Download or read book The Unauthorized Starfleet Daily Meditation Manual written by Mark S. Haskett and published by InnerFaith Resources. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the words of Spock, Data, Kirk, Picard, Dax, and Worf to explore human experience and personal fulfillment in a series of daily meditations.
Download or read book Going Boldly on Your Inner Voyage written by Mark Stanley Haskett and published by IF Books. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by quotations gleaned from 30 years of Star Trek, this down-to-earth collection invites readers on a year-long voyage into their tuner universe?
Download or read book Boldly Going on Your Inner Voyage written by Mark S Haskett and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a devoted fan of the Star Trek(R) TV series and films, or you've never watched a single episode, you'll find a treasury of inspiration and insight on these pages. After all, the voyages of the Starship Enterprise - along with Star Trek's(R) other sequels and prequels - were never really about the exploration of space. They were about boldly going into ourselves. About investigating the deeper dimensions that give our lives meaning and purpose, that inspire us to become the best crewmen and women we can be right here on Spaceship Earth. Boldly Going on Your Inner Voyage is the perfect companion for your ongoing explorations. Written in the form of the "daily meditationals" familiar to both seekers of spiritual wisdom and readers in recovery (aren't we all?), the 438 readings all begin with a quotation from one of Star Trek's(R) repertoire of fascinating characters. The words of such icons as Captain Kirk, Picard and Janeway, Counselor Troi and Spock - and now Star Trek: Discovery's Michael Burnham - are scattered throughout the Manual, along with those of lesser-known luminaries like Neelix, Natira and Cadet Tilly. Each quote sparks an insightful reflection on themes ranging from Acceptance to Transformation, from Forgiveness to Serving Others. A brief affirmation follows, encouraging the reader to continue thinking about-and most importantly, acting on - the issues raised in the meditation. WHAT'S NEW in this 4th print edition (in addition to its larger format), is an expanded Appendix of meditations that were deleted over the course of three previous editions in order to make room for dozens of new entries from the latest big-screen and small-screen incarnations of Star Trek(R) - including the opening season of Star Trek: Discovery. Also included are expanded Indices that allow readers to easily locate all the quotes from any single Star Trek(R) character, or to find all the meditations related to any single topic from the 200-plus listed. It doesn't matter whether you start your explorations on day 01.01 (Earth's January 1st), or Arroway's mid-year solstice (A-36) - or whatever date you start reading the Manual. For that matter, you may want to read through all the meditations in only a week or two as you would any other book. Just pick a random page or an inspiring quote, and let your Inner Voyage begin!
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Download or read book Fade In The Making of Star Trek Insurrection written by MICHAEL. PILLER and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the writing process of Star Trek: Insurrection. From concept to final film script
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 Ex Machina written by Christopher L. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture the captain and crew of the USS Enterprise found themselves haunted by their extraordinary encounter with the vast artificial intelligence of V'Ger, and by the sacrifice and ascension of their friend and shipmate, Willard Decker. As James T. Kirk, Spock and Leonard McCoy attempt to cope with the personal fallout of their ordeal, a chapter from their mutual past is reopened, raising troubling new questions about the relationship of God, man and A.I. On the recently settled world of Daran IV, the former refugees of the Fabrini worldship Yonada are divided by conflicting ideologies, some clinging to their theocratic past while others envision a future governed by reason alone. Years ago the officers of the Enterprise helped overthrow the Oracle, the machine-god that controlled Yonada. Now confronting the consequences of those actions, together with echoes of their strange encounter with V'Ger, Kirk, Spock and McCoy face choices which will decide the fate of a civilization - and which may change them forever.
Download or read book The Machine Question written by David J. Gunkel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making. One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"—consideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals. In this book, David Gunkel takes up the "machine question": whether and to what extent intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making can be considered to have legitimate moral responsibilities and any legitimate claim to moral consideration. The machine question poses a fundamental challenge to moral thinking, questioning the traditional philosophical conceptualization of technology as a tool or instrument to be used by human agents. Gunkel begins by addressing the question of machine moral agency: whether a machine might be considered a legitimate moral agent that could be held responsible for decisions and actions. He then approaches the machine question from the other side, considering whether a machine might be a moral patient due legitimate moral consideration. Finally, Gunkel considers some recent innovations in moral philosophy and critical theory that complicate the machine question, deconstructing the binary agent–patient opposition itself. Technological advances may prompt us to wonder if the science fiction of computers and robots whose actions affect their human companions (think of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey) could become science fact. Gunkel's argument promises to influence future considerations of ethics, ourselves, and the other entities who inhabit this world.
Download or read book Star Trek Adventures Beta Quadrant written by Modiphius Entertainment and published by Modiphius Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU JUDGE YOURSELVES AGAINST THE PITIFUL ADVERSARIES YOU'VE ENCOUNTERED SO FAR: THE ROMULANS, THE KLINGONS... THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT'S WAITING.
Download or read book The Essential Cult TV Reader written by David Lavery and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 4 1945 to the Present written by David C. Engerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.
Download or read book Captains Logs Supplemental written by Edward A. Gross and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1996 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the three spinoff Star Trek series includes commentary by the actors, writers, producers, and directors; presents an inside scoop on the forthcoming movie; and includes a show-by-show guide. Original.
Download or read book The Postmodern Sacred written by Emily McAvan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious. This work examines this pop-culture spirituality, or "postmodern sacred," showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly "unreal" texts to gain a secondhand experience of transcendence and belief. Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena, the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic "Other" and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and popular culture. Today's pervasive, saturated media culture, this work shows, has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary, so that popular culture is not only powerfully shaped by the discourses of religion, but also shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world.
Download or read book The Aesthetic of Play written by Brian Upton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). In this book, the game designer Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play--how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, Upton develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help us analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail.
Download or read book Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind written by Yulia Ustinova and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind analyses techniques of searching for ultimate wisdom in ancient Greece. The Greeks perceived mental experiences of exceptional intensity as resulting from divine intervention. They believed that to share in the immortals' knowledge, one had to liberate the soul from the burden of the mortal body by attaining an altered state of consciousness, that is, by merging with a superhuman being or through possession by a deity. These states were often attained by inspired mediums, `impresarios of the gods' - prophets, poets, and sages - who descended into caves or underground chambers. Yulia Ustinova juxtaposes ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuropsychological research. This novel approach enables an examination of religious phenomena not only from the outside, but also from the inside: it penetrates the consciousness of people who were engaged in the vision quest, and demonstrates that the darkness of the caves provided conditions vital for their activities.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Download or read book The Klingon Dictionary written by Marc Okrand and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guide to Klingon/English words and phrases! The classic comprehensive Star Trek sourcebook for Klingon language and syntax! The only book of its kind, this dictionary includes the fundamental grammar rules, words, and expressions that illustrate the nature of the complex Klingon culture as well as: *A precise pronunciation guide *Commands in Clipped Klingon *Proper use of affixes and suffixes *Conjunctions, exclamations, and superlatives *Simple and complex sentence structure PLUS: a small phrasebook with Klingon translations for essential expressions such as "Activate the transport beam," "Always trust your instincts," and the ever-popular "Surrender or die!" Qapla’!
