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If Pressed--the second collection of poetry from Andrew McEwan--explores forms of pressurized and pressurizing language as a means to shed light on the depressions we live among. Overlapping language of fear and speculation gain momentum in these poems, where layers of atmospheric and emotional lexicons--ranging from descriptions of the mid-2000s financial crisis and subsequent recession, to writing on melancholia from the 1600s, to weather reports and condo listings, to pharmaceutical sales pitches and literary book reviews--focus attention on the ways that anxiety so easily and completely infiltrates our daily personal and public experiences. Praise for If Pressed: The poems in Andrew McEw...
Andrew McEwan had left his home on the Arrow River in New Zealand in the 1880's to seek his fortune in the gold fields of Montana. Now his great grandson has come to Montana from New Zealand to trace the story of Andrew McEwan, who having fled from Montana for fear of his life, had entered upon a long and perilous journey to return to New Zealand and to his home on Arrow River. While this story is a continuation of the lives of Max and Bronwyn, of A PLACE CALLED FAIRHAVENS, as well as a further account of those who played a part in HARRY’S LEGACY, this is a complete story in its own right and can be enjoyed without having read the previous novels.
While cross-country skiing in the mountains of Montana Tom Harris and Heather Scott come upon the century old ruins of the Ohio Queen Mine. Their curiosity leads them on a quest for the true story of the mine and the partners who owned it. They discover that In the 1880 ́s two miners, one from Ohio, the other from New Zealand, worked this productive mining claim in Montana Territory. The New Zealander, who had secretly married the daughter of one of the "town fathers," was forced to drop out of sight when his father in law became enraged over his daughter ́s pregnancy. The Ohio partner was accused of murdering his partner, the missing New Zealander. He was forced to flee from a posse bent ...
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Operations, Engineering and Management" that was published in Forests
The mid nineteenth century founders of the foundation of institutionalised public accountancy in the English-speaking world were public accountants practicing in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Their historical legacy is a respected profession world-wide. This book aims to celebrate this legacy in biographies of 138 accountants.
In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.
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An unfortunate private eye washes up in a town off the map. Palace Porad is locked in a bygone era of heavy industry. Arriving to investigate the disappearance of a company father, Samuel Dickinson finds himself drawn into and under a self-contained world of hellish upswellings and mysterious human archives - souls that are books and books that are souls. He writes to his own Scheherazade, as slowly he sinks, spied upon by crows and coming to grips with the idea of a truly mechanical universe. There are stories and there are living stories. And there are the dead.
""You are a component; purpose unknown."" Being the space and time of Skidmore Shuffledeck, galactic mechanic. Tutored on the machine world of Perridi, Skidmore takes his first steps into a space divided. The human diaspora is in full swing, just not in the twelve worlds, where Horatio Holroyd bends the void and Yours Truly chases his tail. Or on the cusp of the apocalypse, where Terminals seek the star at the centre of the universe - that they might destroy it. Skidmore has to learn fast. Firstly, interspatial displacement, aka ""the trumpet."" Secondly, himself, and who he can trust. For the difference between man and machine is the difference between passive stoicism and frenzied blood.
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States examine the extent and scope of the Fukushima effect. The authors each focus on one country or group of countries, and pay particular attention to national histories, debates and policy responses on nuclear power development covering such topics as safety of nuclear energy, radiation risk, nuclear waste management, development of nuclear energy, anti-nuclear protest...