The Otherness Factor

Author : Arlene F. Marks
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531352

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The Otherness Factor by Arlene F. Marks Pdf

"I know where the Angel of Death plague originated, and so does every other ‘patient’ who left Thrygg that day..."Fourteen years ago, Thryggian scientists permitted a mass escape of test subjects from their laboratory on Thrygg, including Abner Dedrick, the youngest member of the powerful Forrand-Dedrick family on Earth. These patients all thought they’d been receiving an unapproved longevity treatment. In fact, they’d been infected with a bio-engineered virus and their escape was the first step in a horrific experiment.Now the day of reckoning is approaching. The plague unleashed on the galaxy by the Thryggians has finally been brought under control and they’re on trial for this and other scientific crimes. The viral strain Abner was carrying has wiped out an entire Human colony. Only his young daughter Lania and his voice log – a damning piece of evidence if brought before the tribunal – have survived. Aboard the Earth ship that rescues Lania is Ixbeth Minegar, a lone alien who becomes convinced that Lania is part of a prophecy that could spell life or death for Ixbeth’s entire race.The Thryggians are not going down quietly. They’ve broken planetary confinement and are determined to find and eliminate any evidence against them, even if it means entering Earth space and destroying Earth ships. Fortunately, the one carrying Abner Dedrick’s log has an alien or two up its sleeve...

Author : Kathleen Hall,Bonner Hardegree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990390411

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The Otherness Factor by Kathleen Hall,Bonner Hardegree Pdf

What if finding love and purpose only requires we become more of who we are - would we know how? Envision a life where we no longer exhaust ourselves trying to fit in or change one another; where relationships are more about otherness than sameness; where the search for common ground and shared interests doesn't hold us back or limit our potential. Today's campfire for the long conversation about life, love and purpose is lighting up cyberspace and the global community. No longer can we pretend there is one right way to be in this world. Spiritual, religious and cultural beliefs may influence our choices - yet, each of us has the innate power to shape our life and form relationships through intention and volition. With life's megapixel array of distractions and diversions, we might question our energetic bandwidth to act with intention. That is, until we assess the cost of inattention - chaos, burnout, loneliness, despair. In The Otherness Factor we slip out of our contained self to observe the remarkable whole of who we are. Guided by ancient and contemporary philosophers, we discover a new alchemy of science, psychology and spirituality. Beyond theory, our capacity to co-create our life has become scientific fact - revolutionizing and reframing all we thought we knew about freewill. This book will take you to places far beyond the ordinary and offer you the power, courage and audacity to stand in your own otherness and form meaningful, lasting relationships. Turn the page - invite new energy and insight - begin to realize the potency and durability of becoming more of who you are!

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 0700704108

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Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa by Yasir Suleiman Pdf

Introduction, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 1 Divided Loyalties: Language and Ethnic Identity in the Arab World, Mike Holt; Chapter 2 Language and Identity in Egyptian Nationalism, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 3 Language, Ethnicity and National Identity in the Tunisian Ethnic Joke, Ibrahim Muhawi; Chapter 4 Ethnolinguistic Communication in Tunisian Streets: Convergence and Divergence, Itesh Sachdev, Sarah Lawson-Sako; Chapter 5 The Construction of Identity in a Divided Palestinian Village: Sociolinguistic Evidence, Muhammad Amara, Bernard Spolsky; Chapter 6 Turkish as a Symbol of Survival and Identity in Bulgaria and Turkey, Cigdem Balim; Chapter 7 Turkish as a Marker of Ethnic Identity and Religious Affiliation, Farida Abu-Haidar; Chapter 8 Language and Ethnopolitics in the Ex-Soviet Muslim Republics, Jacob M. Landau; Chapter 9 Language and Ethnic Identity in Kurdistan: An Historical Overview, Joyce Blau, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 10 Language and Identity: The Case of the Berbers, Mohamed Tilmatine, Yasir Suleiman; Chapter 11 Hebrew and Israeli Identity, Bernard Spolsky;

Author : Alina N. Feld
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739166031

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Melancholy and the Otherness of God by Alina N. Feld Pdf

An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.

