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Author: Niels Vandamme Publisher: Niels Vandamme ISBN: 1419684906 Category : Languages : en Pages : 289
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When Ludwig Adler perishes in a fire, he leaves his yearling daughter Sara as the sole survivor of the tragedy. However, his recovered body is cryonically preserved, and many decades later, Sara reanimates her long-dead father - but when he finally rises from his icy grave, he wakes to a new world, finding it on the eve of its greatest transition: the universe stands upon the brink of being transformed beyond recognition, when the most powerful force in the cosmos is to be unleashed upon it in a magnificent metamorphosis. Soon, the world is to be warped forever in a tempest of technology: the Singularity.But as it impends, the world begins to break apart: as everything changes, society is split into two strongly opposed factions, soon to confront one other in the greatest war of history; when, in a clash between the conservative humans and the progressive transhumans, the most incongruous ideologies come into a violent collision.
Author: Niels Vandamme Publisher: Niels Vandamme ISBN: 1419684906 Category : Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
When Ludwig Adler perishes in a fire, he leaves his yearling daughter Sara as the sole survivor of the tragedy. However, his recovered body is cryonically preserved, and many decades later, Sara reanimates her long-dead father - but when he finally rises from his icy grave, he wakes to a new world, finding it on the eve of its greatest transition: the universe stands upon the brink of being transformed beyond recognition, when the most powerful force in the cosmos is to be unleashed upon it in a magnificent metamorphosis. Soon, the world is to be warped forever in a tempest of technology: the Singularity.But as it impends, the world begins to break apart: as everything changes, society is split into two strongly opposed factions, soon to confront one other in the greatest war of history; when, in a clash between the conservative humans and the progressive transhumans, the most incongruous ideologies come into a violent collision.
Author: Terry Tempest Williams Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books ISBN: 0374712298 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 325
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Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?" We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which "oil rigs light up the horizon." And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself. These essays are Williams's call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. Erosion is a book for this moment, political and spiritual at once, written by one of our greatest naturalists, essayists, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance, and that water can crack stone.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 474
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Author: Ruti G. Teitel Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019988224X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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At the century's end, societies all over the world are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies. At any such time of radical change, the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime or let bygones be bygones? Transitional Justice takes this question to a new level with an interdisciplinary approach that challenges the very terms of the contemporary debate. Ruti Teitel explores the recurring dilemma of how regimes should respond to evil rule, arguing against the prevailing view favoring punishment, yet contending that the law nevertheless plays a profound role in periods of radical change. Pursuing a comparative and historical approach, she presents a compelling analysis of constitutional, legislative, and administrative responses to injustice following political upheaval. She proposes a new normative conception of justice--one that is highly politicized--offering glimmerings of the rule of law that, in her view, have become symbols of liberal transition. Its challenge to the prevailing assumptions about transitional periods makes this timely and provocative book essential reading for policymakers and scholars of revolution and new democracies.
Author: Dayton Ward Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451695896 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
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An all-new ebook exclusive adventure in the Taurus Reach with the starship crews, undercover agents, civilian colonists, and alien power players of the Vanguard saga, based on Star Trek: The Original Series. Following the dramatic events as chronicled in Vanguard: Storming Heaven, the U.S.S. Enterprise and other starships that participated in the final battle in the Taurus Reach have been remanded to a remote starbase. While evacuees from the station are processed and the ships repaired, restocked, and re-staffed as needed, Captain James T. Kirk is ordered to report to Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Starbase 47’s second and final commanding officer. Through flashbacks intercut with the ongoing conversation between Kirk and Nogura, the Enterprise’s involvement in the last days of Operation Vanguard—and the conflict between Starfleet and Tholian forces at Starbase 47—is now told from the perspective of Kirk and his crew.
Author: Eleanor Randolph Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 438
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This book by veteran journalist Eleanor Randolph offers a startling picture of life in Russia in the wake of the Soviet collapse, where the chaos that followed engulfed everything and everybody
Author: Janet Schmalfeldt Publisher: ISBN: 0195093666 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 347
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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's account of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and listeners, and when music itself became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. A recurring metaphor in early nineteenth-century philosophical writings is the notion of becoming. In the Process of Becoming explores the idea of "form coming into being" in respect to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. A critical assessment of Dahlhaus's preoccupation with the opening of Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata serves as the author's starting point for the translation of philosophical ideas into music-analytical terms. Due to the ever-growing familiarity of late eighteenth-century audiences with formal conventions, composers could increasingly trust that performers and listeners would be responsive to striking formal transformations. Schmalfeldt's unique analytic method captures the dynamic, quasi-narrative nature of such transformations. This experiential approach invites listeners and performers to participate in the interpretation of processes by which, for example, brooding introduction-like openings become main themes and huge formal expansions offer a dazzling opportunity for multiple retrospective reinterpretations. Above all, In the Process of Becoming proposes new ways of hearing beloved works of the romantic generation as representative of a quest for novel, intensely self-reflective modes of communication.
Author: Niels Vandamme
Author: Niels Vandamme
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
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Author: Ruti G. Teitel
Author: Dayton Ward
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Author: Eleanor Randolph
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Author: Denton Jaques Snider
Author: Denton Jaques Snider