The Circle The Spiral

Author : Eva Rask Knudsen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9042010584

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The Circle & the Spiral by Eva Rask Knudsen Pdf

In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives and sense of orientation, is the most significant act of cultural recuperation. The present study outlines the fields of indigenous writing in Australia and New Zealand in the crucial period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s - particularly eventful years in which postcolonial theory attempted to 'centre the margins' and indigenous writers were keen to escape the particular centering offered in search of other positions more in tune with their creative sensibilities. Indigenous writing relinquished its narrative preference for social realism in favour of traversing old territory in new spiritual ways; roots converted into routes. Standard postcolonial readings of indigenous texts often overwrite the 'difference' they seek to locate because critical orthodoxy predetermines what 'difference' can be. Critical evaluations still tend to eclipse the ontological grounds of Aboriginal and Māori traditions and specific ways of moving through and behaving in cultural landscapes and social contexts. Hence the corrective applied in Circles and Spirals - to look for locally and culturally specific tracks and traces that lead in other directions than those catalogued by postcolonial convention. This agenda is pursued by means of searching enquiries into the historical, anthropological, political and cultural determinants of the present state of Aboriginal and Māori writing (principally fiction). Independent yet interrelated exemplary analyses of works by Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace and Mudrooroo and Sam Watson (Australia) provided the 'thick description' that illuminates the author's central theses, with comparative side-glances at Witi Ihimaera, Heretaunga Pat Baker and Alan Duff (New Zealand) and Archie Weller and Sally Morgan (Australia).

Author : Douglas M. Jesseph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0226399001

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Squaring the Circle by Douglas M. Jesseph Pdf

PrefaceList of AbbreviationsChapter One: The Mathematical Career of the Monster of MalmesburyChapter Two: The Reform of Mathematics and of the UniversitiesIdeological Origins of the DisputeChapter Three: De Corpore and the Mathematics of MaterialismChapter Four: Disputed FoundationsHobbes vs. Wallis on the Philosophy of MathematicsChapter Five: The "Modern Analytics" and the Nature of DemonstrationChapter Six: The Demise of Hobbesian GeometryChapter Seven: The Religion, Rhetoric, and Politics of Mr. Hobbes and Dr. WallisChapter Eight: Persistence in ErrorWhy Was Hobbes So Resolutely Wrong?Appendix: Selections from Hobbes's Mathematical WritingsReferencesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : John Kirkby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1748
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019719405

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The Doctrine of Ultimators. Containing a New Acquisition to Mathematical Literature, Naturally Resulting from the Consideration of an Equation, as Reducible from Its Variable to Its Ultimate State, Etc. MS. Notes by John Kirkby Pdf

Author : John Kirkby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1748
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11688682

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The Doctrine of Ultimators by John Kirkby Pdf

Author : John Kirkby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1748
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBUR:BU101009022

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The Doctrine of Ultimators, Containing a New Acquisition to Mathematical Literature, Naturally Refulting from the Consideration of an Equation, as Reducible from Its Variable to Its Ultimate State ... By the Reverend Mr. John Kirkby, Vicar of Waldershare in Kent by John Kirkby Pdf

Author : Roderick Gordon,Brian Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Civilization, Subterranean
ISBN : 0954839900

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Highfield Mole by Roderick Gordon,Brian Williams Pdf

Author : Laura Harjo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816538010

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Spiral to the Stars by Laura Harjo Pdf

All communities are teeming with energy, spirit, and knowledge, and Spiral to the Stars taps into and activates this dynamism to discuss Indigenous community planning from a Mvskoke perspective. This book poses questions about what community is, how to reclaim community, and how to embark on the process of envisioning what and where the community can be. Geographer Laura Harjo demonstrates that Mvskoke communities have what they need to dream, imagine, speculate, and activate the wishes of ancestors, contemporary kin, and future relatives—all in a present temporality—which is Indigenous futurity. Organized around four methodologies—radical sovereignty, community knowledge, collective power, and emergence geographies—Spiral to the Stars provides a path that departs from traditional community-making strategies, which are often extensions of the settler state. Readers are provided a set of methodologies to build genuine community relationships, knowledge, power, and spaces for themselves. Communities don’t have to wait on experts because this book helps them activate their own possibilities and expertise. A detailed final chapter provides participatory tools that can be used in workshop settings or one on one. This book offers a critical and concrete map for community making that leverages Indigenous way-finding tools. Mvskoke narratives thread throughout the text, vividly demonstrating that theories come from lived and felt experiences. This is a must-have book for community organizers, radical pedagogists, and anyone wishing to empower and advocate for their community.

