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Phantoms on the Bookshelves

Author : Jacques Bonnet
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623652634
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Phantoms on the Bookshelves written by Jacques Bonnet and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his many thousands of books, as well as overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors past and present are learned, witty and instructive, his advice on cataloguing may even save the lives of those whose books are so prodigiously piled as to be a hazard. Phantoms on the Bookshelves ranges from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac and Moby Dick to Google, offering up delicious anecdotes along the way. This elegantly produced volume will be a lasting delight to specialist collectors, librarians, bibliophiles and all those who treasure books.

Phantom of the Music Room

Author : Janet Gardner
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457439988
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Phantom of the Music Room written by Janet Gardner and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who or what is that shadowy figure playing the piano in the school music room after dark? Several students and Deputy Barney set out to solve this musical mystery with surprising results. Phantom of the Music Room features six songs with clever texts set to musical classics by Chopin, Dvorák, Sousa and others. For grades 3 and up. App. 30 minutes.

What a Library Means to a Woman

Author : Sheila Liming
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960666
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book What a Library Means to a Woman written by Sheila Liming and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.

Embodied Imaginations

Author : Chidambaram Ramesh
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9357604103
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Imaginations written by Chidambaram Ramesh and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science behind the writers’ experience of characters developing their own will and taking objective forms. Many writers have the experience that their characters have evolved their own personalities. They start to tell their own stories, and sometimes they could even rebel against the author’s ideas for them and change the course of the whole plot. That is not all, though. Sometimes, literary characters assume objective appearances which are visible not just to the creators, but also to others and manifesting in the real world. These experiences raise several interesting philosophical and scientific questions. Have the writers unwittingly created quasi-conscious entities by the power of their minds? Can thoughts manifest as something tangible that can be seen, heard, or even touched? How genuine are the contents of the mind? Embodied Imaginations explores these questions, highlighting the results of an investigation on this fascinating topic, stemming from personal anecdotes of many writers. Providing scientific evidence for the existences of these mental constructs, the goal is to collect robust and reliable building blocks that may help to deconstruct perceptions and provide answers to this phenomenon. The book attempts to give modern science a place where spiritual, philosophical and mystical threads can be interwoven. Efforts have been made to corroborate theoretical claims with experimental evidence, contributing to research in cognitive psychology to determine the role of imagination in creating external reality. This book will introduce you to the mysterious and profound part of creative writing that you never knew existed before.

The Surviving Image

Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271072098
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Surviving Image written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in French in 2002, examines the life and work of art historian Aby Warburg. Demonstrates the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas, addressing broader questions regarding art historians' conceptions of time, memory, symbols, and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche.

The Meaning of the Library

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175748
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Library written by Edith Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.

Browsings

Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605988456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Browsings written by Michael Dirda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.

Searchers

Author : Lively Thorne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505872088
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Searchers written by Lively Thorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyber Hastings has one real friend in the world or is Sophie imaginary? Find out as you begin with the first steps of a thousand mile journey...

Front-Line Librarianship

Author : Guy Robertson
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081027788
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Front-Line Librarianship written by Guy Robertson and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates. The book's author presents an unrivalled portrait of front-line librarianship that is based upon his unique experience and voice. Chapters consider workplace matters, the fate of hardcopy books, speechmaking at conferences, the effects of recessions on libraries, continuing education, and corporate gift-giving programs. This book will make an excellent and useful addition to library collections in library science. Tells stories and presents interviews, bringing color and texture to library experience Shows librarianship from the perspective of a long-term practitioner Gives different approaches to a great range of real-life workplace issues

