Ordinary Cities
Author : Jennifer Robinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 0415304873
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (34 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Cities PDF or another Format written by Jennifer Robinson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities.
Ordinary Matters
Author : Lorraine Sim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-10-20
ISBN 10 : 9781501314322
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (51 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Matters PDF or another Format written by Lorraine Sim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Ordinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines how women photographers and writers including Helen Levitt, Lee Miller, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson envision the sphere of ordinary life in light of the social and cultural transformations of the period that shaped and often radically re-shaped it: for example, urbanism, instrumentalism, the Great Depression and war. Through a series of case studies that explore such topics as the street, domestic things, gesture and the face, Sim contends that the paradigmatic shifts that define early twentieth-century modernity not only inform modernist women's aesthetics of the everyday, but their artistic and ethical investments in that sphere. The everyday has been noted as a “keynote of the New Modernist Studies” (Todd Avery). Ordinary Matters comprises a vital contribution to recent scholarship on the topic and will be of value to scholars working in British and American modernism, multimedia modernisms, photography, twentieth-century literature, and critical and cultural histories of the everyday.
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary
Author : Marta Dvorak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 9780773560307
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (773 users)
Download or read book Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary PDF or another Format written by Marta Dvorak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social critique implicit in its gentle satirical impulses.
The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
Author : Mai Lu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-27
ISBN 10 : 9789813349520
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (813 users)
Download or read book The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People PDF or another Format written by Mai Lu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews explores how the Chinese Dream is fueling the aspirations of individuals in China today and presents 40 representative cases that showcase the journeys that ordinary people undertake in pursuit of their dreams as well as their extraordinary achievements. The authors identify autonomy, self-awareness, and hard work as the most fundamental driving forces in individuals taking control of their own lives and achieving their dreams, with family and social support as further important factors. Despite the vast differences in the interviewees’ dreams and experiences in pursuing them, there is a common thread in their stories, namely the impact of major changes in the country on their lives. The future of individuals is closely linked to the future of the country: a bright future for the country means a good life for all. People’s longing for a better life is the basis and a central element of the Chinese Dream, which is the dream of the nation and the dream of every citizen. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including ordinary people.
An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9780292723061
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (292 users)
Download or read book An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days PDF or another Format written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinkingabout issues in the wider world--from wars and economic recession to climate change--caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life. Albert's journal provides an engaging account of how the business of being a successful working writer blends with her rural life in the Texas Hill Country and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. As her eclectic daily reading ranges across topics from economics, food production, and oil and energy policy to poetry, place, and the writinglife, Albert becomes increasingly concerned about the natural world and the threats facing it, especially climate change and resource depletion. Asking herself, 'What does it mean? And what should I do about it",' she determines practical steps to take, such as growing more food in her garden, and also helps us to readers make sense of these issues and consider what our own responses might be. A thoughtful and thought-provoking 'book of days,' amplified with reading lists and quotations from a wide diversity of writers, An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days is a must-have addition for everyone's collection of writers' journals"--Cover, p. 4.
Art of the Ordinary
Author : Richard Deming
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-15
ISBN 10 : 9781501720154
Pages : 219 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (51 users)
Download or read book Art of the Ordinary PDF or another Format written by Richard Deming and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues, is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it. Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be revealed in surprising places—as in a stand-up comic’s routine, for instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie. From negotiations with the primary materials of culture and community, ways of reading "self" and "other" are made available, deepening one’s ability to respond to ethical, social, and political dilemmas. Deming picks out key figures, such as the philosophers Stanley Cavell, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim; poet John Ashbery; artist Andy Warhol; and comedian Steven Wright, to showcase the foundational concepts of language, ethics, and society. Deming interrogates how acts of the imagination by these people, and others, become the means for transforming the alienated ordinary into a presence of the everyday that constantly and continually creates opportunities of investment in its calls on interpretive faculties. In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts, philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to offer generative, provocative insights into how we think and represent the world to others as well as to ourselves.
Ordinary Television
Author : Frances Bonner
Publisher : SAGE
Release Date : 2003-02-18
ISBN 10 : 9780803975705
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (83 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Television PDF or another Format written by Frances Bonner and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-02-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other books on Television tend to ignore 'ordinary' television - lifestyle programmes and 'reality TV', just the sort of programmes which increasing dominate the schedules. Bonner provides a distinctive angle on the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences.
Ordinary Ecstasy
Author : John Rowan
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
ISBN 10 : 9781317724582
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (317 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Ecstasy PDF or another Format written by John Rowan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanistic Psychology ranges far and wide into education, management, gender issues and many other fields. Ordinary Ecstasy, first published in 1976, is widely regarded as one of the most important books on the subject. Although this new edition still contains much of the original material, it has been completely rethought in the light of postmodern ideas, with more emphasis on the paradoxes within humanistic psychology, and takes into account changes in many different areas, with a greatly extended bibliography. Ordinary Ecstasy is written not only for students and professionals involved in humanistic psychology - anyone who works with people in any way will find it valuable and interesting.
Ordinary Democracy
Author : Ali Aslam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
ISBN 10 : 9780190601812
Pages : 225 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (19 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Democracy PDF or another Format written by Ali Aslam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements (if there is a thread), and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory. This book argues that there is a commonality to these movements as well as a striking lesson about the nature of democracy, sovereignty, agency and solidarity today: in that these movements all highlight the ordinariness of neoliberal regimes and the ways in which citizens find solidarity and a sense of freedom in the marketplace. Aslam argues that neoliberalism is more than a set of policies, ideological principles, or a distinct phase of capitalism--rather it constitutes the ways in which citizens think about their everyday lives. Conceived as common sense, it also governs what is permitted or forbidden in public discourse. Mass movements call attention to the effects of neoliberalism, providing a way to contest its acceptability; in doing so they help to contextualize the impasse that marks a language of civil empowerment and inclusion on one hand, and feelings of powerlessness, diminished agency and impassivity on the other. Looking in particular at Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, the Egyptian Revolution, and Strike Debt, Aslam takes what may be a more sobering, but still hopeful, view toward the potential of mass movements: to resist the normalization of conceptions of solidarity and citizenship under neoliberalism"--
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2017-03-30
ISBN 10 : 9781438464596
Pages : 194 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (438 users)
Download or read book The Extraordinary in the Ordinary PDF or another Format written by Donald A. Crosby and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores miracles as dimensions of everyday existence through the lens of religious naturalism. Miracles are usually regarded as an intrusion of a supernatural force upsetting the normal workings and laws of the universe, but if one is attentive to the natural world, one can instead find miracles beneath the surface of everyday existence. This outlook is part of Donald A. Crosbys religious naturalism, which he terms Religion of Nature, a belief system that posits the natural world to be the only world, without any underlying or transcending supernatural being, presence, or power. In The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, Crosby explores seven types of everyday miracles, such as time, language, and love, to show that the miraculous and ordinary are not opposed to each other. Rather, it is when we acknowledge the sacred depths and dimensions of everyday existence that we recognize the miracles that constantly surround us.
