Cabbages And Kings
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Author | : O. Henry |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473374499 |
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". Table of Contents: I. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING" II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE III. SMITH IV. CAUGHT V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO VI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT VII. MONEY MAZE VIII. THE ADMIRAL IX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE XII. SHOES XIII. SHIPS XIV. MASTERS OF ARTS XV. DICKY XVI. ROUGE ET NOIR XVII. TWO RECALLS XVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE
Author | : Marc Linder |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780877457145 |
In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?
Author | : Caroline Foley |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781011591 |
“An excellent account” of Britain’s tradition of parceling out land for the public to grow food on, and the colorful history behind it (The Independent). This lively book tells the story of the private garden plots known as allotments—from their origin in the seventeenth century, when new enclosures that deprived the peasantry of access to common lands were fiercely protested, to the victory gardens of the world wars, and into the present day, when they serve less as a means of survival than as a respite from the modern world. While delving into the effects of the Napoleonic Wars, the Corn Laws, and the utopian dissenters known as the Diggers, the author reveals the multiple roles of allotments—and champions their history in the hope of protecting them for the future. “Foley’s book reminds us that the right to share the earth has always been an asymmetric struggle.” —The Guardian “Fascinating and handsomely illustrated.” —Daily Mail “Well-told . . . . [a] gallop through the history of useful rather than ornamental crops.” —Spectator Australia
Author | : Elizabeth Seabrook |
Publisher | : Viking Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Albert, the asparagus whose family has grown in Farmer John's garden for years, and a newcomer, Herman the cabbage, spend the days from spring until time for the fair getting to know each other.
Author | : Muhammad Ali Khalidi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013-05-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107244595 |
The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism has been the dominant account of natural kinds among philosophers, but the essentialist view has encountered resistance, especially among naturalist metaphysicians and philosophers of science. Informed by detailed examination of classification in the natural and social sciences, this book argues against essentialism and for a naturalist account of natural kinds. By looking at case studies drawn from diverse scientific disciplines, from fluid mechanics to virology and polymer science to psychiatry, the author argues that natural kinds are nodes in causal networks. On the basis of this account, he maintains that there can be natural kinds in the social sciences as well as the natural sciences.
Author | : Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
A walrus and a carpenter encounter some oysters during their walk on the beach--an unfortunate meeting for the oysters.
Author | : Francis Spufford |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lila Strebeck Wright |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467081035 |
Len spent his formative years playing on the streets of Baltimore. Those streets were seldom paved and they teemed with horses, carriages, and manure. Sanitation was poor and medicine crude by todays standards. Orphans abounded and there were no laws to protect the innocent. Life was rarely just or fair but to a child it was almost always fun. He watched the ships coming and going in the harbor; clipper ships, steam ships, later submarines and ocean-going liners. He saw Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and he survived the Spanish Influenza. He partied through the Roaring Twenties, lost all his money in the crash of 29 and eked out a living during the Depression. He saw his son off to war and scoffed along with the rest of the country at those early television shows. At his mothers urging he moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania where he bought a home, raised a family, and became a part of the life of that community. Railroads were at the peak of their prosperity when he began to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad and he was still there when the glory of the railroads began to wane. His story is one of an ordinary man witnessing extraordinary times as the world underwent the most dramatic social, political, and technological changes in history. This is his story. It is a tale of love and laughter.
Author | : Richard Sharkey |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1465379169 |
Richard Sharkey THE TALES OF THE WALRUS The time has come, the Walrus said. To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing wax Of cabbagesand Kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings. Lewis Carroll It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Matthew 13:11, King James Bible
Author | : Randa Chance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780988785304 |
Do you think an experience needs to be big and important to be valuable? What about those small, funny, poignant moments, those that don't seem to be very significant? Can you actually learn life lessons from those simple things in life? Randa Chance shares true-life stories that are gut-wrenchingly sad, side-splittingly hilarious, and achingly tender. Laugh out loud with her as she swallows a bobby pin and when she becomes psychotic at the end of her pregnancy. Sigh with her when she meets her remarkable husband. Cry along with her as she realizes that, as a young mother, and the wife of a church-planting pastor husband, there's no food to feed their kids, nor money to buy any. Each vignette charms the reader with real emotions and you'll keep turning the pages to read "just one more." Randa Chance shows readers from all walks of life that significant moments don't have to be big and important to truly matter. Sometimes a moment consists of a fully-clothed grandmother executing a cannonball dive into the creek, just to help her family say good-bye with smiles instead of tears. Sometimes it's about finding the funny in the insensitive, instead of taking offense. Sometimes a moment is about how Christmas can still be special - even after you burn down the house. Randa manages to find those priceless moments while juggling life as a wife, mother, pastor's wife and a writer. Readers from all walks of life will be challenged to hold those they love just a little closer, to consciously appreciate not just the big moments but also the little ones, and to find contentment, laughter and beauty even in some of life's most difficult circumstances.