A Flickering Mindlight
A Flickering Mindlight

Author: Dean Vyas

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1477246509

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Decisions, decisions.. Kieran Nichol, a thirty-three-year-old graphic designer, has an interview at Candlelight Ltd. this particular Monday morning. Kieran is a cynical, pessimistic, money-driven individual with health problems, but sees Candlelight Ltd. as his golden ticket to relative success and fortune. Its just a pity that his ex, Alice, wont be around to benefit from his upgraded status, as his partner. Meanwhile, Satan, no less, is making preparations in Hell for a new arrival he will soon have in his possession. At Candlelight Ltd., Kieran meets with Gabriella, HR manager, and her staff but Ms. Lock, the company director, is away at the parent organization, of which Candlelight Ltd. is a subsidiary. Kieran believes with the angelic Gabriella taking his interview, hes bound to be employed. She introduces him to members of the staff but the coffee she and they have given him, along with the striking and mysterious clock in the meeting room, are altering his perception, and he falls into a trance. Kieran is transported into the other worlds of unscrupulous individuals, who eventually end up in Hellliterally. Kierans foray into the world of these doomed characters is a precursor to the doom he faces himself. But will he choose to embrace this future to satisfy his lust and greedor make the necessary changes to escape this outcome? Its a race against time and dark forces as ruination chases on the heels of Kieran Nichol, in these critical moments during which he himself decides his material and spiritual destiny. A Flickering Mindlight is the story of a mans spiritual choices and consequential direction, catalyzed by paranormal phenomena and the imminent threat of material disaster.

Silver Cross
Silver Cross

Author: Mary Johnston

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 3734011884

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Reproduction of the original: Silver Cross by Mary Johnston

Light of the Mind, Light of the World
Light of the Mind, Light of the World

Author: Spencer Klavan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1510783261

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The world is not a machine. Humanity is not a mistake. For centuries, a grim anti-human outlook has taken hold of the public imagination, teaching us all to view ourselves as random products of a cruel and uncaring natural world. Today, from apocalyptic environmentalism to twisted eugenics and dystopian bionic augmentation, movements are rising around the world to dispense with humanity or subordinate it to a pitiless mechanical logic. For many, it has come to seem as if the human spirit is obsolete, religious faith is illusory, and mankind is destined to be extinguished or surpassed. Some might even see the end of humanity as a good thing. But that is not our future. Light of the Mind, Light of the World tells a daring new story about how we got here, and how we can chart a better path forward. Surveying the history of science and faith from the astronomers of Babylon to the quantum physicists of postwar Europe and America, classicist and scholar Spencer A. Klavan argues that science itself is leading us not away from God but back to him, and to the ancient faith that places the human soul at the center of the universe. Reconciling the discoveries of science with the truths of the Bible, Klavan shows how the search for knowledge of the natural world can help illuminate the glories of its Creator, and how the latest developments in physics can help shatter the illusion of materialism.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer
Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer

Author: Lisa Volpe

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0300257805

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A groundbreaking introduction to the photographic work of an iconic modern artist The pathbreaking artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is revered for her iconic paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, animal skulls, and Southwestern landscapes. Her photographic work, however, has not been explored in depth until now. After the death of her husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, in 1946, photography indeed became an important part of O'Keeffe's artistic production. She trained alongside the photographer Todd Webb, revisiting subjects that she had painted years before--landforms of the Southwest, the black door in her courtyard, the road outside her window, and flowers. O'Keeffe's carefully composed photographs are not studies of detail or decisive moments; rather, they focus on the arrangement of forms. This is the first major investigation of O'Keeffe's photography and traces the artist's thirty-year exploration of the medium, including a complete catalogue of her photographic work. Essays by leading scholars address O'Keeffe's photographic approach and style and situate photography within the artist's overall practice. This richly illustrated volume significantly broadens our understanding of one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century.

The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

Author: Nigel Morris

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2007-02-13

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0231503458

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Cinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilification often vitriolic for epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention.