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Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Watershed of Two Eras

Download or read book The Watershed of Two Eras written by Jan Romein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines historical events from 1890 to the outbreak of World War I including the Boxer Rebellion, the Boer War, the Dreyfus case, the growth of anti-Semitism, the arms race, the economic crisis, and the growth of urbanization.

Book Annual Bulletin

Download or read book Annual Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics and Power in Cambodia  the Sihanouk Years

Download or read book Politics and Power in Cambodia the Sihanouk Years written by Milton E. Osborne and published by [Camberwell, Australia] : Longman. This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Big Historical Data  The Historian s Macroscope  Second Edition

Download or read book Exploring Big Historical Data The Historian s Macroscope Second Edition written by Shawn Graham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.

Book Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre

Download or read book Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre written by Jan Mrázek and published by Kitlv Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous work on wayang has treated in depth what is the focus of this book: the power of the theatrical medium, the actuality of the performance as a physical, emotional, and social experience and event, and the sensations and feelings involved in performing and watching an all-night wayang performance. A single puppeteer moves puppets, delicately carved and painted according to a complex iconography, in dance-like patterns integrated with continuous music, which he also directs; he speaks the voices of all characters; and he represents beings and a mythological world that reflect (on) the human world, including the specific occasion and the people present. Paying attention to the wholeness of the 'multimedia' performance as an event, as well as to the sensations, subtle movements, and particular intonations of the performance, the author of this book bases his 'thick description' on years of learning to perform wayang, attending and participating in performances, interviews and discussions with people involved with wayang, supplemented by study of texts, from old manuscripts and performance manuals to newspaper articles and reports on performances. He shows the need not to be limited to any single discipline: in wayang, the relationships and interaction, for example, between visual movements and music, or between actions on the screen and actions among the audience-participants, are no less significant than, for example, the relationships within music. The book includes the most extensive discussion of recent changes in wayang theatre, its interaction with various traditional and modern entertainments, and the ways it is affected by politics and economy. A postscript focuses on the post-Soeharto era. The book is a contribution to the study of Indonesian performing arts and culture, but it is also intended for anyone interested in theatre and performing arts generally. Book jacket.

Book Colonial Spectacles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marieke Bloembergen
  • Publisher : NUS Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789971693305
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Colonial Spectacles written by Marieke Bloembergen and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch colonial presentations at the world exhibitions in the period 1880-1931 served to legitimize the Dutch imperialist project and highlight the problem of Dutch identity and the Netherlands' place in the world. At these exhibitions, the Netherlands showed off its colonies by erecting models of schools, sugar-factories, bridges, and railways exhibits, which were meant to give proof of the good works of modern colonial administration and enterprise. Not only were there displays of ethnographic objects, life-size temples and villages inhabited by authentic Javanese and Sumatrans were brought to Europe specifically for these expositions. Their presence took the viewer into an "Other" world that provided an "immediacy" for visitors to the exhibition. While these colonial spectacles helped legitimize Dutch imperialism project, they also provided lenses for understanding the colonial world as it was constructed according to the prevailing evolutionist worldview at the time.

Book Table Moving by Animal Magnetism demonstrated  with directions how to perform the experiment  Also  a full and detailed account of the experiments already performed

Download or read book Table Moving by Animal Magnetism demonstrated with directions how to perform the experiment Also a full and detailed account of the experiments already performed written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Muhammadan Mysticism in Sumatra

Download or read book Muhammadan Mysticism in Sumatra written by Raymond LeRoy Archer and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

Book Perspectives on Synchronicity  Inspiration  and the Soul

Download or read book Perspectives on Synchronicity Inspiration and the Soul written by Rico Sneller and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the notion of the human psyche (‘soul’) and its continuing usefulness in the background of the ongoing and always accelerating techno-scientific revolution. The main argument here follows the assumption that this revolution, while not necessarily being a threat to humankind, is often blind or ignorant as to its subject, the ‘human being’. In the first chapters, the reader is invited to reflect on the notion of ‘thinking’ as a phenomenon of consciousness that transcends merely ‘having thoughts’. Relating thinking to consciousness requires reconsidering the phenomena of ‘inspiration’ and ‘ecstasy’. Provided that such a thing as ‘inspiration’ exists, it makes sense to revise the solipsist or substantialist account often given of the human mind. The book defines inspiration as a ‘clairvoyance of one’s psyche’, and ecstasy as the experience of this clairvoyance. Next, a case is made for synchronicity experiences as a key to a better understanding of the human psyche. While being enigmatic all throughout, synchronicity experiences, both on the individual and on the collective level, help overcome both subject/object and body/mind dualisms. It is not likely, though, that the solution they could offer will be readily accepted by (what is called) ‘science’ today, since it challenges one of the latter’s basic premises, ‘causality’. As a more concrete example of a condensed synchronicity experience, the author dwells on ‘physiognomy’. In the final chapter, death and suffering are discussed as extreme, and therefore relevant, experiences of consciousness. The book interprets death in terms of ‘enhanced subliminality’, and ‘suffering’ as unconscious resistance against maturing. Generally, this book explores a psycho-philosophical tradition, rooted in Romantic thinking (from Schelling and Schopenhauer until Klages and Jung), which has hitherto been unjustly neglected, if not repressed, by mainstream materialism and positivism. It makes a strong case for an intellectual account of the soul.

Book Kort begrip der theosofie

Download or read book Kort begrip der theosofie written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Mesmer to Freud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Crabtree
  • Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780300055887
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book From Mesmer to Freud written by Adam Crabtree and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of magnetic sleep--an artificially induced trancelike state--in 1784 marked the beginning of the modern era of psychological healing. Magnetic sleep revealed a realm of mental activity that was not available to the conscious mind but could affect conscious thought and action. Psychotherapist Crabtree (Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Toronto) tells the story of the discovery of magnetic sleep and its relationship to psychotherapy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Dalang Behind the Wayang

Download or read book The Dalang Behind the Wayang written by Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teachings of the Mystics

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  • Author : Walter T. Stace
  • Publisher : Signet
  • Release : 1972-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780451603067
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Teachings of the Mystics written by Walter T. Stace and published by Signet. This book was released on 1972-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spiritualist

Download or read book The Spiritualist written by D. F. G. and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meister Eckhart   s Sermons

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  • Author : Meister Eckhart
  • Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-04-10
  • ISBN : 1622780205
  • Pages : 43 pages

Download or read book Meister Eckhart s Sermons written by Meister Eckhart and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eckhart von Hochheim O.P., commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the Avignon Papacy and a time of increased tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Friars Preachers, he was brought up on charges later in life before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition.