The evocation of San Francisco's ambience is the best thing about this sometimes perceptive, sometimes irritating first novel. Wolff blatantly tags his characters with symbolic names: Adam (the innocent first man) comes to California

The Boys and Their Baby (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Wolff, Larry

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

"The boys" are Adam and Huck, former college roommates. A decade out of college and just as long out of touch with each other, they are reunited when Adam arrives to share Huck's apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco."Their baby" is Christopher, Huck's entrancing almost-one-year-old son, whose mother is nowhere in evidence and, at first, much to Adam's befuddlement, mysteriously unmentioned. The story centers on Adam as he sets out to construct a life for himself in the unfamiliar city. He assumes his new job as an English teacher at a fancy private school, where one of his students develops an obsessive (and disturbing) interest in him. Adam coasts into simultaneous affairs with two women: one of them a striking, locally celebrated chanteuse, and the other a physics teacher with a distinctive footwear fetish.As the city and its denizens-women and men, gay and straight, young and old-make Adam welcome in various and telling ways...as he approaches a certain peace with his past (through letters to and from his riotously enraged ex-girlfriend and his hugely intimidating mother)...as living with the baby and the baby's father exerts a profound influence on Adam...as the story of the baby's missing mother dramatically unfolds...we watch Adam come to surprising terms with his life and himself. The Boys and Their Baby is a wonderfully entertaining novel of domestic and sexual manners, 1980s San Francisco-style, marking the debut of splendidly gifted novelist Larry Wolff.

The Boys and Their Baby: A Novel

St. Martin's: Griffin

Adam, an English teacher from Boston, moves into the San Francisco apartment of his old roommate from Yale, who is raising an eleven-month-old baby in an atmosphere dominated by secrecy

The Boys and Their Baby

United States

KNOPF

An Architect's Journey: Mastering Future Trends In the Anthropocene

"An Architect's Journey - Mastering Future Trends in the Anthropocene" is a journey into the future of architecture and mastering the Anthropocene's dangerous forces. The book demonstrates how architects and building professionals can lead the way to overcome climate change and the related perils of the Anthropocene by mastering future trends in the design domain. Captivating narratives show how architects can shift their emphasis from aesthetic object-making to meaningful and extraordinary achievement by understanding society's needs and expectations as they critically address the book's thesis. Throughout the book, Larry Wolff details compelling realities and provides invaluable strategies and tools to master future outcomes. This is a comprehensive guide and textbook written from an architect's perspective to help solve and transcend today's daunting global complexities. It supersedes past green case studies, checklist-driven sustainability recipe books and instead establishes ways to move the profession forward in profound and meaningful ways. Few established architects become authors, and even fewer write about architecture in ways that both demand and inspire change in the design domain. The result is a detailed compendium revealing the 26 trends challenging the profession giving readers new approaches and potential solutions to shape the future of the built environment. No other book addresses this need.

Biographies & Memoirs

BookBaby

An Architect's Journey - Mastering Future Trends in the Anthropocene is about mastering the perilous forces of the Anthropocene, as it threatens, changes, and redefines the future of architecture and the world as we know it. An accomplished architect and author, Larry Wolff, demonstrates how readers can embrace inevitable revolutionary climate change by leveraging the experiences, insights, and trends gained by bridging the most significant period of transition to occur ever within the time of contemporary architecture. An Architect's Journey provides the tools, methods, and strategies to make architecture vitally important again. The future directions defining the next few decades support a long-range forecast for unlimited professional opportunity mixed with turbulence, uncertainty, and peril. There is a clear consensus the future will be entirely different from anything ever known before.\nWolff details compelling realities and provides invaluable strategies and tools to master future outcomes. An Architect's Journey is a comprehensive guide and textbook written from an architect's perspective to help solve and transcend today's daunting global complexities. It supersedes past green case studies, checklist-driven sustainability recipe books and instead establishes ways to move the profession forward in profound and meaningful ways. Few established architects become authors, and even fewer write about architecture in ways that both demand and inspire change in the design domain. The result is a detailed compendium revealing the 26 trends challenging the profession giving readers new approaches and potential solutions to shape the future of the built environment. No other book addresses this need.\nArchitecture has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous two centuries, and these changes will accelerate significantly more in the next 30 years. As a result, much of what an architect did not so long ago has become obsolete. To succeed, architects must strive for positions of leadership, contradict the status quo, expand common thinking, behave unconventionally, abandon exclusive theories, innovate from a framework of multiple perspectives, and skillfully navigate the consequences of difficult choices and actions through informed, collaborative, and integrative practices to meet the future expectations of society. Thus, we should all expect much more from architecture than its present and limited condition and Holocenic devotion. An imaginative and creative architect, deeply involved within the urban fabric, must perform at the highest levels under the diverse array of many spotlights. As such, the very essence of architecture is to serve humanity and the environment.\nCompared to the building industry, no other professional sector will significantly impact tomorrow's quality of life. People, places, ecology, and technology are the most critical issues facing the design profession, and architects need to recognize and treat them as such. An Architect's Journey reads like both a compelling novel and a profound textbook, while it draws a stunning culmination of present trends as it paints breathtaking thresholds into the future. The prose and images combine to deliver an unforgettable rite of passage into the architecture profession―loaded with invaluable insights for the novice, student, and veteran.

