The End Of Absence

Author : Michael John Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698150589
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Absence written by Michael John Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443426296
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End Of Absence written by Michael Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives. Michael Harris chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we’ve gained—and lost—in the bargain. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Harris argues that our greatest loss has been that of absence itself—of silence, wonder and solitude. It’s a surprisingly precious commodity, and one we have less of every year. Drawing on a vast trove of research and scores of interviews with global experts, Harris explores this “loss of lack” in chapters devoted to every corner of our lives, from sex and commerce to memory and attention span. The book’s message is urgent: once we’ve lost the gift of absence, we may never remember its value.

Author : Michael John Harris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1591847923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Absence written by Michael John Harris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374527636
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absence written by Peter Handke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.

Author : Jessica Redmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year of Absence written by Jessica Redmond and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Profiles six women whose husbands, all members of the US Army's First Armored Division based in Germany, deploy to Iraq in April 2003]"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166478
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absence of Mind written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

Author : Lola Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1732399409
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things Are Going Great In My Absence: How To Let Go And Let The Divine Do The Heavy Lifting 12th Anniversary Edition written by Lola Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things Are Going Great In My Absence is not an ordinary book. It's an astonishing, mind-blowing, life-changing experience, due to the vortex of Energy, Light, and Divine Intelligence it guides you into, step by enjoyable step. Divine Openings realigns you with that organized field of resonance that carries you along in the Flow Of Life. It helps you let in more of the Grace that's been raining on you all along. When you're not able to let in that Grace, you can feel like you're dying of thirst in a rainstorm. Things Are Going Great In My Absence is so powerful and effective, it spread to over 150 countries by word of mouth, before even being in bookstores. We know it might sound too good to be true--but it does work in your life if you simply read it, let it in, and stick to it.

Author : Antonio Munoz Molina
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516192
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Her Absence written by Antonio Munoz Molina and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous." —Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits. Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage. How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Muñoz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.

Author : Adrienne Wilder
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511581110
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Absence of Light written by Adrienne Wilder and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Grant Kessler has smuggled goods from one end of the world to the next. When business turns in a direction Grant isn't willing to follow he decides to retire and by all appearances he settles down in a nowhere town called Durstrand. But his real plan is to wait a few years and let the FBI lose interest, then move on to the distant coastal life he's always dreamed of. Severely autistic, Morgan cannot look people in the eye, tell left from right, and has uncontrolled tics. Yet he's beaten every obstacle life has thrown his way. And when Grant Kessler moves into town Morgan isn't a bit shy in letting the man know how much he wants him. While the attraction is mutual, Grant pushes Morgan away. Like the rest of the world he can't see past Morgan's odd behaviors Then Morgan shows Grant how light lets you see but it also leaves you blind. And once Grant opens his eyes, he loses his heart to the beautiful enigma of a man who changes the course of his life.

Author : Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439199396
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Epidemic of Absence written by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial, revisionist approach to autoimmune and allergic disorders considers the perspective that the human immune system has been disabled by twentieth-century hygiene and medical practices.