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Book The Lure of the Ordinary

Download or read book The Lure of the Ordinary written by Peter Sweetman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lure of the Dark Side

Download or read book The Lure of the Dark Side written by Christopher H. Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature. Their religious significance has only recently begun to be explored. 'The Lure of the Darkside' brings together the work of some of the most important and creative scholars in the field of Biblical and Religious Studies. The essays explore demonology in popular culture from a range of perspectives: Satanism within contemporary music; the relationship between hymn and horror film; the career of Hannibal Lecter; the portrayal of Satan in films about Christ; and spiritual perversion in the Harry Potter Stories. This fresh and ground-breaking volume will be of interest to students of religious studies and theology, as well as literary and popular culture.

Book The Lure of the Beach

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  • Author : Robert C. Ritchie
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 0520395573
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book The Lure of the Beach written by Robert C. Ritchie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull’s cry and the cove’s splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide’s turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.

Book The Educator and The Ordinary

Download or read book The Educator and The Ordinary written by Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book creates a unique discursive environment to consider how initial teacher education can support student teachers in practical and personal senses, in what they can do and who they are. What is it to care? To develop our voice? To educate in beautifully risky ways? Engaging with the philosophy of Stanley Cavell, Gert Biesta and Nel Noddings, central capabilities of the educator are suggested: Acknowledgement, Autobiography, Imagination, Interruption, Attention and Uncertainty, culminating in the essential, unifying capability of The Ordinary, underpinned by Complexity and Hope. This book will appeal to those interested and engaged in initial teacher education, professional development and support from early years to higher education and practicing educators. It aims to enrich theoretical as well as practical discussion, to influence how we live, how we think, and how we treat each other.

Book The Lure of God

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  • Author : Lewis S. Ford
  • Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Lure of God written by Lewis S. Ford and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awaken Your Inner Hero

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  • Author : Victor Hugo Manzanilla
  • Publisher : HarperEnfoque
  • Release : 2017-01-24
  • ISBN : 0718098471
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Awaken Your Inner Hero written by Victor Hugo Manzanilla and published by HarperEnfoque. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENGLISH EDITION: Live the story of your life at the highest level. If you received an unexpected call to make a film about your life, would it be a captivating film, full of risk, battles, and victory? Or would it be one of those films where people leave the theater before it’s finished? We’ve all heard great stories about famous heroes, those men and women who have gone down in history having made a difference. But what might be said about your life? Could you make it into one of those great stories? Awaken Your Inner Hero is a call to adventure, to get out of your comfort zone and take the kind of risks that will lead you to radically change the way you are living your life. Based on the “hero’s journey” and on universal principles that have been used by poets, writers, and directors to create great stories, the author unveils seven steps that will help you make your deepest desires come true and develop a story worth telling. You will discover life has great things waiting for you, if you are bold enough to go after them. Beyond the routine of the day-to-day, there is a longing within you that motivates you to give everything inside of you to fulfill a purpose, to immerse yourself in your own story, to live your life with success and meaning, to awaken your inner hero.

Book Nature as Event

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  • Author : Didier Debaise
  • Publisher : Duke University Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 9780822369486
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nature as Event written by Didier Debaise and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?

Book Forest and Stream

Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal   Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Download or read book Journal Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Numismatic supplement," no. 5-45 (previously issued in the society's Journal, later in its Journal, 3rd ser.).

Book High Culture

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  • Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0190459115
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book High Culture written by Christopher Hugh Partridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Throughout history, humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. This book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the modern West. Starting with the Romantic fascination with opium, it goes on to chronicle the discovery of anesthetics, psychiatric and religious interest in hashish, the bewitching power of mescaline and hallucinogenic fungi, as well as the more recent uses of LSD. It fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary alternative and in the study of countercultures and popular culture. Today we are seeing increased social and scientific attention to both the positive and the negative effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly following the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and/or recreational use in some US states, as well as court cases involving the sacramental use of drugs. This fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the controversial relationship between drugs and spirituality could not be more timely."

Book A Girl s Childhood

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  • Author : Linda C. Mayes
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 0300210809
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book A Girl s Childhood written by Linda C. Mayes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children’s early development. The group’s members composed detailed narratives about their work with the study’s children, interviewed families regularly and visited them in their homes, and over the course of a decade met monthly for discussion. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the Child Study Center’s landmark study from various perspectives, focusing particularly on one child’s unfolding sense of herself, her gender, and her relationships.

Book The Lure of the Basilisk

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  • Author : Lawrence Watt-Evans
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2015-02-25
  • ISBN : 1434439798
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Lure of the Basilisk written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overman named Garth sought immortal fame. The oracle told him to serve the Forgotten King to get that fame. But this King sent Garth after a basilisk whose gaze could turn men to stone. What sane use could anyone have for a monster like that?

Book Outing

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 900 pages

Download or read book Outing written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Short Works of John Habraken

Download or read book The Short Works of John Habraken written by Stephen H. Kendall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habraken’s writing in a single collection. Few architects or scholars have so consistently and patiently pursued such a humane and culturally vital set of radical questions related to the behaviour of the built environment as N. John Habraken. From the publication of his first book in 1960, he has quietly helped redraw the map of architectural research, education, practice, design methods and theory. His insights lead us to a better understanding of how the built field works, contributing to the development of methods enabling professionals to contribute to its coherence and resilience. Following an introductory essay by the editors, placing Habraken’s work in context, this collection is organized in two sections and further organized around a number of specific themes: The Built Field; Role of the Architect; Control; Sharing Forms; Examples of Ways of Doing; Open Building; Tools; and Cultivating the Built Environment. A series of interviews with the author enable him to reflect on his journey of inquiry, research, advocacy and teaching – and the relationship between ways of seeing and ways of doing. Offering theoretical perspectives and methodological ways forward, this book will be of interest to architects, planners and urban designers tackling the challenges of the contemporary built environment that Habraken identifies, as well as educators and students.

Book Outing and the Wheelman

Download or read book Outing and the Wheelman written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phrase and Subject

Download or read book Phrase and Subject written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours of recent research and investigating the mutual aesthetic influence of the two arts and their common historical ground. The examination of literary works using music as an analogy for literary composition and agent of cultural value, and the consideration of musical works whose structure is derived from literary models will excite the interest of both professional scholars and students in the fields of musicology, literary studies and modern European languages. (Legenda 2006) Delia da Sousa Correa is Lecturer in Literature at The Open University. She is the author of George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture (2002) and editor of

Book Flying Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: