I'm Safe! in the Water
Title | I'm Safe! in the Water PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Gordon |
Publisher | Backyard Books |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1999-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781891596063 |
Kip and Kayla take swimming lessons and what Kayla learns surprises even herself! In the context of the story children are encouraged in safe swimming practices.
Lord I'm Coming Home
Title | Lord I'm Coming Home PDF eBook |
Author | John Forrest |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501726307 |
Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic elite." The opening chapter of the book is a vivid fictional narrative of a typical day in "Tidewater," presented from the perspective of one fisherman. In the following two chapters the author sets forth the philosophical and anthropological foundations of his book, paying particular attention to problems of defining "aesthetic," to methodological concerns, and to the natural landscape of his field site. Reviewing his own experience as both participant and observer, he then describes in scrupulous detail the aesthetic forms in four areas of Tidewater life: home, work, church, and leisure. People use these forms, Forrest shows, to establish personal and group identities, facilitate certain kinds of interactions while inhibiting others, and cue appropriate behavior. His concluding chapter deals with the different life cycles of men and women, insider-outsider relations, secular and sacred domains, the image and metaphor of "home," and the essential role that aesthetics plays in these spheres. The first ethnography to evoke the full aesthetic life of a community, Lord I'm Coming Home will be important reading not only for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of American studies, art, folklore, and sociology.
This Is Water
Title | This Is Water PDF eBook |
Author | Kenyon College |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2014-05-22 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN | 9780316151467 |
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
GAO Documents
Title | GAO Documents PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 924 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
The Living Age
Title | The Living Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 872 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Safe Drinking Water
Title | Safe Drinking Water PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Drinking water |
ISBN |
Safety Around Water
Title | Safety Around Water PDF eBook |
Author | MaryLee Knowlton |
Publisher | Crabtree Publishing Company |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2008-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780778743156 |
Even a shallow pool can be dangerous if you don't take care! Important lessons of water safety are made easy and accessible in Safety Around Water.