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Book Synopsis Beneath the Floating City by : Donna Maree Hanson
Download or read book Beneath the Floating City written by Donna Maree Hanson and published by Donna Maree Hanson. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Floating City, SF short story collection. Shortlisted for a 2017 Aurealis Award for collected work! The Australian Aurealis Awards are the top speculative fiction awards. A collection of seven science fiction tales by Donna Maree Hanson. Featuring, Beneath the Floating City, Green, Green Grass of Homeworld, Night of Masks and Spears, Warning Buoy, Lake Absence, Other and Abandoned Time.
Download or read book Floating City written by Sudhir Venkatesh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole city. Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, Floating City exposes the underground as the city’s true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity—revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A memoir of sociological investigation, Floating City draws from Venkatesh’s decade of research within the affluent communities of Upper East Side socialites and Midtown businessmen, the drug gangs of Harlem and the sex workers of Brooklyn, the artists of Tribeca and the escort services of Hell’s Kitchen. Venkatesh arrived in the city after his groundbreaking research in Chicago, where crime remained stubbornly local: gangs stuck to their housing projects and criminals stayed on their corners. But in Floating City, Venkatesh discovers that New York’s underground economy unites instead of divides inhabitants: a vast network of “off the books” transactions linking the high and low worlds of the city. Venkatesh shows how dealing in drugs and sex and undocumented labor bridges the conventional divides between rich and poor, unmasking a city knit together by the invisible threads of the underground economy. Venkatesh closely follows a dozen New Yorkers locked in the underground economy. His greatest guide is Shine, an African American drug boss based in Harlem who hopes to break into the elusive, upscale cocaine market. Without connections among wealthy whites, Shine undertakes an audacious campaign of self-reinvention, leaving behind the certainties of race and class with all the drive of the greatest entrepreneurs. As Shine explains to Venkatesh, “This is New York! We’re like hummingbirds, man. We go flower to flower. . . . Here, you need to float.” Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy chronicles Venkatesh’s decade of discovery and loss in the shifting terrain of New York, where research subjects might disappear suddenly and new allies emerge by chance, where close friends might reveal themselves to be criminals of the lowest order. Propelled by Venkatesh’s numerous interviews and firsthand research, Floating City at its heart is a story of one man struggling to understand a complex global city constantly in the throes of becoming.
Book Synopsis Floating City by : Anne Pierson Wiese
Download or read book Floating City written by Anne Pierson Wiese and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.
Book Synopsis Floating City by : Eric Van Lustbader
Download or read book Floating City written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.
Book Synopsis A Floating City and the Blockade Runners by : Jules Verne
Download or read book A Floating City and the Blockade Runners written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Floating City and the Blockade Runners by Jules Verne, first published in 1904, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book A Floating City written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Floating City written by Kerri Sakamoto and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prize-winning author of The Electrical Field comes Citizen Kane reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.
Book Synopsis The Floating Islands by : Rachel Neumeier
Download or read book The Floating Islands written by Rachel Neumeier and published by Bluefire. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called the Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.
Book Synopsis Life in the Floating City by : AR. Neal
Download or read book Life in the Floating City written by AR. Neal and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Floating City written by Jules Verne and published by Fredonia Books (NL). This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's own trip to the United States in 1867.
Download or read book Ralph 124C 41+ written by Hugo Gernsback and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eponymous protagonist saves the life of the heroine by directing energy remotely at an approaching avalanche. As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know..." The hero finally rescues the heroine by travelling into space on his own "space flyer" to rescue her from the villain's clutches.
Book Synopsis Marvels of a Floating City and Other Stories by : Xi, Xi
Download or read book Marvels of a Floating City and Other Stories written by Xi, Xi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Midnight, Water City by : Chris McKinney
Download or read book Midnight, Water City written by Chris McKinney and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under threat, so after years without contact, she reaches out to her former head of security, who has since become a police detective. When he arrives at her deep-sea home and finds Akira methodically dismembered, this detective will risk everything—his career, his family, even his own life—and delve back into his shared past with Akira to find her killer. With a rich, cinematic voice and burning cynicism, Midnight, Water City is both a thrilling neo-noir procedural and a stunning exploration of research, class, climate change, the cult of personality, and the dark sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of progress.
Book Synopsis Ralph 124C 41+ (Sci-Fi Classic) by : Hugo Gernsback
Download or read book Ralph 124C 41+ (Sci-Fi Classic) written by Hugo Gernsback and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eponymous protagonist saves the life of the heroine by directing energy remotely at an approaching avalanche. As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know..." The hero finally rescues the heroine by travelling into space on his own "space flyer" to rescue her from the villain's clutches.
Book Synopsis 10 Greate Books of the Science Fiction Founders (illustrated) by : Mary W. Shelley
Download or read book 10 Greate Books of the Science Fiction Founders (illustrated) written by Mary W. Shelley and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 1681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you hear Sci-Fi, do your normally think of Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, or George Orwell? Or do some more recent authors come to mind? Looking for your next sci-fi must-read? We've pulled together some of the favourite science fiction novels. Some are eerily plausible, others are wild trips of the imagination, but all present compelling visions of our possible future. Science fiction quite literally means the literature of change; this includes all the modern day technological and scientific advancements to create an imaginative future. Some of these are classic tales you will surely know, but others are excellent works of science fiction that may have been flying under the radar. Contents: 1. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus; ill. D. Fisher 2. Robert Louis Stevenson: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race 4. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds; ill. D. Fisher 5. Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 6. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt 7. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars 8. Jack London: The Scarlet Plague 9. William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland 10. Hugo Gernsback: Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660
Book Synopsis Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth by : Jeff Dondero
Download or read book Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth written by Jeff Dondero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities, will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more. But how will these cities accommodate such masses? Who will build them and where? How can they be sustained and their inhabitants provided for? Here, Jeff Dondero imagines the super cities of the future and explores the ways in which they can be sustainably built, how transportation will move masses of people without cars, how people will be fed and where waste will go, and how we will move to cities underground, under the sea, in the atmosphere, into space and on to other planets. It describes some of the smart systems for buildings and homes and some of the new ways food and materials enough for such masses will be supplied. Will super cities be the answer to our bursting population? And if they will, how can we best sustain and supply them? Dondero offers suggestions and a blueprint for the future.
Book Synopsis Through These Eyes by : Donna Maree Hanson
Download or read book Through These Eyes written by Donna Maree Hanson and published by Donna Maree Hanson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through These Eyes Have you ever wondered what is real? Are everyday things just as they seem or is there a secret world just beyond our perception? One that bends and shifts as it hides from our sight? Eleven tales of speculative fiction from Australian author, Donna Maree Hanson
