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Author | : Kevin C. Robbins |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004477608 |
Download City on the Ocean Sea: La Rochelle, 1530-1650 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This important volume presents the first comprehensive history of early modern La Rochelle, a port town whose fractious residents became embroiled in the French Reformations. Opening chapters situate the Rochelais within the geopolitics of an oceanic frontier, where urbanites created a strong, heavily armed civic government, in part because they perceived themselves as isolated civilizing agents surrounded by the savage inhabitants of a lawless environment. Analysis of the city's Reformation proceeds within this context of place and politics, showing how various ranks of the citizenry idiosyncratically adopted the tenets of Calvinism, amalgamating these salvific doctrines with traditional civic rites and values - to the consternation of more orthodox pastors. Juxtaposing serial sources from multiple archives, Robbins shows with innovative detail how local political and religious struggles intermeshed, setting the city and its Reformed congregations on a fatal collision course with the Bourbon monarchy. Concluding chapters examine how great aristocratic families, churchmen, and Catholic magistrates joined in a local Counter-Reformation, remaking urban power politics from the ground up.
Author | : Alessandro Baricco |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375703950 |
Download Ocean Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.
Author | : William Kornblum |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1565122658 |
Download At Sea in the City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Looks at New York City's waterfront and maritime culture through essays about the author's travels around the city.
Author | : Kirsty Logan |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553446630 |
Download The Gracekeepers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For readers of The Night Circus and Station Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world covered by water As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a world divided between those inhabiting the mainland ("landlockers") and those who float on the sea ("damplings"), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives--offering them a new understanding of the world they live in and the consequences of the past, while restoring hope in an unexpected future. Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells a modern story of an irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age. — Finalist, Lambda Literary Award
Author | : Lawrence Kaplan |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231128483 |
Download Between Ocean and City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lawrence grew up on the long peninsula, and though he is a professional historian, they say that Carol brought a degree of detachment and scholarship that prevented the account from being a personal memoir. They describe the transformation of the urban community in southern Queens during the decades immediately after World War II. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author | : Alan F. Blumberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107191998 |
Download The Urban Ocean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.
Author | : Kevin Sherry |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-05-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101641762 |
Download I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When a giant squid takes inventory of all of the creatures in the ocean, he realizes that he?s way bigger than most of them! Of course, there are bigger things lurking around . . . but maybe this giant squid with a giant touch of hubris doesn?t really care? First-time author-illustrator Kevin Sherry is sure to garner fans of all sizes for his perfect-for-preschool read-aloud with simple text, bold and delightful collage art, and a lovable squid whose spirit just cannot be crushed.
Author | : Joe Quirk |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 145169928X |
Download Seasteading Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality. Our planet has been suffering from serious environmental problems and their social and political consequences. But imagine a vast new source of sustainable and renewable energy that would also bring more equitable economies. A previously untapped source of farming that could produce significant new sources of nutrition. Future societies where people could choose the communities they want to live in, free from the restrictions of conventional citizenship. This extraordinary vision of our near future as imagined in Seasteading attracted the powerful support of Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel—and it may be drawing close to reality. Facing growing environmental threats, French Polynesia has already signed on to build some of the world’s first seasteads. Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman show us how cities built on floating platforms in the ocean will work, and they profile some of the visionaries who are implementing basic concepts of seasteading today. An entrepreneur’s dream, these floating cities will become laboratories for innovation and creativity. Seasteading “offers hope for a future when life on land has grown grim” (Kirkus Reviews), proving the adage that yesterday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
Author | : Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2007-01-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195175700 |
Download A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640), this book explores the relations between mobility and community; domestic sociability and trade expansion; commercial experience and early capitalist ideology; and cultural hybridity, transnationalism, and the Spanish empire.
Author | : Martin Simons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9781310963094 |
Download Cities at Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Cities at Sea is a story set a couple of thousand years from now. Land-based civilization collapsed long ago as a result of climate change, flooding and impoverishment of soils, wars, and other causes. Knowing that about three quarters of the globe is covered by the sea, all the major coastal cities of the globe saved themselves by moving onto the oceans, developing gigantic, highly sophisticated, entirely self-sufficient rafts on which they now navigate at will. Life is easy in the raft cities for those who conform but is strictly disciplined under constant surveillance. Sal is a restless young woman who longs for something exciting. She imagines a more intimate connection with the sea and its creatures. She seeks help from a renowned genetic scientist. This leads to extraordinary adventures and changes in her and the city where she now lives. The story ends as a new era begins"--Page 4 of cover.