Highways Of The Mind

Author : Helen J. Burgess,Jeanne Hamming
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291797

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Highways of the Mind by Helen J. Burgess,Jeanne Hamming Pdf

Stories of the open road have a powerful sway over our imagination, particularly in America, where the vast web of interstate highways transformed the national identity as well as the national landscape. Sometimes seen as the harbinger of a golden future, other times as the conduit of a dehumanized dystopia, the highway reflects some of our most potent fantasies as well as our deepest anxieties about modernity, ecology, commerce, and individuality. In a work rich in embedded multimedia, Helen J. Burgess and Jeanne Hamming look at cultural and media representations of the highway in planning documents, industrial films, corporate ephemera, and science fiction narratives to explore how these stories of the road have reconfigured how we think about ourselves and our world. Highways of the Mind, available only on the Apple iBookstore site in iBook format, shows how the stories we tell about the highway—whether in the service of national pride, corporate advertising, urban planning, or apocalyptic warnings—determine how we imagine, or fail to imagine, the possibilities for human action in built environments.

Author : Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1896238106

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Highways of the Mind by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Pdf

Pathworking is a term given to a specific kind of guided visualization exercise in which the mind is projected into a series of situations and landscapes that can be viewed on a mental screen. Tracing them from the earliest cave paintings, through the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Bardic tradition and the story-tellers of Ireland, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki shows pathworkings to be a part of a much greater structure in the make-up of man, pertaining to his hopes and dreams and his ability to make those dreams come true. Used with purpose and by trained minds, the pathworking becomes a series of controlled thought patterns - and thought is the basis of creation.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222373

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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262358774

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The Mind by E. Bruce Goldstein Pdf

An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions--what is the mind? and what is consciousness?--and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826273253

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Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” Readers will not find a collection of abstract formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in 1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages, I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened” is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavor.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316218542

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Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.

Author : Wisconsin. State Highway Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Roads
ISBN : UOM:39015021029593

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Badger Highways by Wisconsin. State Highway Commission Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : LOC:0014133234A

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Regulation of Interstate Motor Busses and Trucks on Public Highways by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045426637

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Regulation of Interstate Motor Busses and Trucks on Public Highways. Hearing ... on H.R. 6836 ... Jan. 17-31, Feb. 1-2, 1934 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Public Roads Bureau,United States. Public Roads Administration. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Roads
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071786929

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Highways, Current Literature by Public Roads Bureau,United States. Public Roads Administration. Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Roads
ISBN : UCAL:C2535069

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Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Roads
ISBN : UOM:39015030802055

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Federal Aid for Post-war Highway Construction by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads Pdf

Author : George O. Smith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547531845

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Highways in Hiding by George O. Smith Pdf

"Highways in Hiding" by George O. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472202901

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Strange Highways by Dean Koontz Pdf

One wrong turn changes everything... Strange Highways is a brilliant collection of dark and suspense-filled short stories from the international bestselling author Dean Koontz. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Richard Laymon. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life... The first of thirteen short stories sets the pace for a thrilling read. What readers are saying about Strange Highways: 'One of the most thought provoking, terrifying yet enjoyable books I have ever read' 'Each story is as compelling and equally disturbing as the next' 'Great stories from when Dean Koontz was at the peak of his powers. There's suspense, horror, and a great atmosphere of something nasty lurking in the cubby holes of your mind'

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Express highways
ISBN : UCAL:$B644161

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Urban Highways by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Pdf

Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.