Maps And Mirrors

Author : Steve Martinot
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
ISBN : 9780810116726

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Maps and Mirrors by Steve Martinot Pdf

Maps and Mirrors explores the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Testing the major voices of aesthetic and literary theory, it raises important questions about the implicit political contexts and commitments of thinkers from Kant to de Man. Taken together the essays provide a tour of the complexities and richness of contemporary modes of critique.

Author : Melissa Trevathan,Helen Stitt Goff
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780310863014

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Mirrors and Maps by Melissa Trevathan,Helen Stitt Goff Pdf

Pop Quiz: • Have you ever woken up and felt bad about yourself for no reason whatsoever? • Have you spent time trying to figure out how to get into the popular group at school? • Have you ever been embarrassed by your dad singing in the car with your friends? • Have you noticed that things are starting to feel different than ever before? • Do you change your opinion—or even your personality around different friends? • Do you get overwhelmed with all of the thoughts and feelings bouncing around inside of you? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you passed the quiz. That means you’re a normal girl, who is going through the confusing changes of growing up! Sometimes it might feel like you woke up in a whole new world—kind of like Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz. The good news is, you’re not alone. Melissa and Sissy, the authors of this book, think they can help you figure out some of the big questions in your life. Even if you haven’t asked them out loud, chances are you’ve started to wonder: • Who am I? • What do I want? • What should I do? • Who do I want to be? While they’re no longer teenagers, Melissa and Sissy remember a bit about what it was like to be 11 or 12—almost a teenager. But more than that, they talk with girls who are a lot like you every day—girls who are feeling confused or overwhelmed, who are feeling like they’re changing in ways they don’t understand—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—and they feel like their lives are out of their own control. In this book, Melissa and Sissy, along with girls your age, will share some insight into what’s going on in your life. You’ll find that you’re not going crazy—you’re just growing up and becoming the person God has created you to be.

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765308401

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Maps in a Mirror by Orson Scott Card Pdf

Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain. "One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library Journal

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 0712648542

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Contains 46 stories, broken into five books, Tales of Dread, Tales of Human Features, Fables and Fantasies, Cruel Miracles and Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories. Each section includes personal introductions and afterwords. From the author of The Tales of Alvin Maker series.

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 0712648550

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Maps in a Mirror by Orson Scott Card Pdf

Contains 46 stories, broken into five books, Tales of Dread, Tales of Human Features, Fables and Fantasies, Cruel Miracles and Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories. Each section includes personal introductions and afterwords. From the author of The Tales of Alvin Maker series.

Author : Emily Strand,Amy H. Sturgis
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781648897559

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Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away by Emily Strand,Amy H. Sturgis Pdf

'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is today. More 'Star Wars' works than ever are currently available or in simultaneous development, including live-action and animated series, novels, comics, and merchandise, as well as the feature films for which the franchise is best known. 'Star Wars' fandom is worldwide, time-tested, and growing; academic interest in the franchise, both inside and outside of the classroom, is high. This accessible and multidisciplinary anthology covers topics across the full history of the franchise. With a range of essays by authors whose disciplines run from culture and religious studies to film, feminism, and philology, 'Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away' speaks to academics in the field, students in the classroom, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding and deepen their appreciation for 'Star Wars'.

Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469632612

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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner Pdf

In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.

Author : Andrew Rowe (Fantasy fiction writer)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 1505886554

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Forging Divinity by Andrew Rowe (Fantasy fiction writer) Pdf

Some say that in the city of Orlyn, godhood is on sale to the highest bidder. Thousands flock to the city each year, hoping for a chance at immortality.Lydia Hastings is a knowledge sorcerer, capable of extracting information from anything she touches. When she travels to Orlyn to validate the claims of the local faith, she discovers a conspiracy that could lead to a war between the world's three greatest powers. At the focal point is a prisoner who bears a striking resemblance to the long-missing leader of the pantheon she worships. Rescuing the prisoner would require risking her carefully cultivated cover - but his execution could mean the end of everything Lydia holds dear.

Author : Justin Cronin
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385669566

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The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin Pdf

The wait is finally over for the third and final installment in The Passage trilogy, called "a The Stand-meets-The Road journey" by Entertainment Weekly. In the wake of the battle against The Twelve, Amy and her friends have gone in different directions. Peter has joined the settlement at Kerrville, Texas, ascending in its ranks despite his ambivalence about its ideals. Alicia has ventured into enemy territory, half-mad and on the hunt for the viral called Zero, who speaks to her in dreams. Amy has vanished without a trace. With The Twelve destroyed, the citizens of Kerrville are moving on with life, settling outside the city limits, certain that at last the world is safe enough. But the gates of Kerrville will soon shudder with the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and Amy--the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years--will once more join her friends to face down the demon who has torn their world apart . . . and to at last confront their destinies.

Author : Victoria Barnett-Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000055672

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Cultural Economies of the Atlantic World by Victoria Barnett-Woods Pdf

Cultural Economies explores the dynamic intersection of material culture and transatlantic formations of "capital" in the long eighteenth century. It brings together two cutting-edge fields of inquiry—Material Studies and Atlantic Studies—into a generative collection of essays that investigate nuanced ways that capital, material culture, and differing transatlantic ideologies intersected. This ambitious, provocative work provides new interpretive critiques and methodological approaches to understanding both the material and the abstract relationships between humans and objects, including the objectification of humans, in the larger current conversation about capitalism and inevitably power, in the Atlantic world. Chronologically bracketed by events in the long-eighteenth century circum-Atlantic, these essays employ material case studies from littoral African states, to abolitionist North America, to Caribbean slavery, to medicinal practice in South America, providing both broad coverage and nuanced interpretation. Holistically, Cultural Economies demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world of capital and materiality was intimately connected to both large and small networks that inform the hemispheric and transatlantic geopolitics of capital and nation of the present day.

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099889102

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Maps in a Mirror by Orson Scott Card Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yusuf Pisan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 9781921166877

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IE2007: Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liliane Louvel
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140940031X

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Poetics of the Iconotext by Liliane Louvel Pdf

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane Louvel and introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Situated within the most significant recent debates in text/image studies, Louvel's work presents a sophisticated new typology of text-image relations that enable readers to think at once more precisely and more inventively about texts, images, and the intersections between the two.

Author : Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Science
ISBN : LCCN:73085528

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Maps, Mirrors, and Mechanics by Lancelot Thomas Hogben Pdf

Author : Robert Conant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781475737646

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Micromachined Mirrors by Robert Conant Pdf

Micromachined Mirrors provides an overview of the performance enhancements that will be realized by miniaturizing scanning mirrors like those used for laser printers and barcode scanners, and the newly enabled applications, including raster-scanning projection video displays and compact, high-speed fiber-optic components. There are a wide variety of methods used to fabricate micromachined mirrors - each with its advantages and disadvantages. There are, however, performance criteria common to mirrors made from any of these fabrication processes. For example, optical resolution is related to the mirror aperture, the mirror flatness, and the scan angle. Micromachined Mirrors provides a framework for the design of micromirrors, and derives equations showing the fundamental limits for micromirror performance. These limits provide the micromirror designer tools with which to determine the acceptable mirror geometries, and to quickly and easily determine the range of possible mirror optical resolution and scan speed.