Download or read book Acquainted with the Night written by Christopher Dewdney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together science and storytelling, art and anthropology, Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm. In twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve hours of night, he illuminates night's central themes, including sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, astronomy, nightclubs, sleep and dreams, the graveyard shift, the art of darkness, and endless nights. With infectious curiosity, a lyrical, intimate tone, and an eye for nighttime beauties both natural and man-made, Christopher Dewdney paints a captivating portrait of our hours in darkness. Christopher Dewdney is the author of three books of nonfiction-Last Flesh, The Secular Grail, and The Immaculate Perception-as well as eleven books of poetry. A three-time nominee for Governor General's Awards and a first-prize winner of the CBC Literary Competition, Dewdney lives in Toronto, Ontario. "As you read these pages, your life will change, because the way you see half of it will change. The night we're all familiar with will emerge as a fresh thing, deeper, fuller, older, younger, more evocative, more intimate, larger, more spectacular and, yes, more magical, and much more thrilling."-Margaret Atwood, Globe and Mail "[A] felicitous literary gambol from dusk till dawn...Dewdney throws himself headlong into the deep pool of his subject."-Sue Halpern, Newsday "An enjoyable and instructive read."-Sven Birkerts, Boston Globe Also available: HC 1-58234-396-9 $24.95

Download or read book Get Acquainted with Jesus written by Barbara Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of Get Acquainted With Your Bible and Get Acquainted With Your Christian Faith, this third elective in the Get Acquainted line will help adults gain an overview of the life and ministry of Jesus. Get Acquainted With Jesus is an eight-session resource focusing on the biblical accounts of Jesus, the church's doctrinal beliefs about Christ, and a person's experiential encounters with Jesus Christ today. Like the other volumes in the series, Get Acquainted With Jesus is intended for use with adults who have little or no background in the Christian faith. The Study Book is in full color. The Leader's Guide uses an option approach, making it adaptable to a variety of settings (Sunday school, retreats, new member training classes, Bible study workshops, and so forth). - Provides an introduction/overview to the life and ministry of Jesus - Non-technical, non-threatening approach appeals to persons with little or no background in the Christian faith - Can be used as an individual study piece or with a group

Download or read book Acquainted with the Night written by Philip Fried and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious, eloquent essence of the night--long a favorite subject of artists and writers--is the focus of this unique book, which couples evocative black and white photos with night-inspired poetry from around the world and across the centuries. Shot after dark in and around New York, and in rural Vermont, Ireland, Lisbon, and other places. 80 photos.

Download or read book Getting Acquainted in Conversation written by Jan Svennevig and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial interactions. It provides detailed descriptions of the sequential resources unacquainted interlocutors use in order to: – generate self-presentation – introduce topics – establish common contextual resources It is argued that these sequential patterns embody conventionalized procedures for establishing an interpersonal relationship involving some degree of: – solidarity (mutual rights and obligations) – familiarity (mutual knowledge of personal background) – mutual affect (emotional commitment) The sequential analysis is based on a conversation analytic approach, while the interpretive framework consists of pragmatic theories of politeness, conversational style and common ground.

Download or read book Acquaintance written by Jonathan Knowles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas that they would wish to reject. However in the past decade or two the concept has undergone a striking revival in mainstream 'analytic' philosophy--acquaintance is, it seems, respectable again. This volume showcases the great variety of topics in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language for which philosophers are currently employing the notion of acquaintance. It is the first collection of new essays devoted to the topic of acquaintance, featuring chapters from many of the world's leading experts in this area. Opening with an extensive introductory essay, which provides some historical background and summarizes the main debates and issues concerning acquaintance, the remaining thirteen contributions are grouped thematically into four sections: phenomenal consciousness, perceptual experience, reference, and epistemology.

Download or read book Acquainted with the Cold written by Lexa Hillyer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.

Download or read book Acquainted with the Night written by Erica Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Ryan is happier than she believed possible and her relationship with fellow police officer CJ St. Clair is the reason. But in the blink of an eye her world falls into darkness. An accident leaves her injured and sidelined--and suspicious about the circumstances. Then tragedy strikes at the heart of her family. It seems like random violence until the worst blow falls, leaving Alex devastated. Alex has no proof that there is more than terrible coincidence at work, but she can't accept that her life is fated to be filled with shadows and pain. She must unravel the mystery and motive behind the tragic changes in her life--and fight to regain her love. Brainy is the new sexy in Erica Abbott's celebrated, reader favorite series.

Download or read book Get Acquainted with Your written by Gary L. Ball-Kilbourne and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the Bible for group or individual study.

