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Enter Somerville, a city packed with stories larger than itself, to
salute a heritage that justifies the fierce pride of its citizens.
Share a perch on one of Somerville's celebrated hills with Dee
Morris and Dora St. Martin and watch the raising of America's first
flag and the stringing of its first telephone line. Strolling from
neighborhood to neighborhood, this brief history knocks on the
doors of everyone from the father of Fenway Park to Missy LeHand,
Franklin D. Roosevelt s private secretary and steadfast companion.
Even the notoriously elusive Captain Kidd is caught for inspection
as he tries to slip through a trapdoor in a bedroom closet.
The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize
The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, and Java, in Spain during the civil war, and in Mexico; and his service as a Chilean senator. Neruda, a Communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes and then to Europe; his travels took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda's friend Salvador Allende.
Many of the century's most important literary and artistic figures were Neruda's friends, and figure in his memoirs--Garcia Lorca, Aragon, Picasso, and Rivera, among them--and also such political leaders as Gandhi, Nehru, Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara. In his uniquely expressive prose, Neruda not only explains his views on poetry and describes the circumstances that inspired many of his poems, but he creates a revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Go in Action (Paperback)
Brian Ketelsen, Erica St Martin, William Kennedy
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R988
Discovery Miles 9 880
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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DESCRIPTION Many of the normal concerns faced by application
developers are amplified by the challenges of web-scale
concurrency, real-time performance expectations, multi-core
support, and efficiently consuming services without constantly
managing I/O blocks. Although it's possible to solve most of these
issues with existing languages and frameworks, Go is designed to
handle them right out of the box, making for a more natural and
productive coding experience. Developed at Google for its own
internal use, Go now powers dozens of nimble startups, along with
name brands like Canonical, Heroku, SoundCloud, and Mozilla, who
rely on highly performant services for their infrastructure. Go in
Action introduces the unique features and concepts of the Go
language, guiding readers from inquisitive developers to Go gurus.
It provides hands-on experience with writing real-world
applications including web sites and network servers, as well as
techniques to manipulate and convert data at incredibly high
speeds. It also goes in-depth with the language and explains the
tricks and secrets that the Go masters are using to make their
applications perform. For example, it looks at Go's powerful
reflection libraries and uses real-world examples of integration
with C code. KEY SELLING POINTS Written by Go developers Real use
cases faced in day-to-day development Get tricks and tips from
experienced Go users AUDIENCE This book assumes you're a working
developer proficient with another language like Java, Ruby, Python,
C#, or C++. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Go is a powerful language that is
gaining rapid adoption by companies that want to write fast systems
while allowing their developers to use modern programming
languages. Go development is sponsored and curated by Google, but
has contributors from around the globe.
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Unknown
Philosopher: The Life of Louis Claude de St. Martin and the
Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine, by Arthur Edward Waite.
To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594858.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. 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 to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This historical study of the development of social welfare systems
in divergent countries draws on a variety of essays to examine the
work of each country in turn, followed by a comparison of all three
and an examination of social experiments in regions of recent
settlement.
This bilingual landmark anthology contains the work of 30 of the
major Spanish poets of the twentieth century translated by some of
the major poets of the United States and reappears in print for the
first time in two decades. The poets include Machado, Jimenez,
Guillen, Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda, Hernandez, Aleixandre, de Otero,
Salinas, Unamuno and others. The translations are by Bly, Haines,
Hall, Ignatow, Kinnell, Levine, Merwin, St. Martin, Stafford,
Strand and Wright, among the most important poets of their
generation. Contributors include: Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio
Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vincente
Aleixandre, Rafael Alberti, Leon Felipe, Pedro Salinas, Jorge
Guillen, Gerardo Diego, Emilio Prados, Luis Cernuda, Miguel
Hernandez, Luis Rosales, Gabriel Celaya, Blas de Otero, Gloria
Fuertes, Jose Luis Hidalgo, Jose Hierro, Carlos Bousono, Angel
Gonzalez, Jose Angel Valente, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Claudio
Rodriguez, Francisco Brines, Carlos Sahagun and Manuel Vazquez
Montalban.
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My Best Friend (Paperback)
Marc St Martin; Edited by Ann Marie St Martin; Illustrated by Edwin Biroun
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R389
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
Save R144 (37%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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THIS 112 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Unknown
Philosopher: The Life of Louis Claude de St. Martin and the
Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine, by Arthur Edward Waite.
To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594858.
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