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Author |
: Veronica della Dora |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2022-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789145489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789145481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Light in Darkness Lies by : Veronica della Dora
An illuminating history of both real-life lighthouses and the beacons of literature and art alike, shedding light on the multifaceted power of these liminal structures. Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battle lines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess. Engineered to draw the gaze of sailors, lighthouses have likewise long attracted the attention of soldiers and saints, artists and poets, novelists and filmmakers, colonizers and migrants, and, today more than ever, heritage tourists and developers. Their evocative locations, isolation, and resilience, have turned these structures into complex metaphors, magnets for stories. This book explores the rich story of the lighthouse in the human imagination.
Author |
: Veronica della Dora |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2022-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789145496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178914549X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Light in Darkness Lies by : Veronica della Dora
An illuminating history of both real-life lighthouses and the beacons of literature and art alike, shedding light on the multifaceted power of these liminal structures. Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battle lines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess. Engineered to draw the gaze of sailors, lighthouses have likewise long attracted the attention of soldiers and saints, artists and poets, novelists and filmmakers, colonizers and migrants, and, today more than ever, heritage tourists and developers. Their evocative locations, isolation, and resilience, have turned these structures into complex metaphors, magnets for stories. This book explores the rich story of the lighthouse in the human imagination.
Author |
: Alisse Waterston |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2020-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487539139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487539134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Light in Dark Times by : Alisse Waterston
What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose words are as meaningful today as they were during the times in which they were written. This book is at once a lament over the darkness of our times, an affirmation of the value of knowledge and introspection, and a consideration of truth, lies, and the dangers of the trivial. In a time when many of us struggle with the feeling that we cannot do enough to change the course of the future, this book is a call to action, asking us to envision and create an alternative world from the one in which we now live. Light in Dark Times is beautiful to look at and to hold – an exquisite work of art that is lively, informative, enlightening, deeply moving, and inspiring.
Author |
: Claire Contreras |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2019-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0998345547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780998345543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis There Is No Light In Darkness by : Claire Contreras
A young woman investigates the dark, hidden secrets of her past while exploring her deep feelings for the young man who's always been her protector in this friends-to-lovers New Adult romantic suspense series.
Author |
: Anthony Doerr |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2014-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476746609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476746605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis All the Light We Cannot See by : Anthony Doerr
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Author |
: Heino Falcke |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780063020078 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0063020076 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Light in the Darkness by : Heino Falcke
The International Bestseller On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole at an international press conference—a turning point in astronomy that Science magazine called the scientific breakthrough of the year. That photo was captured with the unthinkable commitment of an intercontinental team of astronomers who transformed the world into a global telescope. While this image achieved Falcke’s goal in making a black hole “visible” for the first time, he recognizes that the photo itself asks more questions for humanity than it answers. Light in the Darkness takes us on Falcke’s extraordinary journey to the darkest corners of the universe. From the first humans looking up at the night sky to modern astrophysics, from the study of black holes to the still-unsolved mysteries of the universe, Falcke asks, in even the greatest triumphs of science, is there room for doubts, faith, and a God? A plea for curiosity and humility, Light in the Darkness sees one of the great minds shaping the world today as he ponders the big, pressing questions that present themselves when we look up at the stars.
Author |
: Kathleen Jamie |
Publisher |
: Sort of Books |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2011-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781908745095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1908745096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Findings by : Kathleen Jamie
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
Author |
: Joshua Pavelsky |
Publisher |
: Fae Corps Inc |
Total Pages |
: 99 |
Release |
: 2024-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Darkness Lies Heavy In the Heart by : Joshua Pavelsky
Dark gothic poetry reminiscent of Poe...written with a modern hand. Joshua Pavelsky is a true gothic poet and this first volume of his poems shows that.
Author |
: James W. Jesso |
Publisher |
: SoulsLantern Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2015-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780991943593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0991943597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The True Light Of Darkness by : James W. Jesso
Storytelling and visionary medicines are fundamental aspects of the human experience. The latter takes us to places beyond ourselves, into realms of the mind unplumbed, unfathomable, and often unpleasant. The former allows us to share such experiences with each other. It unlocks personal experiences from the individuated shell and releases them into the collective, whereby we can learn from them together. From the author of Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom (2013) comes a captivating and vulnerable exposé into the dark recesses of the human psyche. This book follows James W. Jesso as he recounts in three of his most turbulent and dark experiences with visionary mushrooms. Through story, he takes us along as he travels through depression, self-loathing, inadequacy and feeling unable to love, and out the other side into confidence, courage, and inspiration. From daytime trips with friends gone sour, beyond a night rife with psychotic breaks, and into the watery confines of facing depression in a sensory deprivation tank, The True Light Of Darkness is a vehicle of insight on what it means to ask to be broken in the hopes of finding wholeness.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082260749 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |