The Owl S Mirror

Author : Wilfried Wlochal
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475965070

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The Owl’S Mirror by Wilfried Wlochal Pdf

After his flight to Calgary, Canada, suddenly ends in a fiery crash, fifty-eight-year-old Tony Parker is rescued by a stranger. Shaken, but with few injuries, Tony is shocked when he looks in the mirror and stares into the face of a teenager. But the biggest shock is yet to come when Tony is told he has died and is now living in an alternate world. Introducing himself as Max, the stranger announces that Tony is now residing in a secular afterlife rumoured to be built from memory where all the regulars still have a debt to pay. Populated by characters such as Marlene Dietrich, Mata Hari, Charles Ponzi, and Mozart, who often repeat blunders made during their lifetimes, the world is ruled by an integration council assembled to deal with problem migrants such as Tony. As Tony attempts to acclimate to his new home, he is paired with Sebastian Melmoth, also known as Oscar Wilde, who becomes his mentor assigned to guide him through adventurous mayhem barely held together by con artist Till Eulenspiegel. The Owls Mirror is the compelling tale of one mans whimsical journey through a strange and nonsensical afterlife.

Author : David Adger,Daniel Harbour,Laurel J. Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521517560

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Mirrors and Microparameters by David Adger,Daniel Harbour,Laurel J. Watkins Pdf

This book looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure, with particular reference to a single endangered language - Kiowa.

Author : Yumi Park
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781617037955

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Mirrors of Clay by Yumi Park Pdf

The exhibit catalogue of an extraordinary ancient Andean treasure

Author : Eva Oppermann
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9783899581676

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Literatur und Lebenskunst by Eva Oppermann Pdf

Author : Susan Koppelman,Alison Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476609171

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Collecting and the Internet by Susan Koppelman,Alison Franks Pdf

The Internet has had a profound effect on collecting—because of the Web, collectibles are now more readily available, collections more easily displayed for a wider audience, and collectors’ online communities are larger and often quite intimate. In addition, the Web has added new items to the pantheon of collectibles, including digital bits that, whether considered virtual or material, are nevertheless collectible. In this work, essays discuss the age-old habit of collecting and its modern relationship with the Internet. Topics include individually authored websites, online auctions, watches, eyewear, Kelly dolls, the gambler’s rush of online acquisition, mp3s, collecting friends via online social networking sites, and online museums, among others.

Author : Jacquelin Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781452052465

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Star Origins and Wisdom of Animals by Jacquelin Smith Pdf

Jacquelin Smith is an internationally known animal communicator and psychic who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She is a pioneer in the field of telepathic communication with animals. Jacquelin has been communicating with animals and has worked as a psychic with people professionally for more than thirty years. Since 1972 she s been actively involved in studying animal life and behavior, and teaching workshops. After receiving a B.A., Jacquelin worked as an animal technician and dog trainer, while studying psychology. She is also a board-certified hypnotherapist which has deepened her communication skills with people and animals. She has studied shamanic work for over fifteen years. Jacquelin has communicated with animals in zoological parks and in the wild during her travels in Africa and South America. She has communicated with cats, dogs, horses, dolphins, bats, birds, bears, chimps, rabbits and many other species. She combines telepathic communication with traditional and holistic methods and offers practical ways to resolve a wide variety of issues with animals. Jacquelin has been tracking lost animals for over twenty years with great results. Jacquelin has been communicating with animals, star beings, and interdimensional beings since early childhood. She has taught workshops on animal communication in various cities throughout the United States. Also, Jacquelin has taught workshops on communicating with star beings. She offers apprenticeship programs to people who want to learn how to communicate with animals and with star beings. Her book, Animal Communication Our Sacred Connection, is one of the most comprehensive books on animal communication and animals. Jacquelin s work continues to receive media coverage through radio interviews and television talk shows. For information about private consultations, workshops, apprenticeship programs, DVDs, books, and more visit Jacquelin s website www.jacquelinsmith.com. You can email her at [email protected]. "

Author : Greg Kuznetsov
Publisher : Amazon
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798449961334

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Music in the Mirrors by Greg Kuznetsov Pdf

In this vast and interconnected novel, an immortal and equally enigmatic Mongolian conqueror known as the master of mirrors traps Narrm in a snow globe to join his growing collection, transforming the once vibrant cityscape into a whimsical yet harsh wonderland composed of purple rain and his signature mirrors. The fabric of his desire, representing the most powerful motive in the universe and the source of his energies spiralling the 5,857 worlds out of balance, remains an utter mystery. The mischievous Blowfish deity stands as his celestial rival as it guides an eccentric cast of characters along invisible winds using its many eyes. Among them are Coki, a Zanzibarian disc jockey lacking a muse, his constantly-drumming twin Iggy, former celebrity singer Janet Jouffret who is somehow immune to the purple lemonade, the reclusive Professor Lambert on a desperate hunt for his runaway pet baboon, an abandoned greyhound who becomes the Dog King, a snowy owl with an arsenal of impossible riddles, a vulture shaman who falls in love with a corpse, and an albino elephant merchant who dreams of transforming into a Homo sapien. These wandering souls must all collide in accordance with the fading hand of Fate in order to fulfill a multichromatic mission of three acts, taking them across a living island with bamboo and baboons as her hair and an awakening volcano as her mouth, a red desert inhabited by shifty shadows and scavengers, impossibly tall mountains guarded by bitter frost, minds to be unlocked by transcendent keys, and other strange new worlds. Their journeys express an epic saga spanning the birth and death of the universe.

Author : Werner Hamacher
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804721858

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Pleroma by Werner Hamacher Pdf

Tracing the genealogy and unfolding of Hegel's thought into his mature works, the author analyzes the violent transformations which Hegel's philosophy has uncovered and caused in the structure of philosophical terms and in the terms under which philosophy is possible.

Author : Stacey O'Brien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781416579816

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Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling memoir of a biologist’s life with an unforgettable owl “will captivate animal lovers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien first met a four-day-old barn owl—a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving in the wild. O’Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to give him a permanent home. Wesley the Owl is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together. With a tender heart and a scientist’s eye, O’Brien describes how Wesley grew from a helpless ball of fuzz to a gorgeous adult owl with an outsized personality. She also brings us inside her research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals. As O’Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes important discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication: he did not tolerate lies, held her to her promises, and provided unconditional love, though he was not beyond an occasional sulk. When O’Brien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.

Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252026330

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Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature by Linda Woodbridge Pdf

Woodbridge shows that the prevailing image of the vagrant poor in Renaissance England--sturdy, comical, resourceful rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society--was essentially a literary fabrication pressed into the service of specific social and political agendas.

Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004118918

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History of the Graeco-latin Fable by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados Pdf

This translation of the original Spanish, standard work on the fable, traces the history of the Graeco-Latin fable, investigates its origins, reconstructs lost collections from the Hellenistic Age and establishes relationships between the Imperial Age andGreek and Latin fables.

Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados,Gert-Jan van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004350885

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History of the Graeco-Latin Fable by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados,Gert-Jan van Dijk Pdf

This third volume of the History of the Graeco-Latin Fable offers a complete inventory and documentation of the Classical fable tradition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The original Spanish edition (1987) has been considerably enlarged with numerous supplementary references and less than 350 new fables. The present edition uniquely refers to fables in more than 20 different languages, not only in Greek and Latin, but also in other Oriental and Western languages such as Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Circassian, Slavonian, Albanian, Spanish, Italian, English, French, German, and Dutch, thus paving the way for studies of comparative literature. The book is conveniently concluded with elaborate indexes of fable characters, passages included, and numeration systems of other contributions in the field.

Author : Nicole Landry Sault
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0813520800

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Many Mirrors by Nicole Landry Sault Pdf

"We've needed a book like Many Mirrors for a long time. In the veritable explosion of new scholarship on the human body, this book stands out in its focus on empirical research. Many Mirrors will move . . . the Anthropology of the Body a giant step forward."--C. H. Browner, University of California at Los Angeles In every society, people define and change their physical appearance in response to their relationships to others: we add clothes and masks, remove them, build up our muscles, perforate our flesh, cut parts away, comb our hair, and modify our diets. In rural Jamaica, fat women are considered desirable; in American suburbia, teenage girls are obsessed with thinness. Bedouin women use tattoos to express their secret longings; Asian American women undergo cosmetic surgery to conform to internalized western standards of beauty. Even with mirrors to see ourselves, we rely on the reactions of others to learn how we look and who we are. Where contemporary Western culture sees the body as a concrete thing with an objective, observable reality, separate from the self, many other societies regard the person as an integrated whole that includes the mind, the body, and the spirit. Through the contributors' studies of individual cultures and through the editor's unifying "body image system", this volume gives us a new conceptual framework for understanding how women and men in any society perceive, describe, and alter their bodies.

