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Author : Thomas M. Akabzaa
Release : 2007
Genre : Gold mines and mining
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Glittering Façade by : Thomas M. Akabzaa
Download or read book The Glittering Façade written by Thomas M. Akabzaa. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pero
Release : 2017-06-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 84X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell by : Allan Pero
Download or read book The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell written by Allan Pero. This book was released on 2017-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating book that takes us deep into Edith Sitwell's world of artifice, disguise, high camp, and verbal ingenuity. In these essays, Sitwell emerges as a central figure in an alternative avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain."--Faye Hammill, author of Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona that has too often overshadowed serious writing about her work, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell argues that Sitwell was crucial to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. With Sitwell as an influential literary player and social architect, the British interwar arts scene was not an ascetic escape from personality--as the modernism of Pound and Eliot has often been characterized--but an alternative space of flamboyant, extravagant, and ornate performance. Allan Pero is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Gyllian Phillips is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.
Author : Victoria Cross
Release : 1908
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Five Nights by : Victoria Cross
Download or read book Five Nights written by Victoria Cross. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just striking three as I came up the companion-stairs on to the deck of the Cottage City, into the clear topaz light of a June morning in Alaska: light that had not failed through all the night, for in this far northern latitude the sun only just dips beneath the horizon at midnight for an hour, leaving all the earth and sky still bathed in limpid yellow light, gently paling at that mystic time and glowing to its full glory again as the sun rises above the rim. Our steamer had left the open sea and entered the Taku Inlet, and we were steaming very slowly up it, surrounded on every side by great glittering blocks of ice, flashing in the sunshine as they floated by on the buoyant blue water. How blue it was, the colouring of sea and sky! Both were so vividly blue, the note of each so deep, so intense, one seemed almost intoxicated with colour. I stepped to the vessel's side, then made my way forward and stood there; I, the lover of the East, dazzled by the beauty of the North! The marvellous picture before me was painted in but three colours, blue, gold, and white.
Author : Victoria Cross
Release : 2024-01-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Five Nights A Novel by : Victoria Cross
Download or read book Five Nights A Novel written by Victoria Cross. This book was released on 2024-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Cross wrote a novel titled "Five Nights: A Novel," which was released in 1908. The protagonist of the tale is Lady Ursula, a woman compelled to stay in a haunted house for five nights in order to inherit her uncle's wealth. The spirit of a woman who passed away years ago is supposed to haunt and curse the house. Mr. Grey, a barrister and friend of Lady Ursula's, is skeptical about the otherworldly allegations. Lady Ursula starts to have weird and scary experiences as the evenings go by, which makes her doubt her sanity. Mr. Grey attempts to explain the happenings, but he soon comes to the conclusion that there might be a darker motive at work. This rare antiquarian book is a facsimile replica of the ancient original and can include some marks and annotations from libraries. We have made this work available as part of our dedication to safeguarding, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in reasonably priced, excellent, contemporary editions that are faithful to their original work because we think it is significant to culture.
Author : Christopher Pollon
Release : 2024-01-30
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pitfall by : Christopher Pollon
Download or read book Pitfall written by Christopher Pollon. This book was released on 2024-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling investigation into the global race to exploit our world' s dwindling natural resources. In order to transition to clean energy in the coming decades, billions of tons of copper, nickel, silver, and other metals will be required to build electric vehicles and green infrastructure, and power smart technology. We need more metals than ever before, yet the qualities and quantities are diminishing, making the extraction process more polluting to land, air, and water. And most of these metals will be mined from the global south, where social conflict will only grow, led by Indigenous peoples demanding a greater say in how their wealth is used. In Pitfall, investigative journalist Christopher Pollon charts how transnational companies have controlled copper, precious metals, and lithium mining in Latin America, made inroads into war-torn countries in Africa, and extracted nickel, industrial and rare earth metals across Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Industry attention is now moving to deeper and darker places, including the depths of the ocean, sacrifice zones, and near-Earth asteroids. The stakes couldn' t be higher: How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past?
