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Book Synopsis Telling Silence by : Charles E. Scott
Download or read book Telling Silence written by Charles E. Scott and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dimension of lives, both human and nonhuman. Attunements with silence enable attunements with being alive in the fragility that invests even the strengths of living beings. Telling Silence performs this attunement in descriptive accounts and instances of non-reflective awareness, awareness that does not deliberate or ponder. In twenty-three "fragments," poems, stories, and ways of thinking and speaking are brought together to intensify intimations of silence telling of itself.
Book Synopsis The Sound of Silence by : Katrina Goldsaito
Download or read book The Sound of Silence written by Katrina Goldsaito and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hears shoes squishing through puddles, trains whooshing, cars beeping, and families laughing. Tokyo is like a symphony hall! Where is silence? Join Yoshio on his journey through the hustle and bustle of the city to find the most beautiful sound of all.
Book Synopsis Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy by : Morag Shiach
Download or read book Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy written by Morag Shiach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy, this is an in-depth study of how co-created and collaborative research projects work on the ground and will be of immense value to all these audiences. Chapters by researchers and practitioners examine a range of collaborative research projects supported by Creativeworks London’s vouchers, which cover a large number of creative industry sectors and academic disciplines. The book identifies key learning from these projects that has wider relevance for academics, funders, policy makers, and SMEs in the creative economy. Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural history at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she is also Director of Creativeworks London and Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences. Her publications include Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture; Feminism and Cultural Studies; Hélène Cixous: A Politics of Writing; and Discourse on Popular Culture. Dr. Virani obtained his PhD from King’s College London, UK. He is a full time researcher for Creativeworks London research project at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research interests include the role of knowledge in the cultural economy, artistic knowledge within locally bounded artistic communities, and new work spaces in the creative and cultural economy. /div
Download or read book Punktown written by Jeffrey Thomas and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Thomas' collection Punktown explored the streets and back alleys of a futuristic and nightmarish urbanscape in a series of unconnected short stories. In Punktown: Third Eye, Thomas has teleported authors Simon Logan, Jonathan Lyons, Charlee Jacob, Paul G. Tremblay, Michael McCarty, Mark McLaughlin, Garrett Peck, Thomas Andrew Hughes, and Scott Thomas into the city to pen their own tales of its citizens, aliens, mutations, and sentient machines. These talented authors bring a new perspective, a personal vision, a third eye view to the phantasmetropolis that is Punktown.
Download or read book False Positive written by J. J. Dare and published by Second Wind Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Daniels had tried for years to put his military, special op, mercenary past behind him. He married a beautiful woman and settled into a mundane job as a police detective. Then everything came crashing down around him. A terrible accident that nearly claimed his wife's life not only opened the door to his past, but forced him to recognize all of his perceptions of the world around him were wrong. People he had known as friends were now part of a nameless enemy intent on stealing his life. He became a hunted and haunted man. As he traveled down the dangerous road to discovery and revenge, he uncovered realities that would shake the very core of his perception of the world. He discovered secrets buried in legend, secrets no man could even hint at without fatal consequences and would forever change everything around him. Say goodbye to illusions of the life around you and hello to an awful reality. Welcome to Joe's world.
Book Synopsis In the Company of Others by : Julie E. Czerneda
Download or read book In the Company of Others written by Julie E. Czerneda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humans set out to explore the universe, they found a number of planets suitable for colonizing. The one thing they didn't find was intelligent life. And so the terraforming of worlds began, with eager immigrant families temporarily housed in space stations till their new home planets were ready. But the technicians made one all-important mistake by introducing the alien Quill to worlds where they did not belong. The Quill were supposed to be destroyed when the crews finished their work, but some survived, multiplied, and mutated till they were no longer harmless. They were deadly.
Book Synopsis The House At The End Of The Lane by : Angel Van Atta
Download or read book The House At The End Of The Lane written by Angel Van Atta and published by Angel N. Van Atta. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And so the story went for the house at the end of the lane. It fed on death and greed and misery. Houses are built to protect what lives within their walls, but if the wrong people are in charge of building those walls, or if the wrong circumstances take place inside them, then houses can grow cruel and dark, like a human can. With too much abuse and neglect, a house can even grow evil.” Philip Moraley has it all. The perfect spouse, Abagail. The perfect children, Phillipina, Thomas, and James. All safely nestled inside of the perfect house; until his cousin, Joanna Moraley, arrives for a Christmas visit that twists this fairytale estate into a gruesome nightmare. From its rebirth into darkness as a home for wayward pregnant girls, to its return to the folds of its founding family, generations have fed this House blood, despair, tears, and anguish. Its sights are now set on the latest household of Moraley’s as they cross the threshold into its malevolent clutches. Is their love strong enough to lead the House and its inhabitants back into the light?
Download or read book The Hardest Path written by Matt Jardine and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Japanese island of Shikoku, amidst mountains, coasts, and bamboo forests, lies one of the worlds most sacred trailsthe eighty-eight-temple pilgrimage. Inspired by Paulo Coelho (author of the Alchemist) and driven by dissatisfaction with the day-to-day grind, Matt Jardine embarks on a journey in search of answers to lifes great questions, mysteries that confound us all. Heartfelt, accessible, humorous, and profound, what he discovers is that the hardest path is rarely the one we walk outside, but the one we walk within.
Book Synopsis The Mary Russell Series Books 1-4 by : Laurie R. King
Download or read book The Mary Russell Series Books 1-4 written by Laurie R. King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in one volume, the first four novels featuring the retired Sherlock Holmes and his disciple Mary Russell by New York Times-bestselling author Laurie R. King. The Beekeeper's Apprentice In 1915, Sherlock Holmes and his fifteen-year-old protege Mary Russell are called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past. A Monstrous Regiment of Women It is 1921 and Mary Russell is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Her attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic. When four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? A Letter of Mary It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and Sherlock Holmes are visited by an old friend, an archaeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient, controversial manuscript. When their friend is suddenly killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. The Moor In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons Mary Russell to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. There have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of a hound with a single glowing eye. Returning to the scene of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves.
Book Synopsis Journey from Head to Heart by : Nancy Oelklaus
Download or read book Journey from Head to Heart written by Nancy Oelklaus and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving never-ending problems and working harder and harder and not arriving at their destination, this resource discusses how to live and work from the power of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by : Debasish Das
Download or read book Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals written by Debasish Das and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we associate the Red Fort with the view of the Prime Minister proudly unfurling the national flag every year on 15 August on the massive red wall curtain. To children and even most of us, the Red Fort is only this view that is broadcast on television. It is the ubiquitous image often used in marketing as well. Many of us haven’t even bothered to go inside the Fort, and many, including me, satisfied ourselves with our photos taken in front of this wall. This actually is a later addition erected by Shah Jahan’s son Aurangzeb. The Red Fort is much more than this red wall and the platform where the prime minister delivers his speech. In the book, the author attempts to swipe aside the wall and take a deep dive inside the Fort – not just the physical structures but how exactly the planning was done to create a truly complex and artistic palace fortress, to explore the Mughal way of life with their festivals, ceremonies, food and clothing amongst other themes. The beauty of the fort can only be understood and best appreciated from the string of apartments that once lined the river Yamuna on its opposite side. It must have been beautiful indeed to glide down the Yamuna on a boat and appreciate all the buildings that housed the emperor’s private quarters. Now the river has receded afar, but in olden times the various private apartments such as the Rang mahal, Khwabgah (‘abode of dreams’) or the emperor’s bed-chamber as well as the famous Diwan-e-Khas where the Mughal Emperor sat on the Peacock Throne were lined along the river front. There is a reason why the pioneering British historian-explorer James Fergusson termed the Red Fort ‘the most magnificent palace in the East.’ It was a creative venture well integrated to a new city and was truly unrivalled with respect to its design as well as functioning. The book also highlights that, though separated in time by more than three centuries from today, we can still visualize how the unsure footsteps which Babur took in Hindustan took shape in the reign of Shah Jahan, a connoisseur of art and culture. Descending on one side from Genghis Khan and the brutal Tamerlane on the other, Babur gained an irreversible entry to India in the plains of Panipat almost unexpectedly, by defeating a mammoth army of Ibrahim Lodi in 1526. The Mughals, which was the Persian word for ‘Mongols’, set up an incredible empire in Agra and Delhi, to which were born great emperors like Akbar and Shah Jahan. Apart from magnificent monuments they also built a truly syncretic culture of shared values, encouraged free exchange of knowledge and established rituals, customs and festivals that assimilated age-old traditions from east and west. Even the Taj Mahal, described by Rabindranath Tagore as a ‘teardrop on the face of Time’, was built as a symbol of love of a king to his departed queen, like an re-incarnation of Majnun for his Laila, so different from the obvious imagery that a barbaric king may evoke in one’s mind. Similarly, the Red Fort of Delhi was the culmination of Mughal soft power. With profusely laid flower and fruit-bearing char-bagh gardens criss-crossed with streams of water canals, it was layered in symbolism that art historians find interesting even after many centuries to discuss elements that give it a sense of freshness even with the mere empty shell of buildings left behind after 1857. As the author says, “Delhi however lived up to its reputation of slipping through the very fingers of those who attempted to raise a new city here: starting with Prithvi Raj Chauhan’s Lal Kot; Allauddin Khilji’s Siri; the Tughluq trio’s troika of Tughluqabad, Jahanpanah & Kotla Firuz Shah; Humayun’s Dinpanah and later Lutyen’s Delhi of the British; Shah Jahan’s majestic offering to the city of his choice was soon to be destroyed by fate.” The narrative follows the incidents of 1857 till the British Durbars and highlights that the Fort was not the home of the Mughals only in their prime, but also in their decline and till their very extinction. The book seeks to present the lived culture of Mughals in all its multiple facets. The book is divided in four parts. In Part 1 the focus is on the Imperial court and the court etiquette, cultivation of Persian and its enrichment with translations from Sanskrit, patronage of Hindu and Jain scholars. Part 2 contains detailed accounts of the Red Fort and the symbolism of its architecture, the philosophy of jharokha darshan, ceremonies, games and pastimes, the material culture of costumes and jewellery, food, drink and perfumery. The remaining two parts deal with the decline and fall of the Mughal rule and the British Colonial Durbars at the Red Fort. The broadly historical narrative is enlivened by various anecdotes.
