The Rupture

Author : Richard Conard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543470157
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rupture written by Richard Conard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rupture is about the crazy times we live in: current history. As well, it is about the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and the gruesome carnage that is being planned in celebration of that incident; what was then the unimaginable mass murder which occurred on April 20, 1999. In this respect, it is also about the making of a monster. The story follows the lives of two families, the Mendez and the Phylers, from 1957 through 2009. Over the course of these 52 years their lives will occasionally intersect as they experience the progression of American culture from differing perspectives. They will witness 1950s affluence, the Free Speech Movement, the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, the Civil Rights Movement, Wars and war protests, 9-11, Gay Rights, the struggle for Gender equality, space exploration and unimaginable technological advancements, love and hate, and the perils of those fluctuating tides and economic oscillations. They will witness the best and worst inclinations of their species until they collide and intertwine on that fateful day, April 20, 2009.

Author : Andrew Small
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787389936
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rupture written by Andrew Small and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inside story of a revolution in China policy, from Washington to Brussels, Berlin to New Delhi. The Rupture explains how many of the Western politicians, thinkers and business leaders closest to Beijing have become its sharpest opponents; how the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated this collective rethink; and why 5G represents the first test case as to whether China may win the battle for the future. Noted China expert Andrew Small offers a kaleidoscopic picture of a rivalry ranging far beyond ‘great power’ politics. He traces US efforts to recast relations with old allies, as Washington realises that it cannot confront China alone, charting Europe’s growing role in the technological and economic contest, and Beijing’s attempts to build a coalition of its own, from Moscow to Taliban-run Kabul. As competition grows between systems, the Western model itself is transforming—for China’s rise changes the balance of ideas as much as the balance of power.

Author : Hao Zhang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662552396
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaging the Rupture Processes of Earthquakes Using the Relative Back-Projection Method written by Hao Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis adopts the relative back-projection method to dramatically reduce “swimming” artifacts by identifying the rupture fronts in the time window of a reference station; this led to a faster and more accurate image of the rupture processes of earthquakes. Mitigating the damage caused by earthquakes is one of the primary goals of seismology, and includes saving more people’s lives by devising seismological approaches to rapidly analyze an earthquake’s rupture process. The back-projection method described in this thesis can make that a reality.

Author : Jenny Xie
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451859
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rupture Tense written by Jenny Xie and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY * The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorker) Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective, personal—stains and erodes. Xie voices what remains irreducible in our complex entanglements with familial ties, language, capitalism, and the histories in which we find ourselves lodged. The Rupture Tense begins with poems provoked by the photography of Li Zhensheng, whose negatives, hidden under his floorboards to avoid government seizure, provide one of the few surviving visual archives of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and concludes with an aching elegy for the poet’s grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the end of the Revolution. This extraordinary collection records the aftershocks and long distances between those years and the present, echoing out toward the ongoing past and a trembling future.

Author : Roderick Main
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135453128
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rupture of Time written by Roderick Main and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was the idea of synchronicity so important to Jung? Jung's theory of synchronicity radically challenges the entrenched assumptions of mainstream modern culture in the West. It is one of the most fascinating yet difficult and discomfiting of Jung's psychological theories. The Rupture of Time aims to clarify what Jung really meant by synchronicity, why the idea was so important to him and how it informed his thinking about modern western culture. Areas examined include: * how the theory fits into Jung's overall psychological model and the significance of its apparent inconsistencies * the wide range of personal, intellectual and social contexts of Jung's thinking on the topic * how Jung himself applied the theory of synchronicity within his critique of science, religion, and society * the continuing relevance of the theory for understanding issues in contemporary detraditionalised religion. Focusing closely on Jung's own writings and statements, this book discloses that the theory of synchronicity is not an inconsequential addendum to analytical psychology but is central to the psychological project that occupied Jung throughout his professional life. This much-needed clarification of one of Jung's central tenets will be of great interest to all analytical psychologists and scholars engaged with Jungian thought.

Author : Ragnar Jónasson
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1910633577
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rupture written by Ragnar Jónasson and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all... In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. He’s assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik, who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a stalker on the loose, and the town of Siglufjörður in quarantine, the past might just come back to haunt them. Haunting, frightening and complex, Rupture is a dark and atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland’s foremost crime writers. ‘Traditional and beautifully finessed... morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons’ Independent • ‘Jonasson’s books have breathed new life into Nordic noir’ Sunday Express • ‘Bitingly contemporary in setting and tone’ Express • ‘A modern take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom...’ Ian Rankin • ‘A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens ... first rate and highly recommended’ Lee Child • ‘Chilling, poetic beauty... a must read!’ Peter James • ‘British aficionados of Nordic Noir are familiar with two excellent Icelandic writers, Arnaldur Indridason and Yrsa Sigurdardottir. Here’s a third: Ragnar Jónasson ... the darkness and cold are palpable’ Marcel Berlins, The Times For fans of Trapped, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Agatha Christie and Ann Cleeves

Author : Thomas Phillips
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629374
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T.E.D. Klein and the Rupture of Civilization written by Thomas Phillips and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and “weird fiction,” T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, despite his scant body of work. His prose blends the mundane and the supernatural, conjuring the monstrous and the malign with accessible but charged discourse that breaks with the formulaic entries in the genre. Exploring a range of topics from religious fundamentalism and right wing extremism to fashionable pessimism and the rise of “digital humanities,” the author argues that Klein’s work is a prime example of what he terms “critical horror,” a distinct subgenre that entertains while questioning individual and cultural complacency.

Author : John Wilkes
Publisher : London : Printed for W. Nicoll
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observations on the Papers Relative to the Rupture with Spain written by John Wilkes and published by London : Printed for W. Nicoll. This book was released on 1762 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A response by Wilkes to the Papers which consist largely of letters and documents explaining and justifying the Pitt administration's actions in the years leading up to the declaration of war against Spain by Great Britain in 1762.

Author : Hugh Hamilton Lindsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rupture with China and Its Causes; Including the Opium Question, and Other Important Details written by Hugh Hamilton Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Eisenstein
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128519
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rupture written by Paul Eisenstein and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radical reconsideration of political theory and politics, Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan explore the notion of rupture or radical tearing apart in both history and theory through the sweep of Western philosophy from Plato to Kierkegaard and beyond. The authors use contemporary literature and film to elucidate political theory, examining works by such writers are Dave Eggers, John Irving, and Toni Morrison, as well as films by directors from Sergei Eisenstein to David Fincher. Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan find that a rupture or radical break is repeatedly invoked at the beginning of every philosophical system. In this rupture, many of our most cherished political values—equality, solidarity, and the idea of freedom—emerge. But the lack of a sustained commitment to this radical tearing apart has repeatedly foreshortened, distorted, or perverted those same values. Most political philosophy may have marginalized these radical breaks with the past. But Eisenstein and McGowan demonstrate that Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Žižek have consistently brought rupture to the fore as an organizing principle for political thought. This insight holds great pertinence to our current world situation. Seeing the possibilities for an extended dialogue and sustained political change, Eisenstein and McGowan argue for a more systematic engagement with these theorists.