The Edge Of Paradise
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The Edge Of Paradise
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Author : Paul Frederick Kluge
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Edge Of Paradise written by Paul Frederick Kluge and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."
The Impossible Life Of Mary Benson
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Author : Rodney Bolt
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Impossible Life Of Mary Benson written by Rodney Bolt and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie - as Mary Benson - to preside over Lambeth Palace, and a social world that ranged from Tennyson and Browning to foreign royalty and Queen Victoria herself. Prime Minister William Gladstone called her 'the cleverest woman in Europe'. Yet Mrs Benson's most intense relationships were not with her husband and his associates, but with other women. When the Archbishop died, Mary - 'Ben' to her intimates - turned down an offer from the Queen to live at Windsor, and set up home in a Jacobean manor house with her friend Lucy Tait. She remained at the heart of her family of fiercely eccentric and 'unpermissably gifted' children, each as individual as herself. They knew Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Bell. Arthur wrote the words for 'Land of Hope and Glory'; Fred became a hugely successful author (his Mapp and Lucia novels still have a cult following); and Maggie a renowned Egyptologist. But none of them was 'the marrying sort' and such a rackety family seemed destined for disruption: Maggie tried to kill her mother and was institutionalized, Arthur suffered numerous breakdowns and young Hugh became a Catholic priest, embroiled in scandal. Drawing on the diaries and novels of the Bensons themselves, as well as writings of contemporaries ranging from George Eliot to Charles Dickens, Rodney Bolt creates a rich and intimate family history of Victorian and Edwardian England. But, most of all, he tells the sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious, story of one lovable, brilliant woman and her trajectory through the often surprising opportunities and the remarkable limitations of a Victorian woman's life. Previously published under the title As Good As God, As Clever As the Devil.
The Edge Of Bali And Other Writings
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Author : Inez Baranay
language : en
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Release Date : 2013-07-01
The Edge Of Bali And Other Writings written by Inez Baranay and has been published by Transit Lounge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Fiction categories.
Three people travel to Bali for very different reasons. Marla is well read in Bali’s culture; she distrusts false ideologies, orientalism and tourism. To her surprise she finds the echoes of a golden age and a passionate lover. Nelson, a young woman from Sydney returns in the hope of reuniting with her Balinese boyfriend, but encounters the unexpected. Tyler, a New Yorker searching for a lost friend, enters a world of mystery and intrigue. All three are on the edge, unsure of whether they should stay in Bali any longer, but are increasingly drawn into the heart of this complex and alluring island. Through subtle storytelling and compelling characters, Inez Baranay unravels the exotic, ways of knowing and the culture of tourism, in one of the world’s favourite destinations.
The Edge Of Yesterday
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Author : Rita Woods
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2025-04-29
The Edge Of Yesterday written by Rita Woods and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-29 with Fiction categories.
The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-winning author Rita Woods. Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey’s are the ultimate dream couple — until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she finds herself back in her hometown of Detroit. Angry, lonely, her marriage buckling under the strain, she takes to aimlessly wandering the city streets. One night, she stumbles through a vortex, a portal through time that transports her back into 1925 Detroit, where she meets a handsome, charming doctor. Dr. Montgomery Gray is a member of Detroit’s Black Aristocracy, wealthy and connected to some of the most powerful Black families in the country. Detroit in 1925 is the beating heart of an industrial nation, but it is also a tinderbox of poor immigrants, Prohibition driven gang wars, and the Klan. As a member of the Talented Tenth, Monty is expected to be the tip of the spear in the fight for the Race, no matter the cost. Exhausted, frustrated, and longing to break free of expectations, he is stunned to find a woman from the future roaming Detroit’s Black Bottom. Initially cautious, Monty and Greer slowly grow increasingly exhilarated with the visits. For Greer, 1925 offers an escape from the sorrow of her "real life," and for Monty, the future that Greer lays before him is irresistible. But 2025 becomes gradually less and less recognizable, as each visit back through time causes increasing rips in the timeline. Ultimately, Greer finds herself trapped in 1925 and Monty is forced into a deadly confrontation that changes the trajectory of his life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Design By Fire
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Author : Emily Schlickman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-31
Design By Fire written by Emily Schlickman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-31 with Architecture categories.
Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire – the Pyrocene – and the many challenges and climate adaptation questions it provokes. Exploring our past and current relationships with fire, this book speculates on the pyro futures yet to be designed and cared for. Drawing upon fieldwork, mapping, drone imagery, and interviews, this publication curates 27 global design case studies within the vulnerable and dynamic wildland-urban interface and its adjacent wildlands. The book catalogs these examples into three approaches: those that resist the creative and transformative power of fire and forces of landscape change, those that embrace and utilize those forces, and those that intentionally try to retreat and minimize human intervention in fire-prone landscapes. Rather than serving as a book of neatly packaged solutions, it is a book of techniques to be considered, tested, and evaluated in a time of fire.
Heaven
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Author : Dr Jaerock Lee
language : en
Publisher: Urim Books
Release Date : 2009-08-31
Heaven written by Dr Jaerock Lee and has been published by Urim Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-31 with Religion categories.
At least once in a life time, one probably has questions like, “Where am I going after life in this world?” or “Do heaven and hell really exist?” Many people die even before they find answers to such questions, or even if they believe in the afterlife, not everybody possesses heaven because not everybody has the proper knowledge. Heaven and hell are not a fantasy, but a reality in the spiritual realm.Dr. Jaerock Lee relates his expectations of Heaven and the afterlife to readers in Heaven I. The book is directed at the Christian audience and would offer another perspective of heaven and hell. Dr. Lee describes heaven in all of its glory, covered in gold lined streets, jeweled buildings and beautiful gardens that never wilt. The author discusses about the life and beauty, and the different places of heaven, and rewards given according to the measure of faith.
The Edge Of Marriage
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Author : Hester Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-03-01
The Edge Of Marriage written by Hester Kaplan and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Kaplan, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, writes potent short stories in which she puts seemingly solid marriages to the test, pushing them to their breaking point by force of sorrow and tragedy. Disease and accidents often drive couples to the brink of separation and her characters find themselves in emotional free fall.
The Edge Of Beulah
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Author : David Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Release Date : 1988
The Edge Of Beulah written by David Elliott and has been published by Breakwater Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Poetry categories.
A collection of poetry which deals with a variety of subjects, reflecting the true substance of existence.
Renaissance Drama On The Edge
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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
Renaissance Drama On The Edge written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.
The Edge Of Sanity
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Author : Olivia Burnett
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-05
The Edge Of Sanity written by Olivia Burnett and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After high school, all eighteen-year-old Olivia wants is a new start. But when she quits her summer job in Yellowstone, Olivia, a former straight A student descends into a life of bipolar madness. Through it all, she keeps on driving, to the edge of sanity, perhaps beyond.