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Book Synopsis Millennium People: A Novel by : J. G. Ballard
Download or read book Millennium People: A Novel written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in this “fascinating” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People “seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do” (Los Angeles Times).
Book Synopsis A User's Guide to the Millennium by : J. G. Ballard
Download or read book A User's Guide to the Millennium written by J. G. Ballard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of novelist's non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life.
Book Synopsis Beginning Again by : David Ehrenfeld
Download or read book Beginning Again written by David Ehrenfeld and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in this volume, David Ehrenfeld describes what prophecy really is. Referring to the biblical prophets, he says they were not the "holy fortunetellers that the word prophet has come to signify....The business of prophecy is not simply foretelling the future; rather it is describing the present with exceptional truthfulness and accuracy." Once this is done, then it can be seen that broad aspects of the future have suddenly become apparent. The twentieth century is drawing to a chaotic close amidst portents of unprecedented change and upheaval. The unravelling of societies and civilizations and the destruction of nature march together--linked--a fact whose enormous significance is often lost. In Beginning Again, David Ehrenfeld has undertaken the difficult task of describing the present clearly enough to reveal the future. Out of his broad vision emerges a glimpse of a new millennium: a vision at once frightening and comforting, a scene of great devastation and great rebuilding. Ehrenfeld ranges far and wide to present a coherent vision of our relationship with Nature--its many aspects and implications--as our century opens into the next millennium. Whether he is writing about the problem of loyalty to organizations, rights versus obligations, our over-managed society, the vanishing of established knowledge, the failure of experts, the triumph of dandelions, Dr. Seuss, Edward Teller, or the future of farming, he is always concerned with the intricate interaction between technology and nature. As in his classic book, The Arrogance of Humanism, Ehrenfeld never loses sight of our fatal love affair with the fantasy of control. We now have no choice, he argues, but to transform the dream of control, of progress, from one of overweening hubris, love of consumption, and the idiot's goal of perpetual growth, to one based on "the inventive imitation of nature," with its honesty, beauty, resilience, and durability. Few American writers and even fewer scientists can describe these timeless, transcendent qualities of nature so well. In "Places," the opening chapter, David Ehrenfeld tells about nightly vigils he spent alone on the moonlit beach of Tortuguero, watching giant sea turtles emerging from the sea to lay their eggs in the black sand where they were born. "I could watch the perfect white spheres falling," he writes. "Falling as they have fallen for a hundred million years, with the same slow cadence, always shielded from the rain or stars by the same massive bulk with the beaked head and the same large, myopic eyes rimmed with crusts of sand washed out by tears. Minutes and hours, days and months dissolve into eons. I am on an Oligocene beach, an Eocene beach, a Cretaceous beach--the scene is the same. It is night, the turtles are coming back, always back; I hear a deep hiss of breath and catch a glint of wet shell as the continents slide and crash, the oceans form and grow."
Download or read book Millennium written by John Varley and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call that will change his life...and end the world as we know it.
Book Synopsis Kingdom Come: A Novel by : J. G. Ballard
Download or read book Kingdom Come: A Novel written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “J.G. Ballard is the undisputed laureate of suburban psychosis. . . . A brilliant novel.”—Literary Review A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard’s suspicions are aroused. Investigating the mystery, Richard uncovers at the Metro-Centre mall a neo-fascist world whose charismatic spokesperson is whipping up the masses into a state of unsustainable frenzy. Riots frequently terrorize the complex, immigrant communities are attacked by hooligans, and sports events mushroom into jingoistic political rallies. In this gripping, dystopian tour de force, J.G. Ballard holds up a mirror to suburban mind rot, revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.
Book Synopsis The Life Millennium by : Robert Friedman
Download or read book The Life Millennium written by Robert Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Declaration of Independence & the invention of plastic. The flush toilet & the discovery of the potato. The first novel & man's first steps on the moon. These are some of the 100 most important events, discoveries & magnificent moments of the past 1,000 years, as selected -- & ranked -- by the editors of LIFE Magazine in this highly readable & lushly illustrated tour of the millennium. This book is an encyclopedic & entertaining account of human progress from the year 1001 to the present -- a book you'll want to save for the next 1,000 years. Includes 200 black-&-white & color illustrations.
Book Synopsis Love in the New Millennium by : Can Xue
Download or read book Love in the New Millennium written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.
