Taming the Tokolosh
Author : Mandy Bass
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2017-12
Category : Healing
ISBN : 9781626770188
Author : Mandy Bass
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2017-12
Category : Healing
ISBN : 9781626770188
Author : Judith A. Markowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476636397
This book describes real-world killer robots using a blend of perspectives. Overviews of technologies, such as autonomy and artificial intelligence, demonstrate how science enables these robots to be effective killers. Incisive analyses of social controversies swirling around the design and use of killer robots reveal that science, alone, will not govern their future. Among those disputes is whether fully-autonomous, robotic weapons should be banned. Examinations of killers from the golem to Frankenstein's monster reveal that artificially-created beings like them are precursors of real 21st century killer robots. This book laces the death and destruction caused by all these killers with science and humor. The seamless combination of these elements produces a deeper and richer understanding of the robots around us.
Author : Tim Crouch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1786823527
Beginners tells the story of three families trapped in a waterlogged holiday cottage over summer. The children are bored. The adults are down the pub. So far so normal. An extraordinary Easter Holiday show for everyone who has ever wanted to be understood.
Author : S. D. Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909488106
Who, these days, still believes in goblins? Well surprisingly, millions of people do, right the way across the countries of southern Africa, where such creatures are known as tokoloshes. Little known in the West, these entities - hairy little men with gigantic magical penises and the ability to turn themselves invisible through the aid of an enchanted pebble - are a matter of everyday belief in nations such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho. In this, the first ever full-length book to be published upon the topic in the West, the consequences of this bizarre belief are explored in immense detail. It is not just that poltergeist-hauntings and UFO-sightings are blamed upon the activities of this nefarious little imp; so are everyday misfortunes such as a person's lack of success in love or business. Rather more outlandishly, tokoloshes are also held responsible for supposedly raping innocent women in their beds at night and then impregnating them with goblin-children; court cases have arisen in which people have been accused of murdering such unfortunate infants whilst under the genuine impression that they were evil tokoloshe-babies. But this is not all - tokoloshes have also been linked with witchcraft, zombies, paranormal stone-showers, murder, ancient Trickster-gods, sightings of unknown animals and outbreaks of mass hysteria. In no other book can you read about topics as diverse and strange as haunted toilets, killer one-eyed Cyclops-men made from porridge, severed penises being used as magical batteries and a deformed baby goat born with the head of Homer Simpson. All this, and the full uncensored tale of the man who claimed to have been molested in the night by a big gay hippo-monster ... Lavishly illustrated and all fully-referenced, this book is not only filled with dozens of unusual, amusing and hitherto-unexamined real-life stories, it also tries to place prevailing contemporary southern African belief in the tokoloshe into some kind of plausible social context. The tokoloshe may not be a genuinely real creature, but it certainly occupies a position of social reality in the minds of those who believe in it - with truly wide-ranging and often unexpected consequences.
Author : Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571327737
Imagine a world where the Stephen Lawrence Case and the Hillsborough Disaster never made it to court. Since 2012 the government has made sweeping cuts to the provision of legal aid. In this new reality, in cases from civil law to immigration, the voices of those seeking justice are in danger of never being heard. The Invisible tells the stories of ordinary people whose access to legal aid has been denied, examining how the cuts are driving ever deeper cracks into the fabric of our society. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Invisible was commissioned by the Bush Theatre, London, where it premiered in July 2015.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Drama in education
ISBN :
Author : Teddy Jones
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : 9781626770034
As a winter storm bears down on the Texas Panhandle, seventy-four-year-old Willa Jackson embarks on a plan to maintain her independence and fully realize her artistic talent. Her daughter, Melanie, is determined to take charge of her mother, although her hands are full of her own problems. Willa's past, and that of Jackson's Pond, Texas, the dying town named for the pond on their ranch, provides a backdrop for Willa's determination to secure her own future and the future of her grandchildren. Willa challenges resistance from several directions, including from her own doubts, as she follows her creative heart.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Al Rapaport
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 1410767604
Author : R. A. Steffenhagen
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN :