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Author : Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield
Publisher : Kepler Press
ISBN 13 : 0971377014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter written by Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield and published by Kepler Press. This book was released on 2010-06-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Elms
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689212X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book London Made Us written by Robert Elms and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’ Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms’ home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.
Author : Steven Farley
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375892516
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Black Stallion and the Shape-shifter written by Steven Farley and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being injured while racing in Ireland’s famous Foster Stakes, the Black and Alec head to the Irish coast to recuperate. While there, they are charmed by the pleasant people and intrigued by tales of the kelpie, a shape-shifting creature of myth who carries unsuspecting riders off to a watery grave. Alec meets a lonely local girl, Mora, who has found a stray pony. Alec, recognizing her love of horses, teaches her to ride. But when Mora disappears, Alec realizes that she has been carried off by the mythical kelpie. Now, Alec and the Black must race the shape-shifter, not realizing that if they lose, not only will Mora be lost forever, but so will the Black.
Author : Chris Archer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089049
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Shape-Shifter written by Chris Archer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen abducted by aliens becomes a shape shifter, unrecognizable to everyone, even himself. For nine months, Todd Aldridge was missing. Stories swirled about him throughout his hometown of Metier, Wisconsin. Was he kidnapped? Abducted by aliens? The kids at his junior high school were keen on the alien story. Metier is a UFO hotspot, after all. Until one day, Todd is found alive beside the town reservoir. Everyone wants to know where the thirteen-year-old has been. Only Todd doesn’t remember anything, except for the light that filled the sky moments before he disappeared . . . Now Todd is beginning to wonder what happened. Especially when some of his classmates claim that he is an alien now—like them. Todd isn’t ready to believe them. Until he feels the power surging in his body and his shape beginning to shift. He morphs into a creature that he can only call otherworldly, a creature who will have to fight to survive the danger surrounding him . . .
Author : John B. Kachuba
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140978
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Shapeshifters written by John B. Kachuba and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something about a shapeshifter—a person who can transform into an animal—that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our “dark side,” our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper behavior. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons. The myths, magic, and meaning surrounding shapeshifters are brought vividly to life in John B. Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Rituals in early cultures worldwide seemingly allowed shamans, sorcerers, witches, and wizards to transform at will into animals and back again. Today, there are millions of people who believe that shapeshifters walk among us and may even be world leaders. Featuring a fantastic and ghoulish array of examples from history, literature, film, TV, and computer games, Shapeshifters explores our secret desire to become something other than human.
Author : Susan Ossman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000182606
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork written by Susan Ossman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on fieldwork for the twenty-first century, anthropologist and artist Susan Ossman invites readers on a journey across North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She reveals that fieldwork today is not only about being immersed in a place or culture; instead, it is an active way of focusing attention and engendering encounters and experiences. She conceives a new kind of autoethnography, making art and ethnography equal partners to follow three "waves" of her research on media, globalization, and migration. Ossman guides the reader through diverse settings, including a colonial villa in Casablanca, a Cairo beauty salon, a California mall-turned-gallery, the Berlin Wall, and Amsterdam’s Hermitage museum. She delves into the entanglements of solitary research and collective action. This book is a primer for current anthropology and an invitation to artists and scholars to work across boundaries. It vividly shows how fieldwork can shape scenes for experiments with multiple outcomes, from conceptual advances to artworks, performances to dialogue and community making.
Author : Nicole Stamant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000594572
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging written by Nicole Stamant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today’s dialogue.
Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802188788
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Afterglow written by Eileen Myles and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A ravishingly strange and gorgeous book about a dog that’s really about life and everything there is…astonishing.” —Helen Macdonald, New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk In 1990, poet Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter of pit bulls on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog’s well-being, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles’s experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles’s childhood puppet to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull, from lyrical transcriptions of their walks to Rosie’s enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates all that it can mean when we dedicate our existence to a dog. “Myles gets at something no other dog book I’ve read has gotten at quite this distinctly: The sense of wordless connection and spiritual expansion you feel when you love and are loved by a creature who’s not human…raw and affecting.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR
Author : Sharon Shinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322786766
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Still Life with Shape-shifter written by Sharon Shinn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Pippig (Harris)
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500119362
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Siryn Song written by Kathy Pippig (Harris) and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about shape shifters and those who walk a near-future Earth, with powers they are only now beginning to learn about and use. Abilities humans of today are becoming aware of as they explore the potenetial that has always been a part of their genetic makeup, from the most primitive humans, to present-day man. This story is about Mason, a wolf shape shifter. Mason has been banished from the Wolven Clan, which is tantamount to death. But instead of death, he discovers the secrets of his ancient past. And in this revelation, it becomes his destiny to expose memories of the planet's history - visions of its future. And he must present these memories to the elders who banished him. During his exile he expected to find isolation on the empty beach at the coastal shore he called home - instead, he crosses paths with an orphaned child. Even more startling, he discovers another race of sentient beings; a different race of shape shifters. This is the first novel in the shape shifter series, but it is not necessary to read the books in sequence. They may be enjoyed independent of the other.
Author : Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227581
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Pseudo-Memoirs written by Rochelle Tobias and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Łukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot.
Author : S. Salim Shihab
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Phenomenal Primex written by S. Salim Shihab and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the Phenomenal Primex: Book 1: That Time I was Sun Wukong by S. Salim Shihab
Author : Deborah DeNicola
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0892545593
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Future That Brought Her Here written by Deborah DeNicola and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic blend of history, science, psychology, dreams, and visions, Deborah DeNicola's memoir is a compelling account of self-discovery that is provocative and humble. A poet, dream analyst, and college professor DeNicola writes about her struggle to live in the ordinary world of academia while honoring the competing call of the creative and the spiritual. DeNicola's memoir shows her range of intellectual pursuits and spiritual experiences as she battles an inner war between depressive cynicism and faith and shares her lifelong search to heal the trauma of her father's tragic death when she was a teenager. Struggles between cynicism and faith, depression and hope, independence and attachment, creativity and financial security in the midst of spiritual searching, motherhood, teaching and writing are inextricably woven into the fabric of her story. Sharing the process of her awakening and how dreams and visions guide her, DeNicola stirs readers to listen courageously to their own inner voices. Her visionary quest takes her to the American West, Israel, and Southern France. Along the way she weaves together references from the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the story of Mary Magdalene, medieval history, the Templar Knights, the Black Madonnas, String Theory and quantum physics to find the repeated linkage between divinity and humanity.
Author : A J Morgan
Publisher : A J Morgan
ISBN 13 : 1461171628
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Shape Shifter written by A J Morgan and published by A J Morgan. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAPE SHIFTER is a futuristic intrigue, immersed in Norse and Greek mythology, spanning across the sands of time, far into the future; SHAPE SHIFTER keeps its readers mesmerized in place as it delivers them along a passionate, riveting, supernatural non-stop ride, packed full of twist, turns, action, adventure, seduction, love, betrayal, duty and honor. When word of a mysterious creature, which terrorizes a small village in the mountains of North America, reaches Sean O Conner, a hunter of exotic creatures, Sean and his friends travel across the sea, in hope of killing the fabled beast and returning home heroes, only to find that all is not always what it may appear to be. Sean finds himself immersed in a war between good and evil. The outcome rest upon Sean's shoulders, the fate of the earth and all that dwell upon it, hangs in the balance. Racing against time to form an alliance, with the different species that share the earth, Sean must unite the different groups to battle the notorious Loki, the maniacal leader of the evil Raksasha and other off-world enemies, which threaten their very existence.
