Download or read book Echoes of Other Worlds Sound in Virtual Reality written by Tom A. Garner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature and importance of sound in virtual reality (VR). Approaching the subject from a holistic perspective, the book delivers an emergent framework of VR sound. This framework brings together numerous elements that collectively determine the nature of sound in VR; from various aspects of VR technology, to the physiological and psychological complexities of the user, to the wider technological, historical and sociocultural issues. Garner asks, amongst other things: what is the meaning of sound? How have fictional visions of VR shaped our expectations for present technology? How can VR sound hope to evoke the desired responses for such an infinitely heterogeneous user base? This book if for those with an interest in sound and VR, who wish to learn more about the great complexities of the subject and discover the contemporary issues from which future VR will surely advance.
Download or read book Echoes and Realities written by Winifred Gordon and published by London : Hutchinson & Company, Limited. This book was released on 1934 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of life and travel by a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Download or read book Echoes of Exodus written by Bryan D. Estelle and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel’s exodus from Egypt is the Bible’s enduring emblem of deliverance. But more than just an epic moment, the exodus shapes the telling of Israel’s and the church’s gospel. In this guide for biblical theologians, preachers, and teachers, Bryan Estelle traces the exodus motif as it weaves through the canon of Scripture, wedding literary readings with biblical-theological insights.
Download or read book Reality Echo written by James Axler and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth remains the volatile prize of aeons of war and domination by two panterrestrial races. Returning the fight to these inhuman overlords, the Cerberus rebels are the champions of the planet's postapocalyptic dark ages. They spark a uniquely human resilience and courage to stand down the forces of infinitely powerful, perhaps unstoppable entities in the ongoing war to retake Earth for humanity. The Bluegrass range, ripe with secrets and magic, hides the operating base of a race of monstrous genetic mutations, faithful servants of an ancient overlord. As Kane and the rebels stage their reconnaissance, the shocking new face of an old nemesis enters the fray. As this cross-spatial cyborg replicates himself as Kane and breaches humanity's last defense, he may well succeed in wiping the mountains—and their inhabitants—off the face of Earth permanently.
Download or read book Eldens quest against darkness 3 written by Amarabhilash and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the enchanting realm of Eldoria, where cosmic forces dance and destinies intertwine, a young hero named Elden embarks on a perilous journey against encroaching darkness. Born with a mysterious cosmic mark, Elden's path is guided by echoes of ancient prophecies and the symphony of cosmic energies. As he confronts otherworldly challenges and forms unbreakable bonds, Elden must unravel the secrets of his mark and unite a diverse group of individuals whose destinies are intertwined with his own. Together, they forge a cosmic resonance that spans dimensions, weaving a tapestry of unity to repel the encroaching shadows. In a saga of courage, connection, and cosmic harmonies, Elden's quest becomes a testament to the power of shared purpose and the intricate dance of cosmic forces.
Download or read book Eldens quest against darkness 4 written by Amarabhilash and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Echoes of Eternity: Guardians Unbound" invites you to embark on a spellbinding journey through the realms of imagination, where echoes of heroes and echoes of villains clash in a symphony of echoes that reverberate across the multiverse. In this riveting installment of the series, the Guardians of Cosmic Unity return with renewed determination and boundless potential, as they confront echoes of challenges that transcend dimensions and echoes of adversaries that defy understanding. As echoes of the cosmic tapestry unfold, "Guardians Unbound" explores the echoes of deeper bonds between the Guardians, their echoes of growth and transformation, and their echoes of unyielding dedication to preserving echoes of harmony within the multiverse. The echoes of Elden's leadership, Zephyr's foresight
Download or read book Echoes of the Soul written by Echo Bodine and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Palm Sunday, Echo Bodine prayed to be granted a better understanding of worlds beyond this one, and three days later she found herself on an amazing voyage. Leaving her body behind, she traveled through life, death, and then beyond in a breath-taking vision of what awaits us all after this life. Echoes of the Soul is heartwarming and enlightening. In simple prose, Echo Bodine gently leads readers through realms of existence we all have yet to experience. Her inspiring images leave us with a hopeful vision of life after death — or, as Echo calls it, graduation, when we go to our real home. This inspiring and positive vision of the afterlife leaves the reader filled with hope, and even awe.
Download or read book Literature and the Senses written by Annette Kern-Stähler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
Download or read book The Tiger and the Wolf written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Novel. ‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ – Christopher Paolini In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming . . . Maniye’s father is the Wolf clan’s chieftain, but she’s an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan’s animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer Broken Axe is set on their trail to drag them back for retribution. The Wolf chieftain plots to rule the north, and controlling his daughter is crucial to his schemes. However, other tribes also prepare for strife. Strangers from the far south appear too, seeking allies in their own conflict. It’s a season for omens as priests foresee danger and a darkness falling across the land. Some say a great war is coming, overshadowing even Wolf ambitions. A time of testing and broken laws is near – but what spark will set the world ablaze? Continue this sweeping coming-of-age fantasy with The Bear and the Serpent.