Author : Anne-Marie Schlösser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000731552

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness by Anne-Marie Schlösser Pdf

In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages – The Tower of Babel – A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely reflections on the themes of sameness and otherness from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. How are we dealing with communication and its difficulties, the confusion of tongues and loss of common ground within a European context today? Can we move beyond Babel? Confusion and feared loss of shared values and identity are a major part of the daily work of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Bringing together an international range psychoanalytic practitioners and researchers, the book is divided into six parts and covers an array of resonant topics, including: language and translation; cultural identity; families and children; the cyber world; the psychotherapeutic process; and migration. Whereas the quest for unity, which underpins the myth of Babel, leads to mystification, simplification, and the exclusion of people or things, multilingual communities necessitate mutual understanding through dialogue. This book examines those factors that further or threaten communication, aiming not to reduce, but to gain complexity. It suggests that diversification enriches communication and that, by relating to others, we can create something new. As opposed to cultural and linguistic homogeneity, Babel is not only a metaphor for mangled communication, alienation, and distraction, it is also about the acceptance or rejection of differences between self and other. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Author : Sandra Salin,Damien Hall,Cathy Hampton
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782490057566

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Perspectives on the year abroad: a selection of papers from YAC2018 by Sandra Salin,Damien Hall,Cathy Hampton Pdf

This volume draws together a selection of papers from YAC2018, the first meeting in the annual Year Abroad Conference series, which took place at Newcastle University in September 2018. The contributions collected here examine some of the opportunities, gains, and challenges the Year Abroad brings for both students and staff. They are presented around the five broad themes around which YAC2018 was organised: mental health, year abroad preparation, student perception of the year abroad, year abroad assessment, and employability. This volume will be of interest to academics and professional services staff involved in the preparation, administration, and management of the year abroad.

Author : Tadeusz Marek,Waldemar Karwowski,Marek Frankowicz,Jussi Kantola,Pavel Zgaga
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466572874

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Human Factors of a Global Society by Tadeusz Marek,Waldemar Karwowski,Marek Frankowicz,Jussi Kantola,Pavel Zgaga Pdf

During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business. Contemporary HF is clearly shifting towards addressing the human-centered design paradigm for much larger and complex societal systems, the effectiveness of which is affected by recent advances in engineering, science, and education. Human Factors of a Global Society: A System of Systems Perspective explores the future challenges and potential contributions of the human factors discipline in the Conceptual Age of human creativity and social responsibility. Written by a team of experts and pioneers, this book examines the human aspects related to contemporary societal developments in science, engineering, and higher education in the context of unprecedented progress in those areas. It also discusses new paradigms for higher education, including education delivery, and administration from a systems of systems perspective. It then examines the future challenges and potential contributions of the human factors discipline. While there are other books that focus on systems engineering or on a specific area of human factors, this book unifies these different perspectives into a holistic point of view. It gives you an understanding of human factors as it relates to the global enterprise system and its newly emerging characteristics such as quality, system complexity, evolving management system and its role in social and behavioral changes. By exploring the human aspects related to actual societal developments in science, the book opens a new horizon for the HF community.

Author : Michael Volgger,Dieter Pfister
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838670726

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Atmospheric Turn in Culture and Tourism by Michael Volgger,Dieter Pfister Pdf

Combining ideas of sustainable development, strategic marketing and branding with space design and architecture, this volume offers contemporary perspectives on the development and impact of 'atmospheric quality' in tourism and hospitality service situations. Topics discussed include: silent airports, ambient odours and, co-created atmospheres.

Author : Charlotte Hammond
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786949462

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Entangled Otherness by Charlotte Hammond Pdf

Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary Francophone Caribbean cultures. Through examination of archival texts, artistic works and oral histories the author reveals how strategies of crossing, mimicry and masquerade have enabled resistance to the racialised, gendered and patriarchal classifications of bodies that characterized Enlightenment thought during the French transatlantic slave trade.

