Author: Aaron Joy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105839826
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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With a nod to G.K. Chesterton & in response to an essay by professor Dr. Bob Kramer, respected author Aaron Joy takes up the cry that Zurich is the center of the world. It's the center of the world because it is the home of love, alive via the magic of gnomes. But, what type of love? While gnomes do exist as love requires magic and magic requires magicians and a few other things Aaron points out in this sociological treatise of fantasy and wit.
Author: Aaron Joy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300919701
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Adi Da Samraj is a Eastern based guru and teacher unparalleled ...a prolific intellect, writer and artist ...the promised God-Man ...and the divine Ruchira (Bright) Avatar. He's been known over the decades by many names and like many teachers has had his share of controversy, but what he taught and the connection he's made with countless followers goes beyond normal understanding and or the common social landscape. His profundity might be his greatest gift and makes the controversy trivial for many who have come into his presence. These poems by a devotee were written between 2009 and 2013 and look at the relationship of the student to the teacher, the guru, the Bright, God. Yet, they also go beyond Adi Da Samraj to look at spirituality on the whole, the dilemma of an earthly existence, the search for God.
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Author: Dimitra Fimi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783905703405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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J.R.R. Tolkien's literary cosmos may not be the most elaborate of the imaginary worlds in existence, it is certainly the most influential. His creation Arda remains unrivalled in its consistency and complexity and Tolkien remains one of the foremost proponents of literary world-building or, his term, (literary) subcreation.
Author: John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786445440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner's music and used it in Nazi propaganda. But Wagner died in 1883--fifty years before Hitler's regime. It is time to have a fresh look at Wagner's life without the Nazi associations. His life was a series of abandonments and traumas for the self-destructive but creative genius, as he tried to survive as a freelance composer in the hostile environments of 19th century Germany.
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. “A magical, metaphysical realm ... Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” —The New York Times Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
Author: Dianna Baldwin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601836
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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This collection of new essays explores issues of identity, work and play in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). Fourteen women discuss their experiences. Topics include teaching in Second Life, becoming an SL journalist, and using SL as a means to bring human rights to health care; exploring issues of identity and gender such as performing the role of digital geisha, playing with gender crossing, or determining how identity is formed virtually; examining how race is perceived; and investigating creativity such as poetry writing or quilting. The text is unique in that it represents only women and their experiences in a world that is most often viewed as a man's world.
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635578604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher: National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Edited by Leah Dickerman. Essays by Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Dorothea Dietrich, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III.
