[PDF] Stories From A Sideways Glance eBook

Author : Dennis Brown
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166242793X

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Do you always believe what you see, or do you sometimes think it’s all part of your imagination? If something is standing right in front of you, how do you know it is real? What if no one else sees it? Can you prove it? “Stories from a Sideways Glance” is a series of wonderful and engaging short stories about characters that might prove real to some readers and imaginary to others. You will likely recognize some of these characters from your own life. These gripping stories that will challenge your challenging our assumptions and push pushing us you to think beyond the normal. Does a ghost leave a footprint? How would you explain wild animals gathering to protect a child from a deranged person, or a crowd sighting a being that left no footprints in the snow? What if someone you cannot prove is real had a profound effect on changes in your life? This life is filled with contradictions. Most of the time, we rationalize these away, but some never go away. We believe what we need to, to get through the next day. One thing for sure, anything that we think is carved in stone often gets proved wrong. Better to keep an open mind, less distance to fall.

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781585423064

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A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives. Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never seen it before. With this dazzling and defiant work, Griffiths introduces us to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten in our modern lives. She presents an infectious argument for other, more magical times, the diverse cycles of nature, of folktale or carnival, when time is unlimited and on our side. This is a book for those who suspect that there's more to time than clocks. Irresistible and provocative, A Sideways Look at Time could change the way we view time-forever.

Author : Maria Mudd Ruth
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 168051119X

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• Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0312427182

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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408812479

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All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the 30th floor. There are dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and an orange named Fido, causing a terrible commotion. But the biggest surprise of all is that Mrs Jewls is expecting a baby and a substitute teacher is coming, and everyone knows what that means . . . Wayside School is going to get a little stranger.

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1526622068

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There has been a terrible mistake. Instead of having thirty classrooms side by side, Wayside School is thirty storeys high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Perhaps that's why all sorts of strange and unusual things keep happening – especially in Mrs Jewls's classroom on the very top floor. There's the terrifying Mrs Gorf, who gets an unusually fruity comeuppance; Terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early; and Mauricia, who has a strange ice-cream addiction. Meanwhile, John can only read upside down, and Leslie is determined to sell her own toes. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff throughout. This is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.

Author : Anna Lidia Vega Serova
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2021-07-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781914278020

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A collection of short stories about everyday objects and everyday life, with illustrations by the author.

Author : Jeni Williams
Publisher : Trefn
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Attempting a sideways glance at the cultural activity bubbling under the surface, this book features five very different artists whose vital, off-center work benefits from being produced away from the pressure of the dominant metropolitan culture. This variety gives a sense of the rich fluctuations, the oddity, and the creativity that exist at every level of a Welsh culture in the midst of change. The artists, the writers and editor have collaborated to produce a "performance on paper," and they include Eddie Ladd, Sarah Broughton, Megan Lloyd, Maria Donovan, Daniel Morden, Jeff Teare, Peter Bodenham, Neale Howells, and Rachel Trezise

Author : Benjamin Fondane
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1590178998

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Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a torture and a spur.” Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom—the State, History, the Law, the Idea. Existential Monday, the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English, includes four of Fondane's most thought-provoking and important texts, "Existential Monday and the Sunday of History," "Preface for the Present Moment," "Man Before History" (co-translated by Andrew Rubens), and "Boredom." Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the enduring French philosophers of the twentieth century.