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Author: Howard Akler Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 1770564268 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 129
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most novel, most necessary at the time. At its most reductive, the word 'consciousness' refers to the synchronized firing of neurons across multiple areas of the brain, the mental experience of attending. But should consciousness be summed up simply by its subsconscious mechanism? I would prefer a more imaginative answer. After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness and Akler's struggles with writing and his own unpredictable mind. With echoes of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth's Patrimony, Men of Action treads the line between memoir and meditation, and is at once elegiac, spare, and profoundly intimate. Howard Akler is the author of The City Man, which was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Author: Howard Akler Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 1770564268 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS The problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to what is most novel, most necessary at the time. At its most reductive, the word 'consciousness' refers to the synchronized firing of neurons across multiple areas of the brain, the mental experience of attending. But should consciousness be summed up simply by its subsconscious mechanism? I would prefer a more imaginative answer. After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness and Akler's struggles with writing and his own unpredictable mind. With echoes of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth's Patrimony, Men of Action treads the line between memoir and meditation, and is at once elegiac, spare, and profoundly intimate. Howard Akler is the author of The City Man, which was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Author: J. Matthew King Publisher: ISBN: 9781521021408 Category : Languages : en Pages : 54
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This book is not a commentary on the Book of James nor a scholarly work by any means. Instead, its intent is to pull lessons out of James that we, as young men can apply to our lives. I have used the. book of James as a framework for how young men can be successful in all aspects of life whether you are working through high school and college or are beginning your career. This book is designed to be highly actionable and will challenge you to consider how you are living your life and what you can do to improve. Not only will it challenge you but it will also give you practical ways you can take the lessons from James and apply them immediately to your life. There is no fluff in this book, it it clear, concise, and action oriented.
Author: Delilah S. Dawson Publisher: ISBN: 9781684055210 Category : Antiheroes Languages : en Pages : 80
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"Peter (Spider-Man) Parker, Miles (also Spider-Man) Morales, and Gwen (Ghost-Spider) Stacy have joined forces and nothing can stop them in these middle-grade friendly adventures in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Well, maybe nothing except homework and an internship at the Daily Bugle, not to mention being stalked by a new dangerous foe... Kraven the Hunter! One by one, the Spiders fall into Kraven's web, but the final showdown looms on a battlefield of the hunter's choosing. Could this be the end for Peter, Miles, and Gwen? Collects issues #4-6 of the Marvel Action: Spider-Man series."--Provided by publisher.
Author: George Washington Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society ISBN: 0870208268 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 287
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Whether as a statesman, military man, or America's first president, George Washington was a legend in his own lifetime, so renowned in fact that the adulation has knit together making it difficult to find the real man. Here, constitutional scholar and editor John P. Kaminski has plumbed the depth of 30 years-worth of his own research to amass an extraordinary body of quotations by and about Washington to paint an intimate word portrait that brings us closer to the essence of America's "man of action."
Author: Howard Akler Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 1770565671 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 90
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It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes. A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for his baby to be born as he tries to piece together facts and fictions about Hal's disappearance. Splitsville is a diamond-cut love letter to a city whose defining moment was to say 'no way' to a highway, and a look at the obsessions that carry down through a family.
Author: Roger De Sa Publisher: New Africa Books ISBN: 9780864864703 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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Roger de Sa is known for having played soccer for major South African Clubs Moroka Swallows and Mamelodi Sundowns, both of which he captained as well. He has also played for Bafana Bafana, was a member of the squad that won the African Cup of Nations in 1996 and played 17 games for the national indoor team. Roger de Sa is his autobiography as told to Ernest Landheer and recounts a story which starts with his destitute family's arrival in South Africa after fleeing from Mozambique in the early seventies. It is a story of success, born in dire poverty and driven by determination and guts, with the primary focus on de Sa's experiences during his soccer carrer, including plenty 'behind-the-scene' anecdotes. With a foreword by Aziz Pahad, who is well known in soccer circles.
Author: Publisher: Marvel ISBN: 9780785117032 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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An exploration of the Fantastic Four's origins uncovers secrets from their earliest days, revealing what happened to Sue Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm in the days following Reed Richards' crash landing.
Author: Howard Akler Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 9781552451588 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 168
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"It's 1934, and Toronto is stalled in the Great Depression. Pickpocket Mona Kantor is scraping by on small change, while Eli Morenz, city reporter for the Daily Star, struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued metropolis. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life." - From the publisher.
Author: Janie Crouch Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488005672 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
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He was a man of action—especially when it came to protecting his new undercover partner… At nineteen, Andrea Gordon's life was forever changed. After proving herself instrumental in a bank hostage crisis, she became one of Omega Sector's top agents. Four years later, her skill at reading people is unrivaled—until she meets fellow profiler Brandon Han. Paired together to track a serial killer who has been targeting at-risk women, the two become entangled beyond the case. Their mutual attraction deepens as they get closer to the truth. But when Andrea's own sordid past surfaces, they will both be forced to question everything about the assignment…and each other.
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