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Book Toward a Dialogue of Understandings

Download or read book Toward a Dialogue of Understandings written by Mary Ellen Pitts and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Toward a Dialogue of Understandings, Mary Ellen Pitts examines scientist Loren Eiseley's unique impact as a thinker and writer.

Book Climbing the Spiritual Ladder

Download or read book Climbing the Spiritual Ladder written by Joan Price and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once we make the decision to follow the spiritual path, we may at first wander uncertainly and even lose sight of the way. Whatever doubts and misgivings we may have can't triumph over the inner power that has turned the current of our life. The aliveness that has been born can't be stifled. Yes, we will slip, make mistakes, fall away from the path, but these are only temporary sidesteps. The spiritual path has called and eventually we will find it again.

Book Longing for Paradise

Download or read book Longing for Paradise written by Mario Jacoby and published by Inner City Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longing for freedom from conflict, suffering and deprivation is an eternal human dream of great emotional power. It is the dream of total happiness, embodied in almost all cultures as the myth of Paradise. The author, a Jungian analyst, begins with a discussion of the psychological connection between the idea of Paradise and the crucially decisive quality of the Mother-infant relationship in determining a child's development.

Book Work Culture Transformation

Download or read book Work Culture Transformation written by Evie Lotze and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Work Culture Transformation".

Book Breaking the Magic Spell

Download or read book Breaking the Magic Spell written by Jack Zipes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film is the definitive study of the symbiotic relationship between the film industry and the United States armed services. Since the first edition was published nearly two decades ago, the nation has experienced several wars, both on the battlefield and in movie theatres and living rooms at home. Now author Lawrence Suid has extensively revised and expanded his classic history of the mutual exploitation of the film industry and the military, exploring how Hollywood has reflected and effected changes in America's image of its armed services. This significantly expanded edition has been brought completely up to date and includes many of the most recent war films, such as Saving Private Ryan, U-571, Pearl Harbor, and Windtalkers. Lawrence H. Suid, a military historian, is the author of several books and has recently appeared on The History Channel, Turner Classic Movies, and CNN. He lives in Greenbelt, Maryland. Click here for his website.

Book Star 111

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lutz Seiler
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2024-10-01
  • ISBN : 1681378531
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Star 111 written by Lutz Seiler and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic and picaresque novel of the first years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is told through the experiences of a young man making his way in a time of constant change. A bestseller in Germany and winner of the prestigous Leipzig Prize. Star 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR is losing its grip on power. Carl Bischoff, a very young man, trained as a bricklayer, now a college student, is abruptly recalled by his parents to the small town in the middle of nowhere where he grew up. His hardworking unprotesting parents inform him, that with the border open, they intend to leave the country and check into a West German refugee camp. Will Carl to look after the house and take in the mail? They promise at some point to be in touch. Deserted by his parents, Carl has no idea what to do. Then he packs the family car and heads to Berlin, where he joins a group of squatters led by a shepherd with a goat. Carl participates in the anarchic life of an anarchist commune, and keeps his distance too. He has all sorts of things to learn about himself and others. He is hungry for sex and love and sometimes simply hungry. He worries about his parents. He wants to be a poet. Star 111 is a story about unforeseen ends and new beginnings, about different kinds of families, biological and improvised, and one innocent young aspiring poet in pursuit of experience at a moment in history when everything is about to change and nobody knows how. A tender, entrancing, and comic tale of youth and adventure, it is a book that looks back on the history of our time to ask the most fundamental of question: what does it mean to lead a good life?

Book Lessons in Mythology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edmund P. Cueva
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-15
  • ISBN : 1527551474
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Lessons in Mythology written by Edmund P. Cueva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers eight approaches to myth, its uses and purposes, from viewing personal narrative as a form of healing myth to observing the atrocities committed daily arising from the most destructive form of myth. The authors of the eight chapters here note that myths have existed from the beginning of the human race in a myriad of forms and serving a myriad of functions. Indeed, the shared observation of these scholars is that humans have always been storytellers and always will be because myths are a part of the lives of every single person; they are the story of us.

Book The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to understand and redefine the present through the common tales of the past, and long neglected stories became recognized as cultural treasures. In this rich collection, distinguished expert of fairy tales Jack Zipes continues his lifelong exploration of the story-telling tradition with a focus on the Golden Age. Included are one hundred eighty-two tales--many available in English for the first time--grouped into eighteen tale types. Zipes provides an engaging general Introduction that discusses the folk and fairy tale tradition, the impact of the Brothers Grimm, and the significance of categorizing tales into various types. Short introductions to each tale type that discuss its history, characteristics, and variants provide readers with important background information. Also included are annotations, short biographies of folklorists of the period, and a substantial bibliography. Eighteen original art works by students of the art department of Anglia Ruskin University not only illustrate the eighteen tale types, but also provide delightful—and sometimes astonishing—21st-century artistic interpretations of them.

Book The Brothers Grimm Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Tuesley Anderson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-08-30
  • ISBN : 1667201999
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Brothers Grimm Cookbook written by Robert Tuesley Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delicious collection of more than 50 recipes is inspired by the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales. The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are full of memorable characters, dark settings, life lessons—and delicious food. The Brothers Grimm Cookbook is a collection of more than 50 recipes inspired by the short stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, which were originally published in the early 19th century and continue to fascinate readers today. From starting your day with a plate of Clever Hans’s Sticky Bacon and Onion Pan Fry to celebrating the holidays with Hansel and Gretel’s Gingerbread House, there’s a recipe for every meal and occasion in this fascinating cookbook. Scholarly essays that examine the role of specific foods in the fairy tales accompany the recipes, allowing readers to immerse themselves even more deeply in the compelling world of the Brothers Grimm.

