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Apocalypse Postponed
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1994-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Apocalypse Delayed
Author : M. James Penton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802079732
Book Description
M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.
Apocalypse Recalled
Author : Harry O. Maier
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451409529
Book Description
"In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship."--BOOK JACKET.
Umberto Eco and the Open Text
Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521020879
Book Description
The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.
Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture
Author : Douglass Merrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319547895
Book Description
This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
Apocalypse Cinema
Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1978819870
Book Description
Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out entirely, while others envision humans as an endangered species, enslaved by alien invaders or hunted by zombie hordes. This book provides a lively overview of apocalypse cinema, including alien invasions, nuclear annihilation, asteroid collisions, climate change, and terrifying plagues. Covering pivotal films from the silent era to the present day, including Metropolis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dr. Strangelove, Contagion, and Avengers: Endgame, Stephen Prince explores how these dark visions are rooted in religious and prophetic traditions, and he considers how our love for apocalypse cinema is tied to fundamental existential questions and anxieties that never go out of fashion.
Liberating Voices
Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262693666
Book Description
Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.
A History of the Muslim World since 1260
Author : Vernon O. Egger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 131551107X
Book Description
The history of the predominantly Muslim world is examined within the context of world history. It examines political, economic, and broad cultural developments, as well as specifically religious ones. The themes of the book are tradition and adaptation: it examines the tensions between the desire of Muslims to maintain continuity with their legacy and their recognition of the need to adapt to changing conditions.
Reimagining Communication: Meaning
Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351007904
Book Description
Reimagining Communication: Meaning surveys the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape communication studies, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to meaning making in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. The Reimagining Communication series develops a new information architecture for the field of communications studies, grounded in its interdisciplinary origins and looking ahead to emerging trends as researchers take into account new media technologies and their impacts on society and culture. Reimagining Communication: Meaning brings together international authors to provide contemporary perspectives on semiotics, hermeneutics, paralanguage, corpus analysis, critical theory, intercultural communication, global culture, cultural hybridity, postcolonialism, feminism, political economy, propaganda, cultural capital, media literacy, media ecology and media psychology. The volume is designed as a reader for scholars and a textbook for students, offering a new approach for comprehending the vast diversity of communications topics in today’s globally networked world. This will be an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.
The Digital Pandemic
Author : João Pedro Cachopo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350284300
Book Description
A refreshing approach to the dominance of technology in our contemporary lives, The Digital Pandemic, translated from Portuguese, poses fundamental questions about love, fear, connectedness, proximity, imagination and consciousness. Arguing that the pandemic has ushered in a civilizational digital shock, João Pedro Cachopo charts new channels of relatedness and communication between people through digital technologies for the foreseeable future. The transformation of human experience that began in 2020 creates a break in our sociality that Cachopo pinpoints through key themes of love, travel, study, community and art. In contrast to the growing philosophical literature on the pandemic, this bold theoretical work does not prophesy the fall of capitalism or the end of personal freedom and relationships. Instead, this book carefully investigates the advanced technology that is increasingly inextricable from our lives, using an alternative approach that avoids pessimism, while remaining alert to the risks and threats of the digital age. It opens up the possibility of fostering global solidarity and consciousness beyond physical borders in the 21st century.
