Absent
Absent

Author: Katie Williams

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1452127700

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When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.

The Book of Absent People
The Book of Absent People

Author: Taghi Modarressi

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Alive with all the flavor and ferment of contemporary Iran, The Book Of Absent People is an exquisitely crafted novel that at once creates an exotic feast for the mind and the senses. As it unravels the haunting tale of a young man's search for his missing brother, it takes the reader on an unpredictable voyage of discovery into the depths of one family's innermost passions. It is the last day of the month of Khordad and Khan Papa Doctor, physician and great patriarch of the Heshmat Nezamis, has examined his final patient. For reasons which become startlingly apparent, the reticent Khan Papa Doctor has become staunchly devoted to reuniting his family - a family split apart by scandal, secrets, and ultimately, by destiny. When youngest son Rokni, a dreamer and an artist, is called to his father's side, little does he know the strange journey that lies ahead. He is recruited to seek out his older brother Zia, the hotheaded revolutionary who long ago fled the house of the Heshmat Nezamis...and it will be a quest that brings Rokni face to face with the truths of his noble family. He will learn about Khan Papa Doctor's first wife who died mysteriously and in disgrace, and who is never discussed. He will understand, at long last, why his beautiful sister lives in her own private world, unable to reach those sharing a common reality. He will discover, too, the startling complexities of his father's past as well as the momentous contributions the Heshmat Nezamis made to the turbulent history of their proud homeland. Gracefully told with the magic of a writer who is part chronicler and part mystic, here is a story of people both physically and emotionally lost, of those in life whom we miss knowing through circumstances of fate and through their own design. But most of all, The Book Of Absent People is about knowing ourselves - a book that will linger in the heart for days to come.

The Absent One
The Absent One

Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen

Publisher: Dutton

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0142196835

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Detective Carl Morck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.

The Absent Image
The Absent Image

Author: Elina Gertsman

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 0271089016

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Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.

The Presence of the Absent
The Presence of the Absent

Author: Carlos E. Sluzki

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1317537122

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Where live our most cherished (or painful) memories? Where do our beloved (or dreaded) exist when departed? In the gray zone between our self and our world, they can exist as internal reminiscences for some and striking images for others; individually or collectively perceived and interacted; vividly or as tenuous presences. This book familiarizes us with six examples of individuals and families in therapy who live and interact with the presence of their absent, pivotal people in their lives who either died or disappeared, but are still there. It familiarizes us with their plight in a tender, compassionate style, describing in detail interviews and therapeutic transformations and, in several cases, follow-ups as well as echoes of those processes. It teaches us to respect those presences as well as how to help families and individuals treasure them...and in many cases to let them go. Written in a vivid, intense language, The Presence of the Absent offers a marvelous insight into these processes that may prove transformative for the therapist (both family and individually-oriented), as well as enlightening to the general public.

The Absent Body
The Absent Body

Author: Drew Leder

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1990-06-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0226470008

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The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent—forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured. In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation. He discusses not only perception and movement, skills and tools, but a variety of "bodies" that philosophers tend to overlook: the inner body with its anonymous rhythms; the sleeping body into which we nightly lapse; the prenatal body from which we first came to be. Leder thereby seeks to challenge "primacy of perception." In part 2, Leder shows how this phenomenology allows us to rethink traditional concepts of mind and body. Leder argues that Cartesian dualism exhibits an abiding power because it draws upon life-world experiences. Descartes' corpus is filled with disruptive bodies which can only be subdued by exercising "disembodied" reason. Leder explores the origins of this notion of reason as disembodied, focusing upon the hidden corporeality of language and thought. In a final chapter, Leder then proposes a new ethic of embodiment to carry us beyond Cartesianism. This original, important, and accessible work uses examples from the author's medical training throughout. It will interest all those concerned with phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, or the Cartesian tradition; those working in the health care professions; and all those fascinated by the human body.

Absent from School
Absent from School

Author: Michael A. Gottfried

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1682532798

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In Absent from School, Gottfried and Hutt offer a comprehensive and timely resource for educators and policy makers seeking to understand the scope, impact, and causes of chronic student absenteeism. The editors present a series of studies by leading researchers from a variety of disciplines that address which students are missing school and why, what roles schools themselves play in contributing to or offsetting patterns of absenteeism, and ways to assess student attendance for purposes of school accountability. The contributors examine school-based initiatives that focus on a range of issues, including transportation, student health, discipline policies, and protections for immigrant students, as well as interventions intended to improve student attendance. Only in the past two or three years has chronic absenteeism become the focus of attention among policy makers, civil rights advocates, and educators. Absent from School provides the first critical, systematic look at research that can inform and guide those who are working to ensure that every child is in school and learning every day.

The Absent Hand
The Absent Hand

Author: Suzannah Lessard

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1640092226

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"Of beach plums, ramps, and Ramada Inns: a quietly sensitive eminently sensible consideration of the landscapes of our lives . . . A gift." —Kirkus Reviews Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald’s work and others of Rebecca Solnit’s, but it is Lessard’s singular talent to combine this profound book–length mosaic— a blend of historical travelogue, reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poem—into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings—cities, countryside, and sprawl—exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched.

Absence and Nothing
Absence and Nothing

Author: Stephen Mumford

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0192567284

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Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and that we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we consider how much of Parmenides' view can survive. A soft Parmenidean methodology is adopted in which we aim to reject all supposed negative entities but are prepared to accept them, reluctantly, if they are indispensable and irreducible in our best theories. We then see whether there are any negative entities this survive this test. Some can be dismissed on metaphysical grounds but other problems are explained only once we reject another strand in Parmenides and show how we can think and talk about nothing. Accounts of perception of absence, empty reference, and denial are gathered. With these, we can show how no truthmakers are required for negative truths since we can have negative beliefs, concerning what-is-not, without what-is-not being part of what is. This supports a soft ontological Parmenideanism, which accepts much though not all of Parmenides' original position.

Absence
Absence

Author: Jeannie Meejin Yoon

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780894390135

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Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book.At almost two pounds, Absence has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the books only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures.