Download or read book A Practical Guide to Levitation written by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award Perfect for readers of Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, and Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Vividly translated into English for the first time by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the jewel-like tales gathered in this collection are an exuberant celebration of story-telling in all its various forms. On the sands of Itamaracá, an old fisherman dreams of fish: shad in the morning, when the water’s smooth and silvery, the Atlantic tarpon after it rains, and a jack when the sea goes blue. Elsewhere, Borges sulks away in a plantation of neverending banana tree, and the president of the United States wakes from a coma speaking only Portuguese. With “the lyrical experimentalism and unabashed weirdness of the surrealist” (The Arts Desk), Agualusa offers a sly wink to the fictional quality inherent in all narratives, whether they’re fishermen’s tales, national histories, or the stories we tell ourselves.
Download or read book The Society of Reluctant Dreamers written by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splitting through the clear waters beside the rainbow hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof mango-yellow camera and uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira. In this exquisite new novel, Agualusa's reader loses all sense of reality. In The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, Daniel dreams of Julio Cortázar in the form of an ancient giant cedar, his friend Hossi transforming into a dark crow, and most often of the Cotton-Candy-Hair-Woman, Moira, staring right back at him. After emails back-and-forth, Moira and Daniel meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a mysterious project with a Brazilian neuroscientist, who's creating a machine to photograph people's dreams. Set against the dense web of Angola's political history, Daniel crosses the hazy border between dream and reality, sleepwalking towards a twisted and entirely strange present.
Download or read book Rainy Season written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist is trying to find out what happened to Lidia, who disappeared in Luanda in 1992 - a point in time when the civil war flared up again with unprecedented ferocity. The story tells of the disappointment of the two protagonists, which represents the disappointment of a whole nation."
Download or read book A Guide to Trance Land A Practical Handbook of Ericksonian and Solution Oriented Hypnosis written by Bill O'Hanlon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A friendly and brief guide to the essentials of hypnosis. Popular author Bill O’Hanlon offers an inviting and reassuring guide to the essentials of hypnosis, alleviating the newcomer’s anxieties about how to make the most of this clinical tool. This brief book illustrates the benefits of solution-oriented hypnosis, which draws on the work of the pioneering therapist Milton Erickson (with whom O’Hanlon studied) and emphasizes doing what is needed to get results—which, more often than not, means trusting that the client holds within him- or herself answers or knowledge that need only be tapped or released by the therapist. O’Hanlon covers the key aspects of hypnosis, including: using possibility words and phrases; using passive language; and inducing trance. O’Hanlon offers practical tips and friendly encouragement for the novice hypnotherapist—in his characteristic warm, reassuring, and humorous style.
Download or read book Fundamentals Of Quantum Materials A Practical Guide To Synthesis And Exploration written by Johnpierre Paglione and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a long tradition of sophisticated, creative materials synthesis among quantum materials researchers, a sense of broader community has been lacking. In initiating the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School held annually at the University of Maryland, we wanted to bring together the next generation of growers to learn techniques and pointers directly from senior scientists, and it turns out that we were not alone. The enthusiasm from both students and teachers has been both gratifying and invigorating. Four schools later, we can confidently say that physicists, chemists, and materials scientists, experimentalists and theorists alike, all want to know how to make a good sample. With this in mind, we asked our lecturers to record their most important ideas and share their expertise with a broader audience. This resource is a compilation of fundamental and practical guides on the modern methods of materials synthesis utilized by these experts. We hope that you enjoy reading their essential guidance and state-of-the-art techniques as you explore the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials.
Download or read book Doors to Other Worlds written by Raymond Buckland and published by Llewellyn Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does consciousness survive the death of the physical body? Are there are a wide variety of entities on the spiritual planes? Find out for yourself by learning how to contact and communicate with spirits using the techniques you will find in Raymond Buckland's Doors to Other Worlds. You'll learn numerous methods of communicating with spirits, including spirit guides and guardian angels. You will learn how to develop your own psychic abilities and even how to become a medium yourself. You will learn the secrets of scrying, clairvoyance, table tipping, using a Ouija board, and automatic writing. Read about the history and development of mediumship, Spiritualism, and channeling. You'll find out what they are, how they are related, how they are similar, and how they are different. Discover the secrets of spirit photography, the practice of taking pictures of non-physical entities. Find out about the best type of film to use, how to set up the camera, and how to experiment with this system. You will even learn how to take spirit photographs without using a camera! One of the most valuable things you can learn is how to heal yourself and others. Ray Buckland explains how diseases begin in the spiritual, or astral, body. Discover how the techniques you have learned in this book can help you to heal others and yourself. This can come from energy work performed on the astral plane or, like the famous medium Edgar Cayce, receiving instructions from the spirit plane for specific cures and treatments. This is a book that has it all. Now is the time to start on your development for tomorrow, and it begins with Doors to Other Worlds. Does consciousness survive the death of the physical body? Are there are a wide variety of entities on the spiritual planes? Find out for yourself by learning how to contact and communicate with spirits using the techniques you will find in Raymond Buckland's Doors to Other Worlds. You'll learn numerous methods of communicating with spirits, including spirit guides and guardian angels. You will learn how to develop your own psychic abilities and even how to become a medium yourself. You will learn the secrets of scrying, clairvoyance, table tipping, using a Ouija board, and automatic writing. Read about the history and development of mediumship, Spiritualism, and channeling. You'll find out what they are, how they are related, how they are similar, and how they are different. Discover the secrets of spirit photography, the practice of taking pictures of non-physical entities. Find out about the best type of film to use, how to set up the camera, and how to experiment with this system. You will even learn how to take spirit photographs without using a camera! One of the most valuable things you can learn is how to heal yourself and others. Ray Buckland explains how diseases begin in the spiritual, or astral, body. Discover how the techniques you have learned in this book can help you to heal others and yourself. This can come from energy work performed on the astral plane or, like the famous medium Edgar Cayce, receiving instructions from the spirit plane for specific cures and treatments. This is a book that has it all. Now is the time to start on your development for tomorrow, and it begins with Doors to Other Worlds.
Download or read book Superconductor Levitation written by Chan-Joong Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the physical principles behind levitation with superconductors, and includes many examples of practical magnetic levitation demonstrations using superconducting phenomena. It features more than twenty examples of magnetic levitation in liquid nitrogen using high temperature superconductors and permanent magnets, all invented by the author. The book includes the demonstration of suspension phenomenon induced by magnetic flux pinning as well as magnetic levitation by the Meissner effect. It shows how superconducting magnetic levitation and suspension phenomena fire the imagination and provide scientific insight and inspiration. This book will be a useful experimental guide and teaching resource for those working on superconductivity, and a fascinating text for undergraduate and graduate students.
Download or read book Imagine Africa written by Mia Couto and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Self Hypnosis written by Melvin Powers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author begins with a defense of the art of hypnosis and argues that it is a useful method for achieving more control over one's own mind. He next divides his work into several chapters each dealing with a different aspect of the subject.
Download or read book A General Theory of Oblivion written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
Download or read book Invisibility and Levitation written by Commander X and published by Abelard Productions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this retired military intelligence operative the US government has secretly been training psychics in the art of invisibility so that they can physically go behind 'enemy lines' and snoop into the hidden chambers of foreign embassies. The group of 'super spies' has existed for years, though their existence has never been revealed by the 'brain trust' that secretly runs the 'invisible government' behind America's President, breaking the laws of the Constitution that should bind them as it should any official operating on the public's behalf. This book exposes the scientific, military and occult secrets about the phenomenon known as levitation and actually tells you how you can lift off from the ground by applying certain principles that have been known by avatars and wise men for centuries.
Download or read book NORTH CAUCASUS DOLMENS written by Boris Loza, PH.D. and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolmens are mysterious stone structures scattered around previously inaccessible parts of Russia. Built by an ancient megalithic culture, these structures have been both revered and looted for centuries. Very little is known about these stone creations, though one thing is for sure: their power is undeniable. Join Boris Loza as he travels to his ancestral homeland to uncover and explore dolmens firsthand. Throughout this journey, you will discover the often hidden, and surprisingly forbidden, perspective about the mysterious dolmens: their ancient powers of fertility, healing and spiritual connection. Discover the long-lost technology that was likely used to build these structures, raising megatonne slabs of stone into perfect placements, aligned with the stars. Chapters include: Ancient Mystic Megaliths; Who Built the Dolmens?; Why the Dolmens were Built; Asian Connection; Indian Connection; Greek Connection; Olmec and Maya Connection; Sun Worshippers; Dolmens and Archeoastronomy; Location of Dolmen Quarries; Hidden Power of Dolmens; and much more! Tons of Illustrations! A fascinating book of little-seen megaliths. Includes a 4-page color section.
