Argonauts to Astronauts

Argonauts to Astronauts
Title Argonauts to Astronauts PDF eBook
Author Mauricio Obregón
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 336
Release 1980
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Retraces in sailboat or small plane the routes taken by the Argonauts, Ulysses, Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, Elcano, and the Portuguese and Spanish explorers of the Americas.

The Family as Educator

The Family as Educator
Title The Family as Educator PDF eBook
Author Hope Jensen Leichter
Publisher New York : Teachers College Press
Pages 144
Release 1975
Genre Education
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The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs
Title The Annenbergs PDF eBook
Author John E. Cooney
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Pages 456
Release 1982
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

The Experience of Place

The Experience of Place
Title The Experience of Place PDF eBook
Author Tony Hiss
Publisher Vintage
Pages 257
Release 1991-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0679735941

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Why do some places—the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper—affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.

Telling It Like It Wasn’t

Telling It Like It Wasn’t
Title Telling It Like It Wasn’t PDF eBook
Author Catherine Gallagher
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 368
Release 2018-01-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 022651255X

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Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn’t, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study. She doesn’t take a moral or normative stand on the practice, but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends—a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism. Gallagher locates the origins of contemporary counterfactual history in eighteenth-century Europe, where the idea of other possible historical worlds first took hold in philosophical disputes about Providence before being repurposed by military theorists as a tool for improving the art of war. In the next century, counterfactualism became a legal device for deciding liability, and lengthy alternate-history fictions appeared, illustrating struggles for historical justice. These early motivations—for philosophical understanding, military improvement, and historical justice—are still evident today in our fondness for counterfactual tales. Alternate histories of the Civil War and WWII abound, but here, Gallagher shows how the counterfactual habit of replaying the recent past often shapes our understanding of the actual events themselves. The counterfactual mode lets us continue to envision our future by reconsidering the range of previous alternatives. Throughout this engaging and eye-opening book, Gallagher encourages readers to ask important questions about our obsession with counterfactual history and the roots of our tendency to ask “What if...?”

Saving America's Countryside

Saving America's Countryside
Title Saving America's Countryside PDF eBook
Author Samuel N. Stokes
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 484
Release 1997-08-13
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780801855481

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A new edition of the 1989 classic that received the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award and the Historic Preservation Book Prize. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the last eight years. It includes new case studies, more than 50 new illustrations, a section on heritage tourism, and much more. 235 illustrations.

Psyche and Ethos

Psyche and Ethos
Title Psyche and Ethos PDF eBook
Author Amanda Anderson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 123
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198755821

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A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.