“Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America.” —The New York Times Book Review Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories—most of which appeared in The New Yorker throughout the eighties—we enter her sly world of plotters, absconders, ponderers, and pontificators. Robison's characters have chips on their shoulders; they talk back to us in language that is edgy and nervy; they say “all right” and “okay” often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are small victories here, small only because, as Robison precisely documents, larger victories are impossible. Here then, among others, is “Pretty Ice,” chosen by Richard Ford for The Granta Book of American Short Stories, “Coach,” chosen for Best American Short Stories, “I Get By,” an O. Henry Prize Stories selection, and “Happy Boy, Allen,” a Pushcart Prize Stories selection. These stories—sharp, cool, and astringently funny—confirm Mary Robison's place as one of our most original writers and led Richard Yates to comment, “Robison writes like an avenging angel, and I think she may be a genius.” “Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial... her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence.” —Vogue “Word for fucking word, her work demands our attention.” —David Leavitt, The Village Voice
Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." —The New York Times Enter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacently married to Adam. ""Now you know,"" she says. ""Our names really didn't bother me that much until the mail started arriving addressed to 'Adam and Eve Broussard.'"" He's just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to the palatial family home where his parents reside. It's all just fine with Eve—or so she tells herself at the beginning. But standing left of center in this still–prosperous but mortally wounded family does not get easier as the weeks wear on. As she negotiates her way around the anger of Adam's despised twin brother Saunders, maintains her friendship with his beautiful and volatile wife Petal, and protects what's left of the innocence of her niece Collie, Eve finds more than the Louisiana heat oppressive.
Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence." —Vogue An Amateur's Guide to the Night stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful, clipped, and devastating in its restraint. Reflecting on the life of disaffected youth, these stories speculate on how they often manage to remain deferent towards the rest of society—and document how spectacularly they often fail. "These thirteen stories are glimpses from a moving train into lit parlors, dinettes, bedrooms and dens . . . Think of Robison as the engineer, blowing the whistle, calling the stops and starts; invisible when you want to ask her why we're stalled here in the middle of nowhere, between stations, jobs, relationships and decisions." —Los Angeles Times
“Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fractured her personality, Money Breton talks to herself nonstop. She glues and hammers and paints every item in her place. She forges loving inscriptions in all her books. Through it all, there is her darling puzzling daughter who lives close by but seems ever beyond reach, and her son, the damaged victim of a violent crime under police protection in New York. While both her children seem to be losing all their battles, Money tries for ways and reasons to keep battling. Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison’s devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.
Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history—it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theoretically informed but eminently practical volume, Mary Jo Festle examines the recent explosion of research on the teaching and learning of history. Illuminated by her own work, Festle applies the concept of "backward design" as an organizing framework to the history classroom. She provides concrete strategies for setting up an environment that is inclusive and welcoming but still challenging and engaging. Instructors will improve their own conceptual understandings of teaching and learning issues, as well as receive guidance on designing courses and implementing pedagogies consistent with what research tells us about how students learn. The book offers practical illustrations of assignments, goals, questions, grading rubrics, unit plans, and formats for peer observation that are adaptable for courses on any subject and of any size. Transforming History is a critical guide for higher and secondary education faculty—neophytes and longtime professionals alike—working to improve student learning.
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
(Book). Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious days and nights at Kinky's Texas Hill Country ranch before he trusted her enough to open up and speak candidly. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air. From the 1970s music scene in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Band, to political platforms advocating legalized marijuana, to friendships with John Belushi, Joseph Heller, Don Imus, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Billy Bob Thornton, this is the candid account based on dozens and years of interviews of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing books and songs, recording albums, and performing for enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.
Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Mary Roberts Rinehart's thriller novels, murder mysteries and detective stories. This ebook has been designd and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Series: The Circular Staircase The Bat Tish Carberry Series: The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Three Pirates of Penzance That Awful Night Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions Mind over Motor Like a Wolf on the Fold The Simple Lifers Tish's Spy My Country Tish of Thee— More Tish The Cave on Thundercloud Tish Does Her Bit Salvage Novels: The Man in Lower Ten The Window at the White Cat When a Man Marries Where There's a Will The Case of Jennie Brice The Street of Seven Stars The After House K. Bab, a Sub-Deb Long Live the King! The Amazing Interlude The Breaking Point Dangerous Days A Poor Wise Man Short Stories: Love Stories Twenty-Two Jane In the Pavilion God's Fool The Miracle "Are We Downhearted? No!" The Game Affinities and Other Stories Affinities The Family Friend Clara's Little Escapade The Borrowed House Sauce for the Gander Locked Doors Sight Unseen The Confession The Truce of God The Valley of Oblivion Travelogues: Through Glacier Park in 1915 Tenting Tonight Essays: Oh Well You Know How Women Are – Isn't That Just Like a Man! Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls Kings, Queens, and Pawns – Autobiography
Policymakers, farmers, managers of agriculture and others look to agricultural economists for accurate estimates of the costs and returns of individual agricultural commodities. But there is great diversity and disagreement among practitioners about the best method for such analysis. The contributors to this volume explore how different uses of estimates determine different methods of estimation, as well as evaluating what the preferred methods are for similar uses.
