Download or read book Alien Legacies written by Nathan Abrams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb audiences upon its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one "mashup" franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelizations, games, and an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien and its progeny have animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of fields and methodological perspectives. This book brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Alien through a contemporary lens. The chapters here demonstrate the extent to which its effects and reception are deeply multifaceted, with the Alien franchise straddling the lines between "high" and "low" culture, playing with generic categories, crossing media boundaries, and animating theoretical, critical, and political debates. Chapters touch on female agency and motherhood, the influence of H.R. Giger, the viscerality of Alien's body horror, the narrative tradition of the Female Gothic, the patriarchal gaze in the Alien video games, and the rise of in-universe online marketing campaigns. In so doing, the volume aims to debate Alien's legacy, consider its current position within visual culture, and establish what the series means--and why it still matters--forty years since its birth.

Download or read book Developing Place responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Environmental Education written by Alistair Stewart and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rhizomatic curriculum autobiography that charts the author’s efforts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed. Joining philosophical concepts created by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari with William Pinar’s autobiographical method for curriculum inquiry, the author (re)considers the interrelated concepts, contexts and complex conversations with colleagues, students and others that have shaped his approach to curriculum, pedagogy and research for fifteen years or more. Emphasising the complexity of developing curricula and pedagogies that engage, in a respectful and generative way, with the natural and cultural history of the Australian continent, the author explicates and enacts his attempts to think differently about the cultural, curricular and pedagogical understandings that inform the practices of Australian outdoor environmental educators. Outdoor environmental education in Australia has historically been influenced by imported universalist ideas, particularly from the USA and the UK. However, during the last two decades a growing number of researchers in this field have challenged the applicability of such taken-for-granted approaches and advocated the development of curricula and pedagogies informed by the unique bio-geographical and cultural histories of the locations in which educational experiences take place. As this book demonstrates, Alistair Stewart is prominent among the vanguard of Australian outdoor environmental educators who have led such advocacy by combining practical experience with theoretical rigour.

Download or read book Nomadic Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This comprehensive and thoughtful volume is the first book to investigate, assess and apply a philosophy of education drawn from the great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. It contains powerful and beautiful essays by some of the most influential Deleuze and Guattari commentators (the chapters by Bogue, Colebrook, May and Semetsky, and Genosko are particularly rewarding). The book provides very useful situations within the philosophy of education and some interesting experimental developments of Deleuze’s work, notably in terms of new technologies and original methods. This is then an indispensable work on Deleuze and education. It covers the historical background and begins shaping debates for future research in this exciting and growing area.” —Professor James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Dundee, author of Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide and The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences

Download or read book Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice written by Robert Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by papers developed for the 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education: Imaginative Practice, Imaginative Inquiry (Canberra, Australia, 2008), this book connects a cross-section of educators, researchers and administrators in a dialogue and exploration of imaginative and creative ways of teaching, learning and conducting educational inquiry. Imagination is a concept that spans traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries. The authors in this book acknowledge diverse theoretical and practical allegiances, but they concur that imagination will play an essential role in the building of new foundations for education in the 21st century. From our conception of human development through our ways of educating teachers to the teaching of mathematics, they argue for the centrality of imagination in the realization of human potential, and for its relevance to the most urgent problems confronting our world. Introduced by a wide-ranging literature review and extensively referenced, this volume makes an important contribution to a rapidly expanding field.

Download or read book Posthumanism and Educational Research written by Nathan Snaza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production. This movement challenges some of the most foundational concepts in educational theory and has implications within educational research, curriculum design and pedagogical interactions. In this volume, a group of international contributors use posthumanist theory to present new modes of institutional collaboration and pedagogical practice. They position posthumanism as a comprehensive theoretical project with connections to philosophy, animal studies, environmentalism, feminism, biology, queer theory and cognition. Researchers and scholars in curriculum studies and philosophy of education will benefit from the new research agendas presented by posthumanism.

