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Fictions Inc.

Author : Ralph Clare
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813565897

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Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation—Frank Norris’s The Octopus—Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to “individual,” and from American industry to multinational “Other.” Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such as Network, Ghostbusters, Gung Ho, Office Space, and Michael Clayton; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television’s The Office and the comic strips Life Is Hell and Dilbert. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of “corporate bodies,” Fictions Inc. shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system.

Economic Science Fictions

Author : William Davies
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781906897680

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An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics. From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking. Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms. With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists. Contributors AUDINT, Khairani Barokka, Carina Brand, Ha-Joon Chang, Miriam Cherry, William Davies, Mark Fisher, Dan Gavshon-Brady and James Pockson, Owen Hatherley, Laura Horn, Tim Jackson, Mark Johnson, Bastien Kerspern, Nora O Murchú, Tobias Revell et al., Judy Thorne, Sherryl Vint, Joseph Walton, Brian Willems

Wild Red Love

Author : Pierre Chatillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1926956699

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An old house painter learns that he probably has an incurable disease. While the doctors try to save his life, the old man, who has never ventured beyond his small town, dreams of going to spend his final days living intensely in a sunny Florida that is transfigured by his feverish desire not to die. And it is this overwhelming desire that brings back the memory of the redheaded young woman who was the great love of his life. "Wild Red Love" is a novel full of colour, passion, and tenderness, about mad love, fiery love, set in Nicolet in the 1920s and taking the reader through landscapes in the American South - a hymn to the beauty of the world.

Firekeeper's Daughter

Author : Angeline Boulley
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250766571

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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Pdf

A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. “One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.

Passport Control

Author : Gila Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163320054X

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Fiction Catalog

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Best books
ISBN : IOWA:31858002297996

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Science Fiction Masterpieces

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : BBS Publishing Corporation
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0883657139

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A collection of 59 greatest fiction stories selected by the master himself.

The Best Science-fiction Stories

Author : Everett Franklin Bleiler,Thaddeus Eugene Dikty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027585962

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UOM:39015017692057

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Waldo & Magic, Inc.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625792693

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Waldo & Magic, Inc. by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

Waldo North Power¾Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate, and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled genius who lives in a zero¾g home in orbit around Earth. But Waldo has little reason to want to help the rest of humanity¾until he learns that the solution to Earths problems also hold the key to his own. Magic, Inc. Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. systematically squeezed out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. But one man stands firm. And with the help of an Oxford¾educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he is willing to take on the demons of Hell to resolve the problem¾once and for all! New afterword by Tim Powers! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Robert A. Heinlein: _Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world.Ó¾Stephen King. _One of the grand masters of science fiction.Ó¾Wall Street Journal

The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11

Author : Terry Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671444832

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Big Book of Science Fiction

Author : Groff Conklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435059662239

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