Book Where the Fox and the Hare Say Good Night

Download or read book Where the Fox and the Hare Say Good Night written by Peter Lederer and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dani Kaposi is not satisfied. His romantic life is nebulous at best, he has the potential to relapse at a moment's notice, and his day job is no longer enough. He takes the same route to work every day, always walking the same streets and passing the same stores. Everything is always the same. That is until one morning, when he finds a stranger in his apartment. That is when everything changes, and he begins to question everything and everyone. People in his life behave unpredictably, and his own sensibilities start to fade. When a local, online celebrity goes missing and an anonymous $4,000,000.00 reward is posted, Dani finds new purpose in life and makes the search for Dude Pacific his top priority. Dani's investigation sends him on a quixotic journey through Bryce County and Toronto as he tries to uncover the truth.

Book Selected Folktales Ausgew  hlte M  rchen

Download or read book Selected Folktales Ausgew hlte M rchen written by Jacob Grimm and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of 27 world-famous tales, among them "Hänsel and Gretel," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood," as well as less familiar tales such as "The Danced-Out Shoes," "The Golden Bird," and "The Six Swans."

Book The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All New Third Edition

Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All New Third Edition written by Jack Zipes and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition, as well as narratives uncovered in the brothers’ letters and papers. Truly the most comprehensive translation to date, this critically acclaimed edition recaptures the fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be: rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with folklore and song. One of the world’s experts on children’s literature, Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books on folklore and fairy tales.

Book In Search of the Hero

Download or read book In Search of the Hero written by Pamela Lyndon Travers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Loren Eiseley   s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide

Download or read book Loren Eiseley s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide written by Qianqian Cheng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the twentieth-century naturalist and poet Loren Eiseley, the relationship between human beings and the natural world has become unnatural, divided by the era of modern technology. Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide analyses how the philosopher of science becomes a boundary crosser in time and space. Qianqian Cheng points to Eiseley’s method of uniting science and the humanities to reflect on human evolution and the past and future role of science with a visionary and poetic imagination. Seizing the connectedness of living beings, Eiseley, and now Cheng, makes us aware of the presence of nature even in daily urban life. Qianqian Cheng unveils Eiseley’s merits, showing the poet as a necessary voice in the urgent mission to make individuals realize their responsibility to respond ethically to the living world.

Book Dark Fairy Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grimm Brothers
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2024-01-30
  • ISBN : 1528799100
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Dark Fairy Tales written by Grimm Brothers and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales. ‘Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.’ – Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916 ‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths.’ – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623 This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world’s most wicked fairy tales, including the original versions of stories you thought you knew, such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, and ‘Snow White’. Relish in the morbid darkness of these early classics, alongside many other tales you haven't heard before. From renowned storytellers of the fairy tale genre, this collection sources works from the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and many more. Dark Fairy Tales is woven with themes of lost innocence, beastly bonds, and haunted hearts, aiming to inspire, caution, and illuminate valuable aspects of the human experience. Be warned, for these stories are not for the faint of heart and happy endings cannot be guaranteed.

Book Rumpelstiltskin   And Other Angry Imps with Rather Unusual Names  Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World

Download or read book Rumpelstiltskin And Other Angry Imps with Rather Unusual Names Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World written by Amelia Carruthers and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumpelstiltskin – Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Rumpelstiltskin' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the provenance of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. It encompasses 'The Seven Bits of Bacon Rind' by Giambattista Basile, 'Rumpelstiltskin' by the Brothers Grimm, 'Tom Tit Tot' by Joseph Jacobs, the Scottish tale of 'Whuppity Stoorie' and the Mongolian narrative of 'The Use of Magic Language'. What is a fairy tale? The 'Origins of Fairy Tales from around the World' series helps to answer this question, by showcasing the amazing breath and diversity involved in classic fairy tales. It focuses on the unusual phenomenon that the same tales, with only minor variations, appear again and again in different cultures – across time and geographical space. Traditionally told as short stories for children, and for adults too, these popular fairy tales will be sure to delight both young and old. Beautifully illustrated, these story books combine the best story-telling, with the best art-work, in order that the two may be fully appreciated.

Book The Unexpected Universe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Loren Eiseley
  • Publisher : Library of America
  • Release : 2016-11-15
  • ISBN : 1598535455
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book The Unexpected Universe written by Loren Eiseley and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No one has ever managed to make the pursuit of knowledge feel more soulful or more immediate than Loren Eiseley . . . ” —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast At the height of a distinguished career as a paleontologist, Loren Eiseley turned from fieldwork and scientific publication to the personal essay. Here, in The Unexpected Universe, he displays his far-reaching knowledge and searching curiosity about the natural world, and the qualities that led many to hail him as a “modern Thoreau.” Fascinating accounts of the journeys of Odysseus, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin frame Eiseley’s more modest wanderings as a suburban naturalist, attentive to the lives of small creatures. Sometimes he travels no further than the local dump. And yet, like Homer’s hero or these great explorers, he continually finds a universe “not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”