Alternate Americas

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313025143

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Alternate Americas by M. Keith Booker Pdf

For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most successful and innovative science fiction films of all time, and examined each of them at length—from cultural, technical and cinematic perspectives—to see where they came from and what they meant for the future of cinema and for America at large. From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Star Wars, from Blade Runner to The Matrix, these landmark films have expressed our fears and dreams, our abilities and our deficiencies. In this deep-seeking investigation, we can all find something of ourselves that we recognize, as well as something that we've never recognized before. The focus on a fairly small number of landmark films allows detailed attention to genuinely original movies, including: Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Robocop, The Abyss, Independence Day, and The Matrix. This book is ideal for general readers interested in science fiction and film.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429965613

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The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove Pdf

In Harry Turtledove's The Disunited States of America, Justin's having the worst trip ever. He and his mother are Time Traders, traveling undercover to different alternate realities of Earth so they can take valuable resources back to their own timeline. In some of these worlds, Germany won World War I or the world has been destroyed by nuclear warfare. Justin and his mother are in an America that never became the United States: each state is like a country, and many of them are at war with each other. Their mission takes them to Virginia, which is on the verge of bloody violence with Ohio. Beckie is from California, and like the rest of her world, unaware that Time Traders exist. The only reason she's in small town Virginia is because her grandmother dragged her there to visit old relatives. Beckie is just as horrified by the violence and racism of the alternate Virginia as Justin is, and the two are drawn to one another. But when full-fledged war breaks out between the States, including a biologically designed plague, will either of them manage to get back home? Forget about home: Will they make it out alive? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle,J. Geoffrey Golson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851098309

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Turning Points—Actual and Alternate Histories by Rodney P. Carlisle,J. Geoffrey Golson Pdf

This work is a fascinating history of precontact North America, presenting the facts and engaging the reader by using alternative history—what if key facts were different?—to help develop critical thinking skills. The first title in ABC-CLIO's groundbreaking series Turning Points—Actual and Alternate Histories delves into the history of North America before European contact. There is much classroom literature on Native Americans after first contact; there is little on the history before. This work fills that gap, detailing the thousands of years before Europeans arrived. Climate changes, major battles, technology, and settlement patterns—all played a part in shaping the pre-Columbian history of North America. This book takes eight key points in history, presents the facts as they happened, and examines what might have happened if there were different outcomes. Small changes can produce vastly different results; this book shows how, and engages students' critical thinking skills while teaching them basic history.

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 9781438126975

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Handbook to Life in America by Rodney P. Carlisle Pdf

Examines the history of people, places, and events that defined the American colonial and revolutionary era.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481494977

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A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with “a gripping, twisty-turny, thrill ride of a read (Karin Slaughter) in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it. In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job. She is tasked with transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time. “Another winning series from a sure-bet author” (Booklist) Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and Midnight, Texas trilogy) is at her best here, building the world of this alternate history of the United States, where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120867671

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America's Builders by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pan American Union. Division of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UCLA:31158003378667

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Courses on Latin America in Institutions of Higher Education in the United States by Pan American Union. Division of Education Pdf

Author : Jeff Greenfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780425245330

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Then Everything Changed by Jeff Greenfield Pdf

The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are true: * In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused when he saw the young President-elect John F. Kennedy's family come to the door to wave good-bye.... * In June 1968, Robert F. Kennedy declared victory in California, and then instead of heading to another ballroom, as intended, was hustled off through the kitchen.... * In October 1976, President Ford made a critical gaffe in a debate against Jimmy Carter, turning the tide in an election that had been rapidly narrowing. But what if they had gone the other way? In three narratives based on memoirs, oral histories, fresh reporting with key participants, and his own knowledge of the principal players, Jeff Greenfield explores how accidents of fate could have altered the course of history. The scenarios that Greenfield depicts are startlingly realistic, rich in detail, shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably plausible.

Author : John C. McDowell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786474882

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The Politics of Big Fantasy by John C. McDowell Pdf

Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films--Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers--this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they--or at least the genres they belong to--tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak.

Author : Kathleen Singles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272475

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Alternate History by Kathleen Singles Pdf

While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N,ChristianKracht'sIch werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten,and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.

Author : Anne Bishop
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101615058

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Written In Red by Anne Bishop Pdf

Enter the world of the Others in the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s thrilling fantasy series: a place where unearthly entities—vampires and shape-shifters among them—rule the Earth and prey on the human race. As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others. Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. First, he senses she’s keeping a secret, and second, she doesn’t smell like human prey. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg the job. And when he learns the truth about Meg and that she’s wanted by the government, he’ll have to decide if she’s worth the fight between humans and the Others that will surely follow.

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897609

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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Pdf

With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. . . . “A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been—one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power—and even love—in this bold New World. “Exceptional and engrossing.”—New York Post “Ambitious . . . ingenious.”—Newsday

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Standardization
ISBN : UOM:39015020223593

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Industrial Standardization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008483823

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American Aviation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063454636

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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America by Anonim Pdf

The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.