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Martha's Vineyard is cherished by many as a summer paradise, but few know of its rich past. Descendants of the first Native American inhabitants still reside on the Vineyard. Once a critical whaling hub, the island's success drew in newcomers from around the world. Following the Civil War, land developers set their sights on attracting tourists to the island's scenic beaches, and soon thereafter, a visit from President Grant established Martha...

From Ernest Hemingway's rural adventures to the gritty fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, the landscape of the "Third Coast" has inspired generations of the nation's greatest storytellers. Michigan Literary Luminaries shines a spotlight on this rich heritage of the Great Lakes State. Discover how Saginaw greenhouses shaped the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Theodore Roethke. Compare the common traits of Detroit crime writers like Elmore Leon...

Old Lyme's illustrious history owes much to innovative women. Suffragist Katharine Ludington was co-founder of the League of Women Voters. In the 1830s, Phoebe Griffin Noyes started a school for art and general subjects. At the turn of the twentieth century, Florence Griswold welcomed the artists of the Lyme Art Colony by creating the "Birthplace of American Impressionism." By World War II, Teddy Kenyon had made her mark as a test pilot. Old L...

Standing on the banks of the Black River, Mansfield Plantation is a living testament to antebellum rice plantations. In 1718, it started as a five-hundred-acre land grant near the upstart village of Georgetown. The main house was built around 1800, and the plantation soon grew to nearly one thousand acres. John and Sallie Middleton Parker returned the property to the Man-Taylor-Lance-Parker family, a line of ownership dating back 150 years. On...

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Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young people, particularly Italians. From Pasolini’s ow...

Consistent with previous editions of AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL SCIENCE, the goal of the new Fourteenth Edition is to stimulate students' interest in and gain knowledge of the physical sciences. Presenting content in such a way that students develop the critical reasoning and problem-solving skills that are needed in an ever-changing technological world, the authors emphasize fundamental concepts as they progress through the five divisions of...

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 3, 0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of British & Irish Studies / Translation Studies), course: Seminar: Transferring & Translating Media (Novels to Film): Ian McEwan's Atonement, language: English, abstract: "Atonement", the novel by Ian McEwan published in 2001, is qualified by many critics as a "wartime love story". It is an in...

The charm of many of St. Augustine, Florida's unique places and disappearing spaces is lovingly captured in Nancy Macri's watercolor paintings. Included are natural vistas that have succumbed to development, once beaming structures struggling to endure, and historic architecture and icons weathered in elegance. To reflect on Nancy's artistic portrayals of the Nation's Oldest City and its surroundings is to be mesmerized with a feeling of awe f...

In this light-hearted and silly picture book, a young boy named Jordan discovers that two wild turkeys follow his every step to school. Jordan is rightfully annoyed by the unrelenting gobbling, as he already has a lot on his mind. He attempts to lose and tolerate them, but then begins to understand this pair of turkeys in a different way, helping him overcome his day's troubles.

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Andreas Vesalius is the greatest anatomist of all time. His work, the Fabrica, published almost 500 years ago, signposts a new era in medicine. Brain Renaissance translates and comments upon those chapters dedicated to the brain, and learns how his words still resonate in neuroscience today.

Includes an excerpt from "Falling For A Stranger.

Cyriac of Ancona (1391-1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, along with several letters and other texts illustrating his early life.

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This book discusses statistical methods that are useful for treating problems in modern optics, and the application of these methods to solving a variety of such problems This book covers a variety of statistical problems in optics, including both theory and applications.

Bereits in seinem ersten Album formulierte Frank Zappa den Anspruch, ein bedeutender Komponist zu werden. Und tatsächlich sollte es ihm gelingen, nicht nur zu einer einzigartigen Musikikone aufzusteigen, sondern auch in Kompositionen für große Orchester oder dem Projekt The Yellow Shark einen unverkennbaren Stil zu entwickeln. Doch wo genau im weiten Feld der »Neuen Musik« des 20. Jahrhunderts begegnen wir dem Komponisten Frank Zappa und wen...

The ultimate Network+ exam prepThe CompTIA Network+ Deluxe Study Guide is your CompTIA Authorized resource for preparing for the Network+ exam N10-006. Bestselling author and networking Guru Todd Lammle guides you through 100% of all exam objectives.. Coverage includes network technologies, installation and configuration, media and topologies, security, and much more, plus practical examples drawn from real-world situations. This Deluxe editio...

Water covers more than 70% of the earth's surface and is an essential and major component of all living matter. However, artificially hydrated materials, including hydrophilic materials, are far fewer than one might expect. Currently, these materials are in a state of development for applications in fields such as biomedicine, environmental engineering, and industrial engineering. So what do artificially hydrated materials hold for the future?...