A Marriage of Philosophy and Music

Author : Erich Welling
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1628574119
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book A Marriage of Philosophy and Music written by Erich Welling and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use philosophy and music to open your horizons and enjoy being yourself, put theory to work, and help you experience personal growth is discussed in A Marriage of Philosophy and Music. It is all about "after." After having a liberal education, you are comfortable in modern culture, and after further education and becoming a specialist in some field, you enjoy using your skills. We learn the ideas and methods of many social cultures and our own chosen specialty, but we often neglect the liberal art of disciplining and enjoying the ideas and methods of our own individuality. This book offers a path toward the education of privacy, with the key words being selection, design, and beauty. The book relates five areas of general human interest: spirituality, philosophy, science, art, and body awareness. The interrelation is accomplished by using personal patterns of experience that are available from philosophy and music. Because of the plurality of subject matters and methods used in philosophy and music, their patterns of discipline are comparable to self-discipline. A Marriage of Philosophy and Music attempts to create a path in this direction, because besides the enjoyment of social culture and personal skills, there is enjoyment in being yourself, which is a neglected liberal art.

Say You're One of Them

Author : Uwem Akpan
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316032522
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Say You're One of Them written by Uwem Akpan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly

The Phantom Isles

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908166
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Isles written by Stephen Alter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When three sixth-graders break into the town library to read aloud from a book of sorcery, little do they know they are about to raise the dead. The spirits they conjure are trapped within the pages of library books, and must now rely on the children and their determined librarian to set them free.

Making History

Author : Richard Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982195800
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Richard Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country. “Scholarly, lively, quotable, up-to-date, and fun” (Hilary Mantel, author of the bestselling Thomas Cromwell trilogy), Making History investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest chroniclers to discover the agendas that informed their—and our—views of the world. From the origins of history writing, when such an activity itself seemed revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, Cohen brings captivating figures to vivid light, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, Winston Churchill and Henry Louis Gates. Rich in complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a revealing exploration of both the aims and art of history-making, one that will lead us to rethink how we learn about our past and about ourselves.

By the Way

Author : 9781490784151
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490784152
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book By the Way written by 9781490784151 and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE WAY... will appeal to book-lovers who enjoy titbits of history, economics, politics and religion, among other bookish morsels. In discussing global issues old and new and as varied as colonialism, economic development, militarism and Christianity, Dereck C. Sale explores vistas that expand on his Testament of the Third Man of ten years ago. With wandering eye he takes us on a personal stroll down memory lane, footprints entrusted to the future.

By the Way

Author : Dereck C. Sale
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490784144
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book By the Way written by Dereck C. Sale and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE WAY will appeal to book-lovers who enjoy titbits of history, economics, politics and religion, among other bookish morsels. In discussing global issues old and new and as varied as colonialism, economic development, militarism and Christianity, Dereck C. Sale explores vistas that expand on his Testament of the Third Man of ten years ago. With wandering eye he takes us on a personal stroll down memory lane, footprints entrusted to the future.

Feasts of Phantoms

Author : Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
Publisher : Fisher King Press
ISBN 13 : 0981393926
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Feasts of Phantoms written by Kehinde Adeola Ayeni and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a well meaning mother to protect her daughter from a culture where the birth of a baby girl is met with despair because the only future open to her is that of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy, which would doom her to a life of illiteracy and poverty as it has doomed her lineage before her? Genital mutilation has many causes but at the root of all of them is fear. A fear that pushes a mother to do the unthinkable to a daughter that she loves? What does a scapegoat do with the fate she has been handed? Accept it and roll with it, or reject it? How is she to reject it when the acceptance of her role is needed for her culture's psychic equilibrium? In the theater of the mind where all springs forth, is there such a thing as an innocent victim, and a victimizer? Feasts of Phantoms is a novel that explores of all of these questions.

Invasion of the Space Phantoms

Author : Steve Behling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781368047197
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Invasion of the Space Phantoms written by Steve Behling and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether running Stark Industries or suited up as Iron Man, Tony Stark has dedicated his life to making sure his technologies do not harm others. When S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson informs Tony that two Avengers went missing while looking into one of his inventions, Tony immediately transforms into Iron Man and jets off to find them! But his simple rescue turns out to be ... Not so simple. Along the way he must face mutating dogs, robotic sharks, and freaky shape-shifting monsters from another dimension! As Tony tries to take on the problems himself, he realizes he needs help from his fellow Avengers. But will they arrive in time? Or will Tony be left out in the cold against another threat, The Space Phantons?"--Back cover.