Author: Manuel DeLanda File Type: pdf Building with Bone and Muscle.One Dimension Lower.The Importance of Imperfections.Events Producing Events.Evolvable Materials.Extensive and Intensive.Material Expressivity.Smart Materials.Crucial Eccentricities.Matter Singing in Unison.High Intensity Environments.The Foam and the Sponge.Opportunities and Risks.
Author: Najwa Bin Laden
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The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN The most complete account available of the terrorists immediate family. (May 15, 2011) A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams Thus begins this powerful story as Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15 to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden. Together, mother and son tell an extraordinarily powerful story of a man hated by so many, yet both loved and feared by his family, with spine-tingling details about the life and times of the man they knew as a husband and father, including ul lOsamas disapproval of modern conveniences, including electricity and medicine l lHis plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the desert without food or water l lTransporting his wives and children to the rough terrain of Sudan, where he claimed to be preparing them for attacks from western powers, commanding them to dig holes, and to sleep in those holes, allowing nothing more than sand and twigs for cover l lOmars horror at the rape and murder of a boy his own age, by members of a jihadist group living among them in the Sudan. l lWhat happened in the bin Laden home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the morning of September 11, 2001, and Omars surprise phone call with his mother, who escaped from Afghanistan only two days before the shattering events that killed so many innocent peoplel ul Since September 11, 2001, journalists have struggled to uncover carefully guarded information about Osamas private life. Until now, Osama Bin Ladens family members have not cooperated with any writers or journalists. Now, with unprecedented access and insight, Jean Sasson, author of the bestselling Princess A True Story Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, takes us inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden. **
Author: Michael A. Peters
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Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heideggers work and its legacy for educational thought. Thematically, the collection focuses on Heideggers critique of modernity and contributors investigate the central significance for education of Heideggers ontology and his investigation of the question of the meaning of Being by examining his art of teaching (a translation of his submission to the denazification hearing), his view of science and reason, his philosophy of technology, his poetics, and the implications of his thought for learning. These essays point to the crucial importance of Heideggers work for understanding modern, highly-technologized forms of education and for the possibilities of redemption from its worst excesses. Contributors Valerie Allen & Ares D. Axiotis & Michael Bonnett & David E Cooper & Patrick Fitzsimons & Ilan Gur-ZeEv & Padraig Hogan & F. Ruth Irwin & Bert Lambeir & Paul Smeyers & Paul Standish & Iain Thomson
Author: Donald Hall
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From a former Poet Laureate, a new collection of essays delivering agloriously unexpectedview from the vantage point ofvery old age Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. In the transgressive and horrifyingly funny No Smoking, he looks back over his lifetime, and several of his ancestors lifetimes, of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, packs of them every day. Hall paints his past Decades followed each other thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . . And, poignantly, often joyfully, he limns his present When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches. Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him, every day Yesterday my first nap was at 930 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.**
Author: Moores D. J.
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This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poetsRumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.**About the Author D.J. Moores is a professor of English as well as author and editor of numerous works. He lives in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Author: Barbara Graziosi
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Homers mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, the greatest poet that ever lived is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. In this accessible and concise introduction, Barbara Graziosi considers Homers famous works and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how the Iliad and the Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that spans well over two millennia, from the impressive scholars at the library of Alexandria, in the third and second centuries BCE, who wrote some of the first commentaries on the Homeric epics. Summaries of these scholars notes made their way into the margins of Byzantine manuscripts from Byzantium the annotated manuscripts travelled to Italy and the ancient notes finally appeared in the first printed editions of Homer, eventually influencing our interpretation of Homers work today. Along the way, Homers works have inspired artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers. Exploring the main literary, historical, cultural, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homers works, Graziosi analyses the enduring appeal of Homer and his iconic works. **Review Graziosis analyses of the literary, linguistic, historical, cultural, and archaeological issues surrounding the poems are remarkable feats of compression, succinct yet richly detailed. Kirkus This highly readable, svelte volume offers a lucid and learned introduction that is characteristically attuned to key moments in the afterlife of the Iliad and Odyssey. Not only do we get a sensitive and fresh survey of the poems themselves and their ancient contexts (including roots in oral tradition, relationships with Near Eastern literature, and the evidence for a Trojan War). She also renews our awareness of the later impact of this earliest Greek literature, from Vergil to Primo Levi. Rich in detailed readings and packed with hints for further exploration, Graziosis book provides the most up-to-date and reliable guide to the appreciation of two eternally relevant epics. Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics, Stanford University About the Author Professor Barbara Graziosi teaches Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Inventing Homer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and together with Johannes Haubold she wrote Homer The Resonance of Epic (Duckworth, 2005), and completed a commentary on Iliad 6 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Together with Emily Greenwood she edited Homer in the Twentieth Century Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Oxford University Press, 2007), and she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009), along with George Boys-Stones and Phiroze Vasunia.
Author: Marcin Tereszewski
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Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Becketts output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Becketts work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It is within this philosophical context that the significance of Becketts aesthetics of failure becomes most visible. Becketts work can be described as one of gradual reduction and disintegration of language, a stripping away of the tools rendering expression at all possible for the sake of approaching the inexpressible. Traditional representation yields to silence and linguistic aporia language yields to images of absence and emptiness. The primary purpose of this study is to trace this movement of unwording and analyze the role inexpressibility plays in Becketts prose in its visual, linguistic and ethical manifestations, as the aesthetics of inexpressibility is intrinsically bound with the ethical responsibility of literature understood as maintaining a relation with alterity.**
Author: Gavin Shatkin
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Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkins comprehensive research. Cities for Profit contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, and data from government and nongovernmental organization reports and data, urban plans, architectural renderings, annual reports and promotional materials of developers, and newspaper and other media accounts. **
Author: Diana Greene
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Reinventing Romantic Poetryoffers a new look at the Russian literary scene in the nineteenth century. While celebrated poets such as Aleksandr Pushkin worked within a male-centered Romantic aesthetic-the poet as a bard or sexual conquer nature as a mother or mistress the poets muse as an idealized woman-Russian women attempting to write Romantic poetry found they had to reinvent poetic conventions of the day to express themselves as women and as poets. Comparing the poetry of fourteen men and fourteen women from this period, Diana Greene revives and redefines the womens writings and offers a thoughtful examination of the sexual politics of reception and literary reputation. The fourteen women considered wrote poetry in every genre, from visions to verse tales, from love lyrics to metaphysical poetry, as well as prose works and plays. Greene delves into the reasons why their writing was dismissed, focusing in particular on the work of Evdokiia Rostopchina, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia, and Karolina Pavlova. Greene also considers class as a factor in literary reputation, comparing canonical male poets with the work of other men whose work, like the womens, was deemed inferior at the time. The book also features an appendix of significant poems by Russian women discussed in the text. Some, found in archival notebooks, are published here for the first time, and others are reprinted for the first time since the mid-nineteenth century.