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Book The Crossing of the Visible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Luc Marion
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0804733929
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Crossing of the Visible written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative. According to Marion, the proper response to the 'nihilism' of postmodernity is not iconoclasm, but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts which opens them to the invisible.

Book The Crossing of the Visible

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  • Author : Jean-Luc Marion
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780804733922
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book The Crossing of the Visible written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative. According to Marion, the proper response to the 'nihilism' of postmodernity is not iconoclasm, but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts which opens them to the invisible.

Book The Visible and the Revealed

Download or read book The Visible and the Revealed written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly useful for understanding the progression of Marion's thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon and the possibility of something like Christian Philosophy.The book contains his seminal pieces on the saturated phenomenon and on the gift, although the essays also explore more recent developments of his thought on these topics. Several chapters explicitly explore the boundary line between philosophy and theology or their mutual enrichment and influence. In one of the final pieces, The Banality of Saturation,Marion considers some of the most recent objections brought against his notion of the saturated phenomenon and responds to them in detail, suggesting that saturated phenomena are neither as rare nor as inflexible as often assumed. The work contains two chapters not previously available in English and brings together several other pieces previously translated but now difficult to find. For readers interested in the relation between the two disciplines,this is indispensable reading.

Book Crossing

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  • Author : Philip Booth
  • Publisher : Candlewick Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0763666645
  • Pages : 41 pages

Download or read book Crossing written by Philip Booth and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and text capture the rhythm and notion of a moving freight train.

Book The Crossing

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  • Author : Donna Jo Napoli
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-06-14
  • ISBN : 1442435488
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book The Crossing written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the point of view of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the baby on Sacagawea’s back, this breathtaking picture book reveals the adventure and natural wonders that Lewis and Clark encountered on their Western expedition in the early 1800s. Donna Jo Napoli’s lyrical text and Jim Madsen’s majestic artwork offer a fresh perspective on the remarkable sights and sounds of a young country, and give voice to a character readers are already familiar with: baby Charbonneau is shown on the golden Sacagawea dollar.

Book The Crossing

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  • Author : Jason Mott
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 1488023522
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Crossing written by Jason Mott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this apocalyptic adventure, war and disease decimate the globe, and two orphaned siblings must decide: Stay and die, or run and survive. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hell of a Book, A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on. When Tommy is drafted for the war, the twins are faced with a choice: accept their fate of almost certain death or dodge the draft. Virginia and Tommy flee into the dark night. Armed with only a pistol and their fierce will to survive, the twins set forth in search of a new beginning. Tommy and Virginia must navigate the dangers and wonders of this changed world. But how far will they get before the demons of their past catch up with them? Praise for The Crossing “Mott spins a captivating, fast-paced dystopian tale about a world in chaos and twins fighting to stay alive.” —Publishers Weekly “Beautifully written and touching on some fascinating ideas.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book The Crossing

Download or read book The Crossing written by Gary Paulsen and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Newbery Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Northwind. “A stark, moving portrait of Mexican poverty and street life.” —School Library Journal Fourteen-year-old Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between Texas and his town. Across that heavily guarded bridge await a different world and a better existence. On the night when Manny dares the crossing—through the muddy shallows of the Rio Grande, past the searchlights and the border patrol—the young man encounters an old stranger who could prove to be an ally or an enemy. Manny can’t tell for certain. But if he is to achieve his dream, then he must be willing to risk everything—even his life. “Paulsen . . . is skilled at pace, incident and characterization, and he uses them to pull the reader to the memorable—and powerful—last scene . . . A book for older children and teenagers who will not want to put it down.” —Kirkus Reviews “Any work by such a proficient writer, who invokes a powerful sense of the tragic in readers young and old, is welcome indeed.” —Publishers Weekly

