Download or read book Assorted Fantasies written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies written by Talmadge J. Wright and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, communications and other assorted humanistic and social science disciplines. In Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies, Talmadge Wright, David Embrick and Andras Lukacs invites us to move further and consider questions on appropriate methods of researching games, understanding the carnival quality of modern life, the role of marketing in altering game narratives, and the role of fantasy and desire in modern video game play. Embracing an approach that combines a cultural and/or critical studies approach with a sociological understanding of this new media moves the debate beyond simple media effects, moral panics, and industry boosterism to one of asking critical questions, what does modern video game play 'mean,' what questions should we be asking, and what can sociological research contribute to answering these questions. This collection includes works which use textual analysis, audience based research, symbolic interactionism, as well as political economic and psychoanalytic perspectives to illuminate areas of inquiry that preserves the pleasure of modern play while asking tough questions about what such pleasure means in a world divided by political, economic, cultural and social inequalities.
Download or read book You re a Better Parent Than You Think written by Raymond N. Guarendi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the most troublesome aspects of parenthood, this book is full of real, sensible, down-to-earth guidance. Covering the most troublesome aspects of parenthood, this book is full of real, sensible, down-to-earth guidance. It restores you confidence in yourself so you don't feel undermined by all the self-proclaimed experts and enables you to raise your children in a way that is better for them...and lot better for you!
Download or read book The Icarus Girl written by Helen Oyeyemi and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The audacious first novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours • “Oyeyemi brilliantly conjures up the raw emotions and playground banter of childhood. . . . A masterly first novel.”–The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . As original as it is unsettling, The Icarus Girl runs straight at the heart of what it means to belong."– O, The Oprah Magazine Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly’s visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn’t actually know who her friend is at all. Drawing on Nigerian mythology, Helen Oyeyemi presents a striking variation on the classic literary theme of doubles — both real and spiritual — in this lyrical and bold debut.
Download or read book Human Nature and You written by Dick Minnerly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Nature and You is new fundamental thinking about all of us. It solves ancient dilemmas such as how all humans reason, how we each differ in that reasoning, and why we have a unique character at birth that shapes our personality and decisions throughout life. Its new theories revolutionize all our traditional thinking in philosophy, psychology, and politics, and give us our first truly leftist master plan for saving our societies. They also give us a new tool that reveals the innate character of anyone whose birth data we know. This tool, the Minnerly Impulse Pattern (or MIP), is superior to every method psychologists or other specialists have yet devised to reveal your total nature, including your strengths, weaknesses, and psychologic health or conflicts.
Download or read book The Retrospective written by A. B. Yehoshua and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ageing film director must face his past in the acclaimed Israeli author’s prize-winning novel—“a compelling meditation on art, memory, love [and] guilt” (Independent, UK). Yair Moses, an aging Israeli film director, has been invited to the Spanish pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. Accompanied by Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, Moses discovers a painting in their hotel room that triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter—who, as it happens, was once Ruth’s lover. Upon their return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price that will have strange and lasting consequences. A searching and original novel by one of the world’s most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation. Winner, 2012 Prix Médicis étranger Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Download or read book Mulk Raj Anand written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mulk Raj Anand Was An Indian English Writer Of World Repute. His First Ten Books Were From London. He Has Over 22 Books Of Fiction And A Large Number Of Publications On Art, Education And Culture, And Thousands Of Letters. Only Three Volumes Of His Letters Have Been Published. Some Of His Works Have Gone Out Of Print. The Book Is The First Attempt Of Its Kind To Fill This Gap And Introduce The Author To A Large Readership. Here Is An Earnest Endeavour To Give A ýFeelý Of His Immortal Art And Vision. It Opens With ýThe Lost Childý And Records, In All, 15 Short Stories. Then Selections From 15 Novels Have Been Given. The Final Part Carries Four Letters Of Anand, Culled From Three Anthologies Of Letters.
Download or read book Tek Secret written by William Shatner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While searching for a missing heiress, Jake Cardigan uncovers a stunning conspiracy in the action-filled conclusion to the TekWar series Barry Zangerly’s friends told him to stay away from Alicia Bower. The heir to the Mechanix International robotics fortune, she is beautiful, unstable, and too charming to resist. When she vanishes, Zangerly combs Greater Los Angeles for his damaged beauty, a hunt that finally leads him to an abandoned warehouse, where a vicious robot beats him senseless to get him to call off his search. Instead, Zangerly does the opposite—he calls Jake Cardigan. The sharpest P.I. in the city, Cardigan is fighting to recover from the death of his fiancée. He couldn’t save Beth Kittredge from the Teklords’ bomb, but he will stop at nothing to see that Alicia Bower doesn’t suffer the same fate. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book The State Bearing Gifts written by Brian J. McVeigh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitima
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Download or read book Gothic effigy written by David Annwn Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received serious study before. This guide is the most comprehensive work in its field, a study aid that draws links between a considerable array of Gothic visual works and artifacts, from the work of Salvator Rosa and the first illustrations of Gothic Blue Books to the latest Gothic painters and graphic artists. Currently popular areas such as Gothic fashion, gaming, T.V. and film are considered, as well as the ghostly images of magic lantern shows. This groundbreaking study will serve as an invaluable reference and research book. In its wide range and closely detailed descriptions, it will be very attractive for students, academics, collectors, fans of popular Gothic culture and general readers.
Download or read book Fantasy Worlds written by Gini Scott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy! The very word conjures images of escape from reality, from the mundaneness of ordinary daily life. Fantasy Worlds combines a look at the psychology and power of fantasy with profiles of a dozen groups of individuals exploring different types of fantasy. While some play with fantasy as an occasional release, others turn fantasy into an ongoing lifestyle that adds spice to their everyday routines. The groups featured include those with members who enjoy role-playing and other games, participate in fantasy parties, travel into past and future eras, explore offbeat adventures, and experiment with erotic fantasy games. It concludes with a discussion of how many individuals use fantasy for personal growth on their own or in role-playing groups. Besides illustrating some popular fantasies, the book shows how we all need some fantasy in our lives; how we are all fantasy seekers.
Download or read book The Professor and Other Tales of Coney Island written by Robert Lagerstrom and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his second published book set in Coney Island through the latter half of the 20th century, the author focuses primarily on an aging professor who has found sympathetic conditions of environment in which to ruminate on his experiences and destiny. He lives in a rundown hotel located in the heart of the amusement area, with ready access to secret places and intermittent encounters. A variety of Island transients and dreamers also appear in these dark tales.
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Download or read book Tek Vengeance written by William Shatner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his fiancée about to testify against the Teklord drug cartels, PI Jack Cardigan is lured to Brazil in a deadly scheme that could spark a new TekWar. A man in Berlin has just learned something that could save Jake Cardigan’s life. But before he can pass on this vital information, he dies under suspicious circumstances—setting off a chain reaction that will change Cardigan’s life forever, threatening to destroy every person he loves. Cardigan’s fiancée, Beth, goes to Berlin to testify against the ruthless drug cartel controlled by Sonny Hokori and the Teklords. Cardigan plans to be there to protect her against the nefarious assassins of the Teklords, but an urgent case calls him to Rio. By the time he realizes the Brazilian case is no more than a set-up to take him away from Beth, it may be too late to save her—and prevent a new round of TekWars from engulfing the earth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Shatner including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Fantasy Fix written by Christine Warren and published by Elloras Cave Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends fix you up with blind dates. Real friends fix you up with your fantasies... Regina just ended an awful relationship. The last thing she needs is her friends' help in finding a new one. When they pressure her into sharing her fantasies, she makes up one she thinks could never come true. After all, vampires don't even exist. Right? Wrong. And Dmitri Vid?me is the proof. He sees Regina's thoughts and knows her darkest fantasies. What Regina needs is someone who bring handcuffs as well as roses and who sees the possibilities offered by her sensual and giving nature. With all the electricity sparking between them, and some sneaky mental eavesdropping, Dmitri knows she wants him, too. He just doesn't know if she'll feel the same once she finds out about his nocturnal habits and his liquid diet.
