Download or read book Sirenswail written by Dave Mitchell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1644, and Civil War rages across England. Oliver Cromwell has taken charge of the opposition to King Charles the First and Cromwell's New Model Army is gaining victories. England is in chaos. Cromwell is a puritan who has vowed to wipe out evil and sorcery, aligning it with the King's Court. The young Witchfinder Matthew Hopkins is scouring the land, holding trials and burning at the stake anybody who he considers in league with the powers of darkness or are "freaks against nature, born of the Devil." Rumours are that there is an island of riches which will fund the escape of those using magic and anybody who stands by them. The island of ""Sirenswail."" It is to here that adventurers will set sail. Three adventures in one, city, sea, and island, ""Sirenswail"" contains mature content and is suggested for OSR games including Lamentations of the Flame Princess. It is intended for 5-8 characters of levels 1-3.
Download or read book Sirens written by Michael Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds – from the US Cold War public training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.
Download or read book Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine written by Bohdan Shumylovych and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and important book explores how war imprints on culture and the psychosocial effects of war on individuals and societies, based on the first few months after the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022. The book approaches the conflict in Ukraine through the prism of creative and artistic material alongside scholarly analysis to highlight the multiplicity of subjective experiences. Essays are complemented by material from the ‘war diaries’, which comprise day diaries, dream diaries, artistic and poetic material composed by students and academics in February and March 2022. With chapters focusing on fear, ruptures and resistance, the book examines different aspects of subjective, cultural and embodied experiences of war. It examines elements that dominant perspectives of war often overlook; the quotidian, personal and emotive ways that war is registered individually and collectively in societies and cultures. Highlighting different narratives that illuminate the complex effects of war, this book is highly relevant for postgraduate students, researchers and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of cultural psychology, psychosocial studies, peace and conflict studies and cultural history. Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 7 and Chapter 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. To read the online archive of Two Months of War, please visit the Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History (Lviv, Ukraine): https://uma.lvivcenter.org/en/collections/178/interviews
Download or read book Action written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So I agreed to play the part of Esther Rackham in a film about the heist that gave River Heights its name, and there was all this trouble on the set, and I figured out who was behind it. Case closed, right? Wrong! Once the camera starts rolling, a huge fire breaks out on the set, setting back production again. We're running out of time and funds. At least the fire turns up a key clue about who started it, but I'll have to continue juggling acting and sleuthing. Because it might be up to me to save this film from going up in flames....
Download or read book Final Breath written by Kevin O'Brien and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Sydney Jordan tries to start a new life in Seattle with her teenage son, but is drawn into a serial killer's twisted game when he starts sending her macabre souvenirs from seemingly unrelated murders across the country.
Download or read book Sound Objects written by James A. Steintrager and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John Mowitt, Pooja Rangan, Gavin Steingo, James A. Steintrager, Jonathan Sterne, David Toop
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Download or read book The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen written by Nathalie Aghoro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV.
Download or read book Truck n written by Loyd Skiles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical adventures of a rock 'n roll Karma Bandit who hops in a big rig in New York City with his truck driving partner, criss-crossing America twice during a month long run with the President hot on their trail, finally encountering everything from subtrefuge to murder
Download or read book Hiding from Salesmen written by Scott Poole and published by Lost Horse Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Scott Poole's poems is like visiting inside the human brain. His words pulse with electric life, and carry the reader on a torrent of wonderful energy to encounter marvel after marvel. A narrator grows corn inside his garage, another person bounces basketballs off a Rodin sculpture, a man sticks his foot into a coal mine on a Spring day permitting hundreds of tiny miners to escape. A sensitivity quivering with the terror and joy of existence inhabits this poetry. A man temporarily abandons replacing a broken automobile starter to savor the perfection of babies." Another realizes that living beings posses a power such "that death / can't completely inhabit the body." Poole's words would convince anyone that our species will endure and triumph. Humorous, thoughtful, and vibrating with magic, the poems of Hiding from Salesmen are simultaneously vehicle, idea, organic compound and music. The future of poetry---hey, the future of humanity---is in good hands if it's in Scott Poole's hands." --Tom Wayman
Download or read book Sing Her Down written by Ivy Pochoda and published by MCD. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Urgent, haunting, and fearless.” —Megan Abbott, author of Beware the Woman A Barnes & Noble Mystery & Thriller Pick | An Elle Best Book of the Summer | An Apple Best Book of May | A Most Anticipated Book from BookPage, SPY, Lit Hub, and Paste Magazine Cormac McCarthy meets Killing Eve in this gritty, razor-sharp thriller following two indelible women on a path to certain destruction Florence “Florida” Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women’s prison—or so her ex-cellmate Diosmary Sandoval keeps insinuating. Dios knows the truth about Florida’s crimes, understands what Florence hides even from herself: that she was never a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world’s refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida’s eyes and unleash her true self. When an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios’s fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles. With blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a fast-paced L.A. crime novel for the ages. Gripping and immersive, Sing Her Down is a spellbinding thriller that, at its core, shows just what an angry woman is capable of.
