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The Extraordinaires 1: The Extinction Gambit

Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742754597
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Extraordinaires 1: The Extinction Gambit written by Michael Pryor and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing beginning of a brilliant new fantasy trilogy from the master of magic, Michael Pryor. Kingsley Ward is in dire trouble. Instead of thrilling the audience with his death-defying escapology, his first performance ends in disaster when his hidden wolfish nature bursts free. That same night, his father is abducted and his home ransacked. To find Dr Ward and redeem himself, Kingsley braves the Demimonde, the mysterious world that exists alongside our own. He is soon the target of two warring factions: immortal magicians whose diabolical plans will create mayhem at the 1908 Olympics, and the last Neanderthals, whose vengeance will wipe out humankind. Kingsley needs help. The famous author Rudyard Kipling will assist, but why is he so interested in Kingsley? Evadne Stephens, juggler and weaponsmith, is a Demimonde expert - but what does her mercurial nature conceal? Bizarre plots. Sinister magic. The extraordinary is about to happen . . .

The Extinction Gambit

Author : Michael Pryor
Publisher : Children's
ISBN 13 : 9781864718201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Extinction Gambit written by Michael Pryor and published by Children's. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magician Kingsley Ward travels to the mysterious world called Demimonde in an effort to redeem himself after his first performance ends in disaster and his father is abducted, and he soon finds himself the target of two warring factions.

Faulkner’s Gambit

Author : M. Wainwright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137015985
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Faulkner’s Gambit written by M. Wainwright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure.

The Complete Avengers

Author : Dave Rogers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312031879
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Avengers written by Dave Rogers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still broadcast in syndication across the U.S., the urbane British program "The Avengers" went through many changes in the course of its run. This volume provides an overview of the series, a show-by-show guide to each episode, a comprehensive guide to memorabilia, and more than 200 photographs of England's most dashing crime fighters.

Descartes's Gambit

Author : Peter J. Markie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Descartes's Gambit written by Peter J. Markie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

And Then... Vol 2

Author : Ruth Wykes
Publisher : Clan Destine Press
ISBN 13 : 0995439435
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book And Then... Vol 2 written by Ruth Wykes and published by Clan Destine Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, in a land Down Under, from the depths of the Clan cave, Clan Destine Press issued a challenge to Australian and Kiwi authors to write cliff-hanging, Australian-flavoured, action-packed adventure stories for two protagonists; stories of the What If, What Now, And Then... kind. This was a catnip call, an irresistible lure, a kid-in-a-candy-store kind of a challenge: what writer wouldn't want to take a crack at that? To make it that little bit more intriguing, the editors decreed the stories could be contemporary, historical, realistic, far-out, spec-fic, horror, SF, or urban fantasy; and, in a spirit of mischief, that at least one of the two protagonists must be human. You'd think that would cover all bases. But writers are a contrary bunch: they pushed these very broad boundaries even further. The result is not one, but two volumes of kick-arse, action-packed stories: And Then... The Great Big Book of Adventure Tales. This is Volume 2: a fascinating collection of genre-bending adventure stories garnered from a mix of sf, fantasy and crime writers, happily encroaching upon each other's territories, and then some.

Sound Play

Author : William Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199969973
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sound Play written by William Cheng and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of our engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. Author William Cheng shows how the simulated environments of games empower designers, composers, players, and scholars to test and tinker with music, noise, speech, and silence in ways that might not be prudent or possible in the real world. In negotiating utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights from across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, and philosophy. With case studies that span Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there - in the safe, sound spaces of games - can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.

