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Book Synopsis Visions in a Seer Stone by : William L. Davis
Download or read book Visions in a Seer Stone written by William L. Davis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Book Synopsis Playful Visions by : Meredith A. Bak
Download or read book Playful Visions written by Meredith A. Bak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.
Author :National Academy of Engineering Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :030913336X Total Pages :118 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Engineer of 2020 by : National Academy of Engineering
Download or read book The Engineer of 2020 written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To enhance the nation's economic productivity and improve the quality of life worldwide, engineering education in the United States must anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of engineering practice. The Engineer of 2020 urges the engineering profession to recognize what engineers can build for the future through a wide range of leadership roles in industry, government, and academia-not just through technical jobs. Engineering schools should attract the best and brightest students and be open to new teaching and training approaches. With the appropriate education and training, the engineer of the future will be called upon to become a leader not only in business but also in nonprofit and government sectors. The book finds that the next several decades will offer more opportunities for engineers, with exciting possibilities expected from nanotechnology, information technology, and bioengineering. Other engineering applications, such as transgenic food, technologies that affect personal privacy, and nuclear technologies, raise complex social and ethical challenges. Future engineers must be prepared to help the public consider and resolve these dilemmas along with challenges that will arise from new global competition, requiring thoughtful and concerted action if engineering in the United States is to retain its vibrancy and strength.
Download or read book 2020 Visions written by Crawford Kilian and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020 Visions, Crawford Kilian uses British Columbia's troubled educational system as a microcosm for the problems faced by the educational systems across North America. According to Kilian, the Canadian education system is in crisis and in its present state should be dismantled because society has outgrown it, our economy can no longer afford it, and parents and students often cannot find what they require of it. 2020 Visionsoffers a clear portrait of Canada's education system, and a visionary assessment of its possibilities.
Book Synopsis 2020 Visions by : United States Pharmacopeial Convention
Download or read book 2020 Visions written by United States Pharmacopeial Convention and published by United States Pharmacopeia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions 2020 written by Stephen Clarkson and published by Hurtig. This book was released on 1970 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Border Visions by : Carlos G. VŽlez-Iba–ez
Download or read book Border Visions written by Carlos G. VŽlez-Iba–ez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos VŽlez-Ib‡–ez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mexicans moved north and attempted to create an identity or sense of cultural space and place. In todayÕs border fences he also sees barriers to how Mexicans understand themselves and how they are fundamentally understood. From prehistory to the present, VŽlez-Ib‡–ez traces the intense bumping among Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans, as Mesoamerican populations and ideas moved northward. He demonstrates how cultural glue is constantly replenished by strengthening family ties that reach across both sides of the border. The author describes ways in which Mexicans have resisted and accommodated the dominant culture by creating communities and by forming labor unions, voluntary associations, and cultural movements. He analyzes the distribution of sadness, or overrepresentation of Mexicans in poverty, crime, illness, and war, and shows how that sadness is balanced by creative expressions of literature and art, especially mural art, in the ongoing search for space and place. Here is a book for the nineties and beyond, a book that relates to NAFTA, to complex questions of immigration, and to the expanding population of Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico border region and other parts of the country. An important new volume for social science, humanities, and Latin American scholars, Border Visions will also attract general readers for its robust narrative and autobiographical edge. For all readers, the book points to new ways of seeing borders, whether they are visible walls of brick and stone or less visible, infinitely more powerful barriers of the mind.
Book Synopsis The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by : David Treuer
Download or read book The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee written by David Treuer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal. "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past.." - New York Times Book Review, front page A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear—and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence—the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.
Book Synopsis Island Visions by : Jacob Seibel-Boettner
Download or read book Island Visions written by Jacob Seibel-Boettner and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Visions from San Francisco Bay by : Czeslaw Milosz
Download or read book Visions from San Francisco Bay written by Czeslaw Milosz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization."
