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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Must Have Been Those Butterflies is a collaboration of poetry
with photo art strongly influenced by Nicole's personal experiences
with lust, infatuation and love. The words and images shared in
this book are real notions, created by her highly sensitive,
emotional psyche. An expression of her most intimate, deepest
thoughts, shared vividly and freely, meant to entice, inspire and
enlighten an open minded, curious and emotionally intrigued
audience.
The emotions in both the photos and the poetry are a reflextion
of her complex personality--sensual, sexual, artistic, sadistic,
intimate, aggressive, strong, sensitive, impatient, analytical,
friendly, carefree, funny, loving, trusting,
considerate--intertwining, toying and tangling her in and out of
relationships.
The intention of this poetry and photography book is to express
the emotional torments that tease the soul and taunt the heart on
behalf of the millions of hidden, shunned, shamed, unexplained,
damaged, jaded, sorry, degraded, sad, angry, betrayed, forgotten,
and alas, broken, hearts.May the reader find comfort and
encouragement, inspiration and realization in her words and images;
rest knowing one is not alone in the lonely world of lost loves.
Although she's had her fair share of emotional battles and scars,
she vows to never lose hope in finding true happiness, as she
follows hers: Butterflies.
This set gathers together a collection of previously out-of-print
titles that examine China's great heritage in literature, poetry,
theatre and performance, painting and crafts. This reference
resource spans Chinese traditions and artforms to provide in-depth
analysis of some of China's great cultural treasures from many
different periods in the country's long history.
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and
critics come together to present new work examining the
intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding
chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture
between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to
the twenty-first centuries. Editor Desmond Manderson provides a
contextual introduction that draws out and articulates three
central themes: visual representations of the law, visual
technologies in the law, and aesthetic critiques of law. A ground
breaking contribution to an increasingly vibrant field of inquiry,
Law and the Visual will inform the debate on the relationship
between legal and visual culture for years to come.
"Poetry is innate in all men, but good poetry with class is
achieved through hard work and encouragement/inspiration. Writing
poetry enriches my being and makes me express my world in the
simplest way-poetry " I am a true nature person that listens to the
teachings of our time and also encouraged by what I see, and the
best way to express myself is simply through writing, mostly
through poetry. Please read with full concentration and think out
of the box to enable yourself to enjoy my work to the fullest.
Happy reading Kingboy.
This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex
relationships between Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish
side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is the position
maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences
including Christianity. Traditional Christian theology, on the
other hand, held to a supercessionist view in which Judaism was
seen merely as a historical preparation for the later revelation of
Christianity. Was there no real interaction? When and how did
Judaism and Christianity became two distinct religions? When did
the 'parting of ways" take place, if indeed there really was such a
parting of ways? The present volume takes a bold step forward by
assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the
interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or
unconscious, as a polemical rejection or as tacit appropriation.
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At a time when the methods and purposes of intelligence agencies
are under a great deal of scrutiny, author Wesley Britton offers an
unprecedented look at their fictional counterparts. In Beyond Bond:
Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton traces the history of espionage
in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy
stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of
what spies do and how they do it. Considering sources from Graham
Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond
looks at the tales that have intrigued readers and viewers over the
decades. Included here are the propaganda films of World War II,
the James Bond phenomenon, anti-communist spies of the Cold War
era, and military espionage in the eighties and nineties. No
previous book has considered this subject with such breadth, and
Britton intertwines reality and fantasy in ways that illuminate
both. He reveals how most themes and devices in the genre were
established in the first years of the twentieth century, and also
how they have been used quite differently from decade to decade,
depending on the political concerns of the time. In all, Beyond
Bond offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real. At a time when the methods and purposes of
intelligence agencies are under a great deal of scrutiny, author
Wesley Britton offers an unprecedented look at their fictional
counterparts. In Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton
traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other
media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began
cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do
it. Considering sources from Graham Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred
Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond looks at the tales that have
intrigued readers and viewers over the decades. Included here are
the propaganda films of World War II, the James Bond phenomenon,
anti-communist spies of the Cold War era, and military espionage in
the eighties and nineties. No previous book has considered this
subject with such breadth, and Britton intertwines reality and
fantasy in ways that illuminate both. He reveals how most themes
and devices in the genre were established in the first years of the
twentieth century, and also how they have been used quite
differently from decade to decade, depending on the political
concerns of the time. And he delves into such aspects of the genre
as gadgetry, technology, and sexuality-aspects that have changed
with the times as much as the politics have. In all, Beyond Bond
offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real.
The book is organized around 4 sections. The first deals with the
creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle
Volle). The second section concerns the neurophysiology of
aesthetics (responsible editor Zoi Kapoula). It covers a large
spectrum of different experimental approaches going from
architecture, to process of architectural creation and issues of
architectural impact on the gesture of the observer.
Neurophysiological aspects such as space navigation, gesture, body
posture control are involved in the experiments described as well
as questions about terminology and valid methodology. The next
chapter contains studies on music, mathematics and brain
(responsible editor Moreno Andreatta). The final section deals with
evolutionary aesthetics (responsible editor Julien Renoult).
Chapter "Composing Music from Neuronal Activity: The Spikiss
Project" is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in
China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an
historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East
Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments
occurring in the regions' cultural policies and the challenges they
are facing.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and
conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking
back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking
whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
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