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Book Synopsis Inverted World by : Christopher Priest
Download or read book Inverted World written by Christopher Priest and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels Winner of the British Science Fiction Award Nominated for the Hugo Award The “devilishly entertaining” masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a city moving through a strange, dystopian world—from the multi-award-winning author of The Prestige (Time Out New York) The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum” into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city’s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city’s continued existence. But the world—he is about to discover—is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Book Synopsis Indoctrinaire by : Christopher Priest
Download or read book Indoctrinaire written by Christopher Priest and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the Advanced Technique Concentration, Wentik created a mind-altering drug. Suddenly he is transported to the jungles of Brazil in the 22nd century and a world devastated by nuclear war and poison gas. Only South America survived but even here 'The Disturbances' create havoc. Can Wentik find a way back? For himself? And all of humanity?
Book Synopsis Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World by : Rob Halpern
Download or read book Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World written by Rob Halpern and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. California Interest. LGBTQIA Studies. Rob Halpern's new sequence of poems speaks to social, environmental, and personal crisis--from white supremacist violence and wildfires raging just north of San Francisco, to the death of his father--all of which are tempered by the joyful birth of his daughter, whose new life offers relief in the darkness. He calls the poems "hieroglyphs" with a tip of the hat to Marx, for whom the "hieroglyphic" appearance of the world translates "the secret" of our catastrophe. But as Halpern notes, "the secret of the thing may well be that there is no secret." Here, investigation, analysis, and healing converge, as HIEROGLYPHS OF THE INVERTED WORLD tests the promise and the failure of cultural production, specifically lyric poetry, in the midst of disaster. In his afterword to the book, Halpern asks, "Can the moment arrested by the poem's burnished amber show us something we don't already know about the world?" And if not, what is the social function of the poem? Perhaps the question is unanswerable, but this book attempts a response.
Book Synopsis The Inverted Mirror by : Michael Nolan
Download or read book The Inverted Mirror written by Michael Nolan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility between the two countries in the years before the First World War. Most remarkably, as the author discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.
Book Synopsis Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling by : Monica Valentinelli
Download or read book Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling written by Monica Valentinelli and published by Apex Book Company. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis No Book but the World by : Leah Hager Cohen
Download or read book No Book but the World written by Leah Hager Cohen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, gripping, psychologically complex novel that asks: How much do siblings owe one another? At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct “free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, share a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood—a world defined largely by their imaginations, a celebration of curiosity and the natural environment, and each other’s presence. Their parents, progressive educators, believe passionately that children develop best without formal instruction or societal constraint. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness—the word “autism” is whispered—but his parents’ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of clinical evaluation, diagnosis, or intervention, and constantly at Ava’s side. Decades later, Fred is arrested for a shocking crime, and Ava is frantic to piece together the story of what actually happened. A boy is dead. Fred is held in a county jail. But could he really have done what he’s accused of? By now their parents are long gone, and the siblings have fallen out of touch, which causes Ava considerable guilt. Who is left to reach Fred? To explain him and his innocence to the world? Convinced that she alone can ensure he is regarded with sympathy, Ava tells their enthralling story. A writer of enormous craft, Leah Hager Cohen brings her trademark intelligence and storytelling to a psychologically gripping, richly ambiguous novel that suggests we may ultimately understand one another best not with facts alone, but through our imaginations.
Book Synopsis Inverted Utopias by : Héctor Olea Galaviz
Download or read book Inverted Utopias written by Héctor Olea Galaviz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for
Book Synopsis THE INVERTED MAN by : Thomas Berly Kurishingal
Download or read book THE INVERTED MAN written by Thomas Berly Kurishingal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can imagine a perfect world in which he has no desire to sin. Everything that is tricky, shifty or most passionately cherished is likely to leave an inner dissatisfaction. What is crippled and incomplete in him slowly petrifies into hatred – a hatred of himself and therefore the world! Only through others can we attempt to shape opinions about ourselves, because we want them as the best of our admirers. For this, the undesirable self should gain in self-esteem and undergo transformation for the good. The Inverted Man will allow the reader to acquire a promising self instead of perusing a life of pride – the igniting substitute for self-esteem.
Book Synopsis The Secrets of Tenet by : James Mottram
Download or read book The Secrets of Tenet written by James Mottram and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind-the-scenes photos and conceptual art from Christopher Nolan's time-bending espionage thriller Tenet. Also looks at Nolan's process and creative vision; actors share their experiences working with Nolan.
Book Synopsis Flat Earth Meets Tesla by : Laurel Federbush
Download or read book Flat Earth Meets Tesla written by Laurel Federbush and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we been completely wrong about the universe? This book presents a startlingly different, yet simple and plausible model of our cosmos, derived from concepts as ancient as flat earth, and as modern as scalar wave theory and torus energy flow. It could really turn your world upside-down!