Book Synopsis 2020 Perfect Vision and Perfect Visions by : Curtis Edwards
Download or read book 2020 Perfect Vision and Perfect Visions written by Curtis Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year 2020, 2020 vision and 2020 visions are the theme of this book, aptly named, 2020! Let's talk about the book and its underlying premise, supporting content, and adaptive writing style. Needy conditions help drive the reactions of humanity. The old adage, 'Necessity is the Mother of All Inventions' carries weight. The world of politics, finance, industry, and religion have experienced gaps and vacuums that needed filling and were! Every mind not dulled with senselessness realizes today's antichristian world is in a religious vacuum. We are void of all things biblical, rational, and righteous --- while overwhelmingly full of antibiblical, irrational, and wicked theology. The big tent of so-called Christianity is a three-ring circus, a carnival of sights, sounds, and seductions. Every freakshow known to men and devils is preforming under its guise. Wild animals, beast of Ephesus, and serpents of the Garden of Eden are charming and beguiling the sideshow observers. The peepshow is exhibiting homosexual-practicing Bishops and pedophile Priest. Clowns of every stripe and denomination --- plus the allowance of Eastern religion and sorcery that has been allowed membership --- are on hand to bring Sunday's giddy results. Contortionist is twisting the scripture until it is no longer canon. Fire-eaters are making the Day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit be something that He is not. At the end of the day, Barnham & Bailey couldn't hold a light to the spectacles we are witnessing in today's church, all in the name of Jesus Christ. In the existing delusional atmosphere and religious vacuum, a true prophet is needed, a Visionary. Someone to guide us back to orthodox, primitive Christianity. The Old Testament era had prophets; clear-eyed Visionaries' with a vision! The likes of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Daniel, Elisha, Isaiah, and others were present. They had a direct word from the Lord and would not waiver to repeat their God-given vision at the time it was given, and to the people to whom it was given. Their visions had various receptions; ignored, believed in, followed, established, thrown to lions, fought by wicked leaders, and received fulfillment. Their visions brought destruction to the then known world, gave covenant to God's people, delivered from slavery, ushered in the throne of David, called fire down on false prophets, and gave age-old prophesies of the coming Messiah. Let your mind rehearse what God said to them and through them. It was drastic, many times unaccepted, sometimes misunderstood, eventful, and way out of the realm of being politically correct.No matter the reception, Visionaries received and told their visions, just as we must do in 2020. The New Testament era also had prophets; clear-eyed Visionaries' with a vision in the likes of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, Paul of Tarsus, and John the Revelator. The world needed their vision although it caused heads to roll, bodies to be crucified, and extreme conditions to be suffered through. Contrariwise, it paved the way for the Kingdom, brought salvation, inspired the writing of canon scripture, and gave twenty-two chapters of a long vision! These Visionaries of the Old Testament and primitive New Testament should not have to stand alone. The 21st century needs us desperately, so you and I must also join hands with them --- in style, substance, and delivery. Their pattern is seen in the many occasions God gave them visions and, in the message that the vision contained. In their case, the vision was a visual message from God, what I will loosely call a dream. These visions of the old prophets have become the underlying template and supporting content used as a basis of the book 2020. In other words, I have used their mystic visions as a metaphor to create a parable-like storyline that shows the 2020 vision and 2020 visions in the light of real happenings......
Download or read book A Second Wind written by T. D. Jakes and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While focusing on his core mission to preach the gospel worldwide, T.D. Jakes has seen many good people not spend enough quality time with family, friends, and God. They have gotten so swept up in the daily grind that they have failed to live the rich life that God desires for each of His people. In his new book, Jakes provides readers with strategies that will help them rejuvenate their life and turn their "busyness" into a "business." All readers-not just entrepreneurs-will benefit from Jakes' insightful advice so that they can use the days God has blessed them with wisely and finish each day strong!
Book Synopsis 2020 Visions Tarot by : Krystal Banner
Download or read book 2020 Visions Tarot written by Krystal Banner and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 22-card Major Arcana deck that takes a close look at 2020, America and the intersection of the past, present & future.
Download or read book Ayahuasca Jungle Visions written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color your way to understanding the interconnectedness of all life
Download or read book Visions written by Michio Kaku and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-03-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback, from the bestselling author of Hyperspace, this spellbinding book brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow. Michio Kaku describes the development of computers and artificial intelligence, reveals how the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance, and observes how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe. Visions is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves.
Book Synopsis Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now by :
Download or read book Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary painting by Rembrandt forms the centerpiece of this exploration of self-portraits by leading artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published to commemorate an exhibition presented by Gagosian in partnership with English Heritage, this stunning volume centers on Rembrandt's masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665), from the collection of Kenwood House in London. The painting is considered to be Rembrandt's greatest late self-portrait and is accompanied here by examples of the genre from leading artists of the past one hundred years. These include works by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. Also featured is a new work by Jenny Saville, created in response to Rembrandt's masterpiece. Full-color plates of the works, generous details, and installation views of the exhibition accompany an expansive essay by art historian David Freedberg that provides a close look at the self-portraits created by Rembrandt throughout his life and considers the role of the Dutch master as the precursor of all modern painting.
Download or read book 2020 Visions written by Jamie Delano and published by Comicmix LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamie Delano (Hellblazer), Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman, X-Men, Doom Patrol), Steve Pugh (Harley Quinn, GrimJack), James Romberger (Seven Miles A Second), and Warren Pleece (Incognegro) deliver a tour de force future, following the lives of a disjointed family, struggling to survive in the far-flung future of... 2020. Time's up.
