Marvelous Bodies

Author : Vetri Nathan
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781612494890

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Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan Pdf

Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a plurality of styles. In it, Nathan argues that Italy sees itself as the quintessential internal Other of Western Europe, and that this subalternity directly influences its cinematic response to immigrants, Europe's external Others. In framing his case to understand Italy's cinematic response to immigrants, Nathan first explores some basic questions: Who exactly is the Other in Italy? Does Italy's own past partial alterity affect its present response to its newest subalterns? Drawing on Homi Bhabha's writings and Italian cinematic history, Nathan then posits the existence of marvelous bodies that are momentarily neither completely Italian nor completely immigrant. This ambivalence of forms extends to the films themselves, which tend to be generic hybrids. The persistent curious presence of marvelous bodies and a pervasive generic hybridity enact Italy's own chronic ambivalence that results from its presence at the cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean.

Author : Gary F. Merrill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813544700

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Our Marvelous Bodies by Gary F. Merrill Pdf

Our Marvelous Bodies offers a unique perspective on the structure, function, and care of the major systems of the human body. Unlike other texts that use a strictly scientific approach, physiologist Gary F. Merrill relays medical facts alongside personal stories that help students relate to and apply the information. Readers learn the basics of feedback control systems, homeostasis, and physiological gradients. These principles apply to an understanding of the body’s functioning under optimal, healthy conditions, and they provide insight into states of acute and chronic illness. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the body’s systems in detail: nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, reproductive, and immune. Through a series of real-life examples, the book also shows the importance of maintaining careful medical records for health care professionals, scientists, and patients alike.

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030759074

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Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Author : Emily Steiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192896902

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John Trevisa's Information Age by Emily Steiner Pdf

What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts from Latin into English prose. These included Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, an enormous universal history, Bartholomaeus Anglicus's well-known natural encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum, and Giles of Rome's advice-for-princes manual, De regimine principum. These were shrewd choices, accessible and on trend: De proprietatibus rerum and De regimine principum had already been translated into French and copied in deluxe manuscripts for the French and English nobility, and the Polychronicon had been circulating England for several decades. This book argues that John Trevisa's translations of compendious informational texts disclose an alternative literary history by way of information culture. Bold and lively experiments, these translations were a gamble that the future of literature in England was informational prose. This book argues that Trevisa's oeuvre reveals an alternative literary history more culturally expansive and more generically diverse than that which we typically construct for his contemporaries, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland. Thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century European writers compiled massive reference books which would shape knowledge well into the Renaissance. This study maintains that they had a major impact on English poetry and prose. In fact, what we now recognize to be literary properties emerged in part from translations of medieval compendia with their inventive ways of handling vast quantities of information.

Author : Michelle Van Loon
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802498038

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Becoming Sage by Michelle Van Loon Pdf

Why Do We Act Like There Is An Age Restriction on Spiritual Growth? For the last several decades, Western churches have focused the bulk of their resources on the early stages of discipleship—children’s Sunday school, youth group, college ministry. While these are all important, we have neglected the spiritual growth of those in the second half of life. In fact, an outside observer might think that after the growth of the college years, the goal is simply to coast through the rest of your Christian life. Michelle Van Loon has a different idea. In Becoming Sage, she challenges those in midlife and beyond to continue pursuing radical spiritual growth, and she’ll help you get started. She explores what the unique challenges of midlife can teach us about Jesus and how to think about everything from church, friends, and family, to money, bodies, and meaning. Don’t settle for a life of coasting. Revitalize your spiritual growth today.

Author : Georgios T. Halkias,Richard K. Payne
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824877149

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Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts by Georgios T. Halkias,Richard K. Payne Pdf

This diverse anthology of original Buddhist texts in translation provides a historical and conceptual framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies. Traditional and contemporary primary sources carefully selected from Buddhist cultures across historical, geopolitical, and literary boundaries are organized by genre rather than chronologically, geographically, or by religious lineage—a novel juxtaposition that reveals their wider importance in fresh contexts. Together these fundamental texts from different Asian traditions, expertly translated by eminent and up-and-coming scholars, illustrate that the Buddhism of pure lands is not just an East Asian cult or a marginal type of Buddhism, but a pan-Asian and deeply entrenched religious phenomenon. The volume is organized into six parts: Ritual Practices, Contemplative Visualizations, Doctrinal Expositions, Life Writing and Poetry, Ethical and Aesthetic Explications, and Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī. Each part is introduced and summarized, and each translated piece is prefaced by its translator to supply historical and sectarian context as well as insight into the significance of the work. Common and less-common issues of practice, doctrine, and intra-religious transfer are explored, and deeper understandings of the meaning of “pure lands” are gained through the study of the celestial, cosmological, internal, and earthly pure lands associated with various buddhas, bodhisattvas, and devotional figures. The introduction by the volume editors ties the diverse themes of the book together and provides a historical background to Pure Land Buddhist studies. Scholars of Buddhism and Asian religion, including graduate and post-graduate students, as well as Buddhist practitioners, will appreciate the range of translated materials and accompanied discussions made accessible in one essential collection, the first of its kind to center on the formerly-neglected topic of Buddhist pure lands.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629119298

