From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborho...Loe edasi...
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the law...Loe edasi...
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the law...Loe edasi...
&;We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.&; &;Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy In Down Along with That Devi...Loe edasi...
We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction. Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy In Down Along with That Devils Bones,...Loe edasi...
&;We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.&; &;Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy In Down Along with That Devi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822945321)
This volume contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his midthirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophy since September 1853. Many of the letters printed here...Loe edasi...
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822944706)
The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall’s emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant with just a year’s experience working on...Loe edasi...
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John Tyndall was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His correspondents read like a ‘who’s who’ of international science and include: Charles Babbage, Louis Pasteur and Bertrand Russell. Published serially with two volum...Loe edasi...
At the Chameleon Club in Paris, Lou Villars, a star athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among its patrons, and as time passes, she experiences a transformation that warps her earnest desire for love and approval into something...Loe edasi...
At the Chameleon Club in Paris, Lou Villars, a star athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among its patrons, and as time passes, she experiences a transformation that warps her earnest desire for love and approval into something...Loe edasi...
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Emerging from the austerity and dep...Loe edasi...
From Americas most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyns very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, co...Loe edasi...
From Americas most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyns very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, co...Loe edasi...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provi...Loe edasi...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provi...Loe edasi...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provi...Loe edasi...
