Horse Flower Bird

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566892827

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Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer Pdf

"Each of these spare and elegant tales rings like a bell in your head. memorable, original, and not much like anything you've read."—Karen Joy Fowler “A strange and enchanting book, written in crisp, winning sentences; each story begs to be read aloud and savored.”—Aimee Bender "Horse, Flower, Bird rests uneasily between the intersection of fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, and the sacred and profane. Like a series of beautiful but troubling dreams, this book will linger long in the memory. Kate Bernheimer is reinventing the fairy tale."—Peter Buck, R.E.M. In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare—yet wondrous—world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger's daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters explore cycles of love and violence by reenacting scenes from Star Wars. Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection takes readers back to the age-old pleasures of classic fairy tales and makes them new. Their haunting lessons are an evocative reminder that cracking open the door to the imagination is no mere child's play, that delight and tragedy lurk in every corner, and that we all "have the key to the library . . . only be careful what you read."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000727429D

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Bazaar Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Cunning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351210515

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Descartes by David Cunning Pdf

René Descartes (1596–1650) is well-known for his introspective turn away from sensible bodies and toward non-sensory ideas of mind, body, and God. Such a turn is appropriate, Descartes supposes, but only once in the course of life, and only to arrive at a more accurate picture of reality that we then incorporate in everyday embodied life. In this clear and engaging book David Cunning introduces and examines the full range of Descartes’ philosophy. A central focus of the book is Descartes’ view that embodied human beings become more perfect to the degree that they move in the direction of finite approximations of independence, activity, immutability, and increased knowledge. Beginning with an introduction and a chapter on Descartes’ life and works, Cunning also addresses the following key topics: Descartes on the wonders of the material universe skepticism as epistemic garbage, and the easy dissolution of hyperbolic doubt Descartes’ three arguments for the existence of God the ontology of possibility and necessity freedom and embodiment arguments for the immateriality of mind sensible bodies and the pragmatic certainty by which to navigate them Descartes’ stoic view on how best to live. Descartes is an outstanding introduction to one of the greatest of Western philosophers. Including a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is essential reading for anyone studying Descartes and the history of modern philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UCAL:C2586103

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The Garden by Anonim Pdf

Author : Niels da Vitoria Lobo,Takis Kasparis,Michael Georgiopoulos,Fabio Roli,James Kwok,Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos,Marco Loog
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540896890

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Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition by Niels da Vitoria Lobo,Takis Kasparis,Michael Georgiopoulos,Fabio Roli,James Kwok,Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos,Marco Loog Pdf

This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series contains 98 papers presented at the S+SSPR 2008 workshops. S+SSPR 2008 was the sixth time that the SPR and SSPR workshops organized by Technical Committees, TC1 and TC2, of the International Association for Pattern Rec- nition (IAPR) wereheld as joint workshops. S+SSPR 2008was held in Orlando, Florida, the family entertainment capital of the world, on the beautiful campus of the University of Central Florida, one of the up and coming metropolitan universities in the USA. S+SSPR 2008 was held during December 4–6, 2008 only a few days before the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recog- tion(ICPR2008),whichwasheldin Tampa,onlytwo hoursawayfromOrlando, thus giving the opportunity of both conferences to attendees to enjoy the many attractions o?ered by two neighboring cities in the state of Florida. SPR 2008 and SSPR 2008 received a total of 175 paper submissions from many di?erent countries around the world, thus giving the workshop an int- national clout, as was the case for past workshops. This volume contains 98 accepted papers: 56 for oral presentations and 42 for poster presentations. In addition to parallel oral sessions for SPR and SSPR, there was also one joint oral session with papers of interest to both the SPR and SSPR communities. A recent trend that has emerged in the pattern recognition and machine lea- ing research communities is the study of graph-based methods that integrate statistical andstructural approaches.

Author : Andrew Teverson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134105779

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Fairy Tale by Andrew Teverson Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genre assesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy tale provides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary form engages with the major ideological controversies that have shaped critical and creative approaches to fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries demonstrates that the fairy tale is a highly metamorphic genre that has flourished in diverse media, including oral tradition, literature, film, and the visual arts.

