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Book Inferno

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen Mandelbaum
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2021-05-28
  • ISBN : 0520361822
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Inferno written by Allen Mandelbaum and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Book Tales from the Horror Dungeon

Download or read book Tales from the Horror Dungeon written by Joshua T. Whaley and published by Joshua T. Whaley. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Horror Dungeon, my friends. I am your host, Joshua T. Whaley, author of Lost Cannibal Manifesto and Voodoo Island Nightmare. As someone who grew up watching Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt, I wanted to write my own horror anthology series. With that said, let me take you on a tour of my nightmarish visions, which includes everything from demon women to murderous sasquatches to hungry werewolves to the Devil himself. So, if you have a strong stomach and are not scared of things that go bump in the night… then join me as I tell you thirteen tales of twisted terror with an ending you will never forget. List of Tales: That Old Dragon /A Whisper in the Attic / Terror at the Timberline / Crimson Sabbath / Pareidolia / Never Torture A Corpse / Hunger Pains / This Fall’s Night / Not So Clear-cut / Eye of the Storm / Waking Nightmare / The Devil’s Skin / Welcome, Please Stay Awhile

Book Uncanny X Men Masterworks Vol  16

Download or read book Uncanny X Men Masterworks Vol 16 written by Chris Claremont and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #232-243, X-Men Annual (1970) #12, X-Factor (1986) #37-39. Chris Claremont, the man who made Marvel's mutants an industry unto themselves, takes the X-Men to hell and back - and damnation couldn't look any better than with legends Marc Silvestri and Walter Simonson behind the art boards! The "Inferno" saga brings together the many threads Mister Sinister has been weaving, the machinations of the demon N'astirh, and the lives of X-Men past and present. In one of Marvel's most devastatingly personal epics, the startling secret of Madelyne Pryor is revealed - and the X-Men and X-Factor will face each other for the first time! This newly restored edition also features the return of the alien Brood, the introduction of Genosha and a Savage Land adventure drawn by Arthur Adams!

Book The Way We Think

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilles Fauconnier
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-08-06
  • ISBN : 0786725575
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Way We Think written by Gilles Fauconnier and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. These blends are then themselves blended together into an increasingly rich structure that makes up our mental functioning in modern society. A child's entire development consists of learning and navigating these blends. The Way We Think shows how this blending operates; how it is affected by (and gives rise to) language, identity, and concept of category; and the rules by which we use blends to understand ideas that are new to us. The result is a bold, exciting, and accessible new view of how the mind works.

Book Lectura Dantis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen Mandelbaum
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0520212495
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Lectura Dantis written by Allen Mandelbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before." This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Book Time and the Crystal

Download or read book Time and the Crystal written by Robert M. Durling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to TheDivine Comedy, Robert M. Durling and Ronald L. Martinez uncover new material, especially from medieval science (astrology and mineralogy), philosophy, and theology. The authors argue that the Rime petrose represent a major turning point in Dante's conception of a "microcosmic poetics" that became the fundamental mode of the Commedia. They demonstrate how Dante here attempts his first full account of his relation to the universe as a whole. This work offers many insights into the intrinsic significance of these remarkable poems and their place in Dante's development. Especially far-reaching are the implications for the interpretation of TheDivine Comedy.Time and the Crystal will interest not only students of Dante but also intellectual historians, historians of science, students of poetics and poetic theory, and all those interested in medieval literature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand

Book The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II

Download or read book The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II written by Arthur N. Popper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 1243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting of Aquatic Noise 2013 will introduce participants to the most recent research data, regulatory issues and thinking about effects of man-made noise and will foster critical cross-disciplinary discussion between the participants. Emphasis will be on the cross-fertilization of ideas and findings across species and noise sources. As with its predecessor, The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: 3rd International Conference will encourage discussion of the impact of underwater sound, its regulation and mitigation of its effects. With over 100 contributions from leading researchers, a wide range of sources of underwater sound will be considered.

Book The Vanishing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Pye
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780822325475
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Vanishing written by Christopher Pye and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of King Lear, Hamlet, Henry VI and other works, this volume employs psychoanalytic theory to arrive at new understandings of the emergence of early modern subjectivities.

