Author: Newman Ivey White
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382865
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition. members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Author: Newman Ivey White
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382865
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition. members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382865
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition. members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.
On the Wings of Checkerspots
Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland. Ehrlich, one of the leading ecologists and conservation biologist, investigates checkerspot butterfly populations in California. This book reports on and synthsizes the major long-term research of both workers' careers on the population biology of checkerspot butterflies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland. Ehrlich, one of the leading ecologists and conservation biologist, investigates checkerspot butterfly populations in California. This book reports on and synthsizes the major long-term research of both workers' careers on the population biology of checkerspot butterflies.
The Ainiu
Author: Cyndarion Ainiu
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304909433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304909433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The American Naturalist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
Author: William Desmond
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532617100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer’s dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss’s creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532617100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer’s dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss’s creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.
Woodland Idyls
Author: Willis Stanley Blatchley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Cubop City Blues
Author: Pablo Medina
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The celebrated Cuban American poet and novelist delivers “[a] haunting love letter to New York . . . with tales of love, death, and exile” (Publishers Weekly). Pablo Medina’s Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically-disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers. Our guide into Cubop City is the Storyteller, born nearly blind and shrouded in his mother’s guilt. He’s homeschooled inside his parents’ crumbling apartment with a European housekeeper, and educated through Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and One Thousand and One Nights. When he’s twenty-five, his mother and father are both diagnosed with cancer, and the Storyteller alone is left to care for them. He does so by telling them stories conceived from the prolific reading that allowed his imagination to flourish despite little contact with the outside world. Through his tales—full of magic, sorrow, longing, love—Cubop City surges colorfully to life. Moving through myriad points of view, the Storyteller imagines a world populated by both well-known figures like Chano Pozo and Jelly Roll Morton, and invented characters, most notably a mustachioed man who is stabbed by a stranger and embarks on a novel-long search for his attacker. Molded in the cadence of Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop City Blues is a symphonic portrait of a bustling urban landscape and the intimate lives that give a city its voice. “A kaleidoscopic depiction of life in exile.” —Leonard Lopate “[Medina’s] most touching novel to date . . . A rich and stunning novel with an incredibly intricate scaffolding . . . Yet another triumph.” —Rigoberto González, Los Angeles Review of Books
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802194559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The celebrated Cuban American poet and novelist delivers “[a] haunting love letter to New York . . . with tales of love, death, and exile” (Publishers Weekly). Pablo Medina’s Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically-disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers. Our guide into Cubop City is the Storyteller, born nearly blind and shrouded in his mother’s guilt. He’s homeschooled inside his parents’ crumbling apartment with a European housekeeper, and educated through Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and One Thousand and One Nights. When he’s twenty-five, his mother and father are both diagnosed with cancer, and the Storyteller alone is left to care for them. He does so by telling them stories conceived from the prolific reading that allowed his imagination to flourish despite little contact with the outside world. Through his tales—full of magic, sorrow, longing, love—Cubop City surges colorfully to life. Moving through myriad points of view, the Storyteller imagines a world populated by both well-known figures like Chano Pozo and Jelly Roll Morton, and invented characters, most notably a mustachioed man who is stabbed by a stranger and embarks on a novel-long search for his attacker. Molded in the cadence of Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop City Blues is a symphonic portrait of a bustling urban landscape and the intimate lives that give a city its voice. “A kaleidoscopic depiction of life in exile.” —Leonard Lopate “[Medina’s] most touching novel to date . . . A rich and stunning novel with an incredibly intricate scaffolding . . . Yet another triumph.” —Rigoberto González, Los Angeles Review of Books
The Ainiu
Author: Cyndarion
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557914485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Finalist Award Winner at the 2011 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS(r) *** In a long-ago time when elves, dwarves, druids, and magical creatures lived on Earth, Duida, the Elven Princess and the chosen one, embarks on a fantastic quest to awaken the Ainu and save the Elven kingdom from the forces of evil. The most incredible spiritual adventure of all times will open in front of your eyes, revealing deep and profound truths about the nature of reality and the path of self-transformation towards full enlightenment in this life. In these pages, you will learn incredible secrets about your authentic self, for you will be challenged, like the heroine of this story, to face your own dramas, strategies, and the masks your ego uses to cloak your true inner reality. Great spiritual truths are revealed for the first time here that will dispel all the many lies about true spiritual development and take you to a true understanding of self-realization, enlightenment, and the reality of the existence of Go
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557914485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Finalist Award Winner at the 2011 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS(r) *** In a long-ago time when elves, dwarves, druids, and magical creatures lived on Earth, Duida, the Elven Princess and the chosen one, embarks on a fantastic quest to awaken the Ainu and save the Elven kingdom from the forces of evil. The most incredible spiritual adventure of all times will open in front of your eyes, revealing deep and profound truths about the nature of reality and the path of self-transformation towards full enlightenment in this life. In these pages, you will learn incredible secrets about your authentic self, for you will be challenged, like the heroine of this story, to face your own dramas, strategies, and the masks your ego uses to cloak your true inner reality. Great spiritual truths are revealed for the first time here that will dispel all the many lies about true spiritual development and take you to a true understanding of self-realization, enlightenment, and the reality of the existence of Go
Adventures with a Hand Lens
Author: Richard Headstrom
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486233307
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Clearly written guide to observing and studying flowers and grasses, fish scales, moth and insect wings, egg cases, buds, and more — all with an ordinary magnifying glass. 209 line drawings.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486233307
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Clearly written guide to observing and studying flowers and grasses, fish scales, moth and insect wings, egg cases, buds, and more — all with an ordinary magnifying glass. 209 line drawings.
Report of the Meeting
Author: American Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description