Download or read book The Book of Daniel written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

Download or read book The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter written by Lana A. Whited and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Download or read book Hechizos y rituales written by Esencia Esotérica and published by Esencia Esotérica. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hechizos y rituales - Conoce diferentes estilos de magia blanca y descubre qué tipo de bruja eres. ¿Sientes que hay una bruja dentro de ti esperando a despertar? ¿Quieres aprender a usar la magia para mejorar tu vida y la de los demás? ¿Te gustaría conocer los secretos de la magia con los elementos, la magia con la luna, la magia con los cristales y mucho más? Si tu respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En este libro encontrarás todo lo que necesitas para iniciarte en el fascinante mundo de la brujería blanca. Descubrirás qué es la magia y cómo funciona, qué tipos de brujas existen y cómo activar tu poder personal. Aprenderás a conectar con la magia, a crear tu espacio sagrado y tu altar de bruja, a limpiar y proteger tu energía y tu entorno, y a despertar tu bruja interior. Además, te enseñaré a hacer hechizos y rituales con diferentes estilos de magia blanca, según el tipo de bruja que seas o quieras ser. Podrás experimentar con la magia de los elementos, la magia con la luna, la magia con los cristales, la magia con las velas y la magia con los inciensos. También te mostraré cómo hacer elixires, rejillas y amuletos mágicos con los cristales, cómo cortar los lazos negativos, cómo crear tu propio libro de las sombras y grimorio de la bruja, y cómo desarrollar tu intuición y tus habilidades psíquicas. Este libro es una guía práctica y completa para que puedas vivir la magia con alegría y confianza. Con este libro podrás: - Descubrir y potenciar la bruja que llevas dentro - Conocer diferente tipos de Magia blanca - Descubrir qué tipo de bruja eres - Atraer el amor, la salud, la abundancia y la felicidad a tu vida - Conectar con la naturaleza y la Madre Tierra - Invocar a las fuerzas sobrenaturales que te apoyan - Hacer realidad tus deseos y transformar tu realidad - Hacer una gran variedad de hechizos y rituales usando diferentes tipos de Magia blanca No esperes más y empieza hoy mismo a despertar la bruja que llevas dentro. ¡Este libro te acompañará en tu camino mágico! • Conocer diferentes tipos de Magia Blanca • Hacer una amplia variedad de hechizos y rituales • Cómo despertar a tu bruja interior y reconocer tu poder • Crear amuletos y talismanes • Hacer elixires, rejillas y amuletos • Consagrar amuletos • Elegir, limpiar y programar cristales • Hacer limpiezas energéticas • Cortar lazos energéticos • Hechizos de salud, prosperidad, amor, cumplir deseos y mucho más • Aprenderás la Magia lunar, cristalina, elemental, astral, psíquica, caótica, eclética, verde y magia con velas • Desarrollar tus habilidades psíquicas • Conectar con tu sabiduría ancestral

Download or read book The Science of Harry Potter written by Roger Highfield and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the magic of Harry Potter—a witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Can Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the critically acclaimed The Physics of Christmas, explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjurings of the scientific mind. This is the perfect guide for parents who want to teach their children science through their favorite adventures as well as for the millions of adult fans of the series intrigued by its marvels and mysteries. • An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice •

Download or read book Born Twice written by Giuseppe Pontiggia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son’s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo’s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between “normal” and “disabled” worlds. A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary honor, Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia’s American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia’s haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done.

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Download or read book The Connector Manager written by Jaime Roca and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four distinct types of managers. One performs much worse than the rest, and one performs far better. Which type are you? Based on a first-of-its-kind, wide-ranging global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the global research and advisory firm Gartner were able to classify all managers into one of four types: Teacher managers, who develop employees' skills based on their own expertise and direct their development along a similar track to their own. Cheerleader managers, who give positive feedback while taking a general hands-off approach to employee development. Always-on managers, who provide constant, frequent feedback and coaching on all aspects of the employee's performance. Connector managers, who provide feedback in their area of expertise while connecting employees to others in the team or organization who are better suited to address specific needs. Although the four types of managers are more or less evenly distributed, the Connector manager consistently outperforms the others by a significant margin. Meanwhile, Always-on managers tend to see their employees struggle to grow within the organization. Why is that? Drawing on their groundbreaking data-driven research, as well as in-depth case studies and extensive interviews with managers and employees at companies like IBM, Accenture, and eBay, the authors show what behaviors define a Connector manager, and why they are able to build powerhouse teams. They also show why other types of managers fail to be equally effective, and how they can incorporate behaviors of Connector managers in order to be more effective at building teams.

Download or read book Magia del Caos Descifrada Conocimiento es Poder written by Asamod Ka and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro es original (no "más de lo mismo"). El autor, como un mago, expresó su opinión personal sobre toda la obra. No incluye los antiguos y polvorientos rituales de la Aurora Dorada, la Goetia judía ni los hechizos de egregores del "Necronomicon" de H.P Lovecraft. Esta obra contiene rituales nuevos y únicos, inspirados ​​en la magia sumeria y egipcia, adaptados a la magia caoísta, Ógdoade egipcia, Isfet, Seth y otras deidades del caos. Contiene correlaciones entre rituales, sigilismo y gnosis con la física cuántica. Contiene un extenso y completo capítulo sobre Magia Memética, así como pautas para el empoderamiento personal. Es un libro completo, con mucha información práctica, escrito por un ser humano real y practicante de magia. Mantras egipcios "hekau" para el empoderamiento personal. La obra también analiza la relación entre la magia y otras áreas, como la psicología, el chamanismo, el trabajo de las sombras con los arquetipos egipcios, la adivinación con la caosesfera, aportando una visión amplia de la práctica de la Magia del Caos.

Download or read book Ayahuasca Visions written by Pablo Amaringo and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storied journey into the psychedelic realm: unravel the sacred mysteries of Ayahuasca with a renowned Amazonian shaman and anthropologist duo. Unveiling nearly 50 vivid painting masterpieces revealing Ayahuasca's mind-expanding impact on human consciousness. Explore the mesmerizing world of Ayahuasca in this classic volume. Featuring the visionary art of Pablo Amaringo and the anthropological expertise of Luis Eduardo Luna, Ayahuasca Visions presents nearly 50 vibrant, full-color pieces of artwork. Each vision illustrates a deep understanding of how Ayahuasca affects human consciousness. The artworks integrate plant teachers and shamanic powers, like the Three Types of Sorcerers, along with the spirit world, including forest spirits, chthonic spirits, and ouranian spirits. Additionally, they explore concepts related to illness and healing. In an era where Ayahuasca is gaining global popularity for its benefits to spiritual growth, self-exploration, and mental well-being, Ayahuasca Visions is an indispensable guide. It not only documents the rich tapestry of visions induced by this potent brew—it reinforces the profound connection between humans and the natural world. Whether you're embarking on a personal spiritual journey or seeking a deeper understanding of Ayahuasca, this book is your gateway to the mysteries of this remarkable plant teacher. Esteemed scholars such as Professor Richard Schultes, Terence McKenna, and Åke Hultkrantz applaud Ayahuasca Visions for its unique blend of vivid psychedelic art with ethnographic insight. The book serves as an enlightening journey into the Ayahuasca experience, demystifies its profound impact on the psyche, and provides a broad understanding of the plant’s spiritual and therapeutic dimensions within Amazonian shamanism.

Download or read book Radical Women written by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the work of more than 100 female artists with nearly 300 works in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance art, and other experimental media. A series of thematic essays, arranged by country, address the cultural and political contexts in which these radical artists worked, while other essays address key issues such as feminism, art history, and the political body. Published in association with the Hammer Museum. The exhibition took place from Sep 15, 2017-Dec 31, 2017, in the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Download or read book Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum written by Griselda Pollock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of women's artistic contributions to the twentieth century, the virtual feminist museum stages some of the complex relations between femininity, modernity and representation. Griselda Pollock draws on the models of both Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and Freud's private museum of antiquities as well as Ettinger's concept of subjectivity as encounter to propose a differencing journey through time, space and archive. Featuring studies of Canova 's Three Graces and women artist's modernist reclamations of the female body, the book traverses the rupture of fascism and the Holocaust and ponders the significance of painting and drawing in their aftermath. Artists featured include: Georgia O'Keeffe, Josephine Baker, Gluck, Charlotte Salomon, Bracha Ettinger and Christine Taylor Patten.

Download or read book A History Of Psychology Main Currents In Psychological 6 E written by Leahey and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethnic Humor Around the World written by Christie Davies and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a scholarly study of various societies' hostile humor. This book takes a serious look at humor, drawing on the work of psychologists, folklorists, and philosophers, but also is intended for those who are curious as to why we laugh at ethnic jokes.

Download or read book A History of Psychology written by Thomas Hardy Leahey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society. Featuring extended treatment of important movements such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, the textbook approaches the material from an integrative rather than wholly linear perspective. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology’s technical concerns as a science and profession. This new edition features expanded attention on psychoanalysis after its founding as well as new developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics. Throughout, the book strengthens its exploration of psychological ideas and the cultures in which they developed and reinforces the connections between psychology, modernism, and postmodernism. The textbook covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology, and is appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Download or read book A History of Modern Psychology written by Thomas Hardy Leahey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.

Download or read book 45 Hechizos exclusivos de Magia del Caos para el amor el dinero y el trabajo written by Lorena Tercon Arbiza and published by Arcanah Bacana. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Magia del Caos se distingue por fomentar la creación de hechizos personalizados en vez de regirse por dogmas que en nada ensamblan con la vida cotidiana actual. Por eso es una magia accesible, creativa y que te invita a ser partícipe mucho más que espectador. En este libro de 45 Hechizos de Magia del Caos específicos para transformar tu vida amorosa, financiera y laboral, te comparto algunos de los rituales que le hice de manera personalizada a mis clientes a lo largo de los años en los que he venido dedicándome a este arte de la manifestación. La Magia del Caos es sincera y directa, por lo que nunca se presenta ante vos como la solución a tu vida, sino como una herramienta que te va a ayudar en tu proceso de manifestación, pero el trabajo mental, emocional y de campo es todo tuyo. Si tengo tu compromiso, vos tenés la llave hacia la siguiente etapa de tu vida.