Mirrors
A mirror is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the image in an equal yet opposite angle from which the light shines upon it. This allows the viewer to see themselves or objects behind them, or even objects that are at an angle from them but out of their field of view, such as around a corner. Natural mirrors have existed since prehistoric times, such as the …
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UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …
(Karácsonyi, Dyrting, and Taylor 2021). This sad fact mirrors recent trends in wealth and income inequality …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English
In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …
sideshow, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …
and divine suffering are redeemed precisely as mirrors of an emotional landscape encompassing and revealing …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …
understanding how objects are seen in mirrors, especially when the mirrors are curved. Simplifying the approach … direction of vision. With convex and concave mirrors, objects appear to be enlarged or shrunk, and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …
We can say then that the arbitrariness of fate mirrors the way of the world more generally. This is one …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within …
small rectangle of light on a dark inner wall mirrors the outside seascape by way of the lenses of a … is often because the auth- enticity of the poet mirrors a sense of our own – however hidden – authentic … human climate to bring it about. That season mirrors my own, my age, the dimming of the voice of poetry: …
CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English
Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those ‘stabs of self’ that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. …
galoshes, a hand under seat rim. Springmelt mirrors clouds on the track oval, underscores the sensation …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 May 2024 English
The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal …
documentation about the film’s production in many ways mirrors the story that the film tells, which is about the …
UBC: UBC Press · 1 May 2024 English
This is an essential, critical, powerful book that fills a gap in the field.
implications and the authors demonstrate how this ofen mirrors the ways women’s care work is valued within society …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 30 April 2024 English
restricts attention to the economic benefits of the increase in maternal labour supply To distinguish this arrangement from the care provided by a child care provider at the child’s that …
(Uppal and the report estimates that if Canada mirrors Quebec’s experience, maternal labour force Savage …