Pricking Balloons

Author : James C. MacDonald
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525565613
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pricking Balloons written by James C. MacDonald and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems transport the reader to an imaginative world resonating with mythological, spiritual, and existential significance. Here, with wit and irony, the poet challenges us to resist common assumptions with measured skepticism, and posits that ultimately, there is no comfort in conformity. We are both entertained and enlightened by a unique, poetic exploration of ordinary experience and the mysteries of life.

Author : Nicanor Pier Giorgio AUSTRIACO
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813218829
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biomedicine and Beatitude written by Nicanor Pier Giorgio AUSTRIACO and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides ethical questions raised at the beginning and the end of life, Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., discusses the ethics of the clinical encounter, human procreation, organ donation and transplantation, and biomedical research.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402722202
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Science Tricks written by Martin Gardner and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on the remarkable forces of science and nature, this material offers great ideas for performing illusions, magic tricks, and experiments.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136703578
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Heretic written by J. A. Hobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson. A comprehensive work, it details many aspects of his life including his background, influences, ethical principles, philosophy and religion. In a life which spanned great social, political and economic change - not least that brought about in the aftermath of the first world war - Hobson's humanist economic philosophy had a lasting impact upon economic and sociological thought.

Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679721X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of the Middle Ages written by Rémi Brague and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, RémiBrague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Their disparate philosophical worlds, Brague shows, were grounded in different models of revelation that engendered divergent interpretations of the ancient Greek sources they held in common. So, despite striking similarities in their solutions for the philosophical problems they all faced, intellectuals in each theological tradition often viewed the others’ ideas with skepticism, if not disdain. Brague’s portrayal of this misunderstood age brings to life not only its philosophical and theological nuances, but also lessons for our own time.

Author : Maggie Handsley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1906510555
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Other Shoe written by Maggie Handsley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a family turned upside-down by the adoption of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Author : Vernon Parrington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351305352
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America written by Vernon Parrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume.

Author : Sally S. Wright
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0345425901
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit and Persuasion written by Sally S. Wright and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE RETURNS TO SCOTLAND, ENTANGLED IN A CASE OF MURDER AMONG FRIENDS. The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not. But Georgina had foreseen her death, and had laid down a secret trail of evidence pointing to a hard-hearted murder committed by someone with much to gain if she died--or to lose if she lived. Was it the brilliant sculptor Georgina had educated and supported? The beautiful student who is also her heir? Her late husband's business associates? Or a jealous colleague in her own department? It appears that someone very close to her not only killed with fiendish cleverness but wants to ensnare Ben like a blind rat in a live trap--from which he'll never escape. . . .

Author : James C. MacDonald
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039176151
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There's a Fractal in My Soup written by James C. MacDonald and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems engage the reader in a playful and entertaining journey encompassing all the elements of comedy, irony, tragedy, and romance. Enhanced by startling images and capricious humour, they reveal patterns often found in myth, dreams, and current cultural realities. With wide-ranging curiosity about all aspects of life and art, the poet enthusiastically explores the infinite complexity of human consciousness.

Author : Emily Nussbaum
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0525508988
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Like to Watch written by Emily Nussbaum and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. “Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Chicago Tribune • Esquire • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews From her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. There are three big profiles of television showrunners—Kenya Barris, Jenji Kohan, and Ryan Murphy—as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The book also includes a major new essay written during the year of MeToo, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster. More than a collection of reviews, the book makes a case for toppling the status anxiety that has long haunted the “idiot box,” even as it transformed. Through it all, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search, over fifteen years, for a new kind of criticism, one that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one kind of culture (violent, dramatic, gritty) over another (joyful, funny, stylized). I Like to Watch traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of “prestige television,” searching for a more expansive, more embracing vision of artistic ambition—one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity and opens to more varied voices. It’s a book that celebrates television as television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY “This collection, including some powerful new work, proves once and for all that there’s no better American critic of anything than Emily Nussbaum. But I Like to Watch turns out to be even greater than the sum of its brilliant parts—it’s the most incisive, intimate, entertaining, authoritative guide to the shows of this golden television age.”—Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland “Reading Emily Nussbaum makes us smarter not just about what we watch, but about how we live, what we love, and who we are. I Like to Watch is a joy.”—Rebecca Traister