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The Raven and the Writing Desk

Author : Francis Huxley
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raven and the Writing Desk written by Francis Huxley and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As all the readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will know, when Alice sat down (uninvited) at the mad tea party, the Hatter opened his eyes very wide and asked, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" The riddle is famous because when Alice in turn asked, "What's the answer?" the Hatter replied that he hadn't the faintest idea. It has provoked ingenious possible answers from many great minds, but in this utterly engaging "Enquiry," Francis Huxley has undertaken the first investigation in depth. - Jacket flap.

Presumptive Design

Author : Leo Frishberg
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128030879
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Presumptive Design written by Leo Frishberg and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you know about the future is wrong. Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation is for people "inventing the future: future products, services, companies, strategies and policies. It introduces a design-research method that shortens time to insights from months to days. Presumptive Design is a fundamentally agile approach to identifying your audiences' key needs. Offering rapidly crafted artifacts, your teams collaborate with your customers to identify preferred and profitable elements of your desired outcome. Presumptive Design focuses on your users' problem space, informing your business strategy, your project's early stage definition, and your innovation pipeline. Comprising discussions of design theory with case studies and how-to's, the book offers business leadership, management and innovators the benefits of design thinking and user experience in the context of early stage problem definition. Presumptive Design is an advanced technique and quick to use: within days of reading this book, your research and design teams can apply the approach to capture a risk-reduced view of your future. - Provides actionable approaches to inform strategy and problem definition through design thinking - Offers a design-based research method to complement existing market, ethnographic and customer research methods - Demonstrates a powerful technique for identifying disruptive innovation early in the innovation pipeline by putting customers first - Presents each concept with case studies and exploration of risk factors involved including warnings for situations in which the technique can be misapplied

Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle

Author : George Hagen
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0385371055
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle written by George Hagen and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A first-rate fantasy for middle-grade readers,” declares Booklist in a starred review, comparing Gabriel Finley to Harry Potter, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, and The Mysterious Benedict Society. A tangle of ingenious riddles, a malevolent necklace called a torc, and flocks of menacing birds: these are just some of the obstacles that stand between Gabriel and his father, Adam Finley, who has vanished from their Brooklyn brownstone. When Gabriel rescues an orphaned baby raven named Paladin, he discovers a family secret: Finleys can bond with ravens in extraordinary ways. Along with Paladin and three valiant friends, Gabriel sets out to bring his father home. They soon discover that Adam is being held captive by the evil demon Corax—half man, half raven, and Adam’s very own disgraced brother—in a foreboding netherworld of birds called Aviopolis. With help from his army of ghoulish minions, the valravens, Corax is plotting to take over the land above, and now only Gabriel stands in his way. “A vivid, compelling fantasy that sends you off to a world you will not soon forget.” —Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth “A great read for fantasy lovers who have worn out their copies of Harry Potter.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Brimful of antic energy and inventive flair, like the best middle-grade fantasies; readers, like baby birds, will devour it and clamor for future installments.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Author : Douglas Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476783004
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul written by Douglas Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Dirk Gently investigates after a passenger at Heathrow airport erupts into a mysterious ball of flames. Mystery, hilarity, and the fantastical are combined in this title from the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. -- HPL Readers Advisor.

The Raven's Tale

Author : Cat Winters
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683354869
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Raven's Tale written by Cat Winters and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage Edgar Allan Poe attempts to escape the allure of his Muse in this YA novel—“a darkly delicious tale that’s sure to haunt readers forevermore” (Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all of Edgar’s plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: “Let them see me!”

Mind of the Raven

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061136054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Mind of the Raven written by Bernd Heinrich and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis, we become their intimates too. Heinrich's passion for ravens has led him around the world in his research. Mind of the Raven follows an exotic journey—from New England to Germany, and from Montana to Baffin Island in the high Arctic—offering dazzling accounts of how science works in the field, filtered through the eyes of a passionate observer of nature. Each new discovery and insight into raven behavior is thrilling to read, at once lyrical and scientific.

