Author : Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419954407
The Rememberer
Elizabeth Stewart
The Rememberer
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The Visions of the Great Rememberer
Allen Ginsberg
Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Authors
ISBN : UCSC:32106014579822
The Visions of the Great Rememberer by Allen Ginsberg Pdf
A memoir of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady taking off from the text of Kerouac's 'Visions of Cody.' Also contains previously unpublished letters by Neal Cassady; a recently discovered manuscript of Ginsberg's from Denver, 1947, drawings by Basil King, and previously unpublished photos of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and Peter Orlovsky.
The Rememberer
Steven Dietz,Werdna Phillips Finley
Author : Steven Dietz,Werdna Phillips Finley
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1583422137
The Rememberer by Steven Dietz,Werdna Phillips Finley Pdf
The Rememberer tells the true story of Joyce Cheeka, a young Squaxin Indian girl, who is forcibly taken from her home and placed in a government-run school in 1911. As the chosen "rememberer" for her tribe an honor passed down to her from her grandfather, Mud Bay Sam it is Joyce's duty to pass on the stories, history and wisdom of her people. However, the aims of the white boarding school are quite the opposite. Their job is to eliminate any trace of Joyce's heritage. Through her friendship with the headmaster at the school, and with the help of her "spirit guide," Joyce succeeds in forming a bridge between this new world and the world of her ancestors. Through her patience, grit, humor, curiosity and inclusiveness of spirit, she does honor to the words of her elders: "Each day is a gift. And to waste that day is inexcusable. Account for yourself. Be useful." Joyce Simmons Cheeka lived a remarkable, heroic and, indeed, useful life. Ages 7 and up. -- Publisher.
Super Stories of Heroes & Villains
Claude Lalumiere
Author : Claude Lalumiere
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616961541
Super Stories of Heroes & Villains by Claude Lalumiere Pdf
George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards rampage through unrecorded history! Mike Mignola’s Hellboy battles the fiendish Nuckelavee! Can Camille Alexa’s Pinktastic prevent the end of the world? Will Jonathan Lethem’s Dystopianist cause the end of the world? In these pages, you’ll find the exploits, machinations, and epic mêlées of these superpowered aliens, undead crusaders, costumed crime fighters, unholy cabals, Amazon warriors, demon hunters, cyberpunk luchadores, nefarious megalomaniacs, daredevil sidekicks, atavistic avatars, adventuring aviators, gunslinging outlaws, love-struck adversaries, and supernatural detectives. In these twenty-eight astounding Super Stories, join larger-than-life heroes and villains in the never-ending battle of good versus evil!
Sameness and Substance Renewed
David Wiggins
Author : David Wiggins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521456193
Sameness and Substance Renewed by David Wiggins Pdf
In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity against rival conceptions. He defends a form of essentialism that he calls individuative essentialism, and then a form of realism that he calls conceptualist realism. In a final chapter he advocates a human being-based conception of the identity and individuation of persons, arguing that any satisfactory account of personal memory must make reference to the life of the rememberer himself. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.
Who Can Save Us Now?
Owen King,John McNally
Author : Owen King,John McNally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416566813
Who Can Save Us Now? by Owen King,John McNally Pdf
Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. Edited and with contributions by Owen King (We're All in This Together) and John McNally (America's Report Card), Who Can Save Us Now? enriches the superhero canon immeasurably. With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk, this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader. From the image-conscious and not-very-mysterious masked meathead who swoops in and sweeps the tough girl reporter off her feet; to the Meerkat, who overcomes his species' cute and cuddly image to become the resident hero in a small Midwestern city; to the Silverfish, "the creepy superhero," who fights crime while maintaining the slipperiest of identities; to Manna Man, who manipulates the minds of televangelists to serve his own righteous mission, these protectors (and in some cases antagonizers) of the innocent and the virtuous will delight literary enthusiasts and comic fans alike. With stunning illustrations by artist Chris Burnham, Who Can Save Us Now? offers a vibrant, funny, and truly unusual array of characters and their stories.
Recovered Memories and False Memories
Martin A. Conway
Author : Martin A. Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : False memory syndrome
ISBN : 9780198523864
Recovered Memories and False Memories by Martin A. Conway Pdf
The question of whether memories can be lost, particularly as a result of trauma, and then "recovered" through psychotherapy has polarised the field of memory research. This is the first volume to bring together leading memory researchers and clinicians with the aiming of facilitating aresolution to this question. The volume offers a unique and timely summary of the theories of memory recovery, and how false memories may be created. Some of the first research relating to the phenomenal characteristics of memory recovered is reported in detail, suggesting important avenues fornew research. Theories of autobiographical memory, implicit memory, reminiscence, and the effects of repeated recall on memory are included. Recovered memories and false memories provides the most current and authoritative thinking in this area, and will be an essential sourcebook for memoryresearchers and psychotherapists.
