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Author : William Bradford Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858004695478
Author : William Bradford Reed,Manton Marble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English literature
ISBN : LCCN:70030238
Author : William Bradford Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0461423979
Author : William B. Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1331334748
Excerpt from Memories of Familiar Books The publication of old books under new names is said to be a growing evil in the book trade. The publishers, therefore, think it right to explain the change of title under which a new edition of Mr. Reed's delightful Essays is offered to the public. Before these were collected and issued by the present publishers - indeed, while they were in course of publication in the World - a great publishing house issued a volume of Essays, by an author of high repute, bearing the same title. Mr. Reed's publishers anticipated and advised him of the probable result of using for his book the title he had selected and used in the columns of the World. But he had learned to love the words "Among My Books," justly thought them most appropriate to his work, and, believing himself their proper owner, held firmly to his own, yielding only to a suggestion to use the words "World Essays" as an outer title, in the hope of avoiding confusion. The result was as the publishers anticipated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780231785
When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory—and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considered the improvements in computer data storage, which may lead us into a future when the limits of our memory become less constricting. In this book, John Scanlan explores the nature of memory and how we have come to live both with and within it, as well as what might come from memory becoming a process as simple as retrieving and reading data. Probing the ways philosophers look at memory, Scanlan reveals that some argue that being human means having the ability to remember, to see oneself as a being in time, with a past and future. At the same time, he shows, our memories can undo our present sense of time and place by presenting us with our past lives. And in a digital age, we are immersed in a vast archive of data that not only colors our everyday experiences, but also supplies us with information on anything we might otherwise have forgotten—breaking down the distinction between the memories of the individual and the collective. Drawing on history, philosophy, and technology, Memory offers an engaging investigation of how we comprehend recollection and how memory, as a phenomenon, continually remakes everyday life.
Author : William Bradford Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDP1L
Author : Philippe Tortell,Mark Turin,Margot Young
Publisher : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775276623
This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and space. Ranging from molecular genetics and astrophysics to law and Indigenous oral histories, the essays draw from a diverse group of contributors to capture different perspectives on memory. Reflecting upon memory in engaging and unexpected ways, this collection offers an interdisciplinary roadmap for exploring how, why, and when we remember.
Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714888
The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.
Author : Veronica O'Keane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393541939
How do our brains store—and then conjure up—past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane has spent many years observing how memory and experience are interwoven. In this rich, fascinating exploration, she asks, among other things: Why can memories feel so real? How are our sensations and perceptions connected with them? Why is place so important in memory? Are there such things as “true” and “false” memories? And, above all, what happens when the process of memory is disrupted by mental illness? O’Keane uses the broken memories of psychosis to illuminate the integrated human brain, offering a new way of thinking about our own personal experiences. Drawing on poignant accounts that include her own experiences, as well as what we can learn from insights in literature and fairytales and the latest neuroscientific research, O’Keane reframes our understanding of the extraordinary puzzle that is the human brain and how it changes during its growth from birth to adolescence and old age. By elucidating this process, she exposes the way that the formation of memory in the brain is vital to the creation of our sense of self.
Author : Manton 1835-1917 Ed Marble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374140899
Author : George Peabody Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN : NWU:35556000619445
Author : Mary J. Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521429730
The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.
Author : John Torrey Morse (Jr.),Henry Cabot Lodge,Robert Percival Porter,Henry Gannett,William Ralston Balch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B3057592
Author : Maria Stepanova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811228848
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
Author : Martha Ronk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8874901615