Download or read book Getting Acquainted with Homogenization and Multiscale written by Leonid Berlyand and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to navigate beginning graduate students in mathematics and engineering through a mature field of multiscale problems in homogenization theory and to provide an idea of its broad scope. An overview of a wide spectrum of homogenization techniques ranging from classical two-scale asymptotic expansions to Gamma convergence and the rapidly developing field of stochastic homogenization is presented. The mathematical proofs and definitions are supplemented with intuitive explanations and figures to make them easier to follow. A blend of mathematics and examples from materials science and engineering is designed to teach a mixed audience of mathematical and non-mathematical students.

Download or read book Acquainted with Grief written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acquainted with Grief, written between 1938 and 1941, begins as a charade (what is the significance of the strange mock-Spanish dictatorship that serves as the story's locale: Mussolini's Italy in harmless disguise?). It proceeds sinuously while various provincial characters drift past and around the principal players--Gonzalo, the misanthropic bachelor and his poor fluttery mother caught in a web of social pretensions. By the close there is a terrible cry of death and despair not unworthy of the culmination of a Pirandello play. One can look at this bizarre novel as a symbolic attack on Fascism (later corroborated in Gadda's That Awful Mess on Via Merulana) but, as the introductory note makes clear, Gadda is really working out a private obsession-the Oedipal situation of his own life. And the long sequence where the villagers enter the deserted villa and discover the bloody Senora perhaps "murdered" by her departed son has a hallucinatory poignancy shocking in its nakedness, moral and otherwise. Here Gadda strikes through his lordly mask and speaks with true power." (Kirkus Review, March 1, 1969)

Download or read book Acquainted with Grief written by Thomas Alan Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how evangelist and minister Wang Mingdao emerged from humble roots to take a dramatic stand against the state-sponsored Chinese churches.

Download or read book Acquainted with the Night written by Sollace Hotze and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her older cousin become very close, as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and his experiences in the Vietnam War, and as together they share encounters with a troubled ghost.

Download or read book Acquaintance Ontology and Knowledge written by Fred Wilson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth of the 'myth of the given', are among the topics covered. Bergmann, Quine, Sellars, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hume, Bradley, Hochberg, Dummett, Frege, Plato, are among the philosophers discussed. The essays criticize non-Humean notions of cause; they criticize the notion that besides simple atomic facts there are also negative facts and general facts. They defend a realism of properties as universals, against nominalism; bare particulars; a (qualified) realism with regard to logical form; a Russellian account of relations; and an account of minds and intentionality, which is opposed to materialism, but is also a form of (methodological) behaviourism. In general, the ontology is one of logical atomism and empiricist throughout, rooted in a Principle of Acquaintance.

Download or read book An Acquaintance written by Saba Syed and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting story of a smart, driven young Muslim girl living in small town America who falls for the new guy at her high school. Family and friends misunderstand their developing relationship and Sarah struggles to be faithful to her moral code. As rumors of miscoduct cresando throughout the school year, what will become of their mere acquaintance...or is it more?

Download or read book Get Acquainted with God written by Kenneth E. Hagin and published by Faith Library Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing rich fellowship with our Heavenly Father is the key to walking in the supernatural.

Download or read book Acquainted written by London Miller and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They met under summer showers ...Vera Markovic only wanted a vacation away from New York where everyone knows her as a Russian Mafiya printsessa of the Markovic Bratva. She didn't expect to find something worth remembering. And definitely not a man like Alfie Shelby. They fell in love when the leaves changed colors ...As New York City's notorious fixer, Alfie Shelby always gets what he wants--and when he sets his eyes on Vera, he'll do anything to keep her ... even if she's not sure she wants to be kept.And they nearly lost it all when the snow started to fall ...She wants nothing to do with a gangster.A life of crime is all he knows.But neither can deny what they have, even when forces beyond their control try to keep them apart.

Download or read book Acquainted with Squalor written by Nath Jones and published by Life List Press. This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Rubery Book Award Shortlist 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards - Silver Medal Winner Acquainted with Squalor delivers astonishing power of body-and-soul. Meteors fall, an old neighbor tosses an infrared Phoenix beacon into a cup of loose change, and a woman on the phone with a friend mentions nothing about her eviction notice. These nine stories nourish our sense of wonder and acknowledge our deepest despair. Who has the endearing audacity to call a lover "Governor General"? Who will sit down together on a hot day to eat frozen blueberries on a country lawn? Nath Jones captures what it means for us to be at home and still awash in the world