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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Author : Silke Vry
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783791374741
Two of the world’s ancient traditions come alive for young readers in this fascinating book that proves the most interesting distance between two points is never a straight line. This brilliant book on mazes and labyrinths in history and the modern world encourages young readers to really think about why these puzzles are so appealing. Filled with photographs, drawings, artwork, illustrations, and puzzles, it takes a thematic approach to these enigmatic works. Why are we sometimes afraid to get lost—and why does the idea excite us? How do mazes and labyrinths figure in history and mythology? What can nature tell us about humankind’s obsession with lines, spirals, and patterns? Along the way children will learn about the labyrinth designed by Daedalus for King Minos in the ancient city of Crete; the mystery of the Hemet Maze Stone in southern California; and the magnificent labyrinth at the Cathedral of Chartres. They are encouraged to trace their fingers along a labyrinth to experience its soothing effect, to solve maze-related number puzzles, and to create their own mazes and labyrinths. Packed with fun facts and engaging ideas, this book will help children understand why mazes and labyrinths are so popular, while inspiring them to identify and create these fascinating puzzles in their own world.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811231282
A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”
Author : Michael E. Goodman
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781936087563
Features eleven spooky places from secret caves to subterranean cities and reveals the history of happenings within their winding tunnels.
Author : Walter Shepherd
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000000064286
amusements using principle of maze, most based on story situations. Quite unusual. 84 illustrations.
Author : Walter Shepherd
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486229515
The path least traveled makes all the difference in this volume, especially when you find yourself crossing bridges, escaping from caves, lighting firecrackers, spelling out passwords, and untangling snakes. These 50 challenges include classic, solid, and ripple mazes, along with short-path and avoidance labyrinths and other intriguing problems. Solutions.
Author : Simon Stålenhag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398517301
The Labyrinth is a unique vision of a dystopian future from one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world. A world covered by ruins and ash, the remnants of an otherworldly phenomenon that has ravaged the earth’s atmosphere and forced the few survivors deep underground. Matt, Sigrid and Charlie leave the safe harbour of the enclave for an expedition onto the wastelands of the surface world. During their journey they are forced to confront dark secrets from the time before civilization’s fall. Simon Stålenhagis the internationally acclaimed author and artist behind Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood and The Electric State. He is world-renowned for his highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian landscapes. Perfect for fans of everything from Stranger Things to Jurassic Park to Westworld. PRAISE for SIMON STALENHAG 'Tales has the magic. It's got the robots, the weirdness, the dinosaurs. But most of all, it has the wonder. No one who picks this book up will be the same person when they put it down again' NPR on Tales from the Loop 'No words to describe this novel in pictures. Stahlenhag defined a whole new aesthetic for scifi in the 21st century' Damien Walter on The Electric State 'A chilling, unforgettable visual and narrative experience' Locus on The Electric State Stalenhag's 'stories crawl into my brain and mess with my memory of history, time and place' NPR on The Electric State
Author : Ruth Sewell, Sellers Jan Williams Di
Publisher : Wild Goose Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849522489
Around the world a growing number of people are working with the labyrinth, an ancient artefact which is fulfilling a renewed role in today's world. This book offers ideas and examples of labyrinths in use in various situations: arts, community and social settings; schools, colleges and universities; a hospice, and a secure hospital; counselling, psychotherapy and well-being; churches, retreats and interfaith contexts.
Author : Penelope Reed Doob
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501738463
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
Author : Sébastien Erpicum,Frédéric Laugier,Michael Pfister,Michel Pirotton,Guy-Michel Cicero,Anton J. Schleiss
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781138000858
Dam engineering is currently experiencing a strong revival of labyrinth oriented weirs. Labyrinth weirs, with a repetitive constructional character and an increased specific discharge capacity, are a very good technical-economical compromise. The concept of Piano Key Weir (PKW), with alveoli developed in overhangs from a reduced support area, enables the installation of non-linear crests at the top of concrete dams. As a result it eliminates the main drawback of classical labyrinth weirs, and enables their use to rehabilitate numerous existing dams. Since the first implementation of piano key weirs by Electricité de France on Goulours dam (France) in 2006, at least eight PKWs have been built in France, Vietnam and Switzerland. Their operation over a few years has already provided the first prototype data. Other projects are under study, construction or planning in varied countries. On another hand, research programs are under progress all over the world. Following a first edition in 2011, Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs II – PKW 2013 collects up-to-date contributions from people with various backgrounds, from engineers and researchers to academics. Summarizing the last developments on labyrinth oriented weirs, the book constitutes the state-of-the-art in research and application of piano key weir solutions, and will be invaluable to professionals and scientists interested in Dams Engineering.
Author : Virginia Westbury
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822034481945
Author : Domenic Stansberry
Publisher : Course Technology
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : UVA:X006032151
This book shows students how to write and design effective, interactive multimedia for CDs and Web sites. It discusses scripting and conceptual development. Its writing and charting techniques make it a practical guide for students, professional writers, producers, and others looking to create meaningful content.
Author : Franco Maria Ricci
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847841646
"This book was born from the particular fascination that labyrinths have held for Franco Maria Ricci over the years. Many of them are shown within this copiously illustrated reconnaissance through art, mythology and history in the form of shells, in floor mosaics or impressed on coins, and in miniature paintings or in architectural projects, as well as in gardens."--Jacket flap.
Author : William Henry Matthews
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Design
ISBN : WISC:89017055914
Mazes and Labyrinths is a look into the origin and mystery of mazes. From ancient stone carvings, Minoan palaces to today's hedge-maze, Matthews chronicles the history of the maze. With over 140 illustrations.
Author : Howard V. Hendrix
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 9780345455963
In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge—knowledge to die for. . . . The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine. Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged—and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined. For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—or humanity’s last chance to save itself. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.