Spectacle Vol 1

Author : Ro Salarian
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 162010492X

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Spectacle Vol. 1 by Ro Salarian Pdf

Fan-favorite webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris (Yu+Me Dream) crafts a compelling tale of magic, deception, and wonder in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel about the bond between sisters. Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural—until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. With few leads, a troupe full of secretive folk, and strange paranormal occurrences popping up around the circus, solving the case seems near impossible. But the murderer in their midst may be the least of their problems... "Humorous and heartfelt, creepy and captivating; readers will eagerly hope for another volume." - Kirkus

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970642

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Spectacle by Susan Steinberg Pdf

An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly

Author : Megan Gedris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098379913X

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Yu+me Dream Omnibus Volume 1 by Megan Gedris Pdf

Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351901871

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Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Pdf

Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.

Author : Jonathan Hickman
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302520335

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X-Men By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman Pdf

Collects X-Men (2019) #1-6. The X-Men face a whole new world of possibility! Mastermind Jonathan Hickman and superstar artist Leinil Francis Yu kick off this uncanny new era with a celebration of family as Cyclops, Marvel Girl and their extended clan make a Summer House for themselves — on the moon! But when an island full of unspeakable horrors appears on the horizon, the X-Men have their work cut out for them keeping their new homeland of Krakoa safe! As Earth comes to terms with the X-Men’s new world order, the mutant nation’s leaders attend an economic forum to show the humans what real power looks like. Plus: A trip to the Savage Land, an old nemesis returns and Mystique goes to extraordinary lengths to get what she wants!

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534453579

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The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley Pdf

An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights) historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves. As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly an unusual sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…​ She cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t. To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is. If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781617508301

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Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord Pdf

The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : Megan Rose Gedris
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1620109816

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Spectacle Vol. 4 by Megan Rose Gedris Pdf

"It’s Geek Love for a new generation, with lush and expressive art to boot." — AV Club Anna's supernatural powers are increasing, but so is her worry that they come from a terrifying source. Everyone in the circus has developed mutations, and they're dropping like flies. Anna thinks she's found a cure, but a smooth talking faith healer insists he can save everyone... for a fee. Can she fix things before anyone else dies? The fourth and penultimate volume in the Spectacle series.

Author : Barbara Hanawalt,Kathryn Reyerson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816623597

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City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe by Barbara Hanawalt,Kathryn Reyerson Pdf

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.

Author : Lindsey A. Freeman,Benjamin Nienass,Rachel Daniell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382812

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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle by Lindsey A. Freeman,Benjamin Nienass,Rachel Daniell Pdf

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord's notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now "spectacle" can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin's plea to "explode the continuum of history" and bring our attention to now-time.

Author : Charles Augustus Maude Fennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026089545

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The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases by Charles Augustus Maude Fennell Pdf

Author : Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781974722631

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Ping Pong, Vol. 1 by Taiyo Matsumoto Pdf

Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals? -- VIZ Media

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307385994

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The Spectacle of Skill by Robert Hughes Pdf

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of Skill brings together some of his most unforgettable pieces, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books, alongside never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. Showcasing Hughes’s enormous range, this indispensable anthology offers a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man.

Author : Kevin Hillstrom
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Industries
ISBN : UOM:35128001718509

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Encyclopedia of American Industries by Kevin Hillstrom Pdf

This 2-vol. edition is a widely acclaimed business reference which provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094002755

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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular by Anonim Pdf