Download or read book Westchester written by Robert Marchant and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American suburb. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author uncovers a complex and often surprising narrative of slavery, anti-Semitism, immigration, Jim Crow, silent film stars, suffragettes, gangland violence, political riots, eccentric millionaires, industry and aviation, man-made disasters and assassinations.
Download or read book Sarinagara written by Philippe Forest and published by Mercury House. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the death of his young daughter, the narrator moves to Japan with the project of writing an essay on Japanese literature. There, on the other side of the earth, he experiences a series of incidents that connect him to a recurrent childhood dream and allow him to explore the depth of his own grief through the stories of others. Sarinagara is a poignant meditation on the nature of grief, art, and memory. In Japanese, "Sarinagara" means "and yet." This word is the last word of one of the most famous poems of Japanese literature.
Download or read book Enchanted Enigma written by Tim Wood and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enchanted Forest written by Fiona Sterling and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mystical realm of Elden's Edge lies the Enchanted Forest, a place of ancient magic and untold secrets. This forest is the heartbeat of the village it borders, and its guardian, Rowan, is the bridge between the natural world and the people of Elden's Edge. When a mysterious artifact is discovered, Rowan embarks on a journey that delves deep into the heart of the forest, unearthing long-forgotten truths and testing their resolve as the forest's protector. As Rowan confronts both external threats and internal challenges, they encounter mystical entities and face trials that test their wisdom, courage, and understanding of the forest's magic. From confronting opportunistic travelers to uncovering the forest's hidden mysteries, Rowan's journey is a testament to the enduring bond between humanity and nature. In "The Enchanted Forest: A Quest for the Forbidden," readers are invited on a captivating journey through a world where magic and reality intertwine. This tale of guardianship, legacy, and the delicate balance between humanity and the natural world is a poignant reminder of the importance of respecting and protecting our environment. As Rowan passes on their wisdom to a new generation, the story comes full circle, underscoring the timeless nature of guardianship and the unbreakable bond between the guardian and the mystical Enchanted Forest.
Download or read book Carnival Creeke Volume 1 written by Angela Foy Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19-year-old Kyle wakes up in the small town of Carnival Creeke with no memory of how she got there. She quickly discovers that she is reliving the same day, over and over. And each day has a catch - a wildcard. One day it might be werewolves, the next day the whole town might be under water. The game is simple - find the wildcard before the clock runs out and the day resets.
Download or read book Enchanted New York written by Kevin Dann and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
Download or read book Enchanted Community written by Robert Thornton Henderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Henderson has done in 'Enchanted Community' is force us to confront the questions of why the church is, and what it has to do with the good news of God in Jesus Christ. He takes us on a fascinating journey into the mystery of the church, and in the process, challenges our understanding of what it means to be the authentic body of Christ. For Henderson, the church should not be identified with its institutional forms, but rather in the authentic communities inhabited by the Holy Spirit that are part of God's missional movement. We, as believers, are in a very real sense Òcalled out to be part of this New Creation community to lead transformed lives as a witness to God's revelation. The journey leads us back to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as the only (and ultimate) source of enchantment in a disenchanted world. As Henderson makes clear, this journey is anything but non-controversial, harmless, and Òspiritual, but is in fact radical and subversive in its very essence. This book offers to all of us--from the pragmatic, the idealistic, and the honest, to the slightly cynical and almost-jaded--practical steps to maintaining the integrity of our discipleship and the authenticity of our relationships as we struggle to live out our calling to be an enchanted people, bearers of God's authentic New Creation humanity in the church and in our daily ministry as salt and light where we live and work.
Download or read book Afterimages written by Laura Mulvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its title, Afterimages, alludes to the dislocation of time that runs through many of the films and works it discusses as well as to the way we view them. Beginning with a section on the theme of woman as spectacle, a shift in focus leads to films from across the globe, directed by women and about women, all adopting radical cinematic strategies. Mulvey goes on to consider moving image works made for art galleries, arguing that the aesthetics of cinema have persisted into this environment. Structured in three main parts, Afterimages also features an appendix of ten frequently asked questions on her classic feminist essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in which Mulvey addresses questions of spectatorship, autonomy, and identity that are crucial to our era today.
Download or read book Hitler s U Boat War written by Clay Blair and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war against the Allies, or "The Battle of the Atlantic." It is an epic sea story, the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in all history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles, in hopes of forcing the British out of the war, thereby thwarting the Allied strategic air assault on German cities as well as Overlord, the Allied invasion of Occupied France. Fortunately for the Allies, the U-boat force failed to achieve either of these objectives, but in the attempt they sank 2,800 Allied merchant ships, while the Allies sank nearly 800 U-boats. On both sides, tens of thousands of sailors perished. The top secret Allied penetration of German naval codes, and, conversely, the top secret German penetration of Allied naval codes played important roles in the Atlantic naval battle. In order to safeguard the secrets of codebreaking in the postwar years, London and Washington agreed to withhold all official codebreaking and U-boat records. Thus for decade upon decade an authoritative and definitive history of the Battle of the Atlantic could not be attempted. The accounts that did appear were incomplete and full of errors of fact and false interpretations and conclusions, often leaving the entirely wrong impression that the German U-boats came within a whisker of defeating the Allies, a myth that persists. When London and Washington finally began to release the official records in the 1980s, Clay Blair and his wife, Joan, commenced work on this history in Washington, London, and Germany. They relied on the official records as well as the work of German, British, American, and Canadian naval scholars who published studies of bits and pieces of the story. The end result is this magnificent and monumental work, crammed with vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions and dispassionate but startling new revelations and interpretations and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. The Blair history will be published in two volumes. This first volume, The Hunters, covers the first three years of the war, August 1939 to August 1942. Told chronologically, it is subdivided into two major sections, the War Against the British Empire, and the War Against the Americas. Volume II, The Hunted, to follow a year later, will cover the last years of the naval war in Europe, August 1942 to May 1945, when the Allies finally overcame the U-boat threat. Never before has Hitler's U-boat war been chronicled with such authority, fidelity, objectivity, and detail. Nothing is omitted. Even those who fought the Battle of the Atlantic will find no end of surprises. Later generations will benefit by having at hand an account of this important phase of World War II, free of bias and mythology.
Download or read book Technovisuality written by Helen Grace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon abound. Spread by digital technologies, images are thought to threaten the word and privilege surface value over content. Yet as they multiply, images face unprecedented competition for attention. This book explores the opportunities that can arise from the ubiquity of visual stimuli. It reveals that 'technovisuality' - the fusion of digital technology with the visual - can work 'wonders'; not so much dazzling audiences with special effects as reviving our enchantment with popular culture. Introducing a new term for an entirely new field of academic study, this book reveals the centrality of 'technovisuality' in 21st century life.
Download or read book Enchanted Desire written by Wanda Thomas and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manette Walker is pregnant when, on the day of their wedding, the father of her unborn child leaves her stranded at the altar. Alone, she carries her daughter to term, but the baby is delivered still born. Now, 17 years later, Manny has managed to pull her life together and move forward. Detective Christopher Coltrane Mills is only ten when he sees his father shot down and killed in the street. Two years later, Christopher's mother commits suicide, leaving him an orphan. Putting dating and relationships on hold, he has spent his entire adult life hunting the man responsible for his father's murder. Then he meets Manny and, somehow, she is able to break through the barriers he has built up to keep women from getting too close. Christopher is honing in on his prey, and the danger to everyone involved in escalating. In addition, Manny is pregnant again, and the man she loves may not make it to the wedding. Is this the past repeating itself? If so, will she be able to survive one final time?
