The Imago Stage

Author : Karoline Georges
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566248

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The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges Pdf

A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family. Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her twenties, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world and its perceived threats, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother develops cancer and nears the end of her life, she is forced to leave her cocoon – surrounded by her posse of augmented reality superheroes – and interact with the world and her parents without the mask of her perfect, virtual self. Georges offers up an alienated childhood with shifting pop culture obsessions, a woman’s awakening to the role of the image in culture, and her eventual isolation in her apartment and the world online. It is a catalogue of the anxieties of an age, from nuclear war to terrorism, climate change to biological warfare. Set in the past and not-too-distant future of Montreal, The Imago Stage is an ominous tale of oppression, suppression, and disembodiment.

Author : Gordon Gordh,David Headrick
Publisher : CABI
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780851992914

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A Dictionary of Entomology by Gordon Gordh,David Headrick Pdf

"This book is a comprehensive, fully cross-referenced collection of over 28,000 terms, names and phrases used in entomology, incorporating an estimated 43,000 definitions. It is the only listing which covers insect anatomy, behaviour, biology, ecology, histology, molecular biology, morphology, pest management, taxonomy and systematics. The origin, etymology, part of speech and definition of each term and phrase are all provided, including the language, meaning or root of each term and constituent parts. Where meanings have changed, or terms have been borrowed from other disciplines, the most current usage is indicated. The common names of insects, their scientific binomen and taxonomic classification are provided, with diagnoses of pest species in many cases. All insect order, suborder, superfamily, family and subfamily names are given, together with the diagnostic features of orders and families. Names of deceased entomologists, or scientists from other fields who have contributed to entomology are included, with the citation for their biography or obituary. The list of names is global, including entomologists from Asia, whose research has often been neglected by western scientists. This book is an essential reference source for all professionals and students of entomology and related disciplines."--p. [4] of cover.

Author : Tess Liem
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770565739

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Obits. by Tess Liem Pdf

In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centring vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.

Author : John L. Capinera
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 4346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402062427

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Encyclopedia of Entomology by John L. Capinera Pdf

This text brings together fundamental information on insect taxa, morphology, ecology, behavior, physiology, and genetics. Close relatives of insects, such as spiders and mites, are included.

Author : Laird Barron
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597802581

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The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron Pdf

The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

Author : Jocelyne Saucier
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566644

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And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier Pdf

Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander train, eager to put thousands of miles of northern Quebec between her and the improbably named village, and leaving behind her perennially tormented daughter, Lisana. Our mysterious narrator, who is documenting these disappearing northern trains, is eager to uncover the truth of Gladys’s voyage, tracking down fellow passengers and train employees for years to learn what happened to Gladys and her daughter, and why.

Author : Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Lepidoptera
ISBN : IND:30000108743760

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The External Morphology of the Lepidopterous Pupa by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton Pdf

Author : Linnean Society of London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Learned institutions and societies
ISBN : UIUC:30112018142148

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Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11468737

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The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anaïs Barbeau-lavalette
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566538

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Neighbourhood Watch by Anaïs Barbeau-lavalette Pdf

The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Mélissa, Roxane, and Kevin have never had it easy. As their parents face their own struggles – with addiction, unemployment, and abuse – they must learn to fend for themselves. Though their lives converge at school, on the street, at the corner store, or when they can hear each other through their apartments’ thin walls, they each feel deeply alone. Neighbourhood Watch tells their coming-of-age stories with a cinematic ease, moving between despair and the unalterable hope of childhood. With her characteristic poetic flair and generosity, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, author of the acclaimed Suzanne, has painted, in brief strokes, an unforgettable and moving portrait of a fictional apartment block in Montreal. This translation of her 2010 debut novel is presented with an afterword interview with a woman who, as a child, was the inspiration behind the character of Roxane. ‘This is prose to lose yourself in. Never complicated, it’s gentle like a love song, comforting and enveloping like a black-and-white film, full of tones and textures. These sentences can destroy us. Not for their simplicity, but for the powerful beauty within the simplicity.’ —Peter McCambridge, ‘Best Translated Book Award: Why This Book Should Win,’ on Suzanne

Author : Hellena Moon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725252684

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Liberalism and Colonial Violence by Hellena Moon Pdf

This book explores the aporias of liberal democracy, freedom, care, and justice--with the seemingly at-odds ideas of neoliberal fascism, racism, sexism, and other forms of violence. As Derrick Bell and others have argued that racism is inherent in US democracy, I examine the intertwined concepts of justice and freedom with fascist ideas that unsettle democratic practices of freedom and political equality. There is ongoing tension that uproots democratic practices driven by the very ideals of democracy itself. Freedom is acquired for one group while circumscribing it for others. In analyzing the troubling neoliberal fascist leanings of our times, I explore the origins of US liberalism to diagnose our current state of politico-theological abyss. In that regard, our own field of pastoral care needs to address its complicity in the current devolving situation of the neoliberal fascist ideologies in US society. Fascist and nationalist ideologies rely foremost on perpetuating mythic ideologies, masking reality, and controlling our epistemologies. In charting a new genealogy for spiritual care, I argue that the image of care as articulated by W. E. B. DuBois--one of Third World liberation that addresses the decoloniality of the entombed soul--should be the primary genealogy of spiritual care for our field today.

Author : Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770565074

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Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Pdf

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her grandmother Suzanne, an artist who abandoned her husband and children in her youth and never looked back. The Escape Artist is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s life over 85 years, taking readers through Québec’s Quiet Revolution and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile woman on the margins of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B647532

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Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sejal Shah
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : 9780820357232

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This is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah Pdf

Deluxe -- Thank You -- Pelham Road -- There Is No Mike Here -- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps -- Temporary Talismans -- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be -- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary -- Ring Theory -- Saris and Sorrows -- Voice Texting with My Mother.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538765487

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Imago by Octavia E. Butler Pdf

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code. Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their survival.