Book Synopsis Fugue for a Darkening Island by : Christopher Priest
Download or read book Fugue for a Darkening Island written by Christopher Priest and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe looks for ways to deal with the humanitarian crisis of Syria's misplaced population and the influx of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Christopher Priest's second novel has a new, timely, edge. Survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent, and look for refuge in the countries of the West. But Britain is falling into civil war and anarchy. One of Christopher Priest's earliest novels, FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND is a powerful work whose subject matter has become increasingly relevant in recent years. Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).
Book Synopsis A Dream of Wessex (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by : Christopher Priest
Download or read book A Dream of Wessex (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Christopher Priest and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks. Trying to find solutions to today's problems, Julia Stretton and other specialists at the Wessex Project have created a virtual reality projection of a utopian future where all current issues have been resolved - how did they achieve it? But on entering Wessex, they lose all memory of their 'real' lives outside, and as they move back and forth the lines between dream and reality become obscured. When Julia's ex-lover, the sadistic Paul Mason, joins the project, he has a sinister plan to take the Wessex projection to a new and terrifying level . . . Christopher Priest's fifth novel, A Dream of Wessex (1977), is a classic of science fiction that will keep readers guessing until the startling, mind-bending conclusion. Priest's novels The Space Machine, The Affirmation, and The Separation are also available from Valancourt. '[An] excellent and intriguing novel ... the characters and their emotions are real, the concepts fascinating, and the sense of foreboding almost unbearable.' - Library Journal 'This fine novel about time-unravellers has hallucinatory powers ... Priest is a novelist of real distinction.' - The Times (London) 'Christopher Priest is one of our most gifted young writers of science fiction. I recommend A Dream of Wessex. I can best convey its quality by saying that I think not only H.G. Wells but Thomas Hardy himself would have enjoyed and approved of it.' - John Fowles, author of The Magus 'It is a strange novel, technically very assured in its shifts of time and handling of place-in-time, sketching in the edges of the dream with considerable vividness. A fine, exciting novel - SF if you want a label, but an enrichment not only of the sub-genre, but the whole genre too.' - The Guardian
Book Synopsis The Inverted Orthotic Technique by : Richard Blake
Download or read book The Inverted Orthotic Technique written by Richard Blake and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant for Podiatrist, Podiatric Medical Students, and health care providers interested in lower extremity biomechanics. The Inverted Orthotic Technique is a system of functional foot orthotic devices to be utilized in the correction of pronated feet, injuries requiring foot inversion to alleviate symptoms, and to help stabilize the mechanics of athletic endeavors like running and cycling. The book covers the selection process of the patients that would be appropriate to use the device, the manufacturing devices to be utilized, the follow up of patients and possible modifications to the devices for various reasons. The book also discusses injuries or pain patterns related to excessive pronation or excessive supination, short leg syndrome, poor shock absorption, and weak or tight muscles. The book breaks down the components of a good gait evaluation and aspects of the biomechanical examination especially important to the Inverted Orthotic Technique, like heel bisection and identifying equinus forces. The book discusses many biomechanical principles, but tries to maintain a practical approach to lower extremity biomechanics in a clinical setting.
Book Synopsis Beneath: the Inverted Church by : Justin Sirois
Download or read book Beneath: the Inverted Church written by Justin Sirois and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicit Content - adults only. A serialized, mature tabletop campaign with 37+ maps and unique mechanics for low to mid level characters. BENEATH can be played with almost any existing RPG system."I've never seen anything like this on an RPG level and I think it's f*cking rad." Full Metal RPG / PodcastBeneath ancient ruins lies the UnDungeon, a "paradise" of unspeakable horrors. The Inverted Cupid, a demon of great power, is luring the local townspeople of CragLeee into the UnDungeon to create a master race of "...one race, one sex, one tongue". Only a band of brave adventurers can stop it. Follow Hannah, a fighter and resident of CragLee, as she guides you deeper into the UnDungeon to find her lost brother. Treasure can be found if you are willing to seduce your way through mirrorDoors or witness the atrocities inside The Invert.
Book Synopsis The Phenomenology of Mind by : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Download or read book The Phenomenology of Mind written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thinking About Management by : David Currie
Download or read book Thinking About Management written by David Currie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites the reader to explore the more puzzling aspects of those processes called 'management'. It provides a focused collection of readings to support and encourage wider consideration of alternative ways of thinking about management and its effectiveness in contemporary organisations. Key features of this text include: * a selection of contributions which derive from historically grounded and politically aware considerations, examining alternative approaches, and drawing on a wider source of perspectives than those currently dominating management literature * an exploration of the uncertainties and apparent contradictions encountered in management action, grounded in the reflective practices of the contributors, employing examples and experiences from a wide range of organizations * ideas fundamental to understanding the complexities of management which will extend students' own ways of thinking * an informed contextual approach to the study of management, grouping together themes and ideas which shed light upon the contested arenas of management action. By placing emphasis on the development of improved critical abilities in management practice, this book will be an invaluable text for all management studies and MBA students.
Download or read book Planetary Mine written by Martin Arboleda and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
