Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Dreaming in Cuban
Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
A Painter's Musings
Author: Ruthie Windsor-Mann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578951195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A fine artist for over fifty years, Ruthie Windsor-Mann muses on four overlapping reflections of painting. The book goes through the painting process, from commencing to completion. She offers her opinions on art interpretation, museum visits, developing the eye, and the aging artist. She peppers the book with anecdotes of her experiences of being chased by the police in Hungary and spotting a fire in England.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578951195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A fine artist for over fifty years, Ruthie Windsor-Mann muses on four overlapping reflections of painting. The book goes through the painting process, from commencing to completion. She offers her opinions on art interpretation, museum visits, developing the eye, and the aging artist. She peppers the book with anecdotes of her experiences of being chased by the police in Hungary and spotting a fire in England.
Multivariate Humanities
Author: Pieter M. Kroonenberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030691500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability. Fields featured include, but are not limited to, historical agriculture, arts (music and painting), theology, and stylometrics (authorship issues). Most analyses are based on existing data, earlier analysed in published peer-reviewed papers. Four preliminary methodological and statistical chapters provide general technical background to the case studies. The multivariate statistical methods presented and illustrated include data inspection, several varieties of principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and three-mode analysis. The bulk of the text is taken up by 14 case studies that lean heavily on graphical representations of statistical information such as biplots, using descriptive statistical techniques to support substantive conclusions. Each study features a description of the substantive background to the data, followed by discussion of appropriate multivariate techniques, and detailed results interpreted through graphical illustrations. Each study is concluded with a conceptual summary. Datasets in SPSS are included online.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030691500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability. Fields featured include, but are not limited to, historical agriculture, arts (music and painting), theology, and stylometrics (authorship issues). Most analyses are based on existing data, earlier analysed in published peer-reviewed papers. Four preliminary methodological and statistical chapters provide general technical background to the case studies. The multivariate statistical methods presented and illustrated include data inspection, several varieties of principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and three-mode analysis. The bulk of the text is taken up by 14 case studies that lean heavily on graphical representations of statistical information such as biplots, using descriptive statistical techniques to support substantive conclusions. Each study features a description of the substantive background to the data, followed by discussion of appropriate multivariate techniques, and detailed results interpreted through graphical illustrations. Each study is concluded with a conceptual summary. Datasets in SPSS are included online.
Interpretation from A to Z
Author: Philip McShane
Publisher: Axial Publishing
ISBN: 1988457068
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
McShane's broad interest is in finding a full effective cultural basis of a future humanity. In The Future: Core Precepts in Supramolecular Method and Nanochemistry (2019), he expressed what he considers the effective road forward. The present book enlarges on that reach. The effective road involves a clear operative distinction between the negative Anthropocene, in which we presently live shabbily and destructively, and the positive Anthropocene towards which we must work slowly and democratically, against empires of idiocy, by tuning into the chemistry of our desires. This little book moves along with many twists and turns, but it is also a straightforward help to begin to read properly the two main treatments by Lonergan of the topic of Interpretation: Section 3 of chapter 17 of Insight, and chapter 7 of Method in Theology.
Publisher: Axial Publishing
ISBN: 1988457068
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
McShane's broad interest is in finding a full effective cultural basis of a future humanity. In The Future: Core Precepts in Supramolecular Method and Nanochemistry (2019), he expressed what he considers the effective road forward. The present book enlarges on that reach. The effective road involves a clear operative distinction between the negative Anthropocene, in which we presently live shabbily and destructively, and the positive Anthropocene towards which we must work slowly and democratically, against empires of idiocy, by tuning into the chemistry of our desires. This little book moves along with many twists and turns, but it is also a straightforward help to begin to read properly the two main treatments by Lonergan of the topic of Interpretation: Section 3 of chapter 17 of Insight, and chapter 7 of Method in Theology.
Applied Thematic Analysis
Author: Greg Guest
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 154436721X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
After collecting qualitative data from in-depth interviews, focus groups, or field observations, students and researchers often struggle to make sense of it. This step-by-step guide draws on the authors′ many years of experience carrying out qualitative research and conducting trainings on the subject. Their book describes how to analyze qualitative data in a systematic and rigorous way. The authors introduce and outline applied thematic analysis, an inductive approach that draws on established and innovative theme-based techniques suited to the applied research context. Chapters follow the sequence of activities in the analysis process and also include discussions of mixed methods, choosing the most appropriate software, and how to write up and present the results. "This book presents what all of the books I′ve tried to use in the past have failed to present—how to analyze qualitative data."—Catherine C. Schifter, Temple University "This book does a wonderful job of explaining how important thematic analysis is for producing good research, and it uses rich and detailed examples to do it."—Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 154436721X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
After collecting qualitative data from in-depth interviews, focus groups, or field observations, students and researchers often struggle to make sense of it. This step-by-step guide draws on the authors′ many years of experience carrying out qualitative research and conducting trainings on the subject. Their book describes how to analyze qualitative data in a systematic and rigorous way. The authors introduce and outline applied thematic analysis, an inductive approach that draws on established and innovative theme-based techniques suited to the applied research context. Chapters follow the sequence of activities in the analysis process and also include discussions of mixed methods, choosing the most appropriate software, and how to write up and present the results. "This book presents what all of the books I′ve tried to use in the past have failed to present—how to analyze qualitative data."—Catherine C. Schifter, Temple University "This book does a wonderful job of explaining how important thematic analysis is for producing good research, and it uses rich and detailed examples to do it."—Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania
Writing the Memoir
Author: Judith Barrington
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741151384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A practical guide to the craft, the personal challenges, and ethical dilemmas of writing your true stories.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741151384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A practical guide to the craft, the personal challenges, and ethical dilemmas of writing your true stories.
