This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap’s 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, This Vast Book of Nature explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and---most recently---preservation, a process that continues today.

Vast Bostwick's life was going exactly as expected considering he had recently graduated from college and was working in a customer service department...which was not that great. He and his friend Jade found themselves more often than not drinking too much vodka and regretting it the next day, and Vast's girlfriend had just broken up with him to become a dog whisperer.Coffee, cigarettes, vodka, pseudo-intellectual "I'm buzzing" talks, and morning laments became somewhat of a norm...up until the day when a demure woman turned up at his door with a message. The day after that the stoned mailman delivered another message letting Vast know that one of his friends was being held hostage.Then life took a wild couple of turns for all....oh, and to make matters worse and significantly stranger, they found out that 42 squirrels were attempting to rule the world. Welcome, and enjoy your stay.

"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit that you will retire with a vast fortune of laughter. " --Christopher Buckley, author of Wry Martinis As Newsweek put it, "Andrew Tobias remains the funniest of the financial writers." Forbes identified him as "one of the financial community's most pithily perceptive observers." In My Vast Fortune, the bestselling author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need tells the amusing and illuminating story of how he amassed dizzying (well, to him) wealth. Then, he describes the unusual ways he's put it to work. Among his more famous money adventures are: His personal campaign against smoking in Russia, which began when he spotted an opportunity to buy cheap TV airtime for commercials. "Excuse my pronunciation, " he told ninety million Russians night after night, "but I have something important to tell you." His decision to buy real estate in Miami over the phone, without ever seeing it. For the price of a swank two-bedroom apartment in New York, Tobias realized he could buy most of a neighborhood--so he did. Oops. The tragicomic story of liberal as slumlord. His crusade to fix the auto insurance mess, which pitted him against--of all people--his onetime hero Ralph Nader. After spending $250,000 of his vast fortune on a referendum in California (where he has never lived), Tobias came to two conclusions: 1) "Each of us has a calling and--though appallingly boring--auto insurance seemed more and more to be mine" ; and 2) "Ralph Nader is a big fat idiot." Finally, Tobias addresses your vast fortune and offers his wisest tips on how to make it and how to spend it. Witty and compassionate, Andrew Tobias is a plutocrat for the nineties, a capitalist with a heart. If you enjoyed The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, you'll love My Vast Fortune.

Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and evolutionary time. Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied through industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. Rozwadowski argues that knowledge about the oceans—created through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through human ambitions for profiting from the sea—has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless, and opaque place. It has helped us to exploit marine resources, control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human activity. But while deepening knowledge of the ocean has animated and strengthened connections between people and the world’s seas, to understand this history we must address questions of how, by whom, and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used—and how we create and use this knowledge today. Only then can we can forge a healthier relationship with our future sea.

Provides a provocative look at how liberal media, money, and minds have united to take control of American politics, working together on an unprecedented scale--under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, George Soros, and others--to transform American culture. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

D. C. Chambial writes Aju Mukhopadhyay is a prominent signature in Indian English literature. He has left an indelible impression in each and every genre of writing. Manoj Kumar Pathak observes, The poet concerned is a patriot who likes the diversity of his country. He appreciates the cultural, linguistic, topographical, and behavioural homogeneity of India. Patricia Price observes, The poems speak of the mystery of things in a profound way. The poet’s eye and ear are intensely tuned, so that image and sound are partners. Forest and garden, water and Tundra, the images are vivid. Dr.Dalip Khetrapal writes, The anthology . . . serves as a sumptuous mental and emotional food for the entire literati all over the world; posterity will also surely remember him as a great poet.Vast Akaash is a collection of poetry written by Aju Mukhopadhyay.Aju Mukhopadhyay’s poetry has been variously compared with the works of English Romantic poets, particularly Wordsworth besides Keats, Shelley and others. Poonam Dwivedi’s article is titled, “Aju’s Poetry on Nature and Environment- A Comparative Study with Wordsworth”.

Financing the Vast Expanse of the Kingdom of God deals with practical ways in which--surprise!--the kingdom of God can be expanded in dramatic fashion, using money. The book hints that this is a desirable goal. The author also clearly believes that a vast expanse of the kingdom of God is possible--leading his family and friends to worry about his mental stability.

"A Vast Conspiracy", which topped bestseller lists around the country, is the definitive account of the most extraordinary public saga of the times: the Clinton sex scandals. Toobin takes an entirely fresh look at the story that began around Paula Jones's kitchen table in Arkansas, and ended on the Senate floor, with only the second vote on presidential impeachment in American history.

In recent years Yeats has been receiving a great deal of critical attention from many aspects. Professor Engelberg here makes a distinctive contribution to the new studies by bringing under discussion the kind of aesthetic views developed by Yeats in order to rationalize his own practice as poet and dramatist. Yeats was pragmatic in his approach and therefore not concerned about formulating a tight critical theory. Recognizing this, the author at the same time skilfully guides the reader through the opinions expressed in the critical essays to meaningful patterns and shows how Yeats's aesthetic views developed, often in relation to his study of Balzac, Blake, Spenser, Shelley, Morris, and the Irish theatre of his own day. Throughout the stress is fittingly on the originality of Yeats, and the reader will be impressed always with his great critical perceptiveness.

During the past century the advance of secularism, the growth of other religious communities and the decline of the churches have combined to reduce the size and influence of the Christian community. Christians are now members of a minority religious community in a plural society. How is this diminished status to be understood in a global and historical context, within the purposes of God? What institutional changes are required? What psychological and emotional adjustments are needed in communities that have a corporate memory of majority status, privilege and influence? What hopes and expectations should be encouraged? What strategies should be adopted? A Vast Minority explores the challenges and opportunities we face. - Publisher