How Everything Turns Away

How Everything Turns Away
Author: Steven J. Kolbe
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150923814X

Ezra James used to be a big deal: Harvard graduate, FBI agent, beautiful wife. After being accused of fabricating evidence in a serial killer trial, he finds himself suspended, on the verge of a divorce, and working security at a posh Catholic school in Chicago. Then something out-of-the-ordinary happens: a young student-teacher is attacked during a Christmas pageant and left for dead in the snow with a noose around her neck and an electrical burn. Plus, she's pregnant. Ezra, along with up-and-coming police detective, Lucia Vargas, and school chaplain, Fr. Remy Mbombo, must work fast before the culprit returns to finish the job.

Everything Turns Away

Everything Turns Away
Author: Michelle Berry
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781989496398

On September 11, 2001, the world changed. For Sophie and Paul, it started with a disastrous dinner party. For the babysitter, it started with waking in a dark kitchen and recognizing the smell of blood. For everyone else it started with a plane flying into the World Trade Center. In this tautly written domestic thriller set in Toronto, Michelle Berry weaves together the story of two couples whose lives are about to be unravelled by the murder of a neighbour, a babysitter that has gone missing and the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. It is a haunting exploration of marriages and what tears them apart, of what happens to people during shocking events and of how everything can change in an instant. Filled with richly drawn characters, a web of thwarted desires and multiple motives, Everything Turns Away is riveting until the very end.

The Unsignificant

The Unsignificant
Author: Srikanth Reddy
Publisher: Wave Books
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award–finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015. True to its title, The Unsignificant is concerned with what it’s not about—not the logical proofs of philosophy but the affective flux of poetry. The lectures approach poetry from Homer to Gertrude Stein to Ronald Johnson obliquely, refracted through images such as Brueghel’s “Landscape with Fall of Icarus,” Hermann Rorschach’s inkblots, or Galileo’s drawings of the moon. Ranging from pictorial backgrounds in visual art to portraiture and similes to the poetics of wonder, The Unsignificant embarks on an unsystematic, errant, and eccentric tour of Western poetry and poetics from the ancient world to our continuous present.

Humans and the Environment

Humans and the Environment
Author: Matthew I. J. Davies
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0191626015

The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of society and social change. Archaeology also has a unique position as its base of interest places it temporally between geological and ethnographic timescales, spatially between global and local dimensions, and epistemologically between empirical studies of environmental change and more heuristic studies of cultural practice. Drawing on data from across the globe at a variety of temporal and spatial scales, this volume resituates the way in which archaeologists use and apply the concept of the environment. Each chapter critically explores the potential for archaeological data and practice to contribute to modern environmental issues, including problems of climate change and environmental degradation. Overall the volume covers four basic themes: archaeological approaches to the way in which both scientists and locals conceive of the relationship between humans and their environment, applied environmental archaeology, the archaeology of disaster, and new interdisciplinary directions.The volume will be of interest to students and established archaeologists, as well as practitioners from a range of applied disciplines.

In the World of Signs

In the World of Signs
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004457623

The book covers almost the whole range of semiotics: the conceptions of meaning, the appearance of meaning units in semiosis, the dichotomy analyticity/syntheticity, the formal condition of good translation, the metaphorical change in fine arts, the figurativeness in modern literary theories, the metaphor in computer translation, the conditionals with egocentric predicates, the evolution of the notion of cause, the temporal relation in conditionals, the structure of passive voice, the semantics of to think, the reasoning and rationality, the non-formalized reasoning, the operation of acceptance, the principle of non-contradiction, the relation semiotics/logic/philosophy, the interdisciplinarity and exactness, the notion of imprecision, the interpretation of some semiotic notions (i.a. semantic field of terms) in terms of mathematics, the description of categorial grammars in terms of model theory, the human knowledge as moral problem, the conceptualization of the development of knowledge by means of the notion of meme, the cultural relations between some European countries, the typology of scientists, the semiotic studies of some Spanish, Irish, Czech, Polish and Norwegian works of literature, the semiotic aspects of music, television and the whole sphere of artifacts, the history of semiotics (Plato, Gonsung Long, Descartes, Fu Yen, Peirce, Brwal, Lotman, Langer).

The Swedish Fairy Book

The Swedish Fairy Book
Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is a book more akin to folklore as the stories are not fairy stories. The stories have repeated themes, and some themes are darker and have references to the devil. AS might be expected in a Swedish book of this nature, Trolls also feature.

The Arts in Medical Education

The Arts in Medical Education
Author: Elaine Powley
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781857756265

Accompanying CD-ROM contains chapter 5. Sound Sense.

Poetry, Poets, Readers

Poetry, Poets, Readers
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199251131

Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Edward Lear, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on question-forms in poems, the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets, the book sets out a fresh model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers - one which allows the historical fact of poems having made things happen to be itself happening."--Jacket.

Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry
Author: John Bankston
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1438120389

Lois Lowry's first book, A Summer to Die, was published in 1977, when Lowry was a newly divorced, 40-year-old single mother.

The End of Meaning

The End of Meaning
Author: Matthew Gumpert
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2012-04-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443839434

The specter of the apocalypse has always been a semiotic fantasy: only at the end of all things will their true meaning be revealed. Our long romance with catastrophe is inseparable from the Western hermeneutical tradition: our search for an elusive truth, one that can only be uncovered through the interminable work of interpretation. Catastrophe terrifies and tantalizes to the extent it promises an end to this task. 9/11 is this book’s beginning, but not its end. Here, it seemed, was the apocalypse America had long been waiting for; until it became just another event. And, indeed, the real lesson of 9/11 may be that catastrophe is the purest form of the event. From the poetry of classical Greece to the popular culture of contemporary America, The End of Meaning seeks to demonstrate that catastrophe, precisely as the notion of the sui generis, has always been generic. This is not a book on the great catastrophes of the West; it offers no canon of catastrophe, no history of the catastrophic. The End of Meaning asks, instead, what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?