Living Abyss

Living Abyss PDF Author: Benjamin Granger
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468932306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Living Abyss is a collection of stories by author Benjamin Granger. It includes the novel Roses of the Dreamer, Alpha 13 (Mars Uncharted), and The Shattering Crystal. There are three books in this compilation. Roses of the Dreamer is a story about two people who find a secret book that may open the gateway to time travel, but must keep it out of the wrong hands. Alpha 13 is about space explorers who discover a conspiracy within the confines of a government outpost on Mars. The Shattering Crystal is a collection of horror and suspense tales, filled with terrifying surprises, and shocking twists. Contains seven stories of horror and mystery that delve into the deepest recesses of the human mind, and fear. The Shattering Crystal contains stories ranging from ghosts, to the paranormal visions of the supernatural, sure to scare even the bravest of readers. This compilation contains some of the best works of author Benjamin Granger, and they are sure to keep you reading to the last page.

Living Abyss

Living Abyss PDF Author: Benjamin Granger
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468932306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Book Description
Living Abyss is a collection of stories by author Benjamin Granger. It includes the novel Roses of the Dreamer, Alpha 13 (Mars Uncharted), and The Shattering Crystal. There are three books in this compilation. Roses of the Dreamer is a story about two people who find a secret book that may open the gateway to time travel, but must keep it out of the wrong hands. Alpha 13 is about space explorers who discover a conspiracy within the confines of a government outpost on Mars. The Shattering Crystal is a collection of horror and suspense tales, filled with terrifying surprises, and shocking twists. Contains seven stories of horror and mystery that delve into the deepest recesses of the human mind, and fear. The Shattering Crystal contains stories ranging from ghosts, to the paranormal visions of the supernatural, sure to scare even the bravest of readers. This compilation contains some of the best works of author Benjamin Granger, and they are sure to keep you reading to the last page.

The Living Age

The Living Age PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Littell's Living Age

Littell's Living Age PDF Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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The Living Church

The Living Church PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 832

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Surviving AmericaÕs Financial Abyss: Be the Entrepreneur of Your Own Life

Surviving AmericaÕs Financial Abyss: Be the Entrepreneur of Your Own Life PDF Author: Roy C. Carriker Ph.D. MBA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1684712440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss PDF Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374216789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

The Abyss Surrounds Us

The Abyss Surrounds Us PDF Author: Emily Skrutskie
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738747610
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Cassandra Leung’s been a sea monster trainer ever since she could walk, raising genetically engineered beast to defend ships crossing the NeoPacific ... until pirates snatch her from the blood-stained decks.

Art Forms from the Abyss

Art Forms from the Abyss PDF Author: Peter J Le B Williams
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791381415
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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These radiant images from the renowned 19th-century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel, featuring marine microorganisms, will enthrall fans of his previous collections and garner renewed attention for Haeckel’s unparalleled artistry. From jewelry designers to scientists, graphic artists to naturalists, the range of people inspired by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations continues to grow. Following up on Prestel’s books Art Forms in Nature and Art Forms from the Ocean, this new collection features startlingly beautiful images created by Haeckel for the report of the HMS Challenger expedition, which circumnavigated the world from 1872–76, discovering and cataloging nearly 5,000 new species from the depths of Earth’s oceans. Full-page reproductions bring these organisms colorfully to life, drawing readers into a world at once hypnotic and highly ordered. Divided into three sections— Siphonophores, Medusae, and Radiolarians—these illustrations display Haeckel’s remarkable artistic skill and understanding of the architecture of organic matter. The authors provide a brief history of the Challenger expedition, background on Haeckel’s scientific and artistic accomplishments, as well as informative texts on each group of organisms. A guide to the natural world and an inspiration to artists of every stripe, this collection of Haeckel’s work is a fitting tribute to a 19th-century genius.

