The Lure Of The Edge

Author : Brenda Denzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239059
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Edge written by Brenda Denzler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet A guided tour through the complex world of the UFO/abduction movement.

Author : Brenda Denzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930274
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Edge written by Brenda Denzler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hostile, and when some scientists pronounced the sightings to be of natural meteorological phenomena misidentified due to "Cold War jitters," military interest declined sharply and, with it, further overt scientific interest. Yet sighting reports didn't stop and UFOs entered the public imagination as a cultural myth of the twentieth century. Brenda Denzler's comprehensive, clearly written, and compelling narrative provides the first sustained overview and valuation of the UFO/alien abduction movement as a social phenomenon positioned between scientific and religious perspectives. Demonstrating the unique place ufology occupies in the twentieth-century nexus between science and religion, Denzler surveys the sociological contours of its community, assesses its persistent attempt to achieve scientific legitimacy, and concludes with an examination of the movement's metaphysical or spiritual outlook. Her book is a substantial contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the boundaries of American religion and to the debate about the nature of science and religion. Denzler presents a thorough and fascinating history of the UFO/abduction movement and traces the tensions between those who are deeply ambivalent about abduction narratives that seemingly erode their quest for scientific credibility, and the growing cultural power of those who claim to have been abducted. She locates the phenomenon within the context of American religious history and, using data gathered in surveys, sheds new light on the social profile of these UFO communities. The Lure of the Edge succeeds brilliantly in repositioning a cultural phenomenon considered by many to be bizarre and marginal into a central debate about the nature of science, technology, and the production of a modern myth.

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684856239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Water's Edge written by Carl Zimmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Author : Brady Wagoner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303083171X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality written by Brady Wagoner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior. This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework focused on understanding the ‘liminal sources of cultural experience,’ and second an application of concept to a number of different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics, children’s play, art therapy, and medical diagnosis. Finally, all these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical framework. This book will be useful for graduate students and researchers in cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychosocial psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, anthropology and the social sciences, cultural studies among others.

Author : Nieves Herrero
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 184541523X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World written by Nieves Herrero and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land’s End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.

Author : Marilyn Garrison
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 154625725X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warrior written by Marilyn Garrison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARRIOR By Marilyn Garrison & Myra Foster As we wrote this book, It was our goal that you see Sawyer on every page... hear his laughter... taste his music... feel his heartbeat... see his spirit. Most know he fought against ‘demons,’ but not all know he won. This book is about Sawyer Grooms, fallen firefighter, son, grandson, brother, friend, musician, encourager, amazing and awesome man. “With a heavy heart and sick stomach I am letting you know we lost an Awesome Firefighter; on the morning of May 2, 2016, Sawyer Grooms, age 26, passed away. Sawyer became a firefighter at the age of 19 and worked with us here at Great Lakes Agency. We knew what a beautiful, humorous, kind and talented man he was. –Dave Pergolski, Fire & Fuels Manager, BIA, GLA This book walks the steps of a proud, self-reliant man being transformed into a humble servant who learned total reliance upon God. “He was doing what his heart led him to do, a simple act where many of us fail. He loved his fire!! I recall many times telling him it was a dangerous job and he might want to rethink his choices. But for him, being outdoors, hiking, working hard, and the camaraderie... that was what it was all about. I know for a fact he loved the Lord, and has been fighting the ‘good fight’ for years, and has a relationship with God. It showed in his tats, his music, his demeanor, and his heart. I WILL see him again. I thank you all for being a part of his life. God bless!” –Ernie Grooms, Sawyer’s adoptive dad THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST DESCRIBE HIM BEST “Sawyer was always brutally honest and full of love. He brought me out of some pretty dark places just by being there.” —C. Pratt “The world lost an amazing man today. His heart was so big, his laugh so outrageous, his talent so profound.” –M. Elizabeth “He spoke seven words to me, ‘Don’t ever stop, don’t ever give up!’ He was never lazy and didn’t let opportunities lapse. That wasn’t who he was. He gave me something I often lose—hope.” –D. Bonney “I’ll never be able to thank him enough for what he did for me.” –J. Williams “You loved everyone around you and made them feel they were worth something.” –B. Panek “Every day I got to spend with Sawyer Grooms was a lucky day.” –D. Pergolski

Author : N. Giffney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315474
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory on the Edge written by N. Giffney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in order to trace the contemporary development of feminist thinking and activism in Ireland.

Author : Western Australia. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Western Australia. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal written by Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Western Australia. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia written by Western Australia. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: