The Best Of Pickering

Author : Sam Pickering
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113781
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Pickering written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two dozen essays visit the author's great themes -- family, nature, seizing the day, and the strange goings-on in Carthage, Tennessee

Author : Sam Pickering
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024345
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Pickering written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Sam Pickering: "Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic effects." ----Jay Parini ". . . he writes in the tradition of Montaigne hammering together a ramshackle affair of surprising nooks, crannies and additions-all under the same roof." ---The Oxford American "Pickering has the natural essayist's intimate yet distanced take on the world that combines a devotion to particulars . . . with a near-indifference to the status- and achievement-mongering that marks modern life." ---Publishers Weekly "Pickering writes with the sensitivity and craft of a poet, finding meaning in the commonplace and ordinary." ---Library Journal "Pickering's genre is unique, but I'm not sure anyone else can write this stuff. I can live with that, as long as Pickering himself continues to wend through the forests, classrooms, airports, billiards championships, hometown parades, and his inner world of Tennessee gags and characters." ---Hartford Courant His writing is as unique and recognizable as the music of Mozart, the painting of Picasso, or the poetry of Dickinson. Yet most Americans likely know Sam Pickering, the University of Connecticut English professor, from the movie Dead Poets Society. In the film, Robin Williams plays an idiosyncratic instructor---based on Pickering---who employs some over-the-top teaching methods to keep his subjects fresh and his students learning. Fewer probably know that Pickering is the author of more than 16 books and nearly 200 articles, or that he's inspired thousands of university students to think in new ways. And, while Williams may have captured Pickering's madcap classroom antics, he didn't uncover the other side of the author-Sam Pickering as one of our great American men of letters. The Best of Pickering amply demonstrates Pickering's amazing powers of perception, and gives us insight into the mind of a writer nearly obsessed with turning his back on the conventional trappings of American success-a writer who seems to prefer lying squirrel's-eye-level next to a bed of daffodils in the spring or trespassing on someone else's property to pursue a jaunt through joe-pye weed and goldenrod. Indeed, Pickering's philosophy, at least on paper, may very well be "Now is the only time." If you haven't met Sam Pickering before, prepare to be surprised and delighted by these wry and sometimes self-deprecating essays that are witty and elegant and concrete yet wander widely, and include Pickering's well-trod fictional Southern town of Carthage, Tennessee, full of strange goings-on. This definitive collection of the best of Pickering is a must for Pickering fans and a fine introduction for the uninitiated to one of our greatest men of letters.

Author : Larry Pickering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780959867503
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Pickering written by Larry Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the army's private security forces became uncontrollably powerful?

Author : Thomas Martin Lowry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Work of the Late Spencer Pickering, F.R.S. written by Thomas Martin Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas J. Mudgway
Publisher : History Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William H. Pickering written by Douglas J. Mudgway and published by History Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of William H. Pickering, 1910-2004 On the first day of February 1958, three men held aloft a model of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite, for the press photographers. That image of William Pickering, Wernher von Braun, and James Van Allen became an icon for America's response to the Sputnik challenge. Von Braun and Van Allen were well known, but who was Pickering? From humble beginnings in a remote country town in New Zealand, Pickering came to California in 1928 and quickly established himself as an outstanding student at the then-new California Institute of Technology (Caltech). At Caltech, Pickering worked under the famous physicist Robert Millikan on cosmic-ray experiments, at that time a relatively new field of physics. In 1944, when Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was developing rocket propulsion systems for the U.S. Army, Pickering joined the work-force as a technical manager. He quickly established himself as an outstanding leader, and 10 years later, Caltech named him Director of JPL. And then, suddenly, the world changed. In October 1957, the Sputnik satellite startled the world with its spectacular demonstration of Soviet supremacy in space. Pickering led an intense JPL effort that joined with the von Braun and Van Allen teams to answer the Soviet challenge. Eighty-three days later, on 31 January 1958, America's first satellite roared into Earth orbit. A few months after that, Pickering's decision to affiliate JPL with the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration set the basis for his subsequent career and the future of NASA's ambitious program for the exploration of the solar system. In the early days of the space program, failure followed failure as Pickering and his JPL team slowly ascended the learning curve. Eventually, however, NASA and JPL resolve paid off. First the Moon, then Venus, and then Mars yielded their scientific mysteries to JPL spacecraft of ever-increasing sophistication. Within its first decade, JPL-built spacecraft sent back the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface, while others journeyed far beyond the Moon to examine Venus and return the first close-up views of the surface of Mars. Later, even more complex space missions made successful soft-landings on the Moon and on Mars. Pickering's sudden death in March 2004 at the age of 93 was widely reported in the U.S. and overseas. As one NASA official eulogized him, His pioneering work formed the foundation upon which the current program for exploring our solar system was built. On this, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age, it is proper to remind ourselves of the ordinary people who met the extraordinary challenge to make it happen. (most of this is from the left inside flap of the dust jacket) r

Author : Daniel Appleton White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eulogy on John Pickering, president of the american academy of arts and sciences written by Daniel Appleton White and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Appleton White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eulogy on John Pickering, LL. D., President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences written by Daniel Appleton White and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerard H. Clarfield
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976269
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timothy Pickering and the American Republic written by Gerard H. Clarfield and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1980-07-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Pickering was an important figure in the early American republic. For more than fifty years, he was deeply entrenched in the political, military and diplomatic affairs of the young nation. He held important administrative posts during the Revolution, two cabinet posts, and served as a congressman, senator, and as a spokesman for the extremist element of New England's Federalists. Clarfield presents the first comprehensive biography of Pickering, and a critical assessment of this controversial and often intractable man.

Author : Daniel Appleton WHITE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eulogy on J. Pickering, ... Delivered ... October 28 1846 written by Daniel Appleton WHITE and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Octavius Pickering
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429017287
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Timothy Pickering written by Octavius Pickering and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: