A Double Volume Edition of Saint Basil of Cesarea's "Hexaemeron" along with Saint Gregory of Nyssa's "On the Making of Man". This compilation was curated and typeset by Paterikon Publications utilizing the original text and notes from the Second Series of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Georgius Florentius Gregorius, better known to posterity as Gregory, Bishop of Tours, was born about 538 to a highly distinguished Gallo-Roman family in Clermont in the region of Auvergne. Best known for his 10-book Histories (often called the History of the Franks), Gregory left us detailed accounts of his own times as well as those of the early Merovingian kings, known as the "long-haired kings," who united the Franks and took control of most of Gaul in the late fifth and early sixth century. Although he is one of the most important historians of pre-modern times, the complex, apparently disconnected, elements of Gregory's work are often difficult for today's readers to understand. This selected, new translation is composed of extensive sections from Books II to X and follows in a connected narrative the political events of the Histories from the appearance of the first Merovingian kings, Merovech, Childeric, and Clovis to the last years of the reigns of Guntram and Childebert II in the late sixth century. This book is designed to introduce new readers, and even experienced ones, to the political world (secular and ecclesiastical) of sixth-century Gaul and to provide an up-to-date guide to reading the bishop of Tours' fascinating account of his times. Included in this volume are twenty-one drawings by Jean-Paul Laurens, a nineteenth-century French historical artist and interpreter of the Merovingians.
In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist, inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed. This is his story, told partly in his own words. Interlacing material from previously unknown Russian archives, original recordings, photographs, and essays, Gregory Haimovsky: A Pianist's Odyssey to Freedom is the story of an extraordinary Russian concert pianist who, fighting the cultural prohibitions of the USSR, eventually succeeded in performing and recording major works by the prominent French composer Olivier Messiaen. At the lowest point of his life, expelled from Moscow and exiled to a small provincial city, Haimovsky discovered Messiaen's oeuvre uncatalogued and hidden in the library of the Union of Soviet Composers. Haimovsky's intense studies and Soviet premieres of these banned compositions healed and liberated his mind, spirit, and artistic imagination. Messiaen's music also deepened and fueled Haimovsky's fierce personal and musical opposition to Soviet political and cultural doctrines. Told partly in Haimovsky's own words and supplemented by interviews with several performers who worked with him between 1960 and 1972 as well as stories from his correspondence with major Russian artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Marissa Silverman's vivid narrative sheds new light on relationships between twentieth-century Russian music, Soviet politics, and the culture wars that raged during and after Stalin's barbaric rule. Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor of Music at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University.
The fantasy adventure trilogy of a young boy’s travels through a long-forgotten world where magic still rules.Young Gregory grows unhappy and restless when his father moves the entire family into an old family home in a new neighborhood. While awake in his bed, a glimmer from the floor attracts Gregory’s attention. He discovers a medallion on which there is a drawing of the great church that sits opposite his new residence. Bullied for being new, and ignored at home, Gregory decides to explore the church and the giant stone statue that rests atop of it. During his visit, the medallion begins to shine intensely and, with a flash, Gregory is hurled back to the 17th century, where gargoyles, sorcerers and magical beings live in harmony and magic.
The fantasy adventure trilogy of a young boy’s travels through a long-forgotten world where magic still rules.Young Gregory grows unhappy and restless when his father moves the entire family into an old family home in a new neighborhood. While awake in his bed, a glimmer from the floor attracts Gregory’s attention. He discovers a medallion on which there is a drawing of the great church that sits opposite his new residence. Bullied for being new, and ignored at home, Gregory decides to explore the church and the giant stone statue that rests atop of it. During his visit, the medallion begins to shine intensely and, with a flash, Gregory is hurled back to the 17th century, where gargoyles, sorcerers and magical beings live in harmony and magic.
Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson’s unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, “all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.” In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English translators of literature from Spanish and Portuguese. Rabassa's role was pivotal in the internationalization of several Latin American writers; it led to the formation of a canon and, significantly, to the most prevalent image of Latin American literature in the world. Even though Rabassa's legacy has been widely recognized, the extent of his work's influence and the complexity of the sociocultural circumstances surrounding his practice have remained largely unexamined. In Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy, María Constanza Guzmán examines the translator's conceptions about language, contextualizes his work in terms of the structures and conditions that have surrounded his practice, and investigates the role his translations have played in constructing collective narratives of Latin American literature in the global imaginary. By revisiting and historicizing the translator's practice, this book reveals the scale of Rabassa's legacy. The translator emerges as an active subject in the inter-American literary exchange, an agent bound to history and to the forces involved in the production of culture.
AS I RECALL... Growing Up in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in Kenmore, NY and BeyondAntics, Escapades, & Adventures of Gregory Granger Laker: My Auto-biography, Volume One 1951-1977By: Gregory Granger LakerTake a walk down memory lane with Gregory Granger Laker, a regular guy who reminisces on life growing up in suburban Buffalo, NY in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Laker retells his life experiences growing up in Kenmore - from his close relationships with classmates, family, and friends to his lifelong love and participation in sports to everyday mischief and more."I expect all baby boomers to be able to relate and reminisce about the content in this book," Laker says. As I Recall: Growing up in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s; in Kenmore, NY has something that anyone who grew up in the same time period can connect with About the AuthorGregory Granger Laker is a 69-year old retiree, after a 36 year career in heavy duty truck sales. He resides in Canisteo, NY with his beautiful wife, who together they have 4 wonderful grown children and 11 amazing grandchildren.Laker and his wife enjoy being active and social, as well as travelling and seeing live music. Yes, Laker still competitively plays pool and he admits to enjoying reading more now in retirement. Although he has many joys and passions, he gets the most enjoyment from watching his children raise his grandchildren
Everything in this book is all about me in " A Rare So In To Love," a feeling I've never felt before to run out of reasons to try. Knowing that I need to fix this problem, I am running on my own hurricane mind, so deep inside. Knowing this is no pretend. Wishing for not one more night, I can't imagine having this doubt. To be so tired driving home alone in this dark moment of my life to never feel this way about someone I never felt before, someone so older than me knowing there is no reason to have this fake smile that was closing in on me every second, I begged for this one chance to give my heart as she steals my breath away in this nightfall, being so lovely to hold her closer. I'm not believing I'm falling for her, feeling like I'm better now as I'll give anything and everything to spend with her, as she opened my eyes. I just can't get her out at this freezing time, knowing this future is going to be my past.
Everything in this book is all about me in " A Rare So In To Love," a feeling I've never felt before to run out of reasons to try. Knowing that I need to fix this problem, I am running on my own hurricane mind, so deep inside. Knowing this is no pretend. Wishing for not one more night, I can't imagine having this doubt. To be so tired driving home alone in this dark moment of my life to never feel this way about someone I never felt before, someone so older than me knowing there is no reason to have this fake smile that was closing in on me every second, I begged for this one chance to give my heart as she steals my breath away in this nightfall, being so lovely to hold her closer. I'm not believing I'm falling for her, feeling like I'm better now as I'll give anything and everything to spend with her, as she opened my eyes. I just can't get her out at this freezing time, knowing this future is going to be my past.
In a world of uncertainty and stress, we all should stand united, not apart, to make the most of the time we have together.In This Nightmare I'm Living In is a collection of poetry and short essays about how life is so short; it's important to never give up, even when you think that you can't make it; and even in a dark place, you have to go to the light to love more, hate less, and try forgiveness.
