The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries, Book 1

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Download or read book The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries, Book 1 written by Mark Mulle and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENRE: Children's Adventure(An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen)Book 1: The EdgeThis is the story of a Snow Golem called Edd. Living in a community with other Snow Golems such as his mother, Ann and his best friend, Han, Edd grew up without his father, who had left the community 14 years ago, when Edd was only a few days old.As time passed, Edd's desire to leave the community and explore the world, just like his dad did, only grew. He also wanted to find his dad and know what he had been doing all this time.But Edd's dream of going on an adventure is not well received in the community. The Snow Golems are known for inhabiting snowy areas and biomes, such as the tundra. In Edd's community, the Snow Golems are safe within a huge tundra where they've been living for many generations.However, there's a border where the tundra meets the other biome, a forest, and this border is called The Edge by the Snow Golems. No one has ever witnessed a Snow Golem cross the edge alive, because The Edge is said to be the limit of where a Snow Golem can go. Crossing it could melt them right away.The Snow Elder, the leader of the community, has been telling everyone about this tale for many years. But despite his advice, Edd wants to cross this dangerous Edge and live an adventure. He wants to find his long lost dad, and come back home with him.Will Edd ignore the Elder's advice and cross The Edge? How dangerous is it to cross this legendary border? Will he find his dad in the vast world of Minecraft? And if so, how? Why has his dad been missing for 14 years?Author's Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft ®/TM & © 2009-2013 Mojang / Notch

The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries (Book 1)

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533603685
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries (Book 1) written by Mark Mulle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENRE: Children's Adventure (An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen) Book 1: The Edge This is the story of a Snow Golem called Edd. Living in a community with other Snow Golems such as his mother, Ann and his best friend, Han, Edd grew up without his father, who had left the community 14 years ago, when Edd was only a few days old. As time passed, Edd's desire to leave the community and explore the world, just like his dad did, only grew. He also wanted to find his dad and know what he had been doing all this time. But Edd's dream of going on an adventure is not well received in the community. The Snow Golems are known for inhabiting snowy areas and biomes, such as the tundra. In Edd's community, the Snow Golems are safe within a huge tundra where they've been living for many generations. However, there's a border where the tundra meets the other biome, a forest, and this border is called The Edge by the Snow Golems. No one has ever witnessed a Snow Golem cross the edge alive, because The Edge is said to be the limit of where a Snow Golem can go. Crossing it could melt them right away. The Snow Elder, the leader of the community, has been telling everyone about this tale for many years. But despite his advice, Edd wants to cross this dangerous Edge and live an adventure. He wants to find his long lost dad, and come back home with him. Will Edd ignore the Elder's advice and cross The Edge? How dangerous is it to cross this legendary border? Will he find his dad in the vast world of Minecraft? And if so, how? Why has his dad been missing for 14 years? Author's Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft (r)/TM & (c) 2009-2013 Mojang / Notc

The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries Trilogy

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534796645
Total Pages : 170 pages
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Download or read book The Fearless Snow Golem's Diaries Trilogy written by Mark Mulle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENRE: Children's Adventure (An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen) Book 1: The Edge This is the story of a Snow Golem called Edd. Living in a community with other Snow Golems such as his mother, Ann and his best friend, Han, Edd grew up without his father, who had left the community 14 years ago, when Edd was only a few days old. As time passed, Edd's desire to leave the community and explore the world, just like his dad did, only grew. He also wanted to find his dad and know what he had been doing all this time. But Edd's dream of going on an adventure is not well received in the community. The Snow Golems are known for inhabiting snowy areas and biomes, such as the tundra. In Edd's community, the Snow Golems are safe within a huge tundra where they've been living for many generations. However, there's a border where the tundra meets the other biome, a forest, and this border is called The Edge by the Snow Golems. No one has ever witnessed a Snow Golem cross the edge alive, because The Edge is said to be the limit of where a Snow Golem can go. Crossing it could melt them right away. The Snow Elder, the leader of the community, has been telling everyone about this tale for many years. But despite his advices, Edd wants to cross this dangerous Edge and live an adventure. He wants to find his long lost dad, and come back home with him. Will Edd ignore the Elder's advice and cross The Edge? How dangerous is it to cross this legendary border? Will he find his dad in the vast world of Minecraft? And if so, how? Why has his dad been missing for 14 years? Book 2: Exploring the Overworld Snow Golem Edd struggled to leave the community where he lived with the other Snow Golems. The Snow Elder and the other inhabitants didn't agree with his plan of leaving the place to explore the world and find his dad. Crossing The Edge, which separated the tundra from the other biomes was the biggest taboo in the community's history, and according to the rumors, trespassing this forbidden border could melt a Snow Golem. Despite all criticisms and rumors, Edd took the courage needed to cross The Edge, right in front of the entire Snow Golem community, who witnessed a Golem doing that for the first time. Edd's father had crossed it 14 years prior to that day, but his mother was the only one who witnessed it. Now, free from the chains of the community, Edd is ready for a new adventure in the world of Minecraft. He intends to find other creatures and communities, and meet new races. But what Edd is bound to find is much worse than he thought, and he will discover that this world is full of injustices that must be dealt with. Book 3: Finding Dad Snow Golem Edd left his home from the Snow Golem community to explore the world and find his missing father. He knew, from the very beginning, that this would not be an easy and safe journey, but Edd was determined to go on. He met many different creatures during his trip, such as the villagers and even humans. But Edd was completely unaware that the relationship between these two mobs would cost him his freedom... Edd will have to deal with risky situations, and he will also learn that in this world, not everything is as easy as it seems. Trying to change everything might cost someone more than they're willing to give up. If that isn't enough, Edd still needs to find his father and take him back home. This quest seems like an impossible mission; one in which Edd may not have the opportunity to complete if he doesn't deal with his other issues first. Author's Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft (r)/TM & (c) 2009-2013 Mojang / Notc

