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Book Fleeting Reflections

Download or read book Fleeting Reflections written by Mike Curry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sense of energy at Canary Wharf is palpable; it's not a place that is often associated with quiet contemplation. Yet pausing for a moment reveals real beauty and softness alongside the corporate architecture. The patterns and colors can be mesmerizing like a kaleidoscope as they change with the light and weather. With so much activity all around, capturing these colorful images requires a focus that isn't immediately obvious to passersby. Curry can spend hours at a time examining one body of water, and the more he watches the more he sees. The images in this book are inspired by his childhood fascinations with kaleidoscopes and Spirograph and being captivated by the endless variation of colors and shapes. The photos may seem like they have been manipulated or created in Photoshop but they appear in this book as they did in nature, as beautiful fleeting reflections.

Book Fleeting Agencies

Download or read book Fleeting Agencies written by Arunima Datta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.

Book Reflections

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Robinson
  • Publisher : Holt McDougal
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Reflections written by David Robinson and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1978 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Step Ladder

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  • Author : Flora Warren Seymour
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Step Ladder written by Flora Warren Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 898 pages

Download or read book Chambers s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spaces of Security

Download or read book Spaces of Security written by Mark Maguire and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses on the infrastructures of security, considering locations as varied as public entertainment venues to border walls to blast-proof bedrooms. Around the world, experts, organizations, and governments are managing societies in the name of security, while scholars and commentators are writing about surveillance, state violence, and new technologies. Yet in spite of the growing emphasis on security, few truly consider the spatial dimensions of security, and particularly how the relationship between space and security varies across cultures. This volume explores spaces of security not only by attending to how security is produced by and in spaces, but also by emphasizing the ways in which it is constructed in the contemporary landscape. The book explores diverse contexts ranging from biometrics in India to counterterrorism in East Africa to border security in Argentina. The ethnographic studies demonstrate the power of a spatial lens to highlight aspects of security that otherwise remain hidden, while also adding clarity to an elusive and dangerous way of managing the world.

Book Deathworlds to Lifeworlds

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  • Author : Valerie Malhotra Bentz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2021-08-02
  • ISBN : 3110691868
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Deathworlds to Lifeworlds written by Valerie Malhotra Bentz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deathworlds are places on planet earth that can no longer sustain life. These are increasing rapidly. We experience remnants of Deathworlds within our Lifeworlds (for example traumatic echoes of war, genocide, oppression). Many practices and policies, directly or indirectly, are "Deathworld-Making." They undermine Lifeworlds contributing to community decline, illnesses, climate change, and species extinction. This book highlights the ways in which writing about and sharing meaningful experiences may lead to social and environmental justice practices, decreasing Deathworld-Making. Phenomenology is a method which reveals the connection between personal suffering and the suffering of the planet earth and all its creatures. Sharing can lead to collaborative relationships among strangers for social and environmental justice across barriers of culture, politics, and language. "Deathworlds into Lifeworlds wakes people up to how current economic and social forces are destroying life and communities on our planet, as I have mapped in my work. The chapters by scholars around the world in this powerful book testify to the pervasive consequences of the proliferation of Deathworld-making and ways that collaboration across cultures can help move us forward." —Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought. "Recognizing the inseparability of experience, consciousness, environment and problematics in rebalancing life systems, this book offers solutions from around the world." —Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, author of Sitting Bull's Words for A World in Crises, et al. "This unique book brings together 78 participants from 11 countries to reveal the ways in which phenomenology – the study of consciousness and phenomena — can lead to profound personal and social transformation. Such transformation is especially powerful when "Deathworlds" – physical or cultural places that no longer sustain life – are transformed into "lifeworlds" through collaborative sharing, even when (or, perhaps, especially when) the sharing is among strangers across different cultures. The contributors share a truly wide range of human experiences, from the death of a child to ecological destruction, in offering ways to affirm life in the face of what may seem to be hopeless death-affirming challenges." —Richard P. Appelbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a founding Professor at Fielding Graduate University, where he heads the doctoral concentration in Sustainability Leadership. "Deathworlds is a love letter for the planet—our home. By documenting places that no longer sustain life, the authors collectively pull back the curtain on these places, rendering them meaningful by connecting what ails us with what ails the world." —Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D., conservation activist and author "Deathworlds to Lifeworlds represents collaboration among Fielding Graduate University, the University of Łodź (Poland), and the University of the Virgin Islands. Students and faculty from these universities participated in seminars on transformative phenomenology and developed rich phenomenologically based narratives of their experiences or others’. These phenomenological protocol narratives creatively modify and integrate with everyday experience the conceptual frameworks of Husserl, Schutz, Heidegger, Habermas, and others. The diverse protocol authors demonstrate how phenomenological reflection is transformative first by revealing how Deathworlds, which lead to physical, mental, social, or ecological decline, imperil invaluable lifeworlds. Deathworlds appear on lifeworld fringes, such as extra-urban trash landfills, where unnoticed impoverished workers labor to the destruction of their own health. Poignant protocol-narratives highlight the plight and noble struggle of homeless people, the mother of a dying 19-year-old son, persons inclined to suicide, overwhelmed first responders, alcoholics who through inspiration achieve sobriety, unravelled We-Relationships, those suffering from and overcoming addiction or misogynist stereotypes or excessive pressures, veterans distraught after combat, a military mother, those in liminal situations, and oppressed indigenous peoples who still make available their liberating spirituality. Transformative phenomenology exemplifies that generous responsiveness to the ethical summons to solidarity to which Levinas’s Other invites us." —Michael Barber, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University. He has authored seven books and more than 80 articles in the general area of phenomenology and the social world. He is editor of Schützian Research, an annual interdisciplinary journal. "This book helps us notice the Deathworlds that surround us and advocates for their de-naturalization. Its central claim is that the ten virtues of the transformative phenomenologist allow us to do so by changing ourselves and the worlds we live in. In this light, the book is an outstanding presentation of the international movement known as "transformative phenomenology." It makes groundbreaking contributions to a tradition in which some of the authors are considered the main referents. Also, it offers an innovative understanding of Alfred Schutz’s philosophy of the Lifeworld and a fruitful application of Van Manen’s method of written protocols." —Carlos Belvedere, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires" "Moving beyond the social phenomenology carved out by Alfred Schütz, this impressive volume of action-based experiential research displays the efficacy of applying phenomenological protocols to explore Deathworlds, the tacit side of the foundational conception of Lifeworlds. Over twenty-one chapters, plus an epilogue, readers are transported by the train of Transformative Phenomenology, created during what’s been called the Silver Age of Phenomenology (1996 – present) at the Fielding Graduate University. An international amalgam of students and faculty from universities in Poland, the United States, the Virigin Islands, Canada, and socio-cultural locations throughout the world harnessed their collective energy to advance the practical call of phenomenology as a pathway to meaning-making through rich descriptions of lived experience. Topics include dwelling with strangers, dealing with trash, walking with the homeless, death of a young person, overcoming colonialism, precognition, environmental destruction, and so much more. The research collection enhances what counts as phenomenological inquiry, while remaining respectful of Edmund Husserl’s philosophical roots." —David Rehorick, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of New Brunswick (Canada) & Professor Emeritus, Fielding Graduate University (U.S.A.), Vancouver, British Columbia.

Book Poetics of the Iconotext

Download or read book Poetics of the Iconotext written by Liliane Louvel and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane Louvel and introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Situated within the most significant recent debates in text/image studies, Louvel's work presents a sophisticated new typology of text-image relations that enable readers to think at once more precisely and more inventively about texts, images, and the intersections between the two.

Book Shades  of Painting at the Limit

Download or read book Shades of Painting at the Limit written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Sallis's] ideas are presented in a singular, scholarly, remarkable, captivating, conceptually rigorous, dense, and deep manner.... Highly recommended." --Choice "This fascinating book by one of the more original voices writing philosophy in English poses questions about the nature of the visible and invisible, sensible and intelligible." --Dennis Schmidt What is it that an artist paints in a painting? Working from paintings themselves rather than from philosophical theories, John Sallis shows how, through shades and limits, the painter renders visible the light that confers visibility on things. In his extended examination of three phases in the development of modern painting, Sallis focuses on the work of Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, and Mimmo Paladino--three painters who, each in his own way, carry painting to the limit.

Book Taboo

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Taboo written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martin R  Delany

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert S. Levine
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003-11-20
  • ISBN : 0807862568
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Martin R Delany written by Robert S. Levine and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has remained a relatively obscure figure in U.S. culture, generally portrayed as a radical separatist at odds with the more integrationist Frederick Douglass. This pioneering documentary collection offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, Delany in all his complexity. Through nearly 100 documents--approximately two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial nineteenth-century publications--it traces the full sweep of his fascinating career. Included are selections from Delany's early journalism, his emigrationist writings of the 1850s, his 1859-62 novel, Blake (one of the first African American novels published in the United States), and his later writings on Reconstruction. Incisive and shrewd, angry and witty, Delany's words influenced key nineteenth-century debates on race and nation, addressing issues that remain pressing in our own time.

Book A Surgeon s Odyssey

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  • Author : Richard Moss M.D.
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2018-08-17
  • ISBN : 1480859532
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book A Surgeon s Odyssey written by Richard Moss M.D. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1987 to 1990, author Dr. Richard Moss traveled extensively through Asia while working as a cancer surgeon in four different countries including Thailand, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. His work was voluntary, however the “payoff” was in the rich, fascinating, and, often bizarre experiences he had both as a surgeon and wanderer. Based on this three-year excursion, A Surgeon’s Odyssey delves into the true-to-life adventures, struggles, and quandaries of a young surgeon from humble beginnings who found himself in a strange and tragic but beautiful world, striving to save those suffering from horrifying disease under hellish circumstances. In this memoir, Moss shares his story that includes insights into life, other cultures and religions, and the tragedy of intolerable disease amidst destitution and scarcity. A Surgeon’s Odyssey tells of a young man’s decision to forgo comfort and financial security for the adventure of a lifetime, pitting himself against the specter of overwhelming suffering and illness. It narrates the unique journey of a cancer surgeon who, against conventional wisdom, embarked on a pilgrimage of healing and experienced surgical triumphs and setbacks amidst some of the most beguiling and fascinating cultures in the world.

Book Evaluating Teaching

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  • Author : James H. Stronge
  • Publisher : Corwin Press
  • Release : 2005-11-02
  • ISBN : 1452212147
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Evaluating Teaching written by James H. Stronge and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource demonstrates how to foster the development of highly qualified teachers through designing and implementing a solid teacher evaluation system.

Book Lectures on the British Poets

Download or read book Lectures on the British Poets written by Henry Reed and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Fates

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  • Author : Francis Marion Crawford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Three Fates written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Novels of F  Marion Crawford  The three fates

Download or read book The Novels of F Marion Crawford The three fates written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Female Face of God in Auschwitz

Download or read book The Female Face of God in Auschwitz written by Melissa Raphael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length feminist dialogue with Holocaust theory, theology and social history. Considers women's reactions to the holy in the camps at Auschwitz.