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Book Other Creations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Manes
  • Publisher : Doubleday Books
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Other Creations written by Christopher Manes and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saint Bernard, despite its name, is unwelcome in church. Any dog, cat, sheep, terrapin, or bird clearly faces this same prohibition. Do animals have any relevance to humanity's continuing search for a spiritually rich life? Have they ever? Modern religions have all but banished the animal kingdom from our places of worship, and the non-human world has become increasingly marginalized and left out of religious discourse. And yet, just beneath the surface lies a lush tradition of animal archetypes, a spiritual bestiary in which Satan appears as a serpent, Jesus as the Lamb of God, and the Holy Spirit as a dove. Jehovah tests the depths of Daniel's belief in a lion's den. Our cathedrals teem with stone eagles, stags, and other symbolic fauna. Our deepest moral ideas find expression through animal stories like Aesop's fables, the Buddhist Jataka, and Orwell's Animal Farm. At the prehistoric heart of humanity's attempts to articulate spiritual sentiments, we find the caves of Lascaux and images, not of white-robed deities, but of the giant beasts of the Ice Age. Christopher Manes's groundbreaking Other Creations uncovers this tradition as it flourished in the past and as it lives on today. In this fascinating study, unlike any yet published, Manes shows how animals embodied our first attempts to express spirituality - as seen in the cave paintings of Ice Age Europeand how they continue to do so today in subtle, even unperceived ways, such as through sports team mascots, horror films, and toys. Drawing on both his literary scholarship and his personal search for a deeper experience of faith, Manes demonstrates that animals do not simply decorate our religious lives; they are part of the very texture of human spirituality.

Book Other Sandboxes

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. Paul Wilson
  • Publisher : Crossroad Press
  • Release : 2024-04-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Other Sandboxes written by F. Paul Wilson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastiche…sounds like something you might eat…but the official definition is “an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.” A pastiche can be respectful or can descend to parody. Over the course of his long career F. Paul Wilson often has been invited to work with the characters and realms created by iconic writers in varied genres. Usually he would decline, but sometimes the temptation to play in a favorite author’s sandbox was too great and he gave in. As a fan of all the chosen authors, he approached the characters and worlds they created with the greatest respect. So in that sense, his pastiches are also homages. H. P. Lovecraft, Mary W. Shelley, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle…who could say no to working with their creations? You’ll find them all and more in Other Sandboxes: Stories with Characters and Places Shared with Writers Living and Dead by F. Paul Wilson.

Book Shared Creations

Download or read book Shared Creations written by Kristin Fontichiaro and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities provide tips and instructions for making use of the Creative Commons.

Book The Big Book of Amazing LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have

Download or read book The Big Book of Amazing LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have written by Sarah Dees and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kickstart your kids' LEGO creativity with Sarah Dees' biggest and best book yet in the bestselling series, with more than 300,000 books from the series in print. This huge collection of action-packed projects will bring fresh life to your tubs of bricks and get LEGO® lovers of all levels inspired to build for days. Dive into your own LEGO® world filled with new and amazing creations—from sleek, aerodynamic race cars to fairytale creatures, secret spy headquarters and everything in between. Step-by-step pictures combined with detailed instructions and helpful parts lists make Sarah’s projects accessible for tinkerers of any age. Explore far and wide with an adventurer ATV, military humvee or a mini animal safari. Meet mischievous trolls and a friendly spiketailed dragon. Build your family’s dream seaside vacation, complete with a surf shack, ice cream stand and pirate ship. Construct a customizable bedroom that looks just like your own or the classroom in your school. Silly stories and scene suggestions will inspire countless hours of play, making this the perfect gift for kids who crave variety in their LEGO® building. There’s no limit to what you can imagine and create with this awesome collection! Collect the whole series with Sarah Dees' other bestselling LEGO books: - Incredible LEGO® Creations from Space with Bricks You Already Have - Genius LEGO® Inventions with Bricks You Already Have - Awesome LEGO® Creations with Bricks You Already Have - Epic LEGO® Adventures with Bricks You Already Have

Book Creations of the Mind

Download or read book Creations of the Mind written by Eric Margolis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen

Book Return of the Stupid Sock Creatures

Download or read book Return of the Stupid Sock Creatures written by John C. Murphy and published by Lark Books (NC). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Murphy, author of Stupid Sock Creatures, and his creative crew have figured out new ways to build bodacious bodies from socks and invented a slew of facial features. Some critters have wings and some stand on tripod legs. ... Thanks to John's easy-to-understand diagrams and humorous instructions, nothing is intimidating.--P. [4] of cover.

Book Creation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gore Vidal
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2002-08-27
  • ISBN : 0375727051
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book Creation written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure–in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal’s original manuscript–Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world. Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens–the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Socrates–Cyrus recounts his days as he strives to resolve the fundamental questions that have guided his life’s journeys: how the universe was created, and why evil was created with good. In revisiting the fifth century b.c.–one of the most spectacular periods in history–Gore Vidal illuminates the ideas that have shaped civilizations for millennia.

Book School and Home Education

Download or read book School and Home Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have

Download or read book Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have written by Sarah Dees and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *More than 100,000 copies sold!* Turn your pile of LEGO bricks into a day of fun! This unique activity book has step-by-step instructions and tons of photos to teach you how to build all-new and totally awesome toys and contraptions. Build a set of robots and a robot lab, race cars to race your friends and jet planes to zoom across the room at lightning speed or fit in your pocket for on-the-go play. You can build wild animals then take your minifigures on a safari to see a lion, tiger, monkey and more! Build your own LEGO town with a playground, skate park and go-cart entertainment arena. Your knight minifigures will have a real adventure when they encounter a green fire-breathing dragon! Help the knights win the battle by building a catapult and a crossbow that really work. Think you’re a LEGO pro? Then try the no-instruction projects, where you can put your creativity and LEGO building skills to the test by building something using just a photo as a guide. No matter how you use it, this book will help you and your family or friends have a crazy amount of fun building new toys and scenes with your LEGO bricks! Collect the whole series with Sarah Dees' other bestselling LEGO books: - The Big Book of LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have - Incredible LEGO Creations From Space with Bricks You Already Have - Genius LEGO Inventions with Bricks You Already Have - Epic LEGO Adventures with Bricks You Already Have

Book Biblical Natural Science

Download or read book Biblical Natural Science written by John Duns and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions and Creations

Download or read book Transactions and Creations written by Eric Hirsch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!

Book And Man Created God

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Carl Mynchenberg
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 1999-12-19
  • ISBN : 1583488979
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book And Man Created God written by George Carl Mynchenberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And MAN CREATED GOD presents the Agnostic view point using science, history and logic while denying all religious belief and faith in revelations from a Creator or God. Reviews And MAN CREATED GOD is vigorous and clearly written. Readers should have no doubt about the position you take, the positions you challenge, and why you find religious beliefs doubtful. It articulates very well what you call the agnostic position. Charles F. Kielkopf, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University

Book Modeling Clay Creations

Download or read book Modeling Clay Creations written by Kathleen Petelinsek and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete a variety of fun craft projects using modeling clay. Crafters practice reading comprehension as they follow the steps for each project. The easiest crafts are at the beginning, to allow the reader to practice scaffolding their knowledge as they learn the domain-specific vocabulary.

Book Intellectual Property Protection for AI generated Creations

Download or read book Intellectual Property Protection for AI generated Creations written by Ana Ramalho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection between artificial intelligence and two intellectual property rights: copyright and patents. The increasing use of artificial intelligence for generating creative and innovative output has an impact on copyright and patent laws around the world. The book aims to map and analyse that impact. The author considers how artificial intelligence systems may aid, or in some cases substitute for, human creators and inventors in the creative process. It is from this angle that the copyright and patent regimes in four jurisdictions (Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan) are investigated in depth. The author describes how these jurisdictions look at works and inventions generated through a process where artificial intelligence is present or prevalent, and examines how copyright and patent regimes should adapt to the reality of artificially intelligent creators and inventors. As the use of artificial intelligence to generate creative and innovative products becomes more common, this book will be a valuable resource to researchers, academics and policy makers alike.

Book Weird and Wonderful Creations

Download or read book Weird and Wonderful Creations written by Zondervan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird and Wonderful Creatures is a nonfiction Made By God bind up, with photos and facts showing children the wonders of God's creation---aligned with the Common Core Standards.

Book Geyer s Stationer

Download or read book Geyer s Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pre glacial Man and the Aryan Race

Download or read book Pre glacial Man and the Aryan Race written by Lorenzo Burge and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: