Centennial

From Wikipedia Centennial is a novel by American author James A. Michener, published in 1974. Centennial traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. Geographic details about the fictional town of Centennial and its surroundings indicate that the region is in modern-day Weld County. Since the novel was written, the Denver suburb of Centennial has been incorporated, although its location in Arapahoe County is far from Michener's fictional town of the same name. Much of his book was based on the Weld County town of Greeley. Many episodes in the book are loosely based on actual historical events in eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming, which for novelistic reasons are brought to a single locale. For example, "The Massacre" is based on the Sand Creek Massacre which took place in Kiowa County, Colorado in 1864. Other parts of the book are loosely based on a family from Sterling in Logan County. From Library Journal A runaway best seller, Michener's Centennial was written as a tribute to America's bicentennial celebration. The book's 900 pages cover 136 million years. Centennial is an epic novel of the history, land, and people of Colorado. Centered around the fictional town of Centennial, the story contains an extensive cast of characters including Native Americans, French fur trappers, English noblemen, and American cowboys. Providing lively narrative against Michener's skillfully researched canvas are people like Levi and Ellie Zendt, who left the confining life of the Pennsylvania Dutch only to find terror and uncertainty on the trip west, and the Garrett family, whose yearly struggle to farm the land was met time and again with defeat. However, much of Michener's remarkable accomplishment is lost in this abridgment. Although the listener gets the main thrust of the story line, the strength and beauty of the original are lost. David Dukes's plodding narration is equally dull. Most libraries should stick with the print version. - Gretchen Browne, Rockville Centre P.L., N.Y. Fixed : Š "The Chronicle of King Galawdewos (r. 1540-1559), reporting the nineteen years of the king's reign, is one of the most useful and significant historical sources for the history of Christian-Muslim relation in the sixteenth century of Ethiopia and the Horn. It represents a peculiar text in Ge'ez historiography both because of its narrative structure and the underlying sources used by the chronicler. Numerous Arabisms appear in the text, which eventually suggest that the Chronicle was written by a person with an outstanding knowledge of Arabic, in 1561. The book presents a new critical edition based on all available manuscripts and provides some detailed introductory notes and an English translation. The new edition yields philological findings concerning the Chronicle of King Galawdewos in particular and new inputs that call for re-editing the Ethiopian royal chronicles in general. It also adds valuable by now not recorded items for Ge'ez lexicography and corrects historical distortions resulted from the previous edition. Above all, the work provides a text-critically established edition of the Chronicle of King Galawdewos accompanied by an up-to-date concisely annotated translation, which offer new insights into the late medieval history and historiography of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa."--Provided by the publisher. "This monograph marks 30 years of Nordic by telling the stories of 11 key projects without fuss or fog, focusing on how functionality drives form: the force of the simple. Our design captures this simplicity through stripped-back black and white diagrams which, displayed as sequences, lay bare each project. This visual language also emphasises the commonality of approach to all works, whether at the scale of a village, an airport or a single home. We use paperstock with a contrasting matt[e] and gloss side to intersperse this diagrammatic black and white storytelling with colourful photography of completed architecture. This sets a rhythm for the pages of the collection as a whole while works are also introduced in the order of their distance from Nordic's home in the centre of Oslo. The book is Swiss-bound, revealing both the construction and the use of "aurora green" thread, an energetic flash of nordic colour. The black card and binding cloth cover celebrates powerful simplicity with embossed silhouettes of the signature forms from the 11 works contained and explained within."--Book designer's website "What is the task of architecture? In The Force of the Simple, eleven of the projects Nordic - Office of Architecture has been involved in over the past thirty years are presented. Via text and images, we become involved in each project's unique needs and see how the architects have solved them. The eleven projects are very different in scope and geographical location, but all illustrate Nordic's method and core values. 'We wanted to tell these stories about our projects without fuss or fog, focusing on their functionality to explain why they look the way that they do. Throughout, our intent has been to demonstrate the power - and the poetry - of the clear idea: the force of the simple'"--English translation of the publisher's website O presente livro ajuda-nos a encontrar em todas essas situaes uma soluo e um sentido. A orao que nos leva a um abandono amoroso nos braos de Deus torna-se para ns um verdadeiro blsamo: que paz nos d sentir que estamos no regao de um Pai que tudo sabe e tudo pode e nos ama mais que todos os pais e mes do mundo juntos podem amar a um nico filho...! 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Na leitura destas pginas, voc ir tomando conscincia de algo que j sabia: que viver sem sentido , simplesmente, enveredar-se para uma morte sem futuro. "This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. It follows an eccentric Los Angeles based French shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have British stencil artist Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. This fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship, and incompetence is modern-day fairytale ... with bolt cutters." -- Back of container Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to complete the work left unfinished by Cook's third voyage, Broughton surveyed the coasts of Japan, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and Korea, despite being wrecked on an uncharted reef off the Ryukyu Islands in the middle of the mission Ce livre de poésie m’a été inspiré par les différents aléas de la vie.