Author : Marjorie Sandor
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466838680

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The Uncanny Reader by Marjorie Sandor Pdf

From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with "The Sand-man," E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of doppelgangers and automatons—a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters of the uncanny—including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Shirley Jackson—form a foundation for sixteen award-winning contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United States, Uruguay, and Zambia—although their birthplaces are not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal, Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck.

Author : Pamela Paul
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781627791465

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By the Book by Pamela Paul Pdf

Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamott, and James Patterson. The questions and answers admit us into the private worlds of these authors, as they reflect on their work habits, reading preferences, inspirations, pet peeves, and recommendations. By the Book contains the full uncut interviews, offering a range of experiences and observations that deepens readers' understanding of the literary sensibility and the writing process. It also features dozens of sidebars that reveal the commonalities and conflicts among the participants, underscoring those influences that are truly universal and those that remain matters of individual taste. For the devoted reader, By the Book is a way to invite sixty-five of the most interesting guests into your world. It's a book party not to be missed.

Author : Christopher Merkner
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566893442

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The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic by Christopher Merkner Pdf

Christopher Merkner is a Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life. In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays a impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother's pet pig. Sharp and uneasy, for these inheritors of tradition, that which binds them most closely—offering stability and identity and comfort—are precisely the qualities that set them back, pull them down, burden, limit, and ruin them. "Merkner’s first short story collection provides a voyeuristic vantage point on fractured lives. He has the striking ability to turn the familiar into the uncanny and morph the comfortable into the weird, and, clearly, he’s at home in that strange realm. In most of the stories, we witness lives at the moment an individual’s identity begins to fray, sometimes slowly and sometimes swiftly. These changes are both painful and thought provoking to witness through the book’s unrelenting first-person perspective. At times Merkner’s prose evokes unease, but more often it encourages a chuckle, and his plot twists will leave even the most seasoned reader surprised. In each story, even those that only run for three pages, the tension mounts deliciously, many times with no foreseeable relief. The true beauty of these tales lies in their delicate endings, which manage to both tie up loose ends and leave everything hanging, so that they are simultaneously satisfying and mysterious. Such complexity makes great reading for lovers of short fiction, and for all who wish to witness a new master at work."—Booklist Christopher Merkner teaches creative writing at West Chester University. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review, Gettysburg Review, New Orleans Review, and Best American Mystery Stories. He and his wife and kids live in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Author : Hilary Craig
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482891478

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Small Steps, Big Differences by Hilary Craig Pdf

Each one of us learns in a different way. Traditional teaching approaches dont always suit the variety of different ways people learna conflict that can damage confidence and sometimes lead to failure. The key question that faces parents and teachers is how to help those who learn differently find long term success. In Small Steps, Big Differences: A Toolkit for Parents of Children Who Fall through the Cracks, author Hilary Craig challenges this question and offers parents strategies to help. The resources provided within this toolkit are framed around the core belief that all children can make progress, even if traditional learning and teaching methods in the classroom are inadequate for the way they learn. This toolkit provides support to those parents who recognize the unique abilities and talents in their children and who want practical tools to enable them to learn and succeed. Hilary Craigs experience, insight and strategies for helping children learn effectively, provide a valuable resource to accompany classroom learning. In this toolkit, she also addresses the four essential skills for effective learning: memory, listening, attention, and social skills; and strategies to develop each of these, with the final goal to build confidence. Small Steps, Big Differences is an invaluable resource for parents to help their children increase their chances for learning success.

Author : Trade Board of
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555078058

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The Mercantile navy list. 1848 [4 issues], 49 [2 issues], 50-53,57-61,64-71,80,81,92-1939 by Trade Board of Pdf

Author : Adrita Goswami
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357879255

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Tia and the Terracotta Horse by Adrita Goswami Pdf

Tia, a little girl from the Indian town of Bishnupur, makes a terracotta horse. To her astonishment, the terracotta horse comes alive, but Tia must keep it a secret. They immediately become best friends. When the grown-ups take their afternoon siesta, Tarak the terracotta horse takes Tia on magical trips to some of the most beautiful places in India. Read the book to join the duo on their extraordinary trips.

Author : Samuel Smiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : UCAL:$B151547

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Duty by Samuel Smiles Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015082453922

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American Agriculturist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Pickering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Botany
ISBN : BSB:BSB11384398

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Chronological History of Plants by Charles Pickering Pdf