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Author : Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0747232660
Author : Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 044122363X
Verse the second in The Ballad of Wuntvor...in which an uninformed apprentice learns what comes after "Once upon a time..."
Author : Carl P. Ellerman
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765707802
A pragmatic existential therapist exposes a suggestive underworld of clinical experience, not only disclosing direct experience of the erotization of the clinic, the erotization of the clinician, and the erotization of clinical confession, but also showing by example that these enchantments facilitate psychological healing if managed well. Addressing clinical and cultural concerns, the philosophically-minded dialogical therapist also offers a vigorous critique of the clinical nihilism that defines psychotherapeutic practice in the postmodern clinic.
Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0231140908
"This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.
Author : JESSICA INGLATERRA
Publisher : JESSICA INGLATERRA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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Author : Hope Apple,Merle L. Jacob
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313095986
Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.
Author : Kevin R. Smith
Publisher : Kevin R. Smith
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Indexes, covers and tables of contents of Paperback Inferno (issues 43-97, 1983-1992), the paperback reviews journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA). As well as complete tables of contents of all these issues, this book includes indexes to every book and magazine reviewed, every cover artist, and every letter writer, along with summary statistics of the issues.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Mammoth
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114938
A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces! It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.
Author : Lee Bailey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780252090448
In The Enchantments of Technology, Lee Worth Bailey erases the conventional distinction between myth and machine in order to explore the passionate foundations concealed in technological culture and address its complex ethical, moral and social implications. Bailey argues that technological society does not simply disenchant the world with its reductive methods and mechanical metaphors, then shape machines with political motives, but is also borne by a deeper, subversive undertow of enchantment. Addressing examples to explore the complexities of these enchantments, his thought is full of illuminating examinations of seductively engaging technologies ranging from the old camera obscura to new automobiles, robots, airplanes, and spaceships. This volume builds on the work of numerous scholars, including Jacques Ellul and Jean Brun on the phenomenological and spiritual aspects of technology, Carl Jung on the archetypal collective unconscious approach to myth, and Martin Heidegger on Being itself. Bailey creates a dynamic, interdisciplinary, postmodern examination of how our machines and their environments embody not only reason, but also desires.
Author : Arthur Edward Waite
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486452791
The Grail legend is the centerpiece of Arthurian literature, and this classic work by the renowned scholar Arthur Edward Waite ranks among the most informative and profound books ever written on the subject. While the myths surrounding the Holy Grail are seemingly in harmony with orthodox religion, Waite reveals that beneath their pious surface, they are as subversive as any other form of mysticism — illustrating the symbolic nature of doctrinal teachings, no more intended for literal interpretation than is any fiction. With this informative study, Waite restores the full and true meaning of the knightly quests for honor and adventure as journeys of the soul.
Author : Jared D. Margulies
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452969985
An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The fervor driving the illegal trade in succulents might also be driving some species to extinction. Delving into the strange world of succulent collecting, The Cactus Hunters takes us to the heart of this conundrum: the mystery of how and why ardent lovers of these plants engage in their illicit trade. This is a world of alluring desires, where collectors and conservationists alike are animated by passions that at times exceed the limits of law. What inspires the desire for a plant? What kind of satisfaction does it promise? The answer, Jared D. Margulies suspects, might be traced through the roots and workings of the illegal succulent trade—an exploration that traverses the fields of botany and criminology, political ecology and human geography, and psychoanalysis. His globe-spanning inquiry leads Margulies from a spectacular series of succulent heists on a small island off the coast of Mexico to California law enforcement agents infiltrating a smuggling ring in South Korea, from scientists racing to discover new and rare species before poachers find them to a notorious Czech “cacto-explorer” who helped turn a landlocked European country into the epicenter of the illegal succulent trade. A heady blend of international intrigue, social theory, botanical lore, and ecological study, The Cactus Hunters offers complex insight into species extinction, conservation, and more-than-human care. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
Author : Leanna Greenaway,Beleta Greenaway
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738764382
Explore 400+ Topics with this Outstanding A to Z Reference Guide Delve into the mesmerizing depths of the esoteric with Catalog of the Unexplained, a triumph of metaphysical and supernatural knowledge. This guide provides fascinating information on more than 400 subjects, from angels and herbalism to tarot and vampires. Magical practitioners, holistic healers, ghost hunters, and spiritual seekers alike will marvel at this book's impressive collection. Authors Leanna and Beleta Greenaway share brief and in-depth entries on: • Acupuncture • Animal Totems • Astral Projection • Candle Magic • Color Therapy • Curses • Dreams • Dowsing • ESP • Exorcism • Fairies • Feng Shui • Fortune-Telling • Hypnosis • I Ching • Karma • Kundalini • Lucid Dreaming • Numerology • Telepathy • UFOs • Witchcraft • Yoga Catalog of the Unexplained invites you on an exhilarating journey of discovery that expands not just your knowledge, but also your sense of wonder.
Author : Simon During
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674263130
“A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During’s superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society’s image of itself. Praise for ModernEnchantment “During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life . . . the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and “commercial conjuring” with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film.” —R. Sugarman, Choice “A richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money.” —Marina Warner, Financial Times “During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims . . . This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic.” —Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914
Author : Eliza Haywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780359845705
Most critics will acknowledge the enormous contributions Eliza Haywood made towards the development of the novel, but are often silent about her shorter fiction. Included in this volume are four of her most notable shorter pieces: "The British Recluse" (1722), "Fantomina" (1724), "The Fatal Secret" (1724), and "The City Jilt" (1726).
Author : Eugene McCarraher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674242777
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
