This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies.
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The differences between the two versions are principally ones of significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac’s friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them. The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who, along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos, provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating compositional and publication history of On the Road and anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context.
THE TEST OF A MARRIAGE Eva Carmichael was talented, beautiful…the girl everyone believed most likely to succeed. When she left her hometown for a new life, she never expected to one day find herself alone and pregnant, her world in ashes. But the Lord never closes a door without opening a window…. For years the young minister Howard Blake have loved Eva from afar. Now he offered to marry her. But Eva had never imagined herself as a minister's wife. And even if they survived the small-town gossips, could their marriage ever grow into the light of love? Welcome to Love Inspired™—stories that will lift your spirits and gladden your heart. Meet men and women facing the challenges of today's world and learning important lessons about life, faith and love.
Read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! Marriage for a merger… Joel Howard — arrogant, self-assured and all too aware of his sexual magnetism — reminded Cassie of the unlikelihood of anyone ever loving her. She would rather have sold her soul to the devil than ally herself with him. So she entertained a proposal from his closest competitor, dangerously underestimating Joel’s desire to take over her London-based computer-games company. “There’s only one way I can be sure of your loyalty,” Joel told her, “and that’s by buying it, the same way Peter Williams intended to buy it — by marrying you.” Originally published in 1985
This stylish panorma of the Great American Dream Machine reveals the wonderful unreality that made Hollywood the capital of pop culture and features quizzes, games, and gossip about stars
Re-read this classic romance MARRIAGE MAKE-UP by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan Abbie Howard never forgave her husband for leaving her before their child was born. But when Sam finally meets his daughter, he realises his greatest mistake. Determined to make amends, he sets about an impossible seduction—but can Abbie overcome the pains of the past to remake their marriage? Originally published in 1998 And re-discover AN HEIR TO BIND THEM, by USA Today bestselling author Dani Collins Jaya Powers couldn't refuse her gorgeous millionaire Greek boss Theo Makricosta when she worked for him and she can't refuse his request to help him now! Only this time she has a secret. Their one night together had consequences that will change Theo's perfectly ordered existence for ever! Originally published in 2014
Terry Faye loves travelling the world while working as a private investigator. But this latest case is a doozy—and it's right here in Ann Arbor. Two elderly recluses, Howard and Lawrence Peale, have stopped communicating with the outside world, and Terry and her boss have been put on the case. The catch: the Peales are hoarders. A clean sweep isn't going to be easy, even with cute photographer Zack Archer lending a hand. The more digging Terry does in the Peale mansion, the more dirt she uncovers. And after she discovers two dead bodies, it's going to take a lot more than just elbow grease and a nice guy sidekick to find out what's happened... 81,000 words
Rivers is one of the units in the new Cambridge Primary Geography series, which has been written to cover the places, themes and skills identified by the revised national curriculum at key stage 2. Each unit in the series is written around a main geographical enquiry and provides pupils with the knowledge, concepts and skills to complete their investigation. Rivers introduces children to both the processes and environmental aspects of this thematic study. It looks at rivers on a range of scales and in a variety of contexts in countries including the United Kingdom, United States, China, Germany and Africa. The Teacher's Book provides background information and a description of the work involved in each unit of the pupil's book. It also includes photocopiable worksheets which support or extend the enquiry, suggestions for further and cross-curricular work, and advice on assessment and reporting.
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