Merrill, Laura's Books

Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes

By: Merrill Feitell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes

By: Merrill Feitell

The stories in Merrill Feitell’s award-winning collection, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, examine the fleeting and unexpected moments of human connection, reminding us of the indelible impact we have on one another no matter how insignificant or anonymous we might feel under our huge, collective sky. Feitell’s characters deal with shifting dynamics in relationships—whether they be best friends, lovers, family, or even strangers—that consistently leave them torn between two places or commitments. In the title story, Janie has undergone a painful childbirth experience and her group of friends must pioneer new dynamics while she wonders how to bring her old self back. In “Bike New York!” amid thirty thousand cyclists, a man on the brink of marriage meets a young girl who, in a tiny Brooklyn bakery, affirms both who he has been and who he is going to be. On this short detour from normal life he comes to understand “the funny thing about finding your way in the world. There was a place laid out for you . . . and even as you stepped into it, happy for the chance to rest, you wondered how you ever ended up there.” Funny, big-hearted, and deft, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes navigates the reader through the life that happens when you’re planning other things. It is a collection of experiences, roads not taken, and the intense and unforeseen sparks of connection we hope for.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

139

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1587295148

ISBN 13

9781587295140

Weekends with O'Keeffe

By: C. S. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Weekends with O'Keeffe

By: C. S. Merrill

Winner of the 2012 Zia Award from New Mexico Press Women In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting. Over seven years, Merrill was called upon for secretarial assistance, cooking, and personal care for the artist. Merrill's journals reveal details of the daily life of a genius. The author describes how O'Keeffe stretched the canvas for her twenty-six-foot cloud painting and reports on O'Keeffe's favorite classical music and preferred performers. Merrill provided descriptions of nature when she and the artist went for walks; she read to O'Keeffe from her favorite books and helped keep her space in meticulous order. Throughout the book there are sketches of O'Keeffe's studio and an account of once assisting O'Keeffe at the easel. Jockeying for position among the helpers O'Keeffe relied upon was part of daily life at Abiquiu, where territorial chows guarded the property. Visitors came from far and wide, among them Eliot Porter and even Allen Ginsberg accompanied by Peter Orlovsky. All this is revealed in Merrill's straightforward and deeply respectful notes. Reading her book is like spending a weekend with O'Keeffe in the incomparable light and clear air of Northern New Mexico mountains and desert.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826349293

ISBN 13

9780826349293

O'Keeffe

Days in a Life

By: C. S. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

O'Keeffe

Days in a Life

By: C. S. Merrill

“Carol Merrill’s tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O’Keeffe’s final years in New Mexico.”—Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses “When I got O’Keeffe mss I sat down after midnite at kitchen table when I should’ve been in bed & read it thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary & understandable. The details are all, sacramentalizing everyday life in a world of genius—a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation.”—Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

143

Publisher

UNM Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826354211

ISBN 13

9780826354211

Hidden History of Rockland & St. George

By: Jane Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hidden History of Rockland & St. George

By: Jane Merrill

Down East Maine is well known for its breathtaking scenery and art museums. However, much of the history in the traditional mining and fishing area of Rockland and St. George remains untold. Hanson Gregory from Clam Cove invented the donut. Mary Brown Patten sailed a clipper around Cape Horn. Captain Albert Keller was shipwrecked on Easter Island and Effie Canning of Rockland composed the lullaby "Rock a Bye Baby." Captain Charles Holbrook of Tenants Harbor and his ship, the Hattie Dunn, fell victim to a German U-boat in the Atlantic. Local author Jane Merrill uncovers the forgotten stories and personalities that bring this unique area's history into focus.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467150487

ISBN 13

9781467150484

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of “period pieces” that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist René Girard's notion of “triangular desire,” he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction. Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found “the One” at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441120351

ISBN 13

9781441120359

Mastering Menopause

Women's Voices on Taking Charge of the Change

By: Deborah M. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mastering Menopause

Women's Voices on Taking Charge of the Change

By: Deborah M. Merrill

Interviews with and case studies of women in the U.S., accompanied by research in this text, show how our perceptions, thoughts, and spiritual practices can help women through menopause without drugs and their potential side effects. More and more women today are seeking natural ways to cope with menopause, including through mindfulness techniques and Eastern practices such as meditation. Women of various races, ages, and socioeconomic status interviewed at length for this study explain their experiences, victories, and setbacks in their quests to overcome this natural but body- and brain-altering change. Complementing findings from her research with wider outside research, author Deborah Merrill explains how popular culture depictions, race, class, and education all alter women's perceptions of the meaning of menopause, and how those perceptions can complicate, exacerbate, or alleviate physical and psychological symptoms. She details the "medical view" that views menopause as a problem to be solved, rather than as a natural event. And, through women's words and case studies, she details psychospiritual approaches many are adopting to cope, instead of seeking potentially harmful medicines. Readers will find new insights, wisdom, and potential solutions in the array of voices, experiences, and paths taken and presented in this book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

