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Book The Ding Dong Clock

Download or read book The Ding Dong Clock written by Carol H. Behrman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ding Dong Clock faithfully records and announces the passing hours as the quiet night gives way to a busy morning and the beginning of yet another day. Features a clock with movable hands on the cover.

Book The Planetary Clock

Download or read book The Planetary Clock written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework. By bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian (Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke, Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global postmodernism for the twenty-first century.

Book The Clock

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  • Author : Navkala Roy
  • Publisher : Children's Book Trust
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9788170113980
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book The Clock written by Navkala Roy and published by Children's Book Trust. This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Clock Jobber s Handybook

Download or read book The Clock Jobber s Handybook written by Paul Nooncree Hasluck and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking  with a chapter on church clocks  and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock  With numerous drawings

Download or read book A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking with a chapter on church clocks and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock With numerous drawings written by Edmund Beckett DENISON (afterwards BECKETT (Edmund) Baron Grimthorpe.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eight O Clock Stories

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  • Author : Robert Gordon Anderson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Eight O Clock Stories written by Robert Gordon Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transgression and Its Limits

Download or read book Transgression and Its Limits written by Matt Foley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgression and Its Limits is a long overdue collection that reads the complex relationship between artistic transgressions and the limits of law and the subject. In mid-twentieth century theoretical understandings of transgressive culture, it is the existence of the limit that guarantees the possibility and success of the transgression. While the limit calls for obedience, it also tempts with the possibility of violation. To breach the limits of the acceptable is to simultaneously define them. However, this classical understanding of transgression may no longer apply under the conditions of post-modernity, late-capitalism, and the simulated or empty transgressions that this period of the simulacra encourages. Context becomes paramount in reading the myriad forms of transgression that encompass politics, aesthetics and the ethics of the obscene; while a range of theoretical perspectives are employed in order to elucidate the economies at work underneath the seemingly transgressive act. The essays selected include explorations of transgression in cinema, photography, art, law, music, philosophy, technology, and both classical and contemporary literature and drama. Professor Fred Botting’s (co-author of Bataille and The Tarantinian Ethics) analysis of transgression from Bataille, to Baudrillard and Ballard compliments the collection’s concerns about the status of transgression. Aside from fourteen critical essays on topics such as early-modern drama, George Bataille, J. G. Ballard, the female necrophilic, “torture-porn” cinema, and the art of Robert Mapplethorpe and Salvador Dali, there is also a new discussion of transgression between novelist Iain Banks and Professor Roderick Watson (Emeritus at the University of Stirling). With its focus on the paradoxical nature of the impulse to transgress, as well at its wide-ranging historical and artistic concerns, Transgression and Its Limits is a landmark book in a rapidly developing scholarly field.

Book What s the Story

Download or read book What s the Story written by Janice Hermsen and published by LeRue Press (LRP). This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who dunnit? Have you been to Funtime Theater in Reno, Nevada? Health care is a troubling issue; read A Tale of Opposing Opinions. Brian T. Shirley talks about elections and Halloween...scary, right? Mike Aloia shares the Light of freedom. It's a once in a lifetime experience at the Marshall Mansion on November 12th. Richard G. Pugh shares bits of Medical thinking... Are there health benefits from singing? April Kempler explores the idea. Are you a fan of having multiple clocks? Mary A. Berger tells that story in Ding! Ding! Ding!

Book In the Afternoon of Time

Download or read book In the Afternoon of Time written by Harivansh Rai Bachchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindi Litterateur Harivansh Rai Bachchan was born in Allahabad in 1907, and acquired immense popularity in the 1930s through Madhushala, a long poem inspired by the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Some three decades later, by now well established as a major figure on the Hindi literary scene, Bachchan wrote the first of four volumes of his autobiography, which was to earn widespread praise from critics and readers alike. In the Afternoon of Time is creative abridgement of these four volumes, translated into English for the first time. These intensely personal memoirs span several generations, tracing the history of Bachchan’s forebears, who came to live in Allahabad from a small village in Uttar Pradesh. With a bittersweet tone that recalls the lyricism of Madhushala, the author draws a portrait of provincial life in the first decades of the century, and describes with remarkable candour the struggles, joys and heartbreak of his early life. The narrative dwells at length on the death of his young wife and the ensuing trauma; remarriage, and a teaching assignment in the English department of Allahabad University; his Ph.D work on W.B. Yeats in Cambridge; a long stint as Hindi officer in the Ministry of External Affairs; an interlude in the Rajya Sabha; and the meteoric rise of his elder son Amitabh in the world of Hindi cinema. In his brilliant translation, Rupert Snell has succeeded in communicating the power and intensity that made the original work a classic in the genre of autobiographical writing in India.

