Throes

Author : Mathias B. Freese
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798887471501

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In the Throes by Mathias B. Freese Pdf

In the Throes explores the awakening of intelligence and the coming into awareness of an evolutionary mishap on a forbidding apocalyptic planet. The story follows eponymic Gruff, the first linguistic/metaphysical awakener of his species, as he navigates identity, mentation, and ontology in relation to the Gruff's natural prey: humankind. Combining the writings of Freud and the spiritual truths of Krishnamurti, author Mathias B. Freese depicts the Gruff as an evolutionary dark creature—disfigured, maimed, instinct-driven, and grotesque—until he attains self-awareness and transforms into a self of artistic expression and wisdom. As the title suggests, the reader identifies with self-struggle as it surges toward awakening and is moved by the apotheosis that closes the book. The nuanced theme: each one of us is an artist if only we take our selves in hand and construct a life of artistic expression. The closing chapters sing to us of Isak Dinesen's observation that an artist is never poor. A metaphor of the evolutionary self, In the Throes is a time-processed journey into awareness—our destiny as a species.

Author : Jerome A. Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791409538

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In the Throe of Wonder by Jerome A. Miller Pdf

This book is a meditation on the experiences of wonder, horror, and awe, and an exploration of their ontological import. It argues that these experiences are not, as our culture often presumes, merely subjective, emotive responses to events that happen in the world. Rather, they are transformative experiences that fracture our ordinary lives and, in so doing, provide us access to realities of which we would otherwise be oblivious. Wonder, horror, and awe, like the experiences of love and death to which they are so intimately related, are not events that happen in our world but events that happen to it and thus alter our life as a whole. Miller explores the impact of that transformation -- its deconstructive effect on our ordinary sense of our selves, and the breakthrough to a new understanding of being which it makes possible.

Author : Walter A. McDougall
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061862366

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Throes of Democracy by Walter A. McDougall Pdf

A “provocative and richly detailed” history of 19th-century America from the age of Jackson to the abandonment of Reconstruction (Kirkus, starred review). From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall’s Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 throws off sparks like a flywheel. This eagerly awaited sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 carries the saga of the American people’s continuous self-reinvention from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of Manifest Destiny, Civil War, and Reconstruction, America’s first failed crusade to put “freedom on the march” through regime change and nation building. But Throes of Democracy is much more than a political history. Here, for the first time, is the American epic as lived by Germans and Irish, Catholics and Jews, as well as people of British Protestant and African American stock; an epic defined as much by folks in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Texas as by those in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia; an epic in which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, showman P. T. Barnum, and circus clown Dan Rice figure as prominently as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Henry Ward Beecher; an epic in which railroad management and land speculation prove as gripping as Indian wars. Walter A. McDougall’s zesty, irreverent narrative says something new, shrewd, ironic, or funny about almost everything as it reveals our national penchant for pretense—a predilection that explains both the periodic throes of democracy and the perennial resilience of the United States. Praise for Throes of Democracy “History buffs will definitely gravitate to this thick book. . . . A provocative survey from a premier historian.” —Booklist (starred review) “A pleasing romp through a critical period in the nation’s history, it sticks to the tried and true.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Farheen Khan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359728992

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Throe Yarn by Farheen Khan Pdf

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 074255127X

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Uncertain Shield by Richard A. Posner Pdf

This new book from Richard Posner brings the story up to date. He argues that the emerging structure of that reformed intelligence system-heavily influenced by the report of another commission on the intelligence failure related to Saddam Hussein's abandonment of weapons of mass destruction-is excessively centralized and will not be effective. Posner brings light to the issues at hand and offers solutions.

Author : Robert Hartwell Fiske
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781451651317

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Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English by Robert Hartwell Fiske Pdf

A comprehensive disctionary of common misusages illustrates the right way and the wrong way to use language and explores why dictionaries do not always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word.

Author : Alfred Henry Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : MINN:31951002185291G

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The Poets and the Poetry of the Century by Alfred Henry Miles Pdf

Author : Gleeson White
Publisher : London : W. Scott
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086688371

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Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, &c by Gleeson White Pdf

Author : Alan Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000003077612

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Destroy Carthage! by Alan Lloyd Pdf

Author : Charles Henry Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555081254

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Judy, or, The London serio-comic journal, ed. by C.H. Ross by Charles Henry Ross Pdf

Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB11392797

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Pleasant Ways in Science by Richard Anthony Proctor Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081647368

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Homeopathic veterinary medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015020798107

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A Manual of Homœopathic Veterinary Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102922051

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orville Schell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003072122

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Discos and Democracy by Orville Schell Pdf

In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.