Download or read book The Utopia of Rules written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

Download or read book The Huge Horror Movie Quiz Book written by Killian H. Gore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're here! And they're coming to get you, Barbara! Over 2000 fantastic horror movie questions! Hi, I'm Killian H. Gore! Wanna play?! Be afraid, be very afraid if your horror movie knowledge is a little bit skeletal! You're gonna need more brains if you don't want them all to laugh at you! With over 100 categories including: Slasher movies, Monster movies, 80s Horror, Sequels, Spoofs, Aliens, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies and Cannibals. Directors - Wes Craven, George Romero, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi and Rob Zombie. And films - Fright Night, Gremlins, The Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Child's Play, Halloween, The Exorcist, Pet Sematary, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Tremors, Wolf Creek, Scream and Psycho... and LOADS MORE! Plus a selection of Hugely Difficult Bonus Questions that might make you go a little mad sometimes! There's trivia questions, quotes, guess the movie from the description, true or false questions - all to make sure this will be the most fun you'll ever have playing a horror quiz! So, do you like scary movies... do you want to see what the insides of this book look like? Check in, relax... and take a really groovy horror quiz! "Think you know horror? Think again! Killian Gore will test the most ardent horror geek. Great fun from HorrorConUK's favorite quizmaster!" - Gill and Wendy (HorrorConUK) "Whether it's to host your own quiz parties or to test your own knowledge of horror movies, this quiz book has it all! Packed with insanely interesting trivia on some of the best horror movies ever made!" - Nathan Head (Actor: The Toymaker, Hellriser) "Brilliant! Gore knows horror inside out, so it's great fun seeing if you can match him. A cracking gift for any horror fan." - Peter Laws (Author: Purged, Unleashed) "Just when you think you know everything about horror movies, Killian melts your mind! A Gore-ious quiz book!" - Steven Monkey Mason (Lonely Tree Entertainment) "The perfect addition to your retro horror movie collection. Makes watching the classics that more exciting... brilliant!" - Mr. Red (Retro Horror Movies Warrington)

Download or read book The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp written by Eleanor Saitta and published by Knutpunkt. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunction with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.

Download or read book Level Up written by Scott Rogers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and build cutting-edge video games with help from video game expert Scott Rogers! If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren’t sure where to start, then this is the book for you. Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed the hits Pac Man World, Maxim vs. Army of Zin, and SpongeBob Squarepants, this book is full of Rogers's wit and imaginative style that demonstrates everything you need to know about designing great video games. Features an approachable writing style that considers game designers from all levels of expertise and experience Covers the entire video game creation process, including developing marketable ideas, understanding what gamers want, working with player actions, and more Offers techniques for creating non-human characters and using the camera as a character Shares helpful insight on the business of design and how to create design documents So, put your game face on and start creating memorable, creative, and unique video games with this book!

Download or read book The Horror Movie Manual written by Killian H Gore and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join your horror host Killian H. Gore on a hellish road trip through the dark landscape of horror movies! Taking in much-loved horror film characters, places, monsters, props, killers, locations. Everything you did and didn't know! All chronicled and explained with a dash of Mr. Gore's zany graveside humor. BEER - The favorite drink of most teens in slasher movies. Drinking it usually leads to imminent death. CASTLE ROCK - The name of a fictional town featured in many Stephen King books and film adaptations. Not an ideal place to live. ROADKILL - A dead animal on the road, often seen at the beginning of a horror movie to let you know that bad things are about to happen. Also features the terrifying short story, The Demon of Heritage, presented in its fully uncut form. Praise for Killian H. Gore: "Books for the obsessive horror fan. You are doing an excellent job. Keep writing!" JOHN LANDIS PLEASE NOTE - THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE HORROR MOVIE DICTIONARY IN 2019

Download or read book Ponyfinder Campaign Setting written by David Silver and published by Silver Games LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure in the world of Everglow, nestled in delicate balance between the elemental planes. It is a world of magic and mystery, where the fey are in control and the humanoid races are secondary. Foremost of the fey are Ponykind, who rallied behind their Queen to form the greatest empire Everglow had ever seen. We've brought ponies, griffons, felines, and other strange creatures to life in a world all of their own, where they are the primary PCs. Don't want to run a game all about ponies? That's alright! Use our post-empire suggestions to add ponies to any other existing world. Many spells, archetypes, and bloodlines are also usable by non ponies or other settings. New gods New spells New class archetypes New equipment New bloodlines New races Compatible with Pathfinder and 5E.

Download or read book Coraline written by Neil Gaiman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman's modern classic, brilliantly illustrated by Chris Riddell, with a new foreword by the author, in a gift presentation slipcase

Download or read book The Dragon and the Dazzle written by Marco Pellitteri and published by Tunué. This book was released on 2010 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the worldwide circulation of the products of cultural industries, an important role is played by Japanese popular culture in European contexts. Marco Pellitteri shows that the contact between Japanese pop culture and European youth publics occurred during two phases. By use of metaphor, the author calls them the Dragon and the Dazzle. The first took place between 1975 and 1995, the second from 1996 to today. They can be distinguished by the modalities of circulation and consumption/re-elaboration of Japanese themes and products in the most receptive countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany and, across the ocean, the United States. During these two phases, several themes have been perceived, in Europe, as rising from Japan's social and mediatic systems. Among them, this book examines the most apparent from a European point of view: the author names them machine, infant, and mutation, visible mostly through manga, anime, videogames, and toys. Together with France, Italy is the European country that in this respect has had the most central role. There, Japanese imagination has been acknowledged not only by young people, but also by politicians, television programmers, the general public, educators, comics and cartoons authors. The growing influence of Japanese pop culture, connected to the appreciation of its manga, anime, toys, and videogames, also urges political and mediologic questions linked to the identity/ies of Japan as they are understood--wrongly or rightly--in Europe and the West, and to the increasingly important role of Japan in international relations."--Back cover

Download or read book The Witch s Journal written by Selene Silverwind and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Boat of a Million Years written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history “succeeds admirably” (The New York Times). The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age—although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special gifts while searching for one another in the hope of finding some meaning in a life that may go on forever. Following their individual stories over the course of human history and beyond into a richly imagined future, “one of science fiction’s most revered writers” (USA Today) weaves a broad tapestry that is “ambitious in scope, meticulous in detail, polished in style” (Library Journal).

