1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910735592103321

Autore

White Erin O.

Titolo

Given Up for You : : A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief / / Erin O. White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2018]

©[2018]

ISBN

0-299-31829-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies

Soggetti

Lesbian authors

Écrivaines lesbiennes - États-Unis

Lesbian authors - United States

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The dinner party -- Basement chapels -- The long loneliness -- Let a joy keep you -- Ordinary beds -- Wake -- Rules of engagement -- A harmonious match -- Trust -- Grace -- The church on the hill -- Milk dud -- Florida -- Family week -- Eleanor's desk -- Remodel or divorce -- Today I saw God in the face of a kitten -- The memory of hunger -- Easter -- Sisters of wisdom -- Between God and me there is no me -- School days -- A nest on the altar -- Epilogue: Carol.

Sommario/riassunto

In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin White shares her profound hunger for both romantic and divine love. Both desires arrived unexpectedly and profoundly transformed her. In the 1990s, White spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. Gay marriage legislation was sweeping the nation and the lesbian baby boom was well underway. Could she be both Catholic and gay? White reveals her yearnings with bittersweet conviction, plumbing the depths of heart and soul.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958982503321

Autore

Schafer Dagmar

Titolo

The crafting of the 10,000 things : knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China / / Dagmar Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2011

ISBN

9786613078452

9781283078450

1283078457

9780226735856

0226735850

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

609.5/1/09032

Soggetti

Science - China - History - 17th century

Technology - China - History - 17th century

Cosmology, Chinese

Qi (Chinese philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Private Affairs -- 2. Affairs of Honor -- 3. Public Affairs -- 4. Written Affairs -- 5. Formulating the Transformation -- 6. Acoustics -- Conclusion. Leaving the Theater -- Epilogue. The Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Chinese Dynasties and Various Rulers -- Appendix 2. Song Yingxing Curriculum Vitae -- Appendix 3. Editions of the Tiangong kaiwu -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587-1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boat