Distant Horizons

Author : Gian Quasar
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105192520
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DISTANT HORIZONS written by Gian Quasar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth is stranger than fiction, it is said. If so then Distant Horizons presents some of the strangest sea mysteries of all time. For it is not the product of uncritically passing along tales of the sea. It is the result of decades of research. The stories in this compendium are true, often presented with meticulous detail. Sometimes this explodes myth. Sometimes the facts reveal myth to be anemic by comparison. Famous ghost ships like the Mary Celeste and the Carroll A. Deering have become literary formula and economic rehash. But what are the actual facts? Thousands of derelicts once peppered the North Atlantic, but these two mystery ships have stood the test of time. What is really so unique about them? The Bermuda Triangle has earned its infamous reputation, but is it really to blame for some of its most famous victims? Did the Marine Sulphur Queen truly even vanish in the Triangle? What about the USS Cyclops? Could it truly be the American version of the HMS Bounty?

Author : Ted Underwood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661283X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Horizons written by Ted Underwood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as a traveler crossing a continent won’t sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can’t grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly available to us through digital libraries to tackle previously elusive questions about literature. Ted Underwood shows how digital archives and statistical tools, rather than reducing words to numbers (as is often feared), can deepen our understanding of issues that have always been central to humanistic inquiry. Without denying the usefulness of time-honored approaches like close reading, narratology, or genre studies, Underwood argues that we also need to read the larger arcs of literary change that have remained hidden from us by their sheer scale. Using both close and distant reading to trace the differentiation of genres, transformation of gender roles, and surprising persistence of aesthetic judgment, Underwood shows how digital methods can bring into focus the larger landscape of literary history and add to the beauty and complexity we value in literature.

Author : John Herlihy
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597310086
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Near and Distant Horizons written by John Herlihy and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near and Distant Horizons: In Search of the Primary Sources of Knowledge With originality and insight, the author makes a compelling case for the need to identify the sources of a traditional knowledge that still has the power to enrich people's lives in today's materialistic and anti-spiritual world. What are the true sources of knowledge? Are there headwaters for the universal laws of nature? Is there a source so transcendent that it can resolve the perennial mystery concerning the origin of life and the creation of man? Is there a wellspring of knowledge that can neutralize the duality of the world by offering a unified vision of the Whole? This work reflects upon the significance of three principal sources of knowledge in the Islamic Traditions. They are Revelation as the expression of the supreme mind of God, Nature as the universal body of God, and Man as the human image of God. The book's absorbing inquiry and reflective style throw light on the dark mysteries that still confront people today, and will appeal to readers interested in an alternative to the theories of modern science, taking them on an inward journey whose destination lies far beyond the horizon of our time. John Herlihy, an American Muslim, was educated at Boston University and Columbia University in New York City. He has written a number of books on traditional themes, including Modern Man at the Crossroads and Borderlands of the Spirit. He is the Director of an educational program at the Petroleum Institute, a new engineering university in the United Arab Emirates.

Author : Humphrey Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Horizons written by Humphrey Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Ellsworth Lewis
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741421178
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Search of Far Horizons written by Robert Ellsworth Lewis and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Shreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Horizons written by Carl Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger D. Lund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482011
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemispheres and Stratospheres written by Roger D. Lund and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture--a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

Author : Paul Melroy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430303131
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclipse written by Paul Melroy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclipse d20 lets you build the game and characters you want, the way you want them. With completely personalized classes, hundreds of new and expanded abilities to cover every special power, and vastly expanded Turning, Bardic, Proficiency, and Martial Arts techniques you'll never need prestige classes or books of feats again! Customizable magic, expanded Metamagic, and new systems - Hexcraft, the Dragon Path, Ritual and Rune Magic, Thaumaturgy, Dweomer, Theurgy and Witchcraft - allow for endless unique worlds and casters. Disadvantages, Motivations, Ethics, Divine Patronage, and campaign-based limits on exotic powers to add depth to characters and worlds. Race and Template design, alternative Epic Magic, Dominion and Divine Ascension, and World Laws for fantasy, modern, future, cyberpunk, superhero, historical and other settings all fully compatible with the 3.0, 3.5, Modern, Future and other d20 rule sets. Give your characters unlimited options!

Author : Isaac Mampuya Samba
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504992601
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Breakdown and Sorrow of Love written by Isaac Mampuya Samba and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nervous depression or grief love is actually a story; or rather, it is in fact stories such as Isaac Mampuya Samba, the author, loves to narrate. This used to it in this novel, another form of expression, or rather, other forms of expression, to paint better.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319217925
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life. The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of ways. They show that theories of modern science become a strategy for the phenomenological study of works of art, and vice versa. Works of phenomenology and of the arts examine how individual spontaneity connects with the design(s) of the logos – of the whole and of the particulars – while the design(s) rest not on some human concept, but on life itself. Life’s pliable matrices allow us to consider the expansiveness of contemporary science, and to help create a contemporary phenomenological sense of cosmos.