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No full textThis modern incarnation of the MOUSEION—the home of scholarly works in classical times, dedicated to the nine Muses—is the setting for a dialogue between traditional forms of art and architecture and me.
As daughters of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, the Muses preserved ancient knowledge and inspired new ideas, forms and worldviews. Just like the original, this MOUSEION presents a unique assemblage of art and science. And just as the Temple of the Muses in Alexandria, with its famous library, sought to understand the contemporary world, the collection of artworks in my virtual MOUSEION call into question specific aspects of our own recent past.
Nick Ervinck in dialogue with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, Hans Arp, Lyn Chadwick, Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Historical pieces from, among others, The Louvre – Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, The British Museum – London, Middelheim – Antwerp, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden – Washington D.C., Museo Nazionale Romano – Roma, Statens Museum for Kunst – Copenhagen, Das Naturhistorisches Museum – Vienna.
Complemented by African masks, rocks, shelves, bones, corals, fruit, toys and tree trunks
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No full textSupplemental Material for Using a General Case Management Tool With Partner-violent Men on Community Supervision in Iowa by Bronwen Perley-Robertson, Ralph C. Serin, Nick Chadwick, in Journal of Interpersonal Violence</p
Slow culture: an introduction
No full text[Extract] There is a powerful message permeating our social lives today, found in our self-help networks, talkback television and radio shows, and online forums. It is a warning that, through technology and modernisation, our lifestyles have become increasingly hectic, fast, complex and immediate. 'Life', writes online author Leo Babauta (2009, para. 2), 'moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it'. We are encouraged to take a step back, to breathe deeply and 'slow down', in order to recapture the essence of 'real' living. By doing so, we can escape the seemingly endless stresses associated with our multi-tasked, time-compressed and instantaneous speed culture (Tomlinson 2007). This book presents illustrations of how people are beginning to disentangle themselves from a speed culture by embracing slowness. It is not simply a matter of slowing down, as the term implies, but of undertaking changes in the way we do things at an everyday level. Underpinning these transformations is a concern, as Babauta (2009) suggests, with the uniquely stressful lifestyles we are living in contemporary culture
MEDICAL ENHANCEMENT AND POSTHUMANITY
No full textIntroduction / Bert Gordijn and Ruth Chadwick -- Pt. I. Medical enhancement -- 1. The history of medical enhancement: from Restitutio ad Integrum to Transformatio ad Optimum? / Urban Wiesing -- 2. Therapy, enhancement and improvement / Ruth Chadwick -- 3. Medical enhancement: a destination of technological, not human, betterment / S.J. Kevin FitzGerald -- 4. How to defend genetic enhancement / Nicholas Agar -- Pt. II. Posthumanity -- 5. A critical history of posthumanism / Andy Miah -- 6. Posthumanity, transhumanism and human nature / Dieter Birnbacher -- 7. Why I want to be a posthuman when I grow up / Nick Bostrom -- 8. What is the good of transhumanism? / Charles T. Rubin -- Pt. III. Current Developments -- 9. Cosmetic surgery / Mary Devereaux -- 10. Decelerating and arresting human aging / Walter Glannon -- 11. Germline genetic modification / Rebecca Dresser -- 12. Bioelectronics and implanted devices / Ellen M. McGee -- 13. Converging NBIC technologies for improving human performance / Bert Gordijn -- Afterword: advancing posthuman enhancement dialogue / Michael J. Selgeli
Nick Earls launches 'Wisdom Tree' - a new model for novella publishing, 9 Jun 2016
No full textBrisbane author Nick Earls discusses 'Wisdom Tree' a new model for novella publishing with fellow author and UQ Senior Lecturer in writing Dr Kim Wilkins. In 2013, Nick Earls realised his five best story ideas would need padding to become novels and would lose something if he tried to trim them to short-story size. He had to write them, and they had to be novellas. He also realised it was time to confront head-on the publishing industry's reluctance to work with the novella form. The result is Wisdom Tree, a new model for novella publishing, a PhD project and a chance to turn his best ideas into a series of five novellas to be published as individual paper, e and audiobooks at monthly intervals from May to September 2016.Introductions by Professor Doune Macdonald, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Nick de Grandmaison Jr. Reading Our Heritage by John Fisher
No full textAn audograph recording of Nick de Grandmaison Junior reading an excerpt from Our Heritage by John Fisher. The text details the author encountering Red Cloud and David Bearspaw, members of the Stoney tribe, in a Banff hotel lobby on their way to sit for Nicholas de Grandmaison. From here, the clip speaks to why he chose to paint Indigenous peoples, the history of the Blackfoot people, language and colonial contact.The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the University of Lethbridge Archives and the Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess Gallery to digitize and display this content.Not yet availabl
Bold masked robbers; or, Nick Carter's lively conflict / by the author of "Nick Carter," [Incomplete].
No full textNick Carter in Wall Street; or, Tracking a stolen fortune / by the author of "Nick Carter."
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