Download or read book Rotor and Structural Dynamics of Turbomachinery written by Raj Subbiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides engineers and scientists with practical fundamentals for turbomachinery design. It presents a detailed analysis of existing procedures for the analysis of rotor and structure dynamics, while keeping mathematical equations to a minimum. Specific terminologies are used for rotors and structures, respectively, allowing the readers to clearly distinguish between the two. Further, the book describes the essential concepts needed to understand rotor failure modes due to lateral and torsional oscillations. It guides the reader from simple single-degree-of-freedom models to the most complex multi-degree-of-freedom systems, and provides useful information concerning steel pedestal stiffness degradation and other structural issues. Fluid-film bearing types and their dynamical behavior are extensively covered and discussed in the context of various turbomachinery applications. The book also discusses shaft alignment and rotor balancing from a practical point of view, providing readers with essential information to help them solve practical problems. As the main body of the book focuses on the diagnostics and description of case studies addressing the most pressing practical issues, together with their successful solutions, it offers a valuable reference guide, helping field engineers manage day-to-day issues with turbomachinery.
Download or read book Industrial Control Systems written by Vipin Chandra Pal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS This volume serves as a comprehensive guide in the journey of industrial control systems with a multidisciplinary approach to the key engineering problems in the 21st century. The journey of the control system may be viewed from the control of steam engines to spacecraft, aeroplane missile control systems to networked control systems and cybersecurity controls. In terms of industrial control and application, the journey starts from the design of P-I-D controllers to fuzzy controllers, neuro-fuzzy controllers, backstepping controllers, sliding mode controllers, and event-triggered controls for networked control systems. Recently, control theory has spread its golden feathers in different fields of engineering by use of the splendid tool of the control system. In this era, the boom of the Internet of Things is at its maximum pace. Different biomedical applications also come under this umbrella and provide the easiest way to continuous monitoring. One of the prominent research areas of green energy and sustainable development in which control plays a vital role is load frequency controllers, control of solar thermal plants, an event-driven building energy management system, speed-sensorless voltage and frequency control in autonomous DFIG-based wind energy, Hazardous Energy Control Programs, and many more. This exciting new volume: Offers a complete journey through industrial control systems Is written for multidisciplinary students and veteran engineers alike Benefits researchers from diverse disciplines with real-world applications
Download or read book How to Hunt Ghosts written by Joshua P. Warren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Hunt Ghosts, paranormal researcher Joshua P. Warren teaches the novice ghost hunter the basics, which above all include treating the paranormal as any other scientific field: one requiring well-documented research and hard evidence. This unique guide breaks down the theories, explains the tools of the trade, and even offers forms to facilitate your investigation. Peppered with anecdotes from Warren's personal experience, How to Hunt Ghosts offers answers to such questions as: • What is a ghost? • How does a ghost interact with the world? • Where can you find a haunted house? • Why do people usually see ghosts at night? • How do you record a ghostly encounter? If you suspect you live in a haunted house and want to exorcise a ghost or attempt spectral communication, or if you are interested in pursuing a career as a ghost hunter or are simply curious about the paranormal, this intriguing and informative guide is for you.
Download or read book The Traveler s Guide to the Astral Plane written by Steve Richards and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pliny and Plato talked about it. Swedenborg did it. Indian gurus have made a habit of it. Raymond Moody and Robert Monroe have described it. That "it" is the ability to leave home alone, i.e., to leave one's boy and travel to unseen and unknown worlds and then to return--enlightened. Drawing on a fascinating array of material, both Eastern and Western, Steve Richards presents a unique panoramic view of the hidden or astral reality--the essential features of the astral landscape, the many facets of astral experience, and how to embark on a nevertobeforgotten journey of exploration beyond the body. Subjects covered include: Suspended animation Neardeath experiences Astral sex Heaven and hell Astral meditation This is a delightful introductory text to an area of perennial interest. It is filled with amazing stories of out-of-body experiences from both past and present. It is also a primer to astral travel, providing the basics to readers interested in leaving the body for journeys beyond the body.
Download or read book ALIEN Thinking written by Cyril Bouquet and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns—Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation, and Navigation—lead to a fresh and flexible approach to problem-solving. Alien thinkers know how to free the imagination so it can detect hard-to-observe patterns. They practice deliberate ways to retreat from the world in order to see the big picture underlying a problem. And they approach ideas in systematic ways that reflect the constraints of reality. Through surprising and compelling stories, the authors show how readers can use this method to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking can help any of us find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.