Download or read book Mors & Vita written by Tim Nash and published by Tim Nash. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the towering corridors of City Hospital, Dr. Alexander Mors—the Angel of Death—carries a somber secret. With his rare gift, he stands at the threshold of mortality, guiding the souls that pass through his care. Alongside him, his sister, Elizabeth Vita, serves as a beacon of hope in the chaos, an EMT with the power to shield the living from spectral harm. They are the guardians at the brink, where life's final breath meets the afterworld's embrace. But the city they protect is under siege by shadows. A chilling specter weaves a tapestry of disaster, its dark tendrils reaching for the vulnerable spirits caught in Elizabeth's domain. As the balance between realms shudders, the siblings face not just the trials of their duties, but a malevolent plot that threatens to unravel the fabric of existence. Enter Nurse Jenna Hargrove, whose keen eye for detail and tenacious curiosity unravel the mysteries that shroud Dr. Mors. Thrust into their hidden war against forces she once dismissed as superstition, Jenna discovers that reality is far more intricate—and fragile—than she ever imagined. Together, amidst the rubble of broken lives and the whispers of the departed, they must forge an alliance with ethereal beings. They will confront the encroaching darkness with light, hope, and determination. But can they mend the veil before the specter's malevolence consumes all?
Book Synopsis Microcosmic God by : Theodore Sturgeon
Download or read book Microcosmic God written by Theodore Sturgeon and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the title story, which was voted one of the five greatest SF stories of all time, this collection includes such Theodore Sturgeon classics as "Cargo" and "Yesterday Was Monday".
Download or read book Across Borders written by Ursula Wooden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My poems mirror my true identity. They make me transparent. The topics covered are a spontaneous response to anything that catches my attention, and moments of reminiscing of the past and the present. I have tried to capture color and movement as I am an art enthusiast, and moods that swing in with the changing seasons. The Malaysian and the American landscape and my travels to other foreign destinations provided the backdrop for my work.
Book Synopsis The Effigy of Love by : Tony Sjöblom
Download or read book The Effigy of Love written by Tony Sjöblom and published by Tony Sjöblom. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endrick dreams of a fairy tale of his own; hoping to find an escape from his gray life; to find a treasure worth dying for: Love. But can love even be found if searched for? Is the concept real or is it only fiction? Most important of all: If one was lucky enough to fall in love, how would one know?
Book Synopsis The Madagaskar Plan by : Guy Saville
Download or read book The Madagaskar Plan written by Guy Saville and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Saville's The Madagaskar Plan imagines a disturbing alternate history in which Nazi victory in World War II brings their "Final Solution" ever closer The year is 1953. There is peace in Europe, but a victorious Germany consolidates power in Africa. The lynchpin to its final solution is Madagaskar. Hitler has ordered the resettlement of European Jews to the remote island. British forces conspire to incite colony-wide revolt, resting their hopes on the expertise of Reuben Salois, an escaped leader of Jewish resistance. Ex-mercenary Burton Cole scours the island for his wife and child. But as chaos descends and the Nazis brutally suppress the nascent insurrection, Cole must decide whether he is master of-or at the mercy of-history. The Madagaskar Plan is alternate history of the highest order, a thriller of terrifying scope based on the Nazis' actual plans prior to the Holocaust.
Download or read book Eyes of a Hawk written by Sean Crowe and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaf bound by Intrif II, a maddened delinquent obsessed with the early Hedonistic Historians, the ancient poem 'Eyes of a Hawk' follows the demise of the woeforging, lifedraining, soulsearing Valestian Primacy at the sword-bitten hands of Ilyia, Hawk, and their amassed force.
