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The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
PreviewDivided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs's writings and activism on the city, the professions ...
White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts
John SamsonJohn Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision ( Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden, Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by accepting guilt.
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine
Robert Milder31. Quoted in Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 2:605. 32. Miller 321. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville: A Biography ( New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996), 509; Garner, Civil War World of Herman Melville ...
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Jane JacobsThese interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was—and remains—unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Working Press of the Nation
More editionsPaul M. Sheptow Publisher Bruce Anderson Managing Editor Joanne Jacobs _ New Products Editor Joanne Jacobs News Editor Joanne Jacobs . Joanne Jacobs . Joanne Jacobs . . Book Review Editor Photo Editor Associate Editor ...
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...
Preview1 Every scholar of Melville is greatly indebted to his principal modern biographers, Hershel Parker and Laurie Robertson—Lorant, and to the editors of the Northwestern—Newberry editions of Melville's collected works, which provide standard ...
A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living ...
A. J. JacobsAn eBook boxed set that features the first three of A.J. Jacobs's riotous—and surprisingly informative—ventures into experiential journalism.
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville
Michael Paul RoginSee Melville, Herman Moredock, Colonel, 245-7 Morewood, Sarah, 111, 183-4, 186 Morgan, Edmund, 127 Murray, Henry, 168 Nationalism, 20, 22, 39-40, 71, 73 -4, 102-3, 106, ... See Melville, Herman Pierce, Franklin, 148, 219-20, 255 Pierre.
A Study Guide for W. W. Jacobs's "Monkey's Paw"
Gale, Cengage Learning“W. W. Jacobs,” in Supernatural Fiction Writers, Vol. I, edited by E. F. Bleiler, Scribner, 1985, pp. 38387. Donaldson writes a brief description of Jacobs's supernatural tales, including “The Monkey's Paw,” which he calls Jacobs's best. Harding ...
Delphi Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs (Illustrated):
W. W. JacobsW. W. Jacobs. The Complete Works of W. W. JACOBS By Delphi Classics, 2016 COPYRIGHT Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs First published in.
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Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
Douglas RobillardMelville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
The Poems of Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleIn this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes.
Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick
Lauren BeckerMany scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
Melville: A Biography
Laurie Robertson-LorantDrawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer.
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the ...
Dirk SchubertThe Battle for Gotham, New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York, NY: Nation Books; Klemek, C., 2007. Jane Jacobs' Urban Village: Well Preserved or Cast Adrift? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, ...
A Companion to Melville studies
John Bryant"An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known about Melville's life, works, and culture. . . . consistently informative and frequently provocative." Choice
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
PreviewHester Blum's emphasis in this volume on the fluid nature of Melville's use of the sea narrative, allowing for metaphysical and cultural as well as geographical explorations, identifies an important aspect of Melville's struggles with “issues such ...
Many Cargoes
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Short Cruises
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1906 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
The Lady of the Barge
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Sailors' Knots
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Melville’s Anatomies
Samuel OtterSee, for example, John Sullivan Dwight's review from the Brook Farm Harbinger and the anonymous review in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, both reprinted in Milton Stern, Critical Essays on Herman Melville's “Typee,” 22–27 and 35–37 ...
Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response
Richard ClutterbuckThey then took him back to his car and left him handcuffed to the steering wheel. They escaped with £50 000. STUART MELVILLE On 11 March 1984, Stuart Melville, manager of the American Express office in Dublin, was kidnapped from his ...
Sea Urchins
W. W. JacobsW. W. Jacobs was a very popular English author of short stories at the turn of the 20th-century. Most of his tales had a humorous edge, though he revealed his dark side in one or two works.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Preview2. HESTER BLUM ... royal ship, rather than his original continental one. In an attempt to assimilate to the man-of-war's crew, Israel calls himself “Peter Perkins,” maintopman, and jumps from mess (a 22 Melville and Oceanic Studies Hester Blum.
Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big ...
Joanne JacobsThe Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds Joanne Jacobs. "A bold story about a gutsy pair of education reformers . . . Jacobs takes the reader into the lives of the struggling students as they shed ...
The Year of Living Biblically
A J JacobsThe resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes. 'A.J. Jacobs has written a -- how else to put it?
Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...
More editions... the University of Lyon in 1972 and qualified in the Examination of Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques in 1981. Paper: Conservation For What and For Whom Rodney Stuart Melville Speaker Rodney Stuart Melville is an architect.
Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary
Alice Sparberg AlexiouThis book tells how without any formal training in planning, Jacobs became a prominent spokesperson for sensible urban change.
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