Postcontinental Realism
Author: Ernesto Castro
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2022-10-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3161618831
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Halfway to Eternity
Author: Michael Scott Stevens
Publisher: Burning Daylight
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780984652365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The line between good and evil is a very thin one, indeed . . . Does he have the courage to cross it? George Archer has a big problem. After being gunned down in front of his family, George finds himself stuck somewhere between life and death, but definitely closer to death. He finds one person in the world that he can communicate with. Enter, Andrew Flowers, a Homicide Detective who is recovering from a gunshot wound of his own. An unlikely alliance is formed and the pair set out to find George's killer and the tormenter of his family. In doing so, they discover a grisly string of murders and a serial killer unlike any the world has ever seen. George's situation has granted him some special abilities that, coupled with Andrew's homicide experience, give them a powerful skill set. But is it enough to take on evil in its purest form? The result is a high-octane, otherworldly footrace to the end game. And an ending so shocking that you will stare at the back cover of the book for an hour before you turn out the lights . . . .
Still Life
Author: Fernando Domínguez Rubio
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 022671408X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Iconic works of art such as Jackson Pollock's One and Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night draw around 3 million viewers to New York's Museum of Modern Art annually. However, between the museum's permanent collection and its temporary exhibits on display, only just a fraction of MoMA's vast collection and the infrastructures that support it are visible to the public. In Still Life, Fernando Domínguez Rubio dives deep into the institutions, technologies, and histories that have made MoMA a cultural powerhouse. Domínguez Rubio seeks to uncover the considerable forces that support and sustain this growth. He shows us the veritable army of conservators, art movers, and curators who try to fend off the slow and inevitable deterioration of the works in MoMA's prestigious collection, as well as the enormous and idiosyncratic technologies they rely on, ranging from air conditioning units to specially designed storage containers. And indeed, the vast majority of MoMA's immense collection is in storage. Of the museum's 1,221 works by Picasso, only 24 are regularly on display. These works are thus not only subject to the elements, but to trends in the art world. The prestige of a museum, then, is ultimately as fragile as the works it contains: not only do works of art decay over time, their perceived importance is constantly in flux"--
The Concept of Time and Historical Experience
Author: Mihai Popa
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2023-09-26
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1527537331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is focused on the question: does the event from which we extract historical experience acquire this status at the moment it occurs, or later as it is remembered through the generations? Historical experience is not a concept that facilitates the ascent of the historian to the fact – it is closely related to the fact. This does not make it easier to handle, because the fact itself is retractable; it hides its social (cultural) essence and meaning in time. The present of the historian (narrator) restores, as in an incessant change of perspective, the diachrony of the fact, looking for the present of the past fact. The experience suddenly becomes a relationship between two temporal actualities that seek their own cultural identity. From this perspective, history moves with us. The weight of the conceptualization of a past reality is given by the comprehensive weight (impossibility) of the fact (experience). The work is about the philosophy of history. It is addressed to students, historians, and researchers in the field of the theory of history.
Sorghum’s Galaxy Gazettes
Author: Dianne Brown
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1982223553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do you explain the unexplainable when there are no words or colors to describe the transformation of a starwalker? For Diana Sue, who retired from the art scene years ago, the change was a long and arduous journey, weighing in the balance scale all that she had been taught to believe and hold true. Through the efforts of her Galaxy Gazettes, she could feel the hard shell of her chrysalis breaking off in pieces and crumbling on the ground. Inside that hard shell was a mulch-like soup of old beliefs and paradigms that would produce her emergence as a new creature. Sorghum’s Galaxy Gazettes are streaming, soul-changing tales told in symbolic form. The Gazettes have a wide distribution along the many ports of trade in the Milky Way. The Galaxy Alliance Treaty Organization (GATO) closely monitors Diana’s progress in her discovery of her true identity. Sorghum—Sirius C—is held in high regard by GATO for its exports as well as being Diana’s inheritance. Accompanied by Imagines (pronounced i-mah-ja-nees), Diana Sue finds herself traveling the Milky Way galaxy with her handsome navigator. She discovers a surprising and ageless relationship between them that began long before her birth on Earth. Throughout their travels, they form an even stronger bond. Under the tutelage of Imagines and along with several other unexpected—maybe startling—characters, Diana Sue uncovers a new sense of purpose not only on Earth but also for her future on Sorghum.
Existence, Origin And Weird Technology: Exploring Humanity's Ultimate Questions
Author: Pentti O Haikonen
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2022-10-21
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9811260745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What are we humans, and how did we become the high technology species? What would be our legacy? What is the ultimate meaning of life? Many of these questions are still waiting for full and complete answers and explanations.For thousands of years humans have pondered the fundamental questions about origin, existence and reality, and also about mind, consciousness, communication and social issues. In this day and age when advancing technology is quickly transforming our societies and our ways of life, these questions are more important than ever, not only in the theoretical sense, but also in practice. We have to understand what has happened, and what is happening.For the first time in the history, technology has given us powerful means to investigate the phenomena behind the ultimate questions. However, technology is only a tool; the thinking human is still required for the understanding of the world.This book explores these curious topics, beginning from the origin of the Universe to the emergence of life; the evolution from cells to brains; the development of cognitive ability from perception and attention to reasoning and thinking; how we interact with other humans by means of love and emotion; to the creation of thinking machines by weird technology.THIS BOOK presents novel views on these questions and provides explanations and possible answers in an easy-to-read style.
Death be Not Proud
Author: Mark Corner
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9783039119981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Might people one day live for ever? Would they want to? What sense can be made of ideas commonly referred to in terms of an 'afterlife'? What about notions of Heaven and Hell, of Purgatory and reincarnation? And in what sort of state are human beings expected to be during this 'afterlife' - immortal souls or resurrected bodies (and does either notion make sense)? What about the fact that any 'afterlife' concerns not just the fate of individuals but of society ('communion of saints') and even the physical universe itself? This book tries to survey some of the existing arguments about life 'after' death, with chapters on material from Christian tradition (particularly the New Testament and the Early Church) and from the philosophy of religion. It then attempts to reach its own conclusions, drawing on Kant and Barth in order to suggest that death is to be overcome rather than survived.
Seven Times Unto Eternity
Author: J.S. Frankel
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2024-01-05
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1487438362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →You get only one go-around in life, or so the experts say. Paige DeMaster, almost nineteen years of age, formerly Callisto Merriwether, formerly five other lives, has seven chances to right a major wrong. She has seven chances to save the world as well as save herself—and now she’s down to her last chance.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato
Author: Gerald A. Press
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1474250920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Western philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato provides a comprehensive and accessible study guide to Plato's thought. Written by a team of leading experts in the field of ancient philosophy, this companion covers five major areas; - Plato's life and his historical, philosophical and literary context - synopses of all the dialogues attributed to Plato - the most important features of the dialogues - the key themes and topics apparent in the dialogues - Plato's enduring influence and the various interpretative approaches applied to his thought throughout the history of philosophy Covering every aspect of Plato's thought in over 140 entries, The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato is an engaging introduction to Plato and an essential resource for anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy.
The Claim of God
Author: Ethan A Worthington
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0227905474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through close readings of Karl Barth's theological work from 1916 to 1929 this book offers an exposition of Barth's doctrine of sanctification in his earlier theology - arguing that from his earliest writings after 1915 the doctrine of sanctification was one of the key theological components used in describing the encounter between God and humanity in a positive and concrete manner. This book both fills an important gap in Barthian scholarship and responds to the appeal by other recent interpreters of Barth's theology for a more balanced and careful exposition of his work. Throughout the course of this exposition the force of Eduard Thurnyesen's wonderfully insightful comments about Barth show themselves to be fruitfully borne out within his work from early on. That is, 'Karl Barth's theological thinking was from the beginning directed to the life of man ... the life of man, on the one side, and on the other the Word of God that meets this life, lays hold of it, and transforms it.'