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Faith, Hope, and Love (Journal Edition) by Saint Augustine Pdf

"Thus it is that love is not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are without faith." St. Augustine St. Augustine’s Faith, Hope, and Love is a short, insightful treatise on the proper way to worship God. In thirty-three small chapters that follow 1 Corinthians 13, Augustine's description of true worship covers all the major ideas of the Christian religion. Written sometime after AD 420, less than a decade before he died, it contains some of his most mature reflections on Christian doctrines. Those looking to understand the proper way to worship and those interested in a brief encapsulation of Augustine’s teaching should look no further than this classic work. Presented in a special journal edition, Faith, Hope, and Love encourages readers to record their impressions and prayers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924003191263

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Chemistry Pamphlets by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur W. Staats
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781616145989

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The Marvelous Learning Animal by Arthur W. Staats Pdf

What makes us human? In recent decades, researchers have focused on innate tendencies and inherited traits as explanations for human behavior, especially in light of groundbreaking human genome research. The author thinks this trend is misleading. As he shows in great detail in this engaging, thought-provoking, and highly informative book, what makes our species unique is our marvelous ability to learn, which is an ability that no other primate possesses. In his exploration of human progress, the author reveals that the immensity of human learning has not been fully understood or examined. Evolution has endowed us with extremely versatile bodies and a brain comprised of one hundred billion neurons, which makes us especially suited for a wide range of sophisticated learning. Already in childhood, human beings begin learning complex repertoires—language, sports, value systems, music, science, rules of behavior, and many other aspects of culture. These repertoires build on one another in special ways, and our brains develop in response to the learning experiences we receive from those around us and from what we read and hear and see. When humans gather in society, the cumulative effect of building learning upon learning is enormous. The author presents a new way of understanding humanness—in the behavioral nature of the human body, in the unique human way of learning, in child development, in personality, and in abnormal behavior. With all this, and his years of basic and applied research, he develops a new theory of human evolution and a new vision of the human being. This book offers up a unified concept that not only provides new ways of understanding human behavior and solving human problems but also lays the foundations for opening new areas of science.

Author : Jane Wilsher
Publisher : What on Earth Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913750582

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Marvelous Body by Jane Wilsher Pdf

Reveal the incredible inner workings of the human body In this eye-catching book, readers can explore the hidden inner workings of the human body, look inside different organs and body systems, and learn about how to look after their own physical and mental health at the same time. Readers use the see-through "magic lens" to reveal how our bodies function and the different body parts hard at work inside us. Find out how your senses work with your brain to show us the world around us, how doctors and nurses spot diseases, and how we turn food into energy... and poop. So pick up the magic lens and take a tour of the marvelous human body!

Author : Richard P. Olson,Ruth Lofgren Rosell,Nathan S. Marsh,Angela Barker Jackson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538107997

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A Guide to Ministry Self-Care by Richard P. Olson,Ruth Lofgren Rosell,Nathan S. Marsh,Angela Barker Jackson Pdf

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of both the causes of stress and strategies for effective self-care. Written for both new and long-time ministers, the book addresses a wide range of life situations and explores many forms of self-care, from physical and financial to relational and spiritual.

Author : Laura Shaine Cunningham
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : 0747568189

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Beautiful Bodies by Laura Shaine Cunningham Pdf

Beautiful Bodies is a wonderful story of contemporary New York life, now out in paperback

Author : Karo Caran
Publisher : Karo Caran
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Roman and Julian by Karo Caran Pdf

Julian is a middle-aged gay poet whose mother, an artist, has just died. While grieving her death, he sorts through his mother's paintings, revisiting a bittersweet past: his parents' marriage overshadowed by memories of war, and his own romantic affair with Roman, his lover. Set in post-war communist Poland, Julian's recollections of his relationship unfold in many ways like the immortal tale of Romeo and Juliet. Just like Shakespeare's young lovers, the two young men, always meeting in secret, hear the nightingales at night and the larks at dawn. Unlike the storied lovers from high class Verona, however, Julian and Roman's love unravels in bleak surroundings: a public park, a grim little apartment, and a primeval forest. As Julian journeys through the reality of his youth, he challenges the tyrannical postwar censorship that surrounded and strangled both art and gay relationships. His tale is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit to survive-and even thrive-in an oppressive political regime.

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812207538

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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Karma Lochrie Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102792538

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Northwest Journal of Education by Anonim Pdf