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Author : Jan De Hartog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Road written by Jan De Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel relating the present and past of a group of men and women, doctors and missionaries, working in the jungles of Borneo.
Author : Huang Shu-min
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000305996
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Road written by Huang Shu-min and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore rational, pragmatic policies in China's countryside.The magnitude of change in Lin Village since 1949 has been considerable. Most villagers have benefited from tangible improvements in agriculture, education, and medicine, and they have developed a sense of political participation and integration into the national political arena. Significantly, while these dynamic changes have been taking place, the observance of cultural tradition has persisted. Attempts made by the government to change "feudalistic" beliefs and practices have yet to make any lasting impression on village life.More than an account of one village, this book documents for readers the cataclysmic changes of China's entire post-liberation era, detailing their effects in a personalized style. An American anthropologist of Chinese descent, Huang Shu-min employs participant-observation and personal interviews to shape this unique view of rural China today and to delineate some of the misconceptions held by Western academics.
Author : Erin Hogan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226348482
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spiral Jetta written by Erin Hogan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
Author : Richard Grindal
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1471918122
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Path written by Richard Grindal and published by Orion. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone had agreed that the industrialist Mark Bascombe had committed suicide, even the coroner. Only Bascombe's son David believed - or professed to believe - that it was murder. And it was he who had hired private investigator John Bryant, rather belatedly it is true, to investigate his father's death. Bryant soon realises that everyone has a secret: Bascombe's wife; his daughters; Colonel Legge; Oscar and Moira Patton: they were all bound together in a series of conflicting and hidden relationships. And the central character - the man who had every answer - was already dead.
Author : Matt Griffin
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847179428
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Path written by Matt Griffin and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle was won, the storm has subsided. But the enemy has escaped, the few remaining Danann leaving Fal with a threat that leaves Ayla, Sean, Finny and Benvy in no doubt: their home of Kilnabracka is in serious danger. All is not well in the town. It looks untouched; life goes on, with no sign of the dangerous Danann. But a storm is brewing, and the friends are being drawn into a trap, down a Spiral Path. Only they can save themselves and the townsfolk.
Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368343
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Staircase written by Karen Armstrong and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of her own search for God by the highly-acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism; and Islam: A Short History. In 1969, after seven years as a Roman Catholic nun -- hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God -- Armstrong left her convent. She knew almost nothing of the changed world she was entering, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures. Her struggle against despair was fueled by a string of discouragements -- failed spirituality, doctorate and jobs, fruitless dealings with psychiatrists -- but finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and given proper treatment. She then began the writing career that would become her true calling, and as she focused on the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, her own true inner story began to emerge. She would come to experience brief moments of transcendence through her work -- the profound fulfillment that she had not found in the long hours of prayer as a young nun. Powerfully engaging, often heart-breaking, but lit with bursts of humour, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary history of self.
Author : Lisa Paitz Spindler
Publisher : Carina Press
ISBN 13 : 1426891415
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Path written by Lisa Paitz Spindler and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After defecting from the Star Union eleven years ago, Starship Captain Lara Soto is now the leader of the free Chimerans. Her only regret is the intense young officer she left behind. When Terra's S.U.S. Interlace goes missing with her brother Rafael on board, she has to push aside the pain of her betrayal and team up with her old love once again. Commodore Mitch Yoshida has never stopped thinking about the woman who deserted him. He's also witnessed firsthand the Terran discrimination Lara foretold, from sequestering Chimerans on starships to enforcing indentured military service. With Rafael and the Interlace crew held prisoner, Lara and Mitch must travel to a whole new dimension to secure their release. Will they be able to resist their long-denied attraction and complete their rescue mission? 38,200 words
Author : Alex Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535172547
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Road written by Alex Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sight-seeing in the ruins of an Anasazi village, Bernie, a lonely middle-aged accountant and frustrated artist discovers an object of great power that not only holds the potential for great abuse, but also explains the baffling disappearance of the Anaszi and other tribes of that era.
Author : Greg Weisman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338029509
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Traveler: The Spiral Path (World of Warcraft) written by Greg Weisman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Aramar Thorne’s life was turned upside down by the sudden reappearance of his father, Captain Greydon Thorne, who took his son with him on the high seas. After several months aboard Greydon’s ship, it was attacked by a deadly band of raiders known as the Hidden, leaving Aram and Second Mate Makasa Flintwill shipwrecked. But of even greater concern are the unanswered questions his father left behind. Who are the Hidden? And what of the strange compass Greydon gave to him--the compass that doesn’t point north? Aram and Makasa are on a journey to unravel these mysteries, picking up a few friends--and more than a few foes on their travels. Aram, a once-struggling student in the ways of the world, is now looked to for guidance by his friends as they combat swarms of undead and come face-to-face with the trolls’ mysterious gods. Can Aram be the leader his father always believed he could be? Includes 17 all-new illustrations!
Author : Shu-min Huang
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiral Road written by Shu-min Huang and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-04-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of the leading Party cadre in Lin Village in southeast China, this book unravels the turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise to political power of poor peasants, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore rational, pragmatic policies in China's countryside.The second edition includes two new chapters, based on the author's continuing visits to China. One chapter details changes in Lin Village, such as Taiwanese investment of capital, large-scale production, international marketing, and new lifestyles. The other focuses on the continuing story of Mr. Ye: his ideas for expanding the villagers' wealth, his wheeling and dealing to set up lucrative businesses in Lin Village, and his arrangements to secure jobs for his family members and close kin.
