Author: VariousPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465561137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
The Wonder Book of Knowledge
Author: Henry Chase HillPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353603656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
The Book of Knowledge and Wonder
Author: Steven HarveyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940906089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Book of Knowledge and Wonder is a memoir about claiming a legacy of wonder from knowledge of a devastating event. In some ways it has the feel of a detective story in which Steven Harvey pieces together the life of his mother, Roberta Reinhardt Harvey, who committed suicide when he was eleven, out of the 406 letters she left behind. Before he read the letters his mother had become little more than her death to him, but while writing her story he discovered a woman who, despite her vulnerability to depression, had a large capacity for wonder and a love of familiar things, legacies that she passed on to him. The book tackles subjects of recent fascination in American culture: corporate life and sexism in the fifties, mental illness and its influence on families, and art and learning as a consolation for life's woes, but in the end it is the perennial theme of abiding love despite the odds that fuels the tale. As the memoir unfolds, his mother changes and grows, darkens and retreats as she gives up her chance at a career in nursing, struggles with her position as a housewife, harbors paranoid delusions of having contracted syphilis at childbirth, succumbs to a mysterious, psychic link with her melancholic father, and fights back against depression with counseling, medicine, art, and learning. Harvey charts the way, after his mother's death, that he blotted out her memory almost completely in his new family where his mother was rarely talked about, a protective process of letting go that he did not resist and in a way welcomed, but the book grows out of a nagging longing that never went away, a sense of being haunted that caused the writer to seek out places alone-dribbling a basketball on a lonely court, going on long solitary bicycle rides, walking away from his family to the edge of a mountain overlook, and working daily at his writing desk-where he might feel her presence. In the end, the loss cannot be repaired. Her death, like a camera flash in the dark, blotted out all but a few lingering memories of her in his mind, but the triumph of the book is in the creative collaboration between the dead mother, speaking to her son in letters, and the writer piecing together the story from photographs, snatches of memory, and her words so that he can, for the first time, know her and miss her, not some made up idea of her. The letters do not bring her back-he knows the loss is irrevocable-but as he shaped them into art, the pain, that had been nothing more than a dull throb, changed in character, becoming more diffuse and ardent, like heartache.
I Wonder why Book of Knowledge
Author: Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780753413814
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This volume covers everything children want to know about their world, from the great empires of the past to the wonders of the natural world. It is full of tough questions, amazing answers and funny facts.
The Story of Primitive Man
Author: Mabel (Cook) ColePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258384890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The University Of Knowledge Wonder Books.
Everybody's Book of Knowledge
Author: Charles RayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781853758805
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes folded 4 page illustrations attached to inside front cover.
Pocket Book of Knowledge
Author: Funfax, LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780754701446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A feast of facts big enough to satisfy any child''s hunger for knowledge, the Pocket Book of Knowledge is a compilation of 12 existing Eyewitness books.'
The Wonder Book of Knowledge: The Marvels of Modern Industry and Invention the Interesting Stories of Common Things the Mysterious Processes of Nature Simply Explained
Author: VariousPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465561137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
The Wonder Book of Knowledge
Author: Henry Chase HillThe Wonder Book of Knowledge
Author: Henry Chase HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative and industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Wonder Book of Knowledge
Author: Henry Chase HillPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781407703534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.