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Wild Braid

Author : Stanley Kunitz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393329976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Wild Braid written by Stanley Kunitz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality."—Booklist Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.

A Gentle Introduction To Knots, Links And Braids

Author : Ruben Aldrovandi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811248508
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Introduction To Knots, Links And Braids written by Ruben Aldrovandi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interface between Physics and Mathematics has been increasingly spotlighted by the discovery of algebraic, geometric, and topological properties in physical phenomena. A profound example is the relation of noncommutative geometry, arising from algebras in mathematics, to the so-called quantum groups in the physical viewpoint. Two apparently unrelated puzzles — the solubility of some lattice models in statistical mechanics and the integrability of differential equations for special problems — are encoded in a common algebraic condition, the Yang-Baxter equation. This backdrop motivates the subject of this book, which reveals Knot Theory as a highly intuitive formalism that is intimately connected to Quantum Field Theory and serves as a basis to String Theory.This book presents a didactic approach to knots, braids, links, and polynomial invariants which are powerful and developing techniques that rise up to the challenges in String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, and Statistical Physics. It introduces readers to Knot Theory and its applications through formal and practical (computational) methods, with clarity, completeness, and minimal demand of requisite knowledge on the subject. As a result, advanced undergraduates in Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering, will find this book an excellent and self-contained guide to the algebraic, geometric, and topological tools for advanced studies in theoretical physics and mathematics.

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

Author : Jeffrey Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] written by Jeffrey Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

Writers and Age

Author : Esther Harriott
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617961
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Writers and Age written by Esther Harriott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1900, the average life expectancy in the developed world has almost doubled, from 45 to 80. “We are almost a new species,” declared the English writer V.S. Pritchett, while pointing out that this means “most of us have to face the prospect of a long old age before we die.” Pritchett is one of five great writers—along with Stanley Kunitz, Doris Lessing, Mavis Gallant and Russell Baker—whose novels, short stories, poems and essays about old age, written in old age, are examined in this book. Born between 1900 (Pritchett) and 1925 (Baker), these writers are members of the first generation of the 20th century, and of the first generation of writers able to write about old age from experience. In their later works we read about growing old as reported by the old, not as imagined by the young and middle-aged. They wrote about old age not as a discrete stage of life, but as a continuation—another context in which to pursue the themes of their earlier poems, novels, stories and essays. And those who had written about love—a central theme of fiction and poetry—now wrote about love in old age.

The Archetypal Artist

Author : Mary Antonia Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429614179
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Archetypal Artist written by Mary Antonia Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the "creative spirit" in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers, such as C.G. Jung, James Hillman, and Joseph Campbell, as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas, such as Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Stanley Kunitz, and Ursula K. Le Guin, this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling, deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity, and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity, and of the soul, this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types, as well as Jungian analysts and therapists, and academics interested in the arts, humanities, and depth psychology.

Ecology and Literatures in English

Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152752339X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Literatures in English written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.

The Well-Gardened Mind

Author : Sue Stuart-Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476794480
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Well-Gardened Mind written by Sue Stuart-Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The garden has always been a place of peace and perseverance, of nurture and reward. Using contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and compelling real-life stories, The Well-Gardened Mind investigates the remarkable effects of nature on our health and well-being."--Dust jacket.

The Edge of Extinction

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455030
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Extinction written by Jules Pretty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

The Little Black Songbook: Donovan

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783230703
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Little Black Songbook: Donovan written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the complete lyrics and chords to 80 songs by the hippie folk rock guru Donovan! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to play to yourself when you need to find your inner zen. This little book includes: - Atlantis - Barabajagal - Be Mine - Catch The Wind - Celeste - Colours - Cosmic Wheels - Hampstead Incident - Happiness Runs - Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) - House Of Jansch - Hurdy Gurdy Man - Jennifer Juniper - Keep On Truckin' - Mellow Yellow - Riki Tiki Tavi - Season Of The Witch - Sunny South Kensington - Sunshine Superman - Superlungs My Supergirl - The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow - To Try For The Sun - Universal Soldier - Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Yin My Yang And many more!

A Feast for All Seasons

Author : Andrew George
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551523833
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book A Feast for All Seasons written by Andrew George and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Native recipes featuring products from the land, sea and sky, symbols of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the nurturing land, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power food can have in our lives. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

The Coursing calendar, ed. by 'Stonehenge'.

Author : John Henry Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Coursing calendar, ed. by 'Stonehenge'. written by John Henry Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seven Thousand Ways to Listen

Author : Mark Nepo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451674686
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Seven Thousand Ways to Listen written by Mark Nepo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of The Book of Awakening presents a guide to navigating life's spiritual challenges that explains how to use meditative listening skills to gain a deeper understanding of what matters, structuring inspirational lessons around three lasting "friendships" with wisdom, experience and other people. 60,000 first printing.

The Butterfly Effect

Author : Edward D. Melillo
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524733229
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly Effect written by Edward D. Melillo and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures. Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives. When we bite into a shiny apple, listen to the resonant notes of a violin, get dressed, receive a dental implant, or get a manicure, we are the beneficiaries of a vast army of insects. Try as we might to replicate their raw material (silk, shellac, and cochineal, for instance), our artificial substitutes have proven subpar at best, and at worst toxic, ensuring our interdependence with the insect world for the foreseeable future. Drawing on research in laboratory science, agriculture, fashion, and international cuisine, Edward D. Melillo weaves a vibrant world history that illustrates the inextricable and fascinating bonds between humans and insects. Across time, we have not only coexisted with these creatures but have relied on them for, among other things, the key discoveries of modern medical science and the future of the world's food supply. Without insects, entire sectors of global industry would grind to a halt and essential features of modern life would disappear. Here is a beguiling appreciation of the ways in which these creatures have altered--and continue to shape--the very framework of our existence.

My Letter to the World

Author : Dana Larkin Sauers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145000251X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book My Letter to the World written by Dana Larkin Sauers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wired to Create

Author : Scott Barry Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698191250
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Wired to Create written by Scott Barry Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently. Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes— like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration – to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity – and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives.

Open the Door

Author : Joyce Rupp
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1933495405
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Open the Door written by Joyce Rupp and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited book from best-selling spiritual guide Joyce Rupp, creatively leads readers to explore how the image of the door can guide them in a process of discovering their true self. Joyce Rupp brings new life to the ageless spiritual image of the door, weaving insights from East and West with the wisdom of contemporary spiritual writers, poets, and novelists in a practical format that is just right for contemporary readers. Structured as a daily prayer guide for everyday use over six weeks, each day offers a thematic reflection, a guided meditation, an original prayer, a thoughtful question, and a related scripture quote. A built-in guide for small groups makes this the perfect resource for groups of all kinds as well as individuals.

Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students

Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412978394
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students written by Pat Mora and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocatively written in the form of letters, this guide offers seven powerful practices and corresponding activities for cultivating your own creativity and that of all your students.