In Praise of Ordinary People
Author : M. Jacob
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-17
ISBN 10 : 9781137380524
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (137 users)
Download or read book In Praise of Ordinary People PDF or another Format written by M. Jacob and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
The Special and the Ordinary
Author : David Clapham
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2015-11-18
ISBN 10 : 9781491778494
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (491 users)
Download or read book The Special and the Ordinary PDF or another Format written by David Clapham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Haworth, despite innate shyness, has floated upward in a comfortable English home environment under the influence of much older sisters and their friends. After he begins a new school in the early fifties, the seven-year-old is looking lost when a classmate, Martin Holford, decides to take him under his wing. And so begins a long friendship. Ordinary rules of life apparently do not apply to the confident Martin except, perhaps, when he allows his mischievous humor excessive free rein against the self-important. While on separate coming-of-age journeys, Martin and John get on fine, despite John's occasional resentment about Martin's ability to bounce back after perpetrating 'wrong notes' against the wealthy while John slaves away attempting to make new music sound modern. John, who has no desire to be to be an apathetic musician like his viola teacher, unfortunately lacks the talent, personality, and love of limelight to match his glamorous piano teacher or Katherine, the singer he accompanies on the piano. Now all he has to do is somehow find his place amid an uncertain career as a ghost composer where chances come as infrequent as success. The Special and the Ordinary shares the unique story of two young people as they come of age and step into the future, each with a different idea on what it means to be true to themselves. iUniverse awarded The Special and the Ordinary the 'Editor's Choice' designation. Here are excerpts from the enthusiastic editorial reviews: "Definitely a worthwhile read, I recommend The Special and the Ordinary to lovers of literary fiction." - Pacific Book Review "...heartwarming and uplifting." - Kirkus Reviews "The writing is clear and refreshing, with clean sentences that move the story along at a brisk pace." - Clarion Review Visit my site at www.davidhclapham.com and see my book at Amazon by clicking here.
부산비엔날레 바다미술제(2006)
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Publisher :
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105130019255
Pages : 458 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)
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Ordinary Lives
Author : Ben Highmore
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2010-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781136905230
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (136 users)
Download or read book Ordinary Lives PDF or another Format written by Ben Highmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.
The Nature of Ordinary Objects
Author : Javier Cumpa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
ISBN 10 : 9781107160095
Pages : 307 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (17 users)
Download or read book The Nature of Ordinary Objects PDF or another Format written by Javier Cumpa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new insights into contemporary debates surrounding the metaphysics of objects, a subject undergoing an important revival.
Divine Science and the Science of God
Author : Victor Preller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-05-17
ISBN 10 : 9781597521987
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (597 users)
Download or read book Divine Science and the Science of God PDF or another Format written by Victor Preller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Victor Preller examines the logical status of religious language in the light of recent developments in American analytic philosophy. The problem inherent in religious language is presented in terms of the referential status of the word God. The author argues that the significance of any referential term is dependent upon the ability of that term to play a significant role 'within' a unified conceptual system. The problem is shown to transcend the epistemological dogmas of Positivism and Conceptual Empiricism and to be inherent in any intelligible epistemology, including that of Thomas Aquinas, whose theological treatises serve as a model of religious language for the thesis of this book. According to Professor Preller, Divine Science (Aquinas' term for what we now call Natural Theology) results from a reflection upon the limitations encountered by the intellect in its attempt to render intelligible the objects of human experience. In the Science of God (Aquinas' term for that mode of knowing engendered by faith), the unknown meta-empirical referent of Divine Science becomes the object of the human intellect. While this study develops out of the discussions inaugurated by Flew and McIntyre in 'New Essays in Philosophical Theology', it rejects the excessively empirical approach of most other studies in that tradition. It applies post-positivistic analysis to specifically Catholic theological language, but it obviously applies to the theological language involved in any form of theism.
The Fragile Ordinary
Author : Samantha Young
Publisher : Harlequin
Release Date : 2018-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9781488088933
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (488 users)
Download or read book The Fragile Ordinary PDF or another Format written by Samantha Young and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Comet Caldwell. And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name. People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky. But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing than real people to the parents whose indifference hurts more than an open wound, Comet has never wanted to be the center of attention. She can’t wait to graduate from her high school in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the only place she ever feels truly herself is on her anonymous poetry blog. But surely that will change once she leaves to attend university somewhere far, far away. When new student Tobias King blazes in from America and shakes up the school, Comet thinks she’s got the bad boy figured out. Until they’re thrown together for a class assignment and begin to form an unlikely connection. Everything shifts in Comet’s ordinary world. Tobias has a dark past and runs with a tough crowd—and none of them are happy about his interest in Comet. Targeted by bullies and thrown into the spotlight, Comet and Tobias can go their separate ways…or take a risk on something extraordinary. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible Vastness of Us and the On Dublin Street series comes a heartfelt and beautiful new young adult novel, set in Scotland, about daring to dream and embracing who you are.
