Fragments
Title | Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffry W. Johnston |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2007-01-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416924868 |
Chase wishes he could remember the events of his accident, but when the memories begin to come back in his dreams, Chase must face the reality of his past and finally deal with the part he played in the tragic event.
Fragments
Title | Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Binjamin Wilkomirski |
Publisher | Schocken |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.
Fragments
Title | Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | David Tracy |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2020-04-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 022656729X |
David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy’s range and erudition, collecting essays from the 1980s to 2018 into a two-volume work that will be greeted with joy by his admirers and praise from new readers. In the first volume, Fragments, Tracy gathers his most important essays on broad theological questions, beginning with the problem of suffering across Greek tragedy, Christianity, and Buddhism. The volume goes on to address the Infinite, and the many attempts to categorize and name it by Plato, Aristotle, Rilke, Heidegger, and others. In the remaining essays, he reflects on questions of the invisible, contemplation, hermeneutics, and public theology. Throughout, Tracy evokes the potential of fragments (understood both as concepts and events) to shatter closed systems and open us to difference and Infinity. Covering science, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and non-Western religious traditions, Tracy provides in Fragments a guide for any open reader to rethink our fragmenting contemporary culture.
Fragments of the City
Title | Fragments of the City PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McFarlane |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0520382234 |
Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Global Fragments
Title | Global Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo Mendieta |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791479277 |
Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Sound Fragments
Title | Sound Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Lobley |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0819580783 |
Winner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023 This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the histories and afterlives of sound collections and practices at the International Library of African Music. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa. The narrative speaks to larger issues in sound studies, curatorial practices, and the reciprocity and ethics of listening to and reclaiming culture. Sound Fragments interrogates how Xhosa arts activism contributes to an expanding notion of what a sound or cultural archive could be, and where it may resonate now and in future.
Fragment
Title | Fragment PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Fahy |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0440338573 |
Aboard a long-range research vessel, in the vast reaches of the South Pacific, the cast and crew of the reality show Sealife believe they have found a ratings bonanza. For a director dying for drama, a distress call from Henders Island—a mere blip on any radar—might be just the ticket. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders—and the ultimate test of survival begins. For when they reach the island’s shores, the scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find—creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time; this is Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years—a fragment of a lost continent, with an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.