Distant Horizons

Author : Gian Quasar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105192524

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Truth is stranger than fiction, it is said. If so then Distant Horizons presents some of the strangest sea mysteries of all time. For it is not the product of uncritically passing along tales of the sea. It is the result of decades of research. The stories in this compendium are true, often presented with meticulous detail. Sometimes this explodes myth. Sometimes the facts reveal myth to be anemic by comparison. Famous ghost ships like the Mary Celeste and the Carroll A. Deering have become literary formula and economic rehash. But what are the actual facts? Thousands of derelicts once peppered the North Atlantic, but these two mystery ships have stood the test of time. What is really so unique about them? The Bermuda Triangle has earned its infamous reputation, but is it really to blame for some of its most famous victims? Did the Marine Sulphur Queen truly even vanish in the Triangle? What about the USS Cyclops? Could it truly be the American version of the HMS Bounty?

Author : Ted Underwood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226612836

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Distant Horizons by Ted Underwood Pdf

Just as a traveler crossing a continent won’t sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can’t grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly available to us through digital libraries to tackle previously elusive questions about literature. Ted Underwood shows how digital archives and statistical tools, rather than reducing words to numbers (as is often feared), can deepen our understanding of issues that have always been central to humanistic inquiry. Without denying the usefulness of time-honored approaches like close reading, narratology, or genre studies, Underwood argues that we also need to read the larger arcs of literary change that have remained hidden from us by their sheer scale. Using both close and distant reading to trace the differentiation of genres, transformation of gender roles, and surprising persistence of aesthetic judgment, Underwood shows how digital methods can bring into focus the larger landscape of literary history and add to the beauty and complexity we value in literature.

Author : John Herlihy
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Creation (Islam)
ISBN : 1597310085

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Near and Distant Horizons by John Herlihy Pdf

Near and Distant Horizons: In Search of the Primary Sources of Knowledge With originality and insight, the author makes a compelling case for the need to identify the sources of a traditional knowledge that still has the power to enrich people's lives in today's materialistic and anti-spiritual world. What are the true sources of knowledge? Are there headwaters for the universal laws of nature? Is there a source so transcendent that it can resolve the perennial mystery concerning the origin of life and the creation of man? Is there a wellspring of knowledge that can neutralize the duality of the world by offering a unified vision of the Whole? This work reflects upon the significance of three principal sources of knowledge in the Islamic Traditions. They are Revelation as the expression of the supreme mind of God, Nature as the universal body of God, and Man as the human image of God. The book's absorbing inquiry and reflective style throw light on the dark mysteries that still confront people today, and will appeal to readers interested in an alternative to the theories of modern science, taking them on an inward journey whose destination lies far beyond the horizon of our time. John Herlihy, an American Muslim, was educated at Boston University and Columbia University in New York City. He has written a number of books on traditional themes, including Modern Man at the Crossroads and Borderlands of the Spirit. He is the Director of an educational program at the Petroleum Institute, a new engineering university in the United Arab Emirates.

Author : Humphrey Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112409656

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Author : Robert Ellsworth Lewis
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780741421173

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Search of Far Horizons by Robert Ellsworth Lewis Pdf

Author : Carl Shreve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCAL:$B196320

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Author : Roger D. Lund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684482016

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Hemispheres and Stratospheres by Roger D. Lund Pdf

Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture--a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

Author : Paul Melroy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781430303138

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Eclipse by Paul Melroy Pdf

Eclipse d20 lets you build the game and characters you want, the way you want them. With completely personalized classes, hundreds of new and expanded abilities to cover every special power, and vastly expanded Turning, Bardic, Proficiency, and Martial Arts techniques you'll never need prestige classes or books of feats again! Customizable magic, expanded Metamagic, and new systems - Hexcraft, the Dragon Path, Ritual and Rune Magic, Thaumaturgy, Dweomer, Theurgy and Witchcraft - allow for endless unique worlds and casters. Disadvantages, Motivations, Ethics, Divine Patronage, and campaign-based limits on exotic powers to add depth to characters and worlds. Race and Template design, alternative Epic Magic, Dominion and Divine Ascension, and World Laws for fantasy, modern, future, cyberpunk, superhero, historical and other settings all fully compatible with the 3.0, 3.5, Modern, Future and other d20 rule sets. Give your characters unlimited options!

