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Focuses on America's premier colonial poet, Edward Taylor (1642-1729) within a theological context. Offers new insights into the meaning of his poems and sermons and assesses his position in English and American literary traditions from this perspective.
The PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir. This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence. His various schemes—running away to ...
Global problems of humanity and its activities on the planet Earth forced the whole world to unite in order to find a planet suitable for human life. The star “Alpha Centauri S” was chosen, along with three exoplanets located in the habitable zone. The “New World” shuttle and its crew members use space travel to make an interstellar flight. Because of technical problems, they have to land the shuttle on the nearest planet. After exploring it, the crew members realize that the planet is suitable for human life. After a while they find a mysterious structure with abstract moving drawings. They decide to stay and explore the strange planetary structure.... From now on, the fate of the crew and all mankind is going to change.
Includes: The British or imperial almanac, A Companion to the British imperial calendar, and An Alphabetical index to the imperial calendar (title varies),