Download or read book The Equilibrist written by Robert Buffington and published by Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Donald Davie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-05-28 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britain's finest living poets. "Davie's voice—judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self-lacerating—speaks always with reference to an unhuman perpendicular standard that itself goes unquestioned. It is not a standard of Beauty or Truth; Davie is a poet of the third member of the Platonic triad, Justice."—Helen Vendler, The New Yorker "[Davie's poems] are on the quiet side, often casual and musing in mood and tone; determined to resist large gestures of assent or denial. . .Donald Davie may just be the best English poet-critic of our time."—William Pritchard, The New Republic "Donald Davie's Collected Poems does more than mark the culmination of one of the most distinguished careers in post-war British poetry; it is the autobiographical journey of a living poet at the height of his creative powers and the mastery of his craft. Davie is considered the most important and valuable contemporary link between poetry in England and America."—Sarah E. McNeil, Little Rock Free Press
Download or read book Phillape written by Shiyozo Tokutake and published by Simplíssimo. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: História de um primata brasileiro, não catalogado, natural de Manacapuru, Amazonas. Se exila voluntariamente da selva amazonica para conhecer e vivenciar a sociedade dos homens, o "bicho equilibrista", como ele os chama a princípio. Algum dos leitores, poderá, descobrir nas entrelinhas, outras histórias, tal como numa noite escura de tempestade, pode-se ver, num lapso de segundos, um mundo de coisas, no exato momento em que o clarão antecede o trovoar. Uma destas histórias achadas poderá ser análoga a sua: Alguém que veio ao mundo, por curiosidade, e está segurando uma brasa viva com o intuito de reconhecer o signigicado do queimor... Phillape mora no seio da floresta amazonica, um lugar aprazível, um paraíso. Certo dia aparece um alienígina no seu hábitat. Ele era um animal bípide; uma aberração. Os colegas, apavorados, valendo-se das prerrogativas de sobrevivência, fogem sem ao menos ver a pele do estranho. A partir daquele momento, num mixto de coragem e curiosidade, eclode na cabeça do Phillape o fator responsável por uma alteração na vida dele: isolaa-se da "alma grupal" para se tornar um "alma individual". De cima de uma seringueira, tal qual um cientista etológico, estonteado, observa todos os movimentos e atitudes absurdos de um garimpeiro... Phillape conclui que precisa evoluir-se ao nível daquele bicho - modelo e prototipo a seguido.
Download or read book Encyclop dia Americana written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the High Wire written by Philippe Petit and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.
Download or read book Puck written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 360 Circus written by Franziska Trapp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDown—Circus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.
Download or read book Collected Critical Writings written by Geoffrey Hill and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Critical Writings gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical volume of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. N. Wilson has called "probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose." In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets (including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and prose writers (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson, and F. H. Bradley). He is also steeped in the historical context - political, poetic, and religious - of the writers he studies. Most importantly, he brings texts and contexts into new and telling relations, neither reducing texts to the circumstances of their utterance nor imagining that they can float free of them. A number of the essays have already established themselves as essential reading on particular subjects, such as his analysis of Vaughan's "The Night", his discussion of Gurney's poetry, and his critical account of The Oxford English Dictionary. Others confront the problems of language and the nature of value directly, as in "Our Word is Our Bond", "Language, Suffering, and Value", and "Poetry and Value". In all his criticism, Hill reveals literature to be an essential arena of civic intelligence.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions The History of Social Welfare written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 8711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of 25 volumes, originally published between 1805 and 1992, amalgamates original nineteenth-century material and more recent research and analysis on the development of social welfare in Britain and Europe. From Elizabethan poor relief, through the Poor Laws of the nineteenth-century, to the establishment of the British National Health Service in the mid twentieth-century, this set provides a comprehensive overview of the germination and establishment of modern social welfare. Although the set mainly focuses on social welfare in Britain, it also contains some work on welfare in Europe. This set will be of keen interest to those studying the history of social welfare, social policy, poverty and class.
Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind written by Dugald Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Handicraft a Catalogue of Apparatus Suitable for Elementary Experiments in Physics Volume First Mechanics Hydrostatics Hydrodynamics and Pneumatics written by John Joseph GRIFFIN (F.C.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind written by Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Personal and the Political RLE Social Theory written by Paul Halmos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos tries to resolve a dilemma which many social workers experience acutely – the conflict between a desire to help those in need and a fear that, by doing so, they merely support a political system which should, itself, be changed. Such a dilemma was highlighted during the sixties when 'casework' and personal counselling became discredited by the 'rediscovery' of widespread poverty and inequality in western society. To many the only solution seemed to be urgent and radical political action. For Professor Halmos the realities are more complex – an exclusive preoccupation with either personal or political solutions is unlikely to prove fruitful – what is needed is a dual sensitivity and balance. Yet for the author it is the political solution which carries within it the greater risk and he warns of the dangers inherent in the total politicization of social concerns. He argues that social action can become political action and ultimately political control.
Download or read book Scientific Handicraft written by John Joseph Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Last Things written by William Palmer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you know what the last four things are? In the Christian catechism they are Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. But in our secular age they should perhaps be changed. I suggest - First Love, Friendship, Betrayal and Death . . . These also happen to be the staples of the novelist. Is that the sort of thing you want?"' Thus Cornelius Marten asks the researcher who turns up one night at his house. Cornelius has forgotten his invitation to the young man. But the young woman who accompanies him seems strangely familiar. Cornelius is flattered by their attention. He had thought himself almost forgotten; his great works neglected. And Cornelius, monstrously selfish, whisky glass constantly in hand, his mind shifting between past and present, finds that his mysterious guests release memories and truths he had preferred to forget. The stories which follow Four Last Things complement and explore some of the same themes: the poet who has published only one poem; a bizarre stag night; a child who is haunted by his encounter with the adult world of a religious maniac; a dreamed murder; an academic who stirs the ghost of Byron in modern Venice; the shifts and deceptions of language and memory; and in a great jazzman's last wordless hurrah, a final flowering of beauty. This irresistibly powerful volume by the author of The Good Republic, Leporello and The Contract confirms William Palmer as one of our finest writers.
Download or read book Xtra Strong Light Composites written by Lut Pil and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible account of the properties and possibilities of composite materials. It also discusses the ways in which the Belgian designers Clem van Himbeeck and Weyers & Borms and the Israeli designer Ron Arad use composite materials.
