Download or read book On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise written by Kenneth Little and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.
Download or read book Impossible Paradise written by Leeland Artra and published by Leeland Artra Author. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer or Heretic? The world's future hangs in the balance. An incredible pulp steampunk adventure. Captain Reinvo is ordered to test a prototype iron-side steamship on its first voyage. The simple cargo run turns deadly when a storm drives the ship so far off-course the crew is sure they're going to fall off the edge of the world. Reinvo fights to save his crew, only to discover a place that shouldn't exist and which may yet get them killed as heretics. If you like steampunk with elements of fantasy, speculative science-fiction, and thrilling tales, then you’ll love the fantastic serial adventures of the Endless Horizons Sagas, written in true homage to the pulp science-fiction classics.
Download or read book On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise written by Kenneth Little and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.
Download or read book For Sale American Paradise written by Willie Drye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.
Download or read book Bobos in Paradise written by David Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.
Download or read book Impossible Paradise written by Leeland Artra and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer or Heretic? The world's future hangs in the balance. An incredible pulp steampunk adventure. Captain Reinvo is ordered to take a prototype iron-sided steamship on its first voyage. The simple cargo run turns deadly when a storm drives the ship so far off-course the crew is sure they're going to fall off the edge of the world. Reinvo fights to save his crew, only to discover a place that shouldn't exist and which may yet get them killed as heretics. If you like steampunk with elements of fantasy, speculative science-fiction, and thrilling tales, then you'll love the fantastic serial adventures of the Endless Horizons Sagas, written in true homage to the pulp science-fiction classics.
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Download or read book Race Nation Translation written by Zoë Wicomb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on a wide range of cultural and political topics, including gender politics, sexuality, race, identity, nationalism, and visual art. Also presented here are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insights into her nation's history, politics, and people. In a world in which nationalist rhetoric is on the rise and right-wing populist movements are the declared enemies of diversity and pluralism, her essays speak powerfully to a host of current international issues.
Download or read book The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination written by Elizabeth Christine Russ and published by Imagining the Americas. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold.
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Download or read book The Home and the World written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home and the World (1916) is a novel by Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Written after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel dramatizes the Swadeshi movement for Indian independence from British rule. Through the lens of one family, Tagore illuminates the conflict between Western culture and Indian nationalism while exploring the complex relationships of men and women in modern India. Concerned for his wife, who spends most of her days inside, Nikhil, an educated aristocrat, brings Bimala to a political rally. There, they hear the magnanimous revolutionary Sandip speak out against British imperialism and call for Indian independence. Although Nikhil remains passive, if not indifferent, regarding British rule, Bimala, who comes from a poor family, reaches a political awakening of her own. When Nikhil and Bimala invite Sandip to stay as a guest at their home, Bimala moves further away from her traditional role as a wife and begins to develop romantic feelings for the radical figure. Aware of his growing influence, Sandip places himself between Nikhil and his wife while secretly attempting to convince Bimala to use her husband’s wealth to support the Swadeshi cause. The Home and the World is a masterful novel that explores the personal behind the political, inserting the lives of individuals into history’s great wheel without losing sight of humanity. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World is a classic of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book The Home and the World written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Impossible Paradise written by Leeland Artra and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why survive if you're just going to be killed when you get back? That isn't a question you ask yourself when you're wrecked at sea. What you think about is the five things you need to do to survive. Don't sink Find fresh water Find food Figure out where you are Navigate home We did all that but we're likely dead anyway. - Captain Reinvo Pioneer or Heretic? The world's future hangs in the balance. A short fantasy steampunk adventure fun for tweens and adults. If you like fantasy novels with magic, dragons, and science fiction, then you will love this thrilling short gaslamp steampunk series. The acclaimed serial adventures Endless Horizons Sagas, written in true homage to the science fiction and fantasy classics. These short fantasy novels are great for middle school, tweens, young adults, and adults alike. What Others are Saying about the Endless Horizons Sagas "Impossible Paradise is his second series and is off to a great start. Strong characters, a nicely textured world, good development of the coming conflict. With Leeland there is always a twist you won't see coming." - R. Greco "There is plenty of action and a good start on the development of characters that I expect to see more of. It is an excellent lead-in to what I expect will be a great series!" - Catselan Get Impossible Paradise and see for yourself what everyone is talking about! Interview with the Author Q - So, what makes the Endless Horizons Sagas so amazing? A - These are fun, quick short novels. Each one is a tip of the hat to one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy classics of all time. This is a gaslamp steampunk world with magic, dragons, and a major mystery for our heroes to unravel if they want to live. There will be everything you expect in a steampunk novel airships, super science gizmos, steam-powered gear head machines, plus dragons, magic, and some rather surprising super science fiction elements by the end. You really don't want to miss out on this complete series. By keeping the novels short I've made sure every drop of ink counts and there's never a dull moment. Q - Are these books safe for middle school students, aka teens and tweens? A - Absolutely, there are no explicit details or bad words. Adult subjects are there but dealt with in a tween safe way. I write all my books to be easy funfilled stories for adults and teens who want to live with wizards and warriors! Q - What order should I read the books in? A - These books are definitely a series so I recommend the following sequence: Impossible Paradise Return of the Vibrius Center of the World In Service to the Empresses Murder in Transit Rule of Ladies Q - Why should readers give these books a try? A - Because the Endless Horizons Sagas are short, quick reads that are exciting and fun to read. They'll fire your imagination and take you to a wondrous world of science and magic! Each book has hit the top ten bestsellers list on Kindle and Books for Fantasy and Science Fiction, which isn't easy. Readers who enjoy science fiction with a little magic fantasy and exploring unknown mysteries with treacherous twisty plots will get a thrill out of this series of short gaslamp fantasy novels. Thank you for reading! Endless Horizons Sagas eBook Categories: Science Fiction - Steampunk Fantasy - Gaslamp Fantasy - Action & Adventure Fantasy - Epic Fantasy - Paranormal & Urban Literature & Fiction - Action & Adventure - Sea Adventure Teens & Young Adults - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Steampunk
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