The Mantis And The Mirror

Author : Jan Doorn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359787883

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The Mantis and the Mirror by Jan Doorn Pdf

Author : Maria Gerolemou,Lilia Diamantopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350101296

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Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Maria Gerolemou,Lilia Diamantopoulou Pdf

This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.

Author : Jason Cooper
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612365091

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Praying Mantises by Jason Cooper Pdf

Discover That There Are 2000 Kinds Of Praying Mantises, What Their Eating Habits Are, What They Look Like, And How They Hunt.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004442962

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African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics by Anonim Pdf

In African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, interrogating the possible contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa.

Author : Michael Swanwick
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429989497

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Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick Pdf

The Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil image—and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Technology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069709479

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English Mechanic and Mirror of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Iori Miyazawa
Publisher : J-Novel Club
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781718360068

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Otherside Picnic: Volume 5 by Iori Miyazawa Pdf

Having succeeded in their goal of spending a night on the Otherside, Sorawo and Toriko can now take their expeditions deeper. The two spend their days surrounded by the supernatural, going back and forth between their normal and abnormal daily lives. A chaotic love hotel girls' party in Shinjuku vanishes from Sorawo's memory. Toriko's university life and inner thoughts become clear. A mysterious lady lives in a mansion in the other world. As they search for clues as to the whereabouts of the missing man, Abarato, Hasshaku-sama appears before the pair once again. Otherside Picnic is back for its 5th volume!

Author : Clyde W. Ford
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780553378689

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The Hero with an African Face by Clyde W. Ford Pdf

In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasure of African mythology, bringing to life the ancient tales and showing why they matter so much to us today. African myths convey the perennial wisdom of humanity: the creation of the world, the hero's journey, our relationship with nature, death, and resurrection. From the Ashanti comes the moving account of the grief-stricken Kwasi Benefo's journey to the underworld to seek his beloved wives. From Uganda we learn of the legendary Kintu, who won the love of a goddess and created a nation from a handful of isolated clans. The Congo's epic hero Mwindo is the sacred warrior who shows us the path each person must travel to discover his true destiny. These and other important African myths show us the history of African Americans in a new light--as a hero's journey, a courageous passage to a hard-won victory. The Hero with an African Face enriches us all by restoring this vital tradition to the world.

Author : Bruce C. Gates,Helmut Knoezinger,Friederike C. Jentoft
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080921809

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Advances in Catalysis by Bruce C. Gates,Helmut Knoezinger,Friederike C. Jentoft Pdf

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst, a substance that notably affects the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed or altered. Since 1948, Advances in Catalysis has filled the gap between the papers that report on and the textbooks that teach in the diverse areas of catalysis research. The editors of and contributors to Advances in Catalysis are dedicated to recording progress in this area. * Provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of catalytic research * Contains in-depth, critical, state-of-the-art reports

Author : Jordan Hilliard
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622123049

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The Mantis Corporation by Jordan Hilliard Pdf

Newly-recruited Special Forces operative Jake Porter finds himself entwined in a complex web of murder, conspiracy, dark secrets and terror, when he is sent to the United States to put a stop to a faction that's been hacking into the most elaborate systems in the world; gaining vast amounts of cash, top secret information, and sensitive materials. Attached to a shadowy Special Forces unit known as The Mantis Corporation, Porter must find and kill three targets linked to the terrorist circle. However things are not as simple as that. Dispatched to a foreign country without support, Porter has to fight his personal battles with past traumas, old friends, new enemies, mysterious love interests, and the truth itself. His debut mission is very nearly derailed by a simple mistake on his part. To survive and succeed he must place his trust in the enigmatic Mister Oscar, a Russian, who despite working with the terrorists, is not quite who he seems. With the terrorist plot escalating and the clock ticking, Jake Porter must carry out his mission in time to stop the dastardly faction from leaking vital secrets that could potentially rock the British government to its core.

Author : Amir Clayton Powell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304856579

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Song of the Mantis by Amir Clayton Powell Pdf

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986-07-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262610469

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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss Pdf

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Author : Rolf Schäfer,Peter C. Schmidt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527636846

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Methods in Physical Chemistry by Rolf Schäfer,Peter C. Schmidt Pdf

Thanks to the progress made in instruments and techniques, the methods in physical chemistry have developed rapidly over the past few decades, making them increasingly valuable for scientists of many disciplines. These two must-have volumes meet the needs of the scientific community for a thorough overview of all the important methods currently used. As such, this work bridges the gap between standard textbooks and review articles, covering a large number of methods, as well as the motivation behind their use. A uniform approach is adopted throughout both volumes, while the critical comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each method makes this a valuable reference for physical chemists and other scientists working with these techniques.

Author : Philip Temple
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781906148881

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The Mantis by Philip Temple Pdf

It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on ... ' In 1977 a British expedition led by Himalayan veteran Geoff Strickland, summiteer of K2 and Everest among others, set off to attempt the first ascent of unclimbed Puthemojar - the 'Mantis' - in the Karakoram. 25,311 feet high, renowned for its difficulty, and with a fearsome reputation, the Mantis had claimed the life of at least one climber on each of the previous expeditions that had attempted to scale its complex series of ridges and icefalls. In order to claim the coveted first ascent, Strickland put together a small team comprising the cream of British mountaineering talent: his long-time Himalayan climbing partner and photographer Michael Blackmore; the redoubtable northerner Joe Dodge, as tough as they come; Dodge's regular partner and another veteran of numerous Himalayan expeditions Doug Lowrie; and two young guns - Brit Alan Wyllie, and Kiwi Peter Chase, a pair who had been tearing up the Alpine rule book with daring ascents on the steepest and most difficult faces. Although Michael Blackmore's 1980 record of the climb - The Last Challenge - has become a classic of mountaineering literature, Blackmore himself was never satisfied it told the full story of the events on Puthemojar in 1977. Before his death in 2000, Blackmore had prepared a draft manuscript - a 'creative narrative' - of the expedition which, with thanks to Blackmore's widow, has now been completed by award-winning author and mountaineer Philip Temple. While perhaps best regarded as a work of fiction, The Mantis tells for the first time the gripping story of that 1977 British expedition to Puthemojar. It is a portrait of these men, their drive, this mountain and a credible testimony of just what went on, high on the Mantis.

Author : Roni Grén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351671729

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The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art by Roni Grén Pdf

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its focus on the concept of the animal, rather than on images of animals, and it aims towards a theoretical account of the connections between the notions of art and animality in the modern age. Roni Grén’s book spans various disciplines, such as art theory, art history, animal studies, modernism, postmodernism, posthumanism, philosophy, and aesthetics.