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Thirty years of poems chronicle the sometimes turbulent marriage of two famed writers
Author : Yvan Goll
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781893996274
Thirty years of poems chronicle the sometimes turbulent marriage of two famed writers
Author : James Wylder
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781532987083
Explore the exciting Science-Fiction future of 10,000 Dawns in this Convention Exclusive Anthology! Featuring fan-favorite stories, plus brand new adventures never published before, you can delve into the depths of the lawless spacestation known as Magellan's Rat Maze, or travel to an alternate reality where Princesses and Dragons aren't what they appear. In a universe where portals to other realities are being developed... Anything is possible! Travel through space, hop through time, and learn all about the most amazing Sci-Fi Universe you've never read about before! Featuring stories by James Wylder ("An Eloguence of Time and Space", "Cryptos"), Rachel Johnson, Josephine Smiley, Jordan Stout, Miguel Ramirez, and Elizabeth Tock.Adventure awaits, just a page turn away...
Author : James Wyder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781540421463
"Humanity reached for the stars, and as its hand neared the edge of the solar system shrugged and said, "Eh, good enough." Its hundreds of years in the future, Mars and many moons have been colonized, and Graelyn Scythes is stuck on Earth with her cat. After she accepts an internship with Project Atlantis, an underwater city led by a mysterious visionary , Graelyn's easy job bringing coffee gets harder when she makes the choice to bring in a sinking Cyborg named Archimedes from the depths, and an experiment is taking place in Atlantis goes massively awry! Flung into another world, Graelyn finds another life she could have lived... A life where she is the most hated woman on Earth. Graelyn quickly becomes part of an adventure larger than herself... And herself, and herself... Now she has to survive a revolution, and figure out if she'll turn out to be that person herself: Revolutions, cyborgs, adventure, and cats await you in the 10,000 Dawns.
Author : James Wylder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781547082858
Dear Chess Mistress Hex, As requested, here is the summary of the report I wrote to you, detailing the adventures of your intern, Jhe Aladdin so that you can sell it online as a book. Inside you will find mind-stealing monsters from another universe, mechanics with steampunk limbs, unimaginable secrets, and a war spanning ten thousand universes. Also a very bad alternate rule set for chess. As you read the adventures of Aladdin, his bodyguard Aegenor, and their terrifying battle with a strange being called Memnor that can take your very memories, I hope you think about my paycheck and how it's simply too low for someone who wrote a report this fantastic. Sincerely, Carl Fredrickson
Author : Maria Dermout
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590178823
Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374721106
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Author : James Wylder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781727764383
She survived defeat after defeat, and now Centro Marine Zhang Han is ready to go home, and leave war behind forever. But an ambitious officer named Cornelia Carthage has another idea, a plan to destroy the Vigilance, a slave trading empire, and go home in glory. What happens next will change Han's home forever... But Han's story is just the beginning. Travel across the solar-system, through wars, adventures, art heists, and family dinners. See the walking cities of Mercury, delve into a derelict space ship, and explore the secrets of New Alexandria. An epic sci-fi saga, spanning decades, with stories from such renowned writers as Simon Bucher-Jones (Doctor Who, Faction Paradox), Nathan P. Butler (Star Wars, WARS), and Tim Sutton (Marble Hornets, Slender: The Arrival), all in the hands of editor James Wylder. Also featuring tales from: Trevor Allen, Eric R. Asher, Kevin Burnard, Evan Forman, Nicholas Scott Kory, Kylie Leane, Colby McClung, Michael Robertson, Jo Smiley, Sarah E Southern, Jordan Stout, and Elizabeth Tock.
Author : Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226735850
The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats, carts, and firearms. In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar Schäfer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song’s personal and cultural life, Schäfer chronicles the factors that motivated Song to transform practical knowledge into written culture. She then examines how Song gained, assessed, and ultimately presented knowledge, and in doing so articulates this era’s approaches to rationality, truth, and belief in the study of nature and culture alike. Finally, Schäfer places Song’s efforts in conjunction with the work of other Chinese philosophers and writers, before, during, and after his time, and argues that these writings demonstrate collectively a uniquely Chinese way of authorizing technology as a legitimate field of scholarly concern and philosophical knowledge. Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316075973
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Aids to air navigation
ISBN :