World's Newest Creations, 1931 (Classic Reprint)

World's Newest Creations, 1931 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Seattle Dahlia Gardens
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2018-11-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781397207425

Excerpt from World's Newest Creations, 1931 Dahlias marked at originated by Seattle Dahlia Gardens, largest growers of cut flower varieties in the West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The New Era

The New Era
Author: Paul V. Murphy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442215402

In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made culture the essential terrain of social and political action and who framed a new set of arguments and debates—over women’s roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and values—that would define American public life for fifty years.

Making the New World Their Own

Making the New World Their Own
Author: Qiong Zhang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004284389

In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"

My River Chronicles

My River Chronicles
Author: Jessica DuLong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416587179

After journalist Jessica DuLong was laid off from her dot-com job, her life took an unexpected turn. A volunteer day aboard an antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, led to a job in the engine room, where she found a taste of home she hadn’t realized she was missing. Working with the boat’s finely crafted machinery, on the waters of the storied Hudson, made her wonder what America is losing in our shift away from hands-on work. Her questions crystallized after she and her crew served at Ground Zero, where fireboats provided the only water available to fight blazes. Vivid and immediate, My River Chronicles is a journey with an extraordinary guide—a mechanic’s daughter and Stanford graduate who bridges blue-collar and white-collar worlds, turning a phrase as deftly as she does a wrench. As she searches for the meaning of work in America, DuLong shares her own experiences of learning to navigate a traditionally male world, masterfully interweaving unforgettable present-day characters and events with four centuries of Hudson River history. A celebration of craftsmanship, My River Chronicles is a deeply personal story of a unique woman’s discovery of her own roots—and America’s—that raises important questions about our nation’s future.

Four Faces of the Universe

Four Faces of the Universe
Author: Robert Kleinman
Publisher: Lotus Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-01-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0940985918

Explores key perpsectives by which we gain insight into the cosmos.

America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher

America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
Author: Michael A. Flannery
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438495730

This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869–1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship (nearly sixty articles and eight books) from 1900 to 1947, in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957. Although he is seldom remembered today, the enduring importance of pragmatism and the rising influence of process theology today suggests that his close reading of early to mid-twentieth-century science and vast grasp of philosophical issues warrants a renewed interest in his work that can be a valuable antidote to the sterile and constricting effects of reductionism and dogmatic materialism prevalent today in both those fields.

Netop, Vol. 11

Netop, Vol. 11
Author: Turners Falls High School
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780259397359

Excerpt from Netop, Vol. 11: March, 1931 But the clouds we like the best Are the clouds whose silver linings To the earth their happiness are sending. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mystics

Mystics
Author: William Harmless
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195300386

In Mystics, William Harmless, S.J., introduces readers to the scholarly study of mysticism. He explores both mystics' extraordinary lives and their no-less-extraordinary writings using a unique case-study method centered on detailed examinations of six major Christian mystics: Thomas Merton, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, and Evagrius Ponticus. Rather than presenting mysticism as a subtle web of psychological or theological abstractions, Harless's case-study approach brings things down to earth, restoring mystics to their historical context.

The Tattler, 1931 (Classic Reprint)

The Tattler, 1931 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Williamsburg High School
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2017-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780265936108

Excerpt from The Tattler, 1931 All through life, from youth through manhood, self-reliance is one thing, which we should try to develop. At times we must depend upon others, but it is very satisfying to know, that in time of crisis, we have within our selves, something upon which we can depend. Of course we can be too self reliant and think that we can get along without help from any source whatso ever. The one, who can stand square ly upon his own feet, and does not flinch, when he faces a crisis is the one who is going to get the most out of life. In every school, for example, there are students with no sense of re sponsibility, who depend upon others to help them along. In college too, the same thing happens, but the young men and women of that type soon find that they are unable to carry ou. In later life, those who have learned to be self - reliant are the ones who climb con fidently to greater heights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.