Everything Flows
Title | Everything Flows PDF eBook |
Author | Vasily Grossman |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010-05-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590173899 |
A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here Everything Flows attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
Everything Flows
Title | Everything Flows PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel J. Nicholson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198779631 |
"The majority of the papers herein originated at the workshop 'Process Philosophy of Biology' ... held in Exeter in November 2014."--Page vii.
Forever Flowing
Title | Forever Flowing PDF eBook |
Author | Vasiliĭ Grossman |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780810115033 |
The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to familiar places and persons in Moscow and Leningrad, the hero settles in a southern provincial town where he briefly establishes a new life with a war widow. Ivan Grigoryevich eventually returns to his boyhood home on the Black Sea, where he is finally able to come to terms with the inhumanity of the new Russian regime.
On Human Nature
Title | On Human Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2003-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520923065 |
On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.
Flow
Title | Flow PDF eBook |
Author | Mihaly Csikszent |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1991-03-13 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0060920432 |
An introduction to "flow," a new field of behavioral science that offers life-fulfilling potential, explains its principles and shows how to introduce flow into all aspects of life, avoiding the interferences of disharmony.
Wherever Waters Flow
Title | Wherever Waters Flow PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Woodward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Wherever Waters Flow is one man's journey down the rivers of a lifetime. By kayak and canoe, Doug Woodward takes you to the wild Chattooga River where he worked as a whitewater stuntman during the filming of Deliverance and later accompanied Jimmy Carter in running the most feared rapids on that river. Be it a first descent of a thundering falls or an extended wilderness journey to a remote corner of the earth, Woodward brings the experience to life with insight, humor and remarkable accuracy of detail.
All Things Flow
Title | All Things Flow PDF eBook |
Author | William Smyth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781794807525 |
This is a graduate-level textbook for students in the natural sciences. After reviewing the necessary math, it describes the logical path from Newton's laws of motion to our modern understanding of fluid mechanics. It does not describe engineering applications but instead focuses on phenomena found in nature. Once developed, the theory is applied to three familiar examples of flows that can be observed easily in Earth's atmosphere, oceans, rivers and lakes: vortices, interfacial waves, and hydraulic transitions. The student will then have both (1) the tools to analyze a wide range of naturally-occurring flows and (2) a solid foundation for more advanced studies in atmospheric dynamics and physical oceanography. Appendices give more detailed explanations and optional topics.