The Promethean Challenge

Author : Shirow Masamune
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781621156239

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Appleseed Book 1: The Promethean Challenge by Shirow Masamune Pdf

World War III is over, and nomad soldier Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos struggle to survive in the abandoned cities and demilitarized zones of the post-war wasteland, the "Badside." Matters appear on the upswing, however, when they are found and brought to Olympus, an urban utopia and centerpiece for the reconstruction of civilization. Duenan and Bri join the Olympus police, a force that seems hardly necessary in such a paradise. But, like in most pretty pictures, perfection is an illusion, and Olympus's peaceful facade hides a dark secret, a violent struggle between human and cyborg that could once again plunge the world into war . . . and genocide. * Shirow is well known and critically acclaimed internationally, and is responsible for numerous classic anime/manga titles, such as Appleseed, Dominion, Ghost in the Shell, Orion, and Black Magic. * Produced in the authentic right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan. * A New York Times Bestselling series!

Author : Masamune Shirow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1593076916

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Appleseed by Masamune Shirow Pdf

When nomad solider Duenan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos are brought to Olympus, an urban utopia and centerpiece for the reconstruction of civilization following World War III, they join the Olympus police and discover that under the peaceful facade hides a dark secret.

Author : Masamune Shirow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1560600047

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The Promethean Challenge by Masamune Shirow Pdf

Author : Masamune Shirow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190009701X

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The Promethean Challenge by Masamune Shirow Pdf

Author : John Lallier
Publisher : Solar Commonwealth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798223487753

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The Promethean Challenge by John Lallier Pdf

Mankind had been looking to the stars for centuries, first for its gods, then for its neighbors. What will the humans do when the neighbors finally arrive? Before the Commonwealth and the Regent, Earth teeters on the brink of disaster ... in more ways than humanity even knows.

Author : Masamune Shirow
Publisher : Eclipse Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1560600039

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Appleseed by Masamune Shirow Pdf

Author : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton,Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823392415

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The Challenge of Change by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton,Martin Hilpert Pdf

Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear, excitement and dread. From the panta rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory, nobel laureate Bob Dylans The times they are a-changin, the Obama campaign slogan Change we can believe in, and the current advertising mantra change is good, it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. The present volume contains essays on the topic of change in English language, literature and culture. Some are based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference, which took place at the Université de Neuchâtel, while others have been specially written for this volume.

Author : Tariq Ramadan
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780860374398

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Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity by Tariq Ramadan Pdf

Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, a sense of finalities and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures. Table of Contents: Foreword Introduction History of a Concept The Lessons of History Part 1: At the shores of Transcendence: between God and Man Part 2: The Horizons of Islam: Between Man and the Community Part 3: Values and Finalities: The Cultural Dimension of the Civilizational Face to Face Conclusion Appendix Index Tariq Ramadan is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by TIME Magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745655826

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Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term the market. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers. It is the hidden truth, the deepest and most closely guarded secret, of the consumer society in which we now live. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences. The invasion and colonization of the web of human relations by the worldviews and behavioural patterns inspired and shaped by commodity markets, and the sources of resentment, dissent and occasional resistance to the occupying forces, are the central themes of this brilliant new book by one of the worlds most original and insightful social thinkers.

Author : Ian Ruffell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781472502506

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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound by Ian Ruffell Pdf

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.

Author : James Bentley
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789606652

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Between Marx and Christ by James Bentley Pdf

Christianity has for centuries been the dominant religion in Europe and in much of the world beyond. Marxism has inspried the widest and deepest social movements of modern times. The encounters between the two have been correspondingly arduous and complex, ranging from drawn combat to dialogue. In this absorbing study, James Bentley reconstructs one key sequence in the history of the relationship: the dialogue between Marxists and Christians in the German-speaking countries of Europe over the past hundred years. Bentley offers a rich and detailed discussion of the explorations, debates and controversies of the period. The Christian writers discussed here include Blumhardt, Barth and Solle; among Marxists, such contrasting figures as Kautsky and Bloch receive concentrated attention. The historical and political settings of the dialogue are constantly present in Bentley's study-from the First World War to the Vietnamese revolution, from the rise of Stalin to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Between Marx and Christ makes a fascinating scholarly contribution to the history of European thought-and casts unexpected light on the intellectual orgiins of latter-day "theology of liberation."