Author : Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : YALE:39002088448338

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System of the Christian Certainty by Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank Pdf

Author : Lowell K. Handy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317491279

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Jonah's World by Lowell K. Handy Pdf

The story of Jonah, often read as a simple children's story, is a multifaceted and elaborate narrative with serious intent. Treating the biblical book as a fictitious story based on real locations and recognizable persons, 'Jonah's World' examines the background to the story and draws on social science approaches to describe its imaginative world. The book explores the geography, theology, myth, human characters, natural landscape, and the ideology behind the story to uncover a vision of reality shaped by literary technique. Jonah's World will be invaluable to students and scholars seeking a new approach to the reading of this colourful text.

Author : Kyle Conway
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Cultural pluralism in mass media
ISBN : 9781487520557

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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation by Kyle Conway Pdf

Kyle Conway's textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show's creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.

Author : Arlene F. Marks
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928011972

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The Earthborn by Arlene F. Marks Pdf

These aren't the vampires you know. When the Nash'terel were hunted nearly to extinction, they fled to a distant world: Earth. Using their powers of shapeshifting, they blended in with the human population, and with their thirst for life essence, the hunted became the hunters. While the older generation remain in the shadows, associating only with other Nash'terel, their Earthborn offspring are more adventurous. Young Bilyash is tired of hiding and ready to follow his dream into the film industry. He's abandoned the traditional ways of his people and trained as a makeup artist, but two things stand in his way: assassins from the former home world, and Angie Fiore. Angie is unlike any human Bilyash has met, overflowing with the purest life essence he's ever encountered. When assassins on the hunt for Nash'terel catch up with him, both their lives are put in danger, and Bilyash and Angie are forced to run. Bilyash's uncle and his contacts can help them go underground, but it won't stop these killers from tracking them. The only chance Bilyash has to keep himself and Angie safe is to turn the tables. Yet what chance does an inexperienced Earthborn have against centuries-old assassins with nothing to lose?

Author : Arlene F. Marks
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781998795109

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The Bloodstone by Arlene F. Marks Pdf

Sixteen years have passed since the corrupt Council of the First was purged. Since then, the Nash'terel, shapeshifting essence vampires from a distant world, have resumed their quiet lives on Earth, hiding their true nature from their human prey. In small town Ontario, Travis lives with his adoptive grandpas, dividing his time between school and hockey practice. Everyone, including Travis, thinks he's an ordinary Canadian teen, until a series of uncontrolled shapeshifts and a growing telekinetic talent reveal his Nash'terel heritage. Having "superpowers" sounds great, until he has to put his dream of NHL stardom on hold and move across the country to train them. He may not be happy, but he's going to need control of those powers in order to survive. Someone has put a bounty on dashkra, the alien mineral that all Nash'terel carry inside them. While Travis struggles to adjust to his new existence, his grandpas and their contacts must work to find out who has turned their kind into prey—yet again.

Author : René van der Veer
Publisher : IAP
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781648020445

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Vygotsky’s Pedology of the School Age by René van der Veer Pdf

This is an edited (introduced and annotated) book by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who belongs to the most well-known social scientists of the previous century and whose body of writings still serves as a source of inspiration for present-day researchers in psychology, education, linguistics, and so on. The book had not been translated into any language and was virtually unknown to the scientific community, because it is extremely hard to find a copy of the original. The book will cause excitement among those familiar with Vygotsky’s writings, because it deals with an aspect of his life and work that is little known, notably his involvement with child studies or, as it is also known, pedology (paidology, paedology). Child studies was a new discipline launched by the American G. Stanley Hall which aimed to offer a comprehensive study of the child including psychological, educational, medical, and social aspects. The discipline enjoyed a brief popularity in the US and Europe until WW 1 and continued its existence in the USSR until 1936 when it was forbidden. The book gives a unique insight into Russian and Soviet pedology and will be interesting to anyone interested in developmental and general psychology, education, and the social history of these disciplines. As the book requires virtually no previous knowledge it can be read with profit by both undergraduate and graduate students and professors. An additional asset for those specifically interested in Vygotsky’s theorizing is that it shows a whole new light on the social-historical and political background of his ideas. The book is introduced by an essay that explains the historical embeddedness of Vygotsky’s ideas and the footnotes and list of brief biographies of key figures make it particularly easy to understand the book’s content and context.