Beautiful Destruction
Beautiful Destruction

Author:

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1771600543

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The Alberta oil/tar sands are a place of superlatives, of awesome beauty and equally awesome destruction. They are a kaleidoscope of contrasts, colours and patterns keeping time with the seemingly unstoppable movement of machinery, smoke and effluent set in an immense boreal landscape with its own immutable patterns, cadence and cycles. Beautiful Destruction is a large-format, high-quality photography book that uses over 100 stunning, full-colour aerial photographs to transcend the polarities that dominate public discourse of the largest industrial project in North America: the Alberta oil/tar sands. With short essays by renowned personalities Bill McKibben, Charles Wilkinson, Duff Connacher, Elizabeth May, Eric Reguly, Ezra Levant, Jennifer Grant, Rick George, Gil McGowan, Allan Adam, Megan Leslie and Francis Scarpaleggia from both sides of the oil/tar sands debate discussing the artistic, industrial and environmental perceptions of northern Alberta's petroleum-based mega-project, Beautiful Destruction is one of the most ambitious, provocative and unique photography projects to be published in years.

Beautiful Destruction
Beautiful Destruction

Author: Cynthia Go

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9781082800320

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i wonder if there will come a day when i will stop thinking about you, when your memories will stop looping and replaying in my mind like some sort of malfunctioning tape recorder, when the ghost of your touch i will not feel, and your hugs i will not remember, and your kisses i will finally forget. i wonder, but all i could do is wonder, because i'm still hoping that one day you'll come back to me, maybe in the middle of the night or in one late sunday afternoon when i'm least expecting you, and all my memories of you will flashback, but this time you'll trap me in your embrace and you'll whisper, "love, i'm here now, i'm sorry if i'd ever stopped your world from spinning, time won't matter from now on, f-ck time, i'm not ever leaving you again, and i'm not letting you go. please start making memories with me." beautiful destruction is a heartfelt and relatable collection of prose & poetry about life, love, musings, and struggles. i hope this book reaches you in the right time. this book is for you.

Life's Little Destruction Book
Life's Little Destruction Book

Author: Charles Sherwood Dane

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781863810388

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This parody of the bestselling US publication, TLife's Little Instruction Book', is, in the words of its cover, a collection of T478 boorish, insensitive and socially obnoxious pointers for leading a simple, self-centered life'. Examples are TTake the biggest piece', TAnswer a question with a question', and TMake animal noises in libraries'.

Terracene
Terracene

Author: Salar Mameni

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2023-08-04

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1478027045

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In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene and the war on terror centered the antagonist figures of the Anthropos and the terrorist as responsible for epochal changes in the new geological and geopolitical world orders. In response, Mameni shows how the Terracene requires radically new engagements with terra (the earth), whose intelligence resides in matters such as oil and phenomena like earthquakes and fires. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene.

Asphalt
Asphalt

Author: Kenneth O'Reilly

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1496226380

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La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada—immense deposits of natural asphalt destined for upgrading to synthetic crude oil. If the harvesting of this natural asphalt continues unabated, we might find ourselves stuck in a muck of a different kind. Humanity has used asphalt for thousands of years. This humble hydrocarbon may have glued the first arrowhead to the first shaft, but the changes wrought by this material are most dramatic since its emergence as pavement. Since the 1920s the automobile and blacktop have allowed unprecedented numbers of Americans to experience the beauty of their continent from the Adirondacks to the Rockies and beyond, to Big Sur and the Pacific Coast Highway. Blacktop roads, runways, and parking lots constitute the central arteries of our environment, creating a distinct “political territory” and a “political economy of velocity.” In Asphalt: A History Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—in both its natural and processed forms—from ancient times to the present, O’Reilly sets out to identify its importance within various contexts of human society and culture. Although O’Reilly argues that asphalt creates our environment, he believes it also eventually threatens it. Looking at its role in economics, politics, and global warming, O’Reilly explores asphalt’s contribution to the history, and future, of America and the world.

Psychoanalysis and Art
Psychoanalysis and Art

Author: Donald Meltzer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 042991766X

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This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.Sandra Gosso begins with a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the history of this relationship which began with Freud and was developed further by Melanie Klein at a time when most analysts were moving away from links with art. Melanie Klein's pivotal paper, "Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse", follows the Introduction. The other papers featured are mainly from British analysts who expanded on Melanie Klein's ideas, inspired by the influence of the creative Bloomsbury and Imago Groups.

The Buddha and the Badass
The Buddha and the Badass

Author: Vishen Lakhiani

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 198482340X

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NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Forget hustling. This book, from the author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life. If you’re the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you’re the average person, you’re miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your station, you possess incredible unique powers. It’s a modern myth that hard work and hustle are the paths to success. Inside you is a soul. And once you unleash it fully into the domain of work, magic happens. Awakening the Buddha and the Badass inside you is a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether. You’ll gain access to tools that bend the very rules of reality. • The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment. • The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor—the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species. Once you integrate the skill sets of both archetypes, you will experience life at a different level from most people. You will operate from a space of bliss, ease, inspiration, and abundance. The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work will show you how. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani has turned his own life and company into his research lab. He’s codified everything he’s learned into the how-to steps in this book. The Buddha and the Badass teaches you how to master your work and your life.

Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education
Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education

Author: Peter Pericles Trifonas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1351202375

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The Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education brings together interdisciplinary voices to ask critical questions about the meanings of diverse forms of cultural studies and the ways in which it can enrich both education scholarship and practice. Examining multiple forms, mechanisms, and actors of resistance in cultural studies, it seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining the theme of resistance in multiple fields and contested spaces from a holistic multi-dimensional perspective converging insights from leading scholars, practitioners, and community activists. Particular focus is paid to the practical role and impact of these converging fields in challenging, rupturing, subverting, and changing the dominant socio-economic, political, and cultural forces that work to maintain injustice and inequity in various educational contexts. With contributions from international scholars, this handbook serves as a key transdisciplinary resource for scholars and students interested in how and in what forms Cultural Studies can be applied to education.

Burn
Burn

Author: Christine D'Sylva

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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Jay and Ashwina are neighbors who fall in love. Young, well-off, attractive and intelligent, they seemed to have it all. But their love was not approved by their parents, and so it was a secretive love. Their love story was as intense as Shakespeare's famous Romeo and Juliet but with a twist. For they had a bond, a destructive bond between them. A bond that caused destruction to innocent lives and property. They were pyromaniacs on the loose... Will they be stopped or will they continue their deadly fire games?

Empire Amethyst
Empire Amethyst

Author: Carmen F. Zumot

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1666712728

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Empire Amethyst is a journey through themes of light, love, and madness with author Carmen F. Zumot. An abstract autobiography through the lens of poetry, her debut work as a poetess is raw, vulnerable, and mystical. Think of a yin yang symbol come to life. Each word rich with depth dancing from page to page, moments of humor laced with grace, a passionate desire to harmonize the dualities that plague us, will leave you breathless, mesmerized, and captivated. Journey with her on a poetic exploration that will open your eyes, heart, and mind. Her ability to express her emotions in lyrical prose will leave the reader seduced with each beautiful expression.