A place to read : life and books / / Michael Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brisbane, Queensland : , : Interactive Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 814.5408 |
Soggetto topico |
American essays - 20th century
Men - United States Books and reading - United States |
ISBN | 1-922120-93-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Prelims""; ""Author Bio""; ""Author Photo""; ""Inside Title""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""1. Location, Location, Location""; ""2. Names""; ""3. A Place to Read""; ""4. Meat and 3 Veg""; ""5. My Hypochondria""; ""6. Men in Uniform""; ""7. The Victims and the Furies""; ""8. Seeing Mexico""; ""9. Communing with the Dead""; ""10. A Dream of Learning""; ""11. Notebooks""; ""12. A Fountain Pen of Good Repute""; ""13. Flying Lessons""; ""14. Selling My Library""; ""15. Watching Birds and Stars""; ""16. A Round with Friends""
""17. The Place Where It Happened""""18. A Retiree Reads Proust and Montaigne""; ""19. On Not Being E. B. White""; ""20. On the Road Again""; ""21. The King in Winter""; ""22. My Next Read""; ""Back Cover"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787090903321 |
Cohen Michael
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Brisbane, Queensland : , : Interactive Press, , 2014 | ||
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A place to read : life and books / / Michael Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brisbane, Queensland : , : Interactive Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 814.5408 |
Soggetto topico |
American essays - 20th century
Men - United States Books and reading - United States |
ISBN | 1-922120-93-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Prelims""; ""Author Bio""; ""Author Photo""; ""Inside Title""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""1. Location, Location, Location""; ""2. Names""; ""3. A Place to Read""; ""4. Meat and 3 Veg""; ""5. My Hypochondria""; ""6. Men in Uniform""; ""7. The Victims and the Furies""; ""8. Seeing Mexico""; ""9. Communing with the Dead""; ""10. A Dream of Learning""; ""11. Notebooks""; ""12. A Fountain Pen of Good Repute""; ""13. Flying Lessons""; ""14. Selling My Library""; ""15. Watching Birds and Stars""; ""16. A Round with Friends""
""17. The Place Where It Happened""""18. A Retiree Reads Proust and Montaigne""; ""19. On Not Being E. B. White""; ""20. On the Road Again""; ""21. The King in Winter""; ""22. My Next Read""; ""Back Cover"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813395103321 |
Cohen Michael
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Brisbane, Queensland : , : Interactive Press, , 2014 | ||
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Through alien eyes [[electronic resource] ] : a view of America and intercultural marriages / / Elena Popova |
Autore | Popova Elena <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.84/50973 |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry marriage - United States
Men - United States Women - Russia (Federation) Women immigrants - United States - Social conditions Russians - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786611793845
1-281-79384-1 0-87586-641-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Serious stuff : food -- Legends of the sex drive -- Pets, the true love -- Isn't that custom strange? -- Myths and standards -- Several horror stories -- Searching where life is better -- A nation of victims -- The globe of America -- The war of the worlds -- Borrowed lifestyle : American extravagance -- Moose and squirrels!, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? -- Analyze this -- When Martians and Venusians clash -- Russian men vs. western counterparts -- The land of loneliness -- Just a click away -- Lies, love, and humiliation : visa stories -- What the statistics reveal -- Agencies and goods -- Creating a prey -- Tactics of violence -- Love : Russian style -- A young wife's diary -- Out of the horse's mouth, or so the horse says -- He says, she says -- Back on track -- Russians' talk -- Killed resurrection -- That's life -- Storybook endings -- Bridges and dividers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454540703321 |
Popova Elena <1963->
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New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 | ||
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Through alien eyes [[electronic resource] ] : a view of America and intercultural marriages / / Elena Popova |
Autore | Popova Elena <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.84/50973 |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry marriage - United States
Men - United States Women - Russia (Federation) Women immigrants - United States - Social conditions Russians - United States |
ISBN |
9786611793845
1-281-79384-1 0-87586-641-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Serious stuff : food -- Legends of the sex drive -- Pets, the true love -- Isn't that custom strange? -- Myths and standards -- Several horror stories -- Searching where life is better -- A nation of victims -- The globe of America -- The war of the worlds -- Borrowed lifestyle : American extravagance -- Moose and squirrels!, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? -- Analyze this -- When Martians and Venusians clash -- Russian men vs. western counterparts -- The land of loneliness -- Just a click away -- Lies, love, and humiliation : visa stories -- What the statistics reveal -- Agencies and goods -- Creating a prey -- Tactics of violence -- Love : Russian style -- A young wife's diary -- Out of the horse's mouth, or so the horse says -- He says, she says -- Back on track -- Russians' talk -- Killed resurrection -- That's life -- Storybook endings -- Bridges and dividers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782796303321 |
