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Everyday Spooks

Author : Karel Michal
Publisher : Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024614944
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Spooks written by Karel Michal and published by Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that inhabit his strange vision of everyday reality in '50s and '60s communist Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by David Short and complemented with suitably eerie illustrations by Dagmar Hamsíková, this collection of seven short stories describes bizarre encounters where the past melts into the present, ordinary people meet comic and anxious figures and interact with ghosts, and mundane speech drifts repeatedly into absurdity. In Everyday Spooks, Karel Michal shares a forgotten world populated by murderous dwarves, cockabogies, ghosts, and the grotesque Doodledor. Written in the communist Czechoslovakia of the '50s and '60s, Michal's stories reflect a strange in-between-ness, a realm caught between medieval folklore and the oppressive modern state. Here, otherwise simple language that wouldn't be out of place in a children's book - indeed, translator David Short calls these 'grotesque fairy tales' - intermingles with discussion of quotas, class, and government agencies. This childish form allows Michal the freedom to address what he considers the injustices of the state, and subversively note the absurdities he finds in Czech culture. In each story, Michal seems to toy with his reader as he toys with his characters - and as a dead cat might toy with his prey. In "The Dead Cat," Michal plays with logic in the honorable tradition of Lewis Carroll: "'Now look here . . . iťs either or. Nobody can be two things at once. Either you're a dead cat, in which case you've no business speaking, or you're a live cat and then you've even less . . .'" Michal's dead cat engages in all kinds of sedition and blasphemy - to the horror of all who converse with him - but the story itself is genius, its cat utterly logical, jenseits von Gut und Böse: a thought-computer. In the body of this cat, in the guise of a children's tale, Michal speaks truth to the powers that be - and the unspeakable is spoken in each of these stories. Though the translation of Everyday Spooks has yielded some interesting phrases - colloquial Czech and rural accents abound, and Short interprets these with such locutions as 'soddin' superslut' and 'bog-trottin' bitch,' as well as other equally hilarious and bizarre expressions - despite these idiosyncrasies, or perhaps because of them, Michal's little book of tales is charming, an unlikely but enjoyable marriage of the odd old world and the absurd emerging new. Jeff Waxman, CONTEXT, Review of Contemporary Fiction, University of Illinois, Dalkey Archive Press, pp.244-45

The Secret Life

Author : Andrew O'Hagan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374717095
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life written by Andrew O'Hagan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning essayist and novelist Andrew O’Hagan presents a trio of reports exploring the idea of identity on the Internet—true, false, and in between—where your virtual self takes on a life of its own outside of reality. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year • One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Book of Essays and Literary Criticism • One of Chicago Reader's Books We Can’t Wait to Read The Secret Life issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. “Ghosting” introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography O’Hagan agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen—and unforgettable—consequences. “The Invention of Ronnie Pinn” finds him using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web’s darkest realms. And “The Satoshi Affair” chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto—and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. These fascinating pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life in a digital world while also casting light on our shared predicaments. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a term from the tech world, “disrupted”? The Secret Life shows us that it might take a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.

Everyday Trail Riding

Author : Eliza R. L. McGraw
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402716621
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Trail Riding written by Eliza R. L. McGraw and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With proper training, any horse can become a great riding companion out on the trail. It's a matter of learning how to adapt your experience to your particular horse. Fully illustrated lessons in trail riding start with the differences in working with a retired jumper, an actively competing reiner, or even a natural-born trail horse. The section on riding techniques helps you use what you already know from hunter-jumper, dressage, or other experiences. Both solitary and group riding get special attention, as does handling different types of parks and paths. The full range of possible spooking challenges covers encountering animals, heavy traffic, weather, and children, as well as tripping, hoof injuries, mounting and dismounting in unusual situations, and other emergencies.

Everyday Spooks (Bub©Łci pro v¿Łedn©Ư den)

Author : Karel Michal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788024625782
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Spooks (Bub©Łci pro v¿Łedn©Ư den) written by Karel Michal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jedna z nej©ðspe¿Łnej¿Ł©Ưch cesk©ưch beletristick©ưch knih ¿Łedes©Łt©ưch let minul©♭ho stolet©Ư, Bub©Łci pro v¿Łedn©Ư den Karla Michala, se proslavila origin©Łln©Ư satirou nam©Ưrenou na ka¿ldodenn©Ư realitu v komunistick©♭m Ceskoslovensku 50. a 60. let. Pov©Ưdky pln©♭ groteskn©Ưho humoru, casto a¿l absurdn©Ưho vyznen©Ư, spojuje motiv setk©Łn©Ư na hranici zd©Łn©Ư a skutecnosti, kter©ư dohromady sv©Łd©Ư obycejn©♭ lidi (©ðcetn©Ưho, dustojn©Ưka, redaktora, dla¿ldice, kastel©Łna) s neobvykl©ưmi zjevy (prst©ưnkem promenuj©Ưc©Ưm cloveka v medveda, plivn©Ưkem, vik©ưrn©Ưkem, pidimu¿l©Ưkem-zab©Ưjecem lid©Ư, mluv©Ưc©Ư mrtvou kockou), aby na konfrontaci je.

Sometimes the Dragon Wins

Author : William Walling
Publisher : Virtualbookworm.com
ISBN 13 : 1589394968
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Sometimes the Dragon Wins written by William Walling and published by Virtualbookworm.com. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a technological triumph with its “Great Leap Upward,” the late 21st century deployment of a “space elevator” rising from an equatorial mountain in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous orbit, as well as starward to a spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex. This radical, innovative system permits the importation of lunar and orbital products at negligible cost, creating economic chaos in world marketplaces . Blackmailed into accepting a “suicide” mission to penetrate the space elevator’s closely guarded secrets and effect minor sabotage, United Nations intelligence asset Rudy Cateel becomes embroiled in the subterfuge of China's counterintelligence director who convinces China’s hierarchy that economic overkill might end in thermonuclear holocaust and, since system repair and rework are mandatory, arranges an artificial hiatus in operation in order for China to “save face.” Things go awry when a Nipponese double-agent is ordered to do away with Cateel and effect totally destructive sabotage.

Television and Terror

Author : A. Hoskins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230592813
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Television and Terror written by A. Hoskins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.

Ear

Author : Jan Procházka
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024651351
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Ear written by Jan Procházka and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all the luxuries that political success affords him, but he must be careful since he knows the secret police have bugged his apartment. Penned under the oppressive watch of Soviet authorities in 1960s Czechoslovakia—but touching on still-current themes of surveillance and paranoia—this darkly comic, cinematic thriller is as tense and timely as ever. Author Jan Procházka knew firsthand the gnawing terror of life in a surveillance state. A promising Party member who became persona non grata after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, his own apartment was discovered to contain no less than twelve hidden microphones.

Orange Coast Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Thoughts of a Fractured Soul

Author : Kern Carter
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460234456
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Thoughts of a Fractured Soul written by Kern Carter and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoughts of a Fractured Soul" tells a story of family and failed potential told through the reflective voice of the main character, Corey Thomas a.k.a Ace. Through a series of non-linear digressions, some brief and some extended, Corey catalogues the crucial moments of his life as he remembers. As these insights are pieced together, you are presented with a tale that digs deep into societal behaviours and reflects the contemporary structure of the modern family. ...

The Inlander

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Inlander written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saturnin

Author : Zdeněk Jirotka
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024632888
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Saturnin written by Zdeněk Jirotka and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller. This is entirely appropriate, for while Saturnin draws on a tradition of Czech comedy and authors such as J. Hašek, K. Čapek and K. Poláček, it was also clearly influenced by the English masters Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. Saturnin is the story of a young man in love and his faithful servant Saturnin, who upsets the peaceful rhythm of his master’s domestic arrangements and turns his life inside out. He lures him into an exotic world where he is forced to live dangerously, and shows him how to cope with any situation. Saturnin lays bare the weaknesses of others and compels them to disclose their ‘true’ nature – he is a subversive servant. Written at a time when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation, Saturnin showed that one form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create another. However, so recognisably Czech was that ‘other’ that its popularity did not diminish with the end of the war or, indeed, with the end of the forty years of communism that followed shortly after the war’s end. The book has been adapted for radio and television, produced as a film and has a regular place in the repertoire of the Czech stage. “A delicious dry humour and an imaginative flair that makes it much more than just the ‘Czech Jeeves.’ Owing more to Jerome K. Jerome than to P. G. Wodehouse, the writing is rich in homespun wisdom and casual asides that take on a life of their own, leading the reader up charming byways of irrelevance… A surprising number of belly-laughs for a novel that is more than half a century old.” —Adam Preston, Times Literary Supplement

Co-habiting with Ghosts

Author : Caron Lipman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317164679
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Co-habiting with Ghosts written by Caron Lipman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does it feel to live in a ’haunted home’? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal within the home? How do people interpret, share and narrate experiences which are uncertain and unpredictable? What does this reveal about contested beliefs and different forms of knowledge? And about how people ’co-habit’ with ghosts, a distinctive self - other relationship within such close quarters? This book sets out to explore these questions. It applies a non-reductive middle-ground approach which steers beyond an uncritical exploration of supernatural experiences without explaining them away by recourse only to wider social and cultural contexts. The book attends to the ways in which households in England and Wales understand their experience of haunting in relation to ideas of subjectivity, gender, materiality, memory, knowledge and belief. It explores home as a place both dynamic and differentiated, illuminating the complexity of ’everyday’ experience - the familiarity of the strange as well as the strangeness of the familiar - and the ways in which home continues to be configured as a distinctive space.

Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960

Author : Alan Burton
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622732901
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 written by Alan Burton and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 is a detailed historical and critical overview of espionage in British film and television in the important period since 1960. From that date, the British spy screen was transformed under the influence of the tremendous success of James Bond in the cinema (the spy thriller), and of the new-style spy writing of John le Carré and Len Deighton (the espionage story). In the 1960s, there developed a popular cycle of spy thrillers in the cinema and on television. The new study looks in detail at the cycle which in previous work has been largely neglected in favour of the James Bond films. The study also brings new attention to espionage on British television and popular secret agent series such as Spy Trap, Quiller and The Sandbaggers. It also gives attention to the more ‘realistic’ representation of spying in the film and television adaptations of le Carré and Deighton, and other dramas with a more serious intent. In addition, there is wholly original attention given to ‘nostalgic’ spy fictions on screen, adaptations of classic stories of espionage which were popular in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, and to ‘historical’ spy fiction, dramas which treated ‘real’ cases of espionage and their characters, most notably the notorious Cambridge Spies. Detailed attention is also given to the ‘secret state’ thriller, a cycle of paranoid screen dramas in the 1980s which portrayed the intelligence services in a conspiratorial light, best understood as a reaction to excessive official secrecy and anxieties about an unregulated security service. The study is brought up-to-date with an examination of screen espionage in Britain since the end of the Cold War. The approach is empirical and historical. The study examines the production and reception, literary and historical contexts of the films and dramas. It is the first detailed overview of the British spy screen in its crucial period since the 1960s and provides fresh attention to spy films, series and serials never previously considered.

The Virginia Quarterly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spooks! Welcome to the Great Beyond

Author : Nathan Reese Maher
Publisher : Nathan Reese Maher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spooks! Welcome to the Great Beyond written by Nathan Reese Maher and published by Nathan Reese Maher. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spooks! Welcome to the Great Beyond Tabletop Role-playing in the Afterlife The gates to paradise are shut, the dead are restless and a shadow war between the pharaohs threatens to consume the Great Beyond... and you just got here. Congratulations, you're dead! and the afterlife isn't what we thought. In this fantastical game you play as a spook, otherwise known as the dearly departed, in an Ancient Egyptian inspired hereafter known as the Great Beyond. Play as a bhoot, doll, ghost, ghoul, skeleton, vampire, wraith or zombie in a predominate Victorian society. Meet people from history, explore a rich and infinite world under the shinning lights of Necropolis, city of the dead. Tour infamous locations such as the River of Styx, manifest into the Spirit Realm to haunt the living, unravel the dreams of yesterday and today through the Dream Veil, brave the dangers of the Hellfire Lands or quest for the lost paradises of old such as Elysium, Valhalla or Avalon. How will you spend your afterlife? Game Features d6 mechanic that pools dice for purposes of determining fate and skill rolls. Non-class system where players choose their spook, select their skills and buy equipment without feeling restricted by class abilities. Watch this video for how to make a character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsOEKxQ9G4 Statistic point-buy system that is determined on character level and not a variety of rolls. Characters don't die, they just faint. Improvise-friendly game where challenges and denizens can be created in a manner of minutes without spending hours ahead of game in preparation or cause large amounts of in-game downtime. Spell card magic system, where players can either use an official Spooks! WTTGB spell deck or use any playing card deck to track their spells. No memorization or spell slots on how often a spell can be used. Magic is tracked by magic points, much like hit points, and regenerate quickly. 24 historical non-player characters (NPCs) that the players can meet including George Washington, Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe and more. 12 organizations characters can encounter or possibly join in the afterlife. 34 magic items specific to the game 41 denizens to incorporate into your stories Plus all the rules you need to create your own spells, equipment, magic items and denizens.

The Big Book of the Everyday Adventures of My Spotted Cats

Author : Sherri Lin Roderick
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645309991
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of the Everyday Adventures of My Spotted Cats written by Sherri Lin Roderick and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Book of the Everyday Adventures of My Spotted Cats By: Sherri Lin Roderick The Big Book of the Everyday Adventures of My Spotted Cats follows the shenanigans of author Sherri Lin Roderick’s many spotted cats. Who knew kitty kids could cause so much trouble? And fun!

The Lesser Histories

Author : Jan Zábrana
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024649330
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Lesser Histories written by Jan Zábrana and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own life by Communism. His parents were imprisoned, their health broken, and he was not allowed to study languages in college. Refusing both to rebel outright or to cave in, he thought of himself as a dead man walking. “To all those who keep asking me to do things for them, I sometimes feel like saying: ‘But I’m dead. I died long ago. Why do you keep treating me as if I were one of the living?’” Yet during some of Europe’s most difficult years, he wrote The Lesser Histories, a collection of sixty-four sonnets that range through themes of age, sex, and political repression—a radiant testament to his times. The lines are emptied both of personal pathos and political stridency. Often Zábrana’s own voice segues into those of poets he had translated over the years, leaving only a bare shimmer of subjectivity—humorous, oblique, pained—with which to view his own works and days. The poems document a splendid and bitter isolation, and are immersed in the humor, hatreds, and loves of the everyday. Published in Czech in the ill-fated year of 1968, they subsequently fell into neglect. After the fall of Communism in 1989, Zábrana’s collected poems and selected diaries were published in Czech, and he was acclaimed as a major twentieth-century writer. Now, with this collection, he can begin to reach English-language readers for the first time.