A professional psychologist discovers a hidden passion for sports in his forties, transforming into a champion ultradistance athlete. His remarkable journey culminates in breaking the world record for the fastest bicycle crossing of Europe, showcasing the unexpected potential for personal growth and achievement later in life.
Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography
This book serves as a valuable resource for students and lecturers across various disciplines, including photography, art history, English culture, and documentary studies. It delves into the interplay between visual art and cultural narratives, offering insights that enrich understanding in these fields. The text explores significant themes and methodologies, making it an essential reference for those interested in the critical analysis of visual representation and its historical context.
The story of how Ed and his wife Rachel developed and put into practice, in partnership with local churches, a vision to provide a home to ex-prisoners, refugees and victims of abuse.
Exploring themes of surveillance and societal control, this award-winning work delves into the implications of living under constant watch. The narrative weaves together personal stories and broader societal critiques, highlighting the tension between safety and freedom. Through compelling characters and thought-provoking scenarios, it challenges readers to reflect on the balance between vigilance and privacy in contemporary life. The book's engaging prose and insightful commentary make it a significant contribution to discussions about modern governance and individual rights.
A unique blend of quirky characters drives this raucous comedy, featuring an agoraphobe, a narcoleptic, a temporary amnesiac, and an apraxic. Bunny Temple, the agoraphobic host, faces a crisis when an identity thief threatens his stability. Together, the group of misfits embarks on a chaotic adventure to track down the thief, revealing the complexities of human nature and the transformative power of love. Their amateur sleuthing leads to unexpected challenges, highlighting both their vulnerabilities and strengths.
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many conversations with participants in and historians of the movement, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse how this photographic work has developed cohesively and rigorously, from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing researches of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group by way of mysterious veiled responses to the repressive contexts with which they were faced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The main chapters, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter texts examining specific works. The reader will find in this volume images that present challenges to our understanding of how photographic work has been used within surrealism, pinpointing individual pictures whose dynamic charge may induce instants of compelling interrogation and disruption.
You don't need a lush garden to begin wildcrafting, you can find plenty of magickal herbs growing just outside your door. A Witch's Guide to Wildcraft explores more than thirty common plants, providing tips for identification, gathering, and cultivation as well as specific rituals and magical uses. You will also discover step-by-step instructions for dozens of hearth-and-home herb projects, including cleansers, powders, incense, talismans, sprays, jam, and much more. Whether you find your herbs among the landscape plants in your yard, growing wild in a vacant lot, or in the ditch alongside a country road, collecting your own plant materials lends a sense of sacred energy to spells and magical workings. This book shares fascinating bits of history and lore about each plant, as well as astrological correspondences and common Latin names. With plentiful tips and hands-on projects, you will find yourself developing a closer relationship with the enchanted world around you and with your own spiritual self.
The Unhallowed Order has been awakened. The threat that has struck fear in the hearts of all of Balmora has returned to claim what is rightfully theirs. All the while, Kaiis struggles to make sense of what he is and how he can save his soul. Baliaer and Velentus grow even closer, while Taliea and Rygar explore themselves. History is revealed; some not so pretty and others.... well..... Falling Skies is the third installment of the Dreadmore Saga. Be enveloped as you learn more about the Order and what is to come in the final book of the series: Alavus.
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Each year, the Wisconsin-Alpha chapter of the International Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2010, that was Margaret Urban Walker (ethics and philosophy, Arizona State U.), who discussed the history, current thinking, and potential future application of the notion that amends are owed for wrongs and wrongful harms. Despite its venerable past since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, she says, reparative justice has not received the degree of attention in contemporary thought that distributive and retributive justice have enjoyed. There is no index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)