Ergebnis für "Fathers and Sons" in Wissenschaft

In Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev masterfully explores the widening chasm between generations in 19th-century Russia through the lens of his iconic characters. The novel introduces Yevgeny Bazarov, often hailed as the first Bolshevik, whose nihilistic stance and rejection of traditional values symbolize the clash between the old order and the emerging nihilist movement. Written in response to the cultural divide between the liberals of the 1830s/1840s and their radical successors, Turgenevs work also juxtaposes these progressive ideologies with the conservative Slavophiles, who championed ...

Father and Son is a riveting memoir penned by the renowned poet and critic, Edmund Gosse. Published in 1907, the book is subtitled a study of two temperaments, and offers an in-depth look into Edmunds upbringing in a devout Plymouth Brethren household. His mother, a Christian tract writer, succumbs to a painful battle with breast cancer early in his life. After her death, Edmund is taken to Devon by his father, Philip Henry Gosse, an influential invertebrate zoologist and marine biology enthusiast with little formal education. The memoir delves into Philips reaction to the emerging ...

Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Old Man and the Sand Eel, written and read by Will Millard. Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his...

From well-known nature and adventure writer Dan Koeppel, whose work has appeared in Audubon and National Geographic Adventure, comes this true story of one bird watcher's incredible achievements.

Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon.