Author: Peter Dube
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772141559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poetry. THE HEADLESS MAN awakens into a strange landscape. He must make sense of it through his actions, striving to determine whether there is a place for him in a world not made in his image or whether he must imagine something different in order to be. He cannot speak, see, or hear in the usual ways, so he must learn to do these things using other parts of his body, leading him to a fuller sense of himself. In this gothic, picaresque narrative, laced with horror and humour, Montreal surrealist Peter Dubé addresses his concern with queer challenges to identity and sexual boundaries, exploring questions about insider and outsider, what constitutes the "normal" and what is relegated to the realm of the "monstrous."
The Headless Man
Author: Peter Dube
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772141559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poetry. THE HEADLESS MAN awakens into a strange landscape. He must make sense of it through his actions, striving to determine whether there is a place for him in a world not made in his image or whether he must imagine something different in order to be. He cannot speak, see, or hear in the usual ways, so he must learn to do these things using other parts of his body, leading him to a fuller sense of himself. In this gothic, picaresque narrative, laced with horror and humour, Montreal surrealist Peter Dubé addresses his concern with queer challenges to identity and sexual boundaries, exploring questions about insider and outsider, what constitutes the "normal" and what is relegated to the realm of the "monstrous."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772141559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poetry. THE HEADLESS MAN awakens into a strange landscape. He must make sense of it through his actions, striving to determine whether there is a place for him in a world not made in his image or whether he must imagine something different in order to be. He cannot speak, see, or hear in the usual ways, so he must learn to do these things using other parts of his body, leading him to a fuller sense of himself. In this gothic, picaresque narrative, laced with horror and humour, Montreal surrealist Peter Dubé addresses his concern with queer challenges to identity and sexual boundaries, exploring questions about insider and outsider, what constitutes the "normal" and what is relegated to the realm of the "monstrous."
Legends of the Nahanni Valley
Author: Hammerson Peters
Publisher: Hammerson Peters via PublishDrive
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A non-fiction exploring some of Northern Canada's greatest forgotten mysteries- the stories and legends surrounding the watershed of the South Nahanni River. . Deep in the heart of the Canadian North lies a mysterious valley shrouded in legend. Lured by tales of lost gold, prospectors who enter it tend to lose their heads or vanish without a trace. Some say that the valley is cursed- haunted by an evil spirit whose wailings echo in the canyons. Others claim that it is home to monsters- relics of its prehistoric past. What secrets could the valley be hiding? What mysteries lie buried beneath its misty shroud?
Publisher: Hammerson Peters via PublishDrive
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A non-fiction exploring some of Northern Canada's greatest forgotten mysteries- the stories and legends surrounding the watershed of the South Nahanni River. . Deep in the heart of the Canadian North lies a mysterious valley shrouded in legend. Lured by tales of lost gold, prospectors who enter it tend to lose their heads or vanish without a trace. Some say that the valley is cursed- haunted by an evil spirit whose wailings echo in the canyons. Others claim that it is home to monsters- relics of its prehistoric past. What secrets could the valley be hiding? What mysteries lie buried beneath its misty shroud?
The Man with No Head
Author: Richard Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908774361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This beautifully crafted graphic biography takes you on the life journey, from cradle to grave, of a great man - a man who worked out a new map of our place in the universe and developed awareness exercises that make available the experience of our True Self. A revelation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908774361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This beautifully crafted graphic biography takes you on the life journey, from cradle to grave, of a great man - a man who worked out a new map of our place in the universe and developed awareness exercises that make available the experience of our True Self. A revelation.
On Having No Head
Author: Douglas Edison Harding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908774064
Category : Enlightenment (Zen Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Originally published: The Buddhist Society, 1961.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908774064
Category : Enlightenment (Zen Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Originally published: The Buddhist Society, 1961.
Octo-Man and the Headless Monster #1
Author: Jane Kelley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448487535
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Zing, zong, zing. Brain flash! A pirate hook. Underground tunnels. Brains in jars. It's time for an Escapade! Clint McCool always has a lot of great ideas. That’s what makes him such a great hero. But sometimes he has too many great ideas. Armed with his super-powered cap, his brain flashes, and his two best friends, Clint is ready to solve any problem and find adventure anywhere. When he runs onto a film set, he gets into trouble. A lot of trouble. Can Clint McCool still save the day? This easy-to-read, highly-illustrated book is a perfect first chapter book, printed in black and blue to help readers transition from full-color picture books to black-and-white chapter books. Exciting adventures, relatable characters, and engaging art—early readers will love joining Clint McCool for his Escapades. "Filled with outrageous situations and graphiclike illustrations, this chapter book is fast-paced and fun... ideal for reluctant readers"--School Library Journal "Relatable, likable Clint... could be a great role model for readers who struggle with focus, as he learns that sometimes it is better to be the boss of one idea at a time... This quirky, fast-paced series starter should easily get kids laughing"--Booklist
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448487535
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Zing, zong, zing. Brain flash! A pirate hook. Underground tunnels. Brains in jars. It's time for an Escapade! Clint McCool always has a lot of great ideas. That’s what makes him such a great hero. But sometimes he has too many great ideas. Armed with his super-powered cap, his brain flashes, and his two best friends, Clint is ready to solve any problem and find adventure anywhere. When he runs onto a film set, he gets into trouble. A lot of trouble. Can Clint McCool still save the day? This easy-to-read, highly-illustrated book is a perfect first chapter book, printed in black and blue to help readers transition from full-color picture books to black-and-white chapter books. Exciting adventures, relatable characters, and engaging art—early readers will love joining Clint McCool for his Escapades. "Filled with outrageous situations and graphiclike illustrations, this chapter book is fast-paced and fun... ideal for reluctant readers"--School Library Journal "Relatable, likable Clint... could be a great role model for readers who struggle with focus, as he learns that sometimes it is better to be the boss of one idea at a time... This quirky, fast-paced series starter should easily get kids laughing"--Booklist
The Music Libel Against the Jews
Author: Ruth HaCohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300177992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300177992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.
