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Book Penumbra Snippets

Download or read book Penumbra Snippets written by Nagendra Singh and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamstrung by Parkinson’s Disorder family tragedies, I am perched facing my laptop, on my late father’s swivel chair, pressing the key buttons about ‘my Life’s Penumbra Moments’, ‘Heredity’ and areas of my ‘Influence’ and ‘Concern’. Observes Madhu Tandan, prolific best-seller writer in her Preview of the book, “The author has ‘Lived A Live of Love, Faith & Humour”. Encouraged wife Jaya, “You have spent 40 years in a professional career and childhood in the atrociously feudalistic Bihar & the pell-mell of Uttar-Pradesh; educated in the royal but somewhat, anachronistic, Rajasthan, and ‘nobody’s’ Delhi. Qualified expert Mr. Barun Banerjee, a close friend, showed the light. “Nagendra, each and everyone’s story of life is unique and different, hence interesting and engaging fare”. The professional journey through the Steel, Sugar, Spinning and Polyester, Sponge iron & Power, assorted industries, etc., was quite a journey. The Tatas, Willard, Monnet, Lohias, Bajaj & Adventz – was an impressive litany. I was elevated as Director to four Board positions. In today’s parlance, I have read that there are more 10,000 business houses are ‘under the hammer’ as confirmed ‘Non Performing Assets’ by their bankers but their promoters are enjoying a better ‘lifestyle’ that ‘per say’ a Ratan N. Tata! Our ‘Family Vision’ was documented in this milieu.

Book Letters to You Penumbra

    Book Details:
  • Author : JS Venit
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-09-17
  • ISBN : 1543498396
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Letters to You Penumbra written by JS Venit and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too much is soon enough children scatter and waltz into the sky dispensing rainbows and forget-me-nots. Of course they are quickly forgotten. The world is composed of all it lacks thunder and tulips in clouds at the lake asparagus and quiche. In your hand I kiss spare parts then wolves follow us in a brougham mumbling about the economy concerned or otherwise lost in conjecture and innuendo. Maybe we should pause. Chinese moon people probe successive nights suitcases highlight suspects various couples threaten hunger and odd numbers seventy is significantly larger than eighty did the crown even acknowledge that. The dead are sentient and move warily among us conversing dissenting drooling buying deodorant and toilet paper like everyone else until they are finally alone why shouldn’t their votes be counted.

Book Reading poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Barry
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-16
  • ISBN : 1526111764
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Reading poetry written by Peter Barry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, direct and articulate, Peter Barry illustrates the key elements of poetry at work, covering many different kinds of verse, from traditional forms to innovative versions of the art, such as ‘concrete’ poetry, minimalism and word-free poems. The emphasis is on meanings rather than words, looking beyond technical devices like alliteration and assonance so that poems are understood as dynamic structures creating specific ends and effects. The three sections cover progressively expanding areas – ‘Reading the lines’ deals with such basics as imagery, diction and metre; ‘Reading between the lines’ concerns broader matters, such as poetry and context, and the reading of sequences of poems, while ‘Reading beyond the lines’ looks at ‘theorised’ readings and the ‘textual genesis’ of poems from manuscript to print. Reading poetry is for students, lecturers and teachers looking for new ways of discussing poetry, and all those seriously interested in poetry, whether as readers or writers.

Book The Ones We Save

Download or read book The Ones We Save written by Cidney Swanson and published by Williams Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as MARS RISING. In the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she’s from Mars. Jess knows she’s walking into a trap, but if Jess can’t convince Terrans the Mars colonists are real, Lucca will destroy Jessamyn’s family, her friends, and her world. The Ones We Save is the sixth and final book in a science fiction adventure series set in a dystopian future where colonization on Mars has survived for centuries without any contact with Earth, until now.

Book The Amorous Restoration

Download or read book The Amorous Restoration written by Andrew J. Counter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life--beginning with the French way of love. The literary works of the Bourbon Restoration ceaselessly return to the themes of love, sex, and marriage, partly as vital cultural questions in their own right, but also as a means of critiquing the deficiencies of past regimes, negotiating the politics of the present, and imagining the shape of the political future. In the literature of the Restoration, love and politics become entwined in a mutually metaphorical embrace. The Amorous Restoration, the first book in English devoted to literary and cultural life under the last Bourbon kings, considers this relationship in all its richness and many contradictions. Long neglected as a drab historical backwater, the Restoration emerges here as a vibrant era, one rife with sharp cultural and political disagreements, and possessed of an especially refined sense of allusion, discretion, and even humour. Drawing on literature, journalism, political writing, life writing, and gossip, The Amorous Restoration vividly recreates the erotic sensibilities of a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic--and political--modernity.

Book Application Software Re engineering

Download or read book Application Software Re engineering written by Alam & Padenga and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Application Software Re-engineering is about reorganizing and modifying existing software systems to make them more maintainable and user friendly. It also powerfully dwells on the aspects of general Application Software Reengineering across variou

Book Application Software Re engineering

Download or read book Application Software Re engineering written by Aalam M. Afshar and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Application Software Re-engineering is about reorganizing and modifying existing software systems to make them more maintainable and user friendly. It also powerfully dwells on the aspects of general Application Software Reengineering across variou.

Book August Wilson

Download or read book August Wilson written by Patti Hartigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “masterful” (The Wall Street Journal), “invaluable” (Los Angeles Times) first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwriting of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him. August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre. Two of the plays became successful films, Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Fences won the Tony Award for Best Play, and years after Wilson’s death in 2005, Jitney earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Through his brilliant use of vernacular speech, Wilson developed unforgettable characters who epitomized the trials and triumphs of the African American experience. He said that he didn’t research his plays but wrote them from “the blood’s memory,” a sense of racial history that he believed African Americans shared. Author and theater critic Patti Hartigan traced his ancestry back to slavery, and his plays echo with uncanny similarities to the history of his ancestors. She interviewed Wilson many times before his death and traces his life from his childhood in Pittsburgh (where nine of the plays take place) to Broadway. She also interviewed scores of friends, theater colleagues and family members, and conducted extensive research to tell the “absorbing, richly detailed” (Chicago Tribune) story of a writer who left an indelible imprint on American theater and opened the door for future playwrights of color.

Book Theorizing Modernisms

Download or read book Theorizing Modernisms written by Steve Giles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this volume present a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate. Theorizing Modernisms includes an account of European modernism, and analysis of the work of Apollinaire and Aberti, Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson, and Kert Schwitters. Steve Giles provides a much needed overview of the relationship between modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism and modernity.

Book Visionary Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. Adams Sitney
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-10-03
  • ISBN : 0199882037
  • Pages : 773 pages

Download or read book Visionary Film written by P. Adams Sitney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.

Book Prince Daviss of Nowhere

Download or read book Prince Daviss of Nowhere written by A K Lambert and published by A K Lambert. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Zerot armada heads to Earth with instructions to test a weapon that will destroy the solar system. Peter and Kobios face certain death in a deadly arena, their fate orchestrated by the Zerot Queen. Birjjikk has trapped Grace in a shifting realm of mathematical pessimism, rendering her the vilest of creatures—those she went to save are now her bondservants. Prince Daviss must choose who to save, leaving the others to their inevitable fates

Book The National Review

Download or read book The National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Pagan Historian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederic Clark
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 0190492317
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The First Pagan Historian written by Frederic Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed himself as eyewitness to the Trojan War, challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a milennium, Dares' work was circulated as the first pagan history. It promised facts and only facts about what really happened at Troy--precise casualty figures, no mentions of mythical phenomena, and a claim that Troy fell when Aeneas and other Trojans betrayed their city and opened gates to the Greeks. But for all its intrigue, the work was as sensational as it was fake. From the late antique encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson, The First Pagan Historian offers the first comprehensive account of Dares' rise and fall. Along the way, it reconstructs Dares' central place in longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction, criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment.

Book The Jasmine Trade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denise Hamilton
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780786015238
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Jasmine Trade written by Denise Hamilton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman found dead in a chic shopping center parking lot still wears her two-carat engagement ring on her finger. To the cops, it looks like a carjacking. But to reporter Eve Diamond, it looks likes there's more to this story. Soon Eve plunges into L.A.'s underworld, where young women are forced into sexual slavery. But someone wants to keep these dirty little secrets from being revealed.

Book The Ship of Shadows  Secrets of the Stars

Download or read book The Ship of Shadows Secrets of the Stars written by Maria Kuzniar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREPARE FOR PUZZLES, PERIL, AND PLENTY OF CAKE IN THE SECOND THRILLING ADVENTURE FOR ALEJA AND THE CREW OF THE LEGENDARY SHIP OF SHADOWS Aleja and her fellow pirates are eager to embark on a new adventure to find the second piece of the missing magical map. But they soon find themselves panicking, bewildered by a series of confusing clues. And time is running out - fast. When she starts experiencing strange visions, Aleja realizes that someone is trying to tell her something. But can this new knowledge be trusted? And what will it cost her to find out? With the crew's loyalties tested and more secrets to unlock than ever, Aleja must find a way to beat the clock and prove herself truly worthy of her place on the ship's crew . . . Praise for The Ship of Shadows: "A sumptuous delight of a book" - Sophie Kirtley, author of The Wild Way Home "A feast for the imagination . . . an enthralling adventure." - Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song "This swashbuckling tale has it all . . . I loved it." - Alex Bell, author of The Polar Bear Explorers' Club READERS CAN'T WAIT FOR SECRETS OF THE STARS: "With a strong protagonist and a likeable crew of characters, I couldn't stay away from the story for long, and now I CRAVE a follow-up." Gavin Hetherington, waterstones.com "Thrilling, exciting and intriguing and I can't wait for the next instalment!" Rhiannon, waterstones.com "What a fantastic spellbinding book . . . A truly fascinating tale and we cannot wait for the second book to be released!" Eva Sneep, amazon.co.uk "Ship of Shadows was a fantastic book . . . I just loved everything that happened and it ended in such a way where you need the sequel asap." Emma Thompson, waterstones.com "The real treasure in this gem of a book lies in the crew . . . I can't wait to join the crew again for the next instalment of this thrilling tale." Stephanie, amazon.co.uk "I highly recommend diving into this novel. It's highly likely that you won't be able to wait for the next instalment." Tracy Curran, waterstones.com

Book Nietzsche s New Seas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Allen Gillespie
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1988-10-18
  • ISBN : 9780226293783
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Nietzsche s New Seas written by Michael Allen Gillespie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-10-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves—take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.

Book Terror World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cath Lauria
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-01-24
  • ISBN : 183908202X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Terror World written by Cath Lauria and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and space are under threat when a monstrous new alien zombie threat emerges, in this horror thriller from the riotous Zombicide Invader boardgame Scientist Dizzie Drexler is on the mission of a lifetime: exploring a strange planet named Sik-Tar, in the company of a mysterious alien crew. The dig looks like a dud, until they stumble across an ancient spaceship, filled with arcane tech. What could possibly go wrong…? Everything: opening the spaceship activates an unimaginable horror: a form of ravenous mold which possesses the skeletons that litter the spaceship with the desire to kill, spread, and consume every living thing. While fighting these undead terrors, Dizzie and their team delve into the spaceship’s mysteries, and soon realize that such monstrosities could only come from one place: the future.