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Author : Alexander Masters
Release : 2016-10-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Life Discarded by : Alexander Masters
Download or read book A Life Discarded written by Alexander Masters. This book was released on 2016-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unorthodox investigative literary biography of a mysterious graphomaniac whose nearly 150 diaries are rescued from a dumpster by the author"--
Author : Kathleen M. Millar
Release : 2018-01-19
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reclaiming the Discarded by : Kathleen M. Millar
Download or read book Reclaiming the Discarded written by Kathleen M. Millar. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Release : 2012-03-29
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Discarded Image by : C. S. Lewis
Download or read book The Discarded Image written by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 2012-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.
Author : Melba Joyce Boyd
Release : 1994
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Discarded Legacy by : Melba Joyce Boyd
Download or read book Discarded Legacy written by Melba Joyce Boyd. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.
Author : Ekaterina Sedia
Release : 2010
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The House of Discarded Dreams by : Ekaterina Sedia
Download or read book The House of Discarded Dreams written by Ekaterina Sedia. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean to ask for their help in getting home to New Jersey.
