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Book Sifting the Trash

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  • Author : Alice Twemlow
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2017-05-19
  • ISBN : 0262035987
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Sifting the Trash written by Alice Twemlow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product might be used, or not used, over time; it is more likely to play the enabler, encouraging our addiction to consumption. With Sifting the Trash, Alice Twemlow offers an especially timely reexamination of the history of product design criticism through the metaphors and actualities of the product as imminent junk and the consumer as junkie. Twemlow explores five key moments over the past sixty years of product design criticism. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, for example, critics including Reyner Banham, Deborah Allen, and Richard Hamilton wrote about the ways people actually used design, and invented a new kind of criticism. At the 1970 International Design Conference in Aspen, environmental activists protested the design establishment's lack of political engagement. In the 1980s, left-leaning cultural critics introduced ideology to British design criticism. In the 1990s, dueling London exhibits offered alternative views of contemporary design. And in the early 2000s, professional critics were challenged by energetic design bloggers. Through the years, Twemlow shows, critics either sifted the trash and assigned value or attempted to detect, diagnose, and treat the sickness of a consumer society.

Book A Time of Sifting

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  • Author : Paul Peucker
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2015-06-19
  • ISBN : 0271070714
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book A Time of Sifting written by Paul Peucker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church only dealt with this period in general terms. It is not surprising that the Sifting Time became both a taboo and an enigma in Moravian historiography. In A Time of Sifting, Paul Peucker provides the first book-length, in-depth look at the Sifting Time and argues that it did not consist of an extreme form of blood-and-wounds devotion, as is often assumed. Rather, the Sifting Time occurred when Moravians began to believe that the union with Christ could be experienced not only during marital intercourse but during extramarital sex as well. Peucker shows how these events were the logical consequence of Moravian teachings from previous years. As the nature of the crisis became evident, church leaders urged the members to revert to their earlier devotion of the blood and wounds of Christ. By returning to this earlier phase, the Moravians lost their dynamic character and became more conservative. It was at this moment that the radical-Pietist Moravians of the first half of the eighteenth century reinvented themselves as a noncontroversial evangelical denomination.

Book Sifted

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  • Author : Wayne Cordeiro
  • Publisher : Zondervan
  • Release : 2012-04-23
  • ISBN : 0310494486
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Sifted written by Wayne Cordeiro and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting and leading churches is a difficult calling. It can put strain on your mental and physical health, on your relationships with others, and even your relationship with God. Sifted offers practical guidance and hope for anyone going through a tough time in ministry or pastoral work. Founding pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii Wayne Cordeiro speaks the truth in love, offering wisdom and insight to walk alongside leaders as they face the challenges and hardships of planting and leading churches, while providing encouragement and inspiration for the journey. A seasoned church leader, Wayne shares the things he wishes he'd known when he was starting a new church. With additional stories from Francis Chan and Larry Osborne, each chapter includes a thought-provoking challenge question to develop a heart that is surrendered to God, focused on "being and becoming" versus "doing and accomplishing." Wayne will walk you through how to develop a healthy balance of personal care and spiritual leadership. But instead of a "how to" book on models and methods from men who have it all figured out, Sifted will help you process your journey in a way that: Challenges leaders' common scorecards of success. Encourages leaders to realize that they are not alone in what they are experiencing. Provides wisdom for the long haul to position younger leaders for a life of ministry. You many find yourself in a season of sifting. If you respond correctly, this season can be every bit as important as the time of harvest. Sifting builds the muscle of faith, giving us what we need for what lies just around the corner.

Book sifting through the madness for the word  the line  the way

Download or read book sifting through the madness for the word the line the way written by Charles Bukowski and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

Book Sifting Through the Sand

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  • Author : Anela Lani
  • Publisher : Anela Lani
  • Release : 2017-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780692965887
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Sifting Through the Sand written by Anela Lani and published by Anela Lani. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sifting Through The Sand is Anela Lani's first collection of poetry. Having studied both psychology and philosophy in college, Anela's search for meaning has led her down varying paths, ultimately resulting in many revelations and bouts of relearning. Influenced greatly by her love for her home, O'ahu, Anela gives readers a look into a complex journey through young adulthood with an island feel to match. The first part, Shifting Sands, focuses on curiosities about philosophy, love, anxiety, identity, and the world itself. After a seemingly destined turn of events, she titled the second half, Salt and Light. There is an obvious shift in voice and focus in the second half as Anela learns that the words flowing onto the pages are not truly hers. It is for believers and non-believers, dreamers and do-ers, lovers, and those that just need to be reminded how much they are loved.