Author : Isaac Mampuya Samba
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504992602

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Nervous Breakdown and Sorrow of Love by Isaac Mampuya Samba Pdf

Nervous depression or grief love is actually a story; or rather, it is in fact stories such as Isaac Mampuya Samba, the author, loves to narrate. This used to it in this novel, another form of expression, or rather, other forms of expression, to paint better.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Patricia Trutty-Coohill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319217925

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The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Patricia Trutty-Coohill Pdf

The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life. The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of ways. They show that theories of modern science become a strategy for the phenomenological study of works of art, and vice versa. Works of phenomenology and of the arts examine how individual spontaneity connects with the design(s) of the logos – of the whole and of the particulars – while the design(s) rest not on some human concept, but on life itself. Life’s pliable matrices allow us to consider the expansiveness of contemporary science, and to help create a contemporary phenomenological sense of cosmos.

Author : Martin Paul Eve
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198850489

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The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies by Martin Paul Eve Pdf

A comprehensive overview into digital literary studies that equips readers to navigate the difficult contentions in this space. The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. You may have heard of the digital humanities--and what you may have heard may not have been good. Yet like an oncoming storm, the relentless growth of the use of digital methods for the study of literature seems inevitable. This book gives an insight into the ways in which digital approaches can be used to study literature and the ways in which humanistic study can be used to explore digital literature. Examining its subject across the axes of authorship, space, and visualization, maps and place, distance and history, and ethical approaches to the digital humanities, this book introduces newcomers to the topic while also offering plenty for seasoned digital humanities pros. Combining original research with third-party case studies and examples, this book will appeal both to students and researchers across all levels who wish to learn about digital literary studies.

Author : Maurice Hershenson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134737451

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The Moon Illusion by Maurice Hershenson Pdf

This unique volume attempts to answer one of mankind's oldest puzzles -- why the moon appears to be larger and closer on the horizon than when it is high in the sky. Over the centuries, many viable solutions have been proposed for this psychological phenomenon. The Moon Illusion presents papers by major theorists striving to explain the illusion and providing commentaries on the works of others. Research on the moon illusion has been scattered throughout journals in many disciplines including philosophy, physiology, physics, and psychology. As the first publication to present a comprehensive treatment of the problem, this book is of vital interest to professionals whose major concern is visual perception, experimental psychology, or the neurosciences. Of additional interest to those whose focus is physics or astronomy.

Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas,Stephen C. McCluskey,John Steele
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030646066

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Advancing Cultural Astronomy by Efrosyni Boutsikas,Stephen C. McCluskey,John Steele Pdf

This collection of essays on cultural astronomy celebrates the life and work of Clive Ruggles, Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy at Leicester University. Taking their lead from Ruggles’ work, the papers present new research focused on three core themes in cultural astronomy: methodology, case studies, and heritage. Through this framework, they show how the study of cultural astronomy has evolved over time and share new ideas to continue advancing the field. Ruggles’ work in these areas has had a profound impact on the way that scholars approach evidence of the role of sky in both ancient and modern cultures. While the papers span many time periods and regions, they are closely connected by these three major themes, presenting methodological investigations of how we can approach archaeological, textual, and ethnographic evidence; describing detailed archaeoastronomical case studies; or stressing the importance of global heritage management. This work will appeal to researchers and scholars interested in the history and development of cultural astronomy.

Author : Petar Ramadanovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000471984

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Interdiscipline by Petar Ramadanovic Pdf

This book brings together two different discussions on the value of the humanities and a broader debate on interdisciplinary scholarship in order to propose a new way beyond current threats to the humanities. Petar Ramadanovic offers nothing short of a drastic rehaul of our approaches to literary scholarship, the humanities, and university systems. Beginning with an analysis of what is often referred to as the "crises" in the humanities, the author looks at the specifics of literary studies, but also issues around working conditions for academics. From precarity and pay conditions to peer review, the book has practical as well as theoretical implications that will resonate throughout the humanities. While most books defending the humanities emphasize the uniqueness of the subject or area, Ramadanovic does the opposite, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinarity and combined knowledge. This proposal is then fully explored through literary studies, and its potential throughout the humanities and beyond, into the sciences. Interdiscipline is not just a defense of literature and the humanities; it offers a clear and inspiring pathway forwards, drawing on all disciplines to show their cultural and social significance. The book is important reading for all scholars of literary studies, and also throughout the humanities.

Author : Ian Abrahams
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0946719691

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Hawkwind by Ian Abrahams Pdf

Hawkwind's fusion of agit-prop and improvised space rock-including Lemmy and lyrics by Michael Moorcock-made them intriguing outsiders in rock. For over 30 years, Hawkwind have successfully existed outside the traditional music business, and spawned a fanatical fanbase. This high quality, authoritative biography contains dozens of new interviews with band members and over 100 rare illustrations, many published for the first time. With a cover designed by Hawkwind's own sleeve artist Peter Pracownik and full co-operation of the all the key protagonists, this authoritative, high-quality biography is the definitive account of one of the UK's most innovative bands.