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| Author | : AT Writing Seminar 2017 |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2017-04-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 136585650X |
Singapore's vibrant multicultural heritage has always had an element of enchantment, but this anthology of twenty-six short stories casts the Lion City as a realm of the irreal: a what-if world that blends the subtly supernatural and the vividly concrete. From a taiyaki shop supervised by a talking cat to a girl who melts in the humidity, the stories in Beneath the Lion City delve below Singapore's surface to unearth the magic in the mundane. Take a leap from everyday reality into a world where the sky turns pink and a fisherman hunts merlions as Singapore American School's Advanced Topic Writing Seminar students uncover new facets of the Little Red Dot.
| Author | : AT Writing Seminar 2018 |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2018-04-11 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1387720163 |
The future that Generation Z will inherit is threatened by issues ranging from social media abuse to genetic modification. In this anthology, twenty-four young writers from Singapore American School tackle the dilemmas closest to their hearts. While satirizing that which makes them feel powerless, they hope to shed light on the injustice in the world around them.
| Author | : Jason Lundberg |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2014-11-20 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781502984821 |
Fish Eats Lion collects the best original speculative fiction from Singapore - fantasy, science fiction, and the places in between - all anchored with imaginative methods to the Lion City. These twenty-two stories, from emerging writers publishing their first work to winners of the Singapore Literature Prize and the Cultural Medallion, explore the fundamental singularity of the island nation in a refreshing variety of voices and perspectives. This anthology is a celebration of the vibrant creative power underlying Singapore's inventive prose stylists, where what is considered normal and what is strange are blended in fantastic new ways. "Lundberg combines accessibility with a uniquely Singaporean flavor in his selections. SF readers looking to expand their horizons will enjoy visiting new worlds from an unaccustomed point of view." - Publishers Weekly "I doubt I'll read a more engaging collection this year. [...] There's a rich optimism to be found here that speaks of lesser-known spec-fic writers rising to a challenge, and that challenge being more than adequately met." - Pete Young, Big Sky "Entertaining in this post-colonial era, it hints at how storytellers can become mythmakers, with the power to change the world." - Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times
| Author | : Martin P. J. Edwardes |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2019-07-22 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1787356302 |
The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self.
| Author | : Jason Erik Lundberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Short stories, Singaporean (English) |
| ISBN | : 9789814845465 |
| Author | : Başak Başoğlu |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2016-02-25 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 331927256X |
This book is about one of the most controversial dilemmas of contract law: whether or not the unexpected change of circumstances due to the effects of financial crises may under certain conditions be taken into account. Growing interconnectedness of global economies facilitates the spread of the effects of the financial crises. Financial crises cause severe difficulties for persons to fulfill their contractual obligations. During the financial crises, performance of contractual obligations may become excessively onerous or may cause an excessive loss for one of the contracting parties and consequently destroy the contractual equilibrium and legitimate the governmental interventions. Uncomfortable economic climate leads to one of the most controversial dilemmas of the contract law: whether the binding force of the contract is absolute or not. In other words, unstable economic circumstances impose the need to devote special attention to review and perhaps to narrow the binding nature of a contract. Principle of good faith and fair dealing motivate a variety of theoretical bases in order to overcome the legal consequences of financial crises. In this book, all these theoretical bases are analyzed with special focus on the available remedies, namely renegotiation, rescission or revision and the circumstances which enables the revocation of these remedies. The book collects the 19 national reports and the general report originally presented in the session regarding the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision during the XIXth congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Vienna, July 2014.
| Author | : Diederik Aerts |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401147043 |
Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University). The contributions elaborate on fundamental questions of science, with regard to the contemporary world, and push beyond the borders of traditional approaches. All of the articles in this volume address this fundamental theme, but somewhere along the road the volume expanded to become much more than a mere expression of the conference's dynamics. The articles not only deal with several scientific disciplines, they also confront these fields with the full spectrum of contemporary life, and become new science. As such, this volume presents a state-of-the-art reflection of science in the world today, in all its diversity. The contributions are accessible to a large audience of scientists, students, educators, and everyone who wants to keep up with science today.
| Author | : Daniel M. Brooks |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9782831704227 |
Descended from a long and ancient lineage, tapirs are important tropical forest seed dispersers. However, today, all species of tapirs are threatened to various degrees by habitat destruction and hunting. This