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Praying with Jane Eyre

Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

By: Vanessa Zoltan

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Praying with Jane Eyre

Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

By: Vanessa Zoltan

“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed A deeply felt exploration of the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us, from the host of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. Our favorite reads keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores topics ranging from the trauma she has inherited as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors to finding hope, meaning, and even magic in our deeply fractured times. Brimming with a love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards. Whether you're an avowed "Eyrehead" or a voracious reader and pop culture fan, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.

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Praying with Jane Eyre

Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

By: Vanessa Zoltan

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Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

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Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin

The Amazing Story of the Seiler Family

By: Vanessa Holburn

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Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin

The Amazing Story of the Seiler Family

By: Vanessa Holburn

The horrors of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and labor camps were just the beginning of the struggle to survive for the Seiler family. As Hungarian Jews, they faced persecution of the very worst kind both from their own government and Nazi Germany. After liberation by the Soviets at the end of WWII they endured further punishment from the Stalinist regime concealed behind the Iron Curtain. This memoir is drawn from a recently re-discovered cache of precious family letters and exclusive interviews with Marta Seiler, who translated those letters for the first time. Marta has supplemented the account with childhood memories and original photos. The narrative is told through the voices of Marta, her mother Izabella and her father Lajos on a journey that takes us from 1935 to the present day. The reader is able to piece together the family’s personal challenges set against the backdrop of international political conflict. Exploring themes of resilience, identity and inherited trauma, by the end of the book we learn how Marta rediscovered her forbidden Jewish identity, found her place within the community and has moved toward a place of tolerance. In the tradition of oral history, Marta told her remarkable family story exclusively to journalist Vanessa Holburn. For Marta it’s important we learn the lessons of the past before they are lost for good.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399063014

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9781399063012

Laban's Efforts in Action

A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources

By: Vanessa Ewan,Kate Sagovsky

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Laban's Efforts in Action

A Movement Handbook for Actors with Online Video Resources

By: Vanessa Ewan,Kate Sagovsky

As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances. This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'. This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472524527

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9781472524522

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

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Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently demonstrated a determination to seek out and procure for itself a stake in the management of 'its' popular musics. Similarly, popular musics have been used 'from the ground up' as sites for both populist and popular critiques of nationalist sentiment, from the position of both a globalizing and a 'local' vernacular culture. The contributions in this book arrive at a critical moment in the development of the study of national cultures and musicology. The book ranges from considerations of the ideological focus of cultural nationalism through to analyses of musical hybridity and musical articulations of other kinds of identities at odds with national identity. The processes of global homogenization are thereby shown to have brought about a transitional crisis for national cultural identities: the evolution of these identities, particularly with reference to the concept of 'authenticity' in music, is situated within broader debates on power, political economy and constructions of the self. Theorizations of practice are employed after the manner of Bourdieu, Gramsci, Goffman, Gadamer, Habermas, Bhabha, Lacan and Zizek. Each contribution acts as a case study to characterize the strategies through which differing modes of musical discourse engage, critique or obscure discourses on national identity. The studies include discussions of: musical representations of Irishness; the relationship between Afropop and World Music; Norwegian club music; the revival of traditional music in Serbia; resistance to cultural homogeneity in Brazil; contemporary Uyghur song in Northwest China; rap and race in French society; technobanda from the barrios of Los Angeles, and Spanish/Moroccan raï. In this way, the book seeks to characterize the ideological configurations that help to activate and sustain hegemonic, amb

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Routledge

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1317091590

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9781317091592

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Engineering the Curriculum : 6-9 December 2009, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

By: Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (20th : 2009 : Adelaide)

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Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Engineering the Curriculum : 6-9 December 2009, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

By: Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (20th : 2009 : Adelaide)

Proceedings of the 20th annual conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, held at the University of Adelaide in December 2009. Papers were presented by Australian and international delegates. The conference was focused on the engineering curriculum in higher education.

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1876346590

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Book's by Vanessa Zoltan

Praying with Jane Eyre

Praying with Jane Eyre

Praying with Jane Eyre

Praying with Jane Eyre

Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin

Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin

Laban's Efforts in Action

Laban's Efforts in Action

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education

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