Popova Elena <1963->
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New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 | ||
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Through alien eyes : a view of America and intercultural marriages / / Elena Popova |
Autore | Popova Elena <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina |
306.84/50973
306.8450973 |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry marriage - United States
Men - United States Women - Russia (Federation) Women immigrants - United States - Social conditions Russians - United States |
ISBN |
9786611793845
1-281-79384-1 0-87586-641-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Serious stuff : food -- Legends of the sex drive -- Pets, the true love -- Isn't that custom strange? -- Myths and standards -- Several horror stories -- Searching where life is better -- A nation of victims -- The globe of America -- The war of the worlds -- Borrowed lifestyle : American extravagance -- Moose and squirrels!, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? -- Analyze this -- When Martians and Venusians clash -- Russian men vs. western counterparts -- The land of loneliness -- Just a click away -- Lies, love, and humiliation : visa stories -- What the statistics reveal -- Agencies and goods -- Creating a prey -- Tactics of violence -- Love : Russian style -- A young wife's diary -- Out of the horse's mouth, or so the horse says -- He says, she says -- Back on track -- Russians' talk -- Killed resurrection -- That's life -- Storybook endings -- Bridges and dividers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809822103321 |
Popova Elena <1963->
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New York, : Algora Pub., c2008 | ||
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Triumphs of experience [[electronic resource] ] : the men of the Harvard Grant Study / / George E. Vaillant |
Autore | Vaillant George E. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 457 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.310973 |
Soggetto topico |
Aging - Social aspects - United States
Aging - United States - Psychological aspects Men - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-674-07181-6
0-674-06742-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score) -- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all -- 2 The proof of the pudding -- 3 A short history of the grant study -- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age -- 5 Maturation -- 6 Marriage -- 7 Living to ninety -- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping -- 9 Alcoholism -- 10 Surprising findings -- 11 Summing up -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462191103321 |
Vaillant George E. <1934->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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Triumphs of experience [[electronic resource] ] : the men of the Harvard Grant Study / / George E. Vaillant |
Autore | Vaillant George E. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 457 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.310973 |
Soggetto topico |
Aging - Social aspects - United States
Aging - United States - Psychological aspects Men - United States |
ISBN |
0-674-07181-6
0-674-06742-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score) -- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all -- 2 The proof of the pudding -- 3 A short history of the grant study -- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age -- 5 Maturation -- 6 Marriage -- 7 Living to ninety -- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping -- 9 Alcoholism -- 10 Surprising findings -- 11 Summing up -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786364103321 |
Vaillant George E. <1934->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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Triumphs of experience [[electronic resource] ] : the men of the Harvard Grant Study / / George E. Vaillant |
Autore | Vaillant George E. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 457 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.310973 |
Soggetto topico |
Aging - Social aspects - United States
Aging - United States - Psychological aspects Men - United States |
ISBN |
0-674-07181-6
0-674-06742-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score) -- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all -- 2 The proof of the pudding -- 3 A short history of the grant study -- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age -- 5 Maturation -- 6 Marriage -- 7 Living to ninety -- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping -- 9 Alcoholism -- 10 Surprising findings -- 11 Summing up -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806204403321 |
Vaillant George E. <1934->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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We the people [[electronic resource] ] : women and men in the United States / / by Reneé E. Spraggins |
Autore | Spraggins Renee E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, DC] : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 19 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file |
Collana | CENSR |
Soggetto topico |
Women - United States
Men - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Statistics. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | We the people |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694683603321 |
Spraggins Renee E
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[Washington, DC] : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau, , [2005] | ||
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