Author: Damian Tyler
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 141200117X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Addison lives a lonely secluded life on his father Manuel's plantation. Life is simple until he wakes up with Yvonne standing next to him. When she prepares a meal from Manuel's favorite fruit, everything changes and they venture out on their own to find independence. After leaving the plantation, they cross a time line only to find themselves trapped in the modern world, unable to return. Yvonne determines that it is in their best interest to return to their camp just over the mountain, but Addison is content in his new environment. Once Yvonne leaves, Addison follows from a distance, but when they meet up on the other side of the peak they realize that the meadow no longer exists. They return to the small urban town of Evansville and begin their endless search to return where Addison falls into a deep depression. James Saint Michael, a local minister, takes interest in Addison and Yvonne, but Addison rejects his help when he feels that James is insensitive. Addison spots a motorcycle in the field across from their cottage. They head out on a mind-boggling journey that sends them running for their lives, only to find that Yvonne is dreaming. However, shortly after Yvonne wakes up, Addison spots the motorcycle in the field but it is in severe need of repair. Addison takes the bike to Sam's Bike Shop and has it repaired. They spark out on a quest to find their way home to the plantation only to find every journey leads to a dead end. Yvonne decides that the answer lies over the mountain east of town, the same place they came from. They cross the peak and set up camp, but during the night Addison has an encounter with a shadowy figure in the dark. Once they return, George Hoosier knocks at the door and reveals to them that he crossed the mountain and couldn't return. Jacob Andrews stops by and confesses that he faces the same dilemma. James compares their experiences with events in the Bible. George and Addison make the determination to return only to find opposition from Yvonne. Yvonne changes her mind and decides to go with them, but when morning arrives, George is gone. The two decide to do it on their own, but on their way out ot town, Sam stops and informs them that Jacob died during the night. They decide to delay the trip until after the funeral. On the way home from Sam's Bike Shop Addison and Yvonne get into a heated argument when she reveals that she is four months pregnant. Addison tears out on the motorcycle and broadsides James' pickup truck. He lies in a coma for four months and finds his way back to the plantation through death. Yvonne goes into premature labor and dies in childbirth. Addison greets and leads her to Manuel's mansion where they watch the life of their son Claude at the gate of paradise.
Obscured by the Shadows
Author: Damian Tyler
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 141200117X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Addison lives a lonely secluded life on his father Manuel's plantation. Life is simple until he wakes up with Yvonne standing next to him. When she prepares a meal from Manuel's favorite fruit, everything changes and they venture out on their own to find independence. After leaving the plantation, they cross a time line only to find themselves trapped in the modern world, unable to return. Yvonne determines that it is in their best interest to return to their camp just over the mountain, but Addison is content in his new environment. Once Yvonne leaves, Addison follows from a distance, but when they meet up on the other side of the peak they realize that the meadow no longer exists. They return to the small urban town of Evansville and begin their endless search to return where Addison falls into a deep depression. James Saint Michael, a local minister, takes interest in Addison and Yvonne, but Addison rejects his help when he feels that James is insensitive. Addison spots a motorcycle in the field across from their cottage. They head out on a mind-boggling journey that sends them running for their lives, only to find that Yvonne is dreaming. However, shortly after Yvonne wakes up, Addison spots the motorcycle in the field but it is in severe need of repair. Addison takes the bike to Sam's Bike Shop and has it repaired. They spark out on a quest to find their way home to the plantation only to find every journey leads to a dead end. Yvonne decides that the answer lies over the mountain east of town, the same place they came from. They cross the peak and set up camp, but during the night Addison has an encounter with a shadowy figure in the dark. Once they return, George Hoosier knocks at the door and reveals to them that he crossed the mountain and couldn't return. Jacob Andrews stops by and confesses that he faces the same dilemma. James compares their experiences with events in the Bible. George and Addison make the determination to return only to find opposition from Yvonne. Yvonne changes her mind and decides to go with them, but when morning arrives, George is gone. The two decide to do it on their own, but on their way out ot town, Sam stops and informs them that Jacob died during the night. They decide to delay the trip until after the funeral. On the way home from Sam's Bike Shop Addison and Yvonne get into a heated argument when she reveals that she is four months pregnant. Addison tears out on the motorcycle and broadsides James' pickup truck. He lies in a coma for four months and finds his way back to the plantation through death. Yvonne goes into premature labor and dies in childbirth. Addison greets and leads her to Manuel's mansion where they watch the life of their son Claude at the gate of paradise.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 141200117X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Addison lives a lonely secluded life on his father Manuel's plantation. Life is simple until he wakes up with Yvonne standing next to him. When she prepares a meal from Manuel's favorite fruit, everything changes and they venture out on their own to find independence. After leaving the plantation, they cross a time line only to find themselves trapped in the modern world, unable to return. Yvonne determines that it is in their best interest to return to their camp just over the mountain, but Addison is content in his new environment. Once Yvonne leaves, Addison follows from a distance, but when they meet up on the other side of the peak they realize that the meadow no longer exists. They return to the small urban town of Evansville and begin their endless search to return where Addison falls into a deep depression. James Saint Michael, a local minister, takes interest in Addison and Yvonne, but Addison rejects his help when he feels that James is insensitive. Addison spots a motorcycle in the field across from their cottage. They head out on a mind-boggling journey that sends them running for their lives, only to find that Yvonne is dreaming. However, shortly after Yvonne wakes up, Addison spots the motorcycle in the field but it is in severe need of repair. Addison takes the bike to Sam's Bike Shop and has it repaired. They spark out on a quest to find their way home to the plantation only to find every journey leads to a dead end. Yvonne decides that the answer lies over the mountain east of town, the same place they came from. They cross the peak and set up camp, but during the night Addison has an encounter with a shadowy figure in the dark. Once they return, George Hoosier knocks at the door and reveals to them that he crossed the mountain and couldn't return. Jacob Andrews stops by and confesses that he faces the same dilemma. James compares their experiences with events in the Bible. George and Addison make the determination to return only to find opposition from Yvonne. Yvonne changes her mind and decides to go with them, but when morning arrives, George is gone. The two decide to do it on their own, but on their way out ot town, Sam stops and informs them that Jacob died during the night. They decide to delay the trip until after the funeral. On the way home from Sam's Bike Shop Addison and Yvonne get into a heated argument when she reveals that she is four months pregnant. Addison tears out on the motorcycle and broadsides James' pickup truck. He lies in a coma for four months and finds his way back to the plantation through death. Yvonne goes into premature labor and dies in childbirth. Addison greets and leads her to Manuel's mansion where they watch the life of their son Claude at the gate of paradise.
