The Dead Are Alive

The Dead Are Alive
Title The Dead Are Alive PDF eBook
Author Harold Sherman
Publisher Fawcett
Pages 337
Release 1986-11-12
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 0449131580

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In case after amazing case, you'll listen to the actual voices of the dead--contrary, lyrical entrancing. You'll explore the meaning of out-of-body experiences and learn how spirits of the dead can be seen as well as heard. You'll also discover how YOU can communicate with the dead--and capture their voices on an ordinary tape recorder!

The Dead Alive and Busy

The Dead Alive and Busy
Title The Dead Alive and Busy PDF eBook
Author Alan Shapiro
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 98
Release 2000-04-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780226750514

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In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed through examining the intimate bonds of family life. The poems explore these familial relations in terms of the religious, social, and literary contexts that inform them, delving into such universal themes as human frailty, illness and death, bereavement, and thwarted desires. By turns lyrical and narrative, slangy and elevated, analytical and visionary, this collection showcases one of America's most important poets in his top form. Praise for Alan Shapiro: "Shapiro is a shrewd and sympathetic moralist. He never trivializes his subjects with high-minded flourishes or stylistic gimmicks."—J. D. McClatchy, New York Times Book Review

Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking

Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking
Title Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking PDF eBook
Author Cornelia Müller
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 293
Release 2009-10-15
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0226548260

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Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology, Cornelia Müller here unveils a new approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a more dynamic model: sleeping and waking. To build this model, Müller presents an overview of notions of metaphor from the classical period to the present; studies in detail how metaphors function in speech, text, gesture, and images; and examines the way mixed metaphors sometimes make sense and sometimes do not. This analysis leads her to conclude that metaphors may oscillate between various degrees of sleeping and waking as their status changes depending on context and intention. Bridging the gap between conceptual metaphor theory and more traditional linguistic theories, this book is a major advance for the field and will be vital to novices and initiates alike.

Alive with the Dead

Alive with the Dead
Title Alive with the Dead PDF eBook
Author susana millman
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2016-09-29
Genre
ISBN 9780692800188

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Cut Dead But Still Alive

Cut Dead But Still Alive
Title Cut Dead But Still Alive PDF eBook
Author Dr. Gregory C. Ellison II
Publisher Abingdon Press
Pages 206
Release 2013-05-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1426771053

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To cut dead means to refuse to acknowledge another with the intent to punish. Gregory Ellison says that this is the plight of African American young men. They are stigmatized with limited opportunity for education and disproportionate incarceration. At the same time, they are often resistant to help from social institutions including the church. They are mute and invisible to society but also in their inward being. Their voice and physical selves are not acknowledged, leaving them ripe for hopelessness and volatility. So if the need is so great yet the desire for help wanes, where is the remedy? Healing can begin by reframing the problem. While to cut dead is destructive, it also refers to pruning and repotting a disfigured plant—giving it new possibilities for life. In this provocative book, Ellison shows how caregivers can sow seeds of life, and nurture with guidance, admonition, training, and support in order to help create a community of reliable others, serving as an extended family.

Wanted! Mountain Cedars

Wanted! Mountain Cedars
Title Wanted! Mountain Cedars PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth McGreevy
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021-04-15
Genre
ISBN 9780578843322

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This controversial, eye-opening book by Elizabeth McGreevy suggests a different perception of Mountain Cedars (also called Ashe Junipers). It digs into the politics, history, economics, culture, and ecology surrounding these trees in the Hill Country of Texas from the 1700s to the present. Since the 1920s, reporters, writers, scientists, landowners, politicians, and cedar fever victims have characterized the trees as a non-native, water-hogging, grass-killing, toxic, useless species to justify its removal. The result has been a glut of Mountain Cedar tall tales. Yet before the 1890s, people highly respected Mountain Cedars. The Mountain Cedars they reported were large timber trees with strong, decay-resistant heartwood. Most were cut down and sold to boost the young Hill Country economy. The clearcutting of old-growth forests and dense woodlands and the continuous overgrazing of prairies that followed led to mass soil degradation and erosion. Acting as nature's bandage, Mountain Cedars morphed into pioneering bushes and spread across degraded soils. This book tracks down the origins of the tall tales to determine what is true, what is false, and what is somewhere in between. Through a series of revelations, the author replaces anti-cedar sentiments with a more constructive, less emotional approach to Hill Country land management.

Court of the Dead

Court of the Dead
Title Court of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Tom Gilliland
Publisher
Pages
Release 2016-05-17
Genre
ISBN 9781608878697

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