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 The draft was rejected for creative differences, and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes.Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn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...
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...
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. ...
