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Author : Octavia Butler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598536753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA #338) written by Octavia Butler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of the complete works of the "grand dame" of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists—“I wrote myself in,” she would later recall—establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre–Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays—including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler’s life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler’s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.

Author : Rosamond Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780349105208
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow written by Rosamond Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918. Published to mark the 40th anniversary of Stalin's death, this is the story of four generations of Alliluyevs from 1860 to the present, mainly in their own words, and an exploration of how far the sins of the fathers reach down through the generations.

Author : Mark Watson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451607288
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleven written by Mark Watson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xavier Ireland is the assumed name of a radio-show host with a devoted following of listeners riveted by the sleepless loners who call in throughout the night to seek his advice. Off the air, he leads a low-key life of avoiding his neighbors, playing Scrabble, and maintaining an awkward friendship with his cohost, Murray. But his life begins to change when he meets a cleaning lady named Pippa, who becomes a constant, surprisingly necessary presence in his life as he starts facing up to his past and discovering solace and redemption in the most unexpected places. British comedian Mark Watson’s North American debut humorously and poignantly explores life and death, strangers and friends, heartache and comfort, and whether the choices we don’t make affect us just as powerfully as the ones we do.

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Author : Timothy Polashek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810884178
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word Rhythm Dictionary written by Timothy Polashek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of “rhythm rhymes” by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar to us in everything from vers libre poetry to the lyrics and music of Bob Dylan and hip hop groups.

Author : Eric Carl Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052467
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction written by Eric Carl Link and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913536
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Species Meet written by Donna J. Haraway and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and technologies—includes much more than “companion animals.” In When Species Meet, Donna J. Haraway digs into this larger phenomenon to contemplate the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic. At the heart of the book are her experiences in agility training with her dogs Cayenne and Roland, but Haraway’s vision here also encompasses wolves, chickens, cats, baboons, sheep, microorganisms, and whales wearing video cameras. From designer pets to lab animals to trained therapy dogs, she deftly explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of animal–human encounters. In this deeply personal yet intellectually groundbreaking work, Haraway develops the idea of companion species, those who meet and break bread together but not without some indigestion. “A great deal is at stake in such meetings,” she writes, “and outcomes are not guaranteed. There is no assured happy or unhappy ending-socially, ecologically, or scientifically. There is only the chance for getting on together with some grace.” Ultimately, she finds that respect, curiosity, and knowledge spring from animal–human associations and work powerfully against ideas about human exceptionalism.

Author : Michael J. Monahan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823234495
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creolizing Subject written by Michael J. Monahan and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims and methods of our struggles against racism? Traditionally, the Western political and philosophical tradition held that true social justice points toward a raceless future - that racial categories are themselves inherently racist, and a sincere advocacy for social justice requires a commitmentto the elimination or abolition of race altogether. This book focuses on the underlying assumptions that inform this view of race and racism, arguing that it is ultimately bound up in a politics of purity - an understanding of human agency, and reality itself, as requiring all-or-nothing categories with clear and unambiguous boundaries. Racism, being organized around a conception of whiteness as the purest manifestation of the human, thus demands a constant policing of the boundaries amongracial categories. Drawing upon a close engagement with historical treatments of the development of racial categories and identities, the book argues that races should be understood not as clear and distinct categories of being but rather as ambiguous and indeterminate (yet importantly real) processes of social negotiation. As one of its central examples, it lays out the case of the Irish in seventeenth-century Barbados, who occasionally united with black slaves to fight white supremacy - and did so as white people, not as nonwhites who later became white when they capitulated to white supremacy. Against the politics of purity, Monahan calls for the emergence of a creolizing subjectivity that would place such ambiguity at the center of our understanding of race. The Creolizing Subject takes seriously the way in which racial categories, in all of their variety and ambiguity, situate and condition our identity, while emphasizing our capacity, as agents, to engage in the ongoingcontestation and negotiation of the meaning and significance of those very categories.

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1583228039
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloodchild and Other Stories written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself? Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.

Author : Corinne Hoisington
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781305871137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelly Cashman Series Microsoft Office 365 & Outlook 2016: Introductory written by Corinne Hoisington and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the latest advancements that Microsoft Outlook 2016 has to offer with MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & OUTLOOK 2016: INTRODUCTORY -- the new edition in today’s generation of acclaimed Shelly Cashman Series books. For more than three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has effectively introduced advanced computer skills to millions. MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & OUTLOOK 2016: INTRODUCTORY continues the Series’ strong history of innovation with a proven learning approach enhanced to address the varied learning styles of today’s learners. A trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach encourages readers to expand their understanding of Microsoft Outlook 2016 through experimentation, critical thought, and personalization. This new edition delivers effective educational materials specifically designed to introduce key features, improve retention, and prepare readers for future success with the latest Microsoft Outlook 2016. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.