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Author : Hugh Buchanan
Publisher : Young Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780952333104
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The Eloquence of Shadows written by Hugh Buchanan and published by Young Writers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Casati
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375707115
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world. For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics and metaphysics, and architecture and urban planning. From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles of our cities, Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination.
Author : Michael F Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911350
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book War of Shadows written by Michael F Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon—told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from poverty and the depredations of colonization on their rainforest home? With rare insight and eloquence, anthropologists Brown and Fernández write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy. The players in this dramatic confrontation included militants of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), the U. S. Embassy, the Peruvian military, a "renegade" American settler, and the Asháninka Indians themselves. Using press reports and archival sources as well as oral histories, the authors weave a vivid tapestry of narratives and counternarratives that challenges the official history of the guerrilla struggle. Central to the story is the Asháninkas' persistent hope that a messiah would lead them to freedom, a belief with roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jungle rebellions and religious movements.
Author : Sally Longley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725277751
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Silence written by Sally Longley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence—scary, inviting, or both? What do you do with silence? And what if silence was a language we could learn to read, hear, and even speak? This book invites you to tune the eyes and ears of your heart to the cadences of silence. Enter into conversations with silence as you are taken on an odyssey. Venture into the Australian bush. Trek deep into the red desert. Encounter shadows and desert dwellers. You will also delve into the tiny houses of everyday silences and receive their gifts of hospitality. And stumbling into that other territory, where silence becomes a death threat, or survival, an orchard can show you the fruit of life beginning again. Conversations with Silence takes you to the Rosetta Stone of an ancient, forgotten language, a language some have called God, or the soul. Immerse yourself in the silent realm of mystics, musicians, poets, and pilgrims of every path. These are our companions, as we explore the nuanced vocabulary of the worlds of silences and join in the conversation with a new voice.
Author : Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069077
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Eloquence of Color written by Jacqueline Lichtenstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An outstanding book, one of the most intelligent, penetrating, and intellectually rigorous studies of pictorial theory in the literature of art history."--Michael Fried, author of Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and the Beholder in the Age of Diderot "Jacqeline Lichtenstein's groundbreaking contribution to intellectual history reconstructs the history of the age-old debate between philosophy and rhetoric, discourse and images, drawing and color, truth and delight. She shows how, in opposition to the Platonic suspicion of eloquence and colour, 17th-century French aesthetics discovers that painting involves deception more than imitation and delight rather than logic. Impressively erudite, Lichtenstein is also a seductive writer. A book about the pleasure of seeing and the pleasure of reading."--Thomas Pavel, author of The Feud of Language: A History of Structuralist Thought
Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797376
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Shadow and Act written by Ralph Ellison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem−"the scene and symbol of the Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man. On every page, Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and occasionally outrage readers thirty years after it was first published.
Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316040223
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Way of Shadows written by Brent Weeks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art -- and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly -- and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics -- and cultivate a flair for death.
Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154910
Total Pages : 1678 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Roland Greene and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author : Robert S. C. Cutler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557140102
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)
Download or read book A Whisper in the Shadows written by Robert S. C. Cutler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing both her husband and daughter less than two years apart, Tara James fell into a deep depression. At the urging of her family, she left the comfortable but confining home of her parents to move in with her sister. At first, the newly renovated farmhouse on the outskirts of Wichita, Kansas offered the solitude and normalcy Tara so desperately needed; however, after a restless first night, her nerves became unraveled. Dreams of her dead daughter and unexplainable occurrences in the house threaten to drive Tara over the edge. Convinced their house is haunted, the sisters decide to hold a séance in an attempt to rid the home of their unwanted guests. What starts out as a simple remedy spins quickly out of control when the young medium they hire unwittingly summons the spirit of a brutal killer and his still ravenous appetite for murder.
Author : William King Tweedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lights and Shadows in the Life of Faith written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conor Brady
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250057574
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Eloquence of the Dead written by Conor Brady and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When [an 1880s] Dublin pawnbroker is found murdered and the lead suspect goes missing, Sergeant Joe Swallow is handed the poisoned chalice of the investigation. On the way he uncovers deep-rooted corruption, discovers the power of new, scientific detection techniques, and encounters a ruthless adversary. With authorities pressing for a quick resolution, the public living in fear of attack, and the newspapers happy to point to the police's every mistake, Swallow must use every trick in his arsenal to crack the case"--
Author : William Benton Clulow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows; Or, Sketches of Thought, Philosophic and Religious written by William Benton Clulow and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucian Edward HENRY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Europe in 1882: out of the shadow. The Royal Family of France. Twelve lectures on current French History written by Lucian Edward HENRY and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935536574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Lighting the Shadow written by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting the Shadow opens itself to a space of meditation in an attempt to grasp the tensions of beauty, terror, and transformation within the self and the greater world
Author : Charles Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Painting and Engraving written by Charles Blanc and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Painting and Engraving with the Original Illustrations written by Charles Blanc and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandre Auguste Philippe Charles BLANC
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Painting and Engraving, Translated from the French of Blanc's Grammaire Des Arts Du Dessin, by Kate Newell Doggett. With the Original Illustrations written by Alexandre Auguste Philippe Charles BLANC and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
