Losing Your Head

Author : Robert Leahy
Publisher : Behler Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1933016620
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job written by Robert Leahy and published by Behler Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-help book to help the unemployed and their families cope more effectively during a time when they feel helpless.

Author : Clare Kauter
Publisher : Clare Kauter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Your Head written by Clare Kauter and published by Clare Kauter. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’ll clear his name of murder – if she doesn’t kill him first. Checkout-chick turned amateur sleuth Charlie Davies at your service. My nemesis has been accused of offing his billionaire uncle for an inheritance, and as much as I’d love to see James McKenzie rot in prison, there are two problems. One: He definitely didn’t do it. (Probably.) Two: In exchange for proving his innocence, he’ll pay up big. And I simply can’t resist his… cash. I have to find the killer somehow, because the reward money isn’t the only thing on the line. If I don’t catch the murderer before they catch me – I might just lose my head. Caution: Contains swearing, occasional inappropriate jokes and men with seriously hot surfaces. You have been warned.

Author : Regina Janes
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814743013
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Our Heads written by Regina Janes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was once so widespread, why it has diminished—but not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappeared—and why we find it so peculiarly repulsive that we use it as a principal marker to separate ourselves from a more “barbaric”or “primitive” past? Although the topic is grim, Regina Janes’s treatment and conclusions are neither grisly nor gruesome, but continuously instructive about the ironies of humanity’s cultural nature. Bringing to bear an array of evidence, the book argues that the human ability to create meaning from the body motivates the practice of decapitation, its diminution, the impossibility of its extirpation, and its continuing fascination. Ranging from antiquity to the late nineteenth-century passion for Salomé and John the Baptist, and from the enlightenment to postcolonial Africa’s challenge to the severed head as sign of barbarism, Losing Our Heads opens new areas of investigation, enabling readers to understand the shock of decapitation and to see the value in moving past shock to analysis. Written with penetrating wit and featuring striking illustrations, it is sure to captivate anyone interested in his or her head.

Author : Rita Dolce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351657097
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East written by Rita Dolce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ancient Near East, cutting off someone’s head was a unique act, not comparable to other types of mutilation, and therefore charged with a special symbolic and communicative significance. This book examines representations of decapitation in both images and texts, particularly in the context of war, from a trans-chronological perspective that aims to shed light on some of the conditions, relationships and meanings of this specific act. The severed head is a “coveted object” for the many individuals who interact with it and determine its fate, and the act itself appears to take on the hallmarks of a ritual. Drawing mainly on the evidence from Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia between the third and first millennia BC, and with reference to examples from prehistory to the Neo-Assyrian Period, this fascinating study will be of interest not only to art historians, but to anyone interested in the dynamics of war in the ancient world.

Author : La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Publisher : Black Outdoors: Innovations in
ISBN 13 : 9781478010876
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind written by La Marr Jurelle Bruce and published by Black Outdoors: Innovations in. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of "madness" in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition.

Author : Giuseppe Civitarese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442239492
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Your Head written by Giuseppe Civitarese and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic transformation, and about aesthetic experience as a paradigm of what is most true and most profound in analysis. Why write about beheading? Many art galleries feature paintings of heroines performing this cruel act: Delilah, Salome, Judith, Yael, and others. At the antithesis to this, there is another theme to be found in painting that consistently garners attention: namely, the so-called “Sacred Conversation,” in which the Madonna holds a small child in her lap and their gazes cross. The first scene depicts how a mind is destroyed, the second how it is born. Losing Your Head analyzes well-known artwork from classical literature, cinema, and contemporary art to enhance psychoanalytic understanding.

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316068799
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Use of Weapons written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

Author : Charles Lyons
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741425343
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Your Head Without Losing Your Mind! written by Charles Lyons and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Joe Dispenza
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401938094
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself written by Dr. Joe Dispenza and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to reprogram your biology and thinking, and break the habit of being yourself so you can truly change your mind and life. Best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, and neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares that you are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. New science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible and how to recondition the body and create better health. Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change your energy and any aspect of yourself, but you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life. Chapters include: Foreword by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. Introduction: The Greatest Habit You Can Ever Break Is the Habit of Being Yourself PART I: The Science of You The Quantum You Overcoming Your Environment Overcoming Your Body Overcoming Time Survival vs. Creation PART II: Your Brain and Meditation Three Brains: Thinking to Doing to Being The Gap Meditation, Demystifying the Mystical, and Waves of Your Future PART III: Stepping Toward Your New Destiny The Meditative Process: Introduction and Preparation Open the Door to Your Creative State Step 1: Induction Prune Away the Habit of Being Yourself (Week Two) Step 2: Recognizing Step 3: Admitting and Declaring Step 4: Surrendering Dismantle the Memory of the Old You (Week Three) Step 5: Observing and Reminding Step 6: Redirecting Create a New Mind for Your New Future (Week Four) Step 7: Creating and Rehearsing Demonstrating and Being Transparent: Living Your New Reality Dr. Joe demystifies consciousness and ancient understandings to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. Through his powerful healing workshops and lectures, thousands of people in 24 different countries have used these principles to change from the inside out. Once you break the habit of being yourself and truly change your mind, your life will never be the same! “In this book, I want to share some of what I learned along the way and show you, by exploring how mind and matter are interrelated, how you can apply these principles not only to your body, but to any aspect of your life.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza “Anyone who reads this book and applies the steps will benefit from their efforts. Its cutting-edge content is explained in a simple language that is accessible to anyone, and provides a user-friendly guide for sustained change from the inside out.” — Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research, HeartMath Research Center

Author : Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Lost His Head written by Claire Huchet Bishop and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether.Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.