Download or read book The Rothrock Haiku Contest written by Kurt Westley and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jikaawase of 20 rounds 'by' two fictional haiku hermits, Waku and Woro, who each inhabit a temporal 'hut of the phantom dwelling' in the Rothrock State Forest in central Pennsylvania from October to March of an unknown year?-?they survive the self-imposed limitations of isolation, and walk & write about the cycles of autumn, winter, and spring until their departure, subsequently matching 'rival' haiku which are then judged by an anonymous evaluator/tenja who offers comments and declares the winning haiku in the spirited tradition of the classic haiku contest. The reader is invited to make his/ her own choice of the winning haiku . . .

Download or read book Staring at the Midnight Sky written by Mark Teaford and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a 'brave' project. An astonishing photograph could outsmart haiku. An evocative haiku or tanka could steal the light from a photograph. When they present together on the same page, they cannot be too close. At the same time, they should have a similar tone. Mark Teaford knows what a photograph hides under its skin and what kind of scent a poem breathes out. This book is like kaiseki, a traditional Japanese multi-course meal. I guarantee your eyes and stomach will be satisfied." -?Fay Aoyagi, Associate Editor, The Heron's Nest, Former President, Haiku Society of America

Download or read book A Revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L Solanaceae written by Sandra Knapp and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a monograph of the 47 species of the Dulcamaroid clade of the large and diverse genus Solanum. Species in the group occur in North, Central and South America, and in Europe and Asia. The group is most species-rich in Peru and Brazil, and three of the component species, Solanum laxum of Brazil, Solanum seaforthianum of the Caribbean and and Solanum crispum of Chile are cultivated in many parts of the world. All species are illustrated and a distribution map of each is provided. All names are typified and nomenclatural and bibliographic details for all typifications presented. One new species from Ecuador is described. The monograph is the first complete taxonomic treatment of these species since the worldwide monograph of Solanum done by the French botanist Michel-Felix Dunal in 1852.

Download or read book Farewell My Colony written by Todd Crowell and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 1, 1997, the red flag of China was hoisted over Hong Kong - and the untried idea of "one country, two systems" was put into practice. Farewell, My Colony is a real-time journal of the end of an era. American journalist Todd Crowell captures a unique moment in history as Britain soldiers through the last months of its colonial rule, China waits restlessly to resume its sovereignty, and Hong Kong buzzes with speculation.

Download or read book Zombie Complex written by Alexander Pain and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neighborhood smelled bad before the dead people shuffled in. Jake and Karen lived in an apartment complex that housed a hodgepodge of cultures-some of which cooked the nastiest smelling foods. When zombies arrived between paychecks, the couple had no place to go and no money to get there. Their neighbors were mostly guest workers from India. Their homes and families were 12,000 miles away. They were all trapped together. Survival would mean uniting to fight the dead. This is the story of very different people coming together, improvising, getting supplies, and uniting for the fight of their lives. They made their stand at a place called Chattahoochee Run Apartments--a place that will always be known as the Zombie Complex!Zombie Complex is a different kind of zombie novel!Have you ever wondered how the local and national media would cover a zombie apocalypse?Have you ever wondered how state and local authorities would respond?Have you ever wondered whether your employer would allow you time off for a zombie crisis?In the pages of this great zombie novel, you'll get a glimpse of how our institutions will try to handle the Zeds and fail.Zombie Complex is based on the real world!The characters of Zombie Complex aren't former soldiers who continue to work out and maintain a state of the art arsenal. Instead, they are flawed people just like the rest of us. They experience every frustration of apartment living and life in a global economy. They aren't perfect. The heroes of Zombie Complex had every intention of starting a working out regimen. They were going to start going to the gym. They were going to eat salads everyday. If it wouldn't have been for a zombie apocalypse, they would lose weight and look great. They also want to pay down their credit card debts and move to a better location. But, the dead have a way of interrupting all of these plans. When zombies come to town, the residents of Chattahoochee Run have to survive on what they have and what they can scrounge up. When it comes to fighting the dead, the heroes of this novel have to fight with weapons they own. You won't find an exotic arsenal in Zombie Complex. Instead, you'll find a desperate battle involving hodgepodge of weapons average Americans may own.Join the fight today!You may see yourself, your friends, your family, your co-workers. and your weird neighbors among the residents of the Zombie Complex. But, you won't see any of them unless you scroll up, click to purchase this book, and join the fight!

Download or read book The Nothing That Is written by David Kawika Eyre and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second full-length collection by David K?wika Eyre shines a light on his life in rural Hawai'i, especially the domestic routines and creatures that populate that world. It also exhibits his maturation as a haiku poet in English, and features several innovations in style and content new to him since his well-received first volume, not a one (2018). The volume is full-color throughout, and includes paintings to highlight section by the noted Swedish artist Emma Eyre, David's daughter.

Download or read book Rawhead Rex written by Clive Barker and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reading Shaver s Creek written by Ian Marshall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a series of reflective essays and poems on Pennsylvania’s Shaver’s Creek landscape from the past decade. Collected as part of The Ecological Reflections Project—a century-long effort to observe and document changes to the natural world in the central Pennsylvanian portion of the Appalachian Forest—these pieces show how knowledge of a place comes from the information and perceptions we gather from different perspectives over time. They include Marcia Bonta’s keen observations about how humans knowingly and unknowingly affect the landscape; Scott Weidensaul’s view of the forest as a battlefield; and Katie Fallon describing the sounds of human and nonhuman life along a trail. Together, these selections create a place-based portrait of a vivid ecosystem during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions by nationally known nature writers and local experts, Reading Shaver’s Creek is a unique, complex depiction of the central Pennsylvania landscape and its ecology. We know the land and creatures of places such as Shaver’s Creek are bound to change throughout the century. This book is the first step to documenting how. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Marcia Bonta, Michael P. Branch, Todd Davis, Katie Fallon, David Gessner, Hannah Inglesby, John Lane, Carolyn Mahan, Jacy Marshall-McKelvey, Steven Rubin, David Taylor, Julianne Lutz Warren, and Scott Weidensaul.

Download or read book The Three Ninja Pigs written by Corey Rosen Schwartz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice makes perfect in this kick-butt fractured fairy tale, illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Dan Santat. Why does this wolf think he can come to town and blow all the houses down? These three little pigs just aren't going to take it from that bully anymore! The first starts aikido lessons—he'll make mincemeat out of that wolf! His brother learns a little jujitsu—he'll chop that guy to pieces! But when the wolf actually appears, it turs out these two pigs aren't quite ready after all. Good thing their sister has been training every day to master some serious karate moves that save the day. KIYA! Corey Rosen Schwartz serves up a fun combination of smart-aleck dialogue and tongue-in-cheek rhymes that'll have kids howling, and rising star Dan Santat's spunky illustrations are sure to pack a punch! Be sure to look for just-as-clever companion books Ninja Red Riding Hood and Hensel & Gretel: Ninja Chicks!

Download or read book Objectivity written by Günter Figal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.

Download or read book Philosophers and Their Poets written by Charles Bambach and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition. Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poetry. For them, poetic thinking itself is understood as intrinsic to the kind of thinking that defines philosophical inquiry and the philosophical life, and they developed their views through extensive and sustained considerations of specific poets, as well as specific poetic figures and images. This book offers essays by leading scholars that address each of the major figures of this tradition and the respective poets they engage, including Schiller, Archilochus, Pindar, Hölderlin, Eliot, and Celan, while also discussing the poets’ contemporary relevance to philosophy in the continental tradition. Above all, the book explores an approach to language that rethinks its role as a mere tool for communication or for the dissemination of knowledge. Here language will be understood as an essential event that opens up the world in a primordial sense whereby poetry comes to have a deeply ethical significance for human beings. In this way, the volume positions ethics at the center of continental discourse, even as it engages philosophy itself as a discourse about language attuned to the rigor of what poetry ultimately expresses. “With its impressive range of both philosophers and poets, this volume opens up new avenues of thinking at the intersections of philosophy and poetry.” — Robert D. Metcalf, cotranslator of Martin Heidegger’s Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

