Monsters

Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110115344X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep written by Loren Coleman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the deep have been reported in sightings throughout the twentieth century. Now, two of the world's leading cryptozoological investigators provide a globetrotting field guide to when, where, and what kind of mysterious aquatic beasts have gripped the public—and sometimes the scientific—imagination. Filled with comprehensive drawings, classifications, and maps, their book offers an invaluable and unusual resource for the intrepidly curious to investigate these sightings firsthand or to simply enjoy the fascinating accounts that others have given.

Author : Carol Rose
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322118
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giants Monsters and Dragons written by Carol Rose and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.

Author : Rhyd Wildermuth
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1915672082
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Be Monsters written by Rhyd Wildermuth and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and engaging history of how left radicalism went wrong and how it can become what it must be again. Here Be Monsters speaks to a left that has forgotten its history, its potential, and its power. Gramsci spoke of a time of monsters or morbid symptoms. In the ancient world, monsters were not enemies, but rather divine warnings, symptoms of a world out of balance. Here Be Monsters meets these monsters and listens to what they have to tell us. Interweaving personal stories with engaging histories of political thought and the meanings of monsters, Rhyd Wildermuth reveals the roots of current identity conflicts and political contradictions in feminism, anti-racist theory, Marxism, Frankfurt School theorists, and the many other leftist attempts to put the world back into balance. The left has always been the province of dreamers and visionaries, or as Ursula K. Le Guin named them, “realists of a larger reality.” Here Be Monsters is an urgent and deeply engaging narrative to help us remember that reality once more.

Author : David Livingstone Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674269772
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Monsters written by David Livingstone Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn’t. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphor—dehumanization really does happen in our minds. Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the politics of demonization and violence.

Author : Victoria Ryan O'Toole
Publisher : Urban Fox Studios
ISBN 13 : 1935973495
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molly Moccasins - Monsters Everywhere written by Victoria Ryan O'Toole and published by Urban Fox Studios. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Moccasins is a new kind of book series calling all young adventurers to read, play, think, imagine and investigate. It’s for kids of all ages, supports early learning, literacy development and it also connects young adventurers to the world of fun available to them in their everyday lives. In this story, Molly discovers that monsters can seem like they’re everywhere, but they’re really only in your imagination!

Author : Spyros Syropoulos
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919519
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology written by Spyros Syropoulos and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the realm of the imaginary world of Greek mythology and present the reader with a categorization of monstrosity, referring to some of the most noted examples in each category.

Author : Niall Scott
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022531
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters and the Monstrous written by Niall Scott and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.

Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423162889
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters, Inc.: Scared Silly written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sulley is the best Scarer in all of Monstropolis. With the help of his best pal Mike, Sulley brings back the most screams to the city to be converted into energy. But when Mike begins to wonder what it would be like to be a Scarer himself, he is determined to show Sulley he can be scary, too! There's just one problem: whenever he tries to scare Sulley, Sulley ends up laughing instead! Can Mike manage to scare Sulley, or will he be the jokester monster forever?

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590434409
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes & Monsters of Greek Myth written by Bernard Evslin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of all the great tales of Greek mythology in language that is simple, swift and highly dramatic.

Author : Jaroslav Svelch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047756
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Player vs. Monster written by Jaroslav Svelch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves. Since the early days of video games, monsters have played pivotal roles as dangers to be avoided, level bosses to be defeated, or targets to be destroyed for extra points. But why is the figure of the monster so important in gaming, and how have video games come to shape our culture’s conceptions of monstrosity? To answer these questions, Player vs. Monster explores the past half-century of monsters in games, from the dragons of early tabletop role-playing games and the pixelated aliens of Space Invaders to the malformed mutants of The Last of Us and the bizarre beasts of Bloodborne, and reveals the common threads among them. Covering examples from aliens to zombies, Jaroslav Švelch explores the art of monster design and traces its influences from mythology, visual arts, popular culture, and tabletop role-playing games. At the same time, he shows that video games follow the Cold War–era notion of clearly defined, calculable enemies, portraying monsters as figures that are irredeemably evil yet invariably vulnerable to defeat. He explains the appeal of such simplistic video game monsters, but also explores how the medium could evolve to present more nuanced depictions of monstrosity.