A Sense of Wonder opens the door to the world of modern literature ¿ poetry, short stories, essays, and plays. From the comic metaphors of Pablo Neruda¿s ¿Ode to My Socks,¿ to the touching monologue of Eric Bogosian¿s ¿Bottleman,¿ this multicultural anthology engages students in a way that is personal, meaningful, and enjoyable.

A Sense of Wonder

Literature & Fiction

Preston, William

History & Criticism

Pearson Education ESL

This edition features a new foreword by Paul Buhle and a new epilogue by the author.

Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933

History

Americas

University of Illinois Press

Illustrations Of Masonry

Franklin Classics

Preston's Masonry

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Kessinger Publishing

Illustrations of Masonry

Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Created in a burst of idealism after World War II, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) existed for forty years in a state of troubled yet often successful collaboration with one of its founders and benefactors, the United States. In 1980, UNESCO adopted the report of a commission that surveyed and criticized the dominance, in world media, of the United States, Japan, and a handful of European countries. The report also provided the conceptual underpinnings for what was later called the New World Information and Communication Order, a general direction adopted by UNESCO to encourage increased Third World participation in world media. This direction - it never became an official program - ultimately led to the United States's withdrawal from UNESCO in 1984. Hope and Folly is an interpretive chronicle of U.S./ UNESCO relations. Although the information debated has garnered wide attention in Europe and the Third World, there is no comparable study in the English language, and none that focuses specifically on the United States and the broad historical context of the debate. In the first three parts, William Preston covers the changing U.S./ UNESCO relationship from the early cold war years through the period of anti-UNESCO backlash, as well as the politics of the withdrawal. Edward Herman's section is an interpretive critique of American media coverage of the withdrawal, and Herbert Schiller's is a conceptual analysis of conflicts within the United States's information policies during its last years in UNESCO. The book's appendices include an analysis of Ed Bradley's notorious "60 Minutes" broadcast on UNESCO.

Hope and Folly: The United States and Unesco, 1945-1985 (Media and Society)

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Illustrations of Masonry by William Preston, containing much of the history prior to and after the 1717 creation of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasonry of England. A reprint of the original with 12 pt. font which includes definitions as well as illustrations including an index. This reprint was designed for the purposes of research.

Illustrations of Masonry (A Seat of Knowledge)

Jordan, Darrell

FLVTAA Publishing

When Palemon Howard Dorsett visited persimmon orchards north of Peking (Peiping), China in 1924-31, he found an amazing horticultural operation. He and his son, James, first explored the region in 1924-5, and he returned there in l930-31. Dorsett was a U. S. Department of Agriculture plant explorer assigned to locate and collect plants, seeds, and scions that might be useful as crops or in crop breeding in the U.S. He was also an expert photographer. The significance of his findings have not yet been recognized by most persimmon afficionados and many horticulturists in the U.S. Now, with the assistance of the National Agricultural Library where boxes of Dorsett's photographs and records are organized, William Preston, in Where Persimmon Was King not only recreates Dorsett's travels to the extensive persimmon growing region north of Peiping (now Beijing), but also describes the most important situations and practices that Dorsett observed. By reproducing both Dorsett's photographs and his narrative in Where Persimmon Was King, Preston gives the reader an unparalleled view of the phenomenal effort made by the Chinese to establish, grow, and sell persimmons (Diospyros kaki) for the markets in local population centers, principally in and around Peking. William H. Preston brings us a classic work about a memorable undertaking.

Where Persimmon Was King

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Beckham Pubns

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Illustrations of Masonry. Reprint of the Rare 1772 Edition. With Biographical Notice

Legare Street Press

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