Cognition Through Understanding
Tyler Burge
Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191652103
Cognition Through Understanding by Tyler Burge Pdf
Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays that use epistemology to illumine powers of mind. The essays focus on epistemic warrants that differ from those warrants commonly discussed in epistemology—those for ordinary empirical beliefs and for logical and mathematical beliefs. The essays center on four types of cognition warranted through understanding—self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection. Burge argues that by reflecting on warrants for these types of cognition, one better understands cognitive powers that are distinctive of persons, and (on earth) of human beings. The collection presents three previously unpublished independent essays, in addition to substantial, retrospective commentary. The retrospective commentary invites the reader to make connections that were not fully in mind when the essays were written.
Searching For Memory
Daniel L Schacter
Author : Daniel L Schacter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786724291
Searching For Memory by Daniel L Schacter Pdf
Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory researchers, the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter explains how and why it may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking -- and sometimes bizarre -- amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.
The Tuloriad
John Ringo,Tom Kratman
Author : John Ringo,Tom Kratman
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247469
The Tuloriad by John Ringo,Tom Kratman Pdf
The Enemy of My Enemy . . . Of the once innumerable battle clans of the Posleen only a handful survive. And that on the sufferance of a group of despised Indowy and Himmit. Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth they are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slighltly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them. What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld. A search to determine if the Posleen posess the one thing no Human would give them credit for: A soul. Returned to their beginnings, the question remains: Is there a new path for the Tular Posleen? At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Intersections in Basic and Applied Memory Research
David G. Payne,Frederick G. Conrad
Author : David G. Payne,Frederick G. Conrad
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134795345
Intersections in Basic and Applied Memory Research by David G. Payne,Frederick G. Conrad Pdf
In recent years there has been increasing interaction between basic and applied memory researchers, ranging from heated debates to highly productive collaborations. This collection of papers -- based on presentations at the Third Practical Aspects of Memory conference -- reviews the progress, as well as obstacles to progress, in the ongoing collaboration between basic and applied memory researchers. This volume represents the state of the art in memory research domains that straddle the basic-applied divide. The text is organized around three themes, including theoretical and metatheoretical issues concerning the interaction of basic and applied memory research, laboratory investigation of real world memory problems, and solutions of everyday problems using theoretical concepts derived from basic memory research. The first section illustrates why collaboration between basic and applied memory researchers should be beneficial and provides guidelines for avoiding some of the pitfalls. The second and third sections present some of the most significant, contemporary findings by researchers whose work is basic-yet-applicable or applied-yet-theoretically-based. Students and professional memory researchers will find the substantive results to be provocative and theoretically engaging, making the information presented in this volume invaluable. These examples of successful application will be of substantial, pragmatic value and researchers are certain to be grappling with these issues for years to come.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Aimee Bender
Author : Aimee Bender
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307804464
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender Pdf
"A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's Bazaar A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the heartrending question: Can she still love a man who has no lips? Aimee Bender's stories portray a world twisted on its axis, a place of unconvention that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect. Bender's prose is glorious: musical and colloquial, inimitable and heartrending. Here are stories of men and women whose lives are shaped--and sometimes twisted--by the power of extraordinary desires, erotic and otherwise. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is the debut of a major American writer. A 1998 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best works of fiction of 1998.
Granta 141
Madeleine Thien
Author : Madeleine Thien
Publisher : Granta
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781909889118
Granta 141 by Madeleine Thien Pdf
From Canada's global cities to its Arctic Circle - from the country's ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure - the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation's future. Margaret Atwood, Gary Barwin, Dionne Brand, Fanny Britt, Douglas Coupland, France Daigle, Alain Farah, Naomi Fontaine, Dominique Fortier, Krista Foss, Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Anosh Irani, Falen Johnson, Benoit Jutras, Alex Leslie, Alexander MacLeod, Daphne Marlatt, Lisa Moore, Nadim Roberts, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Chlo Savoie-Bernard, Anakana Schofield, Paul Seesequasis, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Larry Tremblay. Guest-edited by Catherine Leroux and Madeleine Thein: Catherine Leroux is a novelist, translator and journalist. Le mur mitoyen won the 2014 France-Quebec Prize and its English translation, The Party Wall, was nominated for the Giller Prize in 2016. Madeleine Thien is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes, and three novels, including Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter. Her most recent book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Literary Award for Fiction.
Architexts of Memory
Evelyne Ender
Author : Evelyne Ender
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 047203104X
Architexts of Memory by Evelyne Ender Pdf
Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance
Choiceless Awareness
J Krishnamurti
Author : J Krishnamurti
Publisher : Krishnamurti Foundation America
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781912875207
Choiceless Awareness by J Krishnamurti Pdf
In these talks in India , Krishnamurti begins by stating his intention to begin answering questions put forth to him by others. He points out that if an answer is to be right, the question itself must also be. "...a serious question put by a serious person, by an earnest person who is seeking out the solution of a very difficult problem, then, obviously, there will be an answer befitting that question."