A Falling Off Place
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A Falling Off Place
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Author : Barbara G. Mensch
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2023-09-05
A Falling Off Place written by Barbara G. Mensch and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Photography categories.
Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of the images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, 1990s, and the new millennium (2000 and beyond). The photographer shares with the viewer: "I would shoot ruins of buildings, the demolition of famous waterfront saloons, ancient alleyways, and in some cases, 19th-century buildings destroyed by mysterious fires. There were images of floods and other calamities/ catastrophes in lower Manhattan, culminating with 9/11. These photos captured what had been, what no longer exists. They served as my visual timeline. What did the passage of the many decades reveal to me? What dynamics were in my images of the same streets I repeatedly walked for years?" Her images from the Fulton Fish Market in the 1980s document the generations of immigrants and their children pursuing a gritty American Dream next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Photos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan's skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of Downtown's blue-collar origins and white-collar replacement, challenging us to ask, "What was lost?" In the 2000s, the seminal event: September 11th, reinforced Downtown's rebirth as the global economic engine with no room for the past. Also included in this section is an interview with an insider privy to the mafia leadership of the Fulton Fish Market during Giuliani's opportunistic crusade against them in the 1980s. Dan Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, offers a poetic and insightful tribute to the artist and photographer. *Definitions: falling off suggests a decline in quality or quantity, falling off suggests the passage of time or changes over time, falling off suggests a detachment, an alternative path to a questionable destination, falling off suggests a separation, falling off suggests something that comes to pass.
The Falling Off Place
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Author : S. P. Moran
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-06
The Falling Off Place written by S. P. Moran and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06 with Fiction categories.
The Falling Off Place is a humorous look at what part chance and fate play in life. As the story unfolds, a disparate group of characters sets out, each member on a vital quest. *Chauncy Rutherford, eccentric millionaire maker of canine contraceptives, seeks asylum; *Gogee Yackamoto, World War II Japanese soldier, stranded on the remote Pacific island of Karamabang, seeks relief; *Terri Lee Buns, erstwhile cub reporter seeks Chauncy Rutherford; Eddie Dyslinski, overweight weather balloon manufacturer seeks his brother's killer; *Bruce Beauchamp, deranged nozzle genius seeks revenge; and then there are the snake woman who seeks her next meal and the wondrous karamas, birds native to Karamabang, who seek the Great Karama. Follow their journeys as they glide about The Falling Off Place, each locked in a personal mission, yet all inextricably linked to one another's fate.
In The Shadow Of Genius
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2018-11-20
In The Shadow Of Genius written by and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with Photography categories.
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader on a unique journey by recalling her experiences living alongside the bridge for more than 30 years, and then by tracing her own curious path to understand the brilliant minds and remarkable lives of those who built it: John, Washington, and Emily Roebling. Many of Mensch’s photographs were inspired by her visits to the Roebling archives housed at Rutgers University, where she pieced together through notebooks, diaries, letters, and drawings the seminal locations and events that affected their lives. Following in their footsteps, Mensch traveled to Mühlhausen, Germany, the birthplace of John Roebling; to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, where Roebling established a utopian community in 1831; to Roebling aqueducts and bridges in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and to the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Washington Roebling, the son of the famous engineer, valiantly served as a Union soldier. The book begins and ends with Mensch’s unique photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, including never-before-seen images captured deep within the structure. The book creatively fuses contemporary photography with the historical record, giving the reader a new perspective on contemplating the masterwork. Fernanda Perrone, Curator of Special Collections and the Roebling Family Archive at Rutgers University, has contributed a Foreword.
Falling Out Of Place
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Author : M.G. Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Falling Out Of Place written by M.G. Higgins and has been published by Saddleback Educational Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Sometimes we find ourselves on a gravel road, not sure of how we got there or where the road leads. Low-level teen fiction tackling tough and gritty topics like foster care, rape, teen pregnancy and more. Series contains a silver medal winner for the Independent Publishers Book Award. Each eBook is approximately 200-pages. Lexile Levels: 390 to 400. Gabby Herrera is not like her perfect sister, Celia--straight-A student, obedient, responsible. Her parents don't get it. They don't get her C-average report card. Her love for basketball. "The three of them think anything is possible if you just try hard enough. Well, I've tried. It's not possible." She can't be who she is unless she is just like them. And if she's not like them, she's not a real person. She's a broken person. A broken Herrera. And that is unacceptable.
Falling Off The Map
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Author : Pico Iyer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2012-02-21
Falling Off The Map written by Pico Iyer and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-21 with Travel categories.
The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.
Falling Off The Edge
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Author : Alex Perry
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-03-05
Falling Off The Edge written by Alex Perry and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end -- and it's not pretty. Whether it's Shenzen, China's boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day, or Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums, or on the high seas with the pirates of southeast Asia who prey on the world's central trade artery, or South Africa, where Mandela's dream for a Rainbow Nation is being crushed by a new economic apartheid, Perry demonstrates, vividly and chillingly, that for every winner in our brave new world, there are hundreds of millions of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are all very, very angry. Falling Off the Edge is an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalization starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go bang.
Falling Into Place
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Author : Amy Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-09-09
Falling Into Place written by Amy Zhang and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life. This riveting debut will appeal to fans of Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, and 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. "On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton's laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road." Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? The nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life of Meridian High's most popular junior girl. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn't understand it in physics, and even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn't understand it now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What does it mean to be a friend? To love someone? To be a daughter? Or a mother? Is life truly more than cause and effect? Amy Zhang's haunting and universal story will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman, and Jay Asher.
Falling Off Cloud Nine And Other High Places
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Author : Lorraine Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Release Date : 1981
Falling Off Cloud Nine And Other High Places written by Lorraine Peterson and has been published by Bethany House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Addresses teen-age concerns and presents spiritual truths in a way which intends to be relevant to conduct of life.
Falling Off The Ladder
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Author : Helen Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-11
Falling Off The Ladder written by Helen Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-11 with categories.
Falling Off The Ladder is a mindset manual for those who don't fit the one-size-fits-all workplace culture, who have been pushed out or treated like they are broken, and want to succeed in self-employment.
27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions
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Author : Nam H Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: Nam H Nguyen
Release Date : 2018-04-23
27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and has been published by Nam H Nguyen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-23 with categories.
27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand.