The Scent Of Time
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The Scent Of Time
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Author : Byung-Chul Han
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-09-25
The Scent Of Time written by Byung-Chul Han and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Philosophy categories.
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.
The Scent Of Time
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Author : Alan T. McKean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08-01
The Scent Of Time written by Alan T. McKean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Fiction categories.
How do you know that the recorded history inside a book is actually what happened? Yearning with ambition, Drew Faulkner longs to change his dreary, pointless life in Edinburgh. He is surprisingly presented with an once-in- a-lifetime opportunity to grasp that desire through time travel. Yes... time travel. He is selected, screened and trained to survive in another century. What gets him to 1867 China is love-attempting to win the love of the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, Lucy Oxford. What keeps him there is the realization that he can make a positive contribution in the lives of others-even those not yet born. Along his journey, Drew faces many dangers including explosions, knife fights, sharks, snakes and pirates-as well as a gambit of characters that can either help or hinder. Time travel is not for the faint-hearted.
The Scent Of Time
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Author : Pina Pipino
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-03-16
The Scent Of Time written by Pina Pipino and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-16 with categories.
Life as an immigrant is not as uneventful as it would seem. Adjustments, changes, ambivalence and loyalty are but some of the milestones to be sorted after what appeared to be an easy decision.
Madame Mirabou S School Of Love
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Author : Barbara Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Madame Mirabou S School Of Love written by Barbara Samuel and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
Sometimes real passion means living the life you’ve always wanted. Nicole Bridges still can’t believe she’s taken up residence in a Colorado apartment complex nicknamed “Splitsville.” She’s still reeling from her husband’s affair, a divorce she never saw coming, and having to leave the upscale, comfortable world she helped make for her ex and their teenage daughter. With little money, even less work experience, and no idea what to do next, she takes tentative steps–if only to keep her head above water. Along the way, Nikki unexpectedly finds herself falling in with eccentric new neighbors–and being seduced out of her funk by a charming, elusive ex-Londoner. And through her delight in the sensual elements of perfume, she will discover the courage to form bonds she never imagined. When a discarded flyer printed with the name “Madame Mirabou” provides the spark of inspiration, Nikki dares to blend the fragments of her life into a fragrance that’s uniquely and passionately her own. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Scent Of Water
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Author : Elizabeth Goudge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Scent Of Water written by Elizabeth Goudge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Scents Of Time
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Author : Edwin T. Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Scents Of Time written by Edwin T. Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Perfumes categories.
The Scent Of God
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Author : Saikat Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-01-22
The Scent Of God written by Saikat Majumdar and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Fiction categories.
In an elite all-boys’ boarding school run by a Hindu monastic order in late-twentieth century India, things aren’t what they look like on the surface… Anirvan, a young student, is fascinated by the music and silence of spiritual life. He dreams of becoming a monk. But as he seeks his dream, he finds himself drawn to a fellow student, and they come together to form an intimate and unspeakable relationship. The boys sweat at cricket and football, crack science and mathematics in pursuit of golden careers, and meditate to the aroma of incense and flowers. It’s a world of ruthless discipline shaped by monks in flowing saffron. A sceptical teacher mentors Anirvan and reveals his suspicion of this vigilant atmosphere. Does the beating of the boys reveal urges that cannot be named? What is the meaning of monastic celibacy? What, indeed, holds the brotherhood together? Against himself, Anirvan gets sucked into a whirl of events outside the walls of the monastery, in the midst of prostitutes, scheming politicians and the impoverished Muslims of the villages surrounding the school. When the love of his life returns to him, the boys’ desire for each other push them towards a wild course of action. But will that give them a life together in a world that does not recognize their kind of love?
The Scent Of Empires
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Author : Karl Schlögel
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-04-27
The Scent Of Empires written by Karl Schlögel and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with History categories.
Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schlögel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world’s most celebrated perfumes. In tsarist Russia, two French perfumers – Ernest Beaux and Auguste Michel – developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the Great for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Beaux fled Russia and took the formula for his perfume with him to France, where he sought to adapt it to his new French circumstances. He presented Coco Chanel with a series of ten fragrance samples in his laboratory and, after smelling each, she chose number five – the scent that would later go by the name Chanel No. 5. Meanwhile, as the perfume industry was being revived in Soviet Russia, Auguste Michel used his original fragrance to create Red Moscow for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. Piecing together the intertwined histories of these two famous perfumes, which shared a common origin, Schlögel tells a surprising story of power, intrigue and betrayal that offers an altogether unique perspective on the turbulent events and high politics of the twentieth century. This brilliant account of perfume and politics in twentieth-century Europe will be of interest to a wide general readership.
The Scent Of Pine
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Author : Lara Vapnyar
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-01-07
The Scent Of Pine written by Lara Vapnyar and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Fiction categories.
“A compelling tale of cultural displacement and yearning” (The Boston Globe), from award-winning author Lara Vapnyar: a “sly and seductive” (The New York Times Book Review) new novel about sexual awakening and the relentless search for love. Though only thirty-eight, Lena finds herself in the grips of a midlife crisis. She feels lost in her adoptive country, her career is at a dead end, and her marriage has spiraled into apathy and distrust—it seems impossible she will ever find happiness again. But then she strikes up a precarious friendship with Ben, a failed artist turned reluctant academic, who is just as lost as she is. They soon surprise themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend adventure, uncharacteristically leaving their responsibilities behind. On the way to Ben’s remote cabin in Maine, Lena begins to talk, for the first time in her life, about the tumultuous summer she spent as a counselor in a Soviet children’s camp twenty years earlier, when she was just discovering romance and her own sexuality. As Lena opens up to Ben about secrets she has long kept hidden, they begin to discover together not only the striking truths buried in her puzzling past, but also more immediate, passionate ones about the urgency of this short, stolen time they have together. “Enchanting…vivid and rich” (The New York Times), filled with Lara Vapnyar’s characteristic empathy, deadpan humor, and striking honesty, The Scent of Pine weaves themes of ambition, loneliness, longing, and the fickle nature of desire into a “book of elegant writing and propulsive storytelling” (Chicago Tribune).
At The Scent Of Water The Second Chances Collection Book 3
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Author : Linda Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2009-02-01
At The Scent Of Water The Second Chances Collection Book 3 written by Linda Nichols and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Life is rewarding for Samuel Truelove. He's a gifted surgeon, he's married to the love of his life, and he has a beautiful daughter. But when he's called to perform an emergency surgery, a deadly cascade of events is set in motion, and his picture-perfect life begins to unravel.... Annie Truelove, hoping to escape painful reminders of her grief, leaves her beloved home in the mountains of North Carolina and begins a new life in faraway Seattle. But a disturbing headline takes her back home, where memories of both joy and sorrow come flooding back. What will it take to heal two broken hearts?