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Alina in Ecstasy

Author : Joseph Roccasalvo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543441661
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Alina in Ecstasy written by Joseph Roccasalvo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alina in Ecstasy is a novel about a man who is a famous writer and intensely hostile to religion. Julian Mandel, more an agnostic than an atheist, is in a rage over a former lover's decision to join the Carthusians—a religious order noted for silence and solitude. When he visits Alina, now Mother Maddalena, she claims not to recognize either Julian or herself as the persons involved in a former sexual relationship. Later, he learns she has died and been declared “blessed” by the pope. Obsessed by this development, he tries to prevent her advancement to sainthood. But when Julian is cured of terminal cancer, which the Vatican believes is a second miracle owed to Alina's intervention, he prays for the return of his cancer. When it does, he cannot avoid the thought that Alina has intervened to subvert her own canonization. The Vatican quickly responds by declaring that no protocol exists for treating as miraculous the reversal of a former miracle. This novel is meant to be spiritual reading cast as a psychological thriller: to inform a secular audience, against all odds, that love is stronger than death. The effort has succeeded if it fuses the erotic with the mystical like Bernini’s statue of Saint Teresa now viewed through the medium of fiction. Alina in Ecstasy is intent on its goal: to tell how a saint is made. Miracles are the hook.

Alina Szapocznikow

Author : Agata Jakubowska
Publisher : Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
ISBN 13 : 8364177087
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Alina Szapocznikow written by Agata Jakubowska and published by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of prominent art historians, curators, critics, and collectors, this exhibition catalogue presents the most current research on the work of Alina Szapocznikow. Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent the last decade of her life in France, and created an impressive number of sculptures and drawings that are now defined as post-surrealist and proto-feminist. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work in Germany and France, along with acquisitions by prominent collections worldwide, have bolstered Szapocznikow’s international reputation and ignited discussion of her significance to twentieth-century art.

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy

Author : Jan Goldstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083371X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy written by Jan Goldstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduction to, the previously unpublished manuscript recounting Nanette's strange illness—a manuscript coauthored by Despine and Alexandre Bertrand, the Paris physician who memorably diagnosed Nanette as suffering from "hysteria complicated by ecstasy." While hysteria would become a fashionable disease among urban women by the end of the nineteenth century, the case of Nanette Leroux differs sharply from this pattern in its early date and rural setting. Filled with intimate details about Nanette's behavior and extensive quotations of her utterances, the case is noteworthy for the sexual references that contemporaries did not recognize as such; for its focus on the difference between biological and social time; and for Nanette's fascination with the commodities available in the region's nascent marketplace. Goldstein's introduction brilliantly situates the text in its multiple contexts, examines it from the standpoint of early nineteenth-century medicine, and uses the insights of Foucault and Freud to craft a twenty-first-century interpretation. A compelling, multilayered account of one young woman's mental afflictions, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy is an extraordinary addition to the cultural and social history of psychiatry and medicine.

Alina

Author : Michael Davidson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635681391
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Alina written by Michael Davidson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alina is the true story of a beautiful and seductive woman seemingly born out of time and place to a culture inundated with pitfalls she was inherently unable to navigate. As a child she survived sexual molestation only to find herself in the grip of a lifelong untreated bi-polar condition. This is an account of the thoughts and feelings of a woman who suffered through silent alternating periods of depression and a sense of omnipotence that eventually led her to the door of a psychopath. The author reveals an early childhood dominated by a controlling and abusing grandfather, a chaotic relationship with her first husband and father of her first two children, a comparatively stable relationship with her second husband ending in a sudden violation of trust, and a brutal eight-year involvement with the father of her third child. Alina’s story illustrates a fundamental flaw in the nature of three men who sought to fulfill their needs through the willing participation of a woman unaware of her own, and her desperate attempt to free herself from an existence that had spiraled into hell. It is also a story of blind courage, resiliency, and a search for love.

La Trouvaille - Reader's Ecstasy

Author : DANICA RAYEN
Publisher : Spectrum Of Thoughts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Trouvaille - Reader's Ecstasy written by DANICA RAYEN and published by Spectrum Of Thoughts. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace is liberty in tranquility and it’s always beautiful. The word itself is so soothing and calm. It has various meanings to different people In this chaotic and busy world, it's no wonder that each and everyone of us whether we accept it or not is yearning and hunting for serenity . I would say Tranquility is knowing that the Almighty loves you and is always with you no matter what. Peace is not the absence of conflict , but the presence of Almighty no matter what the dispute. “La Tranquillité” is an anthology where our writers have exquisitely expressed their feelings on peace and they have given a lot of thought to- especially how to attain it. Our writers have put in their utmost efforts to present what lingers in their heart and soul. They have poured their hearts out on serenity and inked down their take. In the book we’ll see that tranquility can be found from the tiniest of moments to the biggest of blessings . The book is conceptualised and compiled by Aiysha Ayub under the auspices of Divya Renwa .

Alina of Azimabad

Author : Rashid Khan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595289827
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Alina of Azimabad written by Rashid Khan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alina of Azimabad provides a rare and valuable insight into issues being faced by women in South Asia. Alina, the character created by the author tells an extraordinary and remarkable account of her life spread over almost half a century. The story starts off in the aftermath of the partition of India. It is a saga of the hidden world of feudalism with its exploitation and degeneration. The account also stresses the point that Pakistan is not inhabited by fanatics and is as normal a country as any other. The author has very vividly touched upon social problems in his work and has specifically addressed gender issues. His strength lies in his ability to express himself with ease. The language he uses is simple, crisp and endowed with brevity. He has also introduced several common words of South Asian origin into the English Language. The narrative is very readable and interesting.

A Genealogy of the Modern Self

Author : Alina Clej
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804780765
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Genealogy of the Modern Self written by Alina Clej and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge.

The Perfect Sound

Author : Garrett Hongo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593316428
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Sound written by Garrett Hongo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawai‘i, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltrane’s jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joel’s piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.

The Logic of Social Practices II

Author : Raffaela Giovagnoli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031391136
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Social Practices II written by Raffaela Giovagnoli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices. Merging perspectives from various disciplines, including philosophy, biology, psychology and cognitive science, and economy, it discusses theoretical aspects of social behavior along with models to investigate them, and presenting key case studies as well. Further, it describes concepts related to habits, routines, and rituals and examines important features of human action, such as intentionality and choice, exploring the influence of specific social practices in different situations. Based on a workshop held on April 2022 at the World Congress on Universal Logic (UNILOG 22), in Crete, and including additional invited chapters, the book offers fresh insights into the fields of social practice and the cognitive, computational, and philosophical tools to understand them.

If You Really Trust Me, Why Can't I Stay Out Later?

Author : Lorraine Peterson
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781556612121
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book If You Really Trust Me, Why Can't I Stay Out Later? written by Lorraine Peterson and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of devotional readings based on the wisdom of Solomon as expressed in the Book of Proverbs.

Alina

Author : Jason Johnson
Publisher : Blackstaff Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alina written by Jason Johnson and published by Blackstaff Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling, urgent and blackly comic novel weaves together the lives of three desperate and compelling characters. The reader is taken on a dark odyssey from post-ceasefire Belfast to post-Communist Romania.

What Girls Are Made Of

Author : Elana K. Arnold
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 151243437X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book What Girls Are Made Of written by Elana K. Arnold and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now she'll do anything for the boy she loves, to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are. "Finally, finally, a book that is fully girl, with all of the gore and grace of growing up female exposed." —Carrie Mesrobian, author of the William C. Morris finalist, Sex & Violence

European Studies on Drugs and Drug Policy

Author : European Society on Social Drug Research. International Conference
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Studies on Drugs and Drug Policy written by European Society on Social Drug Research. International Conference and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow and Bone

Author : Leigh Bardugo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250027438
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Shadow and Bone written by Leigh Bardugo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold--a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed. Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country's magical military elite--and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift. As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation. Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems. A New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller An Indie Next List Book This title has Common Core connections. Praise for the Grishaverse "A master of fantasy." --The Huffington Post "Utterly, extremely bewitching." --The Guardian "The best magic universe since Harry Potter." --Bustle "This is what fantasy is for." --The New York Times Book Review " A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp." --NPR "The darker it gets for the good guys, the better." --Entertainment Weekly "Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down." --USA Today "There's a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo's original epic fantasy that sets it apart." --Vanity Fair "Unlike anything I've ever read." --Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent "Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery " --Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series "This is a great choice for teenage fans of George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien." --RT Book Reviews Read all the books in the Grishaverse The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy) Shadow and Bone Siege and Storm Ruin and Rising The Six of Crows Duology Six of Crows Crooked Kingdom King of Scars The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972

Author : Elena Filipovic
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870708244
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972 written by Elena Filipovic and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body. Though her career effectively spanned less than two decades (cut short by the artist's premature death in 1973 at age 47), Szapocznikow left behind a legacy of provocative objects that evoke Surrealism, Nouveau Râealisme, and Pop art. Her tinted polyester casts of body parts, often transformed into everyday objects like lamps or ashtrays; her poured polyurethane forms; and her elaborately constructed sculptures, which at times incorporated photographs, clothing, or car parts, all remain as wonderfully idiosyncratic and culturally resonant today as when they were first made. Well known in Poland, where her work has been highly influential since early in her career, Szapocznikow's compelling book of work is ripe for art historical reexamination. Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972 offers a comprehensive overview of this important artist's work at a moment when international interest is blossoming. Spanning one of the most rich and complex periods of the 20th century, Szapocznikow's oeuvre responds to many of the ideological and artistic developments of her time through artwork that is at once fragmented and transformative, sensual and reflective, playfully realized and politically charged. Featuring over 100 works, including sculpture, drawings, and photography, the exhibition draws on loans from private and public collections, including major institutions in Poland. It is accompanied by a major publication, co published by The Museum of Modern Art and Mercatorfonds, that reflects new scholarship on Szapocznikow, contextualizing this little known artist's work for a wider audience."--Publisher's website.

Ecstasy

Author : Mary Sharratt
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781328614209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy written by Mary Sharratt and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era

Prologue

Author : Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810111806
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Prologue written by Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of this Russian novel that should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the course of Russian history and the political debate over democratization taking place in Russia today.