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Momentary Stasis

Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Momentary Stasis written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World peace can be deadly. Humans discover alien technology and start colonizing worlds outside the solar system. Genetic modification produces miracles. Science advances the human condition. And, for the first time in history, the nations of the world have achieved real peace with each other. But only the elite truly benefit from all the advancements. Most people are still trapped on an Earth ruined by chemical pollution, nuclear accidents, and chaotic weather changes. Rebellious "genies"--genetically engineered servants--cause more harm than good. And global corporations have stripped the idea of nations and freedom of any real meaning. Sergeant Jack Rimes is no stranger to intrigue. The U.S. Army Special Forces operator lives in a time where every nation on Earth is at peace… but there are plenty of secrets to go around. As corporate greed threatens humanity, genetically engineered humans are making international mayhem of their own. After his unplanned reassignment to the Intelligence Bureau, Jack is tasked with tracking down a rogue agent implicated in a political assassination. As he and his new partner, an old flame, search the globe for answers, the truth shakes him to his core. The powers-that-be may not be very interested in keeping humanity alive… Momentary Stasis is the first book in a provocative series of grimdark military sci-fi novels full of intrigue, horror, and action that unflinchingly explores the impact of technology and unbridled greed on humanity. If you like gritty, flawed protagonists, tech-heavy thrillers, and incredible new worlds, then you'll love the first installment from PR Adams' provocative new series.

Unsettling Opera

Author : David J. Levin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226475255
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Opera written by David J. Levin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera’s restlessness and volatility to life. Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.

The Chapter

Author : Nicholas Dames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691253633
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Chapter written by Nicholas Dames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time. Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to organize information. He goes on to discuss the earliest divisional systems of the Gospels and the segmentation of medieval romances, describing how the chapter took on new purpose when applied to narrative texts and how narrative segmentation gave rise to a host of aesthetic techniques. Dames shares engaging and in-depth readings of influential figures, from Sterne, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dickens to George Eliot, Machado de Assis, B. S. Johnson, Agnès Varda, Uwe Johnson, Jennifer Egan, and László Krasznahorkai. He illuminates the sometimes tacit, sometimes dramatic ways in which the chapter became a kind of reckoning with time and a quiet but persistent feature of modernity. Ranging from ancient tablets and scrolls to contemporary fiction and film, The Chapter provides a compelling, elegantly written history of a familiar compositional mode that readers often take for granted and offers a new theory of how this versatile means of dividing narrative sculpts our experience of time.

Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists

Author : George Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315433125
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists written by George Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the stories—in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.

Unhinged (A Cora Shields Suspense Thriller—Book 3)

Author : Blake Pierce
Publisher : Blake Pierce
ISBN 13 : 1094376760
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Unhinged (A Cora Shields Suspense Thriller—Book 3) written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this action-packed mystery thriller by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, Cora Shields, 30, former Navy Seal turned FBI Special Agent, will stop at nothing to catch a killer—but she is stunned, after bending one rule too many, to find herself fired. At the pleading of a military friend, Cora scrutinizes a case long closed by local cops—and realizes that this case is far wider-reaching, and more dangerous, than she ever expected. “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.” —Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UNHINGED (A Cora Shields Suspense Thriller—Book 3) is the third novel in a new series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce. On the outside, Cora Shields is a total badass. A Navy SEAL veteran and a top agent in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Cora has a reputation for doing whatever it takes to catch a killer. What no one knows, though, is that she’s a wreck on the inside, addicted to painkillers and deeply depressed. Cora, working as a vigilante, is the only one who would dare take on this case. She knows that if she succeeds, she can save a woman’s life in time. And if she fails, she may just find herself behind bars for good. A page-turning and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured vigilante, the CORA SHIELDS series is a riveting mystery, packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night. Books #4 and #5 in the series—UNSAID and UNGLUED—are also available. “An edge of your seat thriller in a new series that keeps you turning pages! ...So many twists, turns and red herrings… I can't wait to see what happens next.” —Reader review (Her Last Wish) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A strong, complex story about two FBI agents trying to stop a serial killer. If you want an author to capture your attention and have you guessing, yet trying to put the pieces together, Pierce is your author!” —Reader review (Her Last Wish) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A typical Blake Pierce twisting, turning, roller coaster ride suspense thriller. Will have you turning the pages to the last sentence of the last chapter!!!” —Reader review (City of Prey) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Right from the start we have an unusual protagonist that I haven't seen done in this genre before. The action is nonstop… A very atmospheric novel that will keep you turning pages well into the wee hours.” —Reader review (City of Prey) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Everything that I look for in a book… a great plot, interesting characters, and grabs your interest right away. The book moves along at a breakneck pace and stays that way until the end. Now on go I to book two!” —Reader review (Girl, Alone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Exciting, heart pounding, edge of your seat book… a must read for mystery and suspense readers!” —Reader review (Girl, Alone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513

