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Author : M Kaplan,TR Tangherlini
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578101743
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Author : Teffi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375403
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1555
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020034906
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385533973
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.
Author : John Keene
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224352
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Author : Theresa Warburton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810143470
Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements examines the interaction of literature and radical social movement, exploring the limitations of contemporary anarchist politics through attentive engagement with Native women’s literatures. Tracing the rise of New Anarchism in the United States following protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999, interdisciplinary scholar Theresa Warburton argues that contemporary anarchist politics have not adequately accounted for the particularities of radical social movement in a settler colonial society. As a result, activists have replicated the structure of settlement within anarchist spaces. All is not lost, however. Rather than centering a critical indictment of contemporary anarchist politics, Other Worlds Here maintains that a defining characteristic of New Anarchism is its ability to adapt and transform. Through close readings of texts by Native women authors, Warburton argues that anarchists must shift the paradigm that another world is possible to one that recognizes other worlds already here: stories, networks, and histories that lay out methods of building reciprocal relationships with the land and its people. Analyzing memoirs, poetry, and novels by writers including Deborah Miranda, Elissa Washuta, Heid E. Erdrich, Janet Rogers, and Leslie Marmon Silko, Other Worlds Here extends the study of Native women’s literatures beyond ethnographic analysis of Native experience to advance a widely applicable, contemporary political critique.
Author : Madhumita Thakur
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482867367
Prized accolade. Unknown world. Life changing revelations. Life takes an unexpected turn when a gum chewing yippy from India lands in Australia for his exchange program. The cultural difference hits him hard on his face sometimes making him cry, sometime making him laugh and other times leaving him irritated and wondering. Sushants life changes dramatically as he is totally unprepared to face the vagaries of life down under. Sprinkled with some social commentary this book takes you through a series of anecdotes which become highlight in shaping up his future and also the two most important relationships in his life.
Author : Christopher G. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674984295
Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.
Author : Chris Impey,Holly Henry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400881284
The story of unmanned space exploration, from Viking to today Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories—Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble—and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008375565
Author : John D Wilson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490855547
In this deeply compelling and sensitively written memoir, John Wilson draws the reader into other worlds, some of them exotic, beautiful and full of extraordinary drama. In this book you will encounter hidden valleys, ancient cultures, tribal warriors, heroic feats and the exhilaration and horror encountered when life is lived on the edge. Ultimately, however, the reader is drawn into the inner world of self-doubt, demons from the past and the longing for a significant life that marks the lives of all men and women. It is a story of beauty, unfolding throughout its pages the redemption and grace that waits on the other side of hardship. “[In Other Worlds is] compelling, well-written, vastly entertaining, and inspiring ... a fascinating look into worlds I would never have the chance to experience otherwise.” —Anne M. Crawford, author and editor. “As John candidly admits, he faced his own inner struggle against doubts that kept taunting, ‘You are not adequate for this. You are in over your head. Give it up and go back to Scotland.’ Believe me, this is the kind of story where reading recaptures experience.” —Don Richardson, author “In Other Worlds is a well-written, ‘can’t-put-down’ read that will challenge all you previously thought about missionary biographies.” —David Marfleet, former special forces and missionary pilot.
Author : Peter J. Beck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474229890
First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life – and the afterlives – of The War of the Worlds. Exploring the original text's compelling sense of place and vivid recreation of Wells's Woking home and the concerns of fin-de-siécle Britain, the book goes on to chart the novel's immediate international impact. Starting with the initial serialisations in US newspapers, Peter Beck goes on to examine Orson Welles's legendary 1938 radio adaptation, TV and film adaptations from George Pal to Steven Spielberg, Jeff Wayne's rock opera and the numerous other works that have taken their inspiration from Wells's original. Drawing on new archival research, this is a comprehensive account of the continuing impact of The War of the Worlds.
Author : Jonathan Moeller
Publisher : Azure Flame Media
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Dragons, knights, wizards, monsters, and more! Visit other worlds of fantasy in this short story collection! Combined for the first time in one volume are the OTHERWORLDS series of fantasy and science fiction short stories from Jonathan Moeller, for 23 total stories. In these stories, a knight hunts for his wife, kidnapped by wicked elves. A dragon wishes to live quietly in Chicago, but ancient enemies will not leave him in peace. An emissions-free car promises to revolutionize global transport, but the cost might be more than mankind can pay. A telepath realizes the government agency helping her does not have her best interests at heart. All these tales and more await you in OTHERWORLDS.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510007430526
Author : Ilija Jovanović,Melitta Depner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903427541
