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Book Innocent Landscapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Farrell
  • Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781899235889
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Innocent Landscapes written by David Farrell and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2001 European Publishers Award for Photography An extraordinary collection of photographs of six locations in the south of Ireland, known as the 'Sites of the Disappeared' which are the burial places of eight people murdered by the IRA in the 1970s and early 1980s. In thirty years of conflict and atrocities, this small group of people stood apart. They were all Catholic and, as it turned out, had not only been taken from their families but also from their homeland to be buried in the South. Illustrated with 65 full colour photographs

Book Aftershock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Geitner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Aftershock written by Amanda Geitner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La muestra está inspirada en las respuestas dadas por artistas indios a la intolerancia, al terrorismo y al actual enfrentamiento nuclear con Paquistán. Se presentan obras de 17 artistas de India, Colombia, Chile, Irlanda, Argentina, Líbano, Alemaia y Reino Unido, que utilizan cine, pintura y escultura para explorar con humor, belleza y sutileza las imágenes de la violencia política y social presente en la vida cotidiana.

Book Alien Landscapes

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  • Author : Jonathan Glover
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-02
  • ISBN : 0674368363
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Alien Landscapes written by Jonathan Glover and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases—violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia—to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn.

Book Landscapes of Hate

Download or read book Landscapes of Hate written by Edward Hall and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. Of interest to academics and students of human geography, criminology, sociology and beyond, the book highlights enduring, diverse and uneven experiences of hate in contemporary society. The collection explores the intersecting experiences of those targeted on the basis of assumed and historically marginalized identities. It illustrates the role of specific spaces and places in shaping hate, why space matters for how hate is encountered and the importance of space in challenging cultures of hate. This analysis of who is able to use or abuse space offers a novel insight into discourses of hate and lived experiences of victimization.

Book The Stylistics of Landscapes  the Landscapes of Stylistics

Download or read book The Stylistics of Landscapes the Landscapes of Stylistics written by John Douthwaite and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment.

Book Land and Environment

Download or read book Land and Environment written by Victor Bonham-Carter and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the thesis that the conflict between economics and environment must be resolved, and an integration of town and country life must be achieved, if country life as we know it is to survive.

Book Layered Landscapes

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  • Author : Eric Nelson
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-06-26
  • ISBN : 1317107209
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Layered Landscapes written by Eric Nelson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.

Book Douglas Airview

Download or read book Douglas Airview written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Joseph Communications

Download or read book The Joseph Communications written by Michael G. Reccia and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Life After Death The book that answers life's BIGGEST QUESTION ...what happens to me when I die? According to Joseph - the ancient, highly evolved spirit who has lived in an enlightened sphere of reality 'beyond the veil' for thousands of years - there are countless opportunities and wonders awaiting you beyond physical 'death'. Communicated through respected trance medium, Michael G. Reccia, this unique book is arguably the most comprehensive account ever written of what lies ahead for you when you leave this world behind. Whether you're a spiritual seeker or simply curious as to what comes next, this definitive guide to the afterlife will answer all your questions and be an essential source of comfort and inspiration ...read it and you'll never look at the next life, or, indeed, this one, in quite the same way again. ............................................ Joseph: 'Some of the concepts we will talk about are frightening and they should be in the public knowledge; some of them are uplifting and take souls to places beyond physical description in terms of beauty and love and ecstasy. The book will give people a better grounding on the subject of death and the afterlife than has been given before in many books.'

Book The Land of Sunshine

Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollow Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eyal Weizman
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2012-08-07
  • ISBN : 1844679152
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Hollow Land written by Eyal Weizman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands. From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian homes into a war zone under constant surveillance. This is essential reading for those seeking to understand how architecture and infrastructure are used as lethal weapons in the formation of Israel.

Book Rewriting the Self

Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Mark Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and literary theory, the book sheds light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self-interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological enquiry more generally. The author draws upon selected, mainly autobiographical, literary texts in order to examine concretely the process of rewriting the self. Among the issues addressed are the relationship of rewriting the self to the concept of development, the place of language in the construction of selfhood, the difference between living and telling about it, the problem of facts in life history narrative, the significance of the unconscious in interpreting the personal past, and the freedom of the narrative imagination. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award winner in 1994

Book Medieval People  Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape

Download or read book Medieval People Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape written by Michael Prestwich and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and revelatory exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by a renowned historian This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th–century duke of Burgundy, were failures. Contrary to modern myth, medieval people did not believe the earth was flat; torture was far less common than in later centuries; and technological advances included guns, printing, blast furnaces, spectacles, stirrups and the compass. Full of insights such as these, this book shows how medieval people lived in an era that was more one of invention and innovation than of superstition and backwardness. It will appeal to all those who want a truer picture of a world often erroneously portrayed by bestselling novelists of today.