Book Native Seattle

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  • Author : Coll Thrush
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2009-11-23
  • ISBN : 0295989920
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Native Seattle written by Coll Thrush and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations. In Native Seattle, Coll Thrush explodes the commonly accepted notion that Indians and cities-and thus Indian and urban histories-are mutually exclusive, that Indians and cities cannot coexist, and that one must necessarily be eclipsed by the other. Native people and places played a vital part in the founding of Seattle and in what the city is today, just as urban changes transformed what it meant to be Native. On the urban indigenous frontier of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, Indians were central to town life. Native Americans literally made Seattle possible through their labor and their participation, even as they were made scapegoats for urban disorder. As late as 1880, Seattle was still very much a Native place. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, however, Seattle's urban and Indian histories were transformed as the town turned into a metropolis. Massive changes in the urban environment dramatically affected indigenous people's abilities to survive in traditional places. The movement of Native people and their material culture to Seattle from all across the region inspired new identities both for the migrants and for the city itself. As boosters, historians, and pioneers tried to explain Seattle's historical trajectory, they told stories about Indians: as hostile enemies, as exotic Others, and as noble symbols of a vanished wilderness. But by the beginning of World War II, a new multitribal urban Native community had begun to take shape in Seattle, even as it was overshadowed by the city's appropriation of Indian images to understand and sell itself. After World War II, more changes in the city, combined with the agency of Native people, led to a new visibility and authority for Indians in Seattle. The descendants of Seattle's indigenous peoples capitalized on broader historical revisionism to claim new authority over urban places and narratives. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Native people have returned to the center of civic life, not as contrived symbols of a whitewashed past but on their own terms. In Seattle, the strands of urban and Indian history have always been intertwined. Including an atlas of indigenous Seattle created with linguist Nile Thompson, Native Seattle is a new kind of urban Indian history, a book with implications that reach far beyond the region. Replaced by ISBN 9780295741345

Book The Crossing

Download or read book The Crossing written by Howard Fast and published by iBooks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive new edition of Howard Fast's fascinating novel reverberates with the dramatic events of George Washington's re-crossing of the Delaware River which was a pivotal moment in the American War of Independence. It is an amazing testament to Washington's leadership of the young volunteer army fighting in summer clothes against the bitter cold, the snow and the almost impassable river. Criss-crossing through Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York, this is also the tale of Colonel John Glover, the leader of a band of New England fisherman, of Tom Paine, the first American war correspondent; and the dreaded German Hessians themselves.

Book The Crossing

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  • Author : Cormac McCarthy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1995-03-14
  • ISBN : 0679760849
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Crossing written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-03-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning—a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Book Martyrs  Crossing

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  • Author : Amy Wilentz
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-03-29
  • ISBN : 1501136844
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Martyrs Crossing written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.

Book When You Want to Cross the Street  Look Both Ways

Download or read book When You Want to Cross the Street Look Both Ways written by Nicholas Ian and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When crossing a street, we need to look left, right, left! to be safe. With close text to illustration pairing, children will enjoy singing about safety in this twist on a classic song. This eBook includes online music access.

Book The Crossing

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  • Author : Cormac McCarthy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-08-11
  • ISBN : 0307762467
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Crossing written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning—a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Book Visible Mending

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  • Author : Jenny Wilding Cardon
  • Publisher : Martingale
  • Release : 2018-06-01
  • ISBN : 1604689552
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Visible Mending written by Jenny Wilding Cardon and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rip in your jeans? Snag in a sweater? Tear in a tea towel? They all present an opportunity for one-of-a-kind creativity! With this fun introduction to unconventional mending techniques in a format that's half how-to guide, half idea book, anyone can give worn and torn items new life. Start by learning hand-mending methods, including boro, embroidery, patching, and darning. Then rev up the sewing machine for fast mends that put the pedal to the metal. Even with a limited budget and not much time to spare, you can create eye-catching repairs with visible mending--35 examples and more than 150 photos make it easy to put your unique mark on everything you mend!

Book The Crossing

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  • Author : Jim Flanagan
  • Publisher : Fawcett Books
  • Release : 1983-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780449124284
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Crossing written by Jim Flanagan and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1983-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Dorfmann blames the suicide of Sarah on the cruelty of her husband, Austin Hardy, and vows to take revenge

Book Prolegomena to Charity

Download or read book Prolegomena to Charity written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by Perspectives in Continental Ph. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis, Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing.

Book Get a Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Peyton Roberts
  • Publisher : Bantam Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780553571189
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Get a Life written by Laura Peyton Roberts and published by Bantam Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight high-school students overcome their differences to unite and raise money for a student with leukemia.