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Book What Still Remains

Download or read book What Still Remains written by Jessica Backhaus and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo-series made up of 65 works which explore how lost and forgotten objects have a tendency to then re-appear in specific places, taking on a life of their own. Backhaus has succeeded in capturing motifs that exude both a sense of the enigmatic and the sublime. The readers gaze is tranfixed as they unravel the mystery of what makes these banal objects hold such intrigue. Reminiscent of still-lifes and yet accidental in their compostion, Backhaus turns the arbitary and organic into palpable frames.

Book Everything That Remains

Download or read book Everything That Remains written by Joshua Fields Millburn and published by Asymmetrical Press. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism…and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.

Book What Remains

Download or read book What Remains written by Carole Radziwill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer.

Book What Remains

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  • Author : Sarah E. Wagner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 0674988345
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book What Remains written by Sarah E. Wagner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.

Book The Ecclesiologist

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  • Author : Ecclesiological society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1851
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1026 pages

Download or read book The Ecclesiologist written by Ecclesiological society and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ecclesiologist

Download or read book The Ecclesiologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Temples  Walls  and Some of the Roman Antiquities of Bath  a Lecture Delivered at the Guildhall  March 2  1853

Download or read book The Temples Walls and Some of the Roman Antiquities of Bath a Lecture Delivered at the Guildhall March 2 1853 written by Harry Mengden Scarth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law Review  and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence

Download or read book The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Download or read book Favorite Folktales from Around the World written by Jane Yolen and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Book AKAN ASHANTI FOLKTALES  Revised and Annotated

Download or read book AKAN ASHANTI FOLKTALES Revised and Annotated written by and published by Prince Sarfo-Adu. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 75 Ashanti tales recorded in the Ashanti and Kwawu areas of Ghana.Each folktale in Twi/Akan dialect of the Tshi language, is followed by an English translation. The English translation is, throughout, made as nearly literal as possible.(At this point, one meets a certain difficulty in a conflict between a desire for accuracy and an endeavour to give a translation acceptable to English ears). First published in 1930 by R.S. Rattray, this edition features a modern Akan/Twi orthography with a brief introduction to the Language. Ashanti folktales often tell a moral lesson, describe a myth, or answer a question about the natural world. Most of the Ashanti tales use animal characters to represent human qualities such as jealousy, honesty, greed, and bravery. Ananse, the spider, is a trickster figure who appears in many of the Ashanti tales. With regard to the classification of these stories, it will be observed that the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; aetiological stories, accounting for physical characteristics in men and beasts, e.g. How the Leopard became Spotted; etymological tales, e.g. How the Ram came to be called Odwanini. Each and all of the stories in this volume would, however, be classed by the Akan-speaking African under the generic title of “Anansesɛm” (Spider stories), whether the spider appeared in the tale or not.

Book Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Emmanuel Levinas written by Lis Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century

Book The Last City

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  • Author : H.J. Nelson
  • Publisher : Wattpad Webtoon Studios
  • Release : 2023-02-14
  • ISBN : 1990259057
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Last City written by H.J. Nelson and published by Wattpad Webtoon Studios . This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highly anticipated sequel to The Last She, Ara, Kaden and Sam must learn the first rule of the apocalypse: Trust NO one. Ara Is desperate to reunite with her father and put the events that happened in Boise behind her. Ara hopes to find sanctuary in The Last City, an almost-mythical place where the plague is nonexistent and she can finally discover the truth about her family. Once she arrives, she discovers the truth is stranger than fiction, and Ara wonders if she’s made a huge mistake . . . Kaden Will go anywhere for Ara, will do anything, but he’s tested to his limits in The Last City. Forced to join a dangerous expedition, Kaden soon finds himself separated from Ara and, once again, on the run for his life. Now he needs to risk it all again to find Ara in The Last City . . . Sam Has hooked up a rigged electrical system, blasting away the silence with music, feeling almost normal since he nearly lost his life. He doesn’t know where Kaden and Ara are, and when he meets a mysterious girl named E, they embark on an adventure that will bring all of their lives crashing together . . . All three must uncover the secrets of The Last City if they have any hope of getting out of this apocalypse alive.

Book Prometheus Chained

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  • Author : Aeschylus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Prometheus Chained written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Muslim Studies

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  • Author : George McCue
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351504037
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Muslim Studies written by George McCue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies, which ranks highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed, the two volumes, originally published in German in 1889-1890, can justly be counted among those that laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a civilization. The first study deals with the reaction of Islam to the ideals of Arab tribal society, to the attitudes of early Islam to the various nationalities and more especially the Persians, and culminates in the chapter on the Shu'ubiya movement which represents the reaction of the newly converted peoples, and again more especially the Persians, to the idea of Arab superiority. The second essay is the famous study on the development of the Hadith, the -Traditions- ascribed to Muhammed, in which the Hadith is shown to reflect the various trends of early Islam: Goldziher's name is mainly associated with the critical study of the Hadith, of which this essay is the chief monument. The third essay is about the cult of saints, which, though contrary to the spirit and letter of the earliest Islam, played such an important part in its subsequent development. These essays, with the author's marvelous richness of information, profound historical sense, and sympathetic insight into the motive forces of religion and civilization, are today as fresh as at the time of their original publication and their reissue is indispensable for the growing number of students of Islam. Hamid Dabashi contributes a major eighty-five-page study of Goldziher's life and scholarship, situating both in the intellectual and political currents of his own time while evaluating his work in the context of the current debate over Orientalism.

Book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy

Download or read book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy is a comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness. Unlike other introductory anthologies, the Broadview offers considerable apparatus to assist the student reader in understanding the texts without simply summarizing them. Each selection includes an introduction discussing the context and structure of the primary reading, as well as thorough annotations designed to clarify unfamiliar terms, references, and argument forms. Canonical texts from the history of philosophy are presented alongside contemporary scholarship; women authors are included throughout.

Book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume I  Knowledge and Reality

Download or read book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume I Knowledge and Reality written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy offers a thoughtful selection of readings in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Substantial selections from important historical texts are provided (including the entirety of Descartes’s Meditations), as are a number of contemporary readings on each topic. Unlike other introductory anthologies, the Broadview offers considerable apparatus to assist the student reader in understanding the texts without simply summarizing them. Each selection includes an introduction discussing the context and structure of the primary reading, as well as thorough annotations designed to clarify unfamiliar terms, references, and argument forms.

Book The Lesser Writings of S  H  Collected and Translated by R  E  Dudgeon

Download or read book The Lesser Writings of S H Collected and Translated by R E Dudgeon written by Samuel Hahnemann and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: