In The Midst Of Things

Author : Mike Owen Benediktsson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691174334

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In the Midst of Things by Mike Owen Benediktsson Pdf

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis. In the Midst of Things takes an in-depth look at the social lives of five objects commonly found in the public spaces of New York City and its suburbs, revealing how our interactions with such material things are our primary point of contact with the social, political, and economic forces that shape city life. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of original interviews, Mike Owen Benediktsson shows how we are in the midst of things whose profound social role often goes overlooked. A newly built lawn on the Brooklyn waterfront reflects an increasingly common trade-off between the marketplace and the public good. A cement wall on a New Jersey highway speaks to the demise of the postwar American dream. A metal folding chair on a patch of asphalt in Queens exposes the political obstacles to making the city livable. A subway door expresses the simmering conflict between the city and the desires of riders, while a newsstand bears witness to our increasingly impoverished streetscapes. In the Midst of Things demonstrates how the material realm is one of immediacy, control, inequality, and unpredictability, and how these factors frustrate the ability of designers, planners, and regulators to shape human behavior.

Author : Darrell Calkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578729652

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In the Midst of Things by Darrell Calkins Pdf

A collection of letters and essays written over 15 years, the thrust of which is a contemplation of the tectonic forces that determine meaning and the quality of our lives, and how we can influence them. Calkins' vocation for the past 40 years has concentrated on personal wellbeing and human potential-disciplines that eventually open into the vaster realms from which they were born: wisdom and spirituality.

Author : A. Sutherland Brown
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552126639

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Silently Into the Midst of Things by A. Sutherland Brown Pdf

Describes the critical and dangerous operations of the twin-engined Beaufighters in interdicting the roads, railways, shipping of the Japanese invaders in Burma based on primary documents and narratives of the air and ground crews.

Author : Pema Chödrön
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590302262

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When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön Pdf

Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness.

Author : Heidi Wong
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466962743

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In the Midst of Things by Heidi Wong Pdf

Alexandra DesDemonta is a fourteen-year-old who is not happy with her family situation. Her real father died when she was a child, leaving her nothing but memories and a ring with the inscription, "It always goes on." She has a little brother, Taylor, who seems to be the favorite child now that her mom is remarried. Even worse, Alex is talked into babysitting Taylor on Halloween. It is then that Alex notices a mysterious book on the shelf in her home. It is called The Saga of DesDemonta, and Alex has never seen the book before. She can't help but be interested; she also can't know the damage the book can cause. Before she makes sense of her new discovery, she is forced to move to a new school-but family secrets follow. What really happened to her father, and what does it have to do with Alex's new book? She has a feeling her mother knows the answers, but Joyce is hesitant to tell her daughter the truth; it could bring them lots of trouble. Soon, however, Alex's family history puts her friends in danger, and together they must fight a force much darker than any school exam-a force that threatens to kill.

Author : Michael LeMahieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199890408

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Fictions of Fact and Value by Michael LeMahieu Pdf

Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.

Author : Ruth Schwenk
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310349464

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The Better Mom by Ruth Schwenk Pdf

Mothering is messy. Our joy and hope in raising children doesn’t change the reality that being a mom can be frustrating, stressful, and tiring. But just as God is using us to shape our children, God is using our children and motherhood to shape us. In The Better Mom, author Ruth Schwenk, herself a mother of four children, encourages us with the good news that there is more to being a mom than the extremes of striving for perfection or simply embracing the mess. We don’t need to settle for surviving our kids’ childhood. We can grow through it. With refreshing and heartfelt honesty Ruth emboldens moms to: Find freedom and walk confidently in purpose Create a God-honoring home environment Overcome unhealthy and destructive emotions such as anger, anxiety, and more Avoid glorifying the mess of mom-ing or idolizing perfection Cultivate life-giving friendships At the heart of The Better Mom is the message that Jesus calls us to live not a weary life, but a worthy life. We don’t have to settle for either being apathetic or struggling to be perfect. Both visions of motherhood go too far. Ruth offers a better option. She says, “It’s okay to come as we are, but what we’re called to do and be is far too important to stay there! The way to becoming a better mom starts not with what we are doing, but with who God is inviting us to become."

