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Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0244831564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion story to Ruth Finnegan's multi-award inspirational novel 'Black Inked Pearl', this time, unusually, told from the perspective of the ever-sounding sea A volume in the unique 'Kate-Pearl' series
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1474299962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781716256295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a volume in the stunning Kate-Pearl epic series this is again a recycling of the same mythic story and style as in my novels Black Inked Pearl and its fairytale prequel Voyage of Pearl of the Seas and the more recent Helix Pearl, But this time it is told from a different perspective - that of our call to the fleeting flighting breathing air, the soul, the, the fluttering butterfly-psyche. Again it is characterised by Ruth Finnegan's much praised unique literary-allusive style.
Author: Luka Rejec
Publisher:
Published: 2023-02
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to Ultraviolet Grasslands: 2E the roleplaying game of heroes on a strange trip through mythic steppes in search of lost time, broken space, and deep riffs.Ultraviolet Grasslands is a tabletop role-playing game book, half setting, half adventure, and half epic trip; inspired by psychedelic heavy metal, the Dying Earth genre, and classic Oregon Trail games. It leads a group of 'heroes' into the depths of a vast and mythic steppe filled with the detritus of time and space and fuzzy riffs.
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786254859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a series of short science-fiction stories that tells of encounters between humans and the intelligent, self-aware death machines known as the Berserkers.
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1906924333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781911221241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried in the sand and sailing off to far-off fantastic lands in a stormy sea-driven adventure with their faithful - but accident-prone - dog Holly. There they learn much wisdom from a king who, like God, has many names'. After an incredible sacrifice of his dearest dream by the boy (now growing up) they return - another dream - to a family tea with their loved ones. The tale is a prequel and companion to Ruth Finnegan's award-winning epic romance 'Black inked pearl', here adapted for preteens but characterised by (in a simpler form) the same unique dream-like and enchanted style as in the original novel.
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0819574465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, folk, and country. Notable for its contribution to wider theoretical debates and its influential challenge to long-held assumptions about music and how to study it, the book focuses on the practices rather than the texts or theory of music, rejecting the idea that only selected musical traditions, "great names," or professional musicians are worth studying. This opens the door to the invisible work put in by thousands of local people of diverse backgrounds, and how the pathways creatively trodden by amateur musicians have something to tell us about both urban living and what it is to be human. Now with a new preface by the author, this long-awaited reissue of The Hidden Musicians will bring its insights and innovations to a new generation of students and scholars.
Author: Norman Oliver Brown
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780940262263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic, prescient work dealing with myth and cult which traces the evolution of Hermes from sacred stoneheap and phallus to Homeric Hymn to Hermes and the Hesiodic poems.
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-10-08
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521626231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references and index.