Download or read book The Human Intelligences written by Valentin Matcas and published by Valentin Leonard Matcas. This book was released on 1901 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human mind has two main intelligences, the conscious and the subconscious, yet this is only a scientific observation, meant to define what you access consciously in your mind and what you do not. While you want to know everything about the human mind, in order to access everything, but how can you, when you cannot even define it? Since there is more to the human mind than what psychology offers, and you can certainly tell, since it is always in your mind, but never in textbooks. The two main human intelligences are subdivided into further intelligences, which also include their own inner intelligences, and it is relevant to know everything. Because your subconscious intelligence has its own primal subconscious intelligences, specialized in the entirety of your bodily activity, as eating, recovery, socialization, reproduction, development, security, learning, cooperation, wellbeing, and interconnectivity. But are these your primal intelligences, or you are these primal intelligences altogether? Who or what exactly are you? From a cognitive perspective, you may identify yourself with your conscious intelligence, since this offers you awareness and conscious reasoning. You are certainly aware of all subconscious intelligences stated above, yet there are more human intelligences interacting with you and with your entire cognitive system continuously, with some exceeding the human mind altogether. Additionally, you may always employ artificial and consensual human intelligences to enhance your experience and achievement in life, at a significant cost, since it takes from your natural fulfillment. And in this manner, you live your life through many intelligences even unknowingly, pleasantly or not, as these send you your needs and feelings continuously, and this is all that you know. Apart from needs, feelings, reasoning, and awareness, the human intelligences offer a variety of interfaces, identities, selves, and companions to use throughout life, you may identify them with ease since they are in your mind while others can reach beyond, and it is significant to know them, as this adds to your complexity and uniqueness in life. Who are you? You know well your conscious intelligence since you control it, while you are interested in the subconscious intelligence, since it remains out of your reach, it governs you from the shadows of your mind, and if you are not careful, it ruins your life since it can go against your will, making everything rather challenging and unexpected. And if you only knew more about your conscious and unconscious main human intelligences, then you were certainly more fulfilled and more successful in life. This book studies the human intelligences as these inhabit, form, and maintain the human mind, in all details and from all perspectives. You have the chance to identify and understand all your intelligences, allowing you to reason and behave in the most adequate manner toward achieving your harmony, meaning, and fulfillment in life and in the world.
Download or read book BUCKLEY BATMAN MYNDIE Echoes of the Victorian culture clash frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding 7 begins with Echo 107 titled CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EYES ON THE OZ CULTURE-CLASH FRONTIER followed by echoes on BUCKLEY REVISITED, AFTER THE PROTECTORATE CRUMBLED and WHAT OF PROTECTOR ROBINSON? Echoes follow on salvaging tribal ways, the Merri Creek black orphanage, ‘going round the bend’ at the Asylum and Echo 114: THE CELESTIALS OF VICTORIA, being the resented Chinese gold miners. Exploring the contrasting fate of Batman, La Trobe and Derrimut, leads into echoes on fringe-dwelling, cultural resistance and Oz racism, in particular the mass psychology of racist ideology that culminated with World War 2. After the gold rush era, life and right behaviour at the Healesville Coranderrk mission station and re-thinking William Thomas the Aboriginal Guardian lead to the pleasant notion of civilizing British colonies through sport. The life and exploits of Tom Wills is celebrated in Echo 122: THE MAKING & BREAKING OF VICTORIA’S FIRST SPORTING HERO. Turning to political history, Oz class struggles – convicts, capitalism and nation-building asks the question with Echo 124: WHITHER MARXISM [?] and then BRITISH EMPIRE POLICY REFORMS IN THE 1840s to contain a Chartist-led revolution. Facets of Victorian ‘quality of life’ since the land grab are followed by echoes on the astrology of the 1802 Port Phillip Crown possession claim and an echo titled TOWARDS AN ASTROLOGY OF CIVILIZATION. The Sounding concludes with approaches to researching Aboriginal society, an undergraduate essay on the Dreamtime and finally with Echo 130: A RAINBOW SERPENT BRIDGE. Today in the 21s century, I wonder how differently Oz would have developed if the then ruling British government in Sydney and London had not used censorship to delay the gold rush for almost 40 years! Sounding 8 begins with Echo 131: HISTORY DISTORTION & CENSORSHIP and is backed up with a critique of Britannia’s pirate empire that together spawn two more echoes of doubtful but controversial polemics in 1421 – THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD suggesting they were here in Oz many centuries before Captain Cook. Echo 135: THE KADAITCHA SUNG MEETS THE DRUID INHERITANCE pits Palm Islander Sam Watson’s 1990s fiction The Kadaitcha Sung [the ‘clever’ occult Oz Dreamtime] in occult war with the equally ancient European / Celtic / Druid magic in the psyche of the Aryan ‘race’, so to speak. Going even further out on a limb, the focus shifts to recent light shed on ‘dark ages barbarians’ now considered by some historians to have been more culturally refined than the modern city individual. Back in Oz with Echo 137: WHITE MAN’S LAW – BLACKFELLOW LAW and Echo 138: McLEOD’S BUCKET FROM SKULL CREEK brings Western Australia after WW2 into wider awareness with the Pilbara pastoral workers strike of 1946-49 that won half-decent wage rights for Aboriginal stockmen. Moving further north, Echo 141: RECENT ARNHEMLAND CONNECTIONS Part 1: Taming the NT is the stuff of White Australia’s race-based patriotism as depicted in Ion Idriess’s once-mainstream fascist fictions counterpointed by Part 2: James Gaykamangus’s Striving to bridge the chasm: my cultural learning journey. The final echo 142 talks treaty.
Download or read book The Ring of Representation written by Stephen David Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.
Download or read book Philosophers Sufis and Caliphs written by Ali Humayun Akhtar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali Humayun Akhtar investigates debates about leadership that involved ruling circles and scholars of jurisprudence and theology. At the heart of this story is a medieval rivalry between three caliphates: the Umayyads of Cordoba, the Fatimids of Cairo, and the Abbasids of Baghdad. In a fascinating revival of Late Antique Hellenism, Aristotelian and Platonic notions of wisdom became a key component of how these caliphs debated their authority as political leaders. By tracing how these political debates impacted the theological and jurisprudential scholars and their own conception of communal guidance, Akhtar offers a new picture of premodern political authority and the connections between Western and Islamic civilizations. It will be of use to students and specialists of the premodern and modern Middle East.
Download or read book Echoes Across Time written by Nova York and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Echoes Across Time" plunges readers into a mesmerizing world where the boundaries of reality blur and the consequences of every action reverberate across multiple timelines. Zara, a brilliant young physicist, stumbles upon an ancient artifact that grants her the extraordinary ability to communicate with her past and future selves. As she delves deeper into the mysteries of time-echoes, she uncovers a looming threat that could unravel the very fabric of existence. Adrian Able masterfully blends urban fantasy with science fiction, crafting a narrative that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally gripping. Zara's race against time to understand the artifact and prevent a catastrophic event keeps readers on the edge of their seats, while also exploring profound questions about free will, destiny, and the nature of consciousness. The novel's intricate plot weaves together multiple timelines, creating a tapestry of interconnected events that challenges our perception of reality and the consequences of our choices.
Download or read book Echoes of Coinherence written by W. Ross Hastings and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion. It modestly proposes that Trinitarian theology, and especially the coinherent natures of the Son in the incarnation, provides the metaphysic or "theory of everything" that manifests itself in the subject matter of science. The presence of the image of the triune God in humanity and of traces of this God in the non-human creation are discussed, highlighting ontological resonances between God and creation (resonances between the being of God and his creation), such as goodness, immensity-yet-particularity, intelligibility, agency, relationality, and beauty. This Trinitarian reality suggests there should be a similarity also with respect to how we know in theology and science (critical realism), something reflected in the history of ideas in each. These resonances lead to the conclusion that the disciplines of theology and science are, in fact, coinherent, not conflicted. This involves recognition of both the mutuality of these vocations and also, importantly, their particularity. Science, its own distinct guild, yet finds its place ensconced within an encyclopedic theology, and subject to first-order, credal theology.
Download or read book Timeless Echo written by Pax Greendale and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Timeless Echo"" plunges readers into a mind-bending world where time is a tapestry of layered realities. Lila, a brilliant young physicist, discovers an extraordinary ability to communicate with her alternate selves across parallel timelines. As she grapples with this newfound power, she uncovers a chilling threat that could unravel the very fabric of existence. Able's narrative masterfully blends urban fantasy with cutting-edge scientific concepts, creating a universe that feels both familiar and alien. Readers will be captivated by Lila's race against time to prevent the collapse of the multiverse, all while confronting her own fears and desires. The story explores the profound consequences of our choices and the interconnectedness of all things, challenging readers to question the nature of reality and identity. With its seamless fusion of quantum physics and fantastical elements, this young adult science fiction adventure offers a unique and thought-provoking journey through the corridors of time and possibility.
Download or read book Echoes written by Dean Wesley Smith and published by Pocket Books/Star Trek. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperately seeking supplies on an abandoned planet, the crew of Voyager must solve the mystery behind the strange phenomenon that caused an entire civilization to disappear--before they become the next victims--Novelist.
