Enchanted New York: A Walk Along Broadway Through Manhattan`s Magical Past, Dann Kevin
Автор: Lessing Doris Название: Mara and Dann ISBN: 0006550835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550839 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The new novel from one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, last visited in her acclaimed 'Canopus in Argos' quintet of novels in the 1980s. It is sooner than you might think. And the earth's climate is much changed -- it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home...They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children's constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them through to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value.
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Автор: Dann Kevin Tyler Название: Silver-Wheeled City: New York By Bicycle & Camera ISBN: 1597315079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597315074 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An exploration of the contemporaneous birth of the safety bicycle and box camera in the 1890s in New York City, by way of 9 illustrated historical bike tours. The routes include: a run up the Hudson River Greenway following the route of Wilbur Wright on his record-making 1909 flight; a circumnavigation of Central Park while considering the epic battles to make the park legal for bikes; a cruise around the canyons of the Financial District, to see the places which figured so prominently in the "first wave" of the bicycle craze; a cruise down Broadway from midtown to Battery Park, and then across to Clear Comfort on Staten Island, following pioneer urban social photographer Alice Austen; from Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn through Prospect Park to Coney Island, on America's first dedicated cycle path; an exploration of the last springs and wells in Manhattan, from Central Park up to Inwood, thanks to photographer James Reuel Smith; an eccentric ramble from the Fulton Ferry Landing, through Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, considering the intersection of various forms of "clairvoyance" in fin de si cle Brooklyn; a cinematic odyssey from the nickelodeon Kinetoscope parlors of midtown Manhattan up across the Queensboro Bridge to Astoria to the Museum of the Moving Image; and a ferry-borne escape to the Rockaway boardwalk, Fort Tilden, and the embryonic landscape of Jamaica Bay. Illustrated with historic photographs and maps, as well as guide maps, the book aims to bring more New Yorkers and visitors onto bicycles to see the city and discover its "silver" past.
Автор: Dann Moshe Название: As Far as the Eye Can See ISBN: 0991652134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991652136 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past
Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour--a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York's central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won't find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor's guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies--from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project--to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder-working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world's premier stage magician's feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious--and meaningful--marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses--no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
Автор: Belal Abu-Alabbas, Christopher Melchert, Michael Dann Название: Modern Hadith Studies: Continuing Debates and New Approaches ISBN: 1474441793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474441797 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brings together western and Middle Eastern scholars to explore medieval and modern approaches to the study of Hadith
Explores and analyses state-of-the-art scholarship in Hadith studies in Middle Eastern and Western contexts, covering a variety of approaches and methods to studying and evaluating the Hadith corpus
Addresses several methodological issues and questions in evaluating Hadith reports
Provides a rich analysis of the global trends in Hadith studies, affording a broad understanding of the field and bringing together contributions from scholarly communities typically inaccessible to one another
This book is dedicated to examining the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from 10 scholars of Hadith, it addresses the subject from a variety of methodological vantage points and historical premises. Divided into two parts, it first looks at methods and approaches, and then presents 5 case studies focusing on specific questions and issues. Some of these authors seek to overturn, refine or reaffirm dominant paradigms within the field, while others look to expand its horizons in new directions. The global scope, and coverage of both longstanding debates and cutting edge methods and approaches, means this book will make a significant contribution to a controversial and challenging field.
Notes on Contributors
Belal Abu-Alabbas, British Academy Newton International Fellow, University of Exeter, UK and Lecturer at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
Ali Aghaei, Postdoctoral Researcher, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Germany.
Maroussia Bednarkiewicz, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Michael Dann, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, USA.
Jeremy Farrell, doctoral candidate, Emory University, USA.
Mutaz Al-Khatib, Assistant Professor of Methodology and Ethics, Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Qatar.
Fatma Kızıl, Assistant Professor of Hadith, Yalova University, Turkey.
Christopher Melchert, Professor of Arabic and Islam, Oriental Institute, UK.
Pavel Pavlovitch, Professor in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Civilization, Centre for Oriental Languages and Cultures, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria.
Ahmad Snobar, Assistant Professor of Hadith, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Turkey.
Автор: Johnson Dann Robert Название: Lily Was the Valley: Undone by Adoption ISBN: 0996315802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996315807 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2610.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Difficulty unlooked for. Loss unforeseen. Hope forever.
They'd never heard about the darker sides of adoption. Never counted on illness. Or loss. As for Dann, his head had always ruled his heart. Now Lily was dying, and he was about to find out just how little he knew about love.
Dann Robert Johnson's humor and acute honesty hurtle the reader through a memoir that reads like fiction but shines with hope for the times real life deals us its worst. It's for adoptive families. It's for those who have lived cross-culturally. But more than anything it may be a story for adoptees who wonder if someone could have loved them before they came home. It's the story of a flawless Lily in the darkest valley.
"This gut-wrenching struggle through the mysterious strains of deepest love arrested me. It's no fairy-tale version of a princess in a castle." Dr. Ken Castor, adoptive father, 2002, and contributing editor for the Jesus Centered Bible.
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