Author : V. K. Sally
Publisher : Goyal Brothers Prakashan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789395941990

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Learning Elementary Science for Class 8 (A.Y. 2023-24)Onward by V. K. Sally Pdf

The Learning Elementary Science is a series consisting of three books (Classes 6 to 8), based on the latest curriculum and rationalised content released by the NCERT. The importance is given on the development of different skills as per NEP 2020. It includes understanding of concepts, processes and natural phenomena along with the development ofthinJdng ability and curiosity towards scientific activities. Key Feamra of t.he Series: • based on ratiooaUsed content as preKI"ibed by NCERT* u per NEP 2020 recommendation to reduce content load and provide opportunities for experiential learning with creative mindset. • follows thematic approach in each chapter. • presents the content in a dear* concise and logical manner. • presents language in simple and comprehensible fgrm, considering the age and grade appropriateness of students. • adopts an inquisitive approach that would help both students and teacher to interact cordially in the process of learning. • aims at encouraging inventiveness and competence in students. • contains vibrant colourful Wustratlons and pletu.res to grab the interest and attention of students as well as for the clarity of concepts. • contain topics and sub-topics embedded with intext activities and exercises that encourage experiential learning. • provides well-formulated questions, which address the different cognitive levels and various skills in learners as per NEP 2020 (Art Integration, Case Study Based, AppUcation, Analyse, Assertion-Reaso* Problem Solving, etc). • includes the Life Skills and Value-based question• which help the learners to relate the theoretical concept with different real life situations. Teacher's Re!ouree Books • Plan to a*bieve the Learning Objectives for effective teaching techniques. • OVerview of the Lesson. for easy recapitulation of the lesson. • Complete Solution-key of the Textbooks. Online Suppctrt • Video Lectures and Animated Videos • Interattive Exerciwes • Cbapter-wise Worksheets • Science Dictionary • E-Book (For Teadaer1 Only) We are sure this series will make learning science a fascinating, effective and engaging process for the students. Looking forward to your valuable suggestions. -Author

Author : Shengyi Li,Yifan Dai
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118537510

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Large and Middle-scale Aperture Aspheric Surfaces by Shengyi Li,Yifan Dai Pdf

A complete all-in-one reference to aspheric fabricationand testing for optical applications This book provides a detailed introduction to the manufacturingand measurement technologies in aspheric fabrication. For eachtechnology, both basic theory and practical applications areintroduced. The book consists of two parts. In the first part, the basicprinciples of manufacturing technology for aspheric surfaces andkey theory for deterministic subaperture polishing of asphericsurfaces are discussed. Then key techniques for high precisionfiguring such as CCOS with small polishing pad, IBF and MRF, areintroduced, including the basic principles, theories andapplications, mathematical modeling methods, machine design andprocess parameter selection. It also includes engineeringpractices and experimental results, based on the three kinds ofpolishing tools (CCOS, IBF and MRF) developed by the author’s research team. In the second part, basic principles of measurement and sometypical examples for large and middle-scale aspheric surfaces arediscussed. Then, according to the demands of low cost, highaccuracy and in-situ measurement methods in the manufacturingprocess, three kinds of technologies are introduced, such as theCartesian and swing-arm polar coordinate profilometer, thesub-aperture stitching interferometer and the phase retrievalmethod based on diffraction principle. Some key techniques are alsodiscussed, including the basic principles, mathematical modelingmethods, machine design and process parameter selection, as well asengineering practices and experimental results. Finally, theteam’s research results about subsurface quality measurementand guarantee methods are also described. This book can be used as a reference for scientists andtechnologists working in optical manufacturing, ultra-precisionmachining, precision instruments and measurement, and otherprecision engineering fields. A complete all-in-one reference to aspheric fabrication andtesting for optical applications Presents the latest research findings from the author’sinternationally recognized leading team who are at the cutting edgeof the technology Brings together surface processing and measurement in onecomplete volume, discussing problems and solutions Guides the reader from an introductory overview through to moreadvanced and sophisticated techniques of metrology andmanufacturing, suitable for the student and the industryprofessional