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Download or read book The Watchbird written by Philip Rushlow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time she entered her middle years Sunny Raymond was disappointed. She found men to be generally unskilled and uncaring lovers, something she was certain she could correct in young Richard Saunders. She trained him well but unfortunately the world began to turn upside down just as her student reached his peak years, years during which the women for whom he was trained, began to exercise social dominance. What is a man, trained for one kind of world, to do when that world gives way to a new order? Does he become an uncaring technician? And how do these young, aggressive and take-charge women view him? Does he become a challenge or a toy?
Download or read book Watchbird written by Robert Sheckley and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley, a Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author. The story deals with the subject of artificial intelligence and the questions that arise from allowing them to have the power to decide right from wrong. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.
Book Synopsis Fly Away, Watchbird! by : Munro Leaf
Download or read book Fly Away, Watchbird! written by Munro Leaf and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notions: Unlimited by : Robert Sheckley
Download or read book Notions: Unlimited written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Gray Flannel Armor,” a man named Hanley finds perfection in a rigidly regular structure of social interaction—including for romance—and devises a system that the whole of humanity adopts. The eleven other stories in this collection are “Gray Flannel Armor,” “The Leech,” “Watchbird,” “A Wind Is Rising,” “Morning After,” “The Native Problem,” “Feeding Time,” “Paradise II,” “Double Indemnity,” “Holdout,” “Dawn Invader,” and “The Language of Love.” From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”
Book Synopsis Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture by : Amie A. Doughty
Download or read book Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture written by Amie A. Doughty and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture. The contributions include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf and their attempts to teach morals and manners; an ethnographic study about the role of public youth librarians; and an exploration of the role popular video games can play in the secondary classroom. Other topics investigated here encompass the presentation of environmentalism in Hayao Miyazaki’s films, psychological analyses, and the role of race, gender, and culture in children’s and YA literature.
Book Synopsis Store of the Worlds by : Robert Sheckley
Download or read book Store of the Worlds written by Robert Sheckley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of Sheckley’s deadpan farces, proving once again that he belongs beside such mordant critics of contemporary mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.
Book Synopsis The Birds of Aristophanes by : Aristophanes
Download or read book The Birds of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Birds of Artistophanes by : Aristophanes
Download or read book The Birds of Artistophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Birds of Aristophanes as Performed by Members of the University at the Theatre Royal, Cambridge, November 1883 by : Aristophanes
Download or read book The Birds of Aristophanes as Performed by Members of the University at the Theatre Royal, Cambridge, November 1883 written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Birds of Aristophanes, as performed by members of the University at Cambridge, Nov. 1883, with the Engl. version of B.H. Kennedy by : Aristophanes
Download or read book The Birds of Aristophanes, as performed by members of the University at Cambridge, Nov. 1883, with the Engl. version of B.H. Kennedy written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robots That Kill by : Judith A. Markowitz
Download or read book Robots That Kill written by Judith A. Markowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes real-world killer robots using a blend of perspectives. Overviews of technologies, such as autonomy and artificial intelligence, demonstrate how science enables these robots to be effective killers. Incisive analyses of social controversies swirling around the design and use of killer robots reveal that science, alone, will not govern their future. Among those disputes is whether fully-autonomous, robotic weapons should be banned. Examinations of killers from the golem to Frankenstein's monster reveal that artificially-created beings like them are precursors of real 21st century killer robots. This book laces the death and destruction caused by all these killers with science and humor. The seamless combination of these elements produces a deeper and richer understanding of the robots around us.
