The fictional diary entries of the French explorer, La Salle, and his cartographer, Goupil, recount--from two conflicting perspectives--a remarkable journey into a wilderness in which reason, religion, and European power have no place

La Salle (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

VERNON, John

Contemporary

Penguin Group USA

The garden and the map;: Schizophrenia in twentieth-century literature and culture

University of Illinois Press

Poetry and the Body

History & Criticism

Nondestructive Testing

Engineering & Transportation

J.B. Hull

Engineering

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This is an introduction to the techniques used in the testing of engineering materials for their hardness, toughness, tensile strength and other properties. The significance of test results is discussed throughout and self-assessment exercises are included at the end of each chapter. As well as covering the traditional methods, this well illustrated book also includes a chapter on non-destructive testing.

Testing of Materials

Palgrave HE UK

Introduction to Engineering Materials

Following the premise that someone removed appendages from Napoleon's corpse, this literary tour-de-force follows the errant body parts through Victorian London, to post-Civil War New York, to the Colorado territory, and back again

Peter Doyle: A Novel

United States

Random House]

"History in its minute particulars touches us all, and in the least expected ways." Every family has its odd character, the one member who never seems right with the world. In his brilliant pairing of family history with the history of civilization, John Vernon discovers the extraordinary sources of ordinary things in the life of his reclusive brother, Paul. When Paul died and John was charged with settling his affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid, shocking disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed to keep his sad and strange world hidden. The story of this troubled soul is at once fascinating and tragic. And more: it cries out for reasons. Why does a childhood full of promise turn wrong? Why do we clutter our lives with things? How do we make and understand our world? Vernon seeks answers in the most unexpected places. Buying a hammer and thermometer at Wal-Mart, that icon of consumerism, inspires a short history of tools and the discovery of mercury. Paul's wake occasions an investigation of blood circulation and embalming. Vernon voyages through science and physiology, culture and mythology, on a search "for a way to comprehend a life that left behind not splendid monuments but ordinary wreckage." The result is a book of reasons: reasons for his brother's way of life, reasons for his own response to Paul's death. Bringing to bear the narrative powers that distinguished his acclaimed historical novels Peter Doyle and All for Love, Vernon links the story of one odd individual to the surprising and irregular upheavals of history. In the process, he discovers how reasons, for all of us, are one means of learning to accept things that can never be explained.

A Book of Reasons

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Houghton/Mifflin

The grandfather clock maintenance manual

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Peter Doyle

Ballantine Books

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