Author : Christopher A. Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520082120
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 written by Christopher A. Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

Reinventing Structuralism

Author : Rodney B. Sangster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311030497X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Structuralism written by Rodney B. Sangster and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph argues that the structuralist movement in linguistics was curtailed prematurely, before its contribution to cognitive science could be fully realized. Building upon Roman Jakobson's pioneering work on the nature of the linguistic sign, a new and detailed appreciation of the role of sign relations in the ultimate structuring of consciousness is presented, proving that the structural approach has as much to contribute today as any current cognitive theory. This study takes the view that the structure which linguistic signs themselves evince should be treated as an organic property of mind in its own right, as the device by which the ultimate differences in meaning in the human cognitive sphere are realized. Adherence to this principle assumes not only that the linguistic sign must be fundamentally monosemic, but also that the level of abstraction at which the relations between signs function must lie beyond the logical or rational level where polysemy is the rule. The study demonstrates that while the conceptual relations or categories uncovered at such a higher-order level of consciousness are of necessity highly abstract and hidden from normal awareness, they are nevertheless neither ineffable nor devoid of content. Rather, the categories identified and defined in this study are shown to have verifiable correlates at the supra-rational level where transpersonal rather than ego-oriented psychology operates, the level that Jung termed the collective unconscious. It is here that we find corresponding properties in reports from altered states of consciousness, in the structure of myths worldwide, as well as in studies of the image-making capacity of the human mind. Ultimately, when the structure of actual linguistic signs is treated as an ordered set of conceptual relations, one necessarily arrives at the conclusion that the sign relations of different languages are anything but Whorfian, but are all pointing to the same universal set of conceptual properties. This set of properties is then shown to be able to account for the relations between signs in all areas of linguistic structure, from the grammatical to the lexical and the syntactic. The monograph goes on to provide a detailed account of the process of making reference, of how speakers are able to contextualize the truly abstract conceptual relations inherent in the structure of signs in their language, to produce a potentially infinite variety of polysemous meanings in actual speech situations at whatever level of concreteness they choose; and how the feedback from such acts of communication determines the evolutionary trajectory of a system of signs conceived as a living organism, specifically as a neuronal structure inherent in the human brain operating as a fundamentally probabilistic or stochastic system.

Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791

Author : Freya Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199251827
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791 written by Freya Johnston and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson's centrality in the late eighteenth century makes his fretfulness about the social and aesthetic boundaries of writing especially fertile and influential. This book suggests that literary taxonomies, inventories, and canons simultaneously construct and reject a hierarchy of ethical as well as aesthetic values, and examines how figures of cultural authority conceive of their relationships to and with the margins of writing and of society.

Rhyme's Rooms

Author : Brad Leithauser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564136
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Rhyme's Rooms written by Brad Leithauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. We treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in these pages, “not for its what but its how.” In chapters on everything from iambic pentameter to how stanzas are put together to “rhyme and the way we really talk,” Leithauser takes a deep dive into the architecture of poetry. He explains how meter and rhyme work in fruitful opposition; how the weirdnesses of spelling in English are a boon to the poet; why an off rhyme will often succeed where a perfect rhyme would not; why Shakespeare and Frost can sound so similar, despite the centuries separating them. And Leithauser is just as likely to invoke Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, or Boz Scaggs as he is Chaucer or Milton, Bishop or Swenson, providing enlightening play-by-plays of their memorable lines. Here is both an indispensable learning tool and a delightful journey into the art of the poem—a chance for new poets and readers of poetry to grasp the fundamentals, and for experienced poets and readers to rediscover excellent works in all their fascinating detail.