The World as Abyss

The World as Abyss PDF Author: Jonathan Pugh
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
ISBN: 1915445310
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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This book is about a distinctive ‘abyssal’ approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded – a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Modern and colonial world-making violently forged the ‘human’ by dividing those with ontological security from those without, and by carving out the ‘world’ in a fixed grid of space and time, delineating a linear temporality of ‘progress’ and ‘development’. The distinctiveness of abyssal thought is that it inverts the stakes of critique and brings indeterminacy into the heart of ontological assumptions of a world of entities, essences, and universal determination. This is an approach that does not focus upon tropes of rescue and salvation but upon the generative power of negation. In doing so, it highlights how Caribbean experiences and writings have been drawn upon to provide an important and distinct perspective for critical thought. "How is it that ontology has come to be seen as the antidote for modernity? While Foucault denigrated ontology as a mistaken and parochial exercise, contemporary social theory holds out the promise that new modes of planetary knowledge will save us from our own excesses. Drawing together long traditions in Caribbean scholarship with Afro-pessimist thought, Pugh and Chandler illustrate how the search for more emancipatory ontologies - relational ontologies, indigenous ontologies, non-human ontologies, etc. – not only misunderstands the problem of modernity but (more importantly) works to veil the negative force that marks both the limit and cause of all such knowledge practices: what they term the abyss. To engage in abyssal thought – as they lay out – is to inhabit a site of refusal: a determination not to be drawn into the lure of ontological ‘correction’ and to recognise that the practice of world making cannot not bear the imprint of colonial violence. Articulated in passionate declarative prose, these authors powerfully illuminate the trap of the emancipatory instinct and the promise of a deconstructive ethic." — Mitch Rose, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University, UK “A much-needed intellectual effort in the non-reductionist and non-essentialising style of Pugh and Chandler's previous book. The World as Abyss gives Caribbean thought and culture the place they deserve within critical theory and materialist studies.” — Mónica Fernández Jiménez, Valladolid University, Spain “For some time now scholars have questioned the overly general assumptions about the ‘anthropos’ of the Anthropocene, but much work needs to be done to flesh out what a decolonized Anthropocene might be. Pugh and Chandler’s The World as Abyss provides an original, intriguing and compelling counterpoint to bland Anthropocene humanism (and posthumanism). This timely work explores the poetics of the Caribbean and provides a way to think about the Anthropocene and the future beyond the managerialism of the present. This book is essential reading for those working in the environmental humanities or Anthropocene studies.” — Claire Colebrook, Professor, Penn State University, USA “This book names an apocalypse that began long ago. Pugh and Chandler patiently follow the journey of thought as it travels from the Middle Passage to the Caribbean. This brings them face-to-face with the horror of anti-Black violence, not as just another resource to strip-mine, but as an unavoidable abyss that confines all thought. Its reminder: that we have still not yet begun to think a truly Black world.” — Andrew Culp, Professor, California Institute of the Arts, USA "With the force of a manifesto, the intensity of a polemic, and the nuance of a treatise, this book sets out to disavow the disavowal of Colonial violence in the making of the contemporary world and thought. Learning from Caribbean thinkers, writers, and poets, it sets to work unworking, desedimenting and deconstructing, the violent ontological foundations by which anti-Black worlds maintain and reproduce their innocence and ignorance. Replaying and reiterating, extending and multiplying, gestures of refusal – refusals of subjection, of History, of Geography, of meaning, of Being – there is the refusal of the World as it is and of the World as it could be. The World as Abyss artfully combines a critique of the historical forces which make and unmake the contemporary moment with the suspension of horizons, of ends, of grounds. What emerges in the wake is an intensification of the generative capacity of this refusal; voids, arrhythmia, counter-times, displacements, dislocations, the abyssal. First as threat and then as promise" — Paul Harrison, Associate Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UK

Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss

Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss PDF Author: Dennis McKenna
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ISBN: 9781957869018
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author's experiences with and reflections on psychedelics, philosophy, and scientific innovation. Chronicling the McKenna brothers' childhood in western Colorado during the 1950s and 1960s, Dennis writes of his adolescent adventures including his first encounters with alcohol and drugs (many of which were facilitated by Terence), and the people and ideas that shaped them both. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss weaves personal narrative through philosophical ideas and tales of psychedelic experimentation. In this book, Dennis describes these inquiries with the wisdom of perspective. In his account of what has become known as "The Experiment at La Chorrera"-- which Terence documented in his own 1989 book, True Hallucinations -- Dennis describes how he had visions of merging mushroom and human DNA, the brothers' predictions for the future, and their evolving ideas about society and consciousness. He also offers an intellectual understanding of the hallucinogenic effects of high-dose psychedelic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances. Dennis, now world-renowned for this ethnobotanical work, describes in Brotherhood his early interests in cosmology and astrology, his sometimes rocky relationship with his older brother and how their paths diverged later in their lives. Dennis describes his academic career in between touching accounts of both his mother's and Terence's battles with cancer. In the 10th Anniversary edition of Brotherhood, Dennis reflects on scientific revelations, climate change, and the social and political crises of our time. The new edition also features both the original foreword by Luis Eduardo Luna and a new foreword by Dr. Bruce Damer. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss is a story about brotherhood, psychedelic experimentation, and the intertwining nature of science and myth.