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A Sideways Look at Time

Jay Griffiths
A Sideways Look at Time Book PDF

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1585423068

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A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives. Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never seen it before. With this dazzling and defiant work, Griffiths introduces us to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten in our modern lives. She presents an infectious argument for other, more magical times, the diverse cycles of nature, of folktale or carnival, when time is unlimited and on our side. This is a book for those who suspect that there's more to time than clocks. Irresistible and provocative, A Sideways Look at Time could change the way we view time-forever.

A Sideways Look at Time

Jay Griffiths
A Sideways Look at Time Book PDF

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440650017

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A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths Pdf

A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives. Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never seen it before. With this dazzling and defiant work, Griffiths introduces us to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten in our modern lives. She presents an infectious argument for other, more magical times, the diverse cycles of nature, of folktale or carnival, when time is unlimited and on our side. This is a book for those who suspect that there's more to time than clocks. Irresistible and provocative, A Sideways Look at Time could change the way we view time-forever.

Pip Pip

Jay Griffiths
Pip Pip Book PDF

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Time
ISBN : IND:30000064961836

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An enthusiastic piece of pop anthropology on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. Jay Griffiths takes the subject of time in her teeth and chews at it until it's a far more palatable item. Her exploration of the passage of time includes; our obsession with speed, with overtaking; motorways and their link to fascism; war; Mercury (god of flight) and the mythology of time and speed; Diana and Marilyn Monroe, flawed women who, through their violent deaths, have become timeless icons; history and the heritage industry; the meanness of Greenwich Mean Time; the fast language we now have to go with fast food; Aborigine dreamtime; the difference between festivals and pageants; May Day; and the New Year.

Wild

Jay Griffiths
Wild Book PDF

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141006444

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Wild by Jay Griffiths Pdf

Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands - wild mind - as she explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness.

A Sideways Look at Clouds

Maria Mudd Ruth
A Sideways Look at Clouds Book PDF

Author : Maria Mudd Ruth
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781680511192

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• Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski
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Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Sideways

Rex Pickett
Sideways Book PDF

Author : Rex Pickett
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429907873

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A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Rex Pickett's Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships. The basis for the 2004 comedy-drama road movie of the same name starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a week long opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself.

The Art of Looking Sideways

Alan Fletcher
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Author : Alan Fletcher
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 0714834491

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The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher Pdf

A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the limitless resources of the human mind.

A Love Letter from a Stray Moon

Jay Griffiths
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Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921758027

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A Love Letter from a Stray Moon by Jay Griffiths Pdf

A fictionalised biography of Frida Kahlo--a tribute to the painter and the rebellion at the heart of art.

Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics

Rob Baker
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Author : Rob Baker
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445651200

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Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics by Rob Baker Pdf

London's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine.

Left Hook

George Bowering
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Author : George Bowering
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551928450

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Left Hook by George Bowering Pdf

Governor General's Award-winner George Bowering explores the varied and often misunderstood landscape of Canadian literature and culture. Offering close readings of the works of a wide array of writers-Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy, Ethel Wilson and many more-Bowering considers what it means to be a Canadian writer, and a Canadian reader.

Falling Over Sideways

Jordan Sonnenblick
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Author : Jordan Sonnenblick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545863261

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Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick Pdf

A girl navigates the chaos of eighth grade while handling a family tragedy in this funny and honest novel by the author of Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. Claire’s life is a joke . . . but she’s not laughing. While her friends seem to be leaping forward, she's dancing in the same place. The mean girls at school are living up to their mean name, and there’s a boy, Ryder, who’s just as bad, if not worse. And at home, nobody’s really listening to her—if anything, they seem to be more in on the joke than she is. Then into all of this (not-very-funny-to-Claire) comedy comes something intense and tragic—while her dad is talking to her at the kitchen table, he falls over with a medical emergency. Suddenly the joke has become very serious—and the only way Claire, her family, and her friends are going to get through it is if they can find a way to make it funny again. Praise for Falling Over Sideways “It’s a powerful and profound look at a family coping with unexpected change.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Authentic, funny, dramatic, fantastic.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Sonnenblick]does an exceedingly good job developing his adolescent characters . . . I would highly recommend this novel for any collection serving a middle school audience.” —School Library Journal

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George
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Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593115008

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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Pdf

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood
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Author : Ali Hazelwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593336830

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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Pdf

The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on THE VIEW! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

Up, Down, or Sideways

Mark Sanborn
Up Down or Sideways Book PDF

Author : Mark Sanborn
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414365671

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Up, Down, or Sideways by Mark Sanborn Pdf

In Up, Down, or Sideways, Mark Sanborn, author of the bestselling book The Fred Factor, prepares you for life’s inevitable cycles of up and down—and, too often, sideways. We tend to be surprised when downturns hit us and treat them as the exception—and when times are good, we act as if they will never change. In this book, Mark shows us what we should always be doing to be prepared for these cycles and events in our lives in order to make the most of them. Mark tells his own story of a downturn he experienced. Then, he identifies the principles and practices that will help you discover opportunities in both good times and bad, in up and sideways years. Mark provides timely wisdom that can’t be ignored no matter where you are in your personal or professional life.