Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted.
As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our brother’s keeper” in The Crossing and The Sunset Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations include a talk with Mark Morrow about photographing McCarthy while he was writing Blood Meridian; an in-depth conversation with director Tom Cornford on the challenges of staging The Sunset Limited and The Stonemason; a walk through the streets, waterfronts, and hidden haunts of Suttree with McCarthy scholar and Knoxville resident Wesley Morgan; insights from the cast of The Gardener’s Son about a controversial scene in that film; actress Miriam Colon’s perspective on portraying the Dueña Alfonsa opposite Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses; and a harsh critique of Josyph’s views on The Crossing by McCarthy scholar Marty Priola, which leads to a sometimes heated debate. Illustrated with thirty-one photographs, Josyph’s unconventional journeys into the genius of Cormac McCarthy form a new, highly personal way of appreciating literary greatness.
Автор: Gilman Patricia A., LeBlanc Steven A. Название: Mimbres Life and Society: The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico ISBN: 0816535639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816535637 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7022.00 р. 10032.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: A thousand years ago, village farmers in the Mimbres Valley of what is now southwestern New Mexico created stunning black-on-white pottery. Mimbres pottery has added a fascinating dimension to southwestern archaeology, but it has also led to the partial or total destruction of most Mimbres sites. The Mimbres Foundation, in one of the few modern investigations of a Mimbres pueblo, excavated the Mattocks site, containing about 180 surface rooms in addition to pit structures. Mimbres Life and Society details the Mattocks site's architecture and artifacts, and it includes 160 figures, showing more than 400 photographs of painted vessels from the site.
Mimbres pueblos, as early examples of people using surface room blocks, are ideal for investigating questions about how and why people moved from earlier subterranean pit structures to aboveground room blocks. The authors consider the number of households living at the site before and after the transition, as well as the lack of evidence for subsistence intensification and population growth as causes of this transition. These analyses suggest that each room block on the site housed a single family as opposed to multiple families, the more common interpretation. There were not necessarily more households on the site during the Classic period than earlier.
Patricia A. Gilman and Steven A. LeBlanc spent five seasons excavating at the Mattocks site and many more analyzing and writing about Mattocks site data. They note that subtle social differences among people were at play, and they emphasize that the Mattocks site may be unique among Mimbres pueblos in many aspects. Mimbres Life and Society reveals broad-ranging implications for southwestern archaeologists and anyone interested in understanding the ancient Southwest and early village societies.
Автор: Franklin, Adrian Название: Retro: A Guide to the Mid-20th Century Design Revival ISBN: 0857858505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857858504 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 992.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Climate variability is controlled by nonlinear processes, which can give rise to transition behavior due to tipping points and extreme behavior. This book presents stochastic dynamical systems theory, synthesizing our current knowledge of climate variability. An invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in climate dynamics, physical oceanography, meteorology and paleoclimatology.
Автор: Harold Dibble; Brooke S. Blades Название: Aurignacian Lithic Economy ISBN: 1441933379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441933379 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16464.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing data from a classic region for Paleolithic research in Europe, this book explores how early modern humans obtained lithic raw materials and analyzes the different utilization patterns for locally available materials compared with those from a greater distance.
How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces—Yunnan and Guizhou—that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction.
In Yunnan, an outward-oriented developmental state, one that focuses on large-scale, urban development, has largely failed to reduce poverty, even though it succeeded in stimulating economic growth. Provincial policy shaped roads, tourism, and mining in ways that often precluded participation by poor people. By contrast, Guizhou is a micro-oriented state, one that promotes small-scale, low-skill economic opportunities—and so reduces poverty despite slow economic growth. It is no coincidence that this Guizhou approach parallels the ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou's leader, helped establish the micro-oriented state in the province. Donaldson's conclusions have implications for our understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions.
Автор: Smith, Bart Название: Hiking trails of the pacific northwest ISBN: 0789344084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789344083 Издательство: Rizzoli Рейтинг: Цена: 2472.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Hike some of the most famous trails in the world, with the region`s top guides right by your side.
Автор: Bitterlin et al Название: Ventures 1 WB ISBN: 0521679583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521679589 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 247.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: First published in 1977, this is an authoritative work by one of the world`s leading ecologists. Aleksandrova`s account is a very full one with much detail. The methods of classification are as interesting as the results. A wide variety of floristic, vegetational, structural, faunistic and ecological data, both qualitative and quantitative, are used to diagnose and characterise vegetation units.
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Описание: The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents each year about environmental issues, park safety, and specific parks around the country. These publications include titles like: Vegetation of Shark Slough, Everglades National Park, Status of Woody Species in Big Cyprus National Preserve, and The Nest Environment of the American Crocodile.
Автор: Davis MR Denver C. Название: Southwestern Songline Book 3: `The River " ISBN: 0996198423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996198424 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Meet Teller: a rough, but endearing Jack-of-all-trades who simply cannot reconcile himself with the 21st Century. Feeling shackled by responsibility, and disillusioned with his partners greed, Teller walks away from his life, his work, and his love; and with that first step finds himself on a path that becomes a wild and twisting romp through time and history. Tellers adventure takes him from the Rocky Mountain town of Telluride, to the Keys of Florida, and eventually, back to Moab; where, deep in the whitewater Canyons his past and future intersect and there on the banks of the Colorado River he is reunited with the woman he abandoned, introduced to an eccentric Archeologist, and realigned with an old friend and colleague; all while being pulled into a contest of wills with his devious partner as he tries to survive the efforts of a murderous rival. Following the discovery of a horde of Gold and precious stones hidden by an escaped slave of the Spanish Crown, this humorous mystery novel becomes an intricately layered web spun around Teller and his companions; as well as a cast of 15th Century Explorers, an ancient Shaman, and a Navajo Demigod who stirs the entire mix into a supernatural stew. The backdrop of this extraordinary journey is the beautiful and rugged Southwest. And as Tellers adventure grows more complex, he finds that nothing is as it seems, and friends are sometimes found in the most unlikely of places.
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