A Stone Diary
Title | A Stone Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Lowther |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
The Stone Diaries
Title | The Stone Diaries PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Shields |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307364135 |
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. In The Stone Diaries, one of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, Carol Shields weaves the strands of Daisy’s life together in a rich, sensuous, and poignant work that delivers lasting insights into the nature of life—and fiction.
Adventures in the Stone Age
Title | Adventures in the Stone Age PDF eBook |
Author | Leopold Jaroslav Pospíšil |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2021-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8024647516 |
When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku. Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among the Kapauku, Pospíšil discovers that the supposedly primitive society possesses laws, rules, and social structures that are as sophisticated as they are logical. Having survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and fled the Communist regime, Pospíšil has little patience for the notion that so-called advanced civilizations are superior to the ‘stone age’ society in which he now lives. On the basis of his research and experiences among the Kapauku – he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979 – Pospíšil pioneered in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on the Kapauku law. As Jaroslav Jiřík and Martin Soukup write in their afterword, however, “His three previously published works are about the Kapauku; this one is about the anthropologist among the Kapauku.” The memoir is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war – told with humor and humility—and accompanied by a wealth of the author’s personal photos from the time.
The First Stone
Title | The First Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Bodie Thoene |
Publisher | Center Point |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781611731576 |
As the harsh Jerusalem winter of 1948 wears on, Holocaust survivor Rachel Sachar prays for some word from her husband. Then one night a stranger named Eben Golah arrives with a message from Moshe and the translation of the ancient diary of Mary Magdalene. Mary was a beautiful child, but when tragedy struck, everything changed in Mary's family. Her dreams of love and children of her own abruptly ended. Now, no amount of wealth or male companionship can bring Mary what she really longs for, nor can they stop the voices calling, "Finish it! You have no reason to live. No hope . . ." But might there be a second chance -- even for someone like her?
The Hatred of Poetry
Title | The Hatred of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Lerner |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0865478201 |
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Brokenburn
Title | Brokenburn PDF eBook |
Author | John Q. Anderson |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1995-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807120170 |
This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.
My Diet Journal
Title | My Diet Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Sallie Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2005-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781411623262 |
Studies show that dieters who keep a journal lose more weight than those who don't keep a journal. My Diet Journal includes on each page a space for the date, weight, calories, fat, carbs, food and beverage description, water intake, and exercise. The journal also features a weekly progress report. The weekly progress report includes measurements, average calories, average carbs, pounds lost, and a space for notes. The journal is 8.5 x 11 inches.