Against the Tides: Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada`s Maritime Marshlands, Ronald Rudin
Автор: Turgenev, Ivan Название: Rudin ISBN: 1847492266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847492265 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1335.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Rudin, Turgenev`s first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author`s later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia.
For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
Автор: Ivan Turgenev,Richard Freeborn Название: Rudin ISBN: 0140443045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140443042 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A social novel that is a sort of introduction to those that follow, because it refers to the epoch anterior to that when the social and political movements began.
Автор: Rudin Marcia R. Название: Flower Toward the Sun ISBN: 1548064041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781548064044 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1905,
Rebecca leaves her Jewish shtetl in the Ukraine to join her fianc , Samuel, in Milwaukee. Ingrid leaves her orphanage in Norway to become the Picture Bride of Lars, a widowed Norwegian farmer in North Dakota.
But as Rebecca and Ingrid are processed together at Ellis Island, officials put them on the wrong trains and each is sent to the other's final destination.
Lars takes Rebecca to his farm and promises to help her find her way back to Samuel. Samuel convinces his family to take Ingrid in until they can locate Rebecca and return her to Lars.
Alone in a strange country and unable to speak English, Ingrid and Rebecca struggle against conflicting religions and cultures. It is hatred at first sight for the feisty Ingrid and Samuel and his Jewish family. Lars does not understand Rebecca's traditional Jewish practices. Both women attempt to escape to find their promised new lives in America, but fail and reluctantly return to their alien environments to build new lives.
After nearly a year, Samuel and Ingrid journey to the isolated farm in North Dakota, but the love that has blossomed between Lars and Rebecca threatens to destroy everything.
Автор: Phyllis Rudin Название: My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur ISBN: 1988732123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988732121 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 2638.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Winner of the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
In Phyllis Rudin's coming-of-age story, Benjie Gabai is convinced he's been the victim of a terrible cosmic hoax. Instead of being born in the 18th century as a French-Canadian voyageur, God has plunked him down in present-day Montreal, into a family that views his fur trade obsession as proof that their Benjie, once so bursting with promise, has well and truly lost it. Benjie serves out his days as caretaker of the Bay's poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting and polishing the artifacts that fuel his imagination. When he learns his museum is about to be closed down, scattering his precious collection to the four winds, he hatches a plan that risks bringing his voyageur illusions lapping dangerously up against reality.
My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur melds Canadian frontier history with the madcap adventures of a young man who is not yet ready to meet adulthood head on.
Автор: Maniscalco Louise, Rudin Susan Название: The Trade Off ISBN: 1626815232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626815230 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "With wit and sharp insight, the authors of THE TRADE OFF provide a behind-the-scenes peek at the Machiavellian world of a luxury Manhattan store, its executives, designers, clerks-and demanding socialite customers. Told in the knowing voice of the store's ambitious shopping salon director, THE TRADE OFF is a fast-paced, entertaining read." -Dr. Joyce Brown, President of Fashion Institute of Technology Go behind the window displays. Behind the racks. Two personal shoppers for Manhattan's biggest department stores have written a wildly dishy novel that goes behind the dressing rooms of New York's fashion elite. At Frankel's New York, the wives of billionaires and Hollywood celebrities sip champagne while stylists and tailors cater to every whim. And one person has made it her career to help these Amex-wielding shoppers create the perfect look. Bonnie Salerno Madden knows all of her client's preferences, whims, and fantasies. She knows the price they paid to gain access to the salon where having Bonnie as their private shopper is a first-class ticket to being the toast of the New York high-fashion social scene. But while Bonnie is all elegance on the outside, she's barely keeping it together on the inside. A single mom to a special needs child, she needs her high-pressure job to care for her family. And when that job is put in jeopardy, Bonnie will need to make some of the riskiest choices of her life to guarantee a better future for her son, and for herself. With the opportunity to live in her own fairy tale, will Bonnie have what it takes to make the trade off? "THE TRADE OFF is a riveting page-turner even for a non-shopper like me. The ultimate tale of New York life."-David Patrick Columbia, newyorksocialdiary.com