The Lancet
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
The Seven Basic Plots
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
The Chicago Medical Recorder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Textbook of Anatomy
Author: Daniel John Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Author: John Koenig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501153668
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501153668
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
Artificial Darkness
Author: Noam M. Elcott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022632897X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This ambitious study explores how important darkness--artificial darkness--was, as an actual technology, in producing not just photographs but visual novelties and experiments in cinema in the nineteenth century. The study plays out against a backdrop of urban history, where most scholars have focused on the growth of artificial light and the electrification of cities. Elcott’s study challenges that approach. In considering zones of darkness, it ranges from the sites of production (darkrooms, studios) to those of reception (theaters/cinemas/arcades) that shaped modern media and perceptions. He argues that, in the nineteenth century, the avant-garde was often less interested in the filmed image than in everything surrounding it: the screen, the projected light, the darkness, the experience of disembodiment. He argues that darkness has a history separate from night, evil, or the color black, and has a specifically modern manifestation as a media technology. We are all aware of the "velvet light trap” in photography, but at the heart of this book are technologies of darkness crucial to cinema that were commonly known as "the black screen,” but have, over time, faded from the storied discourse.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022632897X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This ambitious study explores how important darkness--artificial darkness--was, as an actual technology, in producing not just photographs but visual novelties and experiments in cinema in the nineteenth century. The study plays out against a backdrop of urban history, where most scholars have focused on the growth of artificial light and the electrification of cities. Elcott’s study challenges that approach. In considering zones of darkness, it ranges from the sites of production (darkrooms, studios) to those of reception (theaters/cinemas/arcades) that shaped modern media and perceptions. He argues that, in the nineteenth century, the avant-garde was often less interested in the filmed image than in everything surrounding it: the screen, the projected light, the darkness, the experience of disembodiment. He argues that darkness has a history separate from night, evil, or the color black, and has a specifically modern manifestation as a media technology. We are all aware of the "velvet light trap” in photography, but at the heart of this book are technologies of darkness crucial to cinema that were commonly known as "the black screen,” but have, over time, faded from the storied discourse.
Shadows of the Heavens
Author: Gareth Lewis
Publisher: Gareth Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Not even half-way into its first century the empire is riven by strife hidden behind a polite facade. With political factions vying for imperial influence, regional politics subverting imperial law, and society still recovering from recent wars, how much is due to mythic beings many no longer believe in? A scholar's death triggers a series of events which could unravel the tenuous empire, drawing into the deadly game a young enforcer searching for his childhood friend; an examiner who desperately wants to avoid politics; a masked woman whose curiosity could cost her everything; and a prince with nothing better to do. This volume collects the fifteen part story.
Publisher: Gareth Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Not even half-way into its first century the empire is riven by strife hidden behind a polite facade. With political factions vying for imperial influence, regional politics subverting imperial law, and society still recovering from recent wars, how much is due to mythic beings many no longer believe in? A scholar's death triggers a series of events which could unravel the tenuous empire, drawing into the deadly game a young enforcer searching for his childhood friend; an examiner who desperately wants to avoid politics; a masked woman whose curiosity could cost her everything; and a prince with nothing better to do. This volume collects the fifteen part story.
Knights of Darkness
Author: Haha Lung
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806526188
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Throughout history, elite nighttime fighters move under the cover of darknes, silently and unseen, stalking and neutralizing their enemies with unparalleled skill. The Iga and Koga ninja clans of medieval Japan, the deadly moshuh nanren of China, the hwarang of Korea, the Middle East's fabled hashishin assassins, the Norse Ulfhedinn and North Vietnam's Vietcong all possessed stealth secrets that enabled them to neutralise any opponent. Dr. Haha Lung reveals the tactics of these superior warriors with both a historical narrative as well as tactics and guidance.
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806526188
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Throughout history, elite nighttime fighters move under the cover of darknes, silently and unseen, stalking and neutralizing their enemies with unparalleled skill. The Iga and Koga ninja clans of medieval Japan, the deadly moshuh nanren of China, the hwarang of Korea, the Middle East's fabled hashishin assassins, the Norse Ulfhedinn and North Vietnam's Vietcong all possessed stealth secrets that enabled them to neutralise any opponent. Dr. Haha Lung reveals the tactics of these superior warriors with both a historical narrative as well as tactics and guidance.
A Treatise on Facts
Author: Charles Church Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description