Download or read book The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Order written by Gordon Friedrichs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume bridges the "analytical divide" between studies of transatlantic relations, democratic peace theory, and foreign policy analysis, and improves our theoretical understanding of the logic of crises prevention and resolution. The recent rise of populism and polarization in both the U.S.A and Europe adds to a host of foreign policy crises that have emerged in transatlantic relations over the last two decades. Through examining how democracies can manage to sustain and maintain mechanisms of crisis resilience that are embedded in the democratic peace, and particularly transatlantic relations, this book helps enhance the understanding of inter-democratic crisis resolution across issue areas. In doing so, it addresses some of the most important and prevalent crises of our time, such as anti-terrorism intervention in Afghanistan; Iran’s nuclear program; burden-sharing within North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO; key aspects of the international order, such as binding norms for cyber security and the integration of China into the Western-led international economic order; as well as domestic order shifts, such as the British vote to leave the European Union (EU) and the impact of the Trump administration populist foreign policy on transatlantic crisis resolution. This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Transatlantic Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Comparative Politics.

Download or read book Aliens Hive 2nd Ed written by Dark Horse Comics and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 1993-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanislaw Mayakovsky once wrote a book about the cybernetic ant he designed to infiltrate a hive in order to gain precious knowledge about the Alien. Now a beautiful young thief has approached him to use his experience and expertise -- not in the pursuit of scientific knowledge but in the pursuit of precious Alien jelly. The mission is a perilous one, but the motives are compelling: wealth, power, and life itself!

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Download or read book Heed the Dark Light written by Duncan Hoode and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world divided by virtual sector walls after the dark web hack that caused the worldwide IoT meltdown, a group of people and magical beings who live in a parallel universe plan to reunite the globe. They will fight the dark force threatening to control the world through sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. Years in the future, two young elite sproggers (recruits) of the most powerful military compound in the largest smart city in the U.S. go missing in a failed translocation operation. They land in an ancient crypt in Italy, to discover they’re now among a small clan of magical beings who want to eradicate the evil force behind the artificial intelligence operating system that controls nearly the whole world through algorithms. The race is on to find the sproggers before the unknown forces do.

Download or read book Last of the Sandwalkers written by Jay Hosler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When field scientist Lucy defies the law of her safe but authoritarian home on an oasis by leading a team of researchers into the desert to learn about the greater world, what she finds will change everything, beginning with the knowledge that beetles are not the only living creatures.

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Download or read book Aliens Omnibus Volume 2 written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many humans have died horribly at the claws of the Alien. The surface ofEarth has been devastated to cleanse the beasts from our world. But thecommercial value of this scourge has never been in doubt, especially when thespecial properties of the Alien Queen's royal jelly are discovered. WillMankind once again risk its very survival as a species in order to sleep withthe Alien?Dark Horse Comics' critically acclaimed Aliens seriesset the bar for how the universe of a popular film could be expanded throughgraphic fiction. Aliens Omnibus Volume 2 collects more of these excitingseries in a value-priced, quality-format omnibus, featuring over four hundredstory pages in full color. Includes the complete story arcs of Genocide,Harvest and the never-before-collected, epic-length ColonialMarines.

Download or read book Aliens Epic Collection written by Marvel Various and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Aliens: Genocide #1-4, Aliens: Hive #1-4 And Aliens: Tribes, Aliens: Newt'S Tale #1-2 - Plus Material From Dark Horse Insider #14-27, Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special And Dark Horse Presents (1986) #56. The ALIENS mythos expands in frightening new directions! Billionaire Daniel Grant leads an expedition to the Alien homeworld! But what could possibly be worth a journey into ultimate terror? It's one planet, two Alien queens, millions of hungry monsters and a king's ransom awaiting any survivors! Then, Stanislaw Mayakovsky and his partner, the young thief Gill, design a cybernetic Alien to steal the precious royal jelly of the Alien Queen Mother - but a powerful corporation wants what they have! And when an Alien is detected on board a space station orbiting Earth, all hope of destroying it depends on one man's sinister secret! Plus: The full story of Newt from the Aliens movie and more tales of horror!