This book is intended as a work of reference for the student and lover of the Waverley Novels, and, in a minor degree, for the humanist who sees in Scott a noble nature worthy of closer acquaintance. Its aim is that of a Dictionary and not an Encyclopædia--an identification and description, rather than a condensed narrative, of the multitude of characters created by Sir Walter. No fewer than 2836 characters are comprised in the Dictionary, and these include 37 horses and 33 dogs. Every reader who is interested in Scott's works will love this most detailed and perfectly formatted dictionary.
Mary Roberts Rinehart’s first two novels “The Circular Staircase” and “The Man in Lower Ten” inaugurate The Essential Rinehart Collection, a new book series destined to entertain readers for many years. “The Circular Staircase” tells the story of how Miss Cornelia Van Gorder lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep newspapers and detectives happy and prosperous. “The Man in Lower Ten” is a legal thriller featuring a detective who builds up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty. These novels, which combine mystery and adventure, demonstrate Rinehart's tremendously vivid powers as a storyteller. Well-written and fast-paced, these mysteries will leave you eager to read the other volumes in this series.
The American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was a seminal writer in the development of mystery and detective fiction, who introduced the ‘had I but known’ narrative style and ‘the butler did it’ plot device. ‘The Circular Staircase’, her first book and first mystery, was an immediate success and was followed by a series of popular ‘edge-of-your-seat’ murder mysteries. For the first time in publishing history, our edition features Rinehart’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rinehart’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 38 novels, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The Complete Tish Carberry books and the Complete Hilda Adams Series * Rare story collections available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes rare uncollected stories – available in no other collection * A selection of Rinehart’s non-fiction * Features an autobiography – discover Rinehart’s incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Letitia Carberry Series The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) Tish (1916) More Tish (1921) Tish Plays the Game (1926) Tish Marches on (1937) The Hilda Adams Series The Buckled Bag (1914) Locked Doors (1914) Miss Pinkerton (1932) The Haunted Lady (1942) Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950) The Secret (1950) The Novels The Circular Staircase (1908) The Man in Lower Ten (1909) The Window at the White Cat (1910) When a Man Marries (1910) Where There’s a Will (1912) The Case of Jennie Brice (1913) The Street of Seven Stars (1914) The After House (1914) K. (1915) Bab (1916) Long Live the King! (1917) The Amazing Interlude (1918) Twenty-Three and a Half Hours’ Leave (1918) Dangerous Days (1919) A Poor Wise Man (1920) The Truce of God (1920) The Confession (1921) The Breaking Point (1922) The Red Lamp (1925) The Bat (1926) Lost Ecstasy (1927) This Strange Adventure (1928) Two Flights Up (1928) The Door (1930) The Album (1933) The State vs. Elinor Norton (1933) The Doctor (1936) The Wall (1938) The Great Mistake (1940) The Yellow Room (1945) A Light in the Window (1948) The Swimming Pool (1952) The Short Story Collections Love Stories (1919) Affinities and Other Stories (1920) Sight Unseen (1921) Temperamental People (1924) The Romantics (1929) Married People (1937) Familiar Faces (1943) Alibi for Isabel and Other Stories (1944) The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories (1953) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Through Glacier Park (1916) The Altar of Freedom (1917) Tenting Tonight (1917) Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls (1919) Isn’t That Just Like a Man! (1920) Nomad’s Land (1926) The Autobiography Kings, Queens, and Pawns (1915) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
The Circular Staircase, The Bat, The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry, The Breaking Point, Love Stories, Long Live the King, Sight Unseen, The Confession, K…
The Circular Staircase, The Bat, The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry, The Breaking Point, Love Stories, Long Live the King, Sight Unseen, The Confession, K…
This meticulously edited Rinehart collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Series: The Circular Staircase The Bat Tish Carberry Series: The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Three Pirates of Penzance That Awful Night Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions Mind over Motor Like a Wolf on the Fold The Simple Lifers Tish's Spy My Country Tish of Thee— More Tish The Cave on Thundercloud Tish Does Her Bit Salvage Novels: The Man in Lower Ten The Window at the White Cat When a Man Marries Where There's a Will The Case of Jennie Brice The Street of Seven Stars The After House K. Bab, a Sub-Deb Long Live the King! The Amazing Interlude The Breaking Point Dangerous Days A Poor Wise Man Short Stories: Love Stories Twenty-Two Jane In the Pavilion God's Fool The Miracle "Are We Downhearted? No!" The Game Affinities and Other Stories Affinities The Family Friend Clara's Little Escapade The Borrowed House Sauce for the Gander Locked Doors Sight Unseen The Confession The Truce of God The Valley of Oblivion Travelogues: Through Glacier Park in 1915 Tenting Tonight Essays: Oh Well You Know How Women Are – Isn't That Just Like a Man! Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls Kings, Queens, and Pawns – Autobiography