Reimagining the Future

Author : G.V. Loewen
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682357341
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Future written by G.V. Loewen and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book like this should not exist. Its topic does not exist, nor does its experience. Yet it is too quick, possessed too much of the now to simply iterate the banality of speculation. Futurology is not futurity, and though it is true by definition that the object of the first remains unknown in the present, the experience of the second is, in fact, what we are. For our being is, in its essence, a being ahead of itself. It is at once always and already ahead ‘of’ itself in that its futurity is a necessity for its presence. We experience the future as a coming to be, as a tension between what we have known and what we could know.” (From the book.) In this, the final volume of G.V. Loewen’s phenomenological trilogy concerning how we experience the understanding of temporality in our lives, the very feeling of time passing, time lost, and time to come, it is the question of the future that animates its closing analyses. At once feared and desired, heralded and cautioned against, the future presents a challenge to human consciousness simply because it is, from the perspective of the present, both unknown and unknowable. It also cannot be located in the past, and not for any paradoxical reason; the past does after all contain hints of what is to come. What is at issue is how to locate such moments and attempt to gain some insight from them. The meaning of the future can be said to be included in a human experience that does not close itself off to what it already imagines it knows, but at the same time must not presume to take the future into its own inevitably narrow embrace.

Split Image

Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Split Image written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s a fish out of water, but he still has a bite. Stefan Mendoza was the world’s deadliest assassin. When he’s forced out of retirement by disaster, the only work he can find is with a rotten corporate executive. The job: Locate an invaluable secret prototype stolen by the couriers hired to transport it. But it’s the grotesque murders preceding the theft that interest Mendoza. And as the hunt goes on, the bodies keep piling up. Pick up Split Image, the first book in this new Mendoza trilogy and dive into the dark underbelly of intrigue and crime.

The Players of Religion

Author : Nicholas Shaw
Publisher : ShieldCrest
ISBN 13 : 0955855780
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Players of Religion written by Nicholas Shaw and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Players of religion is a controversial philosophical discourse that is written in a friendly and entertaining manner, that should show people this is the way in which religion should be discussed. All the characters in this book are of religious significance, but there is one character that was once a true philosopher, and that is Sankara.

The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel

Author : Danielle Marx-Scouras
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041072
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel written by Danielle Marx-Scouras and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rooms of Our Own

Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252073797
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Rooms of Our Own written by Susan Gubar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a little help from Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar contemplates startling transformations produced by the women's movement in recent decades. What advances have women made and what still needs to be done? Taking Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own as her guide, Gubar engages these questions by recounting one year in the life of an English professor. A meditation on the teaching of literature and on the state of the humanities today, her chapters also provide a crash course on the challenges and changes in feminist intellectual history over the past several decades: the influence of post-structuralism and of critical race, postcolonial, and cultural studies scholarship; the stakes of queer theory and the institutionalization of women's studies; and the effects of globalism and bioengineering on conversations about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet Rooms of Our Own eschews a scholarly approach. Instead, through narrative criticism it enlists a thoroughly contemporary cast of characters who tell us as much about the comedies and tragedies of campus life today as they do about the sometimes contentious but invariably liberating feminisms of our future.

Debussy in Performance

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300076266
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy in Performance written by James R. Briscoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Debussy, who composed works of major significance in a wide range of musical and theatrical genres, has exerted a fundamental influence on musicians of the twentieth century. This book explores how Debussy's compositions are brought to life in performance, investigating the composer's own expectations, the traditions surrounding the performance of his music, and the internal and contextual evidence that can give insight to performers of his works. Leading international scholars and interpreters of Debussy's music draw on his letters and music criticism as well as on the memoirs of performers close to him to discuss issues of performance forces, tempo and its flexibility, performer license, and the interpretation of expressive indications in the scores. They urge performers to recognize the symbolism and the value of silence in Debussy's work. And they show that it is particularly important to focus on aspects of timbre, voice-leading, and the musical arabesque, together with meter and phrase ambiguities, when playing his music. The book also includes the translation of an article on the opera Pelleas et Melisande In performance by one of Debussy's original conductors, Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, and an interview with the composer-conductor Pierre Boulez on approaches to Pelleas and the orchestral works.

Toni Morrison

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030885909
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions.

Carrying the Burden of Peace

Author : Sam McKegney
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542848
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Carrying the Burden of Peace written by Sam McKegney and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honor song—one that celebrates, rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Sam McKegney answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued.