A Field Guide to the North American Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Field Guide to the North American Family write by Garth Risk Hallberg. This book was released on 2017-10-31. A Field Guide to the North American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire--his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed full-color edition For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction. In sixty-three interlinked vignettes and striking accompanying photographs, the novella cuts multiple paths--which can be reconstructed in any order--through the lives of its richly imagined characters. Part art object, part Choose Your Own Adventure, A Field Guide to the North American Family is an innovative and deeply personal look at the ties that bind, as well as a poignant meditation on connection in a fragmented world.
Representing the Contemporary North American Family
Representing the Contemporary North American Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing the Contemporary North American Family write by Sophie Chapuis. This book was released on 2021-08-06. Representing the Contemporary North American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rise in individualism and the growing liberalism of family law may be seen as potential threats to the family as a unit. Currently, defenders of traditional family models are being forced to accept a more fluid definition of family as an intrinsic heterogeneous unit. Central to this book is the idea that the family, as a social unit around which society is structured, still plays a pivotal role in North America. States, courts, and political parties have had to address the major mutations of the family landscape in the last decades. The family is instrumental in reorganizing communities in migration contexts, and is a key component of political strategies. The way family is staged in the press, on social media, and in TV shows, reflects the fast-changing patterns and new realities of North American families, and offers alternatives to hegemonic representations of normative families. It also ranks high among current literary obsessions since it is the privileged receptacle for contemporary anxieties and operates both as an ideal retreat or an alienating space. The proliferation of family narratives, in their ever-shifting forms, reveals that family has boundless potential for fiction, and continues to run deep in the North American imaginary. This book gathers together approaches that range from field study, sociology, politics, media studies and literature. The contributions here show the centrality of the family both as an individual unit and as social, political, legal, and fictional constructs.
A Field Guide to Warblers of North America
A Field Guide to Warblers of North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Field Guide to Warblers of North America write by Jon Lloyd Dunn. This book was released on 1997. A Field Guide to Warblers of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes sixty species of North American warblers.
Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media
Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media write by . This book was released on 2019-03-27. Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, etc., treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf
A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America
A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America write by John C. Kricher. This book was released on 1998. A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides an introduction to patterns of forest ecology, looks at each of the major forest types of eastern North America, examines changes that occur as abandoned fields turn into forests, features background on the process of adaptation and natural selection, and describes forest changes in each of the four seasons.
