Company towns have shaped Canadian culture, but many of such communities have undergone radical transitions to an uncertain post-industrial future. How are these communities dealing with their historic landscapes--especially the residential neighbourhoods threatened by neglect or gentrification, places that some would prefer to forget, others to romanticize, and still others to understand and to re-use. There is much more work to do than put up plaques or pass designation by-laws. There are complex social and financial realities to consider. This book explores what happens, or sometimes what does not happen, when residents and policy-makers try to conserve the fabric or vestiges of communities whose economies have collapsed or places that have been forced to make a major transition to stay alive. But the ability to make a transition has a great deal to do with the DNA of a place. What were its founding moments? What were the early institutions and organizations that forged a spirit of place? How have these shaped the character of the community and made it more or less entrepreneurial when faced with the sometimes urgent need to re-orient the local economy and find new vocations for places. These sorts of economic and social considerations are seeping into the consciousness of those who work on and champion heritage conservation in Canada, and they are the subject of this collection of essays from academics and practitioners widely engaged in a variety of projects hoping to redefine the company town."--
This issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics will cover all of the basics of primary and revision bunion surgery, including serveral different osteotomies, techniques, and one section dedicated to pediatric care.
The best gift you can give to any animal is a loving and caring home. Keeping their medical records is also vitally important. The bespoke Notebook Diary will help you to keep all their medical records in one handy place so you can ensure they stay healthy and strong. Not only that, the 15year month by month diary will also help you keep all those important appointments, and special moments in a one stop place. No more searching for those pieces of paper, or receipts with dates on for their next medical check up, or vaccination. The Notebook Diary is specificity designed so that you can keep every single record of you pets life, in one handy place. This really is your pets life, and history, in a single Notebook Diary!
In part 2 of, A Horse Called Jo. When Jessica finally thinks that her troubles are behind her with Jo and she can finally enjoy and learn from Jo, she soon realises that her troubles never left. The woman she has come to know as a witch, Mrs Crowberry, has bigger plans for her than she could have ever imagined. With coincidences popping up left right and centre, and the oddest things happening around the village, Jessica begins to figure out this mysterious person that seems intent on dragging Jessica into her life. Unknowing to Jessica, she was always the main player in this game of life and dead, and just when she thought she had solved all the clues that have been left for her, nothing was going to prepare for the outcome that was planned for her so long ago, it seems impossible to believe just how important Jessica has been all along!
Writer Samuel Beckett (1906–89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is never absolute, instead it is intertwined with black humor and an indomitable will to endure––characteristics best embodied by his most famous characters, Vladimir and Estragon, in the play Waiting for Godot. Beckett himself was a supremely modern, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted biographies and resisted letting himself be pigeonholed by easy interpretation or single definition. Andrew Gibson’s accessible critical biography overcomes Beckett’s reticence and carefully considers the writer’s work in relation to the historical circumstances of his life. In Samuel Beckett, Gibson tracks Beckett from Ireland after independence to Paris in the late 1920s, from London in the ’30s to Nazi Germany and Vichy France, and finally through the cold war to the fall of communism in the late ’80s. Gibson narrates the progression of Beckett’s life as a writer—from a student in Ireland to the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for literature—through chapters that examine individual historical events and the works that grew out of those experiences. A notoriously private figure, Beckett sought refuge from life in his work, where he expressed his disdain for the suffering and unnecessary absurdity of much that he witnessed. This concise and engaging biography provides an essential understanding of Beckett's work in response to many of the most significant events of the past century.
Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon’s career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon’s relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon’s complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation.
Andrew Kennedy links Beckett's vision of a diminished humanity with his art of formally and verbally diminished resources, and traces the fundamental simplicity and coherence of Beckett's work beneath its complex textures. In the section on the plays, Dr Kennedy stresses the humour and tragicomic humanism alongside the theatrical effectiveness; and in a discussion of the fiction (the celebrated trilogy of novels) he relates the relentless diminution of 'story' to the diminishing selfhood of the narrator. An introduction outlines the personal, cultural and specifically literary contexts of Beckett's writing, while a concluding chapter offers up-to-date reflections on his œuvre, from the point-of-view of the themes highlighted throughout the book."--From publisher description.
All new tales of Cumbrian horror inspired by H.P Lovecraft's legendary Cthulhu mythos! Cumbrian Cthulhu Volume Three Nine stories of Lakeland Lovecraft by new writers, accompanied by the beautifully grotesque illustrations of Andy Paciorek. Features part two of Richard W Straw's epic 'Langdale & Pike' trilogy! All profits from book sales will be donated to the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association (LDSAMRA) Cumbrian Cthulhu writers, artists and contributors have kindly given their work for free.
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