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400823192

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Nabokov's Pale Fire by Brian Boyd Pdf

Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators, as it first appears, or one? How much is fantasy and how much is reality? Whose fantasy and whose reality are they? Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and hitherto the foremost proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a new and startlingly different solution that will permanently shift the nature of critical debate on the novel. Boyd argues that the book does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern--and more interesting than ever. In presenting his arguments, Boyd shows how Nabokov designed Pale Fire for readers to make surprising discoveries on a first reading and even more surprising discoveries on subsequent readings by following carefully prepared clues within the novel. Boyd leads the reader step-by-step through the book, gradually revealing the profound relationship between Nabokov's ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. If Nabokov has generously planned the novel to be accessible on a first reading and yet to incorporate successive vistas of surprise, Boyd argues, it is because he thinks a deep generosity lies behind the inexhaustibility, complexity, and mystery of the world. Boyd also shows how Nabokov's interest in discovery springs in part from his work as a scientist and scholar, and draws comparisons between the processes of readerly and scientific discovery. This is a profound, provocative, and compelling reinterpretation of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Author : Charles Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1704
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000070105

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A Treatise of Fluxions by Charles Hayes Pdf

Author : Jonathan Stephen Harris
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781633228221

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The Art of Spiral Drawing by Jonathan Stephen Harris Pdf

The Art of Spiral Drawing offers a fresh, modern take on everyone’s favorite childhood toy from the 1960s through today, the Spirograph®. With The Art of Spiral Drawing, no complicated tools are needed, as artists of all skill levels learn to create their own spiral art using little more than paper and a pen or pencil. Written and illustrated by Jonathan Stephen Harris, the author of the popular The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions, the book opens with helpful sections on tools and materials, perspective, and shading, ensuring that beginning artists know the basics before getting started on the step-by-step projects that follow. Instructions for creating basic shapes, including a triangle, a circle, and a square, progress into more detailed patterns featuring perspective, florals, and more. Instructions are also included for creating a variety of subjects, from flowers to animals, all featuring a spiral pattern as their framework. Artists can even add color to their spiral artwork using the tips featured in the book and simple tools like colored pencils and markers. Beginning and intermediate artists, doodlers, optical illusionists, and more will love creating their own spiral and geometric art with the help of The Art of Spiral Drawing!

Author : Teun Koetsier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031398728

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A History of Kinematics from Zeno to Einstein by Teun Koetsier Pdf

This book covers the history of kinematics from the Greeks to the 20th century. It shows that the subject has its roots in geometry, mechanics and mechanical engineering and how it became in the 19th century a coherent field of research, for which Ampère coined the name kinematics. The story starts with the important Greek tradition of solving construction problems by means of kinematically defined curves and the use of kinematical models in Greek astronomy. As a result in 17th century mathematics motion played a crucial role as well, and the book pays ample attention to it. It is also discussed how the concept of instantaneous velocity, unknown to the Greeks, etc was introduced in the late Middle Ages and how in the 18th century, when classical mechanics was formed, kinematical theorems concerning the distribution of velocity in a solid body moving in space were proved. The book shows that in the 19th century, against the background of the industrial revolution, the theory of machines and thus the kinematics of mechanisms received a great deal of attention. In the final analysis, this led to the birth of the discipline.

Author : Audun Holme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642144417

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Geometry by Audun Holme Pdf

This is a revised edition of the ?rst printing which appeared in 2002. The book is based on lectures at the University of Bergen, Norway.Over the years these lectures have covered many different aspects and facets of the wonderful ?eld of geometry. Consequently it has never been possible to give a full and ?nal account of geometry as such, at an undergraduatelevel: A carefully consideredselection has always been necessary. The present book constitutes the main central themes of these selections. One of the groups I am aiming at, is future teachers of mathematics. All too oftenthe textsdealingwith geometrywhichgo intothe syllabusforteacher-students present the material in ways which appear pedantic and formalistic, suppressing the very powerful and dynamic character of this old ?eld, which at the same time so young. Geometry is a ?eld of mathematical insight, research, history and source of artistic inspiration. And not least important, an integral part of our common cultural heritage.

Author : Doug Stillinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 1570549605

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The Spiral Draw Book by Doug Stillinger Pdf

Our specially-engineered drawing wheels make it easy to create perfect spiral designs right on the pages of the book. Colorchanging gel pens add depth to the patterns, giving them a nifty 3-D look. Spiral Draw spins a retro-cool classic into an imaginative new orbit.

Author : Robert J. Belton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319551883

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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral by Robert J. Belton Pdf

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Borrowing from behavioral psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, author Robert J. Belton seeks to explain differences of critical opinion as inevitable. The book begins by introducing the hermeneutic spiral, a cognitive processing model that categorizes responses to Vertigo’s meaning, ranging from wide consensus to wild speculations of critical “outliers.” Belton then provides an overview of the film, arguing that different interpreters literally see and attend to different things. The fourth chapter builds on this conclusion, arguing that because people see different things, one can force the production of new meanings by deliberately drawing attention to unusual comparisons. The latter chapters outline a number of such comparisons—including avant-garde films and the works of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch—to shed new light on the meanings of Vertigo.

Author : William Henry Searles
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385413085

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The Railroad Spiral. The Theory of the Compound Transition Curve Reduced to Practical Formulæ and Rules for Application in Field Work. With Complete Tables of Deflections and Ordinates for Five Hundred Spirals by William Henry Searles Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.