Peculiar Language

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415340571
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Peculiar Language written by Derek Attridge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this classic text is established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. Re-issued as a result of recent critical interest, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

Discovering Stephen King's The Shining

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557421331
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Stephen King's The Shining written by Tony Magistrale and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of criticism on King's book and Kubrick's film adaptation "The Shining."

Conceptual Mathematics and Literature

Author : Yair Neuman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004442375
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Mathematics and Literature written by Yair Neuman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old practices of interpretation have been exhausted, and the humanities and social sciences are facing a crisis. Is there a way out of the labyrinth of reading? In this book, Professor Neuman presents a challenging approach to interpreting texts and reading literature through the spectacles of conceptual mathematics. This approach strives to avoid the simplicity of a quantitative approach to the analysis of literature as well as both the relativistic and the ideological dangers facing a qualitative reading of a text. The approach is introduced in a rigorous and accessible manner and woven with insights gained from various fields. Taking us on a challenging journey from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro, the book shows how we may gain a deeper understanding of literature and the aesthetic experience of reading.

The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241831
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books) written by Lewis Carroll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-11-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars—for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Forty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner's 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Illustrated with John Tenniel's classic, beloved art—along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches—The Annotated Alice will be Gardner's most beautiful and enduring tribute to Carroll's masterpieces yet.

Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle

Author : George Hagen
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0399552227
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle written by George Hagen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A first-rate fantasy for middle-grade readers,” declares Booklist in a starred review, comparing Gabriel Finley to Harry Potter, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, and The Mysterious Benedict Society. A tangle of ingenious riddles, a malevolent necklace called a torc, and flocks of menacing birds: these are just some of the obstacles that stand between Gabriel and his father, Adam Finley, who has vanished from their Brooklyn brownstone. When Gabriel rescues an orphaned baby raven named Paladin, he discovers a family secret: Finleys can bond with ravens in extraordinary ways. Along with Paladin and three valiant friends, Gabriel sets out to bring his father home. They soon discover that Adam is being held captive by the evil demon Corax—half man, half raven, and Adam’s very own disgraced brother—in a foreboding netherworld of birds called Aviopolis. With help from his army of ghoulish minions, the valravens, Corax is plotting to take over the land above, and now only Gabriel stands in his way. “A vivid, compelling fantasy that sends you off to a world you will not soon forget.” —Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth “A great read for fantasy lovers who have worn out their copies of Harry Potter.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Brimful of antic energy and inventive flair, like the best middle-grade fantasies; readers, like baby birds, will devour it and clamor for future installments.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Wishing Game

Author : Meg Shaffer
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593598857
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Wishing Game written by Meg Shaffer and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel. “Clever, dark, and hopeful . . . a love letter to reading and the power that childhood stories have over us long after we’ve grown up.”—V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, She Reads, Bookreporter Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher’s aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability. But be careful what you wish for. . . . Just when Lucy is about to give up, Jack Masterson announces he’s finally written a new book. Even better, he’s holding a contest at his home on the real Clock Island, and Lucy is one of the four lucky contestants chosen to compete to win the one and only copy. For Lucy, the chance of winning the most sought-after book in the world means everything to her and Christopher. But first she must contend with ruthless book collectors, wily opponents, and the distractingly handsome (and grumpy) Hugo Reese, the illustrator of the Clock Island books. Meanwhile, Jack “the Mastermind” Masterson is plotting the ultimate twist ending that could change all their lives forever. . . . You might just get it.

The Monstered Self

Author : Eduardo González
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Monstered Self written by Eduardo González and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Benjamin, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Poe, and others. What interests González is the signature of authorial selfhood in narrative and performance, which he finds willfully and temptingly disfigured in the works he examines: horrific and erotic, subservient and tyrannical, charismatic and repellent. Searching out the personal image and plot, González uncovers two fundamental types of narrative: one that strips character of moral choice; and another in which characters' choices deprive them of personal autonomy and hold them in ritual bondage to a group. Thus The Monstered Self becomes a study of the conflict between individual autonomy and the stereotypes of solidarity. Written in a characteristically allusive, elliptical style, and drawing on psychoanalysis, religion, mythology, and comparative literature, The Monstered Self is in itself a remarkable performance, one that will engage readers in anthropology, psychology, and cultural history as well as those specifically interested in Latin American narrative.

Madness of a Bleeding Heart: The Back Road to Wonderland Book Two

Author : David R. Metheny
Publisher : David Metheny
ISBN 13 : 1310376220
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Madness of a Bleeding Heart: The Back Road to Wonderland Book Two written by David R. Metheny and published by David Metheny. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a world… Hidden beneath us… Where Once Upon a Time… Becomes corrupted with excess and control… When Kayden Daniels is thrown from being a New York City multimillionaire… Into the world of Wonderland… His destiny of becoming The Mad Hatter will begin Thrown together by Fate – a messenger of the Heart’s family- a Seductive young man- and a stranger With a mission will collide to set in motion an epic battle between good and evil. Return down the back road where Fate takes a stand and experience a new version of Wonderland. Betrayed by the King he loves the lines between good and evil will blur. Bondage and madness become the seeds that form an empire and when a dark force is released in Wonderland, can an ancient crystal hold the key to lands survival or destruction? Rejoin your favorite character from Seduction of a King and flash back to the beginning of an ancient world where pleasure and greed are unlimited and glamour only hides what is lurking behind the surface. Where men can fall in love or just fulfill their lust and the fate of four young strangers will shape the future of the world we know as Wonderland and form the destiny of a Hatter. The Back Road to Wonderland series begins with the formative days of the Mad Hatter before “Alice” fell down the rabbit hole. A journey that will take him from the medieval district of the Heart’s to the building of an empire. Can one man have it all and still find true love? The answer is only a seduction away.

Spinoza's Ethics

Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110822864X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Spinoza's Ethics written by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's Ethics, published in 1677, is considered his greatest work and one of history's most influential philosophical treatises. This volume brings established scholars together with new voices to engage with the complex system of philosophy proposed by Spinoza in his masterpiece. Topics including identity, thought, free will, metaphysics, and reason are all addressed, as individual chapters investigate the key themes of the Ethics and combine to offer readers a fresh and thought-provoking view of the work as a whole. Written in a clear and accessible style, the volume sets out cutting-edge research that reflects, challenges, and promotes the most recent scholarly advances in the field of Spinoza studies, tackling old issues and bringing to light new subjects for debate.

Alice's Adventures

Author : Will Brooker
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826414335
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Alice's Adventures written by Will Brooker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Batman Unmasked" and "Using the Force", turns his attention to Lewis Carroll and Alice taking the reader through a revealing tour of late 20th Century popular culture, following Alice and her creator wherever they go. The result is an in-depth analysis of how one original creation symbolizes different things to different people.

The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646425197
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays written by Elliott Oring and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing a joke as Jewish or Scottish or Japanese? What do we really know about “dirty jokes”? How is a text or behavior constructed so that it is perceived as humorous? Can we get a computer to reliably recognize jokes? What is the relevance of memetics and a Darwinian paradigm to understanding folklore change over time? Can we identify laws operating in the realm of folklore? How can the marginalization, extinction, or continuity of traditions be explained? In the course of addressing these questions, Elliott Oring identifies some fundamental problems, brings new evidence and observations to the discussion, and proffers some original and startling insights. While recognizing the study of jokes and other forms of folklore as a humanistic endeavor, Oring believes in the relevance of a scientific perspective to the enterprise. He values clear definitions, tests of hypotheses and theories, empirical evidence, experiment, and the search for laws. Written in a sophisticated yet accessible style, The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays stimulates both scholars and students alike and contributes to the creation of a more robust folkloristics in the twenty-first century.