Author : Ibraheem Abbas
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9789948205821
This work tells the story of Hawjan, a jinn, who seeks to redefine human's understanding of the Jinn.
Author : Ian Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319914332
This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages with a theoretical concept he terms “double estrangement” wherein these texts provide social or political criticism through estrangement and simultaneously critique their own societies’ inability or refusal to engage in the sort of modernization that would lead the Arab world back to leadership in science and technology.
Author : Innes McCartney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317601661
Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney surveyed and recorded these wrecks, discovering that the distribution and number of wrecks conflicted with the published histories of U-boat losses. Of all the U-boat war losses in the Channel, McCartney found that some 41% were heretofore unaccounted for in the historical literature of World War I and World War II. This book reconciles these inaccuracies with the archaeological record by presenting case studies of a number of dives conducted in the English Channel. Using empirical evidence, this book investigates possible reasons historical inconsistencies persist and what Allied operational and intelligence-based processes caused them to occur in the first place. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of nautical archaeology and naval history, as well as wreck explorers.
Author : H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1558538348
In this collection of quotes and stories, the authors draw on those that bestpoint to understanding the key elements in a life well lived.
Author : Yasser Bahjatt
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786030312849
Steps drawn so precisely by fait; they did not start when Hawjan moved to our world, nor when Husam returned from Somewhere.In fact, thy started three thousand years before that; started with the collapse of Solomon's kingdom and the guardians of his temple desperate attempt to control humanity. Igniting the battle!Funneled by myth, politics and greed; and fueled by extremism, blood and gold... it is and epic between science and dictatorship, spread across worlds and dimensions.
Author : Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551523167
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre “speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves.” It’s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology. The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the “third world.” It includes stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centered in the worlds of the “developing” nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into. The wealth of postcolonial literature has included many who have written insightfully about their pasts and presents. With So Long Been Dreaming they creatively address their futures. Contributors include: Opal Palmer Adisa, Tobias Buckell, Wayde Compton, Hiromi Goto, Andrea Hairston, Tamai Kobayashi, Karin Lowachee, devorah major, Carole McDonnell, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Eden Robinson, Nisi Shawl, Vandana Singh, Sheree Renee Thomas and Greg Van Eekhout. Nalo Hopkinson is the internationally-acclaimed author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk, and Salt Roads. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, and Philip K. Dick Awards; Skin Folk won a World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award. Born in Jamaica, Nalo moved to Canada when she was sixteen. She lives in Toronto. Uppinder Mehan is a scholar of science fiction and postcolonial literature. A South Asian Canadian, he currently lives in Boston and teaches at Emerson College.
Author : Axel Niestlé
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473838290
A deep dive into the fate of German submarines lost during the Second World War. “This has to be the best reference you can find on the subject.”—Military Modelling No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses. The main part of the book lists by hull number each U-boat’s date of commissioning, its commanding officer, and the date and port of departure for its last patrol. It also gives the date, position, and cause of loss of each submarine, with complete details on Allied units involved in the sinking, the names and ranks of their commanding officers and pilots, and the number of crew killed or rescued. An appendix neatly summarizes data on the disposition of surviving U-boats at the end of the war and provides valuable statistical data on German U-boat losses. “Highly recommended for every serious scholar of the Atlantic war, and every library in naval history and the history of the Second World War.”—The Mariner’s Mirror “The level of detail is quite impressive and this edition is the result of 16 years of further research since the first edition . . . If you are seeking data on the fate of U-Boats then this book should be your ‘first place of call’—no other book has such detailed data.”—Military Archive Research
Author : Naomi Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781980963875
No one messed with Gunner. No one. He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake. When a pirate commandeers his ship, Gunner takes it upon himself to exact a revenge that will ignite a wildfire of rage, death, and torment upon those who made the mistake of taking what was rightfully his. Elodie has spent most of her life pretending to be a boy to remain alongside her father in space. He's the only family she has left. When the ship they worked on is attacked, she's taken prisoner. Every day, she feared that her secret would be discovered--that she's a woman alone amongst men. When a strange man is dragged into the cell next to hers, she realizes she was living on borrowed time.He stared at her as if he knew her secret...---Warning: Ashes and Metal is a prison horror romance with explicit violence, strong language, and diabiolically heated scenes. Mature readers only.Book five of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as Stranded in the Stars, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.Book one, Wild Blood (Dommik and Katalina)Book two, Storm Surge (Stryker and Norah)Book three, Shark Bite (Netto and Rylie)Book four, Mutt (Reid and Clara)Book five, Ashes and Metal (Gunner and Elodie)Book six, coming soon!
Author : Basma Abdel Aziz
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612195172
“Weird and wild.” —BookRiot “An effective critique of authoritarianism.” —NPR “Equal parts dystopia, satire, and allegory. —Los Angeles Review of Books Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring. In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer. Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter’s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia’s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet. Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia’s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life. Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.
Author : J. Langer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230356052
Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas.
