The Plastic Venuses

Author : Ezio Marra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443830287

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The Plastic Venuses by Ezio Marra Pdf

A wooden horse in the archaeological site of Troy, plastic “Greek” statues on the seabed, resin columns at the Roman Forum, painted copies of Altamira and Lescaux grottos, Tutankhamun’s tomb in a casino of Las Vegas, fake Roman fortresses with legionnaires and gladiators, “Etruscan” vases in a hotel in Milan, Valentino’s creations on display in a Roman monument, voyeuristic attractions at Pompeii, ancient and new thermal baths with Roman-style treatments, “real” Roman wines produced in archaeological sites, and shows, plays of light, cocktails and fashion parades, a lottery for spending winter solstice at Newgrange . . . Museums and archaeological areas host all the contradictions of late modern society. Consumerism, media, advertising and virtual reality transform the relationships between archaeology, tourism, collective imagery and political identity. We are witnesses to the success of archistar museums, “event” exhibitions, sensorial and virtual tourism, archaeotrekking and archaeodiving, even tourism of the non-existent. Authenticity itself takes on a different meaning when finds and monuments are not original or are exhibited in theme parks, hotels or subway stations. This book is an innovative, critical and stimulating appraisal of the situation.

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0552085642

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Venus in Plastic by James Mitchell Pdf

Author : Lee Sutton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547615262

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Venus Boy by Lee Sutton Pdf

"Venus Boy" by Lee Sutton is a thought-provoking science fiction novel that explores the complexities of human nature and identity. Sutton's narrative follows the journey of the titular character, Venus Boy, as he navigates a world that is both alien and familiar. The novel delves into themes of self-discovery, relationships, and the pursuit of truth, all set against the backdrop of a futuristic society. With its unique premise and philosophical undertones, "Venus Boy" offers readers an engaging and introspective exploration of the human condition.

Author : Elizabeth Haiken
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 080186254X

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Venus Envy by Elizabeth Haiken Pdf

The surprising history of cosmetic surgery—and America's quest for physical perfection—from the turn of the century to the present. Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections—the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources—personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides—Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems.

Author : George O. Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547733515

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Venus Equilateral – Sci-Fi Series by George O. Smith Pdf

The Venus Equilateral is a series of science fiction short stories concerning the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, an interplanetary communications hub located at the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Venus system. Venus Equilateral is a space station three miles long and one mile in diameter that serves as a communications relay between Venus, Earth, and Mars whenever interference from the Sun prevents line-of-sight communication between them. Venus Equilateral was formed out of a nickel-iron asteroid that was moved into Venus' L4 point. At the time the stories take place, the asteroid has been completely reworked, resulting in a burnished steel cylinder with a large docking port at one end and a bank of communications dishes at the other. Most of the stories feature Dr. Donald A. Channing, Director of Communications at Venus Equilateral; Walter Franks, Beam Control Engineer; and Arden Westland, Channing's secretary turned fiancée turned wife. The typical plot of a Venus Equilateral story consists of the station's engineers inventing new devices that allow them to solve the story problem. Table of Contents: QRM—Interplanetary Calling the Empress Recoil Off the Beam The Long Way Beam Pirate Firing Line Special Delivery Pandora's Millions Mad Holiday

Author : Ioana B. Jucan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503636088

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Malicious Deceivers by Ioana B. Jucan Pdf

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet. Specifically, Jucan shows how these (dis)simulation machines and performative objects construct impoverished pictures of the world, ensuring a repeatable sameness through processes of hollowing out embodied histories and lived experience. Through both its methodology and its subjects-objects of study, the book further seeks ways to counter the abstracting mode of thinking and the processes of voiding performed by the twinning of Cartesian metaphysics and global capitalism. Enacting a model of creative scholarship rooted in the tradition of writing as performance, Jucan, a multimedia performance-maker and theater director, uses the embodied "I" as a framing and situating device for the book and its sites of investigation. In this way, she aims to counter the Cartesian voiding of the thinking "I" and to enact a different kind of relationship between self and world from the one posited by Descartes and replayed in much Western philosophical and — more broadly — academic writing: a relationship of separation that situates the "I" on a pedestal of abstraction that voids it of its embodied histories and fails to account for its positionality within a socio-historical context and the operations of power that define it.

Author : Hope Toler Dougherty
Publisher : Pelican Ventures Book Group
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611164978

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Mars...with Venus Rising by Hope Toler Dougherty Pdf

A meddling horse, paper bag floors and a flying saucer on the town square. The little town of Mars has it all—including a brand new resident who might spell heartache for one of its own. Twenty-something Penn Davenport yearns for an exciting life in the big city and wants to shed the label of orphan that she's worn for years. To achieve that dream, she must pass the CPA exam then move away from the two aunts who reared her after her parents died in a plane crash. When John Townsend—full of life and the joy of living—moves to town, he rattles Penn's view of herself, her life, and her dreams... which isn't such a bad thing until she falls for him and discovers he's a pilot.

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743435642

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Seas of Venus by David Drake Pdf

Earth is a dead cinder and the last of the human race struggles for survival beneath the dense clouds of Venus. Two courageous visionaries--the fighting men Brainard and Gordon--must struggle through the hellish surface jungles, but if they fail, both Venus and Mankind will die.

Author : Ruthven Todd
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486831541

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Space Cat Visits Venus by Ruthven Todd Pdf

"Recommended." — Library Journal. Flyball is back, and this whimsically illustrated hardcover volume recounts the intrepid cat's voyage to Venus, where he and his pilot friend encounter strange plants that can communicate without speaking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781927337592

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Transcending Venus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Auguste Rodin
Publisher : Hol Art Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780982325797

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Venus by Auguste Rodin Pdf

Written in 1912, "Venus" is sculptor Auguste Rodin's passionate ode to one of art's great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. This new, expanded edition of Rodin's unique text, also includes "The Dance of Shiva," Rodin's loose, written impressions of a bronze statue of the Hindu god Shiva. This is Dorothy Dudley's original, authorized English translation of "Venus" from 1912. "The Dance of Shiva" was newly translated by Tina A. Kover in 2009.

Author : Carey Rockwell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547528395

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The Revolt on Venus by Carey Rockwell Pdf

"The Revolt on Venus" by Carey Rockwell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625790781

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Seas of Venus, Second Edition by David Drake Pdf

Now with new content by David Drake THE MOST COLORFUL MYTH FROM SCIENCE FICTION'S GOLDEN AGE IS REBORN IN SEAS OF VENUS Earth is a dead cinder beyond the dense clouds. On a terraformed Venus the land is ruled by savage plants and the even more savage beasts that prey on them, while monsters out of nightmare swim though the globe-girdling seas. Mankind huddles in domed underwater Keeps, living a purposeless static existence¾dedicated to pleasure but destined for oblivion later if not sooner. Only the Free Companions, the mercenaries who fight proxy wars for the Keeps, live on the surface of Venus. Their warships course the seas, battling one another in struggles to decide victory or defeat for one day, life or death for a few individuals. The Free companions live till they die with the searing thrill of danger, and their deeds bring excitement and color to the bored residents of the Keeps; but Mankind is doomed unless something changes. Few are willing to risk their lives for that change, battling both the terrifying environment and the ruthless oligarchs for whom the status quo means a lifetime of luxury. But there are a handful of courageous visionaries in the Keeps and in the Free Companies where death is a way of life! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Only a few of us have enough willpower, when a new Dick Francis or the latest volume of a David Drake series comes out in hardcover, to wait for the paperback." -David Friedman, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life "... the best in military science fiction. Recommended...." -Booklist "... the master of the mercenary science fiction novel. He has developed a following... just short of cult proportions." -Rave Reviews "Drake is one of the most gifted users of historical and military raw materials at work today." -Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Tanith Lee
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468306217

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Venus Preserved by Tanith Lee Pdf

The final novel in the alchemical thriller series set in an alternate Venice by the World Fantasy Award–winning author of A Bed of Earth. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of computers that regulate weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all—air. It is here that a macabre experiment takes place. Conducted by geneticists at the university, the test consists of the resurrection of two lost souls, both murdered in their times: Jula, a first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio del Nero, the eighteenth-century composer who met his fate in Lee’s acclaimed first volume of the Secret Books of Venus series. An unexplained catastrophe occurs, claiming several lives. Was it merely an accident, computer failure, or has the trial unleashed an airborne virus? Or is there an even more sinister danger afoot, a force from beyond that threatens the survival of Venus itself? To answer these questions, a traveler from the surface is forced to confront mysteries in his own past that have remained buried, and to reveal the connection that ties him to the unavenged spirits wreaking havoc on the doomed city. “The last of the four Secret Books of Venus is a tale of suspense and mystery.” —Booklist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Venus (Planet)
ISBN : NASA:31769000699747

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Venus Data Analysis Program by Anonim Pdf

Information about the scientific investigations funded by the NASA Venus Data Analysis Program (VDAP) during fiscal year 1993. The VDAP Directory consists of summary sheets from the proposals that were selected by NASA for funding in FY 93. Each summary sheet indicates the title, principal investigator, institution of the investigation, and information related to the objectives of the research activities proposed.