Download or read book Astonished Dice written by Geoff Cochrane and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astonished Dice compiles award-winning poet and author Geoff Cochrane's two slim volumes of short stories, originally published in limited editions and his early novella Quest Clinic with more recent stories.

Download or read book Astonishing Mind Powers written by Carl R. Green and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the powers of the mind and extrasensory perception (ESP), including telepathy, psychokinesis, clairvoyance, and precognition, and looks at famous examples of these powers and how to test if they are real or fake"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book One Toss of the Dice The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern written by R. Howard Bloch and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backward and forward, even sideways, launched modernism. Stéphane Mallarmé’s "One Toss of the Dice," a daring, twenty-page epic of ruin and recovery, provided an epochal “tipping point,” defining the spirit of the age and anticipating radical thinkers of the twentieth century, from Albert Einstein to T. S. Eliot. Celebrating its intrinsic influence on our culture, renowned scholar R. Howard Bloch masterfully decodes the poem still considered among the most enigmatic ever written. In Bloch’s shimmering portrait of Belle Époque Paris, Mallarmé stands as the spiritual giant of the era, gathering around him every Tuesday a luminous cast of characters including Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Claude Monet, André Gide, Claude Debussy, Oscar Wilde, and even the future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau. A simple schoolteacher whose salons and prodigious literary talent won him the adoration of Paris’s elite, Mallarmé achieved the reputation of France’s greatest living poet. He was so beloved that mourners crowded along the Seine for his funeral in 1898, many refusing to depart until late into the night, leaving Auguste Renoir to ponder, “How long will it take for nature to make another such a mind?” Over a century later, the allure of Mallarmé’s linguistic feat continues to ignite the imaginations of the world’s greatest thinkers. Featuring a new, authoritative translation of the French poem by J. D. McClatchy, One Toss of the Dice reveals how a literary masterpiece launched the modernist movement, contributed to the rise of pop art, influenced modern Web design, and shaped the perceptual world we now inhabit. And as Alex Ross remarks in The New Yorker, "If you can crack [Mallarmé’s] poems, it seems, you can crack the riddles of existence." In One Toss of the Dice, Bloch finally, and brilliantly, dissects one of literary history’s greatest mysteries to reveal how a poem made us modern.

Download or read book Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages written by Newton Ivory Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Rock Icon Ready written by Kella Campbell and published by Tied Star Books. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Employer. Best friend. Who in her right mind would rock that boat, even if he were interested? Even though he’s perfect…” Drum tech Kimmy Baker has been on the road with Smidge for six years, and she never wants to leave the band or concert tour life, but it seems incompatible with finding love. In any case, no one could compare to Dice, her drummer and best friend. She’s always been careful not to jeopardize their friendship or her job by crossing any lines, even though he’s hot and sweet and shares her sense of humor and all her deepest secrets… except for one. When she accidentally reveals that she wants to have a baby, he offers his DNA in trade for help with a secret of his own. It’s an irresistible proposition, especially when she suspects he might have a hidden dominant side. But as deeper feelings come into play, they’ll have to decide if they’re friends or lovers. Will her intention to keep her promise of no strings conflict with his traditional impulses? Is she meant to have forever with her rock icon? Fall in love with the rock stars of Smidge... Rock Icon Ready is the third book in this series of interconnected standalone novels following each band member as they find their happily-ever-afters.

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Download or read book Astonishing Thor written by Rob Rodi and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Astonishing Thor #1-5. The God of Thunder finds himself battling a mysterious surge of natural catastrophes only to find the cause is...Ego, the Living Planet! It's Thor on a mission to save earth from dangers of planetary proportions.

Download or read book Astonishing August written by Caroline Lee and published by Caroline Lee. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August "Sparky" Calendar is a simple sort of gal. Blue jeans, sneakers, and her colorful headwraps are all she needs in life...outside of her epic gaming laptop, her lucky voltmeter, and all of her ghost-hunting equipment. Sparky is determined to become Cauldron Valley's resident supernatural investigator and is doing her best to be professional, which is a little difficult when she keeps tripping over her own two feet. Jax Weston is at his wits' end. He may be a high-powered CEO, but he simply can't function without sleep. And thanks to the strange noises and creepy voices haunting the house he just moved into, he hasn't been able to rest at all. When he hires a local ghost-hunter, he doesn't see any reason why "August" shouldn't move in with him for a week to investigate this strange phenomenon. But the investigator isn't a man, as Jax had assumed. Instead, she's the adorable little bundle of energy he'd almost kissed at his brother's wedding reception...and the attraction he'd felt then hasn't lessened one bit. Sleep might be the last thing on Jax's mind now that Sparky is living with him!

