Icarus Descending

Author : Elizabeth Hand
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453278956

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Icarus Descending by Elizabeth Hand Pdf

DIVWendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogy—and their lives hang on one question: “What is Icarus?”/divDIV Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast’annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious Icarus to turn the tide of the rebellion./divDIV /divDIVWith the Philip K. Dick Award–nominated Icarus Descending, Elizabeth Hand completes the sensual dystopian Winterlong trilogy. And the explosive conclusion will reveal the final fates of geneslaves, the Ascendants, and the legendary combat leader Metatron as all eyes look to the sky for Icarus./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

Author : Steve Savile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0953747603

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Icarus Descending by Steve Savile Pdf

Author : Leah Kardos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501365409

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Blackstar Theory by Leah Kardos Pdf

Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last works: his surprise 'comeback' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist's death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415974608

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Science Fact and Science Fiction by Brian M. Stableford Pdf

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Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446507493

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In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford Pdf

A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of Timescape. 2034. An indistinguishable sound is heard from the depths of space and one member of the search and survey team, Nigel, believes he knows its origins. 15 years earlier, he was the astronaut sent to implode a firey comet as it hurtled toward the Asian subcontinent. Once inside the fissure he made an unlikely discovery: an abandoned alien ship. Against his better judgment, Nigel carried out his mission, destroying the vessel-but not before clandestinely removing alien data and technology from on board. Now, as the team sets forth on a new adventure of discovery, Nigel's past will collide with the present, introducing him to wonders beyond human comprehension.

Author : Gwyneth A. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780853237839

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Deconstructing the Starships by Gwyneth A. Jones Pdf

Essays and reviews by a feminist science fiction author apply sharp critical skills to discuss the genre's relationship to contemporary reality. The author examines such topics as the relationships between aspects of the science fiction genre and modern literary theory, the function of realism and language in science fiction, and the view of the body in the cyberpunk subgenre. She also explores in-depth the works of such authors as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh, and William Gibson, among others. Distributed by ISBS. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Graham Ward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470998342

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The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology by Graham Ward Pdf

This Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context. Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics, Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and Derrideans. Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original theologians working in the field today.

Author : Eve Zimmerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174591

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Out of the Alleyway by Eve Zimmerman Pdf

"The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economic miracle. Drawing upon the lives, experiences, and languages of the burakumin, the outcaste communities long discriminated against in Japanese society as a defiled underclass, Nakagami’s works of fiction and nonfiction record with vitality and violence the realities—actual and imagined—of buraku culture. In this critical study of Nakagami’s life and oeuvre, Eve Zimmerman delves into the writer’s literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami worked and experimented. These chapters trace the biographical thread running through his works while foregrounding such diverse facets of his writing as his interest in the modern possibilities of traditional myths and forms of storytelling, his deployment of shocking tropes and images, and his crafting of a unique poetic language. By bringing to the fore the literary urgency and social engagement that informed all aspects of Nakagami’s creative and intellectual production, from his works of prose and poetry to his criticism, this book argues eloquently and effectively for us to appreciate Nakagami as a distinctive and relevant voice in modern Japanese literature."

Author : Tracey Bowen,Carl Whithaus
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822978046

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Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres by Tracey Bowen,Carl Whithaus Pdf

A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form of meaningmaking? Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new forms into their curriculums and relating them to established literary practices. Administrators confront the application of new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the classroom itself. Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking “what else is possible.” The genres of film, audio, photography, graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations, virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide students in the consideration of their audience and ethical responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to “speak well.” Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a possible “digital divide” and remain relevant in digital and global economies. Embracing and advancing multimodal communication is essential to both higher education and students. The contributors therefore call for the examination of how writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively converge within composition curricula.

Author : Jennifer Ouellette
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0143036033

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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats by Jennifer Ouellette Pdf

Physics, once known as "natural philosophy," is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, science writer Jennifer Ouellette traces key developments in the field, setting descriptions of the fundamentals of physics in their historical context as well as against a broad cultural backdrop. Newton’s laws are illustrated via the film Addams Family Values, while Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special relativity. Poe’s "The Purloined Letter" serves to illuminate the mysterious nature of neutrinos, and Jeanette Winterson’s novel Gut Symmetries provides an elegant metaphorical framework for string theory. An enchanting and edifying read, Black Bodies and Quantum Cats shows that physics is not an arcane field of study but a profoundly human endeavor—and a fundamental part of our everyday world.

Author : Sandra Jensen Rowland
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574418019

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Bob Bilyeu Camblin by Sandra Jensen Rowland Pdf

Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Bob Camblin (1928-2010) was an artist, first and foremost. He earned his BFA and MFA degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute. His studies were followed by a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him a year’s stay in Italy. Returning to the USA, he held teaching positions at the Ringling Museum, the University of Illinois, Detroit Mercy, and the University of Utah before moving to Houston in 1967 to teach at Rice’s new art department. He was active in Houston during the late 1960s through the 1980s, collaborating with Earl Staley and Joe Tate on many projects, including “happenings” on the beach in Galveston. His career led him to creative undertakings all over the world. Throughout his lifetime he constantly experimented with various art media. He remained open to new ideas and new techniques until his death in Louisiana in 2010. Camblin was a central figure in the period of artistic fermentation in Houston that is now beginning to receive increasing critical attention. He chose Rowland to be his historian while still at Rice, and her insights into him are based on many personal letters and conversations. In addition, she is a trained art historian and brings to bear professional expertise about his place in regional and American art. Her work includes a useful timeline of Camblin’s exhibitions and major artworks.

Author : Trent Jamieson,Garry Nurrish
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781894815000

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Redsine 7 by Trent Jamieson,Garry Nurrish Pdf

Redsine is a quarterly magazine of dark fantasy

Author : Lisa Smedman
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shadowrun Legends: Blood Sport by Lisa Smedman Pdf

LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Mama Grande streaked through Leni's life like a bad dream. She arrived out of nowhere, claiming to be the ex-Lone Star detective's grandmother. She prophesied rivers of blood and an earth in flames. But her murder was even more bizarre: she died at the hands of two Yucatán missionaries hiding a secret of the Gods. AND MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN. With combat biker wannabe Rafael in tow, Leni dives into Mama Grande's past... and hurtles into the dark heart of Aztlan—where human sacrifice is all the rage, and where ancient ceremonial games could trigger the end of the world. Are they crazy cultists or true harbingers of doom? The closer Leni and Rafael get to the answer, the nearer they move to the brink of oblivion. Either way, their futures could be cancelled...permanently.

Author : Associate Professor Music History Lloyd Whitesell,Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195307573

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The Music of Joni Mitchell by Associate Professor Music History Lloyd Whitesell,Lloyd Whitesell Pdf

A comprehensive study of the style and structure of her songs, analysing her technique, poetic nuances and cultural references.

Author : David M. Levy,Sandra J. Peart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107142398

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Escape from Democracy by David M. Levy,Sandra J. Peart Pdf

This text interrogates the role of experts in governing and proposes a viable alternative: governing by democratic discussion.