Authors:Anne Sloane, Houston Heights Association,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, heights, houston
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738571180
ISBN-13: 9780738571188
In 1891, O. M. Carter purchased 1,756 acres 2.5 miles from downtown Houston to develop one of the largest planned communities in America. Located 23 feet higher than the surrounding area, the new neighborhood was named Houston Heights. Carter also purchased the City of Houston’s mule-drawn streetcar system and then electrified it to provide reliable transportation to downtown. By 1896, Houston Heights was an incorporated village with its own elected mayor and aldermen. From across America, buyers came, eager to build their homes in what Carter called "a model community." Vintage photogra
Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226106713
ISBN-13: 9780226106717
Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights."On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran’s first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy bot
Author: Max Hennessey
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: heights, challenging
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-01-12
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1842328808
ISBN-13: 9781842328804
The second in Hennessy’s breathtaking RAF trilogy. Dicken Quinney, a brilliant, heroic character, comes to life in this turbulent action novel. Quinney finds himself flying in the Baltic in a fight against the Bolsheviks. But tragedy mixes with adventure as Quinney loses his lover, Zoe. This is the second novel in the trilogy involving the air ace, Dicken Quinney.
Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1992-06-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226106705
ISBN-13: 9780226106700
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self- described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran’s first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing an
Author: Brian James
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Keywords: heights
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0312368534
ISBN-13: 9780312368531
Henry liked to imagine his life began that cold rainy day in San Francisco when Mr. Earnshaw found him shivering by the side of the road. That was the day Henry met Catherine. For Henry, Catherine is like a precious gift. She pushes away his angry thoughts and makes him feel safe and calm. And though Mr. Earnshaw, a widow, raises the orphan and Catherine as brother and sister, their love for each other goes much deeper. They vow to always be together. But everything changes when Mr. Earnshaw dies suddenly and Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw’s own son, gains control of the family finances.
Author: Scott Zesch
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Keywords: heights, alamo
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0875651941
ISBN-13: 9780875651941
A fictional account of the battle to preserve the Texas landmark, the Alamo, by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Author: R.S. Sharma
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing
Keywords: commentary, heights, wuthering
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8171564917
ISBN-13: 9788171564910
