Free Download Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, "The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1 "
English | ISBN: 0190460164 | 2019 | 880 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.

Free Download Michael Shanks, "The Archaeological Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1598743627 | 2012 | 168 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking―about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In this extended essay, renowned archaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers his colleagues and students a window on this imaginative world of past and present and the creative role archaeology can play in uncovering it, analyzing it, and interpreting it.

Free Download Sabine MacCormack, "Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru"
English | ISBN: 0691094683 | | 516 pages | PDF | 132 MB
Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.

Free Download Timothy Radcliffe, "Alive in God: A Christian Imagination"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1472970209 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 1.2 mb
Timothy Radcliffe considers the strength of the Christian imagination in its ability inspire others.

Everywhere the Undrowned A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith | 1.61 MB
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Title: Everywhere the Undrowned
Author: Stephanie Clare Smith
Year: 2024

Manu A Transcending Imagination Artificial Intelligence and the Future 2024 | 16.19 MB
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Title: Transcending Imagination: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Creativity
Author: Alexander Manu
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Free Download David J. Kendall, "The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1793650357 | 2022 | 260 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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Free Download Edited by James Risser, "Philosophy, Art, and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis "
English | ISBN: 9004507086 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 18 MB
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Free Download Paul Ricoeur, "Lectures on Imagination"
English | ISBN: 022682053X | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1067 KB
Ricoeur's theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures.

Free Download Robert A. Segal, "Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation "
English | ISBN: 9004468749 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 32 MB
This book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung's and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard's philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.