The Sky Manifest

Author : Brian Panhuyzen
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770904545

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The Sky Manifest by Brian Panhuyzen Pdf

After suffering an unbearable loss, a man takes a road trip in an attempt to find solace and encounters beauty, brutality, and beguiling characters along the way in this darkly thrilling novel. Grieving the deaths of his wife and infant daughter, Nathan Soderquist decides to journey westward across the continent, documenting the ever-changing sky in brief entries of ravishing poetry. Desperately lonely and with nothing left to lose, he drives through vacant landscapes committing acts of violence, nobility, cowardice, and bravery, all the while trying to save the world from evil. After his recklessness leads to an accident that leaves his body broken, he heals and continues his journey on bicycle before that is taken from him as well. Bent on revenge he sets out again on foot, and a violent midnight confrontation puts him on a path that could lead to either destruction or redemption.

Author : Brian Panhuyzen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459692985

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The Sky Manifest by Brian Panhuyzen Pdf

"After suffering an unbearable loss, a man takes a road trip in an attempt to find solace and encounters beauty, brutality, and beguiling characters along the way in this darkly thrilling novel. Grieving the deaths of his wife and infant daughter, Nathan Soderquist decides to journey westward across the continent, documenting the ever-changing sky in brief entries of ravishing poetry. Desperately lonely and with nothing left to lose, he drives through vacant landscapes committing acts of violence, nobility, cowardice, and bravery, all the while trying to save the world from evil. After his recklessness leads to an accident that leaves his body broken, he heals and continues his journey on bicycle before that is taken from him as well. Bent on revenge, he sets out again on foot, and a violent midnight confrontation puts him on a path that could lead to either destruction or redemption."--From publisher's description.

Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191564321

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On Form by Angela Leighton Pdf

What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.

Author : Charles Hodge,Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092793272

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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review by Charles Hodge,Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater Pdf

Author : Dudjom Lingpa,Sera Khandro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614293460

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Buddhahood Without Meditation by Dudjom Lingpa,Sera Khandro Pdf

Volume 1. Heart of the Great Perfection -- volume 2. Buddhahood without meditation -- volume 3. The Vajra essence

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509545117

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The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahāyāna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism’s hostility towards theory and discourse, it is possible to reflect philosophically on Zen Buddhism and bring out its philosophical insights. In this short book, Byung-Chul Han seeks to unfold the philosophical force inherent in Zen Buddhism, delving into the foundations of Far Eastern thought to which Zen Buddhism is indebted. Han does this comparatively by confronting and contrasting the insights of Zen Buddhism with the philosophies of Plato, Leibniz, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger and others, showing that Zen Buddhism and Western philosophy have very different ways of understanding religion, subjectivity, emptiness, friendliness and death. This important work by one of the most widely read philosophers and cultural theorists of our time will be of great value to anyone interested in comparative philosophy and religion.

Author : James P. Grimshaw
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1433100835

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The Matthean Community and the World by James P. Grimshaw Pdf

This study of the Matthean narrative uses the interpretive lens of food exchange to explore the Matthean community's relationship with the wider world. While many studies depict this community as withdrawing from or in conflict with the larger society, James P. Grimshaw's focus on the daily need for food reveals a community that, while distinct, progressively integrates itself into the larger Jewish and Gentile society and the natural world. In addition, this view of community corresponds to the view of a God who actively provides for and relates to all creation. Grimshaw's alternative portrayal of the Matthean community, whose interactions with its surrounding environment are more complex and sustained than often imagined, is a compelling interpretation for today's stratified and disconnected world.

Author : Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828964

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Opening the Treasure of the Profound by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche Pdf

Spiritual teachings in the form of songs—spontaneous expressions of deep wisdom and understanding that reveal the nature of reality—have been treasured since the dawn of Buddhism in India. In Opening the Treasure of the Profound, Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen translates nine such songs, by Milarepa and Jigten Sumgön, and then explains them in contemporary terms. His insights take the Buddha’s ancient wisdom out of the realm of the intellectual and directly into our hearts. Here, we are invited into the world of transmission from master to disciple in order to discover truth for ourselves—to open the treasure of profound wisdom that fully realizes the nature of reality.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782841302

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Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made his poetry infinitely complex as it engages with tragedy, and irreconcilable breakdown, both political and personal, with anger and with mourning. This study gives a detailed approach to Hölderlin's writings on Greek tragedy, especially Sophocles, whom he translated into German, and gives close attention to his poetry, which is never far from an engagement with tragedy. Hölderlin's writings, always fascinating, enable a consideration of the various meanings of tragedy, and provide a new reading of Shakespeare, particularly Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth; the work proceeds by opening into discussion of Nietzsche, especially The Birth of Tragedy. Since Hölderlin was such a decisive figure for Modernism, to say nothing of modern Germany, he matters intensely to such differing theorists and philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, all of whose views are discussed herein. Drawing upon the insights of Hegelian philosophy and psychoanalysis, this book gives the English-speaking reader ready access to a magnificent body of poetry and to the poet as a theorist of tragedy and of madness. Hölderlin's poetry is quoted freely, with translations and commentary provided. This book is the first major account of Hölderlin in English to offer the student and general reader a critical account of a vital body of work which matters to any study of poetry and to all who are interested in poetry's relationships to madness. It is essential reading in the understanding of how tragedy pervades literature and politics, and how tragedy has been regarded and written about, from Hegel to Walter Benjamin.

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008732722

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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59903317

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Lucretius On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

Author : Holy song,Song
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000674429

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Holy Song for All Seasons by Holy song,Song Pdf

Author : J.C. Willems,J.W. Polderman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387982663

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Introduction to Mathematical Systems Theory by J.C. Willems,J.W. Polderman Pdf

Using the behavioural approach to mathematical modelling, this book views a system as a dynamical relation between manifest and latent variables. The emphasis is on dynamical systems that are represented by systems of linear constant coefficients. The first part analyses the structure of the set of trajectories generated by such dynamical systems, and derives the conditions for two systems of differential equations to be equivalent in the sense that they define the same behaviour. In addition the memory structure of the system is analysed through state space models. The second part of the book is devoted to a number of important system properties, notably controllability, observability, and stability. In the third part, control problems are considered, in particular stabilisation and pole placement questions. Suitable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in mathematics and engineering, this text contains numerous exercises, including simulation problems, and examples, notably of mechanical systems and electrical circuits.

Author : Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801882907

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The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan by Rochelle Tobias Pdf

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Author : Sylvie Avakian
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110707663

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‘Being Towards Death’ by Sylvie Avakian Pdf

This book draws the philosophical contribution of Martin Heidegger together with theological-spiritual insights from the East, especially that of Nikolai Berdyaev. Thus, it brings into dialogue the West with the East, and philosophy with theology. By doing so, it offers Christian theology an existential-spiritual language that is relevant and meaningful for the contemporary reader. In particular, the work explores Heidegger’s ‘being towards death’ (Sein zum Tode) as the basis for theological-philosophical thinking. Only the one who embraces ‘being towards death’ has the courage to think and poetize. This thinking, in turn, makes ‘being towards death’ possible, and in this circular movement of thinking and being, the mystery of being reveals itself and yet remains hidden. Since the work aims at demonstrating ‘being towards death’ through language, it transitions away from the common formulations and traditionally accepted ways of writing (dogmatic) theology towards an original, philosophical reflection on faith and spirituality. At different points, however, the work also retrieves the profound thoughts and theologies of the past, the insightful creativity of which cannot be denied.