Between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria concluded agreements to annex and eradicate the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. With the partitioning of Poland, the dioceses of the Uniate Church (later known as the Greek Catholic Church) were fractured by the borders of three regional hegemons.
Larry Wolff's deeply engaging account of these events delves into the politics of the Episcopal elite, the Vatican, and the three rulers behind the partitions: Catherine II of Russia, Frederick II of Prussia, and Joseph II of Austria. Wolff uses correspondence with bishops in the Uniate Church and ministerial communiqués to reveal the nature of state policy as it unfolded.
Disunion within the Union adopts methodologies from the history of popular culture pioneered by Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre) and Carlo Ginzburg (The Cheese and the Worms) to explore religious experience on a popular level, especially questions of confessional identity and practices of piety. This detailed study of the responses of common Uniate parishioners, as well as of their bishops and hierarchs, to the pressure of the partitions paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.

Disunion within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

History

Europe

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

A look at the darker realities of life in fin-de-siecle Vienna focuses on two cases of child murder and two of child abuse

Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Atheneum

Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

In this provocative, wide-ranging history of how the continent of Europe came to be conceived as divided into “Western Europe” and “Eastern Europe,” the author shows that it was not a natural distinction, or even an innocent one, but instead was a work of cultural creation, of intellectual artifice, of ideological self-interest and self-promotion.

Stanford University Press

This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural construction and intellectual artifice created by the philosophes of the Enlightenment. He shows how the philosophers viewed the continent from the perspective of Paris and deliberately cultivated an idea of the backwardness of "Eastern Europe" the more readily to affirm the importance of "Western Europe".

Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the “Adriatic Empire” of Venice was deeply concerned with exploring the economic and social dimensions of backwardness in Dalmatia, in accordance with the evolving distinction between “Western Europe” and “Eastern Europe” across the continent. It further argues that the primitivism attributed to Dalmatians by the Venetian Enlightenment was fundamental to the European intellectual discovery of the Slavs. The book begins by discussing Venetian literary perspectives on Dalmatia, notably the drama of Carlo Goldoni and the memoirs of Carlo Gozzi. It then studies the work that brought the subject of Dalmatia to the attention of the European Enlightenment: the travel account of the Paduan philosopher Alberto Fortis, which was translated from Italian into English, French, and German. The next two chapters focus on the Dalmatian inland mountain people called the Morlacchi, famous as “savages” throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. The Morlacchi are considered first as a concern of Venetian administration and then in relation to the problem of the “noble savage,” anthropologically studied and poetically celebrated. The book then describes the meeting of these administrative and philosophical discourses concerning Dalmatia during the final decades of the Venetian Republic. It concludes by assessing the legacy of the Venetian Enlightenment for later perspectives on Dalmatia and the South Slavs from Napoleonic Illyria to twentieth-century Yugoslavia.

Americas

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The Boys and Their Baby (Stonewall Inn Editions)

The Boys and Their Baby: A Novel

The Boys and Their Baby

An Architect's Journey: Mastering Future Trends In the Anthropocene

An Architect's Journey: Mastering Future Trends In the Anthropocene

Disunion within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna

Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment