Beyond the Ruins
Author | : Jefferson Cowie |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0801488710 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801488719 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
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Author | : Jefferson Cowie |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0801488710 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801488719 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
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Author | : Emily St. John Mandel |
Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789097405 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789097401 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado and more. WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding from the monsters on the other side of the wall, can we turn the cataclysm into an opportunity? Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after. Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology asks us what makes us human, and who we will be when we emerge out of the ruins? Featuring work from China Miéville, Emily St John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso, Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas and D.R.G. Sugawara.
Author | : Anke Birkenmaier |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780822350705 |
ISBN-13 | : 082235070X |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
Author | : Scott Smith |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2006-07-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307266040 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307266044 |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
Author | : Walker Percy |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781453216200 |
ISBN-13 | : 1453216200 |
Rating | : 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div
Author | : Janalyn Guo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 0998859451 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780998859453 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Fiction. In OUR COLONY BEYOND THE CITY OF RUINS, an insomniac will do anything for sleep, crones released from a buried heart take over a town, a woman chooses to live her last days in a cave overlooking the sea, earthquake survivors establish a colony in a remote forest. With unwavering imagination and heart, Janalyn Guo delivers a cast of characters who find their own unusual ways to endure. "These stories take the gestures of new wave fabulism and make it newer and even more wavy, by being genuinely international. Here's a book that shivers with possibility and wonder and surprise, where plants grow from people's bodies, where ghosts exist even before someone is dead. Guo isn't afraid to take on even the thoroughly weird in the most delightful way. This is what it's like to see a genre revivified."--Brian Evenson "OUR COLONY BEYOND THE CITY OF RUINS is an absolute delight, a wild collection that unsettles as much as it entertains. Guo shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence--this is a rare book of both strangeness and heart."--Kelly Luce
Author | : Christian C. Sahner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199396702 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199396701 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
An accessible history of Syria's cultural and religious past documents such issues as the role of Christianity in society, the emergence of the Ba'ath party, and the arrival of Islam, and traces the origins of the current civil war.
Author | : Robert H. Haworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 1629632392 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781629632391 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Contemporary educational practices are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatisation and standardised accountability. In many cases, educational policies are created to uphold and serve particular social, political and economic ends. Schools, in a sense, have been tools to reproduce hierarchical, authoritarian and hyper-individualistic models of social order. The important news is that emancipatory educational practices are emerging. Out of the Ruins sets out to explore and discuss the emergence of alternative learning spaces.
Author | : Zoltán Somhegyi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786607621 |
ISBN-13 | : 178660762X |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Though constantly in decay, ruins continue to fascinate the observer. Their still-standing survival is a loud affirmation of their presence, in which we can admire the struggle against the power of Nature aesthetically manifested during the decay. This volume takes a thematic approach to examining the aesthetics of ruins. It looks at the general aspects of architectural decay and its classical forms of admiration and then turns towards ruins from both classical and contemporary periods, from both Western and non-Western areas, and with examples from “high art” as well as popular culture. Combining the methodologies of art history, aesthetics and cultural history, this book opens up new ways of looking at the phenomenon of ruins.
Author | : Kevin Powers |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316556484 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316556483 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation outside of Richmond, Virginia. When war arrives, the master of Beauvais, Anthony Levallios, foresees that dominion in a new America will be measured not in acres of tobacco under cultivation by his slaves, but in industry and capital. A grievously wounded Confederate veteran loses his grip on a world he no longer understands, and his daughter finds herself married to Levallois, an arrangement that feels little better than imprisonment. And two people enslaved at Beauvais plantation, Nurse and Rawls, overcome impossible odds to be together, only to find that the promise of coming freedom may not be something they will live to see. Seamlessly interwoven is the story of George Seldom, a man orphaned by the storm of the Civil War, looking back from the 1950s on the void where his childhood ought to have been. Watching the government destroy his neighborhood to build a stretch of interstate highway through Richmond, he travels south in an attempt to recover his true origins. With the help of a young woman named Lottie, he goes in search of the place he once called home, all the while reckoning with the more than 90 years he lived as witness to so much that changed during the 20th century, and so much that didn't. As we then watch Lottie grapple with life's disappointments and joys in the 1980's, now in her own middle-age, the questions remain: How do we live in a world built on the suffering of others? And can love exist in a place where for 400 years violence has been the strongest form of intimacy? Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers' place in the forefront of American letters and demands that we reckon with the moral weight of our troubling history.