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Author: Lance Parkin Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA ISBN: 1781314829 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 209
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A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world’s most successful science fiction franchise. This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce “Hornblower in space” —and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity’s future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise’s history, and Roddenberry’s particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry’s initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
Author: Lance Parkin Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA ISBN: 1781314829 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 209
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A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world’s most successful science fiction franchise. This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce “Hornblower in space” —and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity’s future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise’s history, and Roddenberry’s particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry’s initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.
Author: Bruce B. Zellner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351319876 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 800
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Every editor of the Policy Studies Review Annual brings a unique perspective to bear in selecting articles to be included. This perspective reflects varying methodological and disciplinary judgments, varying judgments on what the field of policy studies or policy analysis is and where it should be going, and varying judgments regarding the quality of articles which are or claim to be in the field. Because it is the objective to assemble a set of essays which are both interesting and topical, there will be varying perspectives on these matters as well. The volume clearly reflects the editors perspectives. They are explicit about these judgments and perspectives, and then let the content of the volume speak for itself. First, we are both economists. As a result, the general topics selected and the articles chosen under each topic tend to emphasize economics more than the other disciplines involved in the field of policy studies—sociology, psychology, political science, law, and so on. This emphasis is clearly seen by comparing the contents of volume I (edited by Stuart Nagel, a political scientist) and volume II (edited by Howard Freeman, a sociologist) with that of this volume. Second, the editors have a particular view of what policy studies or policy analysis is. That view has several aspects. In the first place, they feel that the field of policy studies or policy analysis must define itself, and this definition will develop as researchers do just what the title of the field says—study or analyze policies. A corollary of this view is that we place a low weight on papers which discuss the policy process or reforms in policy-making, relative to papers which analyze a policy, a policy proposal, or a problem which leads to calls for policy action.
Author: Rita Bateson Publisher: Hodder Education ISBN: 1471841537 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 320
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Exam Board: IB Level: MYP Subject: Mathematics First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Mathematics presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. Feel confident that you cover the whole framework with standard and extended mathematics included - and Extended clearly signposted. This title is also available in two digital formats via Dynamic Learning. Find out more by clicking on the links at the top of the page. A proof of the first 6 Chapters of the book is now available as an eInspection copy, by clicking the eInspection copy button to the left. Rita Bateson was, until very recently, the Curriculum Manager for MYP Mathematics and Sciences at the International Baccalaureate® (IB) and continues to be involved in curriculum review. She is an experienced teacher of MYP and DP Mathematics and Sciences, and is Head of Mathematics in her current school. She has taught in many international schools in Europe as well as North America. Her interest include overcoming mathematics anxiety in pupils and STEM education. She is also the co-author of MYP by Concept 1-3 Mathematics, with Irina Amlin.
Author: Andrew Gibson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350096989 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 248
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From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. The polarities that an ironic grasp of it could potentially always hold in tension are finally collapsing into each other. In Modernity and the Political Fix, Andrew Gibson tells the relevant story and asks what aspects of modern politics we might want to salvage and preserve and within what structure we might continue thinking about them. His answer is that these questions call for the isolation of a particular set of concepts; that, rightly positioned in relation to one another, the concepts amount to a political theology; that the very formulation of political temporality is therefore at stake; and that the thinking in question has been and is best represented in modern philosophy and art, above all, modern literature. Ranging through early modern and modern thought from Hobbes, Pascal and Leibniz to Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard to Foucault, Lacan, Badiou, Jambet and Rancière, and in modern literature and art from Wordsworth and Byron to Goya and Wagner, Huysmans and Wilde, Joyce and Woolf, Joseph Roth, Vicki Baum, Gabriele Tergit and the Weimar novel, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell to R.S. Thomas and Norman Nicholson, Gibson seeks to compile a modern political aide-memoire, a treasury for a politics to come.
Author: Osho Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd. ISBN: 9788171823468 Category : Spiritual life Languages : en Pages : 280
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These songs of Kabir are nothing but the overflowing of that melody that he has heard. These songs are nothing but the overflowing of the flood that he has received into his innermost being. These songs are no longer ordinary songs. These songs are not only those of a poet but those of a mystic - one who knows knows by living it; one who has tasted God who is drunk with God. -Osho
Author: Marjorie Liu Publisher: Image Comics ISBN: 1534315802 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 180
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Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens the Known World. Maika is finally close to getting all the answers she ever wanted, but at what price? With war on the horizon a war no one wants to stop whose side will Maika choose? Collects MONSTRESS #19-24
Author: Steven Dohoney Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 160791588X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 158
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Hope is something that everyone must have in their life, for without it all would be lost. As a Christian have you ever felt hopeless and nothing you did seemed to matter? Did you ever find yourself wanting to quit God and go back to the world? Sad to say, too many of us have been tempted with these thoughts and still worse many have returned to the world, because they have lost their hope. Hopelessness is real. People are waking up to the fact that dead religious ceremonies and clichés have not helped them with life's real problems. They are now desperate for God's real answers and God always has a ram in the bush. HOPE is here! This book attempts to address some of those real issues, which we all have faced in our Christian walk, and provide some tools, which we can use to restore our faith. Dr. Steven Dohoney is the Founder and President of Open Heaven Ministry Church and Acts of Kindness, Inc. located in Andalusia, AL, where he's served as Pastor for over twelve years. He is the executive producer of Our Daily Bread radio broadcast and Celebrate Jesus television program, which are aired in south Alabama. He is an ordained minister with Present Day Ministry and served in many positions with his brother-in law, Pastor Bob Hauselman, at Restoration Christian Church in Sellersburg, IN for over twenty years. Dr. Dohoney, co-founder of the Indiana Company of Prophets, served on the original Board of Directors. Dr. Dohoney holds a BA of Theology from Christian International Bible College and a Doctorate Degree in Theology from the Jewish Theological Seminary College in Louisville, KY. He is married to Mary, and they have four grown children. Dr Dohoney is available for conferences and seminars.
Author: Martin Winbolt-Lewis Publisher: Paragon Publishing ISBN: 1782220615 Category : Languages : en Pages : 186
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A retired hospital chaplain looks at the traumatic and complex experience of ill health that patients and their families face together with some suggestions about the much-needed sensitive pastoral and spiritual care which brings a feeling of nurture to people adrift from their normal lives in the National Health Service hospital setting.
Author: Jessica Hurley Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452962677 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 326
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A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In Infrastructures of Apocalypse, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives. Exchanging the usual white, male “nuclear canon” for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, Infrastructures of Apocalypse delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley’s belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement. Infrastructures of Apocalypse offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, and Angels in America. Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.
Author: Adam Sternbergh Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250855675 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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"A galloping and exhilarating thriller." —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me From Edgar Award-finalist Adam Sternbergh, an electrifying domestic suspense novel for fans of The Perfect Marriage and Rock Paper Scissors, about a couple who are forced to the ultimate extremes to save their marriage—and themselves. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. Daisy and Craig’s marriage is in serious trouble. That’s why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start. Yet even as she’s struggling to salvage her marriage, it seems Craig has plans to leave her for another woman. In fact, his bags are already packed—long before he arrives to meet Daisy in this remote cabin in the woods of upstate New York. At first, their week away is marked by solitude, connection, and natural beauty—and only a few hostile locals. But what Craig doesn’t know is that Daisy, a slyly talented actress, has her own secrets, including a burner phone she’s been using for mysterious texts. Not to mention the Eden Test itself, which poses a searing new question to the couple every day, each more explosive than the last. Their marriage was never perfect, but now the lies and revelations are piling up, as the week becomes much more than they bargained for...How far are they willing to go? Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, originality, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to this chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink.
Author: Lance Parkin
Author: Lance Parkin
Author: Bruce B. Zellner
Author: Rita Bateson
Author: Andrew Gibson
Author: Osho
Author: Marjorie Liu
Author: Steven Dohoney
Author: Martin Winbolt-Lewis
Author: Jessica Hurley
Author: Adam Sternbergh