Deja View

Twelve-year-old Bobby Dalton doesn't want to grow up. All his life, he has relied on the imaginary games of childhood with his best friends Joe and Max to get him through the tough times. But this all changes when his Seventh-Grade class buries a time capsule to commemorate the end of the 1980s. Now Bobby is being haunted by visions: ghostly doppelgangers of himself, his friends, and others. He calls them "déjà view." Are these visions real, or has his imagination finally gotten away from him? And if they're real, what do they want? Bobby needs to figure this all out to survive his childhood…and his life. From the author of the award-winning Danger Peak, Déjà View is a darkly funny coming-of-age dramedy with a sci-fi twist, cranked up to eleven. But even more, it's at once a pulse-pounding thrill ride and a haunting portrait of paranoia, mental illness, and the unbearable sadness of growing up.

Zoe Wentworth, LICSW, begins therapy for Diana Lucas whose panic attacks and nightmares are out of control. Zoe wonders if Diana is delusional when she tells the therapist that she is psychic and her nightmares are coming to life. As Zoe treats her other clients, including a battered woman, Diana's dreams become more ominous, as her psychic predictions begin to take shape in the lives of Zoe's other clients. All of Zoe's clinical training tells her that Diana has lost touch with reality, until the day when Zoe's own children are threatened. Can Zoe take the chance that Diana just might be right when her daughters' lives are at stake? Enter the secret world inside the therapist's office, and the twisted perversion inside the mind of a violent psychopath. Written by a practicing therapist, this realistic portrayal of the counseling relationship offers psychological and spiritual insights for readers along with a psychological thriller. Through these reflections you may come to recognize parts of your own journey as you experience the mysterious and the macabre in Déjà View .

In a unique visual dialogue, Deja View brings together the work of beloved photographer Martin Parr, master of capturing the art in everyday existence, with The Anonymous Project's archive of unidentified vintage slides, collected from across Europe and America. Surprising and delighting in their similarity, these affectionately matched images celebrate photography's power to capture the small moments of humour, warmth, ennui and absurdity that are in fact our most important of all.

Déjà vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.” Through thinkers such as Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between “before” and “after,” cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.

Referring to a past that never was, déjà vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media technology. Tracing the term from the end of the nineteenth century, when it was first popularized in the pages of the Revue philosophique, Peter Krapp examines the genealogy and history of the singular and unrepeatable experience of déjà vu. This provocative book offers a refreshing counterpoint to the clichéd celebrations of cultural memory and forces us do a double take on the sanctimonious warnings against forgetting so common in our time.Disturbances of cultural memory-screen memories, false recognitions, premonitions-disrupt the comfort zone of memorial culture: strictly speaking, déjà vu is neither a failure of memory nor a form of forgetting. Krapp's analysis of such disturbances in literature, art, and mass media introduces, historicizes, and theorizes what it means to speak of an economy of attention or distraction. Reaching from the early psychoanalytic texts of Sigmund Freud to the plays of Heiner Müller, this exploration of the effects of déjà vu pivots around the work of Walter Benjamin and includes readings of kitsch and aura in Andy Warhol's work, of cinematic violence and certain exaggerated claims about shooting and cutting, of the memorial character of architecture, and of the high expectations raised by the Internet.Peter Krapp, lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, coedited "Medium Cool," a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on contemporary media theory. He has published in the fields of German studies, media studies, and literary theory and, since 1995, has acted as editor of the Hydra Web site for theories of literature and media.

Most of us have been perplexed by a strange sense of familiarity when doing something for the first time. We feel that we have been here before, or done this before, but know for sure that this is impossible. In fact, according to numerous surveys, about two-thirds of us have experienced déjà vu at least once, and most of us have had multiple experiences. There are a number of credible scientific interpretations of déjà vu, and this book summarizes the broad range of published work from philosophy, religion, neurology, sociology, memory, perception, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. This book also includes discussion of cognitive functioning in retrieval and familiarity, neuronal transmission, and double perception during the déjà vu experience.

In déjà vu, Zach Montgomery and Ruth Harding take center stage as a romantic duo; replicating the former romantic interlude that existed between Zach's dad, and Ruth's mom over 25 years ago. Zach, son of billionaire, Dennis Montgomery, hides his identity; as a poor guy seeks to work as a volunteer at an archeological site in Israel, for room and board. He meets and does not succumb to the beauty of the 15 year old daughter of the head archeologist. After all...he's 19. Zach rescues Ruth from a near rape by a student at Hebrew University. She is sent packing to U.S. grandparents. Three years later they meet. Bells, whistles and clanging cymbals swirl round Zach's psyche. He is smitten; he is in love. He courts her via cell phone over the watery waves. She consents to marry him. A hitch occurs. He doesn't want a church affair; admits to being an evolutionist. Ruth demurs, prays, and breaks engagement. No harmony where two are unequally yoked spiritually. Devastated; determined to win her back, Zach enrolls for grad work at Hebrew University. She will have nothing to do with him. Terrorists change the dynamics! Zach and his two Jewish dorm mates are kidnapped and held for ransom. Brutally beaten, Zach uses his cell phone he'd hidden in the earth, and calls Ruth, who hears and alerts IDF. Does Israel's newest hero win his fair lady? Or is a replay of an old broken romance? A déjà vu..' Read the book and see!!