Download or read book The Gadamerian Mind written by Theodore George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) is one of the most important philosophers of the post-1945 era. His name has become all but synonymous with the philosophical study of hermeneutics, the field concerned with theories of understanding and interpretation and laid out in his landmark book Truth and Method. Influential not only within continental philosophy, Gadamer’s thought has also made significant contributions to related fields such as religion, literary theory, and education. The Gadamerian Mind is a major survey of the fundamental aspects of Gadamer’s thought, with contributions from leading scholars of Gadamer and hermeneutics from around the world. 38 chapters are divided into six clear parts: Overviews Key concepts Historical influences Contemporary encounters Beyond philosophy Legacies and questions. Although Gadamer’s work addresses a remarkable range of topics, careful consideration is given throughout the volume to consistent concerns that orient his thought. Important in this respect is his relation to philosophers in the Western tradition, from Plato to Heidegger. An indispensable resource for anyone studying and researching Gadamer, hermeneutics, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy, The Gadamerian Mind will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion, literature, political theory, and education.

Download or read book Tragedies of Spirit written by Theodore George and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tragedies of Spirit, Theodore D. George engages Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to explore the philosophical significance of tragedy in post-Kantian continental thought. George follows lines of inquiry originally developed by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida, and takes as his point of departure the concern that Hegel's speculative philosophy forms a summit of modernity that the present historical time is called to interrogate. Yet, George argues that Hegel's larger speculative ambitions in the Phenomenology compel him to turn to the resource of tragedy in order to give voice to issues of incommensurability, discontinuity, otherness, strife, and crisis. From this standpoint, Hegel's interest in the tragic proves to be more pervasive and to run deeper than has previously been recognized. The author shows that Hegel's reliance upon the tragic not only stretches and tests assumptions of speculative philosophy, but also illuminates original insights into human finitude. While situating Hegel's approach to tragedy as part of a broader response to Kant, George also contextualizes Hegel's interest in tragedy with reference to figures in German Idealism and Romanticism, such as Schelling, Hölderlin, and Schlegel.

Download or read book Snow written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl at a Maine school struggles to prove that her guardians aren’t just manipulative—they’re downright evil . . . After a spending Christmas vacation on Burning Fog Isle, Christina dreads going back to school and to her home away from home at the creepy Schooner Inne, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington, the principal and his wife. They have everyone convinced that Christina’s dramatic stories of last semester were just far-fetched yarns. And without any real proof, it’s her word against theirs. To make matters worse, Michael, Benji, and Anya—her fellow islanders at the boarding house—still seem to have no idea what’s going on. Even Dolly, Christina’s best friend from the island, can’t see what the Shevvingtons are up to. The couple is winning whatever sick psychological game they’re playing. But when a supernatural presence lures Christina down into the basement, the Shevvingtons might turn out to be the least of her worries . . . Known for her harrowing novels of suspense, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton once again keeps readers desperate for more in the second novel in this spooky trilogy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book Geological Survey Research 1964 written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hot Comb written by Ebony Flowers and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.

Download or read book Shallow Water Acoustics written by Jeffrey Simmen and published by American Inst. of Physics. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undersea acoustic applications in shallow water, to detect, communicate, navigate, monitor and measure, are dependent upon a good physical understanding of sound propagation and scattering in this highly dynamic and inhomogeneous waveguide. Achieving such an understanding requires an interdisciplinary approach encompassing acoustics, physical oceanography, marine geophysics, marine biology, ocean engineering, and signal processing, as well as the underlying physics and mathematics of the integrated theory.