Author: Ana Castillo
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307801969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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An Anchor Books Original Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as "una storyteller de primera," and by Barbara Kingsolver in The Los Angeles Times as "impossible to resist," returns to her first love—poetry—to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual world. With the poems in I Ask the Impossible, Castillo celebrates the strength that "is a woman buried deep in [her] heart." Whether memorializing real-life heroines who have risked their lives for humanity, spinning a lighthearted tale for her young son, or penning odes to mortals, gods, goddesses, Castillo's poems are eloquent and rich with insight. She shares over twelve years of poetic inspiration, from her days as a writer who "once wrote poems in a basement with no heat," through the tenderness of motherhood and bitterness of loss, to the strength of love itself, which can "make the impossible a simple act." Radiant with keen perception, wit, and urgency, sometimes erotic, often funny, this inspiring collection sounds the unmistakable voice of a "woman on fire" and "more worthy than stone."
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
ISBN: 9780753816882
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Krishnamurti explores the origin and roots of thought, the limits of consciousness, the nature of pleasure and joy, personal relationships and meditation, all of which revolve around the central issues of the search for self-knowledge.
Author: Laboratory of Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Publisher: Minor Compositions
ISBN: 9781570272400
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It�s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht�s words to heart: �Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.� It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.
Author: Linda Evans Shepherd
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 9780800721084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this powerful book, Linda Evans Shepherd shows readers how to reach out to God and ask for a miracle. She shows how God's miracles may not come packaged in the ways we would expect, but they do come in ways that will transform our lives.
Author: Ana Castillo
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Languages : en
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Author: Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520300203
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Author: Guy Boothby
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486810585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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"This powerful novel is weird and soul-thrilling." — The Scotsman. Cyril Forrester, a young Englishman traveling on the Continent, chances to meet a secretive old man and his ward, a lovely young violinist named Valerie. Enthralled by Valerie's beauty and disturbed by the elderly Egyptian's depravity, Forrester follows the couple around Europe. A sinister plot is slowly revealed, in which a mummy's curse threatens to destroy the Western world. Victorian readers had a passion for tales of mystery and intrigue in exotic settings, especially those involving supernatural powers. This ripping yarn was created by one of the era's most popular writers of sensationalistic fiction. Pharos, the Egyptian is thought to have inspired the classic horror film The Mummy, and its gripping, action-packed story remains an enduringly compelling tale.
Author: Charles James Lever
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 3246
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Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the 1st session of the 48th Parliament.
