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Book Where Traditions Linger

Download or read book Where Traditions Linger written by Allan Fea and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditions Linger

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  • Author : Leah R. Baer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781568592473
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Traditions Linger written by Leah R. Baer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scent of Time

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  • Author : Byung-Chul Han
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-09-25
  • ISBN : 1509516085
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Scent of Time written by Byung-Chul Han and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

Book The Living Age

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghosts Of The Missing

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  • Author : Kathleen Donohoe
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-02-11
  • ISBN : 0544557182
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Ghosts Of The Missing written by Kathleen Donohoe and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of The Lovely Bones and The Little Friend, Ghosts of the Missing follows the mysterious disappearance of a twelve-year-old girl during a town parade and the reverberations of this tragedy throughout the town. On Saturday, October 28, 1995, a girl vanished. She was not a child particularly prized in town...When questioned by reporters, those who’d known Rowan described her as ‘quiet’ and ‘loner’ and ‘shy’ and even ‘awkward.’ Words for pity. Culleton, New York has a long history—of writers, of artists, and of unsolved mysteries. It’s where Adair grew up before she moved to Brooklyn to try to make it as an artist. But after years away from her hometown and little to show for it, Adair decides to return. She moves back in to Moye House, the old mansion, and current writer’s retreat, imbued with her family's legacy. Ciaran is a writer staying at Moye House in the hopes of finally solving the mystery of what happened to Rowan Kinnane—his sister, and Adair’s childhood best friend. As the two begin investigating, secrets long buried rise to the surface, complicating their sense of themselves and their understanding of what happened on that fateful day. With her “knack for capturing heartbreaking moments with a gripping simplicity” (Village Voice), Kathleen Donohoe lures us into a haunting world of secrets and obsessions and shows just how far people will go in search of the truth.

Book Legends of Galloway

Download or read book Legends of Galloway written by James Denniston and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Argosy

Download or read book The Argosy written by Mrs. Henry Wood and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.

Book To the Latest Posterity

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  • Author : Corinne P. Earnest
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780271023687
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book To the Latest Posterity written by Corinne P. Earnest and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the Latest Posterity is filled with examples of family registers from museum and private collections, many of them never before published, including early handmade work as well as printed registers that were filled in by hand in the nineteenth century. Bringing the art into the twentieth century and beyond, the Earnests discuss the adoption of the art by the Amish, who continue the practice of illuminated family record keeping today."--Jacket.

Book A History of the Jewish Nation

Download or read book A History of the Jewish Nation written by Edward Henry Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Islands

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  • Author : Di Morrissey
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-01-06
  • ISBN : 1466810041
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Islands written by Di Morrissey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to believe she is living in paradise. She befriends Kiann'e, a traditional dancer; Eleanor, the owner of the legendary Palm Grove Hotel; Lester, a reclusive old surfer; and royal Beatrice, leading the fight to maintain Hawaii's heritage and culture. However, as Catherine learns more about the Islands, she begins to discover that paradise has a darker side. And when she meets a mystery man of the sea, as though hit by a tsunami, her life is turned upside down and changed forever.

Book Like A Weed

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  • Author : Julianne J. Johnson
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2024-04-26
  • ISBN : 1665758538
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Like A Weed written by Julianne J. Johnson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories and recipes chronicles life on a Minnesota farm, the changing seasons and daily chores that made the farm bustle with life. Like a Weed will take you back to the simpler days where family coupled with hard work equaled life’s greatest rewards. greatest rewwr

Book Byzantine Materiality

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  • Author : Evan Freeman
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-06-04
  • ISBN : 3110980738
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Byzantine Materiality written by Evan Freeman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic and meaningful constitutes an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry known as materiality, new materialism, or the material turn. Materials can be symbolic, but matter can also act on human subjects. This volume builds on these insights to consider the role of matter, materials, form, and embodied experiences in Byzantium. In many respects, Byzantine materiality represents a continuation of its Greco-Roman inheritance, which was also shared by neighboring peoples such as the Umayyads and Abbasids. But the Byzantines also developed their own, unique perspectives on matter and form, as with their parsing of the sacred materialities of icons, the Eucharist, and relics. Chapters in this volume consider the cultural meanings and functions of materials such as gold and ivory, the materiality of icons and relics, experiences of objects, as well as Byzantine philosophies of matter and form. Materiality takes center stage in Byzantine constructions of power, luxury, belief, and identity, which will be of interest to scholars and students of Byzantium and the wider medieval world.

Book Insight Guides Oman   the UAE  Travel Guide eBook

Download or read book Insight Guides Oman the UAE Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure Insight Guide Oman and the UAE is an essential guide to two jewels of the Middle East, brought to life with hundreds of evocative photographs. Our inspirational Best of Oman and the UAE section highlights the countries' unmissable sights and experiences, while a comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the practical information you need to plan your trip, and our selective listings bring you the best restaurants and activities on offer. Lavish magazine-style features offer a unique insight into contemporary life in Oman and the UAE, from religion to sports to expatriate communities. A detailed Places section, with full-colour maps cross-referenced to the lively narrative written by our local author, guides you around the two countries, from the skyscrapers of Dubai to the remote wilderness of Oman's Empty Quarter. Inside Insight Guide Oman and the UAE: A fully-overhauled edition. Stunning, specially-commissioned photography that brings these enchanting countries and their people to life. Highlights of the countries' top attractions, including awe-inspiring architecture, bustling souqs, remote wadis, and monumental forts in our Best of Oman and the UAE. Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole of both countries from ultra-modern cities to time-warped mudbrick mountain villages. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip, including our independent selection of the best restaurants. Free app for every customer. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Book How Women Became Poets

Download or read book How Women Became Poets written by Emily Hauser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways the Greeks talked about their identity as poets constructed, played with, and broke down gender expectations that literature was for men alone. Bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers a new history of classical literature that redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. Women, as Virginia Woolf recognized, need rooms of their own in order to write. So, too, have women writers through history needed a name to describe what it is they do. Hauser traces the invention of that name in ancient Greece, exploring the archaeology of the gendering of the poet. She follows ancient Greek poets, philosophers, and historians as they developed and debated the vocabulary for authorship on the battleground of gender—building up and reinforcing the word for male poet, then in response creating a language with which to describe women who write. Crucially, Hauser reinserts women into the traditionally all-male canon of Greek literature, arguing for the centrality of their role in shaping ideas around authorship and literary production.

Book The Bookman

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Jewish Nation

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  • Author : E. Palmer
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-03-03
  • ISBN : 3368807021
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book A History of the Jewish Nation written by E. Palmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Variations and Business Performance  Contemporary Globalism

Download or read book Cultural Variations and Business Performance Contemporary Globalism written by Christiansen, Bryan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers the latest research in the field of Business Performance Management in the global economic environment of present conditions while looking at business as a whole entity instead of only at the divisional level"--Provided by publisher.