[PDF] Nobody Here But Us Chickens eBook

Author : Marvin Mudrick
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1614728879

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Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and hiNobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a “literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight.” Mudrick believed that in books, as in life, people matter, and that it matters in books, as it does in life, whether people are decent or not. Sticking to this plain common sense, Mudrick assembles an eye-opening hall of fame and rogues gallery that includes devastating, satirical attacks on Shakespeare, Jesus, and Flaubert, as well as a wide-ranging meditation on heroism. Mudrick devotees will know that he favors Chaucer, Jane Austen, and D. H. Lawrence, all of whom appear here, but we also get to know what he thinks about Coriolanus, Van Gogh, and Solzhenitsyn. Readers unfamiliar with the daring of Mudrick’s opinions and the special texture of his prose will come away from Nobody Here But Us Chickens wishing that critical biography was always this much fun.storical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a "literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight."

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252063947

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Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.

Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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"Revolutionary Witness" was written to mark the anniversary of Bastille Day and is a set of four monologues by characters whose lives were changed. "Nobody Here" is a collection of three short plays about being handicapped, which try through farce to turn the tables on common preconceptions.

Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780671248956

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An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases, and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech.

Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307477665

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National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. "Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News

Author : Bob Sheasley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780312373641

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Each day, Bob Sheasley leaves Lilyfield Farm and heads into the city. And each day, he brings along a basket of eggs for his coworkers at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Depending on the breed of hen, these eggs may be white, green, rose, blue, or as brown as chocolate. And they are all deliciously fresh, a taste of the rural way of life that people have enjoyed for millennia, one in which chickens have played a supporting role for nearly as long. In Home to Roost, Sheasley tells of the intertwined relationship between humans and chickens. He delves into where chickens came from, what their DNA tells us about our kinship, how we’ve treated our feathered fellow travelers, and the roads we’re crossing together. This is a story of agriculture and human migration, of folk medicine and technology, of how we dreamed of the good life, threw it away, and want it back. Modern farming has changed the lives of both bird and man over the past century. But backyard farmers like Sheasley offer hope for a return to the pleasures of locally grown food, as diverse as the chickens he’s raised on Lilyfield Farm. With wit and personal insight, Home to Roost examines of how our lives can be changed for the better, with something as simple as a backyard coop.

Author : Rob Reid
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909409

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A listing of 547 songs contained on 308 recordings for children, organized alphabetically under 170 subject headings. Includes a core list of forty-six recommendations.