Poeternitry

Poeternitry
Author: Karen Davies
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059522475X

Poeternitry is a comet's ride through the human mind to the spiritual world beyond. You'll be taken on a journey through love and darkness to the shores of faith and fantasy. This collection of poems by Karen Davies shows her ability to write across a wide range of subjects from the "Gates of Heaven" to the darkest parts of the human mind. Her ability to write multiple forms, such as, the simple and thought provoking "haiku" to the rhythmic flow of the "Shakespearean Sonnet." She'll take you on a muse's journey through imagination to all that is eternal.

Filmurbia

Filmurbia
Author: David Forrest
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137531754

In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became the primary location of entire national populations and films about the suburbs began to concertedly reflect those suburbs’ significance as well as their increasingly lively cultures! Suburbia very soon became filmurbia, as films of the suburbs and those made in the suburbs reflected both the positive and the negative aspects of burgeoning suburban life. Film-makers explored the existences of new suburbanites, their interests, their newly emerging neighbourhood practices, their foibles, their fantasies and their hopes. Whether depicting love, ambition, commerce, family, home or horror, whether traveling to or living in suburban spaces, whether exhibiting beauty, brazenness or brutality, the films of suburbia capture human life in all its diverse guises.

The Literary Beach

The Literary Beach
Author: Carsten Meiner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040014135

As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place but also an uncivilized and desolate place. This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing on English, French, Italian, American, and Spanish literatures from various periods and genres and presenting multiple ways of comparing and understanding literary beaches as a ubiquitous literary phenomenon. It demonstrates how the literary beach as a both geo-historical place and as an aesthetic literary commonplace has been a constant and privileged resource for the analysis of more general existential, sociological, and moral problems. This is the case when for instance the Tahitian beach becomes the place of the "already modern" in Stevenson's tales, or when the Italian beach becomes a question of modern feminism in Ferrante. In this sense, literature expands the local or national beach by articulating its transnational complexities.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil
Author:
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0756695694

Now available in PDF format. Brazil evokes images of Carnaval, skillful soccer teams, the sounds of bossa nova and samba, and Brazilians of all ages swaying across the white sands of Ipanema and Copacabana in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil leads you straight to the very best this vibrant country has to offer. This complete travel guide for Brazil includes street-by-street neighborhood maps of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, unique cutaway illustrations, floor plans, and reconstructions of must-see sights, plus 3-D aerial views of the key areas to explore on foot. You'll also find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide. Insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Brazil, from the pristine island resorts of Sao Paulo to the thundering Iguazu Falls to the Amazon rain forest; to colonial towns, remote villages, and Brasília's Modernist architecture. Practical travel information will help you get around by train, bus, or car. Discover the authentic spirit of this lively Latin American nation with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil.

The Unwelcome

The Unwelcome
Author: Jacob Steven Mohr
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1789045606

Kait’s volcanic temper has already scared most of her friends away, and a bad breakup with her college boyfriend Lutz has left her crippled by guilt and painful memories. So, when she learns that her best friend Alice is planning a three-day sabbatical in a secluded mountain cabin, Kait jumps at the chance to tag along, convinced that rekindling their fractured friendship is the key to fixing whatever’s breaking down inside of her. She should have known… Lutz would never let her go so easily. After a chance roadside meeting, Kait’s jealous ex-boyfriend pursues her into the foothills, revealing the monster under his skin for the first time: a body-snatching inhuman entity capable of assimilating and adopting the guise of any human host. Lutz is determined to prove his twisted love to Kait, even if it means carving his monument to his devotion in the pilfered flesh of her closest friends. Now, with miles of snow-hushed Appalachia between them and civilization, Kait must unite her friends against this horrifying threat, and learn to embrace her own inner monster, before the shadows of her past swallow up her life for good.