Download or read book 1000 Makers of the Millennium written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of 1,000 leaders, thinkers, scientists, inventors, artists, and writers who have had an impact on the world are organized chronologically with a timeline. Photos.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Millennium by : Paul Meier
Download or read book Beyond the Millennium written by Paul Meier and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-07-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting tale, Paul Meier and Robert L. Wise provide a glimpse behind the veil of time, into the eye of the storm to witness how angels and demons battle for people's hearts and souls. The Third Millennium has remained a bestseller since it came out in early 1993. The partnership that began with Paul Meier and Robert L. Wise in that book extended to The Fourth Millennium, which has been a steady best-seller as well. Using the backdrop of their travels together in Israel, they have attempted to put the secrets of the Scripture in an exciting form to help people prepare spiritually for their struggles as the world becomes an increasingly difficult place to live.
Book Synopsis People of the Sea by : W. Michael Gear
Download or read book People of the Sea written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
Download or read book Millennium written by Richard D. Nolane and published by Millennium. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning and intelligent Medieval detective adventure that infuses "The Name of The Rose" with The "X-Files."
Book Synopsis Millennial Hospitality Ii by : Charles James Hall
Download or read book Millennial Hospitality Ii written by Charles James Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millennial Hospitality II is an etiquette book for the 21 Century. It suggests how we might interact with aliens and answers many questions the readers had after reading Millennial Hospitality.
Book Synopsis The Girl Who Danced With Death (complete collection) by : Sylvain Runberg
Download or read book The Girl Who Danced With Death (complete collection) written by Sylvain Runberg and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px} “I’m not going to be able to do this alone.” Lisbeth Salander had hoped the defeat of her father, the leader of a sex abuse ring that wracked the country, would bring about a new peace for Sweden and her life. But political tensions are high across the country, and Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist soon find themselves thrown together against the world. From Runberg and Ortega comes an all-new original story based on the bestselling novel series by Stieg Larsson. Collects Millennium: The Girl Who Danced With Death #1-3.
Download or read book First Dawn written by Mike Moscoe and published by Ace. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are the first time travelers--guinea pigs in an experiment that cannot fail. From a future ravaged by plague, they must travel thousands of years into the past to the dawn of civilization. Among tribes of primitive hunters, they will trace a fatal chain of events--and alter history to save humanity from itself.
Book Synopsis Lord of the Dark Millennium: The Dan Abnett Collection by : Dan Abnett
Download or read book Lord of the Dark Millennium: The Dan Abnett Collection written by Dan Abnett and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive collection of fantastic short stories from New York Bestselling author Dan Abnett, collated together for the first time. A must read for all Abnett fans! From the bloody battlefields of the Sabbat Crusade to the clandestine world of the Inquisition, and the grand stage of the galaxy-defining Horus Heresy, this anthology brings together for the first time all of the Warhammer 40,000 and Horus Heresy short stories by esteemed science fiction and New York Times bestselling author Dan Abnett. Featured in these pages are both classic tales such as ‘Thorn Wishes Talon’ and ‘A Ghost Return’ and lesser known gems like ‘Midnight Rotation’ and ‘Eternal’ that add depth and nuance to some of the author’s most celebrated characters including Gaunt’s Ghosts, Gregor Eisenhorn, Horus Aximand, Shadrak Meduson and many more. Containing well over thirty stories and charting a legacy over twenty years in the making, Lord of the Dark Millennium is the definitive Black Library short fiction collection of Dan Abnett.
Download or read book Millennium's Eve written by Ed Stewart and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Beth Scibelli arrives in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, 1999, to cover a mega-gathering of Christians from across the nation. Little does she suspect that within the next seven days, she and her new romantic interest, Sergeant Reagan Cole of the LAPD, will be plunged into a fiendish assassination plot aimed at America's top Christian leaders.
Download or read book The Other People written by C. J. Tudor and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping thriller about a man’s quest for the daughter no one else believes is still alive, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place. An ID Book Club Selection • “C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author Q: Why are you called the Other People? A: We are people just like you. People to whom terrible things have happened. We’ve found solace not in forgiveness or forgetting. But in helping each other find justice. Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl’s face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights traveling up and down the highway, searching for the car that took his daughter, refusing to give up hope, even though most people believe she’s dead. When the car that he saw escape with his little girl is found abandoned with a body inside, Gabe must confront not just the day Izzy disappeared but the painful events from his past now dredged to the surface. Q: What sort of justice? A: That depends on the individual. But our ethos is a punishment that fits the crime. Fran and her daughter, Alice, also put in a lot of miles on the road. Not searching. Running. Because Fran knows what really happened to Gabe’s daughter. She knows who is responsible. And she knows what they will do if they ever catch up to her and Alice. Q: Can I request to have someone killed? A: If your Request is acceptable, and unless there are exceptional circumstances, we fulfill all Requests.