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 5273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786560841

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Delphi Complete Works of Lord Dunsany (Illustrated) by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany Pdf

A celebrated pioneer of fantasy fiction, the Irish writer and dramatist Lord Dunsany produced seminal works such as ‘The King of Elfland’s Daughter’, noted for their imaginative power and intellectual ingenuity. Dunsany achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, conjuring mysterious kingdoms of fairies and gods in richly coloured prose, while promoting a characteristic element of the macabre. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Dunsany’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dunsany’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 13 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including THE CHARWOMAN’S SHADOW and THE BLESSING OF PAN * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes all of the Jorkens short story collections published during Dunsany’s lifetime – please note: some of the posthumous tales cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. * Rare story collections available in no other eBook, including THE MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Dunsany’s scarce poetry collection, FIFTY POEMS, first time in digital print * Includes the two ‘Sirens’ autobiographies * Features a bonus biography – discover Dunsany’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with improved texts and more images CONTENTS: The Novels Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922) The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924) The Charwoman’s Shadow (1926) The Blessing of Pan (1927) The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933) Up in the Hills (1935) Rory and Bran (1936) My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936) The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939) Guerrilla (1944) The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950) The Last Revolution (1951) His Fellow Men (1952) The Jorkens Series The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens (1931) Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934) Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940) The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1947) Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) Other Short Story Collections The Gods of Pegana (1905) Time and the Gods (1906) The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) A Dreamer’s Tales (1910) The Book of Wonder (1912) Fifty-One Tales (1915) Tales of Wonder (1916) Tales of War (1918) Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919) Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919) The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949) The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Five Plays (1914) Plays of Gods and Men (1917) If (1921) Plays of Near and Far (1922) Seven Modern Comedies (1928) Plays for Earth and Air (1937) The Poetry Collection Fifty Poems (1929) The Non-Fiction Nowadays (1918) The Autobiographies While the Sirens Slept (1944) The Sirens Wake (1945) The Biography Dunsany the Dramatist (1917) by Edward Hale Bierstadt

Author : Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838267067

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Falsifying Beckett by Matthew Feldman Pdf

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent 'empirical turn' in Beckett studies. Characterized, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyze his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. Falsifying Beckett thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as ' historicist' scholars and critics of modernism more generally.

Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506454603

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In the Midst of Chaos by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

How the daily practices of life with children can shape our faith In the Midst of Chaos explores parenting as spiritual practice, building on Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore's fresh conceptions of children from her book Let the Children Come. She questions conventional perceptions that spiritual practices require silence, solitude, and uninterrupted prayer and that assume a life unburdened by care of others. She is both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life and demonstrates that the life of faith encompasses children and the adults who care for them. Miller-McLemore explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually. Through these experiences, she shows how the very care of children forms and reforms the faith of adults themselves, contrary to the belief that adults must form children. In the Midst of Chaos also goes beyond the typical focus on individual self-fulfillment by tackling difficult questions of social justice and mutuality in the ways families live together. Readers will find in this book an invitation to love those around them in the midst of life's craziness and to live more deeply in grace.

Author : Megan Hunter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735235038

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The End We Start From by Megan Hunter Pdf

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, AND WRITTEN BY ALICE BIRCH (NORMAL PEOPLE)** “The End We Start From by Megan Hunter is a short, concentrated book—a shot of distilled story, like the pulp of a tale boiled to a thick spiced paste. . . . With passages from mythology interspersed with its imagined future, the book is engrossing, compelling and finally hopeful.” —Naomi Alderman, author of The Power “The End We Start From is a beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Longlisted for the 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist for the Barnes & Noble 2017 Discover Great New Writers Award An indelible and elemental debut—a lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of unimaginable change. In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family is forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds. This is a story of new motherhood in a terrifying setting: a familiar world made dangerous and unstable, its people forced to become refugees. Startlingly beautiful, Megan Hunter's The End We Start From is a gripping novel that paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. And yet, though the country is falling apart around them, this family's world—of new life and new hope—sings with love.

Author : Linda Griffiths
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1552451909

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Age of Arousal by Linda Griffiths Pdf

It's a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It's 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden - spinsters Virginia and Alice and beautiful young Monica - arrive, along with the attractive Dr. Everard Barfoot, things can never be the same. Age of Arousal is a lavish, sexy, frenetic ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self - genre-busting, rule-bending, and ambitiously original.

Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781632869661

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Fewer, Better Things by Glenn Adamson Pdf

From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Homiletical illustrations
ISBN : OSU:32435056976590

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The Expositor and the Homiletic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gae Polisner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250095534

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The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner Pdf

"[A] gripping, emotional story set in the part of history we’ll never forget." - New York Daily News On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bring the girl home. What follows is their story, told in alternating points of view, as Kyle tries to unravel the mystery of the girl so he can return her to her family. But what if the girl has forgotten everything, even her own name? And what if the more Kyle gets to know her, the less he wants her to go home? The Memory of Things tells a stunning story of friendship and first love and of carrying on with our day-to-day living in the midst of world-changing tragedy and unforgettable pain—it tells a story of hope.