Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle. This comprehensive study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new foreword by James Agee, this book places Biswell's studyand his legacyin the context of recent developments in the field."
Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics...
A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their...
A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for creative differences, and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes.Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable...
For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article o...
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, aas restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety . . . that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing.a Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Ageeas verse takes us into the heart of his unique genius, what Robert Fitzgerald called his asense of being . . . a...
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets co...
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Familyremains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and...
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published in 1957, two years after its author's d...
Eine Kleinstadt im amerikanischen Süden, eine harmonische Familie. Der Vater geht mit seinem kleinen Sohn ins Kino, zwischen ihnen herrscht große Sympathie. Am nächsten Morgen will der kleine Rufus Follet dem Vater seine neue Kappe vorführen - und die ganze Welt ist auf einen Schlag anders geworden. Jay Follet, der in der Nacht zu einem überstürzten Besuch beim kranken Vater aufgebrochen war, ist auf dem Rückweg nach Knoxville, Tennessee, bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben gekommen. Er hinterlässt eine junge Frau und zwei kleine Kinder.§Seitdem "Ein Todesfall in der Familie" 1957 zum...
Eine Kleinstadt im amerikanischen Süden, eine harmonische Familie. Der Vater geht mit seinem kleinen Sohn ins Kino, zwischen ihnen herrscht große Sy...
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and "A Death in the Family," James Agee spent almost two decades of his professional career in journalism, primarily as an anonymous staff writer for the Henry Luce magazines "Fortune" and "Time." At "Fortune," especially, Agee excelled in pointed, bemused reporting on American life that embraced a wide range of topics, from cockfighting to the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg to the ambitious programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What is arguably his most celebrated" Fortune "piece, The...
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and "A Death in the Family," James Agee spent almost two ...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in 1960, its adoption as an unofficial bible by civil rights...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document ...
Idee zu einem Film und literarisches Meisterwerk zugleich: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision. §Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des Tramp. Durch die menschenleere Wüstenei eines post-apokalyptischen New York wankt Charlie Chaplin in seiner Paraderolle als Vagabund, dem nur sein tiefschwarzer Humor geblieben ist. Und er stößt auf weitere Überlebende: eine junge Frau, ein Neugeborenes und ein Grüppchen Wissenschaftler, die sich inmitten der Ruinen eine Basis...
Idee zu einem Film und literarisches Meisterwerk zugleich: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision. §Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. ...
In a writing career that branched into drama, poetry, fiction, and journalism, film was a constant for James Agee. Volume four in The Works of James Agee series presents the writer's two most famous screenplays: for The African Queen, his collaboration with John Huston, and for The Night of the Hunter, the only film ever directed by actor Charles Laughton.
In a writing career that branched into drama, poetry, fiction, and journalism, film was a constant for James Agee. Volume four in The Works of James A...