Reshaping Roles and Opportunities for Serialists : Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. : 9th Annual Conference, June 2-5, 1994, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Reshaping Roles and Opportunities for Serialists : Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. : 9th Annual Conference, June 2-5, 1994, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Find a diverse array of valuable ideas for managing the challenges of new technology and the rapidly changing information environment. A Kaleidoscope of Choices helps librarians develop skills and strategies to cope effectively with the myriad changes affecting their profession due to the rapid evolution of technology. In this book, informative chapters address the impact of technology on libraries, scholarly communication, vendors, and the publishing industry. Knowledgeable authors reveal their practical experience with organizing to manage change, managing the virtual library, roles of vendors and publishers in providing access to electronic information, and innovations for the bibliographic control of electronic publications. Chapters examine many topics on the technical environment, including: the Internet and client-server computing World Wide Web and the Mosaic Interface a beginner's guide to Listserv and ListProcs technology's influence on information management steps toward becoming a virtual library reshaping the serials vendor industry new roles for librarians expert systems and cataloging Serials specialists and other librarians who desire to make the most of the new technologies will find A Kaleidoscope of Choices a helpful and informative guide for their daily contact with technology.
This volume provides individual treatments of the major molluscan taxa. Each chapter provides an overview of the evolution, phylogeny and classification of a group of molluscs, as well as more specific and detailed coverage of their biology (reproduction, feeding and digestion, excretion, respiration etc.), their long fossil record and aspects of their natural history. The book is illustrated with hundreds of colour figures. In both volumes, concepts are summarised in colour-coded illustrations. Key selling features: Comprehensively reviews molluscan biology and evolutionary history Includes a description the anatomy and physiology of anatomical systems Up to date treatment with a comprehensive bibliography Reviews the phylogenetic history of the major molluscan lineages
The American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was a seminal writer in the development of mystery and detective fiction, who introduced the ‘had I but known’ narrative style and ‘the butler did it’ plot device. ‘The Circular Staircase’, her first book and first mystery, was an immediate success and was followed by a series of popular ‘edge-of-your-seat’ murder mysteries. Our comprehensive edition features Rinehart’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rinehart’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 23 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes rare uncollected stories – available in no other collection * A selection of Rinehart’s non-fiction * Features an autobiography – discover Rinehart’s incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, 15 later novels and 5 story collections cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Letitia Carberry Series The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911) Tish (1916) More Tish (1921) Tish Plays the Game (1926) The Hilda Adams Series The Buckled Bag (1914) Locked Doors (1914) The Novels The Circular Staircase (1908) The Man in Lower Ten (1909) The Window at the White Cat (1910) When a Man Marries (1910) Where There’s a Will (1912) The Case of Jennie Brice (1913) The Street of Seven Stars (1914) The After House (1914) K. (1915) Bab (1916) Long Live the King! (1917) The Amazing Interlude (1918) Twenty-Three and a Half Hours’ Leave (1918) Dangerous Days (1919) A Poor Wise Man (1920) The Truce of God (1920) The Confession (1921) The Breaking Point (1922) The Red Lamp (1925) The Bat (1926) Lost Ecstasy (1927) The Short Story Collections Love Stories (1919) Affinities and Other Stories (1920) Sight Unseen (1921) Temperamental People (1924) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Through Glacier Park (1916) The Altar of Freedom (1917) Tenting Tonight (1917) Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls (1919) Isn’t That Just Like a Man! (1920) Nomad’s Land (1926) The Autobiography Kings, Queens, and Pawns (1915) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
The town of Myrtle Point, incorporated in 1887, was platted in a grove of myrtle trees on a point of land overlooking the South Fork of the Coquille River. Ten years after incorporation, Myrtle Point was a thriving commercial hub of 600 people. It had a riverboat landing, two hotels, and streets lined with churches, businesses, houses, and barns. This book begins in 1893, a landmark year when the telephone and the train both arrived in Myrtle Point. It ends in 1950, a time of prosperity for loggers and farmers in southwestern Oregon and for the enterprises in Myrtle Point that served them. Family photographs, many published here for the first time, reveal glimpses of a world where logging was king; the Coos County Fair was the biggest event of the year; and, early on, farm families traveled by horse team and riverboat to shop in a bustling Myrtle Point.