This Too Shall Pass

This Too Shall Pass
Author: David Bruch
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781477278604

This Too Shall Pass is a collection of short stories based on the premise that goodness and spirituality will always prevail. The collection opens with Dignity, a take on Paradise Lost and moves forward with two stories born in the Garden of Eden-And the Earth Cries, the Fall of the Garden told from the Gardens point of view-And the Earth Cries Part II, a story of the events of 9/11 from a dogs point of view. The story I.M. is a complex story of two fathers going in the wrong direction who are redeemed by the love of their daughters. Circles is a modern take on Dantes Inferno with an ending that leaves one with a feeling of hope. The next three stories: The Watermelon Patch, The Wish, and The Catalyst are short, feel good stories of the world around us. The last story, Jackie, is a story of true love. So, whenever you feel down and lifes stresses and strains are collapsing upon you, have faith, believe in goodness, strengthen your spirit, and always remember This Too Shall Pass, and all is right with the world.

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vancouver and Vancouver Island

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vancouver and Vancouver Island
Author: DK Eyewitness
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0744022983

Beautifully situated between the ocean and picturesque mountains, Vancouver offers the cultural vibrancy of a modern metropolis, as well as opportunities to enjoy the breathtaking rugged coastline and wilderness of nearby Vancouver Island. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around Vancouver and Vancouver Island with absolute ease. Our newly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Vancouver and Vancouver Island into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the best museums and galleries, places to eat, shops and festivals. You'll discover: - Seven easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day-trip, a weekend, or a week - Detailed Top 10 lists of Vancouver and Vancouver Island's must-sees, including detailed descriptions of Stanley Park, Canada Place, the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Granville Island, Science World, Long Beach and Whistler - Vancouver and Vancouver Island's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, going out, and sightseeing - Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip - including children's activities and things to do for free - Streetsmart advice: get ready, get around, and stay safe DK Eyewitness Top 10s have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 2002. Looking for more on Vancouver's culture, history and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness Canada.

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vancouver and Vancouver Island

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vancouver and Vancouver Island
Author: DK Eyewitness
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2024-05-28
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0593847296

Make the most of your trip to Vancouver and Vancouver Island with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the region's best and ensuring you don't miss anything. The pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable, the perfect companion while out and about. With a new lightweight format, this Vancouver travel guide is perfect for your pocket or bag when you’re on the move. Inside, you'll find: - Top 10 lists of Vancouver and Vancouver Island's must-sees, including Stanley Park, Granville Island, the Royal BC Museum, and Whistler - Vancouver and Vancouver Island's most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping - Themed lists, including the best parks and gardens, beaches and bays, First Nations art, and much more - Easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week - A laminated pull-out map of Seattle, plus five full-color area maps DK Eyewitness's Top 10s have been helping travelers make the most of their breaks since 2002. Take the work out of planning a short trip with the DK Eyewitness Top 10 series. It’s the ultimate travel guide packed with easy-to-read maps, tips, and tours to make your weekend trip or cultural break memorable. Looking for more on Canada's culture, history, and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness Canada. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations worldwide, from pocket-sized city guides to detailed country guides.

Backpacker

Backpacker
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Singapore At War

Singapore At War
Author: Romen Bose
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9814435422

This volume brings together for the first time three of Romen Bose’s major historical works – Secrets of the Battlebox, The End of the War, and Kranji – in a panoramic account of Singapore’s experience in WWII. Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served as the British Command HQ during the war. What actually happened in this underground nerve centre of the Malayan Campaign? Drawing on top-secret documents only recently opened to research, the author investigates the workings of the Battlebox and the fascinating role it played. Having lost their “impregnable fortress” of Singapore, the British were diverted to the European theatre of war. How then, when the Japanese surrendered, did they prepare to return to their erstwhile colonies? This book goes behind the scenes to investigate the circumstances, events, and unforgettable cast of characters that led up to liberation. Finally, the book considers those who fought and died in the war, and their ways in which they have been remembered in post-war Singapore, with Kranji cemetery and memorial as the centrepiece of the efforts. Singapore At War contains new findings which have come to light since the publication of the individual books, giving an unprecedented breadth and depth of perspective to this historical account.