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Download Book The Architecture of the Illusive Distance Full in PDF

The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

by Amir H. Ameri

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
ISBN : 1317044703
Pages : 212 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (317 users)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the Illusive Distance written by Amir H. Ameri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture, and their transformation over time. The relationship between culture and architecture is often perceived as a monologic relationship. Architecture is seen to embody, represent and/or reflect the values, the beliefs, and the aesthetic ideals of a culture. Ameri argues that this is at best a partial and restrictive view, and that if architecture is a cultural statement, it is a performative one. It does not merely represent culture, but constructs, reifies, and imposes culture as the unalterable shape of reality. Whereas the concept and the study of cultural performatives have had an important critical impact on the humanities, architecture as a cultural performative has not received the necessary scholarly attention and, in part, this book aims to fill this gap. Whereas building-type studies have been largely restricted to elucidating how best to design building-types based on historic and contemporary precedents, studies in the humanities that analytically and critically engage the secular institutions and their history as cultural performatives, typically cast a blind or perfunctory glance at the performative complicity of their architecture. This book aims to address the omissions in both these approaches. The library, the museum, and the movie-theater have been selected for close critical study because, this book argues, each has been instituted to house, ’domesticate,’ and restrain a specific form of representation. The aim has been to protect and promulgate the metaphysics of presence as Jacques Derrida expounds the concept. This book proposes that it is against the dangers of unconstrained cohabitation of reality and representation that the library, the m

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Illusive Utopia

by Suk-Young Kim

Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-03-11
ISBN : 0472117084
Pages : 387 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (472 users)

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Download or read book Illusive Utopia written by Suk-Young Kim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films

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Into the Illusive World

by Paul A. Moore

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-12
ISBN : 303020202X
Pages : 292 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Into the Illusive World written by Paul A. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about what a dog smells as it stops to sniff at a tree? Or what a cat is watching as it stares intensely off into space? What about animals in the wild? What do they see, hear, smell, and feel? How do they perceive their surroundings? This is the illusive world. A world filled with fascinating stimuli that we are not equipped to detect. This is particularly true because we tend to rely so heavily on our eyes or ears. We are figuratively, and literally, blind to this part of the natural world. This part, which is full of stimuli we cannot perceive, encompasses the daily lives of so many animals. Beneath our feet are ants, moles, and spiders using vibrations to coordinate colonies and communicate danger. In the oceans, turtles, fish, and octopi are sensitive to magnetic and electric fields, as well as tasty morsels at the tips of their tentacles. In the skies, owls and raptors can see deep into a lake or pierce the night with highly sensitive eyes. This book brings together all these animals and their amazing sensory abilities in an exploration of how animals perceive their world. Within these pages are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using their senses to perform sophisticated communication with nestmates, find hidden prey in the dark of night or murky of depths, and call to lovers both near and far. This book will open the door to this illusive world and will take you on a journey into the illusive world and see how different the world is when perceived through another animal’s senses.

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Illusive: Tome 1 ; Tome 2

by Claudia Mareis

Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9783899551914
Pages : 627 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (551 users)

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Download or read book Illusive: Tome 1 ; Tome 2 written by Claudia Mareis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Illusive Identity

by Thomas J. Edward Walker

Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2002-06-17
ISBN : 0739156187
Pages : 212 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (739 users)

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Download or read book Illusive Identity written by Thomas J. Edward Walker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community-based social identity to a modern consumer-based culture; a mass culture influenced by industrialization, new social institutions, and the powerful imagery of new media. Illusive Identity vividly demonstrates the transformative impact of modernity on the laboring classes, as advertising, entertainment, and the rise of the popular press replaced traditionally shared narratives about the nature of work with a new and liberating cultural paradigm.

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The Illusive World of Love

by Revd Dr Gabriel J. Anan, PhD

Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-08-17
ISBN : 1504988515
Pages : 130 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book The Illusive World of Love written by Revd Dr Gabriel J. Anan, PhD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to demystify the complexity of the illusive world of love, labeled by the ancient Greeks in the three distinct types of love, particularly eros. The book is challenging this axiom in stressing that majority of people in the world are being fooled into thinking that there is such a thing as true love, as eros. People may say, “Not another book on love”—yes, but with a difference. The belief is that the word love (eros) is an illusion, and that having been entrenched in the certainty of what love has to offer, the more knowledge we have about it, the better. The instance here is this: whilst love is held with higher regard in the world since time immemorial, it is time to have a fresher thought about the reality of love. By engaging in the exploration of the influence of eros (love), we shall be in a supreme position to be able to disentangle the mind-set being enculturated into society centuries ago by the Greek philosophers. It can’t be stressed highly enough as we are all witnessing the devastating impact of the Platonic love eros on many innocent people, particularly children in our modern society. Marinoff claims that “the ancient Greeks, whose development and discoveries in many subjects continue to exert primary influence on Western civilization, and therefore also on the global village, were vitally interested in love and its relation to the human soul. In this pre-Christian period, the Greeks were pagans, and the view of the soul was not a religious one involving spirits or ghosts. Plato and others conceived of love as residing in the soul and the soul itself (and therefore love). This book reveals what true love is in the Bible, contrary to what the ancient Greeks handed to modern society. The Greek’s third and highest form of love is agape. It is the rarest and most valuable kind of love. Agape is unselfish; its expression always helps and never harms another. What makes agape different from eros and philos is its selflessness. Although agape love was mentioned by the Greeks, its true meaning is given by Jesus in the Bible. In this respect, the book is saturated with the biblical verses of God’s love, particularly agape love.

