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"Shows how Thomas Cole's neglected Catskill Creek paintings cohere as a series and express the artist's deep attachment to place and region"--

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.

Now that even your mother owns a digital camera, there's finally a book that reflects how everyone uses them--on the go, at parties, and to document events, not sitting at home with a hefty reference at their side. In this travel-sized volume, you'll be able to access the info you want when you want it--while you're taking pictures. After providing an introduction to digital cameras and an overview of how to use them, authors Cynthia Baron and Daniel Peck get to the heart of the volume: the situations in which you're likely to use a digital camera and the issues you need to be aware of. In chapters on outdoor photography, event photography, and portraits and still-lives, you'll find easy-to-follow instructions on getting the best shots with the least amount of fuss. At the end of the day, you'll find yourself returning to the volume to find out what's next: downloading, printing, using Photoshop to manipulate images, creating slide shows, archiving images, and more.

John Ford, son of John Ford and Hannah Keefe, was born in Ireland in about 1833. He married Hannah Shea. They lived in Rockland, Massachusetts.

Bills from Jacob B. Gurley for legal services; from Moses Warren for surveying and expenses; receipted bills to the road committee from Elisha Caulkins, Marshfield Parsons, and Daniel Peck, all tavern keepers, for meals, drink, lodging, and horse-baiting; from Samuel Green for services and expenses; estimate of costs and receipts from shares, list of due bills; list of those with contracts to pass gates by the year, taken from Moses Warren's book for contracts. Other persons represented include Asa Dutton, David Frink, and Marshfield Parsons.

A quick, professional guide to getting the most out of the popular cross-platform relational databases FileMaker Pro 5 and 5.5. This edition picks up where the popular "FileMaker Pro 5 for Windows and Macintosh" leaves off, providing power tips and techniques for more experienced FileMaker users. It works like a reference book; users look up what they want to do and follow the step-by-step instructions.

"The Little Digital Camera Book" is written to serve the needs of those accustomed to traditional "point-and-click" cameras. Presented in a clear, friendly style, this book covers everything new users need to know to purchase a camera, how to get the best quality image and how to share that image in print, email, and the Web.