Download or read book Brocken Spectre written by Jacques J. Rancourt and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy.
Download or read book The Brockenspectre written by Linda Newbery and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomas wants to be like his father – strong, brave and fearless. Pappi is a mountain guide, often away from home. He has taught Tomas to love the mountains, but also to fear their dangers – the winds and blizzards, the treacherous paths, the giddying slopes. Above all, Tomas fears the Brockenspectre – a huge, shadowy creature that lives alone in the heights, waiting for unwary climbers. Its looming figure haunts his thoughts and his dreams. When Pappi goes out one day and fails to return, Tomas knows it’s up to him to search – up on the high mountain passes, where dangers await. Will Tomas find his father . . . or will the Brockenspectre find him?
Download or read book The Brocken Spectre written by Karen Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Day Hiking Los Angeles written by Casey Schreiner and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature is just around the corner in the City of Angels
Download or read book Multiplying Worlds written by Peter Otto and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that modern forms of virtual reality first appear in the urban/commercial milieu of London in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. To establish this aetiology it maps the emergence of virtual realities in popular entertainment, Enlightenment schemes for managing the real, and Romantic literature and art.
Download or read book Glow in the Dark Nature s Light Spectacular written by Katy Flint and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightning! Rainbows! Auroras! Discover Earth's most amazing natural phenomena in this adventure around the globe, including a glow-in-the-dark poster. â? ̄ Follow two intrepid explorers as they witness the Northern Lights, marvel in wonder at glow worm caves, go hunting for double rainbows, and dodge volcanic lightning. A perfect book for young explorers. Turn off the light to see theâ? ̄â? ̄640 × 296 mmâ? ̄ tear-out posterâ? ̄glow, featuring the stages of a solar eclipse.â? ̄(Be sure to charge it in the light first.) â? ̄ Each spread features an enchanting illustration of a different natural phenomenonâ? ̄animated by a description of the science behind it, told in exciting prose.â? ̄Fact boxes call out more information.â? ̄ Some of the wonderful things you’ll see: Volcanic Lightning Meteor Showers Double Rainbows Sun Dogs Glowworm Caves Super Blood Moon Light pillars Auroras Poster: Solar eclipse
Download or read book Derrida and Disinterest written by Sean Gaston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its deifinition reworked. by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies both as part of a tradition, obscured since the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to be the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all interest. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the centre of thinking about ethics. The book argues that disinterest plays a signifcant role in the philosophy of both thinkers and in the dialogue between their work. In so doing it sheds new light on their respective contributions to moral and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida, taking contributions and in the of major philosopher in both the analytic, Anglo-American and Continental traditions: Locke; Shaftesbury; Hume; Smith; Nietzsche; Kant; Hegel; Heidegger. Derrida and Disinterest offers a new reading of Derrida, a stimulating account of the role and importance of disinterest in the history of Western philosophy and a provocative and original contribution to Continental ethics.
Download or read book The Voice of Sheila Chandra written by Kazim Ali and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.
Download or read book Excel Selective Schools and Scholarship English Comprehension Tests written by Alan Horsfield and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excel Test Skills - Selective Schools and Scholarship Englis h Comprehension Tests Years 5-6 is a comprehensive study guide for Engli sh Comprehension part of the Selective Schools and Scholarship Tests (us ually undertaken in Year 6). The book contains hundreds of multiple choi ce questions based on a variety of text types - so students can pr epare for exams with a minimum of stress and maximum results. Thi s book is intended to give you the opportunity of doing a variety of que stions based on literary and factual texts. The more familiar you are wi th the material the more confident you will feel - and the better you wi ll do in your tests. In this book your child will find: an introductory section on the types of questions and resource mater ial used forty-eight individual comprehension tests ti ps to help them in tests situations a convenient lift-out answe r section with explanations
Download or read book The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Download or read book In Search of Mary Shelley The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein written by Fiona Sampson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley—as she has never been seen before. We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.
Download or read book Constellation Route written by Matthew Olzmann and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is largely a metaphysical tribute to both the Post Office and the act of letter writing as a way to understand and create meaningful connections with the world at large.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Perception written by E. Bruce Goldstein and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the ease with which we perceive, many people see perception as something that "just happens." However, even seemingly simple perceptual experiences involve complex underlying mechanisms, which are often hidden from our conscious experience. These mechanisms are being investigated by researchers and theorists in fields such as psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and philosophy. A few examples of the questions posed by these investigations are, What do infants perceive? How does perception develop? What do perceptual disorders reveal about normal functioning? How can information from one sense, such as hearing, be affected by information from another sense, such as vision? How is the information from all of our senses combined to result in our perception of a coherent environment? What are some practical outcomes of basic research in perception? These are just a few of the questions this encyclopedia will consider, as it presents a comprehensive overview of the field of perception for students, researchers, and professionals in psychology, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and related medical disciplines such as neurology and ophthalmology.
Download or read book Hidden Places on Earth written by Darcus Wolfson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve tales of terror that may be connected, Hidden Places on Earth is a journey into the unknown: A small town journalist discovers a bizarre secret in the woods. A pirate joins the crew of a mysterious ship. A young girl goes missing in Sasquatch country. A LARP club get more than they bargain for. A young woman develops an infatuation with a statue. Vikings journey to Loch Ness in search of its monstrous occupant. Let new horror writer Darcus Wolfson take you to places strange and uncertain.
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