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Ancient Illusions

Author : Joanne Pence
Publisher : Quail Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Illusions written by Joanne Pence and published by Quail Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-lost diary, a rare book of ghost stories, and unrelenting nightmares combine to send archeologist Michael Rempart on a forbidden journey into the occult and his own past. When Michael returns to his family home after more than a decade-long absence, he is rocked by the emotion and intensity of the memories it awakens. His father is reclusive, secretive, and obsessed with alchemy and its secrets—secrets that Michael possesses. He believes the way to end this sudden onslaught of nightmares is to confront his disturbing past. But he soon learns he isn’t the only one under attack. Others in his life are also being tormented by demonic nightmares that turn into a deadly reality. Forces from this world and other realms threaten madness and death unless they obtain the powerful, ancient secrets in Michael’s possession. Their violence creates an urgency Michael cannot ignore. The key to defeating them seems to lie in a land of dreams inhabited by ghosts … and demons. From the windswept shores of Cape Cod to a mystical land where samurai and daimyo once walked, Michael must find a way to stop not only the demons, but his own father. Yet, doing so, he fears may unleash an ancient evil upon the world that he will be powerless to contain.

Imperial Illusions

Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805528
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Illusions written by Kristina Kleutghen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China�s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of �scenic illusion paintings� (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong�s world. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions

Illusions in Motion

Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018519
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.

Ancient Illusions

Author : D. Koppelberger
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493701957
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Illusions written by D. Koppelberger and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Illusions and the dreams of knights, maidens and kings, a fantastic ride into the past. All the musings of a master story teller. D.L. Koppelberger will thrill generations to come with the tales that created an empire of knights and even a few monsters.

House of Illusions

Author : Pauline Gedge
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143179446
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book House of Illusions written by Pauline Gedge and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, Thu has lived in exile, writing the tragic history of her life as the favourite concubine of Ramses III—and her role in the conspiracy to kill him. A young soldier, Kamen, has read her words and believes her testimony that she was not acting alone. When Kamen shows Thu’s manuscript to his general, he unknowingly sets in motion a stirring drama of revenge and punishment, miraculous disclosures, and unexpected vindication. House of Illusions is the stunning sequel to the bestselling House of Dreams, and brings Thu’s story to its surprising and dramatic conclusion.

Grand Illusions

Author : Gregory Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733145930
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Grand Illusions written by Gregory Little and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of 1994 book with added 2022 commentary. The book shows how abductions, apparitions, and the UFO enigma are tied together by the electromagnetic energy spectrum.

Ancient Shadows

Author : Joanne Pence
Publisher : Quail Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Shadows written by Joanne Pence and published by Quail Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One by one, a horror film director, a judge, and a newspaper publisher meet brutal deaths. A link exists between them, and the deaths have only begun …. Archeologist Michael Rempart finds himself pitted against ancient demons and modern conspirators when a dying priest gives him a powerful artifact--a pearl said to have granted Genghis Khan the power, eight centuries ago, to lead his Mongol warriors across the steppes to the gates of Vienna. The artifact has set off centuries of war and destruction as it conjures demons to play upon men’s strongest ambitions and cruelest desires. Michael realizes the so-called pearl is a philosopher's stone, the prime agent of alchemy. As much as he would like to ignore the artifact, when he sees horrific deaths and experiences, first-hand, diabolical possession and affliction, he has no choice but to act. The dark legends are true. To stop the artifact's evil Michael must follow a path along the Old Silk Road to a land that time forgot, and to somehow find a place that may no longer exist in the world as he knows it.

The Harmony of Illusions

Author : Allan Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691017239
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Harmony of Illusions written by Allan Young and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nor is PTSD simply a psychiatric phenomenon; it is also a moral development: a diagnosis that transgresses the boundary dividing victims from victimizers, and a contagion that crosses the line separating patients from therapists.

Ancient Illusions [Large Print]

Author : Joanne Pence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781794052376
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Illusions [Large Print] written by Joanne Pence and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-lost diary, a rare book of ghost stories, and unrelenting nightmares combine to send archeologist Michael Rempart on a forbidden journey into the occult and his own past.When Michael returns to his family home after more than a decade-long absence, he is rocked by the emotion and intensity of the memories it awakens. His father is reclusive, secretive, and obsessed with alchemy and its secrets--secrets that Michael possesses. He believes the way to end this sudden onslaught of nightmares is to confront his disturbing past.But he soon learns he isn't the only one under attack. Others in his life are also being tormented by demonic nightmares that turn into a deadly reality. Forces from this world and other realms threaten madness and death unless they obtain the powerful, ancient secrets in Michael's possession. Their violence creates an urgency Michael cannot ignore. The key to defeating them seems to lie in a land of dreams inhabited by ghosts ... and demons.From the windswept shores of Cape Cod to a mystical land where samurai and daimyo once walked, Michael must find a way to stop not only the demons, but his own father. Yet, doing so, he fears may unleash an ancient evil upon the world that he will be powerless to contain.

History of the Romans Under the Empire

Author : Charles Merivale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book History of the Romans Under the Empire written by Charles Merivale and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Readings in European History

Author : James Harvey Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Readings in European History written by James Harvey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drawing Amazing Optical Illusions

Author : Tom McPherson
Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Amazing Optical Illusions written by Tom McPherson and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create mind-blowing artwork that pops off the page! Drawing complex three-dimensional art does not have to be intimidating. It may seem difficult or only for the advanced artist, but in this book author Tom McPherson breaks down in simple step-by-step instructions how anyone can create detailed, mesmerizing optical illusions even with little drawing experience.

In this groundbreaking book, McPherson details how to create cool artwork from scratch by learning basic drawing techniques and progressing to more complex skills and creations, including:

Impossible Shapes: Optical 3D illusions of shapes that could not exist in reality

Floating Shapes: Solid shapes that look like they hover above the paper

3D Line Art: Inventive 3D illusions on simple lined paper

Anamorphic Buildings: Subjects drawn with extreme distortion that look realistic and 3D

5-Point Perspective: Drawing 3D fisheye views using perspective and curved lines

And much more! This is the ultimate guide to mastering trick drawing and creating cool images that will impress your friends and family.

In Search of Wisdom : the Joy of Seeing Through Old Illusions

Author : Verna Ross McGiffin
Publisher : Winfield, B.C. : Wood Lake Books
ISBN 13 : 9780919599956
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Wisdom : the Joy of Seeing Through Old Illusions written by Verna Ross McGiffin and published by Winfield, B.C. : Wood Lake Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Readings in European History: From the breaking up of the Roman empire to the Protestant revolt

Author : James Harvey Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in European History: From the breaking up of the Roman empire to the Protestant revolt written by James Harvey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New History

Author : James Harvey Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New History written by James Harvey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Illusions

Author : K. Brandon Barker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041112
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Folk Illusions written by K. Brandon Barker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] well-researched and well-written book . . . linking traditional folklore studies to current scientific research and to thinking about human behavior.” —American Journal of Play Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, “stealing” your niece’s nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell—these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children’s folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed. “With clear focal points, sound and carefully explained methodology, and thought-provoking, substantial analysis, this book makes an excellent contribution to children’s folklore and related fields.” —Elizabeth Tucker, author of Children’s Folklore: A Handbook “A compendium of perceptual illusions, gathered from performers across the country, sorted into formally related perceptual categories, and analyzed under various theories of perception.” —Journal of Folklore Research

From Illusions to Reality

Author : Vesselin Petkov
Publisher : Minkowski Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1927763010
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book From Illusions to Reality written by Vesselin Petkov and published by Minkowski Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest mystery in the world is its very existence. In our intellectual development, we all reach a turning point when we start asking the perennial existential questions: "What is the world?"; "What am I?"; "What is the meaning of the existence of the world and myself?". As the German philosopher Schopenhauer put it: "The lower a man stands in intellectual respects the less of a riddle does existence seem to him... but, the clearer his consciousness becomes the more the problem grasps him in its greatness." This book explores what fundamental physics tells us about the physical world and how the scientific picture of what exists often differs disturbingly from the "common sense" view based on the way our senses reflect the world. Centuries-old illusions are identified by showing that they contradict experimentally-confirmed results of modern physics, which clears the way toward deeper understanding of reality. The greatest illusion that the world exists only at the present moment of time has been realized by many great thinkers, but so far the human race has been unable to free itself from it, prompting Einstein to write this: "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Getting rid of such stubbornly persistent illusions by open-mindedly examining the implications of modern physics for the physical world can help us rise above the fog of everyday life and see Nature the way she herself is.