Download or read book The Astonishing Youth written by Maldwyn Edwards and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not one more life of John Wesley, but a portrait of the man himself. So often, John Wesley has been misrepresented as austere, despotic, and unlovable. In this book the real man emerges--a man who possesses both strength and attractiveness, and one whose easy natural charm was felt by friend and critic alike. This is the first time such an intimately personal study has been attempted, and Dr. Maldwyn Edwards is well qualified for the task, having already published six books of major importance on various aspects of the history of Methodism. He is on the editorial board of the projected standard history of Methodism and was invited to write the essay on John Wesley for the first volume. He is one of twelve Fellows of Methodist History of the International Methodist Historical Society. This is a study, therefore, by a recognized authority on Methodism, but written with an ease of style that will hold the attention of all who read it.

Download or read book Astonishing Bathroom Reader written by Diego Jourdan Pereira and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 600 pages of fascinating facts about everything from science to history to pop culture Did you know the longest mountain range on earth is under water? How about the fact that June was named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage? If not, don’t worry! You can learn details about these facts and more useful (and useless) trivia in this gigantic collection. With subjects from across the spectrum, read all about the presidents, planets, ball games, and more in six overflowing chapters: Gassy Universe Loaded Science Jamming History Clogged Culture Bursting Sports Flushing Phenomena Whether you’re interested in cannibalism, classic movie quotes, or the Milky Way, there is a list, factoid, or timeline for everyone in this epic compendium. You’ll never be bored on the toilet (or in the car or in bed) ever again. Crack open the Astonishing Bathroom Reader and read all about everything you didn’t think you needed to know!

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Download or read book The Age of Astonishment written by Bill Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it. It all began with a black-and-white family snapshot of a distinguished elderly gentleman with a fine head of spun-sugar hair. He was wearing round, tortoise-shell glasses, a three-piece suit and an expression of delight mixed with terror, for on his right knee he was balancing a swaddled infant with a bewildered look. The baby is Bill morris, the man is his father’s father, John Morris. That photo, taken in November 1952, the month the United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb, a weapon a thousand times more powerful than the atom bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three years later, John Morris died at the age of 92. Bill has no memories of the man, but even as a boy he found himself marveling at the changes John must have witnessed and experienced in his long lifetime. He was born into a slave-owning Virginia family during the Civil War, and he died at the peak of the Cold War. At the time of his birth, the dominant technologies were the steam engine and the telegraph. He grew up in a world lit by kerosene and candles, he traveled by foot and horseback and wagon and drank water hauled from a well. He would live through Reconstruction, women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, two world wars, the Korean War and the advent of nuclear weapons. Though he was from a slave-owning family, he changed his views as he grew into adulthood, and would unhappily witnessed the horrors of Jim Crow and work against it. Fluent in German, he would witness Hitler’s rise to power, just one of the unimaginable occurrences of his time that suddenly became all-too-real. Deep in the Bible Belt, John was agnostic, perhaps even atheist, and held remarkably progressive beliefs on race relations, child rearing, women’s rights and religious freedom. He married an Irish Catholic from upstate New York at a time when Catholics, Jews and Yankees were not warmly welcomed in the South. And in that traditionally bellicose region, he was a life-long pacifist. He was, in a word, a misfit, but one whose story embodies a pivotal generation in American history. An acclaimed journalist and novelist, Bill Morris makes history personal in The Age of Astonishment, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it.

Download or read book The Wine of Astonishment written by Earl Lovelace and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl Lovelace writes about the survival of a small community of Spiritual Baptists with a lyricism and understanding of dialogue which has established an international reputation. 'If we clap we hands and catch the Spirit, the police could arrest us. One day we was Baptist, the next day we is criminals.' The Wine of Astonishment is a poignant and devastating tale of the discrimination the Black community of Bonasse faced during the first half of the 20th century. Told from the perspective of a religious wife, Eva retells the torment and tribulations her family and friends endure at the hands of abusive police and corrupt government officials. Hurtling towards its tragic climax, Bolo's transformation embodies the tragedy manifested when a people are pushed too far.