Download or read book Enigmas written by floyd merrell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four married couples from the southwest search for Spanish treasure in northern Mexico, guided by a peculiar map. They meet strange four-dimensional visitors from another world, Tarahumara people with a unique philosophy of life, local bandits roaming the area, narcos ready to kill any and all outsiders, and suspicious police and military personnel. Yet, they become enchanted by the vast Sierra Madre range, they find treasure that exceeds their wildest dreams, and unfortunately they begin squabbling over the take, until the alien visitors sequester most of it. Back home, they make amends, but soon realize their adventure, bizarre to the extreme, will continue haunting them to the end.
Download or read book Julieta and the Diamond Enigma written by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz and published by Tu Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Merci Suarez in this smart young middle-grade mystery about a diamond gone missing from the Louvre and the sweet and spunky girl who cracks the case.
Download or read book Enchanted By Fae Prince Darcy written by Anna Imlee and published by Anna Imlee. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world of humans meets the realm of fae, pride and enchantment collide. In the quaint village of Meryton, an extraordinary event unfolds as a magnificent party of fae descends upon the town. The air crackles with anticipation as the inhabitants prepare for the enchanting presence of visitors from the fae realm. Elizabeth is filled with excitement and trepidation before their arrival. At the Assembly ball, she catches a glimpse of the mesmerizing fae prince, Fitzwilliam Darcy. For an instant, the world changes, but her joy turns to dismay when she discovers his prideful and seemingly insufferable nature. As their paths cross and clash, and Jane falls victim to a mysterious malady, Elizabeth finds herself entangled in a web of magic, secrets, and undeniable attraction. Will she uncover the truth behind Jane's affliction and discover the hidden depths of Fitzwilliam Darcy's heart, or will their differences keep them forever apart in a world where fae and humans don’t typically mix, let alone fall in love?
Download or read book The Blackhope Enigma written by Teresa Flavin and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his painting, trying desperately to get out.
Download or read book Whispers of the Enchanted Garden written by OJ LEIGH and published by OJ LEIGH. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the picturesque village of Serenwood, nestled at the edge of an ancient forest, a mystical secret lies dormant within the heart of an enchanted garden. This garden, a secluded haven of wonder, is tended by Estella, a gifted botanist whose extraordinary ability to converse with nature itself makes her an enigma in her own right. Amidst the petals and leaves, she seeks refuge, striving to master her craft in the comforting embrace of solitude. But the tranquil rhythm of Serenwood is about to be forever disrupted. A mysterious stranger arrives, shrouded in an air of fascination and secrecy, taking up residence in the neighboring cottage. Roland, a reclusive artist, bears an aura that ignites both curiosity and intrigue. As if guided by an invisible hand, the lives of Estella and Roland begin to weave together in ways that defy explanation. Within the confines of the enchanted garden, a unique form of communication unfolds, one that transcends the boundaries of ordinary speech. Messages, whispered between rustling leaves and delicate petals, initiate a dance of curiosity and wonder that binds Estella and Roland in a spellbinding connection. As they delve deeper into the mysteries concealed within the garden's beauty, they uncover not only the secrets of its flourishing flora but also the depths of their own artistic passions. United by a shared reverence for the wonders of nature and a desire to convey their emotions through their art, their bond grows beyond mere companionship. With each passing day, their hearts resonate with the blossoming life around them. Amidst the vibrant colors and intoxicating fragrances, a romance emerges, profound and enchanting, as if orchestrated by the very spirit of the garden itself. "Whispers of the Enchanted Garden" is a tale that blends wonder and romance, as two souls discover solace, inspiration, and an unexpected love amidst the petals and leaves. Follow Estella and Roland as they unlock the garden's hidden magic, unearthing not only its mysteries but also the transformative power of connection and artistic expression. Let yourself be swept away by the enchantment as their hearts intertwine, painting a love story that will linger in your own heart long after the final petal has fallen.
Download or read book The Art of Re enchantment written by Nick Wilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. In The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, author Nick Wilson answers many salient questions surrounding HIP through an in-depth analysis of the early music movement in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.
