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Book Images of Set

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  • Author : Joan Lansberry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781906958213
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Images of Set written by Joan Lansberry and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The god Set (aka Seth) has been much of a puzzle to Egyptologists. If we go with the attitude of later Egyptians, we find Set blamed for every misfortune that can befall humanity. However, if we go with the attitude of earlier times, in particular the Ramesside period, when Egypt was at its peak in prosperity, we find a completely different picture. For we find a god who was very much adored. Most of the surviving imagery is from that period, although even in Ptolemaic and Roman times we occasionally find a piece that was a part of worship and magical rites. Set was always seen as 'Great of Power', even when he was feared. Putting all his imagery together, placing it in chronological context, sheds new light on the Dark god.

Book Images and Impressions

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  • Author : Frank L. Griffin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Images and Impressions written by Frank L. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impressions of Africa

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  • Author : Raymond Roussel
  • Publisher : Calder Publications
  • Release : 2018-12-18
  • ISBN : 9780714548586
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Impressions of Africa written by Raymond Roussel and published by Calder Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel's groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion.

Book New Impressions of Africa

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  • Author : Raymond Roussel
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-28
  • ISBN : 1400838223
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book New Impressions of Africa written by Raymond Roussel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetry Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì—who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era—André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this kind of verse requires," he later commented. Mysterious, unnerving, hilarious, haunting, both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime, it is truly one of the hidden masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism. This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution, notes explaining its literary and historical references, and the fifty-nine illustrations anonymously commissioned by Roussel, via a detective agency, from Henri-A. Zo.

Book First Impressions

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  • Author : Nora Roberts
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 2020-12-08
  • ISBN : 1250775833
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book First Impressions written by Nora Roberts and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overwhelmed by the neighborly attentions of the cheerful and vivacious “girl next door,” a man burned by love finds his passions reigniting in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s First Impressions. Entrepreneur Vance Banning took a residence in rural Maryland to escape business pressures—and relationships with women pursuing his bank account. To the community, he’s a moody, out-of-work carpenter with a chip on his shoulder. To next door neighbor Shane Abbott, he’s just a man who needs a little kindness in his life. Vance’s suspicions of the stunning beauty’s intense interest in him start to fade when he realizes Shane’s compassion is honest and joyful—giving his heart permission to experience true love.

Book Utah Impressions

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  • Author : Steve Mulligan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781560372585
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Utah Impressions written by Steve Mulligan and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the powdery peaks of Mount Ogden to the dramatic formations of Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, from the striking Red Mountains and the austere San Rafael Desert to the cool waters of Glen Canyon Recreation Area, photographers Mulligan and Trimble present beautifully the diverse landscapes and cityscapes of Utah in all seasons.

Book Images and Impressions

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  • Author : George Villiers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Images and Impressions written by George Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judge This

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  • Author : Chip Kidd
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-06-02
  • ISBN : 1476784787
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Judge This written by Chip Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how strongly we feel. In Judge This, the reader travels through a day in the life of renowned designer Chip Kidd as he takes in first impressions of all kinds. We follow this visual journey with Kidd as he encounters and engages with everyday design, breaking down the good, the bad, the absurd and the brilliant as only a designer can. From the design of the paper you read in the morning to the subway ticket machine to the books you browse to the smartphone you use to the packaging for the chocolate bar you buy as an afternoon treat, Kidd will reveal the hidden secrets behind each of the design choices, with a healthy dose of humour, expertise and judgment

Book Impressions of Empiricism

Download or read book Impressions of Empiricism written by Royal Institute of Philosophy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-06-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What You really Are

Download or read book What You really Are written by Mario Mantese and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over many years Mario Mantese - Master M - has held numerous gatherings and met thousands of people, imparting his experiences and the transformation which resulted from them. He has also responded to thousands of questions from his listeners, and his insightful answers have dispelled countless misunderstandings, doubts, and ambiguities. The passages contained in this book testify to the inconceivable depths of this cosmic master. They are a revelation of the ‘Great Silence’ which he embodies. Master M elucidates themes such as: -the inner and outer world -pitfalls and practices of the ego -consciousness: the reflection of functionality -the past and future -the fragmentation of life -the limitations of knowledge -‘this world’ and ‘the beyond’ in this world -the good order of things – all is well

Book Wisconsin Impressions

Download or read book Wisconsin Impressions written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this portrait of Wisconsin, photographer Darryl R. Beers captures what makes the Badger State one of the most unique places in the nation. The state's cultural and natural history is presented in stunning color photography, with images of lighthouses on Lake Michigan, sailboats at dawn on Lake Superior, wildflowers, monarch butterflies, Lambeau Field, historic sites, and much more.

Book Nantucket Impressions

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  • Author : Robert Gambee
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2001-10-02
  • ISBN : 9780393010107
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Nantucket Impressions written by Robert Gambee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambee's photographs speak magic.--New York Times

Book Anna Atkins  Photographs of British Alg

Download or read book Anna Atkins Photographs of British Alg written by and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after William Henry Fox Talbot announced his invention of photography in 1839, the dedicated amateur botanist Anna Atkins, daughter of a prominent British scientist, began to experiment with the new medium. In 1843 she turned to her friend Sir John Herschel's recently discovered cyanotype process to publish her growing collection of native seaweeds--a daring way to introduce photography into book illustration. At regular intervals over the next decade, Atkins printed and issued these bracingly modern, deeply-hued photograms to her "botanical friends" in the form of hand-stitched fascicles of a book she entitled Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions . The fi rst book to be illustrated by photography and the earliest sustained application of photography to science, British Algæ is a landmark in the histories of publishing and photography. Of the nearly two dozen substantially complete or partial copies known to exist, each is distinct in its appearance and often in its number and arrange- ment of plates. The set of 13 parts she gave to Sir John Herschel--now in the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library--is especially important and was carefully preserved by generations of the Herschel family exactly as Sir John received it. This sumptuous facsimile edition reproduces the recto and verso of each plate, presenting the work as its creator intended: as bound volumes to lingered over, studied and admired, page by extraordinary page.

Book Princeton Impressions

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  • Author : Robert R Gambee
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2012-09-11
  • ISBN : 0393083063
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Princeton Impressions written by Robert R Gambee and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princeton is many things to many people, from those who have attended this great university to casual visitors who come to appreciate the extraordinary architecture or the spacious and tranquil surroundings. The great gift of this book is that it touches on so many aspects of the Princeton experience through a remarkable and entirely new collection of photographs. Robert Gambee explores the fascinating history of the university and the glories and richness of the architecture, including the intriguing—and sometimes bizarre—gargoyles that are hidden in plain sight. With more than three hundred new images of the community, from pre-Revolutionary homes to a new neuroscience building under construction, choir schools, secondary schools, the Seminary, and the University itself, this is the most complete book on Princeton.

Book Images and Impressions

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  • Author : Elizabeth Armstrong
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Images and Impressions written by Elizabeth Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Face Value

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  • Author : Alexander Todorov
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 1400885728
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Face Value written by Alexander Todorov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific story of first impressions—and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions. Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. Todorov describes how we have evolved the ability to read basic social signals and momentary emotional states from faces, using a network of brain regions dedicated to the processing of faces. Yet contrary to the nineteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy and even some of today's psychologists, faces don't provide us a map to the personalities of others. Rather, the impressions we draw from faces reveal a map of our own biases and stereotypes. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us.

Book Images and Impressions

Download or read book Images and Impressions written by Clarice Short and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beau livre, or book of fine arts, includes poetry by Clarice Short, Brewster Ghiselin, and Edward Lueders and prints by artists Donald R. Petersen, 'Lee Gray, Don L. Harward, Mary Clark Carlson, Jane Miller, B. Velick, Russell T. Gordon, Robert S. Rumél, Ada Irvine, and Michael J. Nelson.