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The unwanted sound of everything we want : a book about noise
\"In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to the modern streets of Mumbai, from the world's biggest motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards\"--Jacket.
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No Place But Here
Weaving anecdotal narrative with trenchant reflections on his profession, Garret Keizer offers one teacher's answer to the hue and cry over the crisis in education. An English teacher in rural Vermont, he writes of the opposing realities he faces every day: the promise and energy of the young and the oppressive effect of their economic disadvantages; the beauty of the countryside and its people and the harsh, sometimes ugly edge of life there; the need for discipline and the importance of rebellion. In exploring the demands peculiar to his own community, Keizer movingly depicts the difficulties-some triumphantly overcome, some overwhelming-that form the heart of teaching anywhere.
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Lost in Totality: On the Yen for Big Events
Butlcouldn'timagine traveling even a hundred miles to watch the event-or why it should be any more thrilling to me than, say, the sight of two bluebirds returning to their box across the road from our kitchen or the first blossoms on the lilac bush outside our bedroom window. [...]the only beaches I'm likely to visit are too rocky and cold to permit any widespread lying down. Rumor reaches me of a man who speaks like no other man has spoken, who changes people's lives after a single encounter, who in the one case is reputed to heal the sick simply by a word or touch and in the other to renounce the countless miracles he is nonetheless able to perform. [...]again, might the Earth receive more benefit if the travelers came home in a more \"pious,\" which is to say, more cosmically conscious state of mind?
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Maintenance Man
Snowmelt-softened ground is bound to topple at least one of my wood piles, so even and straight when I stacked them in the fall. Not a few of the things that contribute to my psychological tiredness-managing a medical condition diagnosed with the help of regular checkups paid for by a solid health insurance plan, for example-would not even exist if I were a refugee trudging through the desert with the whole of my belongings on my back. [...]these animal ministrations are a long way from washing a car or balancing a checkbook, replacing a water-filter cartridge, or going to the gym. In addition to being close to old ourselves, my wife and I have chosen to live in an old, wood-heated house in the country.
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