Imperial Earth

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795325571

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Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke Pdf

A futuristic tale of intergalactic love and politics from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker). In the year 2276, Duncan Makenzie travels from Saturn’s moon, Titan, to Earth as a diplomatic guest at the United States’ Quincentennial. As a member of Titan’s ‘First Family’ descended from the moon’s original settlers five hundred years before, Duncan finds himself welcomed back to Mother Earth and into Washington’s glittering political and social scene. But Duncan isn’t just on Earth for ambassadorial reasons. Haunted by the memory of a woman from Earth he once loved, Duncan is also on a mission to continue his family line . . . despite a devastating genetic defect. A tour-de-force of vivid characterization, futuristic vision, and suspense, Imperial Earth is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s most ambitious and thought-provoking novels. “Clarke at the height of his powers.” —The New York Times

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Pan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015010342635

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Imperial Earth by Arthur Charles Clarke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Christianity
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079413765

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The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Oriental Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B3541342

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Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society Pdf

List of members in each volume.

Author : Thomas F Aylward
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780283319

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The Imperial Guide to Feng-Shui & Chinese Astrology by Thomas F Aylward Pdf

Translated from classical Chinese texts for the first time comes this authoritative guide to two of China's most enduring ancient arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:B3079823

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Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph Lorenz,Jacqueline Mitton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521793483

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Lifting Titan's Veil by Ralph Lorenz,Jacqueline Mitton Pdf

A revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system.

Author : William Wilberforce Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Decimal system
ISBN : HARVARD:32044091953703

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A New Decimal Metrical System Founded on the Earth's Polar Diameter by William Wilberforce Mann Pdf

Author : Daniel F. Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317443384

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Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power by Daniel F. Silva Pdf

This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically eclectic approach – drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, and Marxism – with the aim of forwarding current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new questions related to the signification of otherness in European expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and space. This book’s diversity in terms of approach, historical scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and Globalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Baptists
ISBN : WISC:89082315854

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Baptist Missionary Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015052134601

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A Dictionary of the Chinese Language by Robert Morrison Pdf

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040062658

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Arthur C. Clarke by Robin Anne Reid Pdf

Contains detailed analyses of nine novels by author Arthur C. Clarke, written between 1973 and 1997, and includes information about Clarke's life, as well as a discussion of how his work fits into the science fiction genre.

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135209117

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Imperial Leather by Anne Mcclintock Pdf

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599672596

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Heritage Rare Books & Manuscripts Auction Final Session # 683 by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Fred Blake
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860103

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Burning Money by C. Fred Blake Pdf

For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world. The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology. Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.