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Book Synopsis Imaginary Magnitude by : Stanislaw Lem
Download or read book Imaginary Magnitude written by Stanislaw Lem and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Book Synopsis The Society of Experience by : Matt Cahill
Download or read book The Society of Experience written by Matt Cahill and published by Wolsak and Wynn. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father - a distinguished writer - unexpectedly passes away, Derrick van der Lem's insulated world implodes, leaving a much stranger and crueler place than the one he knew. In the midst of his downward spiral, the mysterious Society of Experience asks him to take part in a baffling science experiment involving time travel, with the possibility of changing his life and pulling him out of his rut. When the experiment begins to untangle, Derrick finds himself out of his depth and in the middle of a nightmare, with only the company of a beautiful stranger to steer him from chaos to heartbreak. Meanwhile, who are the society, and what are their true intentions for Derrick? Is time travel real, or is it yet another contrivance the Society has invented? Part Philip K. Dick, part mystery, The Society of Experience is an inventive, fast-paced story of a man's journey for a better future through streets, alleyways and deserted buildings.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Magnitude by : Stanisław Lem
Download or read book Imaginary Magnitude written by Stanisław Lem and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Download or read book A Perfect Vacuum written by Stanisław Lem and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a perfect vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature - works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's "games for games' sake" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results." "Most of the "reviews" target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self-indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms. Lem exposes the limits of postmodern fiction, showing how its studious self-consciousness frequently conceals intellectual paucity. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackle (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Therafields written by Grant Goodbrand and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at a 1970s phenomenon, this study—written by someone who was involved in and a key member of the movement—discusses Therafields and how 900 people came to live in a therapeutic community in Toronto. The stories of the participants, who not only lived together but also helped build a real estate empire, and the charismatic but not accredited founder Lea Hindley-Smith are explored with unparalleled access to their lives. Also examining how the downfall of the commune coincided with the 1980s property bust, this is a comprehensive look at a therapeutic commune.
Book Synopsis The Unconscious Civilization by : John Ralston Saul
Download or read book The Unconscious Civilization written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ralston Saul argues that while Fascism was defeated in World War II, its "corporatist" doctrines powerfully influence our own society today. Saul explores how these corporatist priorities have now become so woven into our social fabric that they threaten the practice of Western democracy. Our civic order, Saul argues, has been remade to serve the needs of business managers and technocrats. In turn, other parts of society have come to mimic this arrangement as they themselves fracture into competing interest groups and ethnic blocs, virtually eliminating the role of the citizen. This largely unseen social order has deep and vexing roots in Western thought. Saul examines how this structure is bolstered today by political and intellectual charlatans who misleadingly describe it as a "common sense" arrangement, rather than what it is: an insidious war of attrition against the individual as citizen and the delicate system of open dialogue and doubt that alone guarantees the future of democracy.
Book Synopsis The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by : Arthur Cayley
Download or read book The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley written by Arthur Cayley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Magnitude by : Christa J. Olson
Download or read book American Magnitude written by Christa J. Olson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.
Download or read book One Human Minute written by Stanislaw Lem and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly). In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose. With this collection of three essays, Lem targets some of the most pressing issues humanity faces, from our unsettling origins to the cybernetic future of our weaponry. “The Upside-Down Evolution” chronicles the Earth’s military evolution from nuclear stockpiles to deadly, robotic microweapons. “The World as Cataclysm” examines how humankind’s dominance on Earth is the result of the extermination of another species just as qualified to rule the world. And the title essay presents a disturbing and fascinating snapshot of every single thing happening on the planet in a sixty-second span. Effortlessly blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction, scientific essay and fantastical short story, cynical reproach and wry humor, Lem’s One Human Minute combines the best elements of the renowned science fiction author and Kafka Prize winner’s writing into one irreverent and intellectually stimulating package.
Download or read book Mortal Engines written by Stanisław Lem and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Translated from the original Polish text, and with an introduction by Michael Kandel. These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Stainslaw Lem's fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. The first eleven stories, a cycle called "Fables for Robots," are set in a cosmos inhabited exclusively by machines. Revolving around an assortment of electroknights and cyberkings, the stories combine the timeless quality of fairy tales and parables with a twist that is unmistakably Lem.
Download or read book Imaginary Peaks written by Katie Ives and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.
Book Synopsis Hospital of the Transfiguration by : Stanislaw Lem
Download or read book Hospital of the Transfiguration written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanisław Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. At first the asylum seems like a bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begins to seek relief in the strange conversation of the poet Sekulowski, who is posing as a patient in a bid for safety from the occupying German forces. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters stockpile weapons in the surrounding woods. A very early work by Lem, The Hospital of the Transfiguration is partly autobiographical, drawing on the author's experiences as a medical student. Written in 1948, it was suppressed by Polish censors and not published until 1955. The censorship of this realist novel is partly what led Lem to focus on science fiction and nonfiction for the rest of his career.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Quantities by : Jean Robert Argand
Download or read book Imaginary Quantities written by Jean Robert Argand and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mysticism in Modern Mathematics by : Hastings Berkeley
Download or read book Mysticism in Modern Mathematics written by Hastings Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by : British Association for the Advancement of Science
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
