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Book Synopsis My Desk is my Castle by : Uta Brandes
Download or read book My Desk is my Castle written by Uta Brandes and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and understood in the context of its cultural, gender-specific, and field-related surroundings. The focus of this study is a comparative analysis of the use of desks. Desks in insurance companies, banks, administrative authorities, call centers, and design studios in twelve countries on all continents were studied. This publication presents the results in the form of extensive visual material, empirical analyses, and critical essays. The study was carried out by the Köln International School of Design (KISD) in collaboration with universities in Hong Kong; New York; Seoul; Taipei; Curitiba, Brazil; Pune, India; Auckland; Milan; and Fukuoka, Japan.
Book Synopsis The Castle Omnibus by : Steph Swainston
Download or read book The Castle Omnibus written by Steph Swainston and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 immortals, chosen by the emperor lead humanity in an endless war against hordes of ginant insects. Their immortality, conferred on them by the emperror can be taken away if they lose a challange to be part of the circle of 50. Jant, the emperor's drug-addicted messanger, the only man who can fly, tells the story of mankinds savage fight for survival in a uniquely imagined, beautiful fantasy world.
Download or read book The Castle written by Seth Rogoff and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seth Rogoff's The Castle is a novel that engages with Franz Kafka's novel of the same title, which famously ends mid-sentence. Built on a foundation of lost documents, erased texts, invented histories, boxed manuscripts, stolen sources, and translations with no originals, Rogoff writes an inverse reenactment of the original creative act-the bringing forth of chaos from form, in which the renowned translator Sy Kirschbaum travels out of the valley to the heart of the castle in a narrative that is at once a physical, psychological, literary, and metaphysical journey into Kafka's abandoned world"--
Download or read book The Castle Club written by Michael Difeo and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired Detective Anthony Lorenzo’s life is about to take on a change after getting a late night long distance phone call. His ex-girlfriend Brenda needs his help. Someone has stolen a stack of fake Florida driver’s licenses and a journal describing a drug and porno operation, naming names and places. Now Brenda is on the run. She is a witness to her best friend’s murder. Still haunted by his past relationship with Brenda, Lorenzo takes his first-ever plane ride, from Worcester, Massachusetts to Palm Beach, Florida. First thing, he investigates the Castle Club, a private dance club for the rich. It’s where the murder takes place. Lorenzo gets caught up in a web of deceit, an unexpected steamy romantic affair that he doesn’t want to stop, and a planned blackmail scheme. He suspects a Palm Beach to Worcester drug distribution connection. Searching for more clues, he accidently uncovers a secret society’s meeting place, a club within a club, where world-changing events are hatched. Now the head of security at the Castle Club is looking for him, Brenda, and others. He wants his journal and will do anything to get it back. The Everglades, a body dumping ground, claims more victims as the mystery unravels. Choices need to be made: Does Lorenzo show his dark side and go to a place he’s never been, a place outside the law? What if he doesn’t? And will he and Brenda repair their long lost relationship?
Download or read book Under the Castle written by Joe Frankl and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one boy’s journey from an ordinary childhood in a European middle-class family into an alien world of terror and persecution where fear and violence reigned. Millions had to perish before Germany was defeated and the Continent could return to sanity. The Nazis' rise to power had transformed occupied Europe into a hostile environment where life for Jews had become a living hell. Suddenly, old relationships had been swept aside as neighbours and friends had suddenly become enemies and would-be persecutors. Survival now depended on learning new skills and sharpening newly acquired instincts. The margin between freedom and incarceration was often minute. Under such a brutally repressive regime life became dependent on quick thinking and adjustment to every new situation. Living on the razor’s edge those instincts soon become second nature, and with it new, hitherto unsuspected abilities to cope. With familiarity and increasing self-confidence it was inevitable that some bravado could also creep in. How else could such escapades as earning money in the epicenter of the Nazi war machine – a German Army HQ in occupied Budapest be explained? . Also described are the realities of life under continuous bombardment, from the air and by artillery, in a city laid waste and under siege where one was continually in danger, hungry and cold. To alleviate that hunger it became necessary to find food from unusual sources such as cutting flesh from army horses killed in the shelling and drinking melted snow. Everything had its uses and was recycled: even shoe polish could be used as a substitute for candles for lighting up a dark cellar in a ruined city where electricity, gas and water supplies as well as all the amenities of modern life were but a distant memory. The siege of Budapest ended with liberation by the Red Army and the realization of the terrible cost in human terms – especially that of Jews – of the Nazi regime. Starting a new life in England and a return to normalcy, concentrating on integration and education; preparing for a worthwhile career in a free and happy environment bring the story full circle. It shows that trauma need not necessarily be injurious but can also have a positive effect that leads to a greater appreciation of life and acts as a stimulant for achievement. Service in the British army, immigration to Israel and serving in the Israeli army as well as creating a family and a career conclude the narrative. Originally this memoir was intended for my children, but as it took shape I felt it could be of interest to the general reader who may wish to look at this cataclysmic era as seen through the eyes of a child.
Book Synopsis What Happens in the Castle by : Kelsey McKnight
Download or read book What Happens in the Castle written by Kelsey McKnight and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s a Scotsman through and through with the kilt and loch-side manor to prove it Savannah Adelson spent years sacrificing her midwife career for what she thought was love. Now that she’s kicked her cheating ex to the curb, she’s transforming her long-forgotten dream into a thriving business. Amid her new patients, she manages to travel to Scotland to be a bridesmaid in her college friend’s wedding only to meet the cousin of the groom, a tall shot of whisky in a tartan glass. Rhys Mackinnon has grown restless and is eager to find his next role in life, whatever that may be. When he meets Savannah, he’s all too happy to make that role her personal tour guide. He ends up playing boyfriend too after her ex shows up unannounced. When the fictional relationship begins to feel real, Savannah’s torn between the fire she feels for Rhys and the passion she has for her career. No matter what she decides, someone will end up hurt, because what happens in the castle doesn’t always stay there.
Book Synopsis The Body in the Castle Well by : Martin Walker
Download or read book The Body in the Castle Well written by Martin Walker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno: When a young American woman turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle, Bruno Courrèges initially assumes that she died of an overdose. But her doctor soon persuades him that things may not be so simple, setting Bruno on an investigation that will lead him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond. Claudia Muller had been studying with Monsieur de Bourdeille, a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily wealthy through the sale of paintings that may have been falsely attributed—or so Claudia suggested shortly before her death. In his younger days, Bourdeille had aided the Resistance and been arrested by a Vichy police officer whose own life story also becomes inexorably entangled with the case. Also in the mix is a young falconer who works at the Château des Milandes, the former home of fabled jazz singer Josephine Baker. Once again, it’s up to Bruno to make sure that justice is served—along with a generous helping of his signature Périgordian cuisine, of course.
Book Synopsis The Castle's Call by : Cherie L. Lentz
Download or read book The Castle's Call written by Cherie L. Lentz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and Alexis had been friends in Scotland when they were children. They are now drawn back together when mysterious things start happening at the castle. The mystery ends with a surprise for them both.
Book Synopsis MURDER ON THE CASTLE HILL EXPRESS by : DAVID MURDOCH
Download or read book MURDER ON THE CASTLE HILL EXPRESS written by DAVID MURDOCH and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To no one in particular, Peter began a soliloquy. "As a detective, the question I'm always asked is not why but how." Inspector Slade interrupted. "Not why you're a detective but how you're a detective." Yes, Pete Boone, Australia's worst private detective, is back with another adventure. This time he's on a classic train journey that can only go off the rails. Fresh from another sensationally successful season nationally on Aurora Community television, prepare to take a trip with some of your favourite characters, and some wacky new ones. For the young or the young at heart, it's worth the price of a one way ticket on the ultimate laugh track. All aboard!
Book Synopsis We Have Always Lived in the Castle by : Shirley Jackson
Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Book Synopsis Music in the Castle by : F. Alberto Gallo
Download or read book Music in the Castle written by F. Alberto Gallo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for general readers and specialists alike, Gallo illuminates the artistic, cultural, social, and political dimensions of secular music, vocal and instrumental. His account also sheds new light on the potent influence of French culture in Italian courtly life.
Book Synopsis Entering the Castle by : Caroline Myss
Download or read book Entering the Castle written by Caroline Myss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned motivational teacher, spiritual instructor, and popular theologian Caroline Myss has created a transcendent work of unique insight and revelation in Entering the Castle. This exciting new teaching of contemporary mysticism is also a brilliant synthesis of the psychology of consciousness and of Eastern and Western mystical traditions. Myss provides a highly original inner path to self-knowledge -- which is also the road into a spiritual knowledge of God and your own soul -- as she reveals a necessary external path, one that takes you out into the world to serve God and others as a mystic without a monastery -- without having to retreat into total silence, self-denial, or isolation. As her main template for this extraordinary, modern spiritual journey, Myss uses the beloved, revered writings of The Interior Castle by Teresa of Ávila. Adapting Teresa's vision of the soul as a beautiful crystal castle with many floors, or mansions, and many rooms within those mansions, Myss guides us from room to room, helping us meet different aspects of our self, our soul, and our spirit -- preparing us for the ultimate encounter with God and our own divinity. Through intense practices and methods of spiritual inquiry adapted for contemporary life, she helps us to develop our personal powers of prayer, contemplation, and intuition and to ascend the seven levels of soul knowledge that build an ever stronger interior castle of our own -- a soul of strength and stamina. As in all her books, Myss also recounts stories of profoundly moving real-life experiences -- of her own, as well as of her students and of renowned spiritual figures -- that bring home the universal truth of her insights. Presiding over the entire book and journey are the great mystics, ancient and contemporary, of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism with their inspiring lives and discerning spirits. And over all, the benevolence, truth, and gentle and tough love of Teresa of Ávila shine through. Doubtless Myss's most deeply personal, revealing, compassionate, and transforming book yet, Entering the Castle is a comprehensive guidebook for the journey of your life -- a journey into the center of your soul. There, peace, God, and a fearless bliss wait for you to discover them...and claim them for your own.
Download or read book The Castle written by Omid Olfet and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon was a five-year-old when he learned that those headaches he was having were the result of a cancerous tumor behind his eye. But thanks to his family and good doctors, he survived. Or did he? The Castle is the story of his reminiscences, especially of the crystal chess set he got as a gift after his surgery. But then one of the pieces fell to the floor and shattered. Which piece? The castle, or rook as some call it. Suddenly, Devon awakens in a strange land where he finds a real castle - and some of the same people he knew in his childhood. What is real and what is not? Is he alive or dead? It's a story that will keep you wondering....
Book Synopsis Love comes to the Castle by : Barbara Cartland
Download or read book Love comes to the Castle written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although immensely saddened by the loss of their beloved wife and mother, beautiful young Jaela Compton and her illustrious father, Lord Compton of Mellor, one of England’s most outstanding Lord Chancellors, live happily together in his lovely Villa between Naples and Sorrento in Italy now that he has retired from his public duties. Until one day she finds him dead in his bedroom and, although she consoles herself that he is at last reunited with her mother, Jaela is distraught. Whatever is she to do? Out of the blue a family friend, Dr. Pirelli, comes up with a suggestion which is more of a mission. It seems that the Contessa di Agnolo is dying and concerned about the fate of her young daughter, Kathy, who is actually the daughter of an old friend of her father’s, the Earl of Halesworth. And soon Jaela finds herself travelling home to England to introduce Kathy to her father. On arriving at Hale Castle the strikingly handsome Earl seems reluctant to accept his daughter, but grudgingly allows her and Jaela, who is at present pretending to be the child’s Governess, to stay on with him at his Castle. It is not long before the Earl’s heart softens and it becomes clear that he adores the little girl and Jaela begins to hope that there is room in his heart for her as well.
Book Synopsis I Capture the Castle by : Dodie Smith
Download or read book I Capture the Castle written by Dodie Smith and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits.” —from the new foreword by Jenny Han, the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. A beautiful, deluxe edition of Dodie Smith’s beloved novel, I Capture the Castle, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han, a stunning new cover, and designed endpapers that is perfect for devoted readers and those discovering this timeless story for the first time. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family may live in a ramshackle old English castle, but that’s about as romantic as her life gets. While her beautiful older sister, Rose, longs to live in a Jane Austen novel, Cassandra knows that meeting an eligible man to marry isn’t in either of their futures when their home is crumbling and they have to sell their furniture for food. So Cassandra instead strives to hone her writing skills in her journals. Until one day when their new landlords move in, which include two (very handsome) sons, and the lives of the Mortmain sisters change forever. Through Cassandra’s sharply funny, yet poignant, journal entries, she chronicles the great changes that take place within the castle’s walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has “captured the castle” – and the heart of the reader – in one of literature’s most enchanting novels. “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” —J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series
Book Synopsis The Castle, Second Edition by : Richard Stamm
Download or read book The Castle, Second Edition written by Richard Stamm and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When visitors to the nation's capital embark on a day of museum visits at the National Mall, the most striking building in their midst is undoubtedly the Smithsonian Castle. Its iconic architecture has come to symbolize the Smithsonian. Today the Castle is both central administration building for the entire Smithsonian Insititution and the public doorway to all of its museums and galleries. But in years past it housed the families of the head of the Smithsonian at the same time that it served as research offices for far-flung explorations and as space for collections exhibition and restoration. The newly designed second edition of The Castle explores the architectural details of turrets and tomb, and layers that with the stories of the people who have served inside this beloved, nineteenth-century medieval revival landmark.
Download or read book The Castle written by Franz Kafka and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1992-11-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.’s consuming quest–quite possibly a self-imposed one–to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish “to get clear about ultimate things,” an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka’s dazzlingly uncanny fictions. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