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Illusive

by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-07-15
ISBN : 0316254584
Pages : 368 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (316 users)

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Download or read book Illusive written by Emily Lloyd-Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals. When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve the country or be declared a traitor. Some people chose a third option: live a life of crime. Seventeen-year-old Ciere Giba has the handy ability to change her appearance at will. She's what's known as an illusionist. She's also a thief. After crossing a gang of mobsters, Ciere must team up with a group of fellow super powered criminals on a job that most would have considered impossible: a hunt for the formula that gave them their abilities. It was supposedly destroyed years ago--but what if it wasn't? Government agents are hot on their trail, and the lines between good and bad, us and them, and freedom and entrapment are blurred as Ciere and the rest of her crew become embroiled in a deadly race that could cost them their lives.

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The Great Dictionary English - Polish

by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer

Publisher : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Release Date : 2021-03-19
ISBN :
Pages : 1000 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Great Dictionary English - Polish written by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer and published by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary contains around 60,000 English terms with their Polish translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to Polish. If you need translations from Polish to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary Polish - English is recommended.

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Illusion

by Arlene Hill

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-07-14
ISBN : 1387921193
Pages : 226 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (387 users)

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Download or read book Illusion written by Arlene Hill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illusion is a thing that is wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. Magicians use illusion, as do movie makers and production lighting technicians; we expect those illusions. What we tend to forget is that people also emit illusion. Take the illusion of Perfect Patricia who turned out to be not quite so perfect; or her nondescript boring husband, Buford, who was not quite as nondescript or boring as everyone thought. Okay, take me, average Kory Trumble, small town librarian, who is actually not as average as I thought. And I don't even want to begin to discuss the illusion that was Tyler Ross, cousin to boring Buford. Is nobody what they seem to be? Probably not. Oh, wait, Beau and Tiffany, progeny of Perfect Patricia and Boring Buford, were exactly what they seemed to be. After all, children under six are too innocent and real to perpetuate illusion. Wouldn't life be simpler if we didn't feel it necessary to hide behind our illusive selves?

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The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

by Tomáš Koblížek

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-21
ISBN : 135003259X
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts written by Tomáš Koblížek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality. Beginning with an introduction providing historical background to modern discussions of illusion, it deals with a wide range of theoretical issues. The collection explores the nature and function of the aesthetic illusion as well as the role of affect and emotion, the implications of aesthetic illusion for the theory of fiction, the variable forms of aesthetic illusion and its relationship to other components of aesthetic response. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts brings together a team of scholars from philosophy, literature and art and presents an interdisciplinary examination of a concept lying at the heart of contemporary aesthetics.

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The Secret Doctrine (Vol. 1-3)

by Helena Blavatsky

Publisher : e-artnow
Release Date : 2019-04-26
ISBN : 8027304563
Pages : 2735 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book The Secret Doctrine (Vol. 1-3) written by Helena Blavatsky and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 2735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Doctrine is one of the most influential esoteric and occult books of all time. In the first part of the book the author explains the origin and evolution of the universe itself, in terms derived from the Hindu concept of cyclical development. While in the second part she describes the origins of humanity through an account of "Root Races" said to date back millions of years.

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The Land of Eternity

by Agamya Guru Paramahamsa

Publisher :
Release Date : 1908
ISBN :
Pages : 126 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book The Land of Eternity written by Agamya Guru Paramahamsa and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston

by Mark Napier

Publisher :
Release Date : 1834
ISBN :
Pages : 534 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston written by Mark Napier and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary

by William Dwight Whitney

Publisher :
Release Date : 1897
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith

by

Publisher :
Release Date : 1911
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Comfort

by Ilia Kavaja

Publisher : FriesenPress
Release Date : 2016-03-29
ISBN : 1460276469
Pages : 480 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (46 users)

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Download or read book Comfort written by Ilia Kavaja and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever before in human history, the dependency for comfort along with the indispensable necessity of moral, emotional and spiritual encouragement is in conflict with the iniquitous disposition of this present day society. The spirit of this world continues to resist and debilitate the divinely instilled organic appetite that is part of human original nature, personality and character. Even though the surrounding world tries to convince us as if we are unlovable, worthless and unforgivable, this volume will inspire our sensibleness so as to persist with the needed confidence, for finding or seeing the respectable extent of our own worth on the supreme pedestal of God's given image and moral strength. We are exquisitely designed and divinely designated to remain everlastingly precious in love, goodness and reassurance. Even though our own heart tends to discourage and condemn us, this comforting volume will empower our vision to discern the true meaning and purpose of human existence, by authenticating the greatness of our value with eternity in view. The structure of human nature, character and personality would not be reliable pertaining to fundamental moral strength, lasting comfort and true happiness, unless exist a supreme purpose to appreciate the reason of holding on to such an objective. In actual fact, without this perpetual purpose along with love, faith and hope that galvanize our mind, heart and soul, there would not dwell the needed optimism for the author to initiate such painstaking descriptive work with the view to put in paper the proceeding five volumes of Authenticity, Comfort, Love, Perception and Dedication....

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

by William Dwight Whitney

Publisher :
Release Date : 1895
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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