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Absence

2003-01-01 Artists' books
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Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Artists' books
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Book Rating : 135/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Absence by : Jeannie Meejin Yoon

Download or read book Absence written by Jeannie Meejin Yoon. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book.At almost two pounds, Absence has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the books only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures.

Absence

1990-05 Fiction
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Release : 1990-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 225/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Absence by : Peter Handke

Download or read book Absence written by Peter Handke. This book was released on 1990-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.

Excused Absence

2021-10 Christian education
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Release : 2021-10
Genre : Christian education
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Book Rating : 138/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Excused Absence by : Douglas Wilson

Download or read book Excused Absence written by Douglas Wilson. This book was released on 2021-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God calls Christian parents to raise their kids for Him, loving Him with all their heart, soul, strength, and mind. But does this divine calling require a distinctively Christian education? Should Christian parents send their kids to public schools as "salt" and "light" or should they take their kids out of public schools to form distinctively Christian schools and home schools dedicated to holding forth Christ as Lord of all? Because our kids belong to God, are we called to surround them with a biblical worldview from the time they get up to the time they go down, including the hours from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.? Excused Absence is a powerful book that points Christian parents to a better way to educate their children. It is sure to inspire and motivate the growing Christian schooling and home schooling movements for many years to come"--

The End of Absence

2014-08-07 Social Science
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Release : 2014-08-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The End of Absence by : Michael John Harris

Download or read book The End of Absence written by Michael John Harris. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Absent

2013-05-21 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2013-05-21
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Absent by : Katie Williams

Download or read book Absent written by Katie Williams. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.

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