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The Golden Age

Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429915609
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by John C. Wright and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new writer in the genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Golden Age

Author : Kenneth Grahame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Golden Age

Author : Tahmima Anam
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184751400
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book A Golden Age written by Tahmima Anam and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.

The Golden Age, Book 1

Author : Roxanne Moreil
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250777038
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age, Book 1 written by Roxanne Moreil and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A medieval saga with political intrigue reminiscent of Game of Thrones, The Golden Age is an epic graphic novel duology from Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa about utopia and revolution. In the kingdom of Lantrevers, suffering is a way of life—unless you’re a member of the ruling class. Princess Tilda plans to change all that. As the rightful heir of late King Ronan, Tilda wants to deliver her people from famine and strife. But on the eve of her coronation, her younger brother, backed by a cabal of power-hungry lords, usurps her throne and casts her into exile. Now Tilda is on the run. With the help of her last remaining allies, Tankred and Bertil, she travels in secret through the hinterland of her kingdom. Wherever she goes, the common folk whisper of a legendary bygone era when all men lived freely. There are those who want to return to this golden age—at any cost. In the midst of revolution, how can Tilda reclaim her throne?

The Golden Age, Book 2

Author : Roxanne Moreil
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 125086142X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age, Book 2 written by Roxanne Moreil and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the epic cliffhanger in volume one, The Golden Age Book 2 concludes this exciting, medieval graphic novel duology. Tilda began her journey wanting to free her people from the iron fist of the ruling class—but she has lost her way. Obsessed with reclaiming her stolen throne, she forces her army to continue waging a futile war without pay or food. She has become what she hated: a heartless ruler. And the threat of rebellion begins to boil. To save Tilda from herself, Tankred forges a secret alliance with Hellier, the leader of the populous revolution. With their help, Tilda could win the war. But she’d have to give her power back to her people. Will Tilda realize the error of her ways and help her people be truly free? Or will the kingdom burn?

The Golden Age

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375724818
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communism—developments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell—and Gore Vidal himself. The Golden Age offers up U.S. history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that is not only sure to be a major bestseller but that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power.

The Golden Age

Author : Joan London
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1787700364
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by Joan London and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 A moving story about transition between illness and recovery, childhood and maturity, life and death. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family escaped from Hungary and the perils of WW2 to the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival Frank is diagnosed with polio. Sent to a sprawling children's hospital called The Golden Age, he nds Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, and a vocation for poetry. Frank and Elsa fall in love, fuelling one another's rehabilitation and facing the perils of polio and adolescence hand in hand. Meanwhile Frank and Elsa's parents must cope with their changing realities. Margaret, who has sacri ced everything to be a perfect mother, must reconcile her hopes and dreams with her daughter's illness. Frank's parents are isolated newcomers in a country they don't love. Ida, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home, while her husband Meyer slowly begins to free himself from the past and nd his place in the Perth of the early 1950s.

Return of the Golden Age

Author : Edward F. Malkowski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620551985
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Return of the Golden Age written by Edward F. Malkowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of peace and abundance • Reveals the events preserved in myth that launched humanity into 12,000 years of struggle, selfishness, and false beliefs • Explores how we can initiate a new Golden Age through ancient Egyptian teachings on the creative power of our imaginations • Explains how our world system of economics, which benefits a few at the expense of the many, arose as a reaction to global catastrophe in prehistory Since the beginning of recorded history humanity has been in a continuous struggle over land and resources. It continues today despite the abundance we have created through scientific innovation and technology. Why such a struggle for resources exists has never been explained. Neither has the human drive to own, accumulate, and hoard. Edward Malkowski reveals that the answer lies in recognizing the reality behind humanity’s earliest myths. He shows that the opportunity is at hand to transcend these inherited selfish traits and return to a Golden Age of peace and abundance. Malkowski explores the hidden meaning behind stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato’s Atlantis, and myths of a new sky and a new sun, of great floods and the death of the gods, and of the preceding Golden Age. He connects these myths to a real extinction event that occurred 12,000 years ago. He explains how the survivors--our ancestors--were catapulted from utopia into a world of scarcity, scarring the collective mind of humanity and initiating the struggle for resources in an attempt to regain our lost paradise. He shows how our world system of economics, focused on ownership and based on the false belief of separateness--benefitting a few at the expense of the many--arose as a reaction to this catastrophe. Drawing on the pre-catastrophe teachings preserved by the ancient Egyptians, Malkowski reveals that we are returning to a celestial configuration parallel to that of the past Golden Age. Through our collective DNA memory and the creative power of our imaginations, we can end our 12,000-year quest to regain paradise lost and launch a new Golden Age of unity, abundance, and equality for all humanity.

