Download or read book The Angel of the Left Bank written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated The Black Room at Longwood, in The Angel of the Left Bank Jean-Paul Kauffmann confronts humanity’s struggle with God. His muse is Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Eugène Delacroix’s “spiritual testimony” and certainly one of his masterpieces, a painting that portrays one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. Throughout his careful, impassioned examination of the work, which Delacroix labored over for eight years and finished in 1861, Kauffmann touches on architecture and art history, philosophy and religion, and the luminous city of Paris itself. Like a detective, he looks for lingering clues in the places Delacroix frequented and the objects he touched some 150 years ago, seeking to connect with the artist’s philosophical and artistic process—and, in turn, to discover what truths we might ultimately glean from it. His journey makes for enthralling reading.
Download or read book Purple Hibiscus written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
Download or read book The Angel of the Left Bank written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Left Bank written by Kate Muir and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chic peek at the glittering inhabitants of Paris’s most exclusive neighborhood With the sting of a good Camembert, Kate Muir’s fiction debut is a sophisticated, fun, and delightfully ironic look at family life, Left Bank style. Olivier and Madison Malin are the toasts of Rive Gauche. A philosopher and media personality, Olivier is the darling of the Paris cafés with his perfectly tousled hair and mistress de jour on speed dial. An American film star turned Parisian “It” girl, Madison busies herself playing the part of the bon vivant. But when a crisis occurs with their daughter, these self-centered parents are forced to focus on something more than their own reflections.Left Bank is at once a delicious satire of Parisian pretension and a celebration of the city’s alluring glamour.
Download or read book Spirit Guides written by Mari Silva and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever imagine what it would be like to connect with the spirit world? Do you wonder what it might be like to feel euphoric with the light of knowledge filling your body? Do you envision yourself having deep conversations with the spirits as you ponder life and what it's all about? The truth is that all these things can really happen. The spirits love to communicate with you and share your emotions. They are eager to share their spiritual world with you and help you progress in the natural world. They chose you as their companion even before you took your first breath, and they want to be a part of your life. If you want to understand more, in this book, you will: Go beyond the seven most well-known Archangels Learn from the lesser-known Archangels and what they can do for you Learn how to stay safe when communicating with spirits Discover how to make sure your guides are on hand to lead you every step of the way Discover how the spirits communicate with you and how you can answer them Find out what a spirit animal is and how to find them Understand how to speak to the ascending masters Find out how to get in touch with your loved ones who have passed away Ponder what happens to people when they die and why it takes so long for spirits to contact people after death Discover how to strengthen your vibration Learn how you can benefit from spiritual sites, even if you can't visit them in person Identify why finding your inner child is an important part of spirituality Uncover the six steps to connect with your spirit guides And so much more... This book has all the information you need to help you become awakened to the spirit world. Whether you long to contact a deceased loved one or are seeking guidance from the spirits, you'll find the answers in this guide. Get your copy of this book now to begin your spiritual journey.
Download or read book The Angel of History written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this “sprawling fever dream of a novel” by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org). Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Haunted by an alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigid Death, who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints. With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut, Sana’a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound story that “marks the triumph of memory over oblivion” (Bookforum).
Download or read book The Scars of Project 459 written by Traci Angel and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the populairty of the Lake of the Ozarks has resulted in major present-day problems, including poor water quality, loss of habitat, and increasing concerns about aging waste-management systems.
Download or read book The Angel On The Roof written by Russell Banks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career as a novelist, Banks has also been a master of the short form, publishing four story collections, and winning O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards and other prizes. Now with The Angel on the Roof, he offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of short fiction, resonant with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working-class New England to Florida, the Caribbean and Africa. Along with nine new stories that are among the finest fiction he has ever written, he has selected the best from his collections and revised them for this volume.
Download or read book Angels Blood written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST IN THE GUILD HUNTER SERIES! Nalini Singh introduces readers to a world of beauty and bloodlust, where angels hold sway over vampires. Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux is hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael. But this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break.
Download or read book The Angel and the Perverts written by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, this is the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper-class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference.
Download or read book The Magick of the Shem Ha Mephorash s Angels and Goetia s Demons written by Carl Spartacus and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, you will have easy and safe instructions on how to contact the angels of Shem Ha-Mephorash and the Goetia Demons to make petitions and how to understand their answers using a pendulum.Contain the Seals of all 72 Shem angels and all 72 Goetia demons.All summoning psalms for the angels are written in Hebraic with English transliteration. For each Goetia demon are listed correspondences like metal, color, incense, rank, days ruled, tarot card, and Enn. You will learn how to consecrate a pendulum for the purpose of spirit communication. You will learn how to ask the correct questions for you don't get in trouble.
Download or read book The Verging Cities written by Natalie Scenters-Zapico and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas. The border in Scenters-Zapico’s The Verging Cities exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers’ spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that “ooze only silt.” This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets—Benjamin Alire Saenz, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alberto Ríos, and Luis Alberto Urrea—while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.
Download or read book The Panic Fables written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete series of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s spiritual comics, translated into English for the first time • Contains all 284 of Jodo’s Panic Fables comics, published weekly from 1967 to 1973 in Mexico City’s El Heraldo newspaper • Includes an introduction describing how the Panic Fables came to be • Explains how he incorporated Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom, and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables, as well as himself as one of the characters In 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his friend Luis Spota, the editor of the cultural section of the newspaper El Heraldo de México, Jodo initially planned 3 months’ worth of weekly comics, which he would draw himself. However, his “Panic Fables”--named after his early ‘60s avant-garde theater movement in Paris--were met with such insatiable popularity that he continued the series for six and a half years, from June 1967 until December 1973. Appearing for the first time in English, this book presents all 284 of Jodorowsky’s Panic Fables in full color, along with an introduction by the author. He reveals how his first comics reflected his pessimism about the future and the meaning of life, the negativity of which soon exhausted him. He realized he needed to show the positivity that he encountered in life, and thus, little by little, he began incorporating Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom, and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables. Through this transformation and the outpouring of support from his devoted readers, many of whom cite the Panic Fables as providing pivotal guidance during their adolescence, Jodo discovered that art can serve to heal as well as raise consciousness. Writing himself into his comics, Jodo can be glimpsed as the character of the disciple who talks with his master and, as the series progresses, gradually grows to assume the role of master, providing psychomagic solutions to the problems of everyday life. In reading the complete Panic Fables in chronological order, much like his film The Dance of Reality, we witness in colorful detail Jodorowsky’s own path of spiritual growth.
Download or read book That Angel Burning at My Left Side written by Jerzy Peterkiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kourou and the Struggle for a French America written by M. Godfroy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.
Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of the Catastrophic Flood of December 1966 North Rim Area Eastern Grand Canyon Arizona written by Maurice E. Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the results of the 1966 Grand Canyon flood, with sections on the physiographic setting, the hydrology of the flood, flood damage to modern structures, the relation of prehistoric and historic occupation to flooding, and the relation of the '66 flood to previous floods.
