Strange Encounters
Strange Encounters

Author: Sara Ahmed

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1135120110

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Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.

A Strange Encounter
A Strange Encounter

Author: Sylvia A. Witmore

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1449078079

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With contributions from Elizabeth Aydelott, Fred Banks, Jimmy Buffett, Edward Cohen, Maggie Wade Dixon, Ellen Douglas, W. Ralph Eubanks, Richard Ford, Gwendolyn Gong, Carolyn Haines, Lorian Hemingway, Samuel Jones, Robert Khayat, B. B. King, John Maxwell, Alberto Mora, Donald Peterson, Noel Polk, Jerry Rice, George Riggs, Robert St. John, Sid Salter, Constance Slaughter-Harvey, Elizabeth Spencer, Clifton Taulbert, Keith Tonkel, Sela Ward, Wyatt Waters, Jim Weatherly, and William Winter Growing Up in Mississippi shares experiences and impressions from a multifaceted group representing all areas of the state and many professions, talents, and temperaments. Parents, teachers, churches, communities, landscape, and historical context profoundly influenced these men and women when they were young. In his revealing foreword, Richard Ford explores the very essence of influence and illustrates his conclusions by recalling an indelible incident between his mother and himself in the front yard of their home on Congress Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The volume then showcases poignant memories of other distinguished individuals: a governor and statesman, journalists, a news anchor, a playwright, novelists, memoirists, a publisher, a minister, educators and scholars, judges and lawyers, a test pilot and astronaut, a renowned watercolorist, a celebrated actress, and many more. Spanning more than five decades, these essays give us a glimpse of the people and places that nurtured these outstanding individuals and their remarkable gifts.

Strange Encounters
Strange Encounters

Author: Wale Okediran

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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When Dr James Abe takes an appointment in the rural town of Gom, he does not know much about the town's notorious underside. He soon finds himself embroiled in intrigues of homosexuality, religion and corruption.

THE STRANGE ENCOUNTER
THE STRANGE ENCOUNTER

Author: DURIYA KASUBHAI

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1649838883

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Mabel and her friends are police recruits in Leicester, England, where they are currently receiving their training in this particular area of work. But, on one occasion while on patrol, Mabel happens to come across a stranger, who, after performing introductions, makes one such proposition to her, which she is unable to resist, irrespective of her current commitments. When she begins the new job, she discovers that she is starting to love her new charge. The only problem that presents itself before her is the disturbing influence of her employer, who causes in her principled and normal existence many unavoidable complexities. The events that follow thereafter bring forth many facts into the open, thus creating a series of unfathomable situations, which not only surprises Mabel but also brings out a completely different facet to her personality. The Strange Encounter takes you on a journey of a strong tidal wave of emotions that invade her simple existence, followed by days and months of anguish, intensity, uncertainty, and frustration. Delve deeper to witness a climax when she begins to discover, with the passage of time, that her tender feelings are not unrequited.

Encounters
Encounters

Author: Matt Hoyle

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0740769359

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I'm 126 years old. This is my 4,500th incarnation." -Dr. Bob, as profiled in Encounters With the Strange and Unexplained * The National UFO Reporting Center averages 332 unexplained alien sightings each month, and the Gallup Organization reports that more than 32 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. In the summer of 2006, award-winning photographer Matt Hoyle took a paranormal road trip across the United States. He photographed 60 witnesses to alien spacecraft, murky swamp creatures, and demonic house poltergeists. * Chronicling these encounters through both written and photographic profiles, Hoyle presents a spectrum of specter--loving and--loathing believers in Encounters With the Strange and Unexplained. * Hoyle's award-winning photography is known for its rich character and post-production treatment that re-creates both the mood and setting of the environments his portraits depict.

Strange Encounters
Strange Encounters

Author: Curtis Sutherly

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567186994

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Like 15 "X-Files" rolled into one, Strange Encounters by ufologist and journalist, Curt Sutherly, shares gripping stories that run the gamut from monster sightings to UFO cover-ups. Strange Encounters confronts the unknown head-on, probing some of the inexplicable mysteries that will intrigue you, haunt you, and even frighten you. The remarkable yet true events documented here indicate a striking pattern of strange occurrences you will not be able to dismiss-or forget. Why do probes to Mars vanish? Is there some "great galactic ghoul" that devours them? Before the Russian "Fobos 2" probe stopped functioning, it showed a massive system for heat generation, an invisible object which cast a shadow, and an object in space that cannot be identified. What is the meaning of all these discoveries? What is the truth about the MJ-12 documents that purportedly reveal that the government knows much more about UFO's than it admits? What is the nature of the "phantom panther" that is seen all over the U.S. East Coast? What happened to the "mothman," a strange, human-sized creature with bat-like wings that terrorized West Virginia? What are the secrets of the Abominable Snowman? What is the truth about the Bermuda Triangle? What are the real beginnings of the UFO controversy? Strange Encounters is one of the most exciting books covering important events from the world of the strange and paranormal over the past 50 years. Rather than tell you what to believe, it gives you information from all sides of each strange event and lets you decide for yourself. Strange Encounters is a book you must have.

A Strange Encounter
A Strange Encounter

Author: Rita Giuliani

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-01-04

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1669859355

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This novel deals with the inspiring, heartwarming, and valuable effects of human relations and carries a very sincere and beautiful message, and, at the same time, warns against procrastination. It revolves around a rare and blessed encounter between a divorced psychologist in his late seventies, Swenny Seacord, who is also an extremely prosperous entrepreneur, with no children, and whose sole desire is to leave this world as a ‘Dad’, and a young 21-year-old destitute, exceptionally attractive young woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton White. Elizabeth continually suffers from low self-esteem due to the sexual abuse from her father, whom she eventually murders to bring his erotic exploitations to an end. She is not suspected and lives with this crime continually which perpetually nags her conscience to the point where she cannot lead a normal existence. While relaxing at the beautiful Hudson River, she meets Swenny Seacord whom she becomes emotionally attached to while, at the same time, he becomes obsessed in his desire to adopt her. Procrastination destroys the adoption intention and creates tragedy and chaos.

Lord Lucan - A Strange Encounter
Lord Lucan - A Strange Encounter

Author: Board of the Faculty of Social Studies Clive Payne

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781786237521

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Lord Lucan - A Strange Encounter He was old, lonely, and had been harbouring dark secrets for the last forty years. Now, thinking that his days were numbered, had decided to tell his story - and what a story!

Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant
Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant

Author: Edward Willatt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1441128662

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In the wake of much previous work on Gilles Deleuze's relations to other thinkers (including Bergson, Spinoza and Leibniz), his relation to Kant is now of great and active interest and a thriving area of research. In the context of the wider debate between 'naturalism' and 'transcendental philosophy', the implicit dispute between Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism' and Kant's 'transcendental idealism' is of prime philosophical concern. Bringing together the work of international experts from both Deleuze scholarship and Kant scholarship, Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant addresses explicitly the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers, providing key material for understanding the central philosophical problems in the wider 'naturalism/ transcendental philosophy' debate. The book reflects an area of great current interest in Deleuze Studies and initiates an ongoing interest in Deleuze within Kant scholarship. The contributors are Mick Bowles, Levi R. Bryant, Patricia Farrell, Christian Kerslake, Matt Lee, Michael J. Olson, Henry Somers-Hall and Edward Willatt.

Encounter
Encounter

Author: Jane Yolen

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780152013899

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A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.