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Dyschronia

Author : Jennifer Mills
Publisher : Picador Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760558605
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Dyschronia written by Jennifer Mills and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019 "There is a poetry in Mills's writing that shimmers like desert air - and in her storytelling, in the way she captures the moods of time, there is something mystical. Daring, original and ambitious." The Australian An electrifying novel about an oracle. A small town. And the end of the world as we know it... One morning, the residents of a small coastal town somewhere in Australia wake to discover the sea has disappeared. One among them has been plagued by troubling visions of this cataclysm for years. Is she a prophet? Does she have a disorder that skews her perception of time? Or is she a gifted and compulsive liar? Oscillating between the future and the past, Dyschronia is a novel that tantalises and dazzles, as one woman's prescient nightmares become entangled with her town's uncertain fate. Blazing with questions of consciousness, trust, and destiny, this is a wildly imaginative and extraordinary novel from award-winning author Jennifer Mills. AUREALIS AWARDS 2018 FINALIST FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL PRAISE FOR DYSCHRONIA "Shockingly good." The Saturday Paper "A writer of extraordinary range and imagination" Cate Kennedy, author of The World Beneath "...Mills draws on the arsenal of social realism, as what follows is a finely drawn study of a small town struggling to survive." Sydney Review of Books "In recent years, a number of Australian authors have turned their attention to the interrelated effects of climate change... borrowing elements from fantasy and science-fiction to write about an increasingly surreal reality. Jennifer Mill's Dyschronia adds a new voice to this growing chorus." Readings "Dyschronia is the best (and perhaps most terrifying) kind of dystopian fiction." Lifted Brow "clear, well-crafted, and unique" Kill Your Darlings

The Rhythms Of Life

Author : Leon Kreitzman
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847653723
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Rhythms Of Life written by Leon Kreitzman and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same hour each day. Bees search out nectar-rich flowers day after day. There are cicadas that can breed for only two weeks every 17 years. And in humans: why are people who work anti-social shifts more illness prone and die younger? What is jet-lag and can anything help? Why do teenagers refuse to get up in the morning, and are the rest of us really 'larks' or 'owls'? Why are most people born (and die) between 3am-5am? And should patients be given medicines (and operations) at set times of day, because the body reacts so differently in the morning, evening and at night? The answers lie in our biological clocks the mechanisms which give order to all living things. They impose a structure that enables us to change our behaviour in relation to the time of day, month or year. They are reset at sunrise and sunset each day to link astronomical time with an organism's internal time.

Uchronia

Author : Helga Schmid
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035618119
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Uchronia written by Helga Schmid and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What time is it? Why should we care? This book critically investigates our contemporary time crisis. The transformation of society from an agrarian to an industrial, and finally an urbanized way of living and working has created a fundamental change in our understanding of time: a 24/7 mentality. The move from natural time to the digital age leads to a fragmentation of time that deeply affects our daily biological and social rhythm. We need a new approach to time to overcome our temporal system of clocks and calendars. This book investigates a new perception of time by exploring the concept of uchronia, a term derived from the Greek u-topos and meaning ‘no time’ or ‘non-time’. Uchronia is a way of questioning, speculating on and designing new kinds of temporal systems that are more about being in tune than on time.

Making History Even Worse

Author : Doreen Klahold
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656502331
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Making History Even Worse written by Doreen Klahold and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", language: English, abstract: Many a German would wish to undo his country’s past. We would prefer that Hitler had never been born, that the Third Reich and especially the Holocaust would have never taken place. However, how is it that an immense number of the (non-German) alternate histories about the Third Reich – and there are actually quite a lot – depict the world as not better or even worse without Hitler. This essay will focus on the uchronian nightmare scenario Making History written by the British author Stephen Fry in 1996 and winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. First, I will treat the protagonist’s utopian wish to create a better world by preventing Hitler from being conceived and the dystopian effect of the “changing” of history. This playing with expectations attracts the reader’s attention and shows the complexity of history and society, even though it naturally has a merely entertaining tenor as well. Second, I will briefly analyze that the style of rewriting history, the contrasting juxtaposition of the different chapters and particularly the two opposing parts of the novel, and, finally, the ironic tone implied continuously underline the sometimes satiric developments of fate and the naïve wish of making a better, “utopian” world without being able to assess the outcome. Finally, against the concept of alternate history in general, it will be seen that alternate history is a means to examine history and present, but how history would have turned out differently is hard to tell since it depends on more than just individual events or persons. By thinking about how things could have been worse, we perhaps learn to accept that everything that happens shapes us and our present, as barbaric as it might be.

The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

Author : Steven Laureys
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444528768
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology written by Steven Laureys and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is one of the most significant scientific problems today. Renewed interest in the nature of consciousness - a phenomenon long considered not to be scientifically explorable, as well as increasingly widespread availability of multimodal functional brain imaging techniques (EEG, ERP, MEG, fMRI and PET), now offer the possibility of detailed, integrated exploration of the neural, behavioral, and computational correlates of consciousness. The present volume aims to confront the latest theoretical insights in the scientific study of human consciousness with the most recent behavioral, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, pharmacological and neuropathological data on brain function in altered states of consciousness such as: brain death, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, locked-in syndrome, dementia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, hysteria, general anesthesia, sleep, hypnosis, and hallucinations. The interest of this is threefold. First, patients with altered states of consciousness continue to represent a major clinical problem in terms of clinical assessment of consciousness and daily management. Second, the exploration of brain function in altered states of consciousness represents a unique lesional approach to the scientific study of consciousness and adds to the worldwide effort to identify the "neural correlate of consciousness". Third, new scientific insights in this field have major ethical and social implications regarding our care for these patients.

Power and Legitimacy

Author : Anne Quéma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442649038
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Power and Legitimacy written by Anne Quéma and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.

Towards Posthumanism in Education

Author : Jessie A. Bustillos Morales
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029353
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards Posthumanism in Education by : Jessie A. Bustillos Morales

Download or read book Towards Posthumanism in Education written by Jessie A. Bustillos Morales and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents a post-humanist reflection on education, mapping the complex transdisciplinary pedagogy and theoretical research while also addressing questions related to marginalised voices, colonial discourses, and the relationship between theory and practice. Exhibiting a re-imagination of education through themed relationalities that can transverse education, this cutting-edge book highlights the importance of matter in educational environments, enriching pedagogies, teacher-student relationships and curricular innovation. Chapters present contributions that explore education through various international contexts and educational sectors, unravelling educational implications with reference to the climate change crisis, migrant children in education, post-pandemic education, feminist activists and other emergent issues. The book examines the ongoing iterations of the entanglement of colonisation, modernity, and humanity with education to propose a possibility of education capable of upholding heterogeneous worlds. Curated with a global perspective on transversal relationalities and offering a unique outlook on posthuman thoughts and actions related to education, this book will be an important reading for students, researchers and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, sociology of education, posthumanism and new materialism, curriculum studies, and educational research.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009099507
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

Heart And Soul

Author : Martin J. Power
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786603365
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Heart And Soul written by Martin J. Power and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led by the iconic Ian Curtis, Joy Division remains one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British Post-Punk Scene. In spite of Joy Division’s relatively short existence, their unique sound and distinct iconography have had a lasting impact on music fans and performers alike. This book disassembles the band’s contribution to rock music. Based on up-to-date original research, Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian Curtis, in particular. Given Joy Division’s complexities, the book draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines and approaches in order to make sense of this influential band.

Chronobiology: Principles and Applications to Shifts in Schedules

Author : L.E. Scheving
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789028609402
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Chronobiology: Principles and Applications to Shifts in Schedules written by L.E. Scheving and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1981-01-31 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Hannover, Germany, July 13-25, 1979

The Late Voice

Author : Richard Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628920645
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Late Voice written by Richard Elliott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers and songwriters of a 'late voice'. Lateness here refers to five primary issues: chronology (the stage in an artist's career); the vocal act (the ability to convincingly portray experience); afterlife (posthumous careers made possible by recorded sound); retrospection (how voices 'look back' or anticipate looking back); and the writing of age, experience, lateness and loss into song texts. There has been recent growth in research on ageing and the experience of later stages of life, focusing on physical health, lifestyle and psychology, with work in the latter field intersecting with the field of memory studies. The Late Voice seeks to connect age, experience and lateness with particular performers and performance traditions via the identification and analysis of a late voice in singers and songwriters of mid-late twentieth century popular music.

Futurability

Author : Franco Berardi
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784787450
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Futurability written by Franco Berardi and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi Bifo tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of Futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis, still lies dormant the horizon of possibility.

Ghosts of My Life

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178279624X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of My Life written by Mark Fisher and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.

Aging and Biological Rhythms

Author : H. V. Samis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475744609
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Aging and Biological Rhythms written by H. V. Samis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging is one of the most serious and costly health problems in the Western world. A disproportionate amount of the available health care capability is devoted to the health care of the aged and the cost of this care is soaring. Viewed in wide perspective, aging presents two problems for the researcher's consideration. First is that of providing the most efficacious therapeutic regi mens and the best possible care for those already in their latter years. The second is to determine the cause or causes for senes cence and all its attendant problems in order to decrease the im pact of senescence on general health and well being. This volume is aimed at examining possible relationships be tween biological time structure and aging and ways by which these interrelationships might be examined in terms of both the causes of senescence and the management of health problems of the elderly. The purpose of the volume is to stir the interests of chronobiolo gists in gerontology and those of gerontologists and geriatricians in chronobiology.

Locating Science Fiction

Author : Andrew Milner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318424
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Locating Science Fiction written by Andrew Milner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.

Spectral Spaces and Hauntings

Author : Christina Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317515021
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Spectral Spaces and Hauntings written by Christina Lee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered. The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack, the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead. In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their traces.

Imagination Fully Dilated

Author : Patrick Swenson
Publisher : Fairwood Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780966818499
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Imagination Fully Dilated written by Patrick Swenson and published by Fairwood Press, Inc. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan M. Clark has had his own artwork interpreted by writers in two previous Imagination Fully Dilated volumes. Now, Fairwood Press brings you the third installment of this important anthology series. Sixteen tales by experienced as well as up-and-coming writers tell the stories behind Clark's SF artwork.