Tranquil Star

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039333161X

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Tranquil Star by Primo Levi Pdf

A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393331615

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Tranquil Star by Primo Levi Pdf

A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."

Author : Romand Coles,Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718842802

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Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary by Romand Coles,Stanley Hauerwas Pdf

These essays reflect possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary. Hauerwas and Coels point out political and theological imaginations beyond the political formations, which seems to be the declination and the production of death. The authors call us to a revolutionary politics of 'wild patience' that seeks transformation through attentive practices of listening, relationship-building, and a careful tending to places, common goods, and diverse possibilities for flourishing.

Author : Susan Campbell, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608687404

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From Triggered to Tranquil by Susan Campbell, PhD Pdf

A Therapy-Tested, Real-World Approach to Defusing Anxiety and Anger Reactions At home, at work, or even out shopping, we’ve all experienced a moment when we’ve gone from feeling just fine to feeling out of control. Something inside us shifts. We instantly feel hurt, angry, shut down, or frozen. In these moments, we’ve been triggered, according to therapist and bestselling author Susan Campbell. In From Triggered to Tranquil, she offers a no-blame approach to conflicts and misunderstandings, empowering us to explore triggers and trauma responses and use these as portals to growth and self-compassion. This accessible, timely, and useful book includes: • five steps to “trigger mastery” that can be applied to any interpersonal relationship or encounter • specific techniques for relationships with spouses, partners, children, bosses, coworkers, and friends, as well as a chapter for group facilitators • ways to address triggers related to politics, racism, climate change, and other hot-button issues

Author : Harriet Hargrave,Sharyn Craig
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781571208736

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The Art of Classic Quiltmaking by Harriet Hargrave,Sharyn Craig Pdf

The ultimate how-to book for quilters—a workbook with exercises that provide a foundation of much-needed basics to set you on your quilting path. Two of quilting’s most respected teachers combine their different styles to present an incredible reference and project book that beginners and experienced quilters alike will always keep near the sewing machine! Loaded with the information you need to make traditional quilts, including selecting and caring for fabric, choosing equipment and supplies, calculating yardage, selecting the piecing technique that ensures the best result, designing borders, and deciding on quilting designs. Designed for those who encounter problems with quilting basics, from confident beginners to experienced quilters. Master piecing methods with step-by-step exercises, helpful hints, illustrations, and photos. Project quilts accompany each basic technique chapter. Numerous variations of the techniques are also presented. Find out how to answer questions such as “where do I go next?” or “what went wrong?”

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141915227

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A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi Pdf

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In ‘The Fugitive’ an office worker composes the most beautiful poem ever with unforeseen consequences, while ‘Magic Paint’ sees a group of researchers develop a paint that mysteriously protects them from misfortune. ‘Gladiators’ and ‘The Knall’ are chilling explorations of mass violence, and in ‘The Tranquil Star’ a simple story of stargazing becomes a meditation on language, imagination and infinity.

Author : Kai Sandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544239408

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Tranquil by Kai Sandy Pdf

"Tranquil: Overcoming the experience" is a guide to helping an anxiety victim from another victim's perspective. It is not guaranteed to help, but it will help provide information and provide a view on anxiety and ways to coping with it.

Author : Bo Caldwell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429947916

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City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell Pdf

"What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." —Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng— City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love—and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them? Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints—and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents—City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. A deeply spiritual book, it shows how those who work to teach others often have the most to learn, and is further evidence that Bo Caldwell writes "vividly and with great historical perspective" (San Jose Mercury News).

Author : Frederick Langbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068972726

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Gaslight and Stars by Frederick Langbridge Pdf

Author : Sherry Ginn,Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600864

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The Sex Is Out of This World by Sherry Ginn,Michael G. Cornelius,Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

"Science fiction" can be translated into "real unreality." More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the "unreal reality," to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction. This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.

Author : J. Druker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230622180

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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz by J. Druker Pdf

This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

Author : Alex Marshall
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316277990

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A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall Pdf

"It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre." Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history. Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar banner. FIVE VILLAINS. ONE LEGENDARY GENERAL. A FINAL QUEST FOR VENGEANCE.

Author : Katja Millay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476730943

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The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay Pdf

Nastya is a former piano prodigy carrying a brutal secret, while Josh is completely alone, an emancipated minor who has lost everyone he loves. Stumbling upon each other the first day of school, the two discover the miracle of second chances and the beauty of unexpected friendships

Author : Arthur Matthison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600062316

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Half an hour with a good author, by himself (A. Matthison). by Arthur Matthison Pdf

Author : Laurel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600084135

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The Laurel and Lyre. Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century by Laurel Pdf