Download or read book Falling for Icarus written by Rory MacLean and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a windy afternoon in early spring Rory MacLean fell to earth in Anissari, a village surrounded by white mountains in an ancient corner of Crete. MacLean's mother had died only a few months earlier and he had been engulfed by grief. But an old desire had also taken hold to build and fly an aeroplane. And so he set off to the land where Daedalus and Icarus had made their maiden flight and settled in to days of eating lamb and drinking wine with his Cretan neighbours and, with their help, attempting to build a Woodhopper from scratch and make it fly.
Download or read book Icarus written by Adam Wing and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth as old as civilization. The boy who donned wax wings and flew too close to the sun. Follow the tale of Icarus. And that of the father who tried to save him ... but brought his life to an end. You will come to love him. Then you will watch him fall. Live the tragic story as you never imagined possible.
Download or read book Icarus the Wings That Fall written by Adam Woroniecki and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to write a poetry book. After writing some small volumes that weren't successful. I had deliberated about writing a more well constructed book. Typically longer. At first it was just getting thoughts down on paper, and there are some dark thoughts in here. After some deliberation, I found a connection with things around me. I listened to the stories of the Greek Gods, and Icarus in the sky. Made of wax and flew too close to the sun, with his feathers. The same Greek God who would want to evade capture. I then did some research on this and realised that there is a strong relationship between Greek Mythology and poetry. I then did some more research and I found these things fascinating. The bottom line is, is that no other human being wants another human to suffer. When a human suffers this is when other humans feel pain. I had researched into the greek gods, and mythology around this. I had realised that through this. There was a strong connection between humans and mythology and some kind of spiritual connection. Something I had felt also. I had realised that it doesn't matter how dark or deeper you fall. If you leap into things without thinking. We all become like Icarus of the skies. Because the most courageous Greek gods are the ones who knew that journeys have risk. That we must explore our own minds before taking any trips. That whenever you open up your front door. The dangers are all over you. It's only then I realised that we can talk all day about the sky and the heavens. Yet what I want to focus on is everything around me. Almost trembling and sometimes I am running around not knowing what is best for me. This is why sometimes I feel a connection with Icarus. Yet when I got older I realised that whenever I took a journey outside. This journey had to be planned and we had to know where the dangers of the world were. That the beauty of nature would swallow us. That everything we knew would captivate us. Even though I yearned for the days to fly. I would realise that whenever I tried to do this. They would become burnt and broken. I then realised that my wings were made of feathers and wax. That I flew too close to the sun and had no way of going back. Yet my connection with everything was not really going to help me. I had lost control of my impulses and these things needed to be stopped. Having said that, to feel the impulse as a young man, and having this feeling that you can fly across oceans. Is kind of deceptive because when you realise you don't have wings. You are a danger to yourself. I then realised that if I was going to write any type of poetry. I had to be myself and remember that I am not invincible. Yet every time I strive to help other people I take a risk. I put myself first and I have burnt myself to help other people. Even though the sun burns me, and scolds my skin, sometimes I just feel like I have taken things too far. Then when I talk to people they tell me that I am not responsible for other people's actions. I know there are some dark lyrics in here and none are meant to be taken literally. Yet I wanted to understand what it was like to fly without wings. I wanted to know how the sun would burn me as I got too close to it. Never would I strive to help anyone ever again. Yet I wanted to, and I hope nobody has stopped breathing as this was not what I wanted. As I have written this poetry I have realised that as dark as my memory is. We all want what is best for people. That the urge to feel other people suffer, is just the yearning to approve our own pain to become less. That the only way to truly survive in this world is to know what you are feeling inside. Yet the relationship between other people was something we knew all along. Like the days that weakness was strength and visa versa. I wanted to know everything about these Greek Gods, yet I didn't know where to start.
Download or read book The Icarus Deception written by Seth Godin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin's most inspiring book, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art Everyone knows that Icarus's father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldn't want employees to believe that obedience and conformity are the keys to success? But we tend to forget that Icarus was also warned not to fly too low, because seawater would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high, because it feels deceptively safe. The safety zone has moved. Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: Make art. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you're an artist, no matter what it says on your business card. Godin shows us how it's possible and convinces us why it's essential. 'If Seth Godin didn't exist, we'd need to invent him' Fast Company 'Seth Godin is a demigod on the web, a bestselling author, highly sought-after lecturer, successful entrepreneur, respected pundit and high-profile blogger' Forbes Seth Godin is the author of thirteen international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, the ways ideas spread, leadership and change including Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, All Marketers are Liars, The Dip and Tribes. He is the CEO of Squidoo.com and a very popular lecturer. His blog, www.sethgodin.typepad.com, is the most influential business blog in the world, and consistently one of the 100 most popular blogs on any subject..
Download or read book Icarus Rising written by N. W. Moors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his fall to Earth, Icarus has been in Hell, punished for his hubris. When he wins a chance at parole, he's thrilled - except for the set of wings attached to his body. Eve Gregory runs a small bookstore in northern Connecticut. When she hires the handsome stranger to work for her, she doesn't know the secrets he's hiding. Or that becoming involved with him will embroil her with the Greek gods and goddesses. Icarus and Eve must perform a quest set down for them by Zeus. If they are successful, will that be end of their relationship? Or will love teach them a new way to soar?
Download or read book Beyond the Icarus Factor written by Richard Hawley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to reconsider the place of boys in the family, schools, and community institutions that rob them of their inborn vitality and creativity • Argues that boys have a unique free-spirit nature and that efforts to alter or suppress it lead to profound unhappiness, pathology, or startling compulsions • Demands another approach to societal expectations, one that values and promotes the daring creativity of boys Richard Hawley’s many years as headmaster of a boys’ school have convinced him that boys do indeed have a unique, intrinsic, and inalienable free-spirit nature. He sees deep flaws in the way we--as parents, educators, and community members--alter or suppress that true nature in order to turn boys into men that fit our societal template. Hawley argues that the “model man” in our society, while seemingly successful in his role, may yet be unhappy in his life. The very elements that we strip away from a boy’s natural tendencies are the sources of spirituality and vitality that can give his life both meaning and satisfaction. Without these, he is lost to his essential nature. A new approach is needed, says Hawley, and he goes to the roots of Western theology and philosophy to locate what has gone wrong and how those consequences might be addressed. He sounds the clarion call to unleash, promote, and celebrate the seemingly dangerous pursuits that reflect the creativity and daring nature of boys. Fantasy and imagination must trump cognition and problem solving. We must not hold our boys back with our fears of failure but give them the tools and support they need to create wings good enough to fly wherever they wish to go.
Download or read book Icarus at the Edge of Time written by Brian Greene and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A futuristic reimaging of the classic Greek myth, as a boy ventures through deep space and challenges the awesome power of black holes. The beauty of the book lies in the images, provided by NASA and the Hubble Space telescope, and printed on board rather than paper.
Download or read book Clockwork Wings written by Stacy Buck and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRY PART 1 FOR FREE NOW! Clockwork Wings: the Chronicles of Icarus Parts 1-5 is now available in one massive collected edition of steampunk action adventure. Using steampunk wings created by his father, Icarus must escape the clutches of the evil king Minos, meet up with unlikely allies, and save Athens from certain destruction. Will Icarus have what it takes in this coming of age tale that picks up where the Greek myths left off? Or will the evil king Minos, with the help of the god of the underworld, Hades, destroy Athens, and take over all of Greece? Read the series filled with steampunk airships battles, mighty minotaur armies, and high flying on the wing adventure.
Download or read book Social Psychology of Pictures written by Pascal Moliner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see and represent our social environment not as it is, but as we believe it to be. This is the thesis defended in this book, supported by conceptual elements and illustrated by numerous examples drawn from anthropology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology. These examples show that people sharing different beliefs about the same object produce different images of that object (such as drawings or photos), and highlight that such people interpret the same image of this object differently. Finally, they show that, when these people communicate through images, they find it difficult to understand each other. On the basis of these observations, the book proposes a psychosocial theory of the link between beliefs and iconography. This book is mainly intended for students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences, interested in the problematic of images. However, it will also be of interest to communication practitioners and the general public.
Download or read book The One Year Devotions for Boys written by Tyndale and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300,000 copies sold! Help boys learn about God the true, easy, and fun way. Every day’s devo includes a short story, a Bible verse to memorize, and a “How about You?” section to engage boys in their faith. 365 daily devotional readings Bible passages introduce each day’s theme Contemporary stories for application Daily memory verses Perfect gift for boys ages 8 to 12! Boys will be eager to read these devotionals created just for them from the same people who created The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids. A variety of themes relevant to today’s elementary school–age boys will encourage and challenge them to personalize lessons from Scripture.
Download or read book Children of Icarus written by Caighlan Smith and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It�s Clara who�s desperate to enter the labyrinth and it�s Clara who�s bright, strong, and fearless enough to take on any challenge. It�s no surprise when she�s chosen. But so is the girl who has always lived in her shadow. Together they enter. Within minutes, they are torn apart forever. Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end.
Download or read book Ray Tracing and Beyond written by E. R. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete introduction to the use of modern ray tracing techniques in plasma physics describes the powerful mathematical methods generally applicable to vector wave equations in non-uniform media, and clearly demonstrates the application of these methods to simplify and solve important problems in plasma wave theory. Key analytical concepts are carefully introduced as needed, encouraging the development of a visual intuition for the underlying methodology, with more advanced mathematical concepts succinctly explained in the appendices, and supporting Matlab and Raycon code available online. Covering variational principles, covariant formulations, caustics, tunnelling, mode conversion, weak dissipation, wave emission from coherent sources, incoherent wave fields, and collective wave absorption and emission, all within an accessible framework using standard plasma physics notation, this is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in plasma physics.
Download or read book Ancient Greek Civilization written by Hazel Mary Martell and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students learn about the rich legacy of the ancient Greeks in this beautifully illustrated book about Greek mythology and civilization and how these are intertwined. Greek gods and heroes emerge from the stories told in this book, as well as the many landmarks and artifacts that were made to honor these ancient figures. Various traditions about the Greek religion, culture, and people are revealed. Readers learn about the structure of Greek city-states and about different traditions and inventions, including those of clothing and jewelry, entertainment, warfare, science and education, agriculture, trade, and transportation.
Download or read book A Book of Myths written by Jean Lang and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Book of Myths" by Jean Lang. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Inside Paradise Lost written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost—its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
Download or read book On Being Ill written by Virginia Woolf and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf’s mother from the caregiver’s perspective: “Revelatory.” —Booklist This new publication of “On Being Ill” with “Notes from Sick Rooms” presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay “On Being Ill,” Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being’s experience, it is not celebrated as a subject of great literature in the way that love and war are embraced by writers and readers. We must, Woolf says, invent a new language to describe pain. Illness, she observes, enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness; it is “the great confessional.” Woolf discusses the taboos associated with illness, and she explores how it changes our relationship to the world around us. “Notes from Sick Rooms,” meanwhile, addresses illness from the caregiver’s perspective. With clarity, humor, and pathos, Julia Stephen offers concrete information that remains useful to nurses and caregivers today. This edition also includes an introduction to “Notes from Sick Rooms” by Mark Hussey, founding editor of Woolf Studies Annual, and a poignant afterword by Rita Charon, MD, founder of the field of Narrative Medicine. In addition, Hermione Lee’s brilliant introduction to “On Being Ill” offers a superb overview of Woolf’s life and writing. “Woolf’s inquiry into illness and its impact on the mind is paired with her mother’s observations about caring for the body. Julia Stephen . . . had no professional training but took to heart Florence Nightingale’s precept that every woman is a nurse and emulated Nightingale’s best-selling Notes on Nursing with her own “Notes from Sick Rooms.” In this long-overlooked, precise, and piquant little manual, Stephen is compassionate and ironic, observing that everyone deserves to be tenderly nursed while addressing the small evil of crumbs in bed. This unprecedented literary reunion of mother and daughter is stunning on many fronts, but physician and literary scholar Rita Charon focuses on the essentials in her astute afterword, writing that Woolf’s perspective as a patient and Stephen’s as a nurse together illuminate the goal of care—to listen, to recognize, to imagine, to honor.” —Booklist “Woolf and Stephen will certainly change the way readers think of illness.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Myth of Icarus in Spanish Renaissance Poetry written by John H. Turner and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1976 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
