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The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

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Divided 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

White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

John Samson

John 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

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Robert Milder

31. 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 Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Jane Jacobs

These 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

The Working Press of the Nation

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Paul 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 ...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

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1 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. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living ...

A. J. Jacobs

An 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

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Michael Paul Rogin

See 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"

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):

Delphi Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs (Illustrated):

W. W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs. The Complete Works of W. W. JACOBS By Delphi Classics, 2016 COPYRIGHT Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs First published in.
Northwest Sahaptin texts

Northwest Sahaptin texts

Melville Jacobs

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Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Douglas Robillard

Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
The Poems of Herman Melville

The Poems of Herman Melville

Herman Melville

In 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

Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Lauren Becker

Many scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
Melville: A Biography

Melville: A Biography

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Drawing 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 ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the ...

Dirk Schubert

The 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

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

The Cambridge History of the American Novel

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Hester 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

Many Cargoes

W. W. Jacobs

This 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

Short Cruises

W. W. Jacobs

This 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

The Lady of the Barge

W. W. Jacobs

This 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

Sailors' Knots

W. W. Jacobs

This 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

Melville’s Anatomies

Samuel Otter

See, 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

Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response

Richard Clutterbuck

They 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

Sea Urchins

W. W. Jacobs

W. 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

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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2. 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 ...

Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big ...

Joanne Jacobs

The 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

The Year of Living Biblically

A J Jacobs

The 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 ...

Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...

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... 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

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

This book tells how without any formal training in planning, Jacobs became a prominent spokesperson for sensible urban change.

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