Book Sifting Through Ashes

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  • Author : Michael Massey
  • Publisher : Lapwing Publications
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1907276432
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Sifting Through Ashes written by Michael Massey and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sifting Through the Madness

Download or read book Sifting Through the Madness written by Mike Maggio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crazed woman watches as a heard of wild animals stampedes through the house. A homeless Vietnam Vet chases a pair of elusive shoes across the city. On the last day of his career, a newly retired civil servant returns to his home only to find that everything he owns has suddenly disappeared. A desperate mother sacrifices her children in a futile effort to ward off danger. Sifting Through The Madness is a collection of strange characters and unusual stories that will delight, confound, frighten, entertain and leave the reader with an experience hard to forget. In his first collection of short fiction, originally published in electronic form and brought to print here for the first time, poet and fiction writer Mike Maggio delves full force into the modern human condition taking the reader breathlessly with him on a journey into lives and places that will remain in memory long after the reading is finished.

Book Sifting Through the Madness

Download or read book Sifting Through the Madness written by Mike Maggio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crazed woman watches as a heard of wild animals stampedes through the house. A homeless Vietnam Vet chases a pair of elusive shoes across the city. On the last day of his career, a newly retired civil servant returns to his home only to find that everything he owns has suddenly disappeared. A desperate mother sacrifices her children in a futile effort to ward off danger. Sifting Through The Madness is a collection of strange characters and unusual stories that will delight, confound, frighten, entertain and leave the reader with an experience hard to forget. In his first collection of short fiction, originally published in electronic form and brought to print here for the first time, poet and fiction writer Mike Maggio delves full force into the modern human condition taking the reader breathlessly with him on a journey into lives and places that will remain in memory long after the reading is finished.

Book Sifting Through Time

Download or read book Sifting Through Time written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquities

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  • Author : Cynthia Ozick
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2021-04-13
  • ISBN : 0593318838
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Antiquities written by Cynthia Ozick and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

Book Sheba

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  • Author : Nicholas Clapp
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0618219269
  • Pages : 29 pages

Download or read book Sheba written by Nicholas Clapp and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustration of the life of Queen Sheba, deciphered through satellite images that track Sheba on ancient caravan routes through archaeological sites, suggesting that Sheba herself was the great figure, not her love, Solomon, as long thought by many. The author travels to Ethiopia, Arabia, Israel, and France searching for the truth behind the myth of the queen of Sheba, and uses modern technology to put the pieces of the puzzle in place.

Book National Miller

Download or read book National Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sifting Through Katrina s Legal Debris

Download or read book Sifting Through Katrina s Legal Debris written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sifting Through Time

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  • Author : Vienney Carpentier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9782981128720
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Sifting Through Time written by Vienney Carpentier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sifting Through Science

Download or read book Sifting Through Science written by Laura Lowell and published by Great Explorations. This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young children enthusiastically investigate the properties of objects in this introduction to physical science. In three open-ended activities, children explore materials that sink or float, magnetic and non-magnetic objects, and a sand and bean mixture using tools that can sift and separate. In the final activity, children must apply what they've learned to a garbage dump recycling challenge.

Book Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Download or read book Mapping English Metaphor Through Time written by Wendy Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from The Historical Thesaurus of English. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.

Book A Time Before Time and The Time Thereafter

Download or read book A Time Before Time and The Time Thereafter written by Melanie Fitz-Gerald and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Peter Madden, a journalist working for the Daily Graph in South Africa, takes his reader on a journey of discovery, unravelling the secrets of the ancient people of Mesopotamia and Egypt’s first beginnings. In the Earth’s remote past, ancient beings from a planet called Zita Reticuli came to Earth and, finding creatures living on the planet, they fashioned them into their own image to be used as slaves. Jealousy, greed and infighting soon lead to a mighty and ghastly war and tsunamis flooded the Earth. Peter’s newspaper unwittingly gets caught up in the intrigues concerning an ancient Egyptian artefact sold on the black market. This artefact could be a key that will unlock a power of immeasurable force. Peter and Johan Bekker are sent to Egypt to sniff out news and any bit of information they can. Did aliens leave the artefact here as a gift to mankind, or could its purpose be for something more sinister- the demise of man?