Author: Anton Strout Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101185341 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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Shaking up the spirits of Manhattan The spirit populace of Manhattan doesn't appreciate its well-deserved RIP being disturbed, and Department of Extraordinary Affairs Agent Simon Canderous is sent in to do damage control. Meanwhile, his vacationing partner, Connor Christos, is in a sorry state, and he tells Simon that each night he's being haunted by visions of his long-lost brother at his window. Simon is worried that his partner may be going crazy-or worse, maybe he's not...
Author: Margaret Schwartz Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 145294539X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 157
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Taking as its starting point the significant role of the photograph in modern mourning practices—particularly those surrounding public figures—Dead Matter theorizes the connections between the body and the image by looking at the corpse as a special instance of a body that is simultaneously thing and representation. Arguing that the evolving cultural understanding of photographic realism structures our relationship to the corpse, the book outlines a new politics of representation in which some bodies are more visible (and vulnerable) in death than others. To begin interpreting the corpse as a representational object referring to the deceased, Margaret Schwartz examines the association between photography and embalming—both as aesthetics and as mourning practices. She introduces the concept of photographic indexicality, using it as a metric for comprehending the relationship between the body of a dead leader (including Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, and Eva Perón) and the “body politic” for which it stands. She considers bodies known as victims of atrocity like Emmett Till and the Syrian boy Hamsa al-Khateeb to better grasp the ways in which the corpse as object may be called on to signify a marginalized body politic, at the expense of the social identity of the deceased. And she contemplates “tabloid bodies” such as Princess Diana’s and Michael Jackson’s, asserting that these corpses must remain invisible in order to maintain the deceased as a source of textual and value production. Ultimately concluding that the evolving cultural understanding of photographic realism structures our relationship to the corpse, Dead Matter outlines the new politics of representation, in which death is exiled in favor of the late capitalist reality of bare life.
Author: Michael Benson Publisher: University Press of New England ISBN: 1611689244 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 188
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In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture. He defends the proposition that the Grateful Dead are, in fact, a musical movement as transformative as any -ism in the artistic history of this century and the last. And a lot more fun than most. From the street festivals of Haight-Ashbury to the cross-country acid tests with the Merry Pranksters, and from the sound-and-light show at the Great Pyramid at Giza to the ecstatic outpouring of joy at Soldier Field in the summer of '15, the Grateful Dead have been at the center of American life, music, and karmic flow for fifty years. In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, Michael Benson brings it all back to life and makes a compelling case for the band's lasting cultural importance.
Author: Scaachi Koul Publisher: Picador ISBN: 1250121078 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 256
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFE In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with Internet trolls, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color: where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision, or outright scorn; where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself. With a sharp eye and biting wit, incomparable rising star and cultural observer Scaachi Koul offers a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life.
Author: George M. Young Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199892946 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 291
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The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals. Here, Young offers a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists.
Author: R. T. Trall Publisher: Health Research Books ISBN: 9780787312985 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 182
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1864 or an Exposition of the Fallacy of Alcoholic Medication. "Is alcohol useful as a medicine'...What is the rational of the effects of alcohol?"
Author: Zahid Khan Publisher: Khanverlag ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 424
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Spirituality and religion are like a tree with its fruits. Spirituality is the fruit of religion and enables to make observations and experiences in the spiritual world. In itself, religion is blind. If you stay at its level and don't develop beyond it, then you get nothing but blind faith. Aside from religious practices, every religion only conveys hope of a better place in the life after death. Spirituality and science search for the Creator in parallel, directly or indirectly. Science explores how things were created, and spirituality gives the answer to why the creation came about. This book will help to understand the human mind and heart at the same time. If both develop, they meet at one point, which leads to a higher spiritual growth of human beings.
Author: Vincent Wilmot Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1446795381 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 128
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New Science Theory by Vincent Wilmot is basically the New-Science-Theory.com website as on 6 April 2022, for any changes since then visit the site where its Sitemap notes any updates. Especially good for those interested in physics and physics history, it concentrates chiefly on the four great physicists Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes and William Gilbert. Also here are fine sections covering Galileo, Kepler, Tesla, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Information Physics, Gravity, Light, Standard Model, String Theory, Probability Science and General Image Theory.
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