Author: Jack Verney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Author: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 647

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A portrait of the twentieth-century woman artist discusses such topics as her marriage to art photography pioneer Alfred Stieglitz, the impact of his infidelity on her psyche, and her relocation to New Mexico, where she created her signature works. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author: Jeffrey L. Gross
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524539031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Waipio Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hauola, the biblical Garden of Eden located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus River Valley of ancient Vedic India, to Egypt where some ancestors of the Polynesians were on the Israelite Exodus, through Island Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Ocean. They voyaged thousands of miles in double-hull canoes constructed from hollowed-out logs, built with Stone Age tools and navigated by the stars of the night sky. The Polynesians resided on numerous tropical islands before reaching Waipio Valley, the last Polynesian Garden of Eden. Due to their isolation on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Polynesian religious and cultural beliefs have preserved elements from mankinds past nearer the beginning of human history. Polynesian mythology includes genealogical records of their divine ancestors that extends back to Kahiki, their mystical land of creation and ancient divine homeland created by the gods, epic tales of gods and heroes that preserved records of their ancient voyages, oral chants such as the Hawaiian Kumulipo contain evolutionary creation theories that reflect modern scientific thought, and the belief in a Supreme Creator God.

Author: Edward Abrahams
Publisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1640190813
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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In a career that made her one of the greatest American artists of the century, Georgia O'Keeffe claimed to have done it all by herself - without influence from family, friends, or fellow artists. The real story, Edward Abrahams writes in this essay, is less romantic but just as extraordinary.

Author: Patrick Samway S.J.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268103127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus; Giroux, was her devoted friend and admirer. He edited her three books published during her lifetime, plus Everything that Rises Must Converge, which she completed just before she died in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine, the posthumous The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, and the subsequent award-winning collection of her letters titled The Habit of Being. When poet Robert Lowell first introduced O'Connor to Giroux in March 1949, she could not have imagined the impact that meeting would have on her life or on the landscape of postwar American literature. Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership sheds new light on an area of Flannery O’Connor’s life—her relationship with her editors—that has not been well documented or narrated by critics and biographers. Impressively researched and rich in biographical details, this book chronicles Giroux’s and O’Connor’s personal and professional relationship, not omitting their circle of friends and fellow writers, including Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, Thomas Merton, and Robert Penn Warren. As Patrick Samway explains, Giroux guided O'Connor to become an internationally acclaimed writer of fiction and nonfiction, especially during the years when she suffered from lupus at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, a disease that eventually proved fatal. Excerpts from their correspondence, some of which are published here for the first time, reveal how much of Giroux's work as editor was accomplished through his letters to Milledgeville. They are gracious, discerning, and appreciative, just when they needed to be. In Father Samway's portrait of O'Connor as an extraordinarily dedicated writer and businesswoman, she emerges as savvy, pragmatic, focused, and determined. This engrossing account of O'Connor's publishing history will interest, in addition to O'Connor's fans, all readers and students of American literature.

Author: Francisco ARANHA
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: (Lady Morgan) Sydney Owenson
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanity—a romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towards the United Irishmen Uprising of 1798. It follows Murrogh O’Brien as he tries to find his way between his nostalgic father, the politically savvy Irish-Italian nun Beavoin O’Flaherty, the dashing flirt, Lady Knocklofty, the idealistic United Irishmen, and his comically old-fashioned aunts, only to be caught up in a sweep of arrests and revelations in the novel’s dramatic fourth volume. The O’Briens’ original footnotes and authorial digressions detail the failure of colonial policy in Ireland, contributing to the novel’s long-standing reputation as a credible historical account of the turbulent 1790s. This Broadview Edition includes extensive historical documents on Irish politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews of The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys.

Author: Frederick B. Wichman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824841190
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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The stories of Kauai's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or informally at family gatherings. Their chronology was ordered by a ruler's genealogy, which, in the case of the pua alii (flower of royalty), was illustrious and far reaching and could be traced to one of the four great gods of Polynesia--Käne, Kü, Lono, and Kanaloa. In these legends, Hawaiians of old sought answers to the questions "Who are we?" "Who are our ancestors and where do they come from?" "What lessons can be learned from their conduct?" Nä Pua Alii o Kauai presents the stories of the men and women who ruled the island of Kauai from its first settlement to the final rebellion against Kamehameha I's forces in 1824. Only fragments remain of the nearly two-thousand-year history of the people who inhabited Kauai before the coming of James Cook in 1778. Now scattered in public and private archives and libraries, these pieces of Hawaii's precontact past were recorded in the nineteenth century by such determined individuals as David Malo, Samuel Kamakau, and Abraham Fornander. All known genealogical references to the Kauai alii nui (paramount chiefs) have been gathered here and placed in chronological order and are interspersed with legends of great voyages, bitter wars, courageous heroes, and passionate romances that together form a rich and invaluable resource.

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: João Evangelista Romão
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557103010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Neste livro, descubra a idéia que servirá de norte ao aprimoramento eletivo de nações que desejarem progredir em sua moralização. Será uma nova metodologia política, focada na real isonomia, no mérito, na ética, na eficiência: Uma Ideia para Transformar o Brasil.Se não houver mudanças agora, amanhã é certo. A idéia está aqui, antes da prática, porém, vamos aperfeiçoá-la. Sem a sua participação, ela será apenas uma opinião.In this book, you find the idea that be able to an elective improvement of nations wishing to progress on their moralization. It will be a new political methodology, focused on real equality, merit, ethics, and efficiency: An idea for changing Brazil.If there are no changes now, tomorrow it is sure. Here is the idea, let's perfect it and put it into practice. Without your participation, it will be just an opinion.