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Author : Christie Nancy (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463611446
Author : Nancy Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1950730409
Peripheral Visions and Other Stories won second place in the Florida Writers Association 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition, with three of the stories having also earned contest placements.
Author : Mary C. Bateson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061875878
Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.
Author : Catarina Frois
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782380245
In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through technology” was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country’s peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of how the political construction of security and surveillance as a strategic program actually conceals intricate institutional relationships between political decision-makers and common citizens. Essentially, the detailed account of the major actors, as well as their roles and motivations, serves to explain phenomena such as the confusion between objective data and subjective perceptions or the lack of communication between parties, which as this study argues, underlies the idiosyncrasies and fragilities of Portugal’s still relatively young democratic system.
Author : Kenneth Scott Calhoon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0814329284
The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema, the eight essays in this volume, though some more explicitly than others, have Kracauer as their interlocutor. The first major critic of classic German cinema, Kracauer is patron of the optics that seeks insight on the periphery, inviting the analysis of those other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves. The films treated in this volume include such Expressionist mainstays as Lang's Metropolis and Murnau's Nosferatu as well as generally less familiar works, e.g., Ruttman's Berlin, Symphony of a City, Jessner's Backstairs, Berger's Day and Night, and the mountain films of Fanck and Riefenstahl. Among the "hidden stages" analyzed are amusement parks, carnivals, department stores, train compartments, city streets, the womb, the theater, the chamber, basement apartments-and ultimately Neubabelsberg, the gargantuan studio-complex near Berlin where so many of these peripheral spaces came to be simulated. With references that range from set architecture to Christmas celebrations, from the poetry of Rilke to chamber music, from the introduction of sound to Macy's parades, and from an "urban unconscious" to a "cinematic sublime," Peripheral Visions is a richly nuanced collection that will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of film and German cultural studies.
Author : Patricia Ferguson
Publisher : Solidus
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904529293
Sylvia, a brilliant and successful eye surgeon, reacts to the discovery that she is pregnant with amazement, despite taking no precautions -- Iris is a timid young woman in love with a man from a different social stratum -- And Ruby is a 1950's housewife who receives poison pen letters, which she believes she thoroughly deserves.
Author : Jackie Grutsch McKinney
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781457184178
Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is a solely comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-on-one tutoring on their writing—Grutsch McKinney shines light on other representations of writing center work. Grutsch McKinney argues that this grand narrative neglects the extent to which writing center work is theoretically and pedagogically complex, with ever-changing work and conditions, and results in a straitjacket for writing center scholars, practitioners, students, and outsiders alike. Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers makes the case for a broader narrative of writing center work that recognizes and theorizes the various spaces of writing center labor, allows for professionalization of administrators, and sees tutoring as just one way to perform writing center work. Grutsch McKinney explores possibilities that lie outside the grand narrative, allowing scholars and practitioners to open the field to a fuller, richer, and more realistic representation of their material labor and intellectual work.
Author : Phyllis Theroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000397454
Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958004
Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time. Beginning with "The Perseids," winner of Canada's national SF award, this collection showcases Wilson's suppleness and strength: bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings facing choices that matter. Also included among the several stories herein are the acclaimed Hugo Award finalist "Divided by Infinity" and three new stories written specifically for this collection. "Beautifully observed, skillfully worked out: stories that flow subtly, almost imperceptably, from the prosaic to the preternatural."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : John W. Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595253814
Rain and Other Stories is a book of eleven short stories about people in crisis. Stories like Rope and The Last Day are about educators who have reached crisis moments in their lives and must find some kind of resolution. A man wants to live forever in Immortal, and in The River and Snow Falling readers will find out how dangerous it is to betray the trust of the McKinley women. Rain tells the tale of a young boy abducted by a rebel army in Africa, and The Green Chain deals with the dangers of working in a sawmill in Northeastern Montana. All of these stories are about the pivotal moments of ordinary people, and their responses show us something about how we survive as human beings.
Author : Gémino H. Abad
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789715426381
This two-volume anthology is the sequel to Upon Our Own Ground (2008).
Author : Jason Parent
Publisher : Red Room Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Terry Dukes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244003777
Author : Lisa Wedeen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226877921
The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen’s contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry’s shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.
Author : Paddy O’Reilly
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702253607
An outstanding new collection of stories from ‘a significant Australian talent’ (Australian) A teenager on the tram meets an old man claiming to be Jesus Christ. Six young women band together on a night prowl. A Filipino immigrant clashes with his eldest sister, who has brought him to Australia for a better life. And in a future where dogs have risen up against their owners, a mother is alarmed by her adolescent daughter’s behaviour. Through such diverse characters, Paddy O’Reilly takes us into the fringes of human nature – our hidden thoughts, our darker impulses and our unspoken tragedies. By turns elegiac and acerbic, but always acutely observed, Peripheral Vision confirms O’Reilly as one of our most inventive and insightful writers.
