Download or read book Spirit is a Bone written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series of portraits in this book, which include Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevic and many other Moscow citizens, were created by a machine: a facial recognition system recently developed in Moscow for public security and border control surveillance. The result is more akin to a digital life mask than a photograph; a three-dimensional facsimile of the face that can be easily rotated and closely scrutinised. What is significant about this camera is that it is designed to make portraits without the co-operation of the subject; four lenses operating in tandem to generate a full frontal image of the face, ostensibly looking directly into the camera, even if the subject himself is unaware of being photographed.00The system was designed for facial recognition purposes in crowded areas such as subway stations, railroad stations, stadiums, concert halls or other public areas but also for photographing people who would normally resist being photographed. Indeed any subject encountering this type of camera is rendered passive, because no matter which direction he or she looks, the face is always rendered looking forward and stripped bare of shadows, make-up, disguises or even poise.
Download or read book Flesh and Spirit written by Carol Berg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of a proposed duology, Valen, the rebellious scion of a dynasty of pureblood cartographers and diviners, has spent years denying his heritage, until he nearly ends up dead, addicted to a spell that converts pain to pleasure and possessing only a stolen book of maps, a mystical volume that could hide the secret to the doom of the entire world. Original.
Download or read book Heavenly Emperor of Myriad Realms written by Feng ShengDaPeng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven and Earth devils ran rampant, ghosts and bloodthirsty, and he was well-established in the world, cultivating heaven-defying techniques. A word could be spoken day and night, while a word could be spoken to cause stars to fall. His words were like a myriad of curses, and his gaze was like a curse. It could intimidate all worlds, and could end the lives of hundreds of millions of creatures. I want all the stars in the universe to be my eyes, I want all living things to understand my own will ... Zhou Qing.
Download or read book Amazonian Cosmopolitans written by Suzanne Oakdale and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonian Cosmopolitans explores how two Kawaiwete Indigenous leaders, Sabino and Prepori, lived in a much more complicated and globally connected Amazon than most people realize.
Download or read book Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers written by Peter I-min Huang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan’s poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars, and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the book, written by and from the perspective of an indigene, begins by giving readers a glimpse into the kind of world in the east in which the author came of age. It then relates this world to the western worlds that Hogan writes about in her poetry and prose. Chapter Two focuses on Hogan’s most recently published novel, People of the Whale (2008), and on the arguments that the novel makes about the environmentally unsustainable acts of corporate globalization that involve the trade in endangered animal species. Huang relates those arguments to the oil industry in Taiwan and to the extirpation of cetacean species in the waters of Taiwan by this industry. Chapter Three is an analysis of the novel Mean Spirit (1990). Huang reads this novel mostly through the lens of environmental justice arguments. Chapter Four addresses the novel Solar Storms (1995) from the perspective of ecofeminist theory and in the context of the issue of the escalation of mega-dams in East Asia. Chapter Five analyses the novel Power from animal studies perspectives. Chapter Six is a comparative studies reading of poems by several prominent Chinese, Taiwanese, and Aboriginal poets—Taiwanese poet Ka-hsiang Liu, Paiwan poet Mona Neng, Atayal poet Walis Nokan, and Chinese-Taiwanese poet Guangzhong Yu—and Hogan’s latest collection of poetry, entitled Dark. Sweet: New & Selected Poems (2014). In his reading of this work, Huang relies on a definition of “ecopoetry” in Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street’s recently published The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013). He also brings together the main theoretical ecocritical terms that he discusses in the previous chapters.
Download or read book Daughter of Smoke Bone written by Laini Taylor and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Download or read book The Dispensatory of the United States of America written by Geroge and Bache Wood (Franklin) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 2020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Exorcist in Ming Dynasty written by Shi Yieleven and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years.A bizarre murder case had occurred in Zhenjiang City. People had been killed one after another. The manner in which they died was extremely horrifying. The Embroidered Uniform Guard knew of Lu Zhannan, so they led their subordinate, the Embroidered Uniform Commandant, to investigate.On the way back to Jinling City, Lu Zhinan ran into a monster, and was saved by the female Heavenly Master Fang Miao, and the two of them got to know each other.In the Great Ming Dynasty, where prosperity and vicissitudes coexisted, many bizarre things happened. While it seemed like a coincidence, it was actually inextricably linked.Fang Miaomiao and Lu Zhennan again and again in the long journey of beheading demons and demons, life and death and mutual love.
Download or read book Selected Essays of Wilson Harris written by A.J.M. Bundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.
Download or read book Palace of the Peacock written by Wilson Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palace of the Peacock, the first of Wilson Harris's many novels, was published in 1960, just one year after his arrival in Britain from Guyana. In a richly metaphorical style, the book sets out the themes Wilson continues to develop in his writing to this day: the ability of the imaginative consciousness to create worlds where disparate cultures and traditions are fused. Donne, an ambitious skipper, leads a multiracial crew up an unnamed river in the rainforest. He is searching for the indigenous people of the forest to exploit as cheap labour on his plantation. But the journey is beset with obstacles, and as the crew progress and their relationships develop, it takes on a more spiritual significance, culminating with the crew and the forest folk finding sanctuary and resolution in the visionary Palace of the Peacock.
Download or read book Reborn To Be A Vicious Phoenix written by Hua KaiBanJi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first year of Zhenyuan, Dingkang County, Hean Prefecture, a woman transformed into a monster. Luo Qingcai had spent nine years helping her husband. The Heavens did not disappoint those who had worked hard for her. As soon as he ascended the clouds, he kicked her into the abyss where she would never be able to recover! "He said you were as stupid as a pig or a dog and not worthy to be the supervisor lady." The eldest young mistress smiled sweetly as she looked at the corpse nailed to the coffin. "You little bastard, you're still quite useful. At least you raised me a husband for the top scholar." Once they were reborn, she was going to make them suffer through all the suffering in this world!
Download or read book Bones of the Dragon written by Margaret Weis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with heroes and heroines and spanning locales of exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, the Dragonships of Vindras series fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into the bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time. In Bones of the Dragon, Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war. But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise. Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation... and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons. It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess's champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption. Welcome to the World of Dragonships! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Ancient Saint Sovereign written by Zhi RanMoHen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the path of cultivation, the spirit was revered, the mysteries of yin and yang were stolen, and the fortune of heaven and earth was seized! Defying ten thousand principles, defying the will of the heavens, finally becoming a saint! Don't ask about the path of life or death when you're on the verge of death. To live one's life as a sovereign, to tread across thousands of rivers and thousands of mountains, to visit the nine heavens of the Azure Dragons! Even as a man, he would rule the world! [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] Close]
Download or read book English Compound Words and Phrases written by Francis Horace Teall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book My Hotel in Nether World written by Hong ChenQiuDu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
Download or read book Heaven Defying Cultivation in the City written by Lv Hen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After failing the Celestial Immortal tribulation, he returned to Earth and returned back to his previous life. With immortal arts, he knew that in the future, when the world was revealed to him, he would definitely rise to the heavens in laughter. Fighting against a formidable figure, carrying a beautiful woman, expanding their territory, and fighting for the world! Who could contend with the Illusory Flower? The heavens and the earth are my sovereign!
