Vestigial Surreality Omnibus One Coincidence Episodes 1 28

Author : Douglas Christian Larsen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781365545023

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Vestigial Surreality: Omnibus One: Coincidence: Episodes 1-28 by Douglas Christian Larsen Pdf

Reality, what a concept. Is life a puppet show and are we nothing but puppets? A hidden world all about us, angels and demons, or is what we can touch and sense all there is? And now, the Simulation Hypothesis plagues us. Could we really be living in a computer simulation? Through the ages, the conundrum of Reality has messed with the collective consciousness of humanity. The Allegory of Plato's Cave down through the ages to The Matrix. A chance meeting in the park leads two strangers to discover strange connections between themselves and the world, and in truth both had felt that perhaps there was something not quite right with the world, something different. They have both noticed improbable coincidences popping up in their lives, at an almost alarming regularity, and now, meeting, they witness strange signs in the heavens, and find themselves on a bizarre path that will make them question their very reality, and the reality of the world about them, and the universe itself.

Author : Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101217788

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A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen Pdf

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Author : Douglas Christian Larsen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781257321483

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Deceiving the Elect - Quickening Dreams by Douglas Christian Larsen Pdf

A quiet book about how an intensely deceptive movement can begin, with its almost innocent origins buried deeply in the hopes and fears of good people. Quickening Dreams is the first book in the Deceiving the Elect series, introducing us to a cast of quirky, lovable characters, both good and bad. This book speaks to that growing feeling of uncertainty, deep in your heart, where you are beginning to question the reality of this world, and the religion your parents taught you. In distant echoes you are beginning to hear the still, small voice, and perhaps you are one of the very few that is having odd dreams, dreams that seem to waken you, and bring you to life.

Author : Robert F. Moss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231059841

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The Films of Carol Reed by Robert F. Moss Pdf

Once enthroned as a major international filmmaker, Carol Reed has long since been banished to a musty corner of movie history. To dust off his work, however, is to discover a dazzling body of films, a canon as remarkable for its diversity as its quality. Building his case, film by film, Robert Moss argues persuasively for a reassessment of this gifted artist, claiming a place for him in the ranks of the world's greatest directors.

Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822330687

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The Edge of Surrealism by Roger Caillois Pdf

A collection of newly translated writings by the French sociologist and surrealist.

Author : P. Buse,A. Stott
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333711440

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Ghosts by P. Buse,A. Stott Pdf

Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical essays to evaluate these facts and consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture, and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that encapsulates social anxieties and concerns. The collection includes discussions of nineteenth-century spiritualism, gothic and postcolonial ghost stories, and popular film, with essays on important theoretical writers including Freud, Derrida, Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.

Author : Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : Hurst
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849044431

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Pauperland by Jeremy Seabrook Pdf

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called "Pauperland." More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are not poor. Pauperland is Jeremy Seabrook's account of the mutations of poverty over time, historical attitudes to the poor, and the lives of the impoverished themselves, from early Poor Laws till today. He explains how in the medieval world, wealth was regarded as the greatest moral danger to society, yet by the industrial era, poverty was the most significant threat to social order. How did this change come about, and how did the poor, rather than the rich, find themselves blamed for much of what is wrong with Britain, including such familiar-and ancient-scourges as crime, family breakdown and addictions? How did it become the fate of the poor to be condemned to perpetual punishment and public opprobrium, the useful scapegoat of politicians and the media? Pauperland charts how such attitudes were shaped by ill-conceived and ill-executed private and state intervention, and how these are likely to frame ongoing discussions of and responses to poverty in Britain.

Author : Andy Greenberg
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780525564638

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Sandworm by Andy Greenberg Pdf

"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true story of the most devastating act of cyberwarfare in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it: "[A] chilling account of a Kremlin-led cyberattack, a new front in global conflict" (Financial Times). In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses—from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. At the attack's epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark. NotPetya spread around the world, inflicting an unprecedented ten billion dollars in damage—the largest, most destructive cyberattack the world had ever seen. The hackers behind these attacks are quickly gaining a reputation as the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors in history: a group known as Sandworm. Working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency, they represent a persistent, highly skilled force, one whose talents are matched by their willingness to launch broad, unrestrained attacks on the most critical infrastructure of their adversaries. They target government and private sector, military and civilians alike. A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the danger this force poses to our national security and stability. As the Kremlin's role in foreign government manipulation comes into greater focus, Sandworm exposes the realities not just of Russia's global digital offensive, but of an era where warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. It reveals how the lines between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur—with world-shaking implications.

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195179781

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Not Passion's Slave by Robert C. Solomon Pdf

The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions "happen" to us and are entirely beyond our control."--Jacket.

Author : John Corbett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822314738

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Extended Play by John Corbett Pdf

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae. Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world's most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.

Author : Jon Beasley-Murray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816647149

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Posthegemony by Jon Beasley-Murray Pdf

A challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony.

Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Din
ISBN : 0252070348

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Man and the Sacred by Roger Caillois Pdf

Table of Contents Translator's Introduction 7 Preface to the Second Edition 11 Introduction 13 Ch. I General Interrelationships of the Sacred and the Profane 19 Ch. II The Ambiguity of the Sacred 33 Ch. III The Sacred as Respect: Theory of Taboo 60 Ch. IV The Sacred as Transgression: Theory of the Festival 97 Ch. V The Sacred: Condition of Life and Gateway to Death 128 App. I Sex and the Sacred: Sexual Purification Rites Among the Thonga 139 App. II Play and the Sacred 152 App. III War and the Sacred 163 Bibliography 181 Index 189.

Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778

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A Companion to Crime Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley Pdf

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Author : Timothy Polashek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884175

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The Word Rhythm Dictionary by Timothy Polashek Pdf

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of “rhythm rhymes” by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar to us in everything from vers libre poetry to the lyrics and music of Bob Dylan and hip hop groups.

Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349209873

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Figure On The Carpet: Detective Fiction And Literature by Martin Priestman Pdf