Where The Heart Beats
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Where The Heart Beats
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Author : Kay Larson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Where The Heart Beats written by Kay Larson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A “heroic” and “fascinating” biography of John Cage showing how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism (The New York Times) Where the Heart Beats is the story of the tremendous changes sweeping through American culture following the Second World War, a time when the arts in America broke away from centuries of tradition and reinvented themselves. Painters converted their canvases into arenas for action and gesture, dancers embraced pure movement over narrative, performance artists staged “happenings” in which anything could happen, poets wrote words determined by chance. In this tumultuous period, a composer of experimental music began a spiritual quest to know himself better. His earnest inquiry touched thousands of lives and created controversies that are ongoing. He devised unique concerts—consisting of notes chosen by chance, randomly tuned radios, and silence—in the service of his absolute conviction that art and life are one inseparable truth, a seamless web of creation divided only by illusory thoughts. What empowered John Cage to compose his incredible music—and what allowed him to inspire tremendous transformations in the lives of his fellow artists—was Cage’s improbable conversion to Zen Buddhism. This is the story of how Zen saved Cage from himself. Where the Heart Beats is the first book to address the phenomenal importance of Zen Buddhism to John Cage’s life and to the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. Zen’s power to transform Cage’s troubled mind—by showing him his own enlightened nature—liberated Cage from an acute personal crisis that threatened everything he most deeply cared abouthis life, his music, and his relationship with his life partner, Merce Cunningham. Caught in a society that rejected his art, his politics, and his sexual orientation, Cage was transformed by Zen from an overlooked and marginal musician into the absolute epicenter of the avant-garde. Using Cage’s life as a starting point, Where the Heart Beats looks beyond to the individuals Cage influenced and the art he inspired. His creative genius touched Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Alan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli, who all went on to revolutionize their respective disciplines. As Cage’s story progresses, as his collaborators’ trajectories unfurl, Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
Heart Beats
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Author : Catherine Robson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-22
Heart Beats written by Catherine Robson 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 2015-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats
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Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-31
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats written by Jan-Philipp Sendker and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Fiction categories.
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
My Heart Beats For You 2
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Author : Tina Marie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-03
My Heart Beats For You 2 written by Tina Marie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-03 with categories.
With Kadia still missing Phantom is doing everything he can to find her and make things better with Inaya, that is until Inaya turns up missing too. Letting the stress get to him Phantom makes a mistake he will come to regret later on. Inaya finds Noah only to realize he doesn't have Kadia, now she doesn't know who to trust or where her daughter is. When all is said and done she will learn that not even family can be counted on when times get tough. Sahnai wakes up to find Lox kissing the enemy, her cousin missing and a blast from her past standing in her hospital room. As always she makes one bad decision after another only this time there may be no one around to help her help herself. Lox has to become super dad to his two sons when Sahnai gets stabbed but when family appears in town are they a help or a hindrance as they come with a suitcase full of drama. When Lox meets up with a once forbidden lady from his past will he make it work with Sahnai or give his old friend a real chance? Join Phantom, Inaya, Sahnai, and Lox in part two as they deal with crazy exes, unknown enemies and one surprise after another.
My Heart Beats
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Author : Rina Singh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-13
My Heart Beats written by Rina Singh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A photographic board book that features the sounds of heartbeats from around the world.
This Is How The Heart Beats
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Author : Jake Naughton
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
This Is How The Heart Beats written by Jake Naughton and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Social Science categories.
Part of a groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world, a moving portrait of a group of queer East Africans who fled their home countries for the United States Same-sex relations are illegal in thirty-eight African countries, often under colonial-era laws. One of the most dangerous countries has been Uganda, which is attempting to pass an Anti-Homosexuality Bill (commonly known as the "Kill the Gays" bill) that seeks to broaden the criminalization of same-sex relations, making it punishable by life imprisonment and, in some instances, death. This Is How the Heart Beats is a portrait by acclaimed photographer Jake Naughton of a group of East Africans who have fled unimaginable abuse in their homeland for the United States. One couple, Sulait and his boyfriend, had been tortured in prison in the months after the anti-homosexuality bill had been proposed and, on their release, had made their way to Kenya, where they were attacked by a mob of machete-wielding men. It was only after years in hiding that many such refugees have been resettled in the United States. With an introduction by journalist Jacob Kushner and a foreword by Ugandan queer activist Ruth Muganzi, This Is How the Heart Beats is a record of LGBTQ forced migration unlike any other, following this community from its darkest moments to an uncertain future. At a time of great uncertainty for both LGBTQ and refugee rights, this work illuminates the stakes for those at the center of a firestorm.
Heart Beats
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Author : Lisa Tomey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-28
Heart Beats written by Lisa Tomey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-28 with Poetry categories.
Heart Beats is an anthology of poetry about the various aspects of what makes us tick or makes a heart-beat.This is about love, life, happiness, anything that makes life more joyful or tolerable. Heart Beats is about working through and maybe even overcoming these challenges or healing. It is about what brings smiles to our faces or, at least, in our hearts.
Learning How The Heart Beats
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Author : Claire McCarthy (MD.)
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1995
Learning How The Heart Beats written by Claire McCarthy (MD.) and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Pediatrics categories.
A dramatic, emotion-filled look into the training and life of a dedicated doctor. Here are riveting accounts of Claire McCarthy's experiences at Harvard Medical School and at Boston's famous Children's Hospital, interwoven with sensitive insights into the perplexing medical and ethical issues facing us today. A moving portrait of a woman gaining confidence in a demanding profession.
My Heart Beats For You
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Author : Tina Marie
language : en
Publisher: Urban Renaissance
Release Date : 2022-03-29
My Heart Beats For You written by Tina Marie and has been published by Urban Renaissance this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Fiction categories.
Sometimes, even true love isn’t enough to prevent bad choices. Meet Inaya, a good girl who made some hard choices to keep her daughter safe. Inaya’s life is a total wreck, but she is trying her best to keep her head above water for her four-year-old daughter, Kadia. When she bumps into her new neighbor, Phantom, she can’t get him off her mind or out of her heart. Phantom is tall, handsome, and a complete jerk. He thinks all women are in one category, the one marked “no good,” and he’s not afraid to express that to any woman who crosses his path. He likes Kadia because she reminds him of his little girl, but he works hard at being mean to her mother. Slowly, his heart begins to soften a little. Maybe Inaya is different from all the other women he has known. He realizes he loves her, but women from his past and present continue to threaten what Phantom and Inaya are building. One bad decision on his part threatens their relationship, and the consequences leave Kadia in danger. Meet Lox, son of a Jamaican Don, a ladies’ man who even takes these chicks to dinner and a movie sometimes. Fate brings Lox’s first love, Sahnai, back into his life. He never stopped loving her, even after she disappeared from his life for reasons unknown to him. Sahnai is accustomed to using her looks to get what she wants from men. When she sees Lox after all these years, she is happy to see the only man she has ever loved, but she’s having a hard time letting him in her life again. She knows her secrets are enough to make him hate her and take away the one thing she cherishes the most. After Lox sees that Sahnai is still a hothead who is not ready to grow up, he decides to walk away for good—until events out of his control may change his plans.
Three Billion Heart Beats
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Author : Mark Stoffels
language : en
Publisher: Bookbaby
Release Date : 2018-12-09
Three Billion Heart Beats written by Mark Stoffels and has been published by Bookbaby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Three Billion Heart Beats follows the journey of the Buddha, through the eyes of a 16 year old girl.Eva is born with a congenital heart defect. Growing up without a mother, and with her father mostly absent while transitioning between prison and rehab, her heart defect is not the only thing that makes her special. Throughout her upbringing, Eva becomes increasingly aware of the nature of human suffering. During boarding school, it is the deterioration of her father that spurs her to search for answers. Her reluctance to accept the status quo of unhappiness takes her on an epic journey from the U.S. East Coast, to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and the slums of Mumbai. During encounters with various people along the way, each providing her with their unique gems of wisdom, she unknowingly follows the path of the Buddha. Will her newfound knowledge enable her to help her father or perhaps humanity as a whole? One thing she knows for sure: Every heart beat counts.