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Book Leaving No Shadow in the Mirror

Download or read book Leaving No Shadow in the Mirror written by Jenny Nordquist and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wind Leaves No Shadow

Download or read book The Wind Leaves No Shadow written by Ruth Laughlin and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press An historical novel depicting one woman's fight for power and respect in a world dominated by men; early 19th century Santa Fe.

Book Vanishing Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Redrobe Beckman
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-04
  • ISBN : 9780822330745
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Vanishing Women written by Karen Redrobe Beckman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDisappearing women as a persistent trope from nineteenth-century magic through contemporary theory, film, and psychoanalysis./div

Book No Shadow of a Doubt

Download or read book No Shadow of a Doubt written by Daniel Kennefick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to weigh light by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.

Book The Hysteric

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  • Author : Eleanor Bowen
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-04-01
  • ISBN : 1000862453
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book The Hysteric written by Eleanor Bowen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining historical, clinical and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure of the contemporary hysteric as she rebels against the impossible demands made upon her. Exploring five traits that commonly characterise the hysteric as an archetype – a specific body, mimetic abilities, a shroud of mystery, a propensity to disappear and a particular relationship to voice – the authors shed light on what it means to be hysterical, as a form of rebellion and resistance. This is important reading for scholars of sociology, gender studies, cultural studies and visual studies with interests in psychoanalysis, art and the characterisation of mental illness.

Book Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition

Download or read book Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition written by Peter D. Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its survival and have been utilised by much important photographic work of the last three decades.

Book Reading Boyishly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Mavor
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0822339625
  • Pages : 535 pages

Download or read book Reading Boyishly written by Carol Mavor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of nostalgic representations of the maternal, the home, and childhood in the literature and photographs of early-20th-century artists.

Book Victorian Gothic

Download or read book Victorian Gothic written by J. Wolfreys and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-09-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.

Book    Note on M Ph Plantamour s Observations by Means of Levels on the Periodic Movements of the Ground at S  cheron  Near Geneva

Download or read book Note on M Ph Plantamour s Observations by Means of Levels on the Periodic Movements of the Ground at S cheron Near Geneva written by Charles Davison and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberating Intimacy

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  • Author : Peter D. Hershock
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780791429815
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Liberating Intimacy written by Peter D. Hershock and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating Intimacy dramatically reevaluates the teachings and practice of Ch'an Buddhism. Considering Buddha's insight that everything is empty or absent of a permanent and independent "self nature," Hershock argues that not only is suffering without any essence and so dependent on time and place, so is end of suffering or enlightenment. He shows that the tradition need not entail a quietistic withdrawal from social life. Far from being something privately attained and experienced, Ch'an enlightenment is best seen as the opening of a virtuosic intimacy through which we are continually liberated from the arrogance of both "self" and "other." That is, enlightenment in Ch'an must be understood as irreducibly social--it can never be merely "mine" or "yours," but is only realized as "ours." Including new translations from the teachings of Ma-tzu, Pai-chang, Huang-po and Lin-chi, Liberating Intimacy reconciles the almost fierce individualism that characterizes the mastery of Ch'an and its unwavering embrace of the ideal of compassionately saving all beings.

Book The Lights and Shadows of Spiritual Life

Download or read book The Lights and Shadows of Spiritual Life written by Octavius Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mirror

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  • Author : Sabine Melchior-Bonnet
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780415924481
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Mirror written by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Chronicles of Old Paris

Download or read book Chronicles of Old Paris written by John Baxter and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2,000 years of French history with tales of the kings, queens, saints, and sinners who shaped the city. Essays explore the major historic events from the martyrdom of Saint Denis near today's Abbesses Métro station to the epic romances of Heloise and Abelard, Josephine and Napoleon, and George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Learn about the labyrinth of catacombs snaking under all of Paris and the artists who called the seedy Montmartre home in the 19th century. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Paris's historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.

Book Parson s Diseases of the Eye   E Book

Download or read book Parson s Diseases of the Eye E Book written by Sihota and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trusted textbook for undergraduate students for more than 100 years, which also caters to the basic needs of postgraduate students and practitioners. The book was first published in 1907, and on account of its clear and friendly presentation style as well as its authoritative coverage of ocular disorders, it quickly became a fundamental text for students. Since then the book has maintained its popularity with students through regular revisions and updates. The 19th edition of this book was especially adapted to the context of Indian subcontinent with a special mention about the infections that occur predominantly in this region. The 22nd edition continues this trend by presenting unparalleled guidance on nearly every ophthalmic condition and procedure, including the latest advances in the field, making the book more comprehensive and contemporary. • Inclusion of Important Points to Remember at the end of the book • Addition of new clinical photographs, flowcharts, and tables to facilitate quick learning • Extensively revised and updated edition • Reader-friendly version with information highlighted in points, flow charts and tables • Information provided to help prepare for PG entrance and other competitive examinations

Book The New York Mirror  and Ladies  Literary Gazette

Download or read book The New York Mirror and Ladies Literary Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Traveler s Guide to the Afterlife

Download or read book A Traveler s Guide to the Afterlife written by Mark Mirabello and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand survey of the world’s death and afterlife traditions throughout history • Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation; instructions for accessing the different worlds of the afterlife; how one may become a god; and how ethics and the afterlife may not be connected • Explores techniques to communicate with the dead, including séance instructions • Includes an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources from around the world Drawing on death and afterlife traditions from cultures around the world, Mark Mirabello explores the many forms of existence beyond death and each tradition’s instructions to access the afterlife. He examines beliefs on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation and wisdom from Books of the Dead such as the Book of Going Forth by Day from Egypt, the Katha Upanishad from India, the Bardo Thodol from Tibet, the Golden Orphic Tablets from Greece, Lieh Tzu from China, and Heaven and its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen from 18th-century Europe. Considering the question “What is Death?” Mirabello provides answers from a wide range of ancient and modern thinkers, including scientist Nicholas Maxwell, the seer Emanuel Swedenborg, 1st-century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, and Greek philosopher Euripides, who opined that we may already be dead and only dreaming we are alive. He explores the trek of the soul through life and death with firsthand accounts of the death journey and notes that what is perceived as death here may actually be life somewhere else. He reveals how, in many traditions, ethics and the afterlife are not connected and how an afterlife is possible even without a god or a soul. Sharing evidence that consciousness is not simply a product of the brain, he offers a strong rebuttal to nihilists, materialists, and the Lokayata philosophical school of India who believe in the “finality” of death. He explains how specters and ghosts are produced and offers techniques to communicate with the dead as well as instructions for an out-of-body experience and the complete procedure for a séance. With an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources, this guide offers comprehensive information on afterlife beliefs from the vast majority of cultures around the world and throughout history--a veritable “traveler’s guide” to the afterlife.

Book The Digital Arts and Humanities

Download or read book The Digital Arts and Humanities written by Charles Travis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case studies in this book illuminate how arts and humanities tropes can aid in contextualizing Digital Arts and Humanities, Neogeographic and Social Media activity and data through the creation interpretive schemas to study interactions between visualizations, language, human behaviour, time and place.