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Author : Glenway Wescott
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Release Date : 2004-04-30
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015059120058
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Coral Davenport
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2010-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781405371032
Pages : 163 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (13 downloads)
Download DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Athens in PDF Full Online Free by Coral Davenport and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens will lead you straight to the best attractions this region has to offer. Whether you're looking for unmissable museums and ancient sites, alluring nearby islands, night-time hot-spots, shopping streets, liveliest festivals or want to find the best restaurants and tavernas in Athens; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists for all budgets - from the Top 10 Greek dishes and archaeological sites to the Top 10 city strolls and itineraries, shops, hotels and, to save you time and money, there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens is packed with beautiful illustrations of this historical city, providing the insider knowledge every visitor needs to know. Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Athens.
Author : Welty, Eudora
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 1604735821
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (473 downloads)
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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Release Date : 2012-01-09
ISBN 10 : 9781464964695
Pages : 1244 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (469 downloads)
Download Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition in PDF Full Online Free by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Author : Jill Dubisch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-29
ISBN 10 : 9780691656717
Pages : 277 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (671 downloads)
Download Gender and Power in Rural Greece in PDF Full Online Free by Jill Dubisch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men. In 1967 Ernestine Friedl's classic article, "The Position of Women: Appearnce and Reality," argued that this view was overly simplified and that in Greek villages women in fact exercise power in household decisions and in determining the economic and marital future of their children. Since that article, feminists and anthropologists have continued to discuss the appearances of prestige vs. the realities of power. In this volume scholars form a variety of backgrounds return the debate to the setting of Greece for the first time since Friedl's work. Introduced by Jill Dubisch, the book contains eight original essays and a republication of the Friedl article. Among other topics, the essays examine changes now occurring in Greek gender roles, the ways women deal with oppression and act as mediators between the domestic sphere and life outside the home, and the extension of the language and symbolism of gender beyond male and female roles. The contributors are Juliet du Boulay, Anna Caraveli, Muriel Dimen, Jill Dubisch, Michael Herzfeld, Robinette Kennedy, Elftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser, and S.D. Salamone and J.B. Stanton. Jill Dubisch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Nicos Valsamakis
Publisher :
Release Date : 1984
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015064363438
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Krista J. Breithaupt
Publisher : FriesenPress
Release Date : 2015-06-02
ISBN 10 : 9781460265697
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (569 downloads)
Download Into the Shadows: An Illustrated Memoir of Brain Injury in PDF Full Online Free by Krista J. Breithaupt and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Shadows is a story of survival and recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Dr. Krista Breithaupt was enjoying a family vacation when she suffered an aneurism that left her hospitalized for months. This book is an account of brain injury and her long journey of renewal, rediscovery, and growth. This story lends special insight and an intimate voice to a very common but misunderstood condition which changes the lives of the sufferer and those who care for her. Into the Shadows is a touching true story that will inspire the reader to examine their own sense of self and the strength we draw from the habits of life, work, and love that define us....
