Tag: Imagination

Free Download Katie Byron, "Meadow of Imagination"
English | ISBN: 195280518X | 2020 | 190 pages | EPUB | 519 KB
Step into a meadow of imagination if you dare, gracefully guided by a maiden fair.

Free Download Joshua J. Bowman, "Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau "
English | ISBN: 1498559026 | 2018 | 200 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau seeks to correct oversimplified readings of Henry David Thoreau’s political thought by elucidating a key tension within his imagination. With the celebration of Thoreau’s two-hundredth birthday now past, this study outlines, and builds on, his own understanding of imagination and considers its implications for environmental politics.

Free Download Denae Dyck, "Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1350335371 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 920 KB + 6 MB
Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature.

Free Download Jane Yeang Chui Wong, "Asia and the Historical Imagination"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9811074003, 9811339481 | PDF | pages: 233 | 2.4 mb
This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how imagined pasts converge and diverge in developed and developing nations, and examines the limitations of representation at a time when theories of world literature are shaping the way we interpret global histories and cultures. The collection calls attention to the importance of acknowledging local tensions―both within the historical and cultural make-up of a country, and within the Asian continent―in the interpretation of historical fiction. It emphasizes a broad-spectrum view that privileges the shared historical experiences of a group of countries in close proximity, and it also responds to the paradigm shift in Asian Studies. Discussing how local conditions shape and create expectations of how we read historical fiction and working with the theme of fictionality and locality, the volume provides an alternative framework for the study of world literature.

Free Download Jamey Heit, "Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes"
English | 2012 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0786463546 | PDF | 1,7 mb
From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base that continues to run in the millions. This critical analysis of Calvin and Hobbes explores Calvin’s world and its deep reservoir of meanings. Close readings of individual strips highlight the profundity of Calvin’s world with respect to a number of life’s big questions, including the things that one values, friendship, God, death, and other struggles in life. By engaging with Calvin and Hobbes as more than "just" a comic strip, this work demonstrates how the imagination remains an invaluable resource for making sense of the world.

Free Download Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (Audiobook)
English | January 21, 2005 | ASIN: B0007OB58U | MP3@192 kbps | 9h 21m | 766.8 MB
Author: Helen Fielding
Narrator: Josephine Bailey
At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era. Move over 007, a stunning, sexy, and decidedly female, new player has entered the world of international espionage. Her name is Olivia Joules and she’s ready to take America by storm with charm, style, and her infamous Overactive Imagination.

Free Download Imagination: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWMDZFG | 2023 | 4 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Narrator: Rachael Beresford
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of a meaningful world. Long regarded by philosophers as an elusive and mysterious capacity of the human mind, imagination has been the subject of extraordinary ambivalence, described as both dangerous and divine, as merely peripheral to rationality and as essential to all thinking.

Free Download Tanmoy Kundu Saikat Sarkar, "The Posthuman Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1527564045 | 2021 | 205 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume, including an extended interview with noted philosopher of posthumanism Francesca Ferrando, explores the contemporary philosophical, literary and cultural landscapes that have emerged as a response to the unavoidable crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene era. The essays gathered here map posthumanism both as theoretical posthumanism, which primarily seeks to develop new knowledge, and as practical posthumanism, which emphasizes socio-political, economic, and technological changes. Posthumanism, which explores how one can address the question of what means to be human today, is a burgeoning area of interest among universities across the globe. Written in accessible, yet scholarly, language, this volume introduces posthumanism in its diverse ramifications and explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts in order to cater to the needs of researchers and students in the humanities.

Free Download Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition by Eugenio Arbizzani, Eliana Cangelli, Carola Clemente, Fabrizio Cumo, Francesca Giofrè, Anna Maria Giovenale, Massimo Palme, Spartaco Paris
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 1027 Pages | ISBN : 3031295145 | 308.4 MB
This book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digitalization, competitiveness, training, and inclusion to overcome social, territorial, and gender differences.

Free Download Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition by Eugenio Arbizzani, Eliana Cangelli, Carola Clemente, Fabrizio Cumo, Francesca Giofrè, Anna Maria Giovenale, Massimo Palme, Spartaco Paris
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 1027 Pages | ISBN : 3031295145 | 308.4 MB
This book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digitalization, competitiveness, training, and inclusion to overcome social, territorial, and gender differences.