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Curiosity
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Curiosity written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguel's most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
All Men Are Liars
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-06-05
All Men Are Liars written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Fiction categories.
In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.
Fabulous Monsters
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Fabulous Monsters written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Literary Collections categories.
An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel's favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet's mother, and Dr. Frankenstein's maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships. An intimate preface and Manguel's own "doodles" complete this delightful and magical book.
From Quantum Cascade Lasers To Flat Optics For The Twenty First Century
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Author : Federico Capasso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
From Quantum Cascade Lasers To Flat Optics For The Twenty First Century written by Federico Capasso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Erik Desmazi Res
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Author : Maxime Préaud
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Erik Desmazi Res written by Maxime Préaud and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Art categories.
The first English-language publication on an artist considered to be the finest print maker of his generation.
Cognitive Archaeology From Theory To Practice
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Author : Colin Renfrew
language : en
Publisher: Olschki
Release Date : 2012
Cognitive Archaeology From Theory To Practice written by Colin Renfrew and has been published by Olschki this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Religion categories.
Bride Of Frankenstein
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-25
Bride Of Frankenstein written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fatale, monstrous and threatening.
The City Of Words
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The City Of Words written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Books and reading categories.
Alberto Manguel sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can lend an identity to a whole society. His book is also about the art of reading, at a time when Manguel argues that it is still possible for stories to change us and the world we live in.
Nature Embodied
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Author : Anthony Corbeill
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Nature Embodied written by Anthony Corbeill and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, Anthony Corbeill analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Adopting approaches from anthropology, gender studies, and ecological theory, Nature Embodied offers both a series of case studies and an overarching narrative of the role and meanings of gesture in ancient Rome. Arguing that bodily movement grew out of the relationship between Romans and their natural, social, and spiritual environment, the book explores the ways in which an originally harmonious relationship between nature and the body was manipulated as Rome became socially and politically complex. By the time that Tacitus was writing about the reign of Tiberius, the emergence of a new political order had prompted an increasingly inscrutable equation between truth and the body--and something vital in the once harmonizing relationship between bodies and the world beyond them had been lost. Nature Embodied makes an important contribution to an expanding field of research by offering a new theoretical model for the study of gesture in classical times.
A Reading Diary
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2006
A Reading Diary written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Books and reading categories.
While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a month and recording his observations, which provides an enthralling adventure in literature and life.