Author : Marc E. Vargo
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
ISBN 10 : 9781317712572
Pages : 156 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (257 downloads)
Download Noble Lives in PDF Full Online Free by Marc E. Vargo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the cost of being gay (or perceived as gay) for three historical figures Noble Lives examines how sexual orientation affected the careers of two historical figures generally accepted as gay, and a third whose sexual identity was in constant question during his lifetime. This unique book features comprehensive biographical accounts of Jazz Age author Glenway Wescott, Academy Award-winning composer Aaron Copland, and Nobel Peace Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld, addressing the relationship between their sexuality and their achievements in literature, the social sciences, musical composition, diplomacy, and global politics. Noble Lives is the first English-language text to thoroughly—and objectively—explore the troubled sexuality of Sweden's Hammarskjöld, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Noble Lives is a colorful and concise read that puts a historical perspective on the public and private lives of three important twentieth-century figures: Glenway Wescott—Author and political progressive, he used his life to enlighten society through his persistent efforts to enhance the public’s awareness and acceptance of homosexuality. Though his early work (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk) was well-received, Wescott’s career suffered from his inability to write honestly from his own experiences as a gay man, and his output was limited by the unwillingness of English-language publishers to release literary works having same-sex themes. He published his last novel in 1945 and for the next 40 years was something of an elder statesman of American literature, dealing with censorship laws, defending controversial members of the literary community, and advancing ideals of freedom of thought and expression. He worked closely in the 1950s with Alfred Kinsey, Director of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, to develop objective research into gay sexuality. Aaron Copland—Hailed by The New York Times as “the pioneer of American music,” he lived an openly gay life without regret in an era when the general public held neither his sexual orientation nor his Jewish background in high esteem. Copland was accused of promoting gay musicians based on their sexuality rather than their ability and was rumored to be part of a fraternity of gay composers—a “Homintern”—but overcame the discrimination he faced to receive a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and presidential medals from three administrations. In the years following his persecution by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Copland produced his most personal work—The Tender Land, a musical drama thought by most to be the autobiographical account of a gay man living in conservative times and perceived as a "coming-out tale." Dag Hammarskjöld—Despite holding a position of public prominence as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961, he managed to withhold even the most minor details of his personal life from the world. Even his posthumously published journal, Markings, shies away from any mention of his private life. Possibly asexual, probably homosexual, Hammarskjöld was unable to accept his sexuality and lived an unhappy, frustrated life of sexual abstinence, suffering slurs from political figures and the international media. But though he couldn’t resolve his own internal conflicts, he was masterful at settling external conflicts as he worked to solve disputes in Palestine, Vietnam, Egypt, and the Congo. Noble Lives is an invaluable reference source for LGBT readers, providing an understanding and appreciation of those who paved the way during an unenlightened and unforgiving time. It’s also an excellent resource for mainstream readers with an interest in biography and the history of the twentieth
Author : Catherine Temma Davidson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2014-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781466862098
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (29 downloads)
Download The Priest Fainted in PDF Full Online Free by Catherine Temma Davidson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut about a young Greek-American woman and the history she shares with her mother and grandmother. Imam is a recipe known throughout villages in Greece, handed down from mother to daughter. If you come from these villages, your history is passed on through your body. Its full name is imam baildi, and it means the priest fainted. Perhaps the priest was given a bit of bitter and sweet pleasure, and the power of everything behind the dish pushed him off his rock, just for a moment. Perhaps, when he was tumbling through the air, sighing with fear and ecstasy, he saw a glimpse of a new life to come. Layered with love affairs, family squabbles, poignant misunderstandings, moments of wonder, and more, The Priest Fainted is nothing less than the recipe for a young Greek-American woman's life. Using her imagination and the stories passed through her bones as ingredients, Catherine Temma Davidson uses memories, Greek myths, recipes, and family gossip to uncover a hidden history, which is the story of one woman's year in Greece as it crosses and doubles back over the lives of her mother and grandmother.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781838695446
Pages : 1343 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (544 downloads)
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Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-06-10
ISBN 10 : 9781475996968
Pages : 282 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (696 downloads)
Download Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler in PDF Full Online Free by Howard J. Wiarda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Howard J. Wiarda, a leading academic expert on foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs, is the author of more than eighty books. Wiarda has traveled to many of the worlds most troubled and exciting places. Now, in the more personal accounts of his global travels, he recalls his foreign research adventures, the countries visited, and the people he met and interviewed along the way. Wiardas new four-volume set, Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler, details his travels and foreign adventures since 2006. In these travel books, he tells the stories that lie behind the research, offers his impressions of the countries and regions he has explored, and considers how and why some have been successful and others not. Volume I in this new series tells the story of Wiardas 2010 circumnavigation of the globe. Volume II focuses on Europe and the continued importance of European regionalismdespite the bumper stickers advertising Europe Whole and Free. Volume III deals with Latin America and questions whether the region is really as democratic as we would like it to be. Volume IV provides Wiardas analysis of Asias economic miracles while also recounting his recent visits to the Persian Gulf and his assessment of modernization and development in the Islamic world. Insightful and entertaining, Wiardas travel narratives offer commentary on important and interesting sites all over the world.
Author : Stylianos Giamarelos
Publisher : UCL Press
Release Date : 2022-01-10
ISBN 10 : 9781800081338
Pages : 438 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (133 downloads)
Download Resisting Postmodern Architecture in PDF Full Online Free by Stylianos Giamarelos and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.
Author : Ashley Bugge
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-04
ISBN 10 : 9781631958670
Pages : 223 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (867 downloads)
Download The Ocean is Calling in PDF Full Online Free by Ashley Bugge and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young widow, Ashley Bugge was suddenly faced with the task of raising two young children and a newborn child without the support of her spouse. Could she do it alone? The Ocean is Calling exposes the realities of a life’s greatest love and loss: the unexpected death of a spouse, followed by giving birth to a child, alone. Facing insurmountable grief, Ashley Bugge takes readers through a journey like no other—from a bitter dark night with a bottle of sleeping pills in her hand to giving birth alone, to a no-holds-barred expedition through eight countries with her three young children in tow. Ashley holds nothing back as she includes readers on her real-time voyage through incredible states, countries and oceans. She shares daring, challenging moments of donning scuba diving gear to explore the same water her husband took his last breath, traversing mountains in Switzerland, exploring WWII remains in Poland, and grappling with the struggles of a young widow raising three children on her own. The Ocean is Calling shares a journey of heartache, discovery, travel, family and exploration. Ashley hopes that her story will encourage readers to be confident and trust that whatever happens in life, there is hope and joy ahead.
Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Release Date : 2020-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9781788689908
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (99 downloads)
Download Lonely Planet Greece in PDF Full Online Free by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet's Greece is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience the Acropolis of Athens, get lost in Rhodes and watch the sun set in Santorini- all with your trusted travel companion.
Author : Ann Lee Morgan
Publisher : Saint James Press
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822017749649
Pages : 1072 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Contemporary Architects in PDF Full Online Free by Ann Lee Morgan and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " To strengthen the contemporary focus of this volume, we have added about forty architects and have deleted some whose activity ceased before World War II. In making these decisions, we have been assisted by an Advisory Board. As in the first volume, we have continued to define the word "architect" very broadly, so as to include planners, theorists, structural engineers, and landscape architects whose work seems to be central to the enterprise of creating habitable spaces in our day." --Editor's note.
Author : Jörg Knieling
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-16
ISBN 10 : 9781317532774
Pages : 334 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (277 downloads)
Download Cities in Crisis in PDF Full Online Free by Jörg Knieling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis. This book builds on the current debate concerning how cities and urban regions and their citizens deal with the consequences of the recent financial and socio-economic crisis. Cities in Crisis examines the political and administrative implications of austerity measures applied in southern European cities. These include cuts in local public spending and the processes of privatization of local public assets, as well as issues related to the re-scaling, recentralization or decentralization of competencies. Attention is paid to the rise of new ‘austerity regimes’, the question of their legitimacy and their spatial manifestations, and in particular to the social consequences of austerity. The contributions to this book lay the foundation for recommendations on how to improve and consolidate qualified governance arrangements in order to better address rapid economic and social changes. Such recommendations are applicable to cities and urban regions both within and outside of Europe. It identifies possible approaches, tools and partnerships to tackle the effects of the crisis and to prepare European cities for future challenges.
Author : William V. Muse
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-12
ISBN 10 : 9780595528646
Pages : 374 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (864 downloads)
Download The Seventh Muse in PDF Full Online Free by William V. Muse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a memoir of William V. Muse who grew up in rural Mississippi and Louisiana as the seventh son of a Pentacostal minister. By winning academic scholarships, he was able to earn bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees and advance thru an academic career from assistant professor to president. It is an uplifting story of achievement over great challenges. It also provides one with an inside look at university administration at the highest levels. Muse also describes his passion for baseball, his love of music, his extensive international travel, and his personal spiritual journey. Of special note is his personal experiences working in Afghanistan.