Apocalypse and Golden Age

Author : Christopher Star
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441632
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse and Golden Age written by Christopher Star and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates the various ways that ancient Greek and Roman authors envisioned the end of the world and the role they gave to global catastrophes, both past and future, in shaping human history"--

The Golden Age of Botanical Art

Author : Martyn Rix
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611984X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Botanical Art written by Martyn Rix and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century heralded a golden age of exploration, as intrepid travelers sailed around the world to gain firsthand knowledge of previously unknown continents. These explorers also collected the world’s most beautiful flora, and often their findings were recorded for posterity by talented professional artists. The Golden Age of Botanical Art tells the story of these exciting plant-hunting journeys and marries it with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork they produced. Covering work through the nineteenth century, this lavishly illustrated book offers readers a look at 250 rare or unpublished images by some of the world’s most important botanical artists. Truly global in its scope, The Golden Age of Botanical Art features work by artists from Europe, China, and India, recording plants from places as disparate as Africa and South America. Martyn Rix has compiled the stories and art not only of well-known figures—such as Leonardo da Vinci and the artists of Empress Josephine Bonaparte—but also of those adventurous botanists and painters whose names and work have been forgotten. A celebration of both extraordinarily beautiful plant life and the globe-trotting men and women who found and recorded it, The Golden Age of Botanical Art will enchant gardeners and art lovers alike.

The Golden Age of the Classics in America

Author : Carl J Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054490
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the Classics in America written by Carl J Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. The Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system in a way that steadily eroded the preeminence of the classics.

The Golden Age of the Newspaper

Author : George H. Douglas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313371334
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the Newspaper written by George H. Douglas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s to the coming of radio news around 1930, the American newspaper celebrated its Golden Age and years of greatest influence on society. Born in response to a thirst for news in large eastern cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, the mood of the modern metropolitan papers eventually spread throughout the nation. Douglas tells the story of the great innovators of the American press—men like Bennett, Greeley, Bryant, Dana, Pulitzer, Hearst, and Scripps. He details the development of the bond between newspapers and the citizens of a democratic republic and how the newspapers molded themselves into a distinctly American character to become an intimate part of daily life. Technological developments in papermaking, typesetting, and printing, as well as the growth of advertising, gradually made possible huge metropolitan dailies with circulations in the hundreds of thousands. Soon journalism became a way of life for a host of publishers, editors, and reporters, including the early presence of a significant number of women. Eventually, feature sections arose, including comics, sports, puzzles, cartoons, advice columns, and sections for women and children. The hometown daily gave way to larger and impersonal newspaper chains in the early twentieth century. This comprehensive and lively account tells the story of how newspapers have influenced public opinion and how public demand has in turn affected the presentation of the news.

The Golden Age of Murder

Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0008105979
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Murder written by Martin Edwards and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.

Golden Age

Author : Wang Xiaobo
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241634226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Golden Age written by Wang Xiaobo and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him' Ai Weiwei 'Fills the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh out loud' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the riotously funny story of their illicit love affair, the Party officials who enjoy their forced confessions a little too much, and Wang's life under the Communist regime: his misadventures as a biology lecturer in a Beijing university, and his entanglements with family, friends and lovers. Golden Age is an explosive, subversive, wild and hilarious satire, featuring one of literature's great protagonists, a sensation when it was published in the 1990s and beloved today.

The Golden Age

Author : Elizabeth Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443889063
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by Elizabeth Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term The Golden Age. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term Golden Age typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, as many nostalgic sentiments are not idealised, and may indeed be dark, ironic or self-aware. There are, of course, many other ways to characterise the relationship between the Golden Age and nostalgia, and the tension between the two can produce myths and romantic idylls, or, in religious terms, images of pre-lapsarian innocence, or dogmas relating to values associated with childhood. The Golden Age is also often used to refer to specific, respected periods of cultural production in all kinds of literature and visual media. Indeed, nearly every period, genre, nation, and cultural form has some kind of mythic, often illusory, Golden Age against which it is defined, and in which nostalgia often plays a part. This collection interrogates the notion of the Golden Age and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image. It will interest scholars working on the subject of the Golden Age/nostalgia, particularly in English literature, film studies, comics studies, history, and the fine arts.

Queen of the Golden Age

Author : Cornelius Vanderbilt (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Golden Age written by Cornelius Vanderbilt (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hunters of the Golden Age

Author : Wil Roebroeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hunters of the Golden Age written by Wil Roebroeks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 30,000 to 20,000 bp can be aptly called the Golden Age of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this volume.