Book The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge written by John A Agnew and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge. A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and comprehensive book offers an extremely valuable tool to professionals and students alike. - Victoria Lawson, University of Washington "A Handbook that recasts geograph′s history in original, thought-provoking ways. Eschewing the usual chronological march through leading figures and big ideas, it looks at geography against the backdrop of the places and institutional contexts where it has been produced, and the social-cum-intellectual currents underlying some of its most important concepts." - Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge is a critical inquiry into how geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced, and re-imagined. It comprises three sections on geographical orientations, geography′s venues, and critical geographical concepts and controversies. The first provides an overview of the genealogy of "geography". The second highlights the types of spatial settings and locations in which geographical knowledge has been produced. The third focuses on venues of primary importance in the historical geography of geographical thought. Orientations includes chapters on: Geography - the Genealogy of a Term; Geography′s Narratives and Intellectual History Geography′s Venues includes chapters on: Field; Laboratory; Observatory; Archive; Centre of Calculation; Mission Station; Battlefield; Museum; Public Sphere; Subaltern Space; Financial Space; Art Studio; Botanical/Zoological Gardens; Learned Societies Critical concepts and controversies - includes chapters on: Environmental Determinism; Region; Place; Nature and Culture; Development; Conservation; Geopolitics; Landscape; Time; Cycle of Erosion; Time; Gender; Race/Ethnicity; Social Class; Spatial Analysis; Glaciation; Ice Ages; Map; Climate Change; Urban/Rural. Comprehensive without claiming to be encyclopedic, textured and nuanced, this Handbook will be a key resource for all researchers with an interest in the pasts, presents and futures of geography.

Book Creativity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harriet Hawkins
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-10-04
  • ISBN : 131760492X
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Creativity written by Harriet Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity, whether lauded as the oil of the 21st century, touted as a driver of international policy, or mobilised by activities, has been very much part of the zeitgeist of the last few decades. Offering the first accessible, but conceptually sophisticated account of the critical geographies of creativity, this title provides an entry point to the diverse ways in which creativity is conceptualized as a practice, promise, force, concept and rhetoric. It proffers these critical geographies as the means to engage with the relations and tensions between a range of forms of arts and cultural production, the cultural economy and vernacular, mundane and everyday creative practices. Exploring a series of sites, Creativity examines theoretical and conceptual questions around the social, economic, cultural, political and pedagogic imperatives of the geographies of creativity, using these geographies as a lens to cohere broader interdisciplinary debates. Central concepts, cutting-edge research and methodological debates are made accessible with the use of inset boxes that present key ideas, case studies and research. The text draws together interdisciplinary perspectives on creativity, enabling scholars and students within and without Geography to understand and engage with the critical geographies of creativity, their breadth and potential. The volume will prove essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students of creativity, cultural geography, the creative economy, cultural industries and heritage.

Book Landprints

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Seddon
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-09-28
  • ISBN : 9780521659994
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Landprints written by George Seddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Australia's foremost thinkers, a uniquely broad-ranging 1997 collection of essays on landscape.

Book Introducing Human Geographies

Download or read book Introducing Human Geographies written by Paul Cloke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 1087 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Human Geographies is the leading guide to human geography for undergraduate students, explaining new thinking on essential topics and discussing exciting developments in the field. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and coverage is extended with new sections devoted to biogeographies, cartographies, mobilities, non-representational geographies, population geographies, public geographies and securities. Presented in three parts with 60 contributions written by expert international researchers, this text addresses the central ideas through which human geographers understand and shape their subject. Part I: Foundations engages students with key ideas that define human geography’s subject matter and approaches, through critical analyses of dualisms such as local-global, society-space and human-nonhuman. Part II: Themes explores human geography’s main sub-disciplines, with sections devoted to biogeographies, cartographies, cultural geographies, development geographies, economic geographies, environmental geographies, historical geographies, political geographies, population geographies, social geographies, urban and rural geographies. Finally, Part III: Horizons assesses the latest research in innovative areas, from mobilities and securities to non-representational geographies. This comprehensive, stimulating and cutting edge introduction to the field is richly illustrated throughout with full colour figures, maps and photos. These are available to download on the companion website, located at www.routledge.com/9781444135350.