Download or read book Hungry Earth written by Maishe Maponya and published by Rain Oxford. This book was released on with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon Sanders, a private investigator known for his efficiency and discretion, is determined to become a master wizard. He returns to the paranormal university ready to learn magic and uncover the history of the castle. Unfortunately, life at Quintessence is never that easy. When a student dies of no apparent cause, the search for a witness leads Devon to discover there are more secrets buried under Quintessence than he ever realized. To save the paranormal world he is now part of, he will face an enemy that can use his own power against him. Devon must rely on more than his exceptional intuition to solve this case. Magic is elemental.
Download or read book The Hungry Earth written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakima, New York, a sleepy, idyllic city nestled in the Hudson Valley, a place where everyone knows each other, families look after the highly prized community garden, and the crime rate is so low that Dr. Laura Powell, the police department’s medical examiner, spends most of her time tending to her own private medical practice. That changes drastically the day a local high school student is found dead, an apparent suicide. Called in to perform the autopsy, Laura uncovers a strange growth inside the body, composed of a mysterious substance she can’t identify. Enlisting the aid of her scientist ex-boyfriend, Booker Coates, Laura launches an investigation that leads to a horrifying discovery. Something deadly has taken root in Sakima, an organism whose toxic influence spreads like a disease through the population, dangerously altering minds and dominating wills, a ruthless intelligence that demands obedience. As more and more townspeople fall under its control, forming violent mobs to seek out those who remain uninfected, Laura and Booker must find a way to stop it before they become its next victims. But how can they stop something they don’t understand? With The Hungry Earth, Nicholas Kaufmann, co-author of the bestselling horror novel 100 Fathoms Below with Steven L. Kent, launches a chilling new series of science thrillers featuring Medical Examiner Laura Powell. ***** “Nicholas Kaufmann’s The Hungry Earth is required reading for anyone who loves tightly plotted horror. It’s a gleeful throwback to the best body horror of the '80s, updated with a modern premise. His best work to date. Devour it, before it devours you!” - Sarah Langan, bestselling author of Good Neighbors
Download or read book The Hungry Earth written by Seán Kenny and published by Wolfhound Press (IE). This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the Great Famine in 1840s Ireland in which a million people died. The events are portrayed through the eyes of Turlough Walsh, a modern-day Dublin accountant transported back in time.
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism
Download or read book Playing the Market written by Anne Fuchs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Johannesburg’s Market Theatre and the economic and political forces of South Africa's apartheid regime was both complex and somewhat ambiguous. The theatre's two founders, Mannie Manim and Barney Simon, however, from idealistic beginnings managed to steer their experimental enterprise around pitfalls ranging from censorship, boycotts and recuperation by big business to the difficulties encountered in finding black authors, let alone black audiences. If the place occupied by the Market institution in apartheid society is emphasized throughout the present study, its contribution to the aesthetic of resistance is also underlined through detailed criticism of the plays and authors dominating the theatre. Pieter-Dirk Uys, Barney Simon's workshop plays and, among others, Black Consciousness plays are subjected to various methods of theatre performance analysis. The reckoning that had to come in the early 1990s revealed itself as globally positive; the reasons for this may be found in the updated concluding part of Playing the Market, which is composed of more general essays (including one on the vibrant Junction Avenue Theatre Company) on how the theatre scene in contemporary South Africa started to change. A postscript reveals more specific aspects of the Market situation in the late 1990s when its hegemony in the New South Africa was already being questioned.
Download or read book Hot Hungry Planet written by Lisa Palmer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap.
Download or read book Politics and Performance written by Elizabeth Gunner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation.
Download or read book The Hungry Earth written by Seán Kenny and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish history, dark humor, and skillful writing make for a gripping novel of an ambitious businessman's spiritual awakening -- In his debut novel, Sean Kenny combines realism, history, and time-slip sequences to tell a spiritual story with the excitement of a psycho thrillerTurlough Walsh is a man of the '90s. A successful, highly paid accountant in Dublin, Ireland, he has a nice car, an expensive home on a tree-lined lane, a pretty wife, nice kids, and an occasional mistress. His boss admires his cutthroat approach to human resource management -- squeezing all he can from his employees -- and he's getting places. Sure, it means stepping on some people, but guilt doesn't have a place in Turlough Walsh's world, where winning is all that matters.But when Turlough cracks his head in a drunken fall, life takes a drastic turn. When he comes to, Turlough finds himself transported through time to the midst of the Great Irish Famine, the worst catastrophe in the nation's history. Here, the every-man-for-himself school of existence isn't applicable. People everywhere are victims to the famine, and Turlough is horrified by the sufferings of those around him. Back in the 20th century, his suburban complacency begins to crumble.Sean Kenny's debut novel is a dramatic tale of awakenings. Black humor leavens the spiritual bankruptcy of a contemporary character all too real in the fast-paced world of the '90s. Kenny's story, though, is more than just a novel. It reflects his belief that the effects of the famine linger in modern Irish culture. The Hungry Earth may well give more insight into the human experience of the Great Famine than many of the nonfiction histories written about it.
Download or read book The Annual Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Stone Serpent written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nicholas Kaufmann offers up an unputdownable blend of gruesome body horror and fast-paced suspense.” – Ray Garton, author of Live Girls and Ravenous Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Powell didn't think anything could be more frightening than what she uncovered in an autopsy a year ago. Yet, in this chilling sequel to Nicholas Kaufmann’s bestselling The Hungry Earth, the cause of death is literally petrifying. When a completely petrified corpse ends up on her autopsy table, Laura is convinced it must be a fossil, but the evidence says otherwise. Impossibly, the man on her table died in a car crash earlier that day. But what could cause a human body to transform so quickly from flesh to a hard stonelike substance? Laura’s investigation takes her out of her hometown of Sakima, New York, and into dangerous new territory. From the streets of Valley Grove, home to a fundamentalist religious sect under the thumb of a brutal, vindictive leader, to the bowels of Thurmond Biotech, a secretive pharmaceutical company hellbent on developing the first anti-aging miracle drug, what she unearths is far more terrifying than she could have imagined. Vicious, deadly creatures are preying on the people of Valley Grove, killing them with a highly toxic venom that ravages and transforms their bodies in horrifying ways. As the creatures claim more victims, striking from out of the darkness with lightning-fast speed, Laura must find a way to stop them before they spread to the rest of the Hudson Valley. But will her search for answers put her in even more danger by sending her into the heart of the creatures’ den? With The Stone Serpent, multiple award-nominated author Nicholas Kaufmann delivers another gripping thriller in the Dr. Laura Powell series.
Download or read book Doing Plays for a Change written by Maishe Maponya and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five plays by one of South Africa’s foremost black playwrights were written between 1979 and 1986, a period in the country’s history marked by intense repression and escalating violence. Several of Maponya's works fell foul of the censorship system. The works included in this collection - ‘The Hungry Earth’, ‘Dirty Work’, ‘Gangsters’, ‘Umongikazi/The Nurse’ and ‘Jika’ – look at topics such as the lives of miners, apartheid in hospitals, and the workings of the security apartheid state and its agents. His plays are multilingual, using agitprop and physical theatre techniques. Maponya won the 1985 Standard Bank Young Artists award. Doing Plays for a Change: Five Works is introduced by Professor Ian Steadman, former Head of the Drama Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
Download or read book The Annual Register Or A View of the History Politics and Literature for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dance and politics written by Dana Mills and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement, dabke in Palestine and dance as a protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the book explores moments in which the form succeeds in transgressing politics as articulated in words. Close readings and critical analysis grounded in radical democratic theory combine to show how interpreting political dance as 'interruption' can unsettle conceptions of both politics and dance.
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Download or read book Who is Who written by Kevin S. Decker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you have been wandering the cosmos from one end of eternity to another for nearly a thousand years, what's your philosophy of life, the universe, and everything? Doctor Who is 50 years' old in 2013. Through its long life on television and beyond it has inspired much debate due to the richness and complexity of the metaphysical and moral issues that it poses. This is the first in-depth philosophical investigation of Doctor Who in popular culture. From 1963's An Unearthly Child through the latest series, it considers continuity and change in the pictures that the programme paints of the nature of truth and knowledge, science and religion, space and time, good and evil, including the uncanny, the problem of evil, the Doctor's complex ethical motivations, questions of persisting personal identity in the Time Lord processes of regeneration, the nature of time travel through 'wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey stuff, how quantum theory affects our understanding of time; and the nature of the mysterious and irrational in the Doctor's universe.
Download or read book Irish on the Inside written by Tom Hayden and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism, in his own life and beyond.
