Download or read book The Omnibus written by Elizabeth Amann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique.
Download or read book Evolution Omnibus written by Stephanie Saulter and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were created to save humanity. Now they must fight to save themselves. The complete Evolution series by Stephanie Saulter. For years the human race suffered from a deadly Syndrome, but when a cure was found - in the form of genetically engineered human beings, gems - the line between survival and ethics was radically altered. Now the gems are fighting for their freedom, from the oppression of the companies that created them, and against the norms who see them as slaves. And a conference at which Dr Eli Walker has been commissioned to present his findings on the gems is the key to that freedom. But with the gemtech companies fighting to keep the gems enslaved, and the horrifying godgangs determined to rid the earth of these 'unholy' creations, the gems are up against forces that may just be too powerful to oppose. 'Some books are good, some books are even great. This one is important' - SF Signal on Binary
Download or read book Evolution Omnibus written by Clement Brian F.H. (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution written by Stephen Baxter and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver Post Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? Praise for Evolution “Spectacular.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future.”—Times Literary Supplement “A breath of fresh air . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story.”—The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Proceedings Institution of Mechanical Engineers written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal written by Institute of Transport (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Endymion written by Dan Simmons and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike - monster, angel, killing machine - who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered - an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.
Download or read book The Doom Patrol Omnibus written by Grant Morrison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Doom Patrol puts itself back together after nearly being destroyed, and things start to get a lot weirder for everybody. The Chief leads Robotman, the recently formed Rebis and new member Crazy Jane against the Scissormen, part of a dangerous philosophical location that has escaped into our world and is threatening to engulf reality itself. Collecting Grant Morrison's definitive run, which launched his career as one of the comic industry's most innovative and creative writers! Collects Doom Patrol #19-63 and Doom Force Special #1.
Download or read book X Men Evolution written by Devin Grayson and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects X-Men: Evolution (2001) #1-9. Celebrate twenty years of EVOLUTION with the complete comic book adventures of the Bayville squad! Twenty years ago, the animated series X-MEN: EVOLUTION reinvented the Children of the Atom for a whole new generation — recasting many of Marvel’s merry mutants as teenagers who attend Bayville High School at the same time as training to protect a world that hates and fears them! With Professor X, Wolverine, Storm and Beast for teachers, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Kitty Pryde are joined by new sensation Spyke — but will the toad-like Todd Tolanski make the grade? Will Fred Dukes be the big man on campus? And is a mystery mastermind pulling everyone’s strings? The X-Men meet their match in the Mimic — and make way for new recruits including Iceman, Cannonball, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Multiple Man and Boom-Boom!
Download or read book ANIMOSITY written by Marguerite Bennett and published by Aftershock Comics. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of AfterShock's first breakout hit series - now re-presented for the Young Adult category in an all-new resized Seismic Press edition! One day, for no reason, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking REVENGE. Collecting the second full story arc of the best-selling series, plus the special one-shot issue from creator Marguerite Bennett (Bombshells, A-Force, AfterShock's INSEXTS) and artist Rafael De Latorre (AfterShock's SUPERZERO). The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to Jesse and her protection. One year after the incident, Jesse and Sandor continue their cross-country journey to find Jesse's half-brother Adam in San Francisco...but they are unprepared for the various dangers that block their path.
Download or read book St Louis written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in Evolution written by Jack Mahoney and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created and counter its tendency to self-absorption. Primarily, however, the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering humanity into the culminating stage of its evolutionary destiny, the full sharing of God’s inner life. Previously such doctrines as original sin, the fall, sacrifice, and atonement stemmed from viewing death as the penalty for sin and are shown not only to have serious difficulties in themselves, but also to emerge from a Jewish culture preoccupied with sin and sacrifice that could not otherwise account for death. The death of Jesus on the cross is now seen as saving humanity, not from sin, but from individual extinction and meaninglessness. Death is now seen as a normal process that affect all living things and the religious doctrines connected with explaining it in humans are no longer required or justified. Similar evolutionary implications are explored affecting other subjects of Christian belief, including the Church, the Eucharist, priesthood, and moral behavior.
Download or read book The Autocar written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reliquary and Illustrated Arch ologist written by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
