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Richard Powers
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A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus."
In the 85 chapters of this guidebook, you will find many ideas about waltzing, dancing, and living. Dance descriptions and tips to improve your dancing are accompanied by down-to-earth ways to find greater fulfillment in your dancing and in your life. 25 different kinds of waltz are completely described, including: cross-step waltz, Viennese waltz, box step waltz, rotary waltz, polka, schottische, redowa, mazurka, hambo, zwiefacher, and more. In addition, you will find 85 waltz variations completely described, and a concise compendium of an additional hundred variations, accompanied by 50 illustrations of waltzing through the ages. Then beyond waltzing, much of this book applies to all forms of social ballroom dancing. You'll learn how you can be a better dance partner, how to develop your style and musicality, how to improvise more confidently, how to learn new dances by observation, and how to create your own social dance variations. You'll also learn about the many ways that the practice of social dancing can enrich our lives. Drawing on the latest research in social psychology, Waltzing includes chapters on the essential benefits of: music, physical activity, connection, play, mindfulness, acceptance, conditional learning, and many other topics.
Davy Crockett, Frontier Hero: The Truth as He Told It, the Legend as Friends Built It
Walter Blair; Richard Powers
Literary Licensing, LLC
2012
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A family's real life journey in an 1830s Florida that intertwines with the Seminole Wars, The War Between the States and settling Florida.
The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News). What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers's Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed forever by Clare. Gain's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluterâ??s truck turns over in a near-fatal accident.
Kearny ist die geographische Mitte der USA und die Mitte von Nirgendwo. Mark überschlägt sich mit dem Auto und fällt aus der Welt. Seine Schwester Karin erkennt er als Gestalt wieder, aber seinen Gefühlen bleibt sie fremd, er hält sie für eine feindliche Doppelgängerin." Capgras" nennt der Psychologe diese Erkrankung, doch auch er wird in einem Taumel unaufgedeckter Wahrheiten und verschwiegener Geheimnisse mitgerissen. Auf einer bewegenden Reise in das Innerste einer Familie entdeckt Richard Powers unser Inneres und macht uns mit dem größten Geschichtenerzähler bekannt: die Erinnerung. Sie schafft das Echo unsres Lebens, das uns trägt, umfängt und täuscht. Die ergreifende und geheimnisvolle Geschichte eines Geschwisterpaars und ein Panorama des heutigen Amerikas vereinen sich zum neuen großen Romans des Bestsellerautors Richard Powers.
Nine Novels by Younger Americans
Sara Bradshaw; Rachel Barber; Daniel Cowen; Sara Meira Rosenberg; Dylan Suher; Lucas Gonzalez; Julia Mayer; Carolyn Maughan; Samantha Lipman; Richard Powers
826 Valencia
2007
pokkari
This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, "There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its next lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again."
3596159717LangtextRichard Powers erzählt eine Geschichte voller Anmut und Schönheit über eine Familie mit zwei Hautfarben und einer Leidenschaft. Ein literarisches Ereignis, ein epischer Roman in der Tradition von Balzac, Zola und Tolstoj über Amerikas jüngste Vergangenheit, über die Lüge, auf der seine Gegenwart baut, und eine einzigartige Liebeserklärung an die Musik.
'The Time of Our Singing' tells the story of a mixed-race American family and of the frictions that arise within it in the years following World War Two that reflect the tragedy of race in America.
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark recasts the rules of the novel and remains one his most daring works--a mesmerizing fiction explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save. In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join these two remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet. Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fall of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher recovering from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity. "Mention Richard Powers' name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence."--Sven Birkerts, Esquire
The FBI
Tony Poveda; Richard Powers; Susan Rosenfeld; Athan G. Theoharis
Greenwood Press
1998
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From the Palmer Raids to the McCarthy era, to ABSCAM and Waco, the FBI has been enmeshed in controversy since its creation. It is also deeply woven into the fabric of our national identity and popular culture. The subject of countless movies, books, and television shows, we are fascinated by its mystique and drama. But how did the bureau that began with a modest 34 investigators in 1908 become the powerful force that it is today, employing over 12,000 agents across the country?