Illumination and Night Glare
Title | Illumination and Night Glare PDF eBook |
Author | Carson McCullers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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More than 30 years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers finally will be published. From a precocious childhood to her painful decline from crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant, unabashed remembrances of early writing successes, family and intense relationships. 21 photos.
Illumination and Night Glare
Title | Illumination and Night Glare PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Lee Barney Dews |
Publisher | |
Pages | 970 |
Release | 1994 |
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Title | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers PDF eBook |
Author | Jenn Shapland |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2022-04-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780349015682 |
Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting
Title | Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rich |
Publisher | Island Press |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1597265969 |
While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding success of birds to behavioral and physiological changes in salamanders, many organisms are seriously affected by human alterations in natural patterns of light and dark. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting is the first book to consider the environmental effects of the intentional illumination of the night. It brings together leading scientists from around the world to review the state of knowledge on the subject and to describe specific effects that have been observed across a full range of taxonomic groups, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and plants. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting provides a scientific basis to begin addressing the challenge of conserving the nighttime environment. It cogently demonstrates the vital importance of this until-now neglected topic and is an essential new work for conservation planners, researchers, and anyone concerned with human impacts on the natural world.
the heart is a lonely hunter
Title | the heart is a lonely hunter PDF eBook |
Author | carson mccullers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1967 |
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The End of Night
Title | The End of Night PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bogard |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0316228796 |
A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. From Las Vegas' Luxor Beam -- the brightest single spot on this planet -- to nights so starlit the sky looks like snow, Bogard blends personal narrative, natural history, science, and history to shed light on the importance of darkness -- what we've lost, what we still have, and what we might regain -- and the simple ways we can reduce the brightness of our nights tonight.
The Lonely Hunter
Title | The Lonely Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Spencer Carr |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 680 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780820325224 |
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.