes were also fiercely contested, especially as the war's culture of unity receded in the resurgence of cold war anticommunism, and demands for racial equality were met with intensifying white resistance. Judith E. Smith traces the cultural trajectory of these family stories, as they circulated widely in bestselling paperbacks, hit movies, and popular drama on stage, radio, and television. Visions of Belonging provides unusually close access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Would the new appearance of white working class ethnic characters expand Americans'understanding of democracy? Would these stories challenge the color line? How could these stories simultaneously show that black families belonged to the larger "family" of the nation while also representing the forms of danger and discriminations that excluded them from full citizenship? In the 1940s, war-driven challenges to racial and ethnic borderlines encouraged hesitant trespass against older notions of "normal." But by the end of the 1950s, the cold war cultural atmosphere discouraged probing of racial and social inequality and ultimately turned family stories into a comforting retreat from politics. The book crosses disciplinary boundaries, suggesting a novel method for cultural history by probing the social history of literary, dramatic, and cinematic texts. Smith's innovative use of archival research sets authorial intent next to audience reception to show how both contribute to shaping the contested meanings of American belonging.

Book The Turner House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela Flournoy
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0544303164
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Turner House written by Angela Flournoy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel centered on the journey of the Turner family and its thirteen siblings, particularly the eldest and youngest, as they face the ghosts of their pasts--both an actual haint and the specter of addiction--the imminent loss of their mother, and the necessary abandonment of their family home in struggling Detroit.