Download or read book Enigmatic Excursions written by Thor Castlebury and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on enigmatic journeys of the heart and mind with "Enigmatic Excursions," a mesmerizing poetry book that delves into the depths of mystery, wonder, and introspection. In these verses, words are the keys that unlock the door to hidden realms, inviting readers to explore the labyrinthine pathways of the human experience and discover the secrets that lie within. "Enigmatic Excursions" is a poetic odyssey that celebrates the enigmatic nature of life and the transformative power of embracing the unknown. Each poem is a whispered riddle that beckons readers to unravel its mysteries, to venture into uncharted territories of the soul, and to uncover the hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. As you journey through this collection, you'll encounter poems that mirror your own moments of intrigue, curiosity, and the profound insights that arise when we dare to question the mysteries of existence. These verses are an ode to the complexity of the human condition, reminding readers that beneath the surface of the familiar lies a world of infinite possibility and wonder. Whether you are a seeker of truth or simply a lover of the mysterious and unknown, "Enigmatic Excursions" will resonate deeply with your soul and ignite your spirit of exploration. Each poem is a portal to new dimensions of thought and feeling, inviting you to embark on a journey of self-discovery and intellectual discovery. In "Enigmatic Excursions," the poet's words become whispers of the enigma, offering readers a glimpse into the hidden realms of the mind and the universe. These verses are an invitation to not only embrace the mysteries of life but to revel in them, to celebrate the enigmatic nature of existence and to find solace in the beauty of the unknown. So, open the pages of "Enigmatic Excursions" and allow yourself to be transported to realms of mystery, wonder, and introspection. Allow these verses to be your guides on the journey toward embracing the enigmatic nature of existence and discovering the infinite possibilities that lie within the depths of the human soul.
Download or read book Seeds of Recovery written by Lorette M. Enochs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I invite you to trust and explore the strength of your inner core to accept, forgive, laugh, and understand the range of extreme emotions, fears, and thoughts associated with having a mental health diagnosis. The spirit of your own words can transform the darkest moments.
Download or read book The Third Sex written by Richard Totman and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition. Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces us to three individuals who started life as boys, but while at school decided to become kathoey. In The Third Sex, we follow their rites-of-passage as they become fully fledged kathoey, as their adult lives are witness to attitudes towards trans-gender in Thailand and the Western world. The Third Sex is a perceptive, accessible guide to the cultural, historical, religious, biological and psychological aspects of being trans-gender. The description of the kathoey is part of a wider discussion on trans-gender. 'Third sex' groups form part of many ancient communities, originating in beliefs that pre-date doctrinaire religions. Some religions, such as Buddhism, embrace trans-gendered individuals, but the role of other religions has led to persecution and repression. Many communities accept a 'third sex', from Thailand and Samoa to American Indians and the Philippines. Only in the West has savage repression occurred.
Download or read book The Last Exile written by Jasha M. Levi and published by Jasha M Levi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey over continents, through wars and peace, hatreds and brotherhoods, success' and hardships, uprooting and setting up roots again.
Download or read book Blue Collar Hollywood written by John Bodnar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion—sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative—from the realities of their own lives. In Blue-Collar Hollywood, John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre—among them Public Enemy, Black Fury, Baby Face, The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, I Married a Communist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peyton Place, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Boyz N the Hood—this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy. Whether made during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, or the Vietnam era, the majority of films about ordinary working Americans, Bodnar finds, avoided endorsing specific political programs, radical economic reform, or overtly reactionary positions. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.
Download or read book Enigma Smith written by Jesse Coy Nelson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thoughts on Driving to Venus written by Christopher Pratt and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painter and printmaker Christopher Pratt is known for luminous, meticulous images of Atlantic-coast settings. Strongly influenced by the culture and landscape of Newfoundland, Pratt’s still, crystal-clear images of archetypal island life convey more than landscape. They are richly imagined, almost hyperreal depictions of the land, imbued with memory and meaning. Thoughts on Driving to Venus allows readers an unprecedented glimpse inside Pratt’s mind as he journeys through the Newfoundland countryside. Originally intended for sketches that would later assist in his painting and printmaking, Pratt’s aptly named "Car Books" document numerous road trips he and his wife, Jeanette, took from the late 1990s to the present. The diary-like entries provide an overview of the artist’s stream-of-consciousness impressions, journalistic accounts and personal reflections during these trips. Some passages record the effects of colour, light and shadow on a scene—what he refers to as "sketches"; some delve into personal recollections conjured by the landscapes seen through the windshield; others are reflections on his complex emotional ties to his homeland. The result is an intimate portrait of the creative process and realms of the imagination of one of Canada’s most important contemporary artists.
Download or read book Marsupial Twilight written by Crescentia Miller and published by Crescentia Miller. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by true events, this book details first-hand encounters with Australian wildlife in south-east Queensland. While the focus is on free-roaming kangaroos, adorable possums and native birds, other creatures such as lizards as well as an echidna are included in the mix. The reader will find out many interesting facts about marsupials from an evolutionary perspective. Reflecting day-to-day life in modern Australia, it is the aim of this narrative to spread a message of conservation and promote appreciation for the amazing fauna still calling the Great Southern Land home.