Book Synopsis Frek and the Elixir by : Rudy Rucker
Download or read book Frek and the Elixir written by Rudy Rucker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone. Frek Huggins is a boy from a broken family, unusual becaise he was conceived without technological help or genetic modifications. His dad, Carb, is a malcontent who left behind Frek's mom and the Earth itself several years ago. Everything changes when Frek finds the Anvil, a small flying saucer, under his bed, and it tells him he is destined to save the world. The repressive forces of Gov, the mysterious absolute ruler of Earth, descend on Frek, take away the Anvil, and interrogate him forcefully enough to damage his memory. Frek flees with Wow, his talking dog, to seek out Carb and some answers. But the untrustworthy alien in the saucer has other plans, including claiming exclusive rights to market humanity to the galaxy at large, and making Frek a hero. Frek and the Elixir is a profound, playful SF epic by the wild and ambitious Rudy Rucker.
Book Synopsis The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by : Andrea Bobotis
Download or read book The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt written by Andrea Bobotis and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrea Bobotis is a new, original voice as Southern as they come! In The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt, she unravels a complicated web of dirty Southern secrets. Using masterful writing and a perfectly calculated reveal of damaged history, she ends up weaving a tapestry that is so much more."—LEAH WEISS, bestselling author of If the Creek Don't Rise In the hard-luck cotton town of Bound, South Carolina, some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere far away. Judith Kratt inherited everything her family had to offer—the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder no one talks about. She's presided over the Carolina house quite well, thank you very much, with a little help from her companion, Olva. When her wayward sister suddenly returns, Judith must make an inventory of all that belongs to them—and her sister is determined to include the skeletons the Kratt family had hoped to take to their graves. Interweaving the present with chilling flashbacks from one fateful evening in 1929, Judith pieces together the devastating influence of the Kratt family on their small South Carolina cotton town, learning that the effects of dark family secrets can last a lifetime and beyond. Perfect for fans of Kim Michele Richardson, Hannah Pittard, and Sue Monk Kidd—Andrea Bobotis presents a book of small-town, Southern charm and dark family drama.
Book Synopsis Computer After Me, The: Awareness And Self-awareness In Autonomic Systems by : Jeremy Pitt
Download or read book Computer After Me, The: Awareness And Self-awareness In Autonomic Systems written by Jeremy Pitt and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are increasingly seeing computer systems which are expected to function without operator intervention. This is perhaps acceptable for running computer networks or traffic lights; however, we are now seeing computer systems deployed to qualitatively influence human judgments such as rulings on legal disputes or fitness for work to evaluate disability benefits. In keeping with the precautionary principle, it is important that those who are developing this capability — technologists and scientists — think through its potential implications.The aim of this book is to explore the technological and social and implications of computers and robots becoming increasingly ‘aware’ of their environment and the people in it, and their being increasingly ‘self-aware’ of their own existence within it.The wide-ranging scope of the text covers three different angles of the concept of ‘the computer after me’: (1) the next generation of computationally powerful aware systems; (2) systems in which the computer is aware of qualitatively impact human concerns such as law, health and rules; and (3) computers and robots which are aware of themselves.
Book Synopsis Bessie Meek Carrington by : William Carrington
Download or read book Bessie Meek Carrington written by William Carrington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.
Book Synopsis The World's Eye by : Albert M. Potts
Download or read book The World's Eye written by Albert M. Potts and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek vases and Peruvian bottles, Chinese bronzes and African masks, Tel Brak idols and Egyptian tomb paintings—artifacts ancient and modern reveal man's universal fascination with the eye and his awe before its mysterious powers. In this wide-ranging and richly illustrated essay Albert M. Potts considers the special properties the human mind has ascribed to the eye over the millenia and seeks out its peculiar significance as symbol. Amulets against the Evil Eye persist today in nearly every part of the world. Almost as pervasive is the conception of the Good Eye, itself used as a protective amulet. The Eye of Horus, for example, was one of the holiest symbols of the ancient Egyptian religion, and its descendants can still be found in the Mediterranean basin. Using artifacts and texts, the folklore of our own times, and aspects of the unconscious revealed by Jungian psychology, Potts reveals the diverse forms and meanings of this powerful symbol.
Book Synopsis Drinking the Rain by : Alix Kates Shulman
Download or read book Drinking the Rain written by Alix Kates Shulman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life. “A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman's honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives.” —San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
