Author : James Knapp
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101184779
View our feature on James Knapp’s State of Decay.Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless... A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie They call them revivors-technologically reanimated corpses-and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill-and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.
Author : Patrick Christian
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1329668480
6 short stories all dealing with "what if's?" and strange occurrence. From a boy making a deal with a demon to a boy leading police around a garbage dump in search of a criminal meanwhile finding the monster who hides among the rubbish. A State of Decay will haunt your dreams.
Author : Julia Solis
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791348193
Julia Solis's photographs of abandoned theaters from across the United States and Europe conjure the remaining magic of the decaying buildings and rooms, though the screenings and performances ceased long ago -- Back cover.
Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478022035
In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations—biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert
Author : Sarah Manguso
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429940980
A poet and author recounts her nine-year struggle with a rare autoimmune disease in this spare and unsparing memoir of illness and recovery. At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be. Praise for The Two Kinds of Decay A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Best Book of the Year, San Francisco Chronicle and Time Out Chicago “Moving . . . a fiercely truthful memoir.” —The Boston Globe “Hers is not a day-by-day description of this grueling time, but an impressionistic text filled with bright, poetic flashes. . . . Many sick people learn to live in the moment, but the power of Manguso’s writing makes that truism revelatory.” —The Washington Post Book World “Sarah Manguso has miraculously elevated the act of memory. She has found honesty, fear, longing and beauty in every moment of her young life, giving this book an intensity found nowhere else. You put it down panting with wonder and grief, but never with pity. A breakthrough in the memoir, and in writing.” —Andrew Sean Greer
Author : Daniel Barter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781908211125
Join us as we follow two explorers on an incredible journey which takes us from Philadelphia to Buffalo via Pittsburgh and New York. Peer into the past as dark histories unfold and their stories are told. Travel to atmospheric asylums, derelict houses of worship, industrial monoliths, forgotten hotels, desolate transport hubs and other ruins.
Author : Oni Press
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781735993805
Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1628724943
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.
Author : Natasha M. Ezrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1441178295
What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The “failed states” literature is important because it aims to understand how state institutions (or lack thereof) impact conflict, crime, coups, terrorism and economic performance. In spite of this objective, the “failed state” literature has not focused enough on how institutions operate in the developing world. This book unpacks the state, by examining the administrative, security, judicial and political institutions separately. By doing so, the book offers a more comprehensive and clear picture of how the state functions or does not function in the developing world, merging the failed state and institutionalist literatures. Rather than merely describing states in crisis, this book explains how and why different types of institutions deteriorate. Moreover, the book illustrates the impact that institutional decay has on political instability and poverty using examples not only from Africa but from all around the world.
Author : Paul Lonardo
Publisher :
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781093391541
It has been thirty years since Ted Bundy, arguably this country's most notorious serial killer, was put to death in the electric chair by the state of Florida in 1989, but there continues to exist in our society a morbid interest in him and the ghastly way he murdered and disposed of the women he abducted in the 1970s.Many people want to know how a person could do the things that Ted Bundy did. It's truly frightening to think that there are fellow human beings who possess such dark desires and act out their murderous tendencies on the innocent and unsuspecting. We tend to think of these individuals as inhuman or "evil," which is the only thing that makes sense to us because what drives Ted Bundy, and others like him, are not feelings that any of us can remotely relate.In exploring what might have been working inside the mind of Ted Bundy, the Angel of Decay, triggering him to brutally snuff out the lives of so many young women, the purpose is not to increase his ignominious celebrity or sensationalize his heinous acts, but to shatter any such appeal. The only way to do that is to remember the women and young girls that he killed not merely as victims, but remembering who they were, how they lived, and the impact they had on their families as well as all those around them. They had a lot more in common than being casualties of Ted Bundy's violent psycho-sexual desires. These were human beings, children of God. They were young, filled with hope, dreams, passion, and love. They were daughters, sisters and granddaughters, would-be mothers and grandmothers to children they never had. That is what is most tragic of all about Bundy's lasting legacy, and what should never be forgotten.