Author : Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield
Publisher : Kepler Press
ISBN 13 : 0986001104
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Grail Mysterium: An Adventure on The Heights written by Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield and published by Kepler Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the fall of 2010 at Jesuit-run Boston College, where senior Jack Knecht has just seen a ghostly figure in long antique robes slipping into Gasson Hall, the Gothic bell tower looming over the stately campus. Students and faculty alike, comfortably at home on The Heights, know the building is locked for major renovations this semester. Why would a spirit in 18th-century dress be haunting contemporary college life? Jack wonders. Thus begins this driving mystery-adventure in which Jack and his girlfriend, Fran Romero, run from menacing ghosts, are attacked out of the blue by a fiery dragon overhead and a raging bull underground, and have to face suspicious Jesuits threatening expulsion, all while keeping up with classes in this most sociable of schools. These are reasons enough to quickly decipher a tantalizing ancient map that convincingly points to the BC campus as the secret site of the Holy Grail, lost for centuries now. Proceeding by their wits with crucial help from eccentric art history professor Melinda Galen, the fey ghost of the last Templar grand master Jacques de Molay, and an imaginative, close-knit circle of college friends, Fran and Jack embark on a journey of discovery. The trail, however, is a twisted one, winding from the religious cult of Mithraism rooted in the ancient Syrian city of Dura-Europos through the medieval Templars down to modern-day Jesuits bearing a colorful history from Old World to New. Amid campus Quidditch games and undergraduate parties, dance rehearsals, middle-of-the-night discussions about hooking up, and communal meals, the young students pool their various esoteric disciplines to pursue the mystery of the Grail’s location. In the course of investigating the recondite riddles of the Mithraic cult, Fran and Jack come to pursue a Grail for a new millennium and thereby seek to become initiates into the mysteries of love. But in our age of crisis, with the planet suffering while economies spin out of control, can Fran and Jack find a way through the phantasmagoric maze confronting them, to find at last the Grail and arrive at a newly awakened consciousness? Grail Mysterium is a novel about love and its possibilities, about dating and relationships among the younger Linked Generation, and about the fundamental shift in human interconnectedness now underway in the 21st century. This cross between "The Da Vinci Code" and "Harry Potter for adults" is the first in the Adventure on The Heights series by Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield.
Author : Jacob Tomsky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101973749
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Heads in Beds written by Jacob Tomsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and a singular lack of career direction, he became a valet parker for a large luxury hotel in New Orleans. Yet, rising fast through the ranks, he ended up working in “hospitality” for more than a decade, doing everything from supervising the housekeeping department to manning the front desk at an upscale Manhattan hotel. He’s checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room-service meals, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late checkout, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your minibar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. In Heads in Beds he pulls back the curtain to expose the crazy and compelling reality of a multi-billion-dollar industry we think we know. Heads in Beds is a funny, authentic, and irreverent chronicle of the highs and lows of hotel life, told by a keenly observant insider who’s seen it all. Prepare to be amused, shocked, and amazed as he spills the unwritten code of the bellhops, the antics that go on in the valet parking garage, the housekeeping department’s dirty little secrets—not to mention the shameless activities of the guests, who are rarely on their best behavior. Prepare to be moved, too, by his candor about what it’s like to toil in a highly demanding service industry at the luxury level, where people expect to get what they pay for (and often a whole lot more). Employees are poorly paid and frequently abused by coworkers and guests alike, and maintaining a semblance of sanity is a daily challenge. Along his journey Tomsky also reveals the secrets of the industry, offering easy ways to get what you need from your hotel without any hassle. This book (and a timely proffered twenty-dollar bill) will help you score late checkouts and upgrades, get free stuff galore, and make that pay-per-view charge magically disappear. Thanks to him you’ll know how to get the very best service from any business that makes its money from putting heads in beds. Or, at the very least, you will keep the bellmen from taking your luggage into the camera-free back office and bashing it against the wall repeatedly.
Author : Frank Prochaska
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300195540
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot written by Frank Prochaska and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one
