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Mastery and Lost Illusions by Wlodzimierz Borodziej,Stanislav Holubec,Joachim Puttkamer Pdf
This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the region’s transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the state’s role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.
A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics by Zlatko Jovanovic Pdf
This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the book explores how the promotion of the city as a future global tourist centre resulted in an increased awareness among its populace of the city’s cultural particularities. The analysis reveals how the process of modernisation relating to hosting of the Olympics provided an opportunity to re-imagine the city as a particularly environmentally progressive city. Placed within the field of studies of late socialism, the book offers important insights into Yugoslav society during the period, including those relating to the country’s unique geopolitical position and its nationalities policies.
If Cars Could Walk by Ger Duijzings,Tauri Tuvikene Pdf
In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former ‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.
"Balzac [was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything." Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but naïve, Lucien is patronized by the beau monde as represented by Madame de Bargeton and her cousin, the formidable Marquise d'Espard, only to be duped by them. Denied the social rank he thought would be his, Lucien discards his poetic aspirations and turns to hack journalism; his descent into Parisian low life ultimately leads to his own death. "Balzac was both a greedy child and an indefatigable observer of a greedy age, at once a fantastic and a genius, yet possessing a simple core of common sense," noted V. S. Pritchett, one of his several biographers. Another, André Maurois, concluded: "Balzac was by turns a saint, a criminal, an honest judge, a corrupt judge, a minister, a fob, a harlot, a duchess, and always a genius." This Modern Library edition presents the translation by Kathleen Raine.
How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts by John P. Keenan Pdf
This is the first English translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, but it is more than a translation. Keenan shows that Mou-tzus Treatise on Alleviating Doubt is a Buddhist hermeneutic on the Chinese classics. Using a reader-response method of examining the text, Keenan shows how the rhetoric convinces readers that one can remain culturally Chinese yet be a Buddhist. The Introduction explains the reader-response methodology, develops the movement of the dialogue in terms of this method, and clarifies the rhetorical impact of Master Mous argument. The Introduction is followed by the thirty-seven articles of the text. Each article is first translated into English, then the contextual images and ideas are unpacked for each, and finally each article is subjected to a reader-response critique that shows what the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps.
Amber Oak and the Master of Illusions by Ceara Comeau Pdf
A vengeful plot, bizarre secrets, strange people; these are but a few elements in Amber's next case. She must solve this mystery before her nightmares become reality.
Gangstalking and Psychic Possession: Servants of the Master Builders of Illusion by Eliza M Parr Pdf
If Gangstalking destroys the lives of millions why is it allowed to exist? As a tool of the elite, using other worldly entities, mind control and technology, it protects the illusion controlled by the Master Builder's and allows the Serpent in everybody's subconscious to control them by concepts and impressions, a necessary device linked to corporate profits as well as the maintenance of the illusion. The original instigators of civilization still oversee and control the evolution of illusion down here on earth. This book answers the many questions, both spiritual and practical, as to the irrational activity of Gangstalking. It details the concealed reality which co-exists, underlies, monitors and controls this one.A reality of psychic possession, shape-shifting, daimons. Energies devoted to impeding the emergence of mankind's true Glory for the sake of maintaining control of the illusion. You may not like everything that you read in this book but you after you have read it you will be in no doubt that it is time to awaken to long hidden truths about how the world works and not who but WHAT controls it and why. *Contains inside and on back cover, photographs of shape-shifting/demonic materialization's linked to gangstalking and gangstalkers themselves. Chapters include:- 1) Who is behind this? 2) The possessed seeking to possess others 3) Freemasonry is the church of the Serpent 3) Recognizing the energy that isn't you; re-claiming the lost vision! 4) Understanding the evolution of psychic possession 5) Incarnation of the soul and the soulless 6) The Serpent in the garden 7) The beatific state without the Serpent 8) Why the Master Builders suppress the beatific state for the propagation of illusion 9) The usurpation of individuality and empowerment leaves us slaves to the Master Builders illusion 10) Asset management and the order of the Knights of Malta 11) The Serpents control depends upon lack of love, putting out the human nodes of light 12) Mind control the suckers 13) Brutalizing the awakened, the Serpents only threat 14) Why Gangstalkers steal the jewels of the solar plexus chakra and Chi 15) Why the electronic mind control of society is necessary 16) Generated fracas, keeping communities mediocre by artificial intelligence, gangstalking and technological thugs 17) Tech to achieve take over: by their fruits ye shall know them 18) Unlimited personal power is counteracted 19) Energetic beings made real and formed from your body 20) Technology for the supplantation: hybrid cyborg slaves 21) Targeted individuals and gangstalking 22) Taking our power back from the Master Builders: the dawning of a new kingdom 23) Fallen Angels
Supergirl: Master of Illusion by Jo Whittemore Pdf
A gala in National City goes from utterly elegant to completely chaotic when a princess begins hurling fireballs at a seemingly innocent bystander. Luckily Kara Danvers is on hand as Supergirl and able to quickly contain the damage. But what caused the peace-loving princess to unleash such fiery fury? The innocent bystander was Felix Faust, a centuries-old villain who brought devastation to the princess’s ancestors long ago. Not only is Faust the epitome of evil, he also has the ability to cast illusions so believable that even Supergirl falls prey to his magic. What does Faust want in National City? Supergirl and the DEO face one of their most chilling foes yet when they square off against the Master of Illusion!
Secrets, Tragedy, Courage, Love. Master of Illusion Book II continues the story of the tormented genius, Angel, and his childhood friend, Elise, the prima ballerina who once graced the stage as La Belle and now directs their own opera house, the Opéra Magique. Their lives ensue in an entanglement of secrets, subterfuge, tragedy and love through which they battle their fated hand. Though the skeletons of the past continue to haunt, the veil concealing the truth begins to fall. It is Paris,1892, and the Opéra Magique is riding a wave of unparalleled success, with the help of Sprite, the Master's popular, fairy-like assistant. Walking the fine line required to keep in abeyance the mutual passions of her star, the volatile magician known as the Master of Illusion, and her goddaughter, the beautiful comtesse de Villefontaine, Madame Dupont needs all her ingenuity to divert the jealous rage of the comte and the suspicions of Police Chief Captain Moreau. Few people know the truth behind the Master's identity, yet one of them is, all unwittingly, about to give him away. But as their opera house and lives are plunged, yet again, into unthinkable tragedy, fate thrusts Angel and Elise—the Master and Madame—onto a new path of discovery: a path that holds both alluring revelations and nightmares of untold suffering. Angel and Elise battle choices of life and death, of courage and sacrifice, as they finally discover the answers they've so longed for. But, in discovering the truth of the past, the truth about Angel and the truth about love, do they find the solace they so crave? Can Angel and Elise overcome the barriers of fate, or will they be destroyed in their determination to do so?