Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1997-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780312156831
A collection of novelist's non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life.
Author : Ryder Windham
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545210380
A tribute to the favorite "Star Wars" ship provides layer-by-layer analyses of the Millennium Falcon's features, from laser cannons and cockpit controls to smuggling bays and Han Solo's speed modifications. On board pages.
Author : Ravi Shankar
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Excerpts from Wisdom For The New Millennium The whole world is made up of love& you have heard this before. All is God and all is love. Then what is the purpose of life if everything is already God? Where is life heading to? Life is heading toward per
Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0393342166
"Wonderfully wicked....A bracingly sensible guide to living peaceably together."—Francine Prose, Elle In this "wryly perceptive, historically informed" (BookPage) new book, America's leading expert on civility reminds her Gentle Readers that when the Founding Fathers created a revolution in the name of individual liberty and equality, they also took a stand against hierarchical European etiquette in favor of simplicity over ceremony, and personal dignity over obsequiousness to our rulers. Hailed by George Will as "The National Bureau of Standards," Judith Martin, who has "made etiquette writing an exercise in wit" (Book), recounts here how Americans fashioned this etiquette of egalitarian respect—a fascinating story that spans from the misunderstood origins of our table manners to the much overlooked legacy of African slaves to etiquette.
Author : Millard J. Erickson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585585807
A leading evangelical theologian provides a comprehensive examination of the various evangelical views of the millennium (and other eschatological subjects).
Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144116362X
J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. His award-winning novels are widely studied and read, yet the appeal of Ballard's idiosyncratic, and often controversial, imagination is such that his work also enjoys something of a cult status with the reading public. The hugely successful cinematic adaptations of Empire of the Sun (Spielberg, 1987) and Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) further confirm Ballard's unique place within the literary, cultural and popular imaginations. This guide includes new critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Whilst offering fresh readings of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including history, sexuality, violence, consumer capitalism, and urban space,the contributors also explore Ballard's contribution to major contemporary debates including those surrounding post 9/11 politics, terrorism, neo-imperialism, science, morality and ethics.
Author : Byron Kirkwood
Publisher : Blue Dolphin Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780931892547
Inspired by Mary's Message to the World, Byron has compiled a manual to prepare for and survive the predicted "physical" earth changes. He has gathered hundreds of thoughtful suggestions and lists of supplies and materials which people should have on hand during natural emergencies and thereafter when smaller, isolated communities may need to be self-reliant.
Author : D. Harlan Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252050037
Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.
Author : Florian Cord
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110490714
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Author : Paul Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134738811
Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age.