182

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798216115465

Toby Ryker

By: Steven Merrill Ulmen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Toby Ryker

By: Steven Merrill Ulmen

Toby Ryker, a colorful old man similiar to J.B. Books in Swarthout's classic, "The Shootist," is forced to come to grips with his mortality. He moseys into Laramie and stirs up a saloon brawl just for the fun of it then pays for the damages, thus bailing everyone out of a passle of trouble. Moments later, he collapses of a heart attack. When he wakes up, the doctor directs him to adopt a quiet way of life. He looks up an old friend, David Stewart, a rancher living in the area who is now married with a family, and the two decide to go on a last hunting trip in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Ryker learns that McQuiston, a sadistic bounty hunter, has trailed him to Laramie over a shooting he committed in Deadwood. McQuiston kills a local cowboy soon after his arrival and the chase is on, with Ryker and Stewart hunting elk, McQuiston hunting Ryker, and the sheriff hunting McQuiston. The final shootout leaves McQuiston dead, but with a story ending that is not what it appears to be. A perfect holiday gift idea!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

213

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1411660390

ISBN 13

9781411660397

Sex and the Scientist

The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

By: Jane Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sex and the Scientist

The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

By: Jane Merrill

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson's popularity with women eclipsed his achievements, though. He was married twice and had affairs with many other prominent women, including the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thomas and that of a doctor who would crew the first balloon to cross the English Channel. He even fathered a child by the court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several other German noblewomen. Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

147662917X

ISBN 13

9781476629179

The Limits of Law

By: Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas,Martha Merrill Umphrey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Limits of Law

By: Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas,Martha Merrill Umphrey

This collection brings together well-established scholars to examine the limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events. The limiting conditions explored in this volume include marking law’s relationship to acts of terror, states of emergency, gestures of surrender, payments of reparations, offers of amnesty, and invocations of retroactivity. These essays explore how law is challenged, frayed, and constituted out of contact with conditions that lie at the farthest reaches of its empirical and normative force.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0804752354

ISBN 13

9780804752350

After Whistler

The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

By: Linda Merrill,Robyn Asleson,Lee Glazer,Lacey Taylor Jordan,John Siewert,Marc Simpson,Sylvia Yount

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

After Whistler

The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

By: Linda Merrill,Robyn Asleson,Lee Glazer,Lacey Taylor Jordan,John Siewert,Marc Simpson,Sylvia Yount

This illustrated book - published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death - addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

280

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300101252

ISBN 13

9780300101256

The Dark Room

By: Cade Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dark Room

By: Cade Merrill

Cade Merrill investigates the possible paranormal connection between a girl's photographs and child-killer Rustin Parr and a new serial killer who is imitating Parr.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Bantam Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

0553493639

ISBN 13

9780553493634

History of Acworth

By: J.L. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History of Acworth

By: J.L. Merrill

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

422

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3846051004

ISBN 13

9783846051009

History and genealogy of the descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy river (Brookline), Mass. and Woodstock, Conn. with notices of other lines of Corbins

By: Harvey Merrill Lawson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History and genealogy of the descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy river (Brookline), Mass. and Woodstock, Conn. with notices of other lines of Corbins

By: Harvey Merrill Lawson

Clement Corbin (1626-1696) immigrated from England to Boston, Massachusetts in 1637. He married Dorcas Buckminster (Buckmaster?) in 1655, and moved to Woodstock, Massachusetts. Descendants lived throughout the United States.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

507

Publisher

Рипол Классик

Published Date

ISBN 10

5880548163

ISBN 13

9785880548163

The 5 Choices

The Path to Extraordinary Productivity

By: Kory Kogon,Adam Merrill,Leena Rinne

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The 5 Choices

The Path to Extraordinary Productivity

By: Kory Kogon,Adam Merrill,Leena Rinne

Time management for the 21st century"--Cover.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476711828

ISBN 13

9781476711829

Anthropology of Infectious Disease

By: Merrill Singer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anthropology of Infectious Disease

By: Merrill Singer

This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework, advancing research in this multifaceted area and offering an ideal supplemental text.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315434725

ISBN 13

9781315434728

The SPEED of Trust

The One Thing That Changes Everything

By: Stephen R. Covey,Rebecca R. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The SPEED of Trust

The One Thing That Changes Everything

By: Stephen R. Covey,Rebecca R. Merrill

Explains how trust is a key catalyst for personal and organizational success in the twenty-first century, in a guide for businesspeople that demonstrates how to inspire trust while overcoming bureaucratic obstacles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1416549005

ISBN 13

9781416549000

Controversies in Media Ethics

By: A. David Gordon,John Michael Kittross,John C. Merrill,William Babcock,Michael Dorsher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Controversies in Media Ethics