Book Guitar For Everyone

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  • Author : Bob Taylor
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1899035001
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Guitar For Everyone written by Bob Taylor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Casket

Download or read book The Golden Casket written by Dan Jerris and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, Prince Alleric buried a golden casket full of sapphires on a deserted island. The map is hidden somewhere in Alleric Castle. Can Al and Owen get to the treasure first? Or will Snotty Nell beat them to it? Just try to resist the action-packed Dragon Blood Pirates series - and the lure of adventure and mystery on the high seas.

Book A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells

Download or read book A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells written by Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 1

Download or read book The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volume 1 written by Various and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee. Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped. The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation. A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter. And more... The first-ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits spread across two volumes. Hybrid, self-reflexive and experimental forms of writing that blur the boundaries between genres, with supernatural mysteries, serial murders and at times absurd crimes jostling for the attention of both amateur and professional detectives in these stories. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long-haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction!

Book The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volumes I and II

Download or read book The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction Volumes I and II written by Tarun K. Saint and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professionals meet the amateurs in this first–ever anthology of Indian detective fiction. Volume 1 An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee. Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped. The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation. A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter. And more... Volume 2 A detective delves into a cold case; a ship that disappeared in the Bay of Bengal in the year 1913. A man is bludgeoned to death in an apartment and a piece of paper with the word 'STOP!' is nailed to his forehead. Six deaths under mysterious circumstances and the only common link is a box of arsenic–laced sweets. A soldier's homecoming dredges up memories of a murder that took place a decade ago in the family. And more... The first–ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits, supernatural mysteries, serial murders and absurd crimes spread across two volumes. Through hybrid, self–reflexive and experimental forms of writing (including translations from Bengali and Tamil), this collection invites readers to unravel mysteries with every turn of the page, masterfully showcasing distinctive instances of the genre. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long–haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction! Featuring the works of: Volume 1 Satyajit Ray * Gopa Majumdar * Saradindu Bandopadhyay * Gopa Majumdar * Ambai * Gita Subramanian * Ankush Saikia * Meeti Shroff Shah * Suchitra Bhattacharya * Radha Chakravarty * Sujan DasGupta * Chandana Dutta * Anirudh Kala * Tamilvanan * Rabindranath Tagore * Shampa Roy * Anil Menon * Tanuj Solanki * Timeri Murari * Navin Weeraratne * Kehkashan Khalid * Sumit Bardhan * Kiran Manral * Shweta Taneja * Saad Z. Hossain Volume 2 Rajarshi Das Bhowmik * Arunava Sinha * Vikram Chandra * Giti Chandra * Swati Kaushal * Ajay Chowdhury * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay * Debaditya Mukhopadhyay * Vish Dhamija * Salil Desai * Mahendra Jakhar * Sharatchandra Sarkar * Shampa Roy * Vaseem Khan * Nev March * Anuradha Kumar * Madhulika Liddle * Arjun Raj Gaind * Shashi Warrier * Avtar Singh For detailed content, please look inside the book. * Illustration continuity across covers and spine * 2–volume collectible (Royal 8vo hardback set) * A magnetic clasp box–wrap * Detective–element themed sprayed edges * Endpaper artwork by Manjula Padmanabhan

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Clock Jobber s Handybook   A Practical Manual on Cleaning  Repairing and Adjusting  Embracing Information on the Tools  Materials  Appliances and Processes Employed in Clockwork

Download or read book The Clock Jobber s Handybook A Practical Manual on Cleaning Repairing and Adjusting Embracing Information on the Tools Materials Appliances and Processes Employed in Clockwork written by Paul N. Hasluck and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Clockjobber's Handybook” is a 1889 work by Australian writer Paul Hasluck that focuses on the care and maintenance of watches and timepieces. With chapters on the various tools, appliances, materials, and processes, this classic guide contains everything one needs to know when repairing, cleaning, or adjusting watches and clocks. Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1854 – 1916) was an Australian writer and editor. He was a master of technical writing and father of the 'do-it-yourself' book, producing many works on subjects including engineering, handicrafts, woodwork, and more. Other notable works by this author include: “Treatise on the Tools Employed in the Art of Turning” (1881), “The Wrath-Jobber's Handy Book” (1887), and “Screw-Threads and Methods of Producing Them” (1887). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.