Up From The Depths

Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236941
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up from the Depths written by Aaron Sachs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.

Author : LOREN DENNY
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490750878
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climbing up from the Depths written by LOREN DENNY and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his poetry, the author tells us of his struggles with schizophrenia, addiction, his desire to become sober, and reaching that goal. He also reflects on several other subjects including love, spirituality, nature and child abuse. His style is both serious and humorous, and gives the reader a profound look into his heart and soul.

Author : Nicole Lesperance
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593465385
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Depths written by Nicole Lesperance and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tropical island full of secrets. Two Victorian ghosts, trapped for eternity. And a seventeen-year-old girl determined not to be next. Eulalie Island should be a paradise, but to Addie Spencer, it’s more like a prison. Forced to tag along to the remote island on her mother’s honeymoon, Addie isn’t thrilled about being trapped there for two weeks. The island is stunning, with its secluded beaches and forests full of white flowers. But there's something eerie and unsettling about the place. After Addie meets an enigmatic boy on the beach, all the flowers start turning pink. The island loves you, he tells her. But she can’t stop sleepwalking at night, the birds keep calling her name, and there’s a strange little girl in the woods who wants to play hide-and-seek. When Addie learns about two sisters who died on the island centuries ago, she wonders if there’s more to this place, things only she can see. Beneath its gorgeous surface, Eulalie Island is hiding dark, tangled secrets. And if Addie doesn't unravel them soon, the island might never let her go.

Author : Lee Taylor
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781480176089
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tonesha - Up from the Depths written by Lee Taylor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tonesha Barnes is a young woman with a checkered past and questionable future. She has survived the streets of Cleveland, Ohio for ten years by her wits, savvy and sheer luck. She has paid for those years in a telling toll. Out of an act of frustration, Tonesha has jeopardized her freedom. Opportunity comes from an unlikely person that believes in Tonesha more than she does herself. With desperation setting in for both Tonesha and her benefactor, time is running out. Armed with the strength to not surrender no matter the odds, Tonesha fights with determination instilled by her mother that gave up on life long ago. Tonesha is who we all strive to be, man or woman, when we want better out of life and it is just out of reach.

Author : Cathy MacPhail
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747599092
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of The Depths written by Cathy MacPhail and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I saw my teacher in the queue in the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. She'd been dead six months.' In Out of the Depths, Cathy MacPhail introduces her latest character, Tyler Lawless, who has an unusual and sometimes scary gift. She is able to see dead people. And sometimes they speak to her, asking for her help. When Tyler moves to a new school she is hoping to make a fresh start. But it is very difficult to make a fresh start when a boy who is supposed to be dead appears in your classroom, and statues in the school seem to come alive and point towards the place where the dead boy, Ben Kincaid, was murdered. Will Tyler be able to assist Ben with his pleas for help, or will she be dismissed as an attention-seeking teller of tall tales? A thrilling and spooky tale from the acclaimed Cathy MacPhail.

Author : Ivone Gebara
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451409918
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Depths written by Ivone Gebara and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Ann Patrick Ware Introduces a perspective on evil and salvation to address "the evil women do, " the evil they suffer, and women's redemptive experiences of God and salvation.

Author : Richard Saxon
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Depths written by Richard Saxon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Richard Saxon, one of Reddit's top terrifying authors, as he dredges up horrors From the Depths. A discovery in the deepest parts of the ocean threatens all humanity. An unlucky man awakes during brain surgery. Russians make a shocking discovery when they dig the world's deepest hole. Two men guard a mysterious empty room. An impenetrable, sound-swallowing darkness envelopes a town. These and other harrowing tales await you in Saxon's first collection featuring fan favorites and never-before-published exclusives.

Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Depths written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be careful when you look into the past. When Elliot Saganash and Tammy McPhee agreed to carry on the work of the Elders, they had no idea what they were getting into. Ancient powers—gods—and their human allies wiped out the Circle, leaving only two teenagers to carry on. Now Elliot and Tammy find themselves over their heads and sinking even deeper. Their first objective: restore Harrison Mansion so that they can begin recruiting other shamans from around the world. But a chance discovery leads to unexpected good news: There might be an Elder alive in the world, one who left before the massacre that killed the others. As Elliot struggles to overcome the losses he has suffered, he realizes he may not be able to do the one thing he was meant to do: protect Tammy. And Tammy has problems of her own, starting with a possible pregnancy. If that weren’t enough, Yuki returns. But is she ally or enemy? Pick up the third book in The Chain series, and dive into the world of spirits and magic, action and suspense!

Author : Jonathan Rottenberg
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465069738
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Depths written by Jonathan Rottenberg and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly widespread. Why are we losing this fight? In this humane and illuminating challenge to defect models of depression, psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg argues that depression is a particularly severe outgrowth of our natural capacity for emotion. In other words, it is a low mood gone haywire. Drawing on recent developments in the science of mood—and his own harrowing depressive experience as a young adult—Rottenberg explains depression in evolutionary terms, showing how its dark pull arises from adaptations that evolved to help our ancestors ensure their survival. Moods, high and low, evolved to compel us to more efficiently pursue rewards. While this worked for our ancestors, our modern environment—in which daily survival is no longer a sole focus—makes it all too easy for low mood to slide into severe, long-lasting depression. Weaving together experimental and epidemiological research, clinical observations, and the voices of individuals who have struggled with depression, The Depths offers a bold new account of why depression endures—and makes a strong case for de-stigmatizing this increasingly common condition. In so doing, Rottenberg offers hope in the form of his own and other patients’ recovery, and points the way towards new paths for treatment.

Author : Zak B. Tjewels
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589395480
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Depths of Heaven written by Zak B. Tjewels and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorlainen finds his mundane and generally pointless life disrupted by an apparent galactic catastrophe and is soon on the run from the totalitarian world of Tellus, the non-affluents, like him, have reluctantly submitted to for too long. His first impression is, he is the sole survivor but surviving brings mortal danger. He meets a young affluent woman, Chitmaa, caring for two intelligent children. Thorlainen is a Non-Commercial-Being but Chitmaa believes they must conjugate traditionally. Thorlainen agrees though he can see he is right out of his depth in this relationship and in his understanding of her motives. Normally a solitary character, Thorlainen's acquaintances snowball as they flee, and gradually he takes the lead, assisted by a paradoxical old man and a military officer, escaping execution. Unlike Thorlainen, the others have friends and relatives, who (if they are still live) are at the deportation area awaiting relocation. Thorlainen helps them, and then reluctantly takes command of a ship full of deportees: his nautical expertise becoming paramount, when it becomes evident they must try to escape by sea.