Land Of The Headless
Author: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575100338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
THE LAND OF THE HEADLESS is set in a far future where mankind has taken his religious dogma and the divsions that result from it out into space. On a planet where society is shaped by a strict adherance to the word of God as laid out in the Old Testament and Quran a poet is accused of the rape of a woman. Found guilty he must face the punishment laid down in the Good Book; beheading. Beheaded, he is fitted with a neck valve, ordinator and basic sensory equipment and sent out into the world. But he bears a terrible and very visible stigma. the only way he can make a living is to join the army and serve in the war against the neighbouring planet. And plan his revenge against the man he believes is really guilty. LAND OF THE HEADLESS is a searing satire of religious fundamentalism, a novel of love and war and a study of self-delusion. It is an elegantly written, thought-provoking and unique SF novel.
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575100338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
THE LAND OF THE HEADLESS is set in a far future where mankind has taken his religious dogma and the divsions that result from it out into space. On a planet where society is shaped by a strict adherance to the word of God as laid out in the Old Testament and Quran a poet is accused of the rape of a woman. Found guilty he must face the punishment laid down in the Good Book; beheading. Beheaded, he is fitted with a neck valve, ordinator and basic sensory equipment and sent out into the world. But he bears a terrible and very visible stigma. the only way he can make a living is to join the army and serve in the war against the neighbouring planet. And plan his revenge against the man he believes is really guilty. LAND OF THE HEADLESS is a searing satire of religious fundamentalism, a novel of love and war and a study of self-delusion. It is an elegantly written, thought-provoking and unique SF novel.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539541196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539541196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving
Field of Battle
Author: Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635900883
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control. In times of war the law is silent. —from Field of Battle Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime—as well as the alegal state that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it—hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the “a-state.” This war scenario is establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control developed by the United States government and enforced through its global network of military bases and the multinational corporations that work in synergy with its espionage agencies. Geopolitics take advantage of social instability, drug cartels, state repression, and paramilitarism to establish the foundations of a world order. Sergio González Rodríguez argues that this surveillance and control model has been imposed on the international community through extreme neoliberal ideology, free markets, the globalized economy, and the rise of the information society. The threats are clear. Nation-states are increasingly unable to respond to societal needs, and the individual has been displaced by money and technique—the axis of the transhumanist future foretold by today's electronic devices. The human being as the prosthesis of an artificial world and as an object of networks and systems: citizens are the victims of a perverse vision of reality, caught between the defense of their rights and their will to insurrection.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635900883
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control. In times of war the law is silent. —from Field of Battle Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime—as well as the alegal state that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it—hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the “a-state.” This war scenario is establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control developed by the United States government and enforced through its global network of military bases and the multinational corporations that work in synergy with its espionage agencies. Geopolitics take advantage of social instability, drug cartels, state repression, and paramilitarism to establish the foundations of a world order. Sergio González Rodríguez argues that this surveillance and control model has been imposed on the international community through extreme neoliberal ideology, free markets, the globalized economy, and the rise of the information society. The threats are clear. Nation-states are increasingly unable to respond to societal needs, and the individual has been displaced by money and technique—the axis of the transhumanist future foretold by today's electronic devices. The human being as the prosthesis of an artificial world and as an object of networks and systems: citizens are the victims of a perverse vision of reality, caught between the defense of their rights and their will to insurrection.
In the Valley of Headless Men
Author: Steven Douglas Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
As the disappearances in national parks around the world continues, a group of students and a professor from a university travel to Nahanni National Park in Canada to look into the phenomena, only to learn why a certain area is called "the Valley of Headless Men" for a good reason.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
As the disappearances in national parks around the world continues, a group of students and a professor from a university travel to Nahanni National Park in Canada to look into the phenomena, only to learn why a certain area is called "the Valley of Headless Men" for a good reason.