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A Monk's Alphabet

Author : Jeremy Driscoll
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834826429
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book A Monk's Alphabet written by Jeremy Driscoll and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the desert fathers to our own "post-Christian" age, the literature of monastic wisdom has provided inspiration for those of us who lead ordinary lives in the world. Father Jeremy Driscoll, a poet and theologian who is also a Benedictine monk, brings the genre into the twenty-first century with this exquisitely written collection of reflections on life from a monastic perspective. Whether reflecting on the details of the cloistered life, or observing the weirdness of American culture, explaining a fine point of Catholic theology to a child, or meditating on the flight of a seagull over the glittering ocean at sunrise, Fr. Jeremy’s voice both enchants and provokes us to further contemplation. The 189 meditations are arranged by short titles in alphabetical order to emphasize that the reader should approach them in random fashion, without preconceived ideas, in order to be open to where they lead the heart and mind.

The Monk's Alphabet

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Monk's Alphabet written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ciphers of the Monks

Author : David A. King
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515076401
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book The Ciphers of the Monks written by David A. King and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.

The Illuminated Alphabet

Author : Patricia Seligman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402717444
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Illuminated Alphabet written by Patricia Seligman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions for creating intricate, decorative letters from five historical periods: Celtic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Modern Revival.

Inventing the Alphabet

Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815803
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.

The Alphabet Not Unlike the World

Author : Katrina Vandenberg
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318631
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Alphabet Not Unlike the World written by Katrina Vandenberg and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her highly ambitious second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg takes her inspiration from the alphabet. A meditation on the hump of a camel, and what it hides. A reminder that tomatoes belong to the nightshade family, and a vision of the plant as Adam’s downfall. The Book of Kells, gold-leafed and extravagantly decorated by monks. Titled for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative forms as the ancient ghazal, these poems are richly grounded in objects both humble and exotic. Vandenberg explores the intersection of power and forgiveness, and deciphers the seemingly indecipherable in emotionally poignant ways. “What will protect us?” one poem asks. “The words will be our weapons. In the end.” Moving between the physical and the abstract, the individual and the collective, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World unearths meaning—with astonishing beauty—from the pain of loss and separation.

The Monastic Way

Author : Hannah Ward
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848254148
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Monastic Way written by Hannah Ward and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of daily readings drawn from the writings of those who have lived the monastic life in all the major spiritual traditions of the Eastern and Western Churches: Benedictine, Franciscan, Orthodox, Carmelite, and others. For each month there is a specific theme: Starting Out, Seeking Guidance, Living With Others, Balancing Life and so on, through the year. Each theme is introduced by quotations from one of the great monastic Rules, and for each day of the year there is an excerpt from the writings of a huge variety of men and women stretching across the centuries, from 5th century Desert Mothers to Basil Hume, Joan Chittister, Thomas Merton and many more familiar and new names. This is a book for all who are looking to an ancient, rooted wisdom for practical guidance on living in the world today.

Monastic Sign Languages

Author : Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110865025
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Sign Languages written by Jean Umiker-Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pantographia; Containing Accurate Copies Of All The Known Alphabets In The World

Author : Edmund Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Pantographia; Containing Accurate Copies Of All The Known Alphabets In The World written by Edmund Fry and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christ is in Our Midst

Author : Īoann (skhi-igumen)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913836644
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Christ is in Our Midst written by Īoann (skhi-igumen) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in wisdom and humility, these are letters of a true contemplative and spiritual guide, able to rejoice and trust God in the face of an increasingly materialistic world, discerning in all circumstances meaning and a dimension of eternity.

SPANISH ALPHABET: Travels from A to Z

Author : John O'Neill
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471635554
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book SPANISH ALPHABET: Travels from A to Z written by John O'Neill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going through all twenty-seven letters of the Spanish alphabet, the author takes us from little-known Ayllón to industrial Mieres to monumental Zamora and places in between and beyond, all scattered around the four corners of this land he knows so intimately. We meet colourful characters and surprising situations, humour and irreverence, undisguised criticism and limitless praise, independent opinions and a deep respect for the essence of Spain past and present: for its history and culture and - most of all - for its people.

Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval

Author : Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval written by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of antiquities; and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval

Author : Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of antiquities; and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval written by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Educating Monks

Author : Thomas A. Borchert
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824866487
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Educating Monks written by Thomas A. Borchert and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above—collectively and often simultaneously. Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpannā, a region located on China’s southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are “double minorities”: They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Theravāda Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mahāyāna Buddhism is the norm. Theravāda has long been the primary training ground for Dai-lue men, and since the return of Buddhism to the area in the years following Mao Zedong’s death, the Dai-lue have put many of their resources into providing monastic education for their sons. However, the author’s analysis of institutional organization within Sipsongpannā, the governance of religion there, and the movements of monks (revealing the “ethnoscapes” that the monks of Sipsongpannā participate in) points to educational contexts that depend not just on local villagers, but also resources from the local (Communist) government and aid form Chinese Mahāyāna monks and Theravāda monks from Thailand and Myanmar. While the Dai-lue monks draw on these various resources for the development of the sangha, they do not share the same agenda and must continually engage in a careful political dance between villagers who want to revive traditional forms of Buddhism, a Chinese state that is at best indifferent to the continuation of Buddhism, and transnational monks that want to import their own modern forms of Buddhism into the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Dai-lue monks in China, Thailand, and Singapore, this ambitious and sophisticated study will find a ready audience among students and scholars of the anthropology of Buddhism, and religion, education, and transnationalism in Southeast and East Asia.

The Roots of Reading

Author : Dr. Ijya C. Tulloss
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546275371
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Reading written by Dr. Ijya C. Tulloss and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ROOTS OF READING • Writing is the ability to leave information through symbols while reading is the ability to retrieve information previously written. • Writing is transcribing words we speak into understandable symbols that we see. • We are not born speaking but we are wired to acquire the speech that we hear in a relatively short time flawlessly. • We have the inherent capacity to form concepts and label concepts with words. • Reading is an outgrowth of speaking. It follows that to be a good reader one must be a fluent speaker and commands a wide range of vocabulary. • Unlike speaking, we need to be taught to read and write. We build a vocabulary of using symbols to represent the sounds that make up words. Similarly we represent auditory signs with visual signs. These signs are represented by the letters of the alphabet. • We communicate verbally through speaking and listening. • For written communication, we use writing (sending a message) and reading (retrieving message). The method of representing sounds that make up words with signs is called phonics. • Writing is simply representing the sounds (letters) we use in saying a word. Reading is retrieving the message we wrote. • Analyzing the sounds that make up a word is called decoding. Choosing letters to represent the sounds of the word we want to say is encoding. Decoding and encoding are the cornerstones of reading and writing. • At first the process of decoding is slow but with practice, automaticity sets in and decoding is faster. Decoding then is reading. • To be an effective reader one needs to develop a subset of skills as follows: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension.

Twitterbots

Author : Tony Veale
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262346443
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Twitterbots written by Tony Veale and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe. Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape. In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots, from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of Microsoft's @TayAndYou (which “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation. Some bots are as malevolent as their authors. Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on The Dark Web.” —@PROSECCOnetwork "If writing is like cooking then this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made with whale blubber instead of butter.” —@PROSECCOnetwork These bot critiques generated at https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/PROSECCOnetwork

You Can't Read This

Author : Val Ross
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770490868
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book You Can't Read This written by Val Ross and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress Shotoku of Japan who in 764 ordered the printing of one million Buddhist prayers; from the story of Hulagu, Ghengis Khan’s nasty brother who destroyed the library of Baghdad to Bowdler and the censorship of Shakespeare, there have been barriers to reading ranging from the physical to the economical, social, and political. Written for children ages ten and up, You Can’t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America. It's about secret writing, trashed libraries, writers on the run, writers in hiding, books that are thought to have magical powers and mistranslations that started wars. It's about people: from the American slave Frederick Douglass to girls in Afghanistan in the year 2001 who defied laws that prevented them from learning to read. What do all these stories have in common? They’re all about how texts contain power – and how people everywhere throughout history have devoted their wills and their brains to reading and unleashing the power of the word. With lavish illustrations and an index, this is history at its finest.