Author : Joseph C. McLelland
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889206960

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Prometheus Rebound by Joseph C. McLelland Pdf

Modern atheism is a further act in the ancient drama of Prometheus vs Zeus. This book argues that the antagonism is false, as proved by the "irony": in which atheism turns into antitheism, transferring divine qualities to Humanity. The drama is framed by the "classicla dilemma," a conflict of wills: Tyrant and Rebel. The Unbinding of Prometheus is traced through Western history, to the Enlightenment "death of God," both speculative (Hegel) and practical (Marx). Finally, four types of "idols" are examined, in which Prometheus is rebound: Freud's Oedipus, Nietzsche's Dionysus, Camus' Sisyphus and Sartre's Orestes. The revision of both theism and atheism demands re-casting Zeus and Prometheus, breaking the impasse of heteronomy/autonomy and omnipotence/free will. Only thus may we affirm Humanity without denying God.

Author : Rafael Lopez-Pedraza
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychoanalysis and religion
ISBN : 9783856306304

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Hermes and His Children by Rafael Lopez-Pedraza Pdf

Hermes and his Children has become something of a classic among therapists, poets, artists and readers of many callings. Rafael López-Pedraza approaches the soul through myth, pathology, image and the very living of them all. The love and passion of a man fully in his element radiates throughout this unique work, now updated and expanded for this edition.

Author : Laura Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351944533

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Dickens and Childhood by Laura Peters Pdf

'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster's biography after Dickens's death. Such a revelation partly explains the dominance of biography in early Dickens criticism; Dickens's own childhood was understood to provide the material for his writing, particularly his representation of the child and childhood. Yet childhood in Dickens continues to generate a significant level of critical interest. This volume of essays traces the shifting importance given to childhood in Dickens criticism. The essays consider a range of subjects such as the Romantic child, the child and the family, and the child as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as current issues such as empire, race and difference, and death. Written by leading researchers and educators, this selection of previously published articles and book chapters is representative of key developments in this field. Given the perennial importance of the child in Dickens this volume is an indispensable reference work for Dickens specialists and aficionados alike.

Author : James P. Driscoll
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780813185583

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The Unfolding God of Jung and Milton by James P. Driscoll Pdf

In this first extensive Jungian treatment of Milton's major poems, James P. Driscoll uses archetypal psychology to explore Milton's great themes of God, man, woman, and evil and offers readers deepened understanding of Jung's profound thoughts on Godhead. The Father, the Son, Satan, Messiah, Samson, Adam, and Eve gain new dimensions of meaning as their stories become epiphanies of the archetypes of Godhead. God and Satan of Paradise Lost are seen as the ego and the shadow of a single unfolding personality whose anima is the Holy Spirit and Milton's muse. Samson carries the Yahweh archetype examined by Jung in Answer to Job, and Messiah and Satan in Paradise Regained embody the hostile brothers archetype. Anima, animus and the individuation drive underlie the psychodynamics of Adam and Eve's fall. Driscoll draws on his critical acumen and scholarly knowledge of Renaissance literature to shed new light on Jung's psychology of religion. The Unfolding God of Jung and Milton illumines Jung's heterodox notion of Godhead as a quarternity rather than a trinity, his revolutionary concept of a divine individuation process, his radical solution to the problem of evil, and his wrestling with the feminine in Godhead. The book's glossary of Jungian terms, written for literary critics and theologians rather than clinicians, is exceptionally detailed and insightful. Beyond enriching our understanding of Jung and Milton, Driscoll's discussion contributes to theodicy, to process theology, and to the study of myths and archetypes in literature.