Author : Christine Ristaino
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631525698
An unflinching look at violence and the journey of reclaiming a life after a tragic event unveils a horrific family secret.
Author : Trista Lundquist
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1038314291
Her whole life, Lai was told that she’d only live to see eighteen years. In the seemingly utopian community she grew up in, scientists calculated residents’ life expectancies at birth, and that number defined their place within their society. When Lai was given the number eighteen in a community where numbers over one hundred are the norm, her life was considered all but meaningless. As her eighteenth birthday approached, Lai became determined not to be defined by her death date, and then everything started to unravel. After escaping the only life she’d ever known, in a community that she had been taught was all that was left of humanity, Lai is now faced with something even more terrifying: the truth. The Silent Spaces picks up where The Quiet Limit left off, following Lai as she navigates past losses, present confusion, and future uncertainties. She must find a way to survive, all while refusing to give up on those she left behind.
Author : Paul Saenger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804740166
Silent reading is now universally accepted as normal; indeed reading aloud to oneself may be interpreted as showing a lack of ability or understanding. Yet reading aloud was usual, indeed unavoidable, throughout antiquity and most of the middle ages. Saenger investigates the origins of the gradual separation of words within a continuous written text and the consequent development of silent reading. He then explores the spread of these practices throughout western Europe, and the eventual domination of silent reading in the late medieval period. A detailed work with substantial notes and appendices for reference.
Author : Gautam Bhatia
Publisher :
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780140246094
An insiderýs view of public architecture ý ancient monuments and contemporary landmarks In this sequel to Punjabi Baroque and Other Memories of Architecture, Gautam Bhatia is on a reflective journey, as a tourist and architect, viewing Indiaýs architectural legacy. There has been a discernible purpose and design in all architecture down the ages, be it the quiet peace offered by ancient temples, the beauty and comfort reflected in Mughal architecture, or the expression of an imperial presence in British architecture. But public architecture today subsides into crumbling, peeling ruins even before work is completed on the buildings. As Gautam Bhatia notes in this account that is dosed liberally with his hallmark wit and sarcasm, neither utility nor aesthetics but caprice and prejudice form the guiding principles for those in power effecting architecture today.
Author : Francis French
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780803226395
A history of early space flight focuses on the careers of both American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts and includes coverage of other persons who worked in support roles.
Author : Jennifer M. Bean
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253015073
In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that became far less possible after the emergence of sound. These essays address important questions about the uneven forces–geographic, economic, political, psychological, textual, and experiential–that underscore a non-linear approach to film history. The "messiness" of film history, as demonstrated here, opens a new realm of inquiry into unexpected political, social, and aesthetic crossings of silent cinema.
Author : Malcolm Kirk
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780821220931
"Silent Spaces: The Last of the Great Aisled Barns is a striking pictorial celebration of standing examples of these distinctive buildings found in Europe and America by one photographer in his obsessive search for the origins of aisled barns."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0847870863
In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356612563
The Space Trilogy is a fantastic work of fantasy that demonstrates C.S.Lewis's incredible imagination. This new one-volume version commemorates the 75th anniversary of Out of the Silent Planet's first publication with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired the main character of Ransom.
Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Stories without words
ISBN : 9781783529612
This book is a companion to The Unwinding. It contains within images that tell stories, but it reads like a silent film. Each of the images is an invitation to dream.The tales of this silent edition are not pinned to the page by words. Each dreamer will find their own path, perhaps a new one each time they return.The illustrations are intended to inspire: there is space to draw and write, to paint dreams and stories, thoughts and verse, in new worlds, wherever your pen may guide you.
