Book Description
This unique story follows one man and his efforts to achieve the impossible dream--creating Sevenuvnine, the one and only Star Trek car.
Author : Ken Hudnall
Publisher : Omega Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780975492307
This unique story follows one man and his efforts to achieve the impossible dream--creating Sevenuvnine, the one and only Star Trek car.
Author : Lucie Armitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136322094
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women’s interest in science fiction is by no means the full story. From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Through a combination of essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, with others on still-neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C. L. Moore and a wealth of contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy and Josephine Saxton, this anthology takes a step towards redressing the balance. Perhaps, above all, what this collection demonstrates is that science fiction remains as particularly well-suited to the exploration of woman as ‘alien’ or ‘other’ in our culture today, as it was with the publication of Frankenstein in 1818.
Author : Paul Dale Roberts & Deanna Jaxine Stinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
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ISBN : 0359851304
Author : Diana Adesola Mafe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1477315233
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television—a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema’s history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency. Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American and British speculative film and television, including 28 Days Later, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Children of Men, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Firefly, and Doctor Who: Series 3. Each of these has a subversive black female character in its main cast, and Mafe draws on critical race, postcolonial, and gender theories to explore each film and show, placing the black female characters at the center of the analysis and demonstrating their agency. The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex in AVP and Zoë in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.
Author : Luke O'Neill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0241994136
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong. Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries. For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money for books'. Tough call. To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before covers everything from space travel and evolution to alchemy and AI. Written by one of our leading scientists, this is an insider's account that celebrates the joy of science. It is filled with all the juicy bits that other histories leave out.
Author : William David Compton
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN :
When the crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, Americans hailed the successful completion of the most complex technological undertaking of the 20th century: landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth. This document records the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the people who made lunar exploration possible. It shows how scientists and engineers worked out their differences and conducted a program that was a major contribution to science as well as a stunning engineering accomplishment.
Author : William D. Compton
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category :
ISBN : 078813633X
Author : Robert Huish
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 155458860X
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions of marginalized people. Cuba has developed a world-class health care system that provides universal access to its own citizens while committing to one of the most extensive international health outreach campaigns in the world. The country has trained thousands of foreign medical students for free under a moral agreement that they serve desperate communities. To date, over 110,000 Cuban health care workers have served overseas. Where No Doctor Has Gone Before looks at the dynamics of Cuban medical internationalism to understand the impact of Cuba’s programs within the global health landscape. Topics addressed include the growing moral divide in equitable access to health care services, with a focus on medical tourism and Cuba’s alternative approach to this growing trend. Also discussed is the hidden curriculum in mainstream medical education that encourages graduates to seek lucrative positions rather than commit to service for the marginalized. The author shows how Cuba’s Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM) serves as a counter to this trend. An acknowledgement of Cuba’s tremendous commitment, the book reveals a compelling model of global health practice that not only meets the needs of the marginalized but facilitates an international culture of cooperation and solidarity.
Author : Sidharth Sharotri
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
From the completely juvenile yet brilliant mind of Sidharth Sharotri comes a compilation of his ‘serious automobile journalism’ work, which consisted of him driving posh cars and making up stories around them for newspapers. These highly technical (read: not at all technical) articles first appeared in a weekly motoring page called Honk in Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age between 2013 and 2015, which this author was exclusively entrusted with. Letters from the Open Road does exactly what his newspaper articles did – make the reader giggle a little bit while making them wonder if they should chase their own childhood dreams.
Author : James Egan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0244023360
Despite Toy Story's legacy, it didn't win a single Oscar. Somebody counted every single spot in 101 Dalmatians. There's a lot. Animators stopped working on The Lion King because they were certain it would fail. It made over $900 million. The original Cinderella story is 2,700 years old. The trailer for Lady and the Tramp spoilt the ending. It took 28 years to make The Thief and the Cobbler. Everybody mispronounces Mowgli's name in The Jungle Book. Walt Disney hated Peter Pan. There was meant to be 27 Emotions in Inside Out. Most of Disney's classics like Pinocchio and Bambi made very little money because they came out during World War II.