A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful boo...

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses timeTwo photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a haystack in the English countryside.One hundred years later, an anonymous photographer captured another ladder, “photographed” alongside an incinerated man by the blinding light of the atomic bomb. These two images under...

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly’s A Silent Apostrophe is a lyrical interdisciplinary study of the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. This “truly remarkable essay,” in the words of art critic John Berger, explores the ongoing fascination with these nearly 2000-year-old images and, in so doing, tells an origin story of portraiture as we know it today. Drawing on a wealth of historical materials, Bailly sho...

Written for a wide range of neurology and non-neurology clinicians and residents, Neurologic Localization and Diagnosis: Differential Diagnosis by Complaint-Based Approach is a concise, easy-to-use guide to establishing a neurologic diagnosis. This unique learning resource uses an algorithmic, complaint-based approach to localizing the condition, developing a list of differential diagnoses, and focusing further evaluation on establishing the diagnosis. Leading neurologists provide up-to-da...

Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they explore the roots and legacies of negative th...

This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of others in the community or mourning the death of a friend who drowned in a freak fishing accident, the characters in this collection face tragedy with grace, humour and perseverance. These stories deal with both the rundown and ruined aspects of our humanity but also with the redeeming and r...

The book is a fantasy story set in South Korea. It involves a young boy (Minsu) and a young girl (Jimin) who visit some Buddhist monks to help them deal with the loss of their cat Oonky. After a close call with death Jimin awakens an ancient warrior from the time when Korea was divided into three kingdoms who asks the children to do a favor for him. In the process the children meet the matriarch of the Turquoise Palace of Korea Past and Present Ms... While at the palace the children have t...

Since the late 1970s, anglophone and German military literature has been fascinated by the Wehrmacht‘s command system, especially the practice of Auftragstaktik. There have been many descriptions of the doctrine, and examinations of its historical origins, as well as unflattering comparisons with the approaches of the British and American armies prior to their adoption of Mission Command in the late 1980s. Almost none of these, however, have sought to understand the different approaches to...

In "Water and Power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park," Martin Samuel Vilas intricately explores the environmental, political, and engineering challenges surrounding the Hetch-Hetchy Reservoir project, an essential yet contentious endeavor to supply water to San Francisco. This detailed analysis combines a narrative style rich in historical accounts with rigorous scientific examination, making the case for both the necessity and the implications of harnes...

From My Heart, The Citadel - Volume XIV - Random43 random fun, funny, insightful, whimsical, silly, some even serious, thoughtful &/or thought-provoking poems, some of which are philosophical and some autobiographical: Act Unnaturally•All Along•Anyone For Tennis?•Between The Lines•Castles Of Sand•Cause For Applause•Copycat•Cost-Cutting Measures•Currency•Dog-Rose Prose•Dumping Grounds•Elevate•Fore!•Forever Man•Four-...

From My Heart, The Citadel - Volume VII - Eclectic43 eclectic fun, funny, insightful, whimsical, silly, some even serious, thoughtful &/or thought-provoking poems, some of which are philosophical and some autobiographical: Ah, So•Alive, Alive, Oh!•Back On The Map•Balls!•Christmas Tree Lot•Crazy Fool•Cry Baby•Faith, Hope And Charity•Feeling Bookish•Halloween•Honolulu•How The Mighty•If•Light-Hearted•Look Before Leapi...

From My Heart, The Citadel - Volume XV - Romantics44 fun, funny, insightful, whimsical, silly, some even serious, thoughtful &/or thought-provoking, romantic poems, some of which are philosophical and some autobiographical: A Shadow•As I Live And Breathe•Blind Side•Boy Meets Girl•But I Do•Calm Waters, Safe Harbour•Childhood Sweethearts•Coming Apart At The Seems•Contrails•Dark And Stormy•Devil And The Deep•Do I Have...