Book Fisheries Review

Download or read book Fisheries Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Proceeding and Addresses

Download or read book Journal of Proceeding and Addresses written by National Education Association of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.

Book The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association

Download or read book The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association written by National Educational Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life

Download or read book The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life written by Arthur N. Popper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 2138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark new work, the major authorities in the field from around the world present a wealth of research data, coverage of regulatory issues, and thinking about the effects of man-made noise on marine mammals, turtles, amphibians, fishes, and invertebrates. The various themes of the book were chosen to cover the wide range of basic and cutting edge information on this topic. They include the hearing abilities of aquatic animals; communication by means of underwater sound; the description of aquatic soundscapes; different sound sources and their characteristics; the effects of sound on behavior; and assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the effects of aquatic noise. Emphasis is on the cross-fertilization of ideas and findings across species and noise sources. With over 140 contributions from leading researchers, the sources of underwater sound and their effects are discussed in detail.

Book Central Nervous System Agents   Advances in Research and Application  2012 Edition

Download or read book Central Nervous System Agents Advances in Research and Application 2012 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Nervous System Agents—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Central Nervous System Agents. The editors have built Central Nervous System Agents—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Central Nervous System Agents in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Central Nervous System Agents—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Book Special Effects in the Movies

Download or read book Special Effects in the Movies written by John Culhane and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motion Picture Herald

Download or read book Motion Picture Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents

Download or read book Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents written by Eric F Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catch up with current theories on a major public health menace! Adolescent smoking has increasingly become a concern as a public health issue, yet the theoretical and empirical literature in the area remains skimpy. Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents furnishes researchers and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of current theories and statistics. Moreover, it offers fresh empirical research as well as suggestions for promising avenues of investigation. The first half of Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents provides a solid conceptual and practical context for studying adolescent nicotine addiction, drawing on the most advanced scholarly studies of why teenagers start smoking and the process of addiction. The second half evaluates nicotine replacement therapy, smoking interventions among substance-abusing adolescents, and smoking among teenage girls. Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents addresses all phases of adolescent tobacco use. This valuable guide details: the pharmacological, psychological, and developmental factors that influence teen smoking behavior the hidden connection between depression, gender, and cigarettes the grounds for the debate over whether most teens become addicted to nicotine emerging practices and methods to help adolescents stop smoking links between smoking and other kinds of substance abuse ways to improve prevention and intervention programs unanswered questions about teenage smoking that demand further research Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents recognizes the need for developmentally sensitive approaches for conceptualizing and treating nicotine addiction and offers you thought-provoking strategies and models that will spark future research.

Book Hormones and Aggressive Behavior

Download or read book Hormones and Aggressive Behavior written by Bruce B. Svare and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an overview of research examining the relationship between hormones and aggressive behavior. The last 15 years have witnessed a tremen dous growth of knowledge in this area, yet reviews written by specialists are virtually nonexistent. This work is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and cohesive synthesis of this literature. Chapters 1-7 provide an analysis of hor monal influences on the major forms of aggressive behavior, including intermale, interfemale, shock-induced, maternal, territorial, and predatory aggression. The focus of Chapters 8-12 is an examination of the mechanisms through which hormones might act to produce changes in agonistic responding. Genetic, de velopmental, neural, and biochemical influences are considered. It is well known that environment, social context, and experience modulate the effects of hor mones on behavior. Thus, Chapters 13-15 are designed to review the literature concerning hormone-pheromone interactions, hormonal responses to compe tition, and the influence of social context on the endocrine system and aggressive behavior. Frequently, the principles advanced by behavioral endocrinologists are based on research in one species, the rodent. To provide a more comparative perspective and to examine specifically the generality of those principles gen erated for rodents, Chapters 16-22 examine hormone-aggression relationships in a variety of species, including fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, infrahuman primates, humans, ungulates, and insects. This volume should be useful to both beginning and advanced researchers in animal behavior, behavioral endocri nology, physiological psychology, neuroendocrinology, zoology, physiology, and psychiatry.