Love Makes the Worlds Go Around
Author: Martin Lass
Publisher:
ISBN: 0971592489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Science has yet to truly understand the 'glue' that holds the universe together. I believe that science will eventually discover what we all already know in our Hearts... that the 'glue' that holds the universe together is Love. Love brings all people, places and things close together, transcending space and time. In a state of Love, we can become one with the living universe; in Love, we can connect and converse with each and every living aspect. As a cosmologist and astrologer, I have come to Love the planets and the solar system. As a conduit for Love, I have connected with them and heard them speak. As a poet, I now bring you a book of poetic inspirations and messages from the living planets..."
Publisher:
ISBN: 0971592489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Science has yet to truly understand the 'glue' that holds the universe together. I believe that science will eventually discover what we all already know in our Hearts... that the 'glue' that holds the universe together is Love. Love brings all people, places and things close together, transcending space and time. In a state of Love, we can become one with the living universe; in Love, we can connect and converse with each and every living aspect. As a cosmologist and astrologer, I have come to Love the planets and the solar system. As a conduit for Love, I have connected with them and heard them speak. As a poet, I now bring you a book of poetic inspirations and messages from the living planets..."
Eternal Game of Life
Author: Ekalavya
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946714038
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Have you ever been aghast at God’s scheme of things? Have you ever felt helpless in the midst of all pervasive inequity and not being able to do anything? Ever felt like throttling the throats of those sophists who coo in your ears, “Oh the world is sooooo beautiful! Live in the present, as it’s a gift” kind of inane homilies, and get into a mood to smash a few things, blurt out profanities, or worse, get into depression? The book tries to capture such moods and reflects on them to try and fathom His apparent ways. It starts with positive euphoria, dwells into texts to find solace, reflects deeply as to what can be done to find peace, and slowly gets to a realization that things will continue to just “be”. Surrendering to His will in perfect understanding and without that “oh but the grapes are sour” kind of mindset, but yet being actively aware, would indeed be a sane if not sole option. “Que Sera Sera, whatever will be, will be”. Read on, for the journey towards “realization” to unfold; allegorically comparing our life cycle to a Snakes and Ladders board game of ups and downs, euphoria and frustration, agonies and ecstasies, all of which abound till you reach home.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946714038
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Have you ever been aghast at God’s scheme of things? Have you ever felt helpless in the midst of all pervasive inequity and not being able to do anything? Ever felt like throttling the throats of those sophists who coo in your ears, “Oh the world is sooooo beautiful! Live in the present, as it’s a gift” kind of inane homilies, and get into a mood to smash a few things, blurt out profanities, or worse, get into depression? The book tries to capture such moods and reflects on them to try and fathom His apparent ways. It starts with positive euphoria, dwells into texts to find solace, reflects deeply as to what can be done to find peace, and slowly gets to a realization that things will continue to just “be”. Surrendering to His will in perfect understanding and without that “oh but the grapes are sour” kind of mindset, but yet being actively aware, would indeed be a sane if not sole option. “Que Sera Sera, whatever will be, will be”. Read on, for the journey towards “realization” to unfold; allegorically comparing our life cycle to a Snakes and Ladders board game of ups and downs, euphoria and frustration, agonies and ecstasies, all of which abound till you reach home.
Typed Words, Loud Voices
Author: Amy Sequenzia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986183522
Category : Autism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Typed Words, Loud Voices is written by a coalition of writers who type to talk and believe it is neither logical nor fair that some people should be expected to prove themselves every time they have something to say.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986183522
Category : Autism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Typed Words, Loud Voices is written by a coalition of writers who type to talk and believe it is neither logical nor fair that some people should be expected to prove themselves every time they have something to say.
International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research
Author: Paul Smeyers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401792828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1645
Book Description
This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ research. Interpretation extends from the very framing of the research task, through the sources which constitute the data, the process of their recording, representation and analysis, to the way in which the research is finally or provisionally presented. The thesis of the handbook is that interpretation cuts across the fields (both philosophically, organizationally and methodologically). By covering a comprehensive range of research approaches and methodologies, the handbook gives (early career) researchers what they need to know in order to decide what particular methods can offer for various educational research contexts/fields. An extensive overview includes concrete examples of different kinds of research (not limited for example to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ examples as present in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, but including as well what in the German Continental tradition is labelled ‘pädagogisch’, examples from child rearing and other contexts of non-formal education) with full description and explanation of why these were chosen in particular circumstances and reflection on the wisdom or otherwise of the choice – combined in each case with consideration of the role of interpretation in the process. The handbook includes examples of a large number of methods traditionally classified as qualitative, interpretive and quantitative used across the area of the study of education. Examples are drawn from across the globe, thus exemplifying the different ‘opportunities and constraints’ that educational research has to confront in different societies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401792828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1645
Book Description
This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ research. Interpretation extends from the very framing of the research task, through the sources which constitute the data, the process of their recording, representation and analysis, to the way in which the research is finally or provisionally presented. The thesis of the handbook is that interpretation cuts across the fields (both philosophically, organizationally and methodologically). By covering a comprehensive range of research approaches and methodologies, the handbook gives (early career) researchers what they need to know in order to decide what particular methods can offer for various educational research contexts/fields. An extensive overview includes concrete examples of different kinds of research (not limited for example to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ examples as present in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, but including as well what in the German Continental tradition is labelled ‘pädagogisch’, examples from child rearing and other contexts of non-formal education) with full description and explanation of why these were chosen in particular circumstances and reflection on the wisdom or otherwise of the choice – combined in each case with consideration of the role of interpretation in the process. The handbook includes examples of a large number of methods traditionally classified as qualitative, interpretive and quantitative used across the area of the study of education. Examples are drawn from across the globe, thus exemplifying the different ‘opportunities and constraints’ that educational research has to confront in different societies.