Dizzying Heights

Author : Bruce Ducker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458744027
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dizzying Heights written by Bruce Ducker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that these airy United States sit on a point of balance that is their center of population. A cosmic ball bearing. At the start of the republic, the fulcrum lodged somewhere north of Philadelphia, tucked snug against the coast, and the continent sloped off gently to the Pacific. Slowly that fulcrum rolls westward, until one day, in late September toward the end of the last century, it finds perfect equilibrium. On that day the continent balances straight even, a day, you may remember, of warm breezes, when every love discovered is eternal and every duffer's putt runs plumb and true. But the giant steel ball continues to edge westward, and the nation tilts now on an easterly slope. When that happens, Horace Greeley's ghost fluffs his pillow and shifts in his sleep, and the quicksilver that is Opportunity begins to run upstream, pooling in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains....

Author : Bruce Ross
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102875
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights written by Bruce Ross and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Tao Te Ching), art (Paleolithic cave art, Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting), and Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun, tanka) that were originally presented and published between 2000 and 2007. The essays identify strategies to counter the so-called postmodern condition. Matters of will, ethics, and consciousness are examined in comparative contexts with the aim of formulizing models of enlightened states of being and their aesthetic expressions. This study focuses on Wordsworth's rainbow epiphany; Walter Benjamin's «aura» and «monad»; Chinese mountain poetry's cosmic emptiness; Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Paleolithic cave art's transpersonal expression; Van Gogh's «dizzy heights» of natural beauty; American landscape painters' depiction of the sublime; haiku's absolute metaphor epiphany; and tanka's connection between natural beauty and erotic feeling. The collection is a re-examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson's «fundamental unity» between humanity and nature, as well as an examination of often-unmediated affective experience and its expression in this context through literature and art.

Author : Ross Fitzgerald
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1925736318
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dizzying Heights written by Ross Fitzgerald and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the US. Here, he is courted by both Democrats and Republicans as a possible US Presidential candidate. After further discoveries, including a secret society of retired spies and bionic clones, he returns to Australia to find that the Department of Wellbeing has become a ruthless dictatorship that has brought the nation to a stop. It is now up to Professor Dr Everest to save the country … This is slapstick that tickles the funny bone while the satirical barbs penetrate the shifty shibboleths of today’s progressive orthodoxies!

Author : T. E. Kinsey
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
ISBN 13 : 9781542021111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball written by T. E. Kinsey and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought. But here's the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It's up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery.

Author : Philip Wolny
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1404217894
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Risk Construction Work written by Philip Wolny and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the job of high-risk construction worker, the different types of projects they work on and the training necessary.

Author : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754668862
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Geraldo U. de Sousa and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geraldo U. de Sousa's interdisciplinary study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, and drawing on approaches from the fields of anthropology, art history, architecture, social and theater history, phenomenology and gender studies, this book analyzes how Shakespeare evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey.

Author : John Brynildsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norsk-engelsk ordbok written by John Brynildsen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bobby Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982158255
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Bright Future written by Bobby Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist ... A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. After enduring seventeen years of abuse and neglect, Bobby ran away from home and--with nothing more than a discarded laptop and a ninth-grade education--he found his voice in the world of hip-hop and a new home in a place he never expected: the untamed and uncharted wilderness of the social media age"--

Author : Jesse Fewell
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523088311
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untapped Agility written by Jesse Fewell and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations. Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the “quick-fix” hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back. The boost is the initial gains from logical first steps; the barrier is the unavoidable roadblock that must come next; and the rebound is the way forward to further gains by leaning against the concept of the original boost. With these counterintuitive rebounds, Fewell identifies seven leadership moves that can be used to unblock stalled agile transformations. No, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface—undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.

Author : Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1660 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Goes Green [3 volumes] written by Kim Kennedy White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume encyclopedia explores the evolution of green ideology and eco-friendly practices in contemporary American culture, ranging from the creation of regional and national guidelines for green living to the publication of an increasing number of environmental blogs written from the layperson's perspective. Evidence of humanity's detrimental impact on the environment is mounting. As Americans, we are confronted daily with news stories, blogs, and social media commentary about the necessity of practicing green behaviors to offset environmental damage. This essential reference is a fascinating review of the issues surrounding green living, including the impact of this lifestyle on Americans' time and money, the information needed to adhere to green principles in the 21st century, and case studies and examples of successful implementation. America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States examines this gripping topic through 3 volumes organized by A–Z entries across 11 themes; state-by-state essays grouped by region; and references including primary source documents, bibliography, glossary, and green resources. This timely encyclopedia explores the development of an eco-friendly culture in America, and entries present the debates, viewpoints, and challenges of green living.