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Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Masks of Time written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Hoffman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582349827
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Stravaganza written by Mary Hoffman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she purchases a tiny figurine of a winged horse, Georgia's life is greatly altered as this talisman has the power to take her back to different periods in time and away from the chaos in which she lives, such as the land of Remora where the excitement of the Stellata, the annual horse race, has brought the city to life. Reprint.
Author : Natalie Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534404236
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book It's Time to Save the Day! written by Natalie Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What time is it? Bedtime! Help the PJ Masks go into the night to save the day - and find the right time to fight crime - by turning the sturdy clock hands that make ticking sounds like a real clock!"--
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497632439
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Thorns written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Fiction Grand Master’s Thorns “holds up chillingly well after all these decades. A dark pastiche upon Beauty and the Beast” (SF Reviews). In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul Duncan Chalk. To satisfy his audience’s voyeuristic needs—and his own appetite for others’ pain—he pairs Minner Burris, an emotionally withdrawn space explorer who was captured and freakishly surgically altered by aliens, with Lona Kelvin, a suicidal seventeen-year-old girl who donated eggs for a fertility experiment that produced one hundred babies, none of whom she has been allowed to adopt or even see. Chalk promises to solve their personal problems in return for a joint performance tour. Though the love affair doesn’t last, Chalk keeps the couple on the hook by making new offers. While Minner and Lona struggle to cope with their newfound celebrity and Chalk’s broken promises, they will uncover the true nature of their manipulator—and risk everything to regain the humanity that has been stolen from them . . . An early exploration of media exploitation and a deep look at freak-show entertainment on a mass scale, this novel was one of the earliest of Silverberg’s mature masterworks. “Masterful . . . This is a sophisticated novel, beautifully written, intelligent and insightful, with wonderful dialogue and a satisfying conclusion.” —Fantasy Literature “Silverberg’s brooding, post-utopian, rumination has the makings of a great science fiction novel. . . . A worthwhile read which rambles along a dark path . . . Well done.” —Science Fiction Ruminations
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774807616
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Way of the Masks written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title La Voie des masques, Sylvia Modelski has translated Claude Levi-Strauss' explanation of the tribal masks of coastal British Columbia with reference to kinship ties, incest prohibition and myths.
Author : Andre Norton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504025466
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Night of Masks written by Andre Norton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of interplanetary war, a disfigured loner is given a chance at a new life—but at a steep cost, in this novel from “a superb storyteller” (The New York Times). Disfigured in the wars that destroyed his planet, Nik Kolherne lives a shadow existence in the sprawling refugee ghetto of the Dipple. He wears a mask to cover his scars and dreams about another country under an unfettered blue sky and a warm sun. But a chance encounter gives him the opportunity for a new face—and a new life. All he has to do is impersonate a young boy’s fantasy hero. So what if Nik is now allied with the Thieves’ Guild, a subversive outlaw group that seeks their prey on loosely held frontier worlds? A kid all alone in the world could use an ally. His mission is to lure Vandy Naudhin i’Akrama, the young son of a powerful warlord, from his high-security villa and deliver him to the Guild so they can access critical information locked in his brain. But when Nik and Vandy are shipped off to Dis, a burned-out wasteland of a planet, Nik realizes he’s a pawn in a spiraling web of political intrigue and intergalactic evil that threatens both their lives.
Author : E. C. Blake
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756407591
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Masks written by E. C. Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores "a world in which cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima--the one land blessed with magical resources--cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarch's Watchers, no one can threaten the security of the empire"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312858574
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book People of the Masks written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Masks of Time written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Lupton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110723794
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Face Mask In COVID Times written by Deborah Lupton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID. Rather than Beck’s ‘risk society’, we are now living in a ‘COVID society’, the long-term effects of which have yet to be experienced or imagined. Everything has changed. The COVID crisis has generated novel forms of sociality and new ways of living and moving through space and time. In this new world, the face mask has become a significant object, positioned as one of the key ways people can protect themselves and others from infection with the coronavirus. The face mask is rich with symbolic meaning as well as practical value. In the words of theorist Jane Bennett, the face mask has acquired a new ‘thing-power’ as it is coming together with human bodies in these times of uncertainty, illness and death. The role of the face mask in COVID times has been the subject of debate and dissension, arousing strong feelings. The historical and cultural contexts in which face masks against COVID contagion are worn (or not worn) are important to consider. In some countries, such as Japan and other East Asian nations, face mask wearing has a long tradition. Full or partial facial coverings, such as veiling, is common practice in regions such as the Middle East. In many other countries, including most countries in the Global North, most people, beyond health care workers, have little or no experience of face masks. They have had to learn how to make sense of face masking as a protective practice and how to incorporate face masks into their everyday practices and routines. Face masking practices have become highly political. The USA has witnessed protests against face mask wearing that rest on ‘sovereign individualism’, a notion which is highly specific to the contemporary political climate in that country. Face masks have also been worn to make political statements: bearing anti-racist statements, for example, but also Trump campaign support. Meanwhile, celebrities and influencers have sought to advocate for face mask wearing as part of their branding, while art makers, museums, designers and novelty fashion manufacturers have identified the opportunity to profit from this sudden new market. Face masks have become a fashion item as well as a medical device: both a way of signifying the wearer’s individuality and beliefs and their ethical stance in relation to the need to protect their own and others’ health. The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis provides a short and accessible analysis of the sociomaterial dimensions of the face mask in the age of COVID-19. The book presents seven short chapters and an epilogue. We bring together sociomaterial theoretical perspectives with compelling examples from public health advice and campaigns, anti-mask activism as well as popular culture (news reports, blog posts, videos, online shopping sites, art works) to illustrate our theoretical points, and use Images to support our analysis.
Author : Judith Chernaik
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494474
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Schumann written by Judith Chernaik and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medical diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.
Author : Dean Hashimoto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510765565
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Case for Masks written by Dean Hashimoto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science behind wearing a mask to stop the spread of Coronavirus, from a top expert in the field. In America, the debate over whether or not masks should be worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has become enmeshed with political affiliation, views on religious and personal freedoms, and conflicting media reports on the benefits and dangers of facial coverings. But now, several months into this pandemic, what does science say? What have we learned from international case studies? Dr. Hashimoto, the chief medical officer who oversees the Workplace Health and Wellness division at Mass General Brigham, a Harvard Medical School affiliated healthcare system, presents the current research, making the case that wearing masks in public is a key part of saving lives and bringing this pandemic to a halt. Citing specific examples of situations where infected individuals wore masks versus ones who didn't and how that changed the outcome, as well as population-based studies in individual states and by country, and the undeniable effect that universal masking had on Mass Brigham Hospital's staff of 75,000, Dr. Hashimoto offers a clear and compelling argument for the benefits of masking. In addition, he explains the complementary roles of social distancing, washing hands, coronavirus testing, and face shields, and a thorough exploration of what kinds of masks are most effective at stopping the spread of viruses and how they should be fitted and worn. He addresses safety concerns and medical misconceptions about mask wearing, why the CDC didn't recommend universal mask wearing at the beginning of the pandemic, and how employers can promote mask wearing in their workplaces. Don't wear a mask just because someone told you to. Find out the real reasons for masking and understand the science for yourself.
Author : Vladimir Pistalo
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973329
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Tesla: A Portrait with Masks written by Vladimir Pistalo and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and colorful inventors Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. Tesla captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye. For every successful invention—the alternating current electrical system and wireless communication among them—there were hundreds of others. But what of the man behind the image? Vladimir Pistalo reveals the inner life of a man haunted by the loss of his older brother, a man who struggled with flashes of madness and brilliance whose mistrust of institutional support led him to financial ruin. Tesla: A Portrait with Masks is an impassioned account of a visionary whose influence is still felt today.
Author : Eugene C. Rollins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438997132
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Masks We Wear written by Eugene C. Rollins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a social role the concept of the persona is useful in allowing an individual to move in and out of relationships without being too vulnerable. A persona can be the oil to ease potential social friction. A persona provides for some predictability of relationship, but wearing a mask may become a sub-personality preventing us from embracing our true spiritual identity.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812402568
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Masks of Time-CC written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Spectra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553272864
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Masks of Time/Born With the Dead/Dying Inside written by Robert Silverberg and published by Spectra Books. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of science fiction tales includes the story of a mysterious time traveler, a love that transcends the boundaries of death, and a man born with an awesome power
Author : John Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714151038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Masks written by John Mack and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masks are objects that demonstrate creative skills of many different periods and cultures. Masks are a nearly universal phenomenon, but their uses and meanings are strikingly different across cultures. In this book, eight leading experts explore the stories of masks across ancient and modern civilizations in a survey of their meaning and power.
