Persistence Of Memory

Author : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440240044

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Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Erin Misrahe just wants to be like everyone else in her new school. But Erin has more to worry about than passing AP Chemistry or making friends. In times of stress, she has always been overcome by her alter ego, Shevaun, whose violent behavior wreaks havoc on those around her. Erin can never remember anything about these episodes, and she’s grateful to have been spared them for a while. But when a protective friend comes back into Erin’s life, he insists that Shevaun is a vampire who actually exists apart from Erin. Shevaun has dangerous allies, like the handsome witch Adjila—and they’re determined to sever Shevaun’s connection to Erin once and for all.

Author : Salvador Dalí,Marco Dolcetta,Elena Mazour,Mark Eaton
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : NDE Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : 2002 materials
ISBN : 1553210042

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Dali, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí,Marco Dolcetta,Elena Mazour,Mark Eaton Pdf

These books invite the reader on a journey through the most famous paintings in the history of art. Detailed, informative, & stimulating portraits of the individual artists are documented alongside beautiful glossy illustrations & detailed keys to the paintings.

Author : Philip Kuberski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520335769

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While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory—our own marvelous personal computer or data base—that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation? Drawing on an expansive array of sources, from microbiology to cosmology, Ovid to Proust, Egyptology to the cinema, Philip Kuberski leads us on a brave and beguiling exploration of memory. He enables us to see it as a worldly process in which individuals both remember and are remembered, all in a network of associations that join our bodies, personal and cultural myths, and aesthetic and literary experiences. His essays will provide a tantalizing and thoughtful read for those interested in literature, psychology, biology, anthropology, and philosophy. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Author : Tony Eprile
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393327229

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Persistance of Memory by Tony Eprile Pdf

"Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."—Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the novel builds to a harrowing conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee with astonishing results. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee calls The Persistence of Memory "a story of coming to maturity in South Africa in the bad old days. Always warm-hearted, sometimes comic, ultimately damning." Reading group guide included.

Author : Peter Read
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243613

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Picasso and Apollinaire by Peter Read Pdf

Monografie over de vriendschap en creatieve interactie tussen de Spaans/Franse kunstenaar (1881-1973) en de Franse dichter (1880-1918).

Author : Meredith Etherington-smith
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0306806622

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The Persistence Of Memory by Meredith Etherington-smith Pdf

Surrealist painter, author, filmmaker, lecturer, performance artist, charlatan, genius, clown, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) once asked himself, "Where does the deep and philosophical Dalí begin, and where does the loony and preposterous Dalí end?" This evenhanded but exacting biography, based on interviews, unpublished letters, and previously unavailable archives, explores the relationship between his eccentric life and the hallucinatory imagery of the paintings that, like the soft watches, have become twentieth-century icons. The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dalí's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala—muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor. With reproductions of sixteen Dalí paintings, The Persistence of Memory offers an unrivaled tour of the absurd and haunting landscape of Dalí's life.

Author : Daniel L. Schacter
Publisher : HMH
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547347455

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The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bomber—he also delves into striking new scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory and offering “insight into common malfunctions of the mind” (USA Today). “Though memory failure can amount to little more than a mild annoyance, the consequences of misattribution in eyewitness testimony can be devastating, as can the consequences of suggestibility among pre-school children and among adults with ‘false memory syndrome’ . . . Drawing upon recent neuroimaging research that allows a glimpse of the brain as it learns and remembers, Schacter guides his readers on a fascinating journey of the human mind.” —Library Journal “Clear, entertaining and provocative . . . Encourages a new appreciation of the complexity and fragility of memory.” —The Seattle Times “Should be required reading for police, lawyers, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to understand how memory can go terribly wrong.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fascinating journey through paths of memory, its open avenues and blind alleys . . . Lucid, engaging, and enjoyable.” —Jerome Groopman, MD “Compelling in its science and its probing examination of everyday life, The Seven Sins of Memory is also a delightful book, lively and clear.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the William James Book Award

Author : Jessica Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789622324

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The Persistence of Memory by Jessica Moody Pdf

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being 'forgotten histories', persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of 'place' and 'identity', has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the 'slaving capital of the world', had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain's oldest continuous black presence, has publicly 'remembered' its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.

Author : Miguel Ángel Zapata
Publisher : UNMSM
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9972463176

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Mario Vargas Llosa and the Persistence of Memory by Miguel Ángel Zapata Pdf

Editado en idioma inglés, este tributo a Mario Vargas Llosa y sus obras reúne los ensayos preparados en su honor, en la Universidad de Hofstra, noviembre del 2003. También se incluye dos entrevistas y una selecta bibliografía.

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451650754

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Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory by David Mack Pdf

Book One in the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! A BRAZEN HEIST Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4—and for what sinister purpose. A BROKEN PROMISE One desperate father risks all for the son he abandoned forty years ago—but is he ready to pay the price for redemption? A DARING MISSION Against overwhelming odds, and with time running out, Commander Worf has only one chance to avert a disaster. But how high a price will he pay for victory?

Author : Amanda Lear
Publisher : National Public Radio
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0915765403

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Author : Svetlana Petrova
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780698195158

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Fat Cat Art by Svetlana Petrova Pdf

“It’s official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty.” —The Huffington Post Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova’s brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova’s paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate full-color collection of her work, including several never-before-seen pieces, to savor for themselves or to give as a gift to fellow cat lovers. From competing with Venus’s sexy reclining pose (and almost knocking her off her chaise lounge in the process) in Titian’s Venus of Urbino, to exhibiting complete disdain as he skirts away from God’s pointing finger in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, Zarathustra single-handedly rewrites art history in the way that only an adorable fat cat can.

Author : Salvador Dali
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486319841

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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí by Salvador Dali Pdf

This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the...total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" — Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings.

Author : Urvashi Butalia
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789351367062

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The Persistence of Memory by Urvashi Butalia Pdf

Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumatic circumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and with many other lost acquaintances. For those few hours Bir Bahadur is there, the past comes alive, for him and for his companion on the journey, the author herself.

Author : Siobhan Kattago
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097600

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Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe by Siobhan Kattago Pdf

Why do certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? Likewise, why does the process of memory, as a fluid and changing activity, seem to prevent its own solidification? Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe reflects not only on the persistence of the past as a theme linked to modernity, media and time, but also discusses the politics of memory within a changing Europe. Drawing on the theoretical work of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin and Zygmunt Bauman, Siobhan Kattago uses examples from both Germany and Estonia in order to address the multiple layers of Europe's totalitarian past. Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offers the reader occasions upon which to take stock of different but overlapping contours of past and present in contemporary Europe.