Download or read book Those of the Unexpected written by Allison Ince and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayed by the third generation weapons, the Zoeks are scattered. Some have been taken to the Experiment Halls, while some are still in hiding. In an unfortunate twist, Memory and Abednego are taken into custody by a small precinct. The law enforcement have no idea what is ahead of them, but they have an awful feeling it has something to do with the disappearances in the neighborhood a few months before. Tyme, Tech, and Ghost befriend the Gutter Rats, a group of ex-gang members. The three Zoeks unravel the Elite’s plan to destroy the neighborhood with one violent act at a time. While their friends fight to save lives, the rest of the Zoeks find themselves in the hands of Agent Jagger and the Elite Representatives. Who will be sold? Who will be executed? And will they ever see each other again?
Download or read book Everything Is Fine Now written by Steve Rasnic Tem and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this all-ages collection award-winning horror author Steve Rasnic Tem showcases a variety of ghosts and other creatures eager to keep you up all night with the lights on. Read about the two best friends chased by a strangely familiar figure. Or the teenager who woke up one morning with fur sprouting from every nook and cranny on his body. Or the fellow from a poor family who has to take care of both his little sister and his crazy mom whose magical powers only make things worse. Or an old man who finally tells his grandson the terrible thing that makes their crops grow. Or the mechanic who keeps his cars running on oil, gasoline, blood, and broken bones. The stories in Everything Is Fine Now range from subtle supernatural tales to the tall tales typically heard around a campfire. Stories included in this collection: The Woman in the Attic The Hideaway Man Mechanic Little One Jake’s Body Voices in the Dark The Man Under the Bridge Daddy’s An Actor Domestic Magic (with Melanie Tem) The Hunt Sirens Show Night Does It Scare You? Skullbees The Snowman The Farmer Alan’s Mother Bad Dogs Come Out of the Rain Be Mine Creation Story Lesser Fires (with Melanie Tem) Daddy Tyger There’s No Such Thing as Monsters The Boyfriend “a spine-tingling but compellingly honest portrait of how horror can turn into a whole-life experience: as subject matter to spark inspiration for an author, as lived experience for those of us just trying to get by, and as entertainment, too.” – John C. Adams, The British Fantasy Society “Some sheer literary classics in this book.” – Des Lewis Reviews
Download or read book Arab and Jew written by David K. Shipler and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and Jews In this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that exist between Jews and Arabs that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerrilla, the handsome actor whose father is Arab and whose mother is Jewish. For Shipler, and for all who read this book, their stories and hundreds of others reflect not only the reality of "wounded spirits" but also a glimmer of hope for eventual coexistence in the Promised Land.
Download or read book Everyday Exposure written by Sarah Marie Wiebe and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenous bodies persists through a system that fails to adequately address health and ecological suffering in First Nations’ communities like Aamjiwnaang. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices faced on a daily basis in Aamjiwnaang. Exploring the problems that Canada’s conflicting levels of jurisdiction pose for the creation of environmental justice policy, analyzing clashes between Indigenous and scientific knowledge, and documenting the experiences of Aamjiwnaang residents as they navigate their toxic environment, this book argues that social and political changes require an experiential and transformative “sensing policy” approach, one that takes the voices of Indigenous citizens seriously.
Download or read book Still the Sirens written by Dennis Brutus and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
