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Author : David Farland
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765361400
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Chaosbound written by David Farland and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new world of the Runelords, a mighty evil has risen!
Author : N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722956
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Chaos Bound written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. She examines structures and themes of disorder in The Education of Henry Adams, Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook, and works by Stanislaw Lem. Hayles shows how the writings of poststructuralist theorists including Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Serres, and de Man incorporate central features of chaos theory.
Author : Sarah Castille
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250104092
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Chaos Bound written by Sarah Castille and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holt Savage, member of the Sinner's Tribe MC, will stop at nothing to get revenge on the club that scarred him. Even if it means using Naiya, a woman connected to the club to get to them. But Naiya is fierce and beautiful, and sometimes love is stronger than revenge...
Author : N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623004X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Chaos and Order written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition, suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
Author : David Farland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429972192
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Chaosbound written by David Farland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of The Wyrmling Horde and follows two of Farland's well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber. He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : David Farland
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
ISBN 13 : 1429911964
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Runelords written by David Farland and published by Tor Fantasy. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of the saga of The Runelords Young Prince Gaborn Val Orden of Mystarria is traveling in disguise on a journey to ask for the hand of the lovely Princess Iome of Sylvarresta. Armed with his gifts of strength and perception, Prince Gaborn and his warrior bodyguard stop in a local tavern along the way. Immediately, they spot a pair of assassins who have their sights set on Princess Iome's father. As the prince and his bodyguard race to warn the king of this impending danger, they realize that more than the royal family is at risk, the very fate of the Earth is in jeopardy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : David Farland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765341082
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Oak written by David Farland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of the supernatural Earth King, Gaborn, sets off a revolution by powerful immortal beings who are targeting Gaborn's son Fallion.
Author : David Farland
Publisher : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 076535585X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Wyrmling Horde written by David Farland and published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saga of the Runelords is written in the finest tradition of Tolkien and other works that rise above the fantasy genre to special and individual heights. Now the epic story continues, in this follow-up to "Worldbinder."
Author : David Farland
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429919361
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Worldbinder written by David Farland and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farland, whose epic Runelords series continues now in Worldbinder. After the events of Sons of the Oak, Fallion and Jaz, the sons of the great Earth King Gaborn, are now living as fugitives in their own kingdom. Their former home has been invaded and secretly controlled by supernatural being of ultimate evil. The sons are biding their time until they can regain their rightful places in the land. Fallion seems destined to heal the world, and feels the calling to act. When he attempts to do so though, two entire worlds collapse into one, and nothing will ever be the same again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Manuel Almendro
Publisher : The Written Spiral
ISBN 13 : 1629341800
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Chaos written by Manuel Almendro and published by The Written Spiral. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of humanity as well as in the brief and recent history of the new paradigms in science, we find theories of the way the heavens and the earth are or should be. In this book our intention is to examine in depth those that build bridges. Humanity and consciousness are positioned as the foundation of the human being in the face of those who would reduce him to a genetic robot. Based on many years of work in the field, we are offering a possible doorway to healing as a bridge of knowledge in day-to-day life so that my masters, my patients, can receive what they have taught me: the magic of transforming an obstacle into a lever. This book is therefore both theoretical and practical, in order to assist in resolving those painful repetitions of our ancestors’ lives-blind programming and painful wounds, with a view to finding a healing path (nature’s, and therefore evolution’s, secret) in which the psychology of complexity serves to reconcile us with life in our afflicted and opportune world.
Author : N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722964
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Chaos Bound written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines―physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory―signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm ‘orderly disorder.’ This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book. — Nancy Craig Simmons ― American Literature N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. She examines structures and themes of disorder in The Education of Henry Adams, Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook, and works by Stanislaw Lem. Hayles shows how the writings of poststructuralist theorists including Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Serres, and de Man incorporate central features of chaos theory.
Author : Angela Yiu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824819811
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Sо̄seki written by Angela Yiu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study in English of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of modern Japan's most revered writers. It is a critical examination of a split that runs deep in the discursive space of Soseki's writings as order (narrative control and form) grapples with the forces of chaos (existential loneliness and unfathomable fear). Displaying a profound appreciation for the key attributes and complex cultural significance of Soseki's work, Angela Yiu argues that, although Soseki by nature and temperament desired control and order, his writing betrays a dark, romantic voice that speaks of something cavernous and amorphous. Chaos and Order examines the way Soseki reinterprets existing literary forms and formulates a language to express the duality within him. To illustrate the tension between chaos and order in Soseki's creative process, Yiu analyzes six novels (Nowaki, Gubijinso, Kofu, Sorekara, Kojin, and Michikusa), a collection of literary essays (Garasudo no naka), a series of lectures and critical writings, and Soseki's Chinese poetry (kanshi). The problems of closure, the subversion of forms, critical and poetic languages, and narrative structures and personae are examined in each of the genres. By integrating Soseki's critical writing and lectures into a discussion of his fiction, this study provides startling syntheses and insights while portraying a distinct and individual artistic and intellectual consciousness-one that greatly influenced the development of modern Japanese fiction. The Introduction, which contains a survey of current Soseki studies in Japan, will be an especially valuable reference for students of Japanese literature.
Author : Mark S. Mosko
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450243
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book On the Order of Chaos written by Mark S. Mosko and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
Author : Thomas Jackson Rice
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065835
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)
Download or read book Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity written by Thomas Jackson Rice and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.
Author : Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791491730
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Chaos written by Gordon E. Slethaug and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory. Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.
Author : Karen Lang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731122
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Chaos and Cosmos written by Karen Lang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany—the period from the 1880s to 1940—she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena—chaos—into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.
Author : Ali Bulent Cambel
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080571360
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Applied Chaos Theory written by Ali Bulent Cambel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1993-01-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book differs from others on Chaos Theory in that it focuses on its applications for understanding complex phenomena. The emphasis is on the interpretation of the equations rather than on the details of the mathematical derivations. The presentation is interdisciplinary in its approach to real-life problems: it integrates nonlinear dynamics, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, information theory, and fractal geometry. An effort has been made to present the material ina reader-friendly manner, and examples are chosen from real life situations. Recent findings on the diagnostics and control of chaos are presented, and suggestions are made for setting up a simple laboratory. Included is a list of topics for further discussion that may serve not only for personal practice or homework, but also as themes for theses, dissertations, and research proposals. Includes laboratory experiments Includes applications and case studies related to cell differentiation, EKGs, and immunology Presents interdisciplinary applications of chaos theory to complex systems Emphasizes the meaning of mathematical equations rather than their derivations Features reader friendly presentation with many illustrations and interpretations Deals with real life, dissipative systemsIntegrates mathematical theory throughout the text
