At the Edge of a Dream - 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 At the Edge of a Dream write by Lawrence J Epstein. This book was released on 2007-08-17. At the Edge of a Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
The Edge of Knowing
The Edge of Knowing - 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 The Edge of Knowing write by Roy Bing Chan. This book was released on 2016-11-01. The Edge of Knowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People’s Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.
The Edge of Dreams
The Edge of Dreams - 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 The Edge of Dreams write by Rhys Bowen. This book was released on 2015-03-03. The Edge of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of In Farleigh Field... Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common—nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after each murder. And when Daniel receives a note immediately after Molly and her young son Liam are in a terrible train crash, Daniel and Molly both begin to fear that maybe Molly herself was the target. Molly's detective instincts are humming, but finding the time to dig deeper into this case is a challenge. She's healing from injuries sustained in the crash and also sidetracked by her friends Sid and Gus's most recent hobby, dream analysis. And when Molly herself starts suffering from strange dreams, she wonders if they just might hold the key to solving Daniel's murder case. Rhys Bowen's characteristic blend of atmospheric turn-of-the-century history, clever plotting, and sparkling characters will delight readers in The Edge of Dreams, from her bestselling Molly Murphy series.
Coast of Dreams
Coast of Dreams - 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 Coast of Dreams write by Kevin Starr. This book was released on 2011-06-22. Coast of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. From gang violence in Los Angeles to the spectacular rise–and equally spectacular fall–of Silicon Valley, from the Northridge earthquake to the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Starr ranges over myriad facts, anecdotes, news stories, personal impressions, and analyses to explore a time of unprecedented upheaval in California. Coast of Dreams describes an exceptional diversity of people, cultures, and values; an economy that mirrors the economic state of the nation; a battlefield where industry and the necessities of infrastructure collide with the inherent demands of a unique and stunning natural environment. It explores California politics (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election in the 2003 recall), the multifaceted business landscape, and controversial icons such as O. J. Simpson. “Historians of the future,” Starr writes, “will be able to see with more certainty whether or not the period 1990-2003 was not only the end of one California but the beginning of another”; in the meantime, he gives a picture of the place and time in a book at once sweeping and riveting in its details, deeply informed, engagingly personal, and altogether fascinating.
Dream's Edge
Dream's Edge - 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 Dream's Edge write by Terry Carr. This book was released on 1980. Dream's Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty stories about energy depletion, endangered species, pollution, our vanishing wilderness, overpopulation, and alternative energy sources--problems of the immediate future. Science fiction still tells of wondrous futures far away and a long time from now ... but these are stories of the boundaries that lie immediately before us. We're coming to the edge of something---is it to be the death of our world, or an endless future? Before we think about next week, we need to know that there'll be a tomorrow.
