State Of Decay

Author : James Knapp
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101184776

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View our feature on James Knapp’s State of Decay.Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless... A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie They call them revivors-technologically reanimated corpses-and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill-and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.

Author : Ronni Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732562482

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Author : Sarah Manguso
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429940986

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The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso Pdf

A Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever. They fly until they change into new forms, simpler forms, with ever fewer qualities and increasingly beautiful names. There are names for things in spacetime that are nothing, for things that are less than nothing. White dwarfs, red giants, black holes, singularities. But even then, in their less-than-nothing state, they keep happening. At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her nine-year struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.

Author : Alex Gulino
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1634993152

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Garden State of Decay by Alex Gulino Pdf

Have you ever driven past an abandoned building and wondered why it was there and what it looks like inside? Perhaps you were curious about its history and how the property ended up neglected. Join author Alex Gulino on her journey throughout New Jersey, the Garden State, as she explores these forgotten properties and documents their decay. Garden State of Decay: Discarded New Jersey offers insight on the history and the current state of these defunct properties through poignant photographs. From Gothic churches in busy cities to forgotten aircraft in rural fields, observe the decomposition documented in these pages. See the beauty in decay that lives on in quiet desperation.

Author : Terrance Dicks
Publisher : Carol Publishing Group
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 0426201337

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Doctor Who and the State of Decay by Terrance Dicks Pdf

"The Doctor, Romana and K9--anda young stowaway named Adric--are trapped in the alternative universe of E-Space. Seeking help, they land on an unknown planet--and find a nightmare world where oppressed peasants toil for the Lords who live in the Tower, and where all learning is forbidden--a society in the state of decay. What is the terrifying secret of the Three Who Rule? What monstrous creature stirs beneath the Tower, waking from its thousand-year sleep? The Doctor discovers that the oldest and deadliest enemy of the Time Lords is about to spring into horrifying action."--back cover.

Author : Patrick Christian
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329668485

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Author : Christopher Clapham
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805260721

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The Horn of Africa by Christopher Clapham Pdf

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn’s contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past. Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn’s peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive European colonialism, but also to participate in a colonial enterprise of its own. Its impact on its neighbours, present-day Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Somaliland, created a region very different from that of post-colonial Africa. This dynamic has become all the more distinct since 1991, when Eritrea and Somaliland emerged from the break-up of both Ethiopia and Somalia. Yet this evolution has produced highly varied outcomes in the region’s constituent countries, from state collapse (and deeply flawed reconstruction) in Somalia, through militarised isolation in Eritrea, to a still fragile ‘developmental state’ in Ethiopia. The tensions implicit in the process of state formation now drive the relationships between the once historically close nations of the Horn.

Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022039

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Decay by Ghassan Hage Pdf

In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations—biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert

Author : Daniel Barter,Daniel Marbaix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1908211121

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States of Decay by Daniel Barter,Daniel Marbaix Pdf

Join us as we follow two explorers on an incredible journey which takes us from Philadelphia to Buffalo via Pittsburgh and New York. Peer into the past as dark histories unfold and their stories are told. Travel to atmospheric asylums, derelict houses of worship, industrial monoliths, forgotten hotels, desolate transport hubs and other ruins.

Author : Oni Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735993808

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Aggretsuko Work Rage Balance by Oni Press Pdf

Author : Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3791348191

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Stages of Decay by Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak Pdf

Julia Solis's photographs of abandoned theaters from across the United States and Europe conjure the remaining magic of the decaying buildings and rooms, though the screenings and performances ceased long ago -- Back cover.

Author : K. K. Edin
Publisher : K. K. Edin
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732062234

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The Measurements of Decay by K. K. Edin Pdf

Three narratives intertwine to tell a tale of escalating madness and heroism: A lone renegade in the future, living as an exile on a starship that comes under attack. A miserable 21st C. philosopher sinking into madness as he tries to solve the problems of humanity. A girl unbound by time, who fleets through epochs as a mystical wanderer.

Author : Alex Gates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1726809331

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The Demon of Decay by Alex Gates Pdf

A broken man. An evil bargain. Will he wreck his soul to rebuild his life? Joseph Daniels longs to give his wife the child they both crave. So when she announces her pregnancy on their trip to the secluded family farm, he should be overjoyed. Problem is: the baby can't possibly be his... and the real father isn't the only fiend prowling the ghost-town streets. Bitter and humiliated, Joseph turns to a mysterious stranger with a cure-all for his troubles... at a staggering price. Only after the miracle pills bring out the demon in him does he discover the dark force taking him captive. Can Joseph fight his way back to freedom and family or will his soul be dragged to hell? The Demon of Decay is a standalone classic horror novel. If you like terrifying choices, blood-chilling suspense, and dark psychological twists, then you'll love Alex C. Gates' spine-tingling tale. Buy The Demon of Decay to battle the darkness today!

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429944328

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Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724943

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A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran Pdf

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.