By: A. David Gordon,John Michael Kittross,John C. Merrill,William Babcock,Michael Dorsher

Controversies in Media Ethics offers students, instructors and professionals multiple perspectives on media ethics issues presenting vast "gray areas" and few, if any, easy answers. This third edition includes a wide range of subjects, and demonstrates a willingness to tackle the problems raised by new technologies, new media, new politics and new economics. The core of the text is formed by 14 chapters, each of which deals with a particular problem or likelihood of ethical dilemma, presented as different points of view on the topic in question, as argued by two or more contributing authors. The 15th chapter is a collection of "mini-chapters," allowing students to discern first-hand how to deal with ethical problems. Contributing authors John A. Armstrong, Peter J. Gade, Julianne H. Newton, Kim Sheehan, and Jane B. Singer provide additional voices and perspectives on various topics under discussion. This edition has been thoroughly updated to provide: discussions of issues reflecting the breadth and depth of the media spectrum numerous real-world examples broad discussion of confidentiality and other timely topics A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415963329) supplies resources for both students and instructors. You can also join the Controversies community on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CME3rd Developed for use in media ethics courses, Controversies in Media Ethics provides up-to-date discussions and analysis of ethical situations across a variety of media, including issues dealing with the Internet and new media. It provides a unique consideration of ethical concerns, and serves as provocative reading for all media students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

602

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136818650

ISBN 13

9781136818653

The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Integrated Critical Perspective

By: Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Integrated Critical Perspective

By: Hans A. Baer,Merrill Singer

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change. This second edition is fully updated to include the most recent literature published since the first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics, including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological Association’s Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate change. Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological interactions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351273108

ISBN 13

9781351273107

The Blues Route

From the Delta to California, a writer searches for America's purest music

By: Hugh Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Blues Route

From the Delta to California, a writer searches for America's purest music

By: Hugh Merrill

Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Valerie Wellington and Magic Slim. In fascinating interviews, Merrill uncovers wonderful stories about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. The trip dips into New Orleans as Merrill explores how the blues exploded in clubs and cribs, influencing dixieland, jazz and zydeco. A trip out west presents a lovely tour of the cocktail lounges of Oakland and Los Angeles and the guardians of the blues who live there. The Blues Route is an engrossing narrative, a book that celebrates not only the music but the continuing search for sympathy, understanding and affinity that the blues embodies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Garrett County Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1891053760

ISBN 13

9781891053764

Utah Sings! an Anthology of Contemporary Verse

By: Harrison R. Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Utah Sings! an Anthology of Contemporary Verse

By: Harrison R. Merrill

A collection of songs and poems written by citizens of and from Utah. Not a Mormon or Christian compilation, but a collection of fine regional works.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

Wildside Press LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1434479242

ISBN 13

9781434479242

Skyscraper Cinema

Architecture and Gender in American Film

By: Merrill Schleier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skyscraper Cinema

Architecture and Gender in American Film

By: Merrill Schleier

From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope--the skyscraper as movie star. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

U of Minnesota Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816642818

ISBN 13

9780816642816

Trials

By: Martha Merrill Umphrey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trials

By: Martha Merrill Umphrey

This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials. Taken together, these essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which the law both encounters and interacts dialogically with the culture in which it is embedded. Inquiring into the contours of that dialogic relation, these essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings, examine how trials emerge out of particular social and historical contexts, and suggest ways in which trials themselves, as both singular events and generic forms, circulate and signify in culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

587

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351125907

ISBN 13

9781351125901

On This Date A DayByDay Look at Historic

By: Brian Merrill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On This Date A DayByDay Look at Historic

By: Brian Merrill

On This Date is a day-by-day look at important events in history. Arranged by month and day, this book allows the reader to look up any calendar date and find out what famous events happened on that date and what famous people were born on that date.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1430305010

ISBN 13

9781430305019

Hunting the Sun

Faulkner's Appropriations of Balzac's Writings

By: Merrill Horton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hunting the Sun

Faulkner's Appropriations of Balzac's Writings

By: Merrill Horton

Hunting the Sun upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faulkner's oeuvre. Faulkner's work departs, often confusingly, from the traditional Romantic focus of novels. The reason for the confusion is that Faulkner was rewriting Balzac's La Comedie humaine, itself a prose revision of Dante's Divine Comedy, in order to create his own comedy. More specifically, Faulkner abandons the metaphysical basis of the earlier works and replaces them with a psychosexual one; for example, Balzac's «The Succubus» becomes Faulkner's «Carcassonne», which the American renders an erotic fantasy. Virtually all of Faulkner's major works, and many of the lesser ones, have direct sources in Balzac's work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published Date

ISBN 10

1433110032

ISBN 13

9781433110030

Book's by Merrill, Laura

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email