The Extinction of Menai

Author : Chuma Nwokolo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446207
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Extinction of Menai written by Chuma Nwokolo and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai people. Continents-apart twin brothers separated at birth, an excommunicated daughter living an urbane life with her doctor husband, and an infamous vigilante are among the indelible characters whose lives are shaped by this collective tragedy. Not least of these is the spiritual leader Mata Nimito, who retraces his people’s ancient migration on his quest to preserve the soul of the Menai and resolve the consequences of a centuries-old betrayal. In The Extinction of Menai, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and continents to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. He confronts power relations between large corporations and small communities, corporate lobbies and governments, and big pharma and consumers, all expressed through the competing narratives that record the life and death of a civilization.In a novel of stunning scope, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and place to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. His characters’ indelible voices offer perspectives that are simultaneously global, political, and intimately human.

Exiles Vol. 10

Author : Marvel Comics
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302494813
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Exiles Vol. 10 written by Marvel Comics and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Exiles (2001) #59-61 plus material from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Age of Apocalypse. Welcome home, Blink and Sabretooth! In an X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE tie-in, the Exiles return to the AoA with the unlikeliest new teammate: Apocalype's homicidal son, Holocaust! Their new assignment: kill the X-Men!? Can they stop fighting among themselves long enough to complete their mission? Plus: Just what was Blink up to during her absence from the Exiles those many months ago?

The Anthropology of Extinction

Author : Genese Marie Sodikoff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253357136
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Extinction written by Genese Marie Sodikoff and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues of widespread concern.

The Dinosauria

Author : David B. Weishampel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254082
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Dinosauria written by David B. Weishampel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition includes coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation & extinction.

Extinction Point

Author : Paul Antony Jones
Publisher : Extinction Point
ISBN 13 : 9781611097993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Extinction Point written by Paul Antony Jones and published by Extinction Point. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift, bloody death. With only wits, weapons, and a bicycle, Emily must undertake a grueling journey across a country that's turning increasingly alien. For though she fears she's been left to inherit the earth, the truth is far more terrifying than a lifetime of solitude.

The Steps of the Sun

Author : Walter Tevis
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795343108
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Steps of the Sun written by Walter Tevis and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire heads to the stars in this “delightful” sci-fi novel from the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Hustler (Newsweek). In a world where America’s power is rapidly being overshadowed by China’s, only one man has the wealth, resources, and courage to seek the mineral resources his country needs to reclaim its greatness. Ben Belson, the richest man in the world, lacks for nothing his wealth can buy—but he is haunted by the memory of a barren and loveless childhood. When he travels to the stars in search of the mineral wealth America needs, he finds more than he bargains for—and gets more than he ever believed was possible. A classic science fiction novel by the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Hustler, The Steps of the Sun is deftly written, richly characterized, and full of surprises. “Engaging and effortlessly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Warmly involving ‘soft’ sf.” —Kirkus Reviews

Novels by Aliens

Author : Kate Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226827844
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Novels by Aliens written by Kate Marshall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century’s fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall’s Novels by Aliens explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a longing for the nonhuman: the old weird, an alternative tradition within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century’s cowboys and aliens; cosmic realism, the reach for words legible only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and pseudoscience fiction, which imagines speculative futures beyond human life on earth. Offering sharp and surprising insights about a breathtaking range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kazuo Ishiguro, Willa Cather to Maggie Nelson, Novels by Aliens tells the story of how genre became mood in the twenty-first century.

From Ecology to Cancer Biology and Back Again

Author : Frederick R. Adler
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889746151
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book From Ecology to Cancer Biology and Back Again written by Frederick R. Adler and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sixth Extinction

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805099794
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Gambit's End

Author : Chad Corrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977604357
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Gambit's End written by Chad Corrie and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rag tag team of mercenaries turned unlikely heroes have been assembled. The battle lines have been drawn but there is a nearly impossible battle before them which none are too certain of surviving. The Path of Power has laid a trail to one front of the war while there is another being readied to fight with the very Pantheon itself! As the Divine Gambit is fully revealed who will be able to withstand the consequences when losing could mean the end of not only Tralodren but the Pantheon itself? Battles will rage. Mysteries will be revealed. Prophecies will be fulfilled. Alliances will be made in both the realms of mortals and gods and all will come to a shocking conclusion.