Empire Dreams

Empire Dreams
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Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781625670755
ISBN-13 : 1625670753
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Empire Dreams by : Ian McDonald

A collection of science fiction stories and novelettes by the Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of Desolation Road and Luna: New Moon. Published in conjunction with his Locus Award–winning debut novel, Desolation Road, Empire Dreams collects some of Ian McDonald’s finest early short fiction, including a several stories that first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. In “Vivaldi,” an astrophysicist contemplates the death of the universe as he hurtles through space to investigate a black hole. A beach bum in Morocco encounters a woman who is curiously full of life in “Radio Marrakech.” An Irish scientist prepares to make contact with aliens as his daughter dreams of fairies in “King of Morning, Queen of Day.” And in the title novelette, a boy is given an experimental treatment that allows him to fight his cancer via virtual reality gameplaying. As Asimov’sScience Fiction declared, Ian McDonald is “the Frank Herbert, William Gibson, or arguably even Thomas Pynchon of the early 21st century.”

Empire of Dreams

Empire of Dreams
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0300057954
ISBN-13 : 9780300057959
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Empire of Dreams by : Giannina Braschi

A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.

The Empire of Dreams

The Empire of Dreams
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780062691927
ISBN-13 : 0062691929
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Empire of Dreams by : Rae Carson

“Action, adventure, betrayal, and poison add up to a winner." —Booklist New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy in this extraordinary stand-alone novel. Fans of Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, and Tomi Adeyemi won’t want to put this book down. Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally—after years and years of running, of fighting—she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She’ll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress’s greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes. But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family, she joins the Royal Guard, the world’s most elite fighting force. It’s no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess, though. Someone whose shadowy agenda puts everything—and everyone—she loves at risk. As danger closes in, it will be up to Red to save the empire. If she can survive recruitment year—something no woman has ever done before. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson returns to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns in this action-packed fantasy-adventure starring an iconic heroine who fights for her family and her friends, and for a place where she will belong.

Empire Dreams

Empire Dreams
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 1893110192
ISBN-13 : 9781893110199
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Empire Dreams by : Wendy Wax

In 1930 in New York City, as she worries about the Depression's effect on her family, eleven-year-old Julie takes a personal interest in the building of the Empire State Building and befriends a Mohawk boy who is working on the project.

Dreams of Empire

Dreams of Empire
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0563405988
ISBN-13 : 9780563405986
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreams of Empire by : Justin Richards

Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out. Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives? Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 423
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ISBN-10 : 9781108475471
ISBN-13 : 1108475477
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Pipe Dreams by : Maya K. Peterson

A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

Shattered Dreams of Revolution

Shattered Dreams of Revolution
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0804791473
ISBN-13 : 9780804791472
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Shattered Dreams of Revolution by : Bedross Der Matossian

The Ottoman revolution of 1908 is a study in contradictions—a positive manifestation of modernity intended to reinstate constitutional rule, yet ultimately a negative event that shook the fundamental structures of the empire, opening up ethnic, religious, and political conflicts. Shattered Dreams of Revolution considers this revolutionary event to tell the stories of three important groups: Arabs, Armenians, and Jews. The revolution raised these groups' expectations for new opportunities of inclusion and citizenship. But as post-revolutionary festivities ended, these euphoric feelings soon turned to pessimism and a dramatic rise in ethnic tensions. The undoing of the revolutionary dreams could be found in the very foundations of the revolution itself. Inherent ambiguities and contradictions in the revolution's goals and the reluctance of both the authors of the revolution and the empire's ethnic groups to come to a compromise regarding the new political framework of the empire ultimately proved untenable. The revolutionaries had never been wholeheartedly committed to constitutionalism, thus constitutionalism failed to create a new understanding of Ottoman citizenship, grant equal rights to all citizens, and bring them under one roof in a legislative assembly. Today as the Middle East experiences another set of revolutions, these early lessons of the Ottoman Empire, of unfulfilled expectations and ensuing discontent, still provide important insights into the contradictions of hope and disillusion seemingly inherent in revolution.

Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire

Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781441176332
ISBN-13 : 1441176330
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire by : Juliette Harrisson

An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.

River of Dark Dreams

River of Dark Dreams
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780674074880
ISBN-13 : 0674074882
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis River of Dark Dreams by : Walter Johnson

River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Empire of Dreams

Empire of Dreams
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 074255578X
ISBN-13 : 9780742555785
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis Empire of Dreams by : Andrew Gordon

A look at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the contemporary filmmakers.