Blindsight

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hammer of Witches

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Publisher : Tu Books
ISBN 13 : 9781600609879
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Hammer of Witches written by Shana Mlawski and published by Tu Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued by a secret witch-hunting arm of the Inquisition, 14-year-old bookmaker's apprentice Baltasar joins Columbus' expedition to escape and discovers secrets about his own past that his family had tried to keep hidden.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass

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ISBN 13 : 1250077737
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Book Synopsis Girls Made of Snow and Glass by : Melissa Bashardoust

Download or read book Girls Made of Snow and Glass written by Melissa Bashardoust and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Bashardoust’s acclaimed debut novel Girls Made of Snow and Glass is “Snow White as it’s never been told before...a feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed” (BookPage)! “Utterly superb.” —ALA Booklist, starred review “Dark, fantastical, hauntingly evocative.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “An empowering and progressive original retelling.” —SLJ, starred review Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone—has never beat at all, in fact, but she’d always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king’s heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she’ll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen’s image, at her father’s order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do—and who to be—to win back the only mother she’s ever known...or else defeat her once and for all. Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all, while the other must lose everything—unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.

The Frozen Rabbi

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200529
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Frozen Rabbi written by Steve Stern and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Eliezer ben Zephyr is inadvertently frozen in 1890 and, after being transported to twenty-first century Memphis, is accidently thawed by fifteen-year-old Bernie Karp, who begins to follow the rabbi's teachings with unforeseen consequences.

Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596437308
Total Pages : 67 pages
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Book Synopsis Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special by : James Sturm

Download or read book Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special written by James Sturm and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about the magical cartooning elf and a brave knight creating a book for children for Christmas introduces information about story elements, rhyming text, and creating comic strips.

He, She and It

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473583284
Total Pages : 578 pages
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Book Synopsis He, She and It by : Marge Piercy

Download or read book He, She and It written by Marge Piercy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She is a serious writer who deserves the sort of considered attention which, too often, she does not get...' MARGARET ATWOOD In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions - and the ability to kill... From the critically acclaimed author of Woman on the Edge of Time, comes another stunning novel of morality and courage. A Pygmallion tale for the modern age, this classic feminist speculative novel won the Arthur C Clark Award.

Hell's Angels

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307826619
Total Pages : 289 pages
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Download or read book Hell's Angels written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

A Monster Calls

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Publisher : Thorndike Striving Reader
ISBN 13 : 9781432875831
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A Monster Calls written by Patrick Ness and published by Thorndike Striving Reader. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.

Tsunami Girl

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Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1913101495
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Download or read book Tsunami Girl written by Julian Sedgwick and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part-manga, part-prose powerful coming-of-age story about a fifteen-year-old girl caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

The Eyeless (Book 1)

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ISBN 13 : 9781539111023
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Book Synopsis The Eyeless (Book 1) by : Mark Mulle

Download or read book The Eyeless (Book 1) written by Mark Mulle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENRE: Children's Adventure (An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen) Book 1: Saving Alex Steve is just an ordinary person, working hard to get his fill in the harsh Overworld. But one morning when he sets out for a mining trip with his best friend Alex, things go wrong. Mobs are behaving strangely and zombies have kidnapped Alex. He needs to find her and bring her to safety; all while being watched by a strange figure in the fog. Author's Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen, Creeper or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft (r)/TM & (c) 2009-2013 Mojang / Notc

The Awakening

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Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444900712
Total Pages : 389 pages
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Download or read book The Awakening written by L. J. Smith and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elena's discovers her exciting new boyfriend is actually a vampire.

What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: an (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle

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ISBN 13 : 9781938221316
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: an (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle's own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance--a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Editor Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation--her "bringing to life"--writes Rudick, "is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle's life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness." Born in France, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her Tirs ("shooting paintings") and Nanas and her celebrated large-scale projects--including the Stravinsky Fountain at the Centre Pompidou, Golem in Jerusalem and the Tarot Garden in Tuscany--Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021. Nicole Rudick is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the Paris Review for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter's legendary comic Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise (New York Review Comics, 2021).

Spain, a Global History

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ISBN 13 : 9788494938115
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Spain, a Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Liquid Life

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ISBN 13 : 9781950192182
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Life written by Rachel Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is what remains when logical explanations can no longer account for the experiences that we recognize as part of "being alive."Liquid Life references a third-millennial understanding of matter that seeks to restore the agency of the liquid soul for an ecological era, which has been banished by reductionist, "brute" materialist discourses and mechanical models of life. Offering an alternative worldview of the living realm through a "new materialist" and "liquid" study of matter, Armstrong conjures forth examples of creatures that do not obey mechanistic concepts like predictability, efficiency, and rationality. With the advent of molecular science, an increasingly persuasive ontology of liquid technologies can be identified. Through the lens of lifelike dynamic droplets, the agency for these systems exists at the interfaces between different fields of matter/energy that respond to highly local effects, with no need for a central organizing system.Liquid Life seeks an alternative partnership between humanity and the natural world. It provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of language, which explores the transformative invocations of prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and designing with fluids. A conceptual and practical toolset for thinking and designing, liquid life reunites us with the irreducible "soul substance" of living things, which will neither be simply "solved," nor go away.