Download or read book 1989 written by Joshua Clover and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of history." Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes. Vividly conjuring cultural sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena--from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap--asking if "perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989 came along to make sense of its sensibility." His analysis deftly moves among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus Jones, the Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialectical and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how "history had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or something less. A truth, a way of being."
Download or read book The Berlin Enigma written by D. F. Harrington and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Harrington grew older, he sat down with his daughter to share the story of his life. What she learned made her rethink the man who had raised her. The tale begins with his childhood in the Australian outback, and follows his immigration to English and enrollment in the British forces in 1914. After being injured in France, he is hired by the British Foreign office, which sends him to Berlin as a passport clerk in the 1930s. For the next ten years, he lives in a world of intrigue and espionage as the Nazi regime grows stronger around him. This is a compelling inside look at the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, from subtle changes in the people’s everyday behaviour to Hitler’s sinister consolidation of power. It is an eyewitness account of an era we all read about, but rarely experience with such a personal touch. Having promised not to release the story until after his passing, Darlene Harrington now shares her father’s remarkable life, which will change the way we understand the Second World War and the impact one person can have on history.
Download or read book Excursions in Astronomical Optics written by Lawrence N. Mertz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every astronomical topic that I have approached there has turned out to be a broader realm of possibilities than is commonly accepted or acknowledged. The "excursions" of this book are the examples. They mostly depart from the mainstream of conventional wisdom to offer a wider perspective with opportunities for further research. While my intent is to supplement that mainstream, the effect may appear to dismiss rather than to reconsider accepted tenets. Ample praise and credit for those accomplishments are already available in textbooks. Readers may very well disagree with some of the notions presented in these excursions, but I hope that they will pause long enough to evaluate the scientific basis for any disagreement. For the most part, these excursions remain incomplete and unfulfilled, yet they contain many ideas that are not available elsewhere. Whether these ideas are per ceived as a collection of unproven claims or as a storehouse of fresh opportunities will depend entirely on the attitude of the reader. The excursions do cover a rather wide span of disciplines, and that may lead to an unfocused overall impression. My hope is thereby to attract a broader audience than that of a single discipline, and to expose them to neighboring disciplines. The excursions all do have the common thread of optical science related to astronomy.
Download or read book The Kukotsky Enigma written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The Kukotsky Enigma is a gynecologist contending with Stalin’s prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the tradition of Russia’s great family novels, the story encompasses the history of two families and unfolds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the ruins of ancient civilizations on the Black Sea. Their lives raise profound questions about family heritage and genetics, nurture and nature, and life and death. In his struggle to maintain his professional integrity and to keep his work from dividing his family, Kukotsky confronts the moral complexity of reproductive science. Winner of the 2001 Russian Booker Prize and the basis for a blockbuster television miniseries, The Kukotsky Enigma is an engrossing, searching novel by one of contemporary literature’s most brilliant writers.
Download or read book The Great Fossil Enigma written by Simon J. Knell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was "found," but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.
Download or read book All Things Must Pass Away written by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Womack and Kruppa present a thorough history of Harrison and Clapton's songmaking and recording sessions." — BooklistNewly revised and expanded, this paperback edition features exclusive material from the Malcolm Frederick Evans archives and draws on rare material released by the Harrison Estate. A new appendix includes a detailed sessionography and personnel listings for All Things Must Pass, assembled from recently discovered documentation. George Harrison and Eric Clapton embarked upon a singular personal and creative friendship that impacted rock's unfolding future in resounding and far-reaching ways. All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs traces the emergence of their relationship from 1968 though the early 1970s and the making of their career-defining albums, both released in November 1970. Authors Womack and Kruppa devote close attention to the climax of Harrison and Clapton's shared musicianship— the creation of All Things Must Pass, Harrison's powerful emancipatory statement in the wake of the Beatles, and Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Clapton's impassioned reimagining of his art via Derek and the Dominos— two records that advanced rock 'n' roll from a windswept 1960s idealism into the wild and expansive new reality of the 1970s. All Things Must Pass Away reveals the foundations of Harrison and Clapton's friendship, focusing on the ways their encouragement and support of each other drove them to produce works that would cast long shadows over the evolving world of rock music.
Download or read book The Mary Lincoln Enigma written by Frank J. Williams and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Lincoln is a lightning rod for controversy. Stories reveal widely different interpretations, and it is impossible to write a definitive version of her life that will suit everyone. The thirteen engaging essays in this collection introduce Mary Lincoln’s complex nature and show how she is viewed today. The authors’ explanations of her personal and private image stem from a variety of backgrounds, and through these lenses—history, theater, graphic arts, and psychiatry—they present their latest research and assessments. Here they reveal the effects of familial culture and society on her life and give a broader assessment of Mary Lincoln as a woman, wife, and mother. Topics include Mary’s childhood in Kentucky, the early years of her marriage to Abraham, Mary’s love of travel and fashion, the presidential couple’s political partnership, and Mary’s relationship with her son Robert. The fascinating epilogue meditates on Mary Lincoln’s universal appeal and her enigmatic personality, showcasing the dramatic differences in interpretations. With gripping prose and in-depth documentation, this anthology will capture the imagination of all readers. Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition
Download or read book The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A revolutionary new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it"--Jacket.
Download or read book The Enigma of Arrival written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.
