Kirjahaku

An autobiographical historical journal of life and love in the Western Australian deserts between the years 1968 and 1970.

Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics theorises images from Attie's 'The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a memorial activity, and as an index or habitation for history. The images, which appeared in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district, are suspended by the palimpsestic associations established between the fixated dead of the past and their ghostly appearance in the present. Part of that palimpsest is a collective cultural knowledge of the impending obliteration of community (both the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Berlin) by mass-produced death. Peter Muir analyses Attie's work by responding to a series of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's Thesis 'On the Concept of History.' Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics's presiding metaphor is that of loss - the central problem that the book addresses is that of forgetting.

Advances in the Canine Cranial Cruciate Ligament, Second Edition presents in-depth, focused, and updated coverage of current knowledge on cruciate ligament rupture, using a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach. Presents a state-of-the-art summary of the most recent knowledge on this important cause of lameness in dogsLed by a highly respected surgeon and researcher, with chapters written by leading experts in the fieldProvides an update to the groundbreaking first edition, with six new chapters

Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics theorises images from Attie's 'The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a memorial activity, and as an index or habitation for history. The images, which appeared in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district, are suspended by the palimpsestic associations established between the fixated dead of the past and their ghostly appearance in the present. Part of that palimpsest is a collective cultural knowledge of the impending obliteration of community (both the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Berlin) by mass-produced death. Peter Muir analyses Attie's work by responding to a series of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's Thesis 'On the Concept of History.' Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics's presiding metaphor is that of loss - the central problem that the book addresses is that of forgetting.

In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre’s understanding of art’s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre’s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork’s significance, origins and legacies. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional model that reflects aspects of urban, art, and architectural theory, along with a number of cultural and historiographic discourses which are still present and active. This book navigates these many complex narratives by using the central ’hole’ of Conical Intersect as its focal point: this apparently vacuous circle around which the events, documents, and other historical or theoretical references surrounding Matta-Clark’s project, are perpetually in circulation. Thus, Conical Intersect is imagined as an insatiable absence around which discourses continually form, dissipate and resolve. Muir argues that Conical Intersect is much more than an ’artistic hole.’ Due to its location at Plateau Beaubourg in Paris, it is simultaneously an object of art and an instrument of social critique.

In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre’s understanding of art’s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre’s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork’s significance, origins and legacies. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional model that reflects aspects of urban, art, and architectural theory, along with a number of cultural and historiographic discourses which are still present and active. This book navigates these many complex narratives by using the central ’hole’ of Conical Intersect as its focal point: this apparently vacuous circle around which the events, documents, and other historical or theoretical references surrounding Matta-Clark’s project, are perpetually in circulation. Thus, Conical Intersect is imagined as an insatiable absence around which discourses continually form, dissipate and resolve. Muir argues that Conical Intersect is much more than an ’artistic hole.’ Due to its location at Plateau Beaubourg in Paris, it is simultaneously an object of art and an instrument of social critique.

What if magic could help you to achieve good health, lasting happiness, true love and personal success? What if you could discover that you have all the magic you need lying dormant inside you and just need to be awakened? Peter Muir's first memoir, Pride and Prejudice Prevail, is written to help teenagers and adults who want to improve their health, happiness, love and success. Its unique advantage is that it is based on the author's actual life experience. You will read extra-ordinary stories of his life's ongoing journey of transformation which started with his acute awareness in childhood of the inequality, prejudice, discrimination and injustice that prevailed in his family, community, society and his country Jamaica. In 1937 he was born, the fifth of eight children, into a family so poor that they could not afford to send him to high school. How then, if not by magic, did he graduate from Harvard University in 1961? The first memoir, Pride and Prejudice Prevail, tells how he overcame poverty, severe illness and tremendous obstacles to achieve a good education, true love, financial security and a long life. It seeks to explain the factors that generated his philosophy, his passion and the goals that propelled him to have amazing love, financial success and lasting happiness, no matter what. Peter Muir's book, Mastaclass Magic, True Journey to Health, Happiness, Love and Success is a series of memoirs that tell of his struggles to overcome bad parenting, poverty, unhappiness, ill health, religious dogma and scarce opportunities for quality education, to achieve the ultimate goal of human beings; self-love, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, financial security and personal success. In Jamaica no government high schools were built until 1961. From 1949 to 1958 his family was unable to pay the fees to send him to high school. Yet he achieved the highest Jamaican grades in the 1955 British Senior Cambridge Examinations and was valedictorian of his high school graduating class. Taking the U.S. SAT examinations, he ranked in the 97th percentile (top 3%) of participants in the world. He won several scholarships, including a full international scholarship to Harvard University, without prior knowledge of its prestige and Number 1 academic ranking in the world. He has given dedicated service to many charitable and community organizations. He also founded a scholarship program in his Rotary Club to assist inner-city youths in Kingston. In Jamaica he was awarded "Volunteer of the Year 2006" for dedicated commitment to community and nation building in association with the United Nations Volunteer Program. It is imperative that you empower your conscious brain to realize that you were born with ability, creativity, and spirituality, to love and be loved, to respect and be respected, to have great relationships, to attract your soul-mate, to be healthy, happy and successful. The good news is that it is not too late to turn your life around and get on the path to your true destiny. "GREAT I read it nonstop I have the impression that I have not only read but seen it I love your detailed report of your childhood and youth from downtown Kingston to Harvard". Ulla Leis "Peter Muir's memoirs relate, with refreshing honesty and candor, tales of personal growth, struggle and determination to triumph over tremendous obstacles. As I read the manuscript I realized how valuable it would be for teenagers and young adults, an inspirational gem to empower them to meet their own challenges with confidence, creativity and courage." Allison Holness McGraham