Download or read book Excommunication written by Alexander R. Galloway and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media and mediation on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself—instances they call excommunication. In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today—mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway’s classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Charting a trajectory of examples from H. P. Lovecraft to Meister Eckhart, Thacker explores those instances when one communicates or connects with the inaccessible, dubbing such modes of mediation “haunted” or “weird” to underscore their inaccessibility. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. He posits a critical theory that celebrates heresy and that is distinct from those that now venerate Saint Paul. Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition.

Download or read book The Gothic Imagination written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.

Download or read book Blood Rock written by Anthony Francis and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota Frost is back, and the ink is about to hit the fan-again. Graffiti comes to life in the dark heart of Atlanta's oldest cemetery, slaying one of the city's best loved vampires before the eyes of his friend Dakota Frost. Deadly magick is at work on the city's walls, challenging even the amazing power of Dakota's tattoos to contain it. The hungry, graffiti magick loves to kill, and the Edgeworld is no longer safe from its own kind. Dakota begins a harrowing journey to save those she loves and to discover the truth behind the spreading graffiti-even if that truth offends the vampires, alienates the werekin and creates police suspicion of her every action. Saving Atlanta may cost her everything, including custody of her "adopted" weretiger daughter, Cinnamon. But failure is not an option. If the graffiti isn't stopped, Cinnamon could be the next victim. Epic Award winner Anthony Francis writes the Skindancer series while working fulltime for "that famous search engine whose name begins with a 'G'."

Download or read book Merivel A Man of His Time written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.

Download or read book Starfinder RPG Tech Revolution written by Paizo Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Command the galaxy's cutting-edge technologies so sophisticated that they rival magic itself! Outfit yourself with the latest and greatest new weapons, armor, and other gear, from high-power explosives to alien relics that surpass conventional science. Or incorporate technologies directly into yourself, whether you're installing advanced cybernetic augmentations or playing Starfinder's newest class: the nanocyte, whose body hosts an army of robotic nanites that obey her commands! Outrace the speediest threats by customizing your own space-age vehicles, and overcome even the toughest foes by piloting powerful battle robots using the all-new mech combat system! Seize the future with additional options for every class and articles exploring every aspect of science-fantasy tech from advertising and music to virtual intelligences and security systems. Join in the Starfinder Tech Revolution!

Download or read book I Was a Teenage Weredeer written by C. T. Phipps and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***2019 Independent Audiobooks Award Winner*** Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner. She has big dreams of escaping life in the supernatural-filled town of Bright Falls, Michigan, and her eighteenth birthday promises the beginning of her teenage dreams coming true. Unfortunately, her birthday is ruined by the sudden murder of her best friend's sister in an apparent occult killing. Oh, and her brother is the primary suspect. Allying with an eccentric FBI agent, the local crime lord, and a snarky werecrow, Jane has her work cut out for her in turning her big day around. Thankfully, she's game. Set in the same world as Straight Outta Fangton. "I can't recommend it highly enough." - The Bookwyrm Speaks "It’s a weird, eccentric, quirky tale that often manages to be funny and horrifying at the same time – and completely pulls it off." - Beauty in Ruins

Download or read book The Ultimate Gladiator written by Brian Berg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gladiator alternate fighter class is a robust expansion upon the gladiator archetype in standard fantasy and designed for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Television series such as Spartacus(TM) have vividly inspired us and we are pleased to present 'The Ultimate Gladiator.' Total Party Kill Games' Ultimate Gladiator is an excellent adaptation, blending the exceptional Pathfinder system to a fantastic concept. We've utilized the "Talented" class framework to create a gladiator that is incredibly flexible and has the abilities to back up the strength of the concept. Our gladiator is not only a killer in the arena, but a viable character when allowed to adventure, providing valuable inspiration to his allies as he performs his feats of bravado and dash. While powerful, the gladiator is mostly limited in scope to melee combat and not well armored, preferring light armor and great mobility over heavier armors. This grants him great reflexes and their incessant combat practice allows them to take wounds that would cripple a normal hero and still keep on fighting. Within are multitudes of talents, feats, combat styles, traits, and even archetypes. Play the role of an insightful Andabata (Blind Helm Fighter), a ferocious Bestiarus (Beast Master), an acrobatic Blade Dancer, the charismatic Champion, the reviled Criminal, the massive Gigante (Giant), the alluring Gladiatrix, the unstoppable Immortal, the unflinching Ironbound, the wealthy Noble Gladiator, the deadly ranged Sagittarius, the rage-filled Barbaric Slave gladiator, and the fearsome Venator (Beast Slayer). Use 'The Ultimate Gladiator' to bring an exciting new warrior class into your Pathfinder games. Build a gladiator campaign around the multitudes of different gladiators you can build with this sourcebook. Or play a free gladiator that inspires his adventuring allies with his panache and bravado in your existing campaign. You will be entertained...