Buried Communities
Title | Buried Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt Fosso |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791459591 |
Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.
Buried Beneath Us
Title | Buried Beneath Us PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Aveni |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1596439130 |
A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Buried in the Bitter Waters
Title | Buried in the Bitter Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Elliot Jaspin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2008-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465036376 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the secret history of racial cleansing in America
Plant Communities
Title | Plant Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Gookin Waterman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Buried Book
Title | The Buried Book PDF eBook |
Author | David Damrosch |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007-12-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 142992389X |
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic—lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 bce, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost—buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of the wild king Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. The Buried Book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its deciphering in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist who created a sensation when he discovered Gilgamesh among the thousands of tablets in the British Museum's collection. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself. Damrosch reveals the story as a literary bridge between East and West: a document lost in Babylonia, discovered by an Iraqi, decoded by an Englishman, and appropriated in novels by both Philip Roth and Saddam Hussein. This is an illuminating, fast-paced tale of history as it was written, stolen, lost, and—after 2,000 years, countless battles, fevered digs, conspiracies, and revelations—finally found.
Publications of the Virginia War History Commission: Virginia communities in war time
Title | Publications of the Virginia War History Commission: Virginia communities in war time PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia War History Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 778 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
Buried
Title | Buried PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Merrow MacCready |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2008-07-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 9780142411414 |
Winner of the Edgar Award! Careful planning and constant control is Claudine's protection. Order is her weapon. She's long buried her own needs and dreams to cover for her alcoholic mom. But when Mom suddenly disappeares-another alcoholic binge-seventeen-year-old Claudine finds herself all alone, and a much darker reality emerges from beneath years of angry denial and enabling behavior. And as the truth comes closer to the surface, Claudine must dig for the answers she's always worked so hard to cover up.