As you wind your way up the Catalina Highway, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a first-time visitor or a native Tucsonan; you know you’re on the way to someplace special. The Santa Catalina Mountains first captivated Tony Zimmerman on a 1937 hunting trip. Regard for the alpine beauty must have been in his genes—he was the son of Swiss German immigrants—and by 1940 the Tucson schoolteacher had begun taking his family to Mount Lemmon to spend the summer. Back then, the road up the mountain was a rough two-track dirt road from Oracle, and Summerhaven was nothing but a sleepy cluster of summer cabins. But Tony Zimmerman was to help change all of that. The Road to Mount Lemmon is a beguiling memoir of the Catalina Mountains told by the daughter of one of the pioneers in the life and development of Mount Lemmon’s communities. Mary Ellen Barnes tells how her father Tony resigned from teaching in 1943 to devote his career to the development of this mountain oasis. He not only sold real estate for long time landowner Randolph Jenks, he even bought the village’s tiny two-room store, installing a sawmill to build a larger store, and built the Mount Lemmon Inn. And as she spins Tony’s personal saga, she also gives readers a glimpse of the Catalinas before Tucson became a boom town, recalling idyllic adventures in wild country and the cowboys, rangers, ranchers, and loggers who worked there. Barnes tells Tony’s story as if sharing it with family, evoking her father’s personality on every page. The Road to Mount Lemmon is an intimate view of a mountain community over the course of nearly sixty years—a view that few people have shared but one all can appreciate.
Here is the secret behind the power of the United States. In this book, readers discover the Absolutes that must be honored in order to realize Messianic consciousness. A consciousness that is required if we, the people of the United States, want to hold our authorities to the rule of law mandated by our Constitution. Mother Mary challenges you to discover your Messianic consciousness in order to realize God, your family and the United States as they are meant to be-as you want them to be. Mother Mary steps up to the platform where church an state meet and exposes her weaknesses and experiences in order to inspire you to step up with her. United We the People have the power to ensure liberty and prosperity; we have the power to create miracles.
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry diseases, while many non-marine molluscs are threatened by human impacts which have resulted in more extinctions than all tetrapod vertebrates combined. This book and its companion volume provide the first comprehensive account of the Mollusca in decades. Illustrated with hundreds of colour figures, it reviews molluscan biology, genomics, anatomy, physiology, fossil history, phylogeny and classification. This volume includes general chapters drawn from extensive and diverse literature on the anatomy and physiology of their structure, movement, reproduction, feeding, digestion, excretion, respiration, nervous system and sense organs. Other chapters review the natural history (including ecology) of molluscs, their interactions with humans, and assess research on the group. Key features of both volumes: up to date treatment with an extensive bibliography; thoroughly examines the current understanding of molluscan anatomy, physiology and development; reviews fossil history and phylogenetics; overviews ecology and economic values; and summarises research activity and suggests future directions for investigation. Winston F Ponder was a Principal Research Scientist at The Australian Museum in Sydney where he is currently a Research Fellow. He has published extensively over the last 55 years on the systematics, evolution, biology and conservation of marine and freshwater molluscs, as well as supervised post graduate students and run university courses. David R. Lindberg is former Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology, Director of the Museum of Paleontology, and Chair of the Berkeley Natural History Museums, all at the University of California. He has conducted research on the evolutionary history of marine organisms and their habitats on the rocky shores of the Pacific Rim for more than 40 years. The numerous elegant and interpretive illustrations were produced by Juliet Ponder.
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