Coles Funny Picture Book Del

Coles Funny Picture Book Del
Author: Coles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1987
Genre: Australian wit and humor
ISBN: 9780207156731

Varied snippets of information, from babies' names to types of aeroplanes, stories, poems, drawings, lists, riddles and morality tales. Didactic literature of the late 19th century.

Masculinity in Crisis

Masculinity in Crisis
Author: R. Horrocks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 1994-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230372805

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

Beery Family History

Beery Family History
Author: William Beery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 794
Release: 1957
Genre:
ISBN:

Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.

The Poetry of John Tyndall

The Poetry of John Tyndall
Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1787359107

John Tyndall (1822–1893) is best known as a leading natural philosopher and trenchant public intellectual of the Victorian age. He discovered the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, explained why the sky is blue, and spoke and wrote controversially on the relationship between science and religion. Few people were aware that he also wrote poetry. The Poetry of John Tyndall contains his 76 extant poems, the majority of which have not been transcribed or published before, and are succinctly annotated in a style similar to that used for the letters published in The Correspondence of John Tyndall.The poems are complemented by an extended introduction, which was written by the three editors together as a multidisciplinary analysis. The essay aims to facilitate readings by a range of people interested in the history of Victorian science and of Victorian science and literature. It explores what the poems can tell us about Tyndall’s self-fashioning, his values and beliefs, and the role of poetry for him and his circle. More broadly, the essay addresses the relationship between the scientific and poetic imaginations, and wider questions of the nature and purpose of poetry in relation to science and religion in the nineteenth century.

Afterlife of Empire

Afterlife of Empire
Author: Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520289471

This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.

Mulberry Park

Mulberry Park
Author: Judy Duarte
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780758220158

In the heartwarming tradition of Mitch Albom, Nicholas Sparks, and Jan Karon comes an emotional and inspiring novel about grief, hope, and healing.