Small Worlds Global Lives

Author : Russell King
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781855675483
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Worlds, Global Lives written by Russell King and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu.

Author : Martin Parr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small World written by Martin Parr and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Evison
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593184130
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small World written by Jonathan Evison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night. One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises. Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history. Jonathan Evison’s Small World is a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises. Humming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, Small World delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.

Author : Duncan J. Watts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188335
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Worlds written by Duncan J. Watts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie McCurry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728127
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Small Worlds written by Stephanie McCurry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

Author : Ishta Mercurio
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683354672
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small World written by Ishta Mercurio and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nanda is born, the whole of her world is the circle of her mother’s arms. But as she grows, the world grows too. It expands outward—from her family, to her friends, to the city, to the countryside. And as it expands, so does Nanda’s wonder in the underlying shapes and structures patterning it: cogs and wheels, fractals in snowflakes. Eventually, Nanda’s studies lead her to become an astronaut and see the small, round shape of Earth far away. A geometric meditation on wonder, Small World is a modern classic that expresses our big and small place in the vast universe.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446485676
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small World written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...

Author : Pierre Michon
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744704
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Lives written by Pierre Michon and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my aborted analysis." Le Monde calls it "his chef d’oeuvre. A bolt of lightening." In Small Lives, Michon paints portraits of eight individuals, whose stories span two centuries in his native region of La Creuse. In the process of exploring their lives, he explores the act of writing and his emotional connection to both. The quest to trace and recall these interconnected lives seared into his memory ultimately becomes a quest to grasp his own humanity and discover his own voice.

Author : Disney Books
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1484750799
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disney It's A Small World: Furry Friends written by Disney Books and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read along with Disney! This book takes readers around the world. It features characters from a number of different countries, along with their animal friends. Little ones will love seeing the fuzzy polar bear and koala. The book includes brand-new artwork inspired by Mary Blair's original art for the Disney theme park attraction, "It's a Small World."

Author : Johan Rockstrom
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218362
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big World, Small Planet written by Johan Rockstrom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have entered the Anthropocene - the era of massive human impacts on the planet - and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize Earth's natural systems, with consequences for human societies. The authors combine the latest science with storytelling and photography to create a new narrative for humanity's future and reject the notion that economic growth and human prosperity can only be achieved at the expense of the environment