The Insect Epiphany
The Insect Epiphany

Author: Barrett Klein

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1643263900

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From entomologist Barrett Klein comes a buzz-worthy exploration of the many ways insects have affected human society, history, and culture Insects surround us. They fuel life on Earth through their roles as pollinators, predators, and prey, but rarely do we consider the outsize influence they have had on our culture and civilization. Their anatomy and habits inform how we live, work, create art, and innovate. Featuring nearly 250 color images—from ancient etchings to avant-garde art, from bug-based meals to haute couture—The Insect Epiphany proves that our world would look very different without insects, not just because they are crucial to our ecosystems, but because they have shaped and inspired so many aspects of what makes us human.

Said the Fly
Said the Fly

Author: Laurie Taylor

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781530197651

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On a remote Spanish island near the African coast, a young scientist, Epiphany Jerome, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead, she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back. It's not just another tourist. It's the daughter of Epiphany's landlady and the single mother of an 11-year old girl devoted to Epiphany's small dog, Mostly. As a forensic entomologist trained in the language of insects, Epiphany can tell the police more about the baffling murder than, apparently, they care to know. Epiphany, a Mexican American married to an Italian, still struggles with her Catholic upbringing and is drawn deeper into the secrets of the small harbor town, where traditional values are eroding under the pressures of tourism and Spain's growing economic crisis. A second body turns up: a beautiful hooker from Berlin that Epiphany's husband knows just a little too well. The Medical Examiner requests the entomologist's expertise once more, and this time, the police are very interested in what she has to say. But Epiphany has gone off alone into the island's rugged interior tracking nature's clues, unaware that her life is about to be irrevocably changed.

Epiphany’s Gift
Epiphany’s Gift

Author: Mallory M. O’Connor

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1480876801

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Psychic medium Epiphany Mayall lives and works in the spiritualist community of Watoolahatchee, Florida. When she schedules a trip to her childhood home in Ohio to visit her aging mother, Epiphany has no idea she will soon be swept into a maelstrom of natural disasters, theft, and murder. Dr. John Bernhardt, Epiphany’s former art history professor and mentor, believes regional fracking operations are responsible for the recent earthquakes. After identifying a secretive petroleum company as the perpetrator, he wonders if the environmental disasters are somehow connected with the disappearance of a drawing from a local museum. Twenty-four hours after he writes an article about his theory, he is found dead of an apparent heart attack. When John’s ghost appears to tell Epiphany he was murdered, she becomes determined to find his killer. Aided by a former FBI art-crimes investigator and an eccentric artist, Epiphany must use her psychic skills to locate the missing art and identify the killer. Unfortunately her efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice are thwarted. Even a state senator cannot help. As the earthquakes escalate, Epiphany must decide whether to continue her battle for justice or suspend her investigation to protect her family. Set against a backdrop of psychic phenomena, corporate corruption, and global climate change, Epiphany’s Gift illustrates the perennial battle between good and evil. —Andrew Nichols, PhD, Director, American Institute of Parapsychology

Insects & Spiders
Insects & Spiders

Author: Five Mile Press Pty Limited, The

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781742111247

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Using state-of-the-art digital imagery, the breathtaking spreads in this book feature an arresting design that is complemented by fascinating, up-to-date information in a user-friendly format.

The Minoan Epiphany - A Bronze Age Visionary Culture
The Minoan Epiphany - A Bronze Age Visionary Culture

Author: Bruce Rimell

Publisher: Xibalba Books

Published: 2021-01-02

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The art and iconography of the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete is rightly described as having a refreshing vitality with a fortunate combination of stylisation and spontaneity in which the artist is able to transform conventional imagery into a personal expression. The dynamism, torsion and naturalism evident in Minoan art stands in stark contrast to the hieratic rigidity of other ancient civilisations, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the iconography of the Minoan Epiphany, a set of mainly glyptic (rings, seals, and seal impression) images which appear to depict religious celebrants experiencing direct and seemingly ecstatic encounters with deities. This collection of essays explores this central aspect of Minoan religion, taking a strongly archaeological focus to allow the artefacts to speak for themselves, and moving from traditional ‘representational’ interpretations into ‘embodied’ perspectives in which the ecstatic capabilities of the human body throw new light on Aegean Bronze Age ritual practices. Such ideas challenge rather passive assumptions modern Western observers hold about the nature of religious feelings and experiences, in particular the depictions of altered states of consciousness in ancient art, and the visionary potential of dance gestures. Speculative asides on the potential for a Minoan origin for Classical Greek humanism, and hints in the imagery on ancient Cretan conceptions of the cosmos, are set against sound archaeological theories to explain this lively and dynamic corpus of images. Beautifully illustrated with images and sketches of the relevant artefacts, this wide-ranging volume will stimulate audiences with archaeological, prehistorical and spiritual interests, as well as historians of religion and art. ‘The Minoan Epiphany’ also represents an influential antecendent to the Visionary Humanist philosophy which forms the majority of Bruce’s current independent research interests.

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

Author: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1438114028

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Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.

The Living Goddesses
The Living Goddesses

Author: Marija Gimbutas

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-01-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780520229150

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Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.

Ten Million Aliens
Ten Million Aliens

Author: Simon Barnes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1476730350

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"Originally published in 2014 in Great Britain by Short Books."--Title page verso.

The Space Between
The Space Between

Author: Sandra Humble Johnson

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780873384469

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Annie Dillard, a practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a neoromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist considers her as wilderness philosopher, critic, and arch-romantic.