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Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Katherine Rothschild
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Wider Than The Sky written by Katherine Rothschild and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In the wake of sudden tragedy, twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and power of forgiveness in a stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together, one truth at a time. Sixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton doesn’t have much in common with her identical twin, Blythe. When their father dies from an unexpected illness, each copes with the loss in her own way—Sabine by “poeting” (an uncontrollable quirk of bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over getting into MIT, their father’s alma mater. Neither can offer each other much support . . . at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie. Soon, the sisters unite in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he seems to know everything about them. They make a life-changing discovery:their parents were hiding secrets about their sexual identities. The revelation unravels Sabine’s world, while practical Blythe seems to take everything in stride. Once again at odds with her sister, Sabine chooses to learn all she can about the father she never knew. Ultimately, she must decide if she can embrace his last wish for a family legacy--even if it means accepting a new idea of what it means to be a family.
The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Bryan Appleyard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-11-10
The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky written by Bryan Appleyard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us to be simpler, to be 'machine readable'. From telephone call trees that simplify us into a series of 'options' to social networks that reduce us to our purchases and preferences, we are deluged with propaganda urging us to abandon our irreducibly complex selves. At the same time, scientists tell us we are 'simply' the products of evolution, nothing more than our genes. Brain scanners have inspired neuroscientists to claim they are close to cracking the problem of the human mind. 'Human equivalent' computers are being designed that, we are told, will do our thinking for us. Humans are being simplified out of existence. It is time, says Bryan Appleyard, to resist, and to reclaim the full depth of human experience. We are, he argues, naturally complex creatures, we are only ever at home in complexity. Through art and literature we see ourselves in ways that machines never can. He makes an impassioned plea for the voices of art to be heard before those of the technocrats. Part memoir, part reportage, part cultural analysis, THE BRAIN IS WIDER THAN THE SKY is a dire warning about what we may become and a lyrical evocation of what humans can be. For the brain is indeed wider than the sky.
A Brain Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Andrew Levy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-05-26
A Brain Wider Than The Sky written by Andrew Levy 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 2009-05-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With more than one in ten Americans -- and more than one in five families -- affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent and often ignored or misdiagnosed. By his mid-forties, Andrew Levy's migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that he'd wrestled with half his life, though he had not fully contemplated their physical and psychological influence on the individual, family, and society at large. Then in 2006 Levy was struck almost daily by a series of debilitating migraines that kept him essentially bedridden for months, imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light. When possible, Levy kept careful track of what triggered an onset -- the "thin, taut" pain from drinking a bourbon, the stabbing pulse brought on by a few too many M&M's -- and in luminous prose recounts his struggle to live with migraines, his meticulous attempts at calibrating his lifestyle to combat and avoid them, and most tellingly, the personal relationship a migraineur develops -- an almost Stockholm syndrome-like attachment -- with the indescribable pain, delirium, and hallucinations. Levy read about personalities and artists throughout history with migraine -- Alexander Pope, Nietzsche, Freud, Virginia Woolf, even Elvis -- and researched the treatments and medical advice available for migraine sufferers. He candidly describes his rehabilitation with the aid of prescription drugs and his eventual reemergence into the world, back to work and writing. An enthralling blend of memoir and provocative analysis, A Brain Wider Than the Sky offers rich insights into an illness whose effects are too often discounted and whose sufferers are too often overlooked.
Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Gerald M. Edelman
language : en
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
Release Date : 2005
Wider Than The Sky written by Gerald M. Edelman and has been published by Yale Nota Bene this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Psychology categories.
Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, Dr. Gerald Edelman, offers an up-to-date account of the workings of the brain and the connections between mind and body. Edelman explores the relation of consciousness to causation, evolution, the development of the self, and the origins of feelings, learning, and memory, basing his discussion on recent advances in science and medicine.
Spencer Finch
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Author : Susan Cross
language : en
Publisher: Prestel
Release Date : 2016
Spencer Finch written by Susan Cross and has been published by Prestel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art, Modern categories.
Artist Spencer Finch is internationally celebrated for his transportive studies of light and color. This books looks at over two decades of work that investigates the nature of perception and its mysteries.
Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Nancy Chen Long
language : en
Publisher: Diode Editions
Release Date : 2020-03-04
Wider Than The Sky written by Nancy Chen Long and has been published by Diode Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-04 with Poetry categories.
In her second book Wider Than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long grapples with the porous and slippery nature of memory and mind. Through form and content, the poems in the book mimic memory, its recursive and sometimes surreal qualities—how recalling one memory resurrects a different memory, which then jumps to another memory, and then another, each memory connected by the thinnest of wisps—as well as memory’s mutability—conflicting memories among family members, changes in the collective memory of a society, a buried memory that is resurrected when one catches the scent of a forgotten perfume. Wider Than the Sky explores the role of memory in identity, how the physical aspects of the brain impact who we are, and how who we are—both individually and as a society—is, in one sense, a narrative. These poems delve into the mind’s need for narrative in order to make sense of the world and how a society uses stories and myth to help its members remember a lesson, a preferred behavior, or their position in the social scale.
Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Cindy MacKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
Release Date : 2007
Wider Than The Sky written by Cindy MacKenzie and has been published by Literature and Medicine this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A revealing perspective on how Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. Her frequent attention to pain and death, like her reclusive tendencies, has led many to dismiss her as "morbid." Biographers and critics, however, have shown how she used her writing and her own acquaintance with pain to reach out consolingly to sufferers. In a widely varied collection of personal reminiscences, tributes, and scholarly essays, editors Cindy MacKenzie and Barbara Dana offer richly revealing perspectives on how the exquisite language in the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering. The essays featured in Wider than the Sky range from fresh scholarly analyses to highly personal essays and meditations, each offering thoughts on the emotional, spiritual, and physical healing power gained from reading Dickinson. MacKenzie and Dana invite readers to reflect on how we respond to poems, how they enter into the core of our consciousness, and how we draw strength from what Dickinson called "the Art of Peace." Wider than the Sky, a resource for Dickinson fans as well as anyone coping with pain, is an important addition to the Literature and Medicine Series.
Wider Than The Sky
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Author : Scott Elledge
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Wider Than The Sky written by Scott Elledge and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A diverse anthology of poems by William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Emily Dickinson, and many others.
I Love You Bigger Than The Sky
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Author : Michelle Medlock Adams
language : en
Publisher: WorthyKids
Release Date : 2020-04-07
I Love You Bigger Than The Sky written by Michelle Medlock Adams and has been published by WorthyKids this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Bestselling author Michelle Medlock Adams perfectly portrays unconditional love in this sweetly illustrated padded board book. Animals and humans express their immeasurable love for their kids in this endearing book. Grab your little one and snuggle in close as eagles, squirrels, whales, and more describe a love bigger than the sky, taller than the trees, and wider than the sea. With a cushy, padded cover and adorable illustrations, this book is the perfect way to say "I love you."
The Spider S Thread
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Author : Keith J. Holyoak
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-03-12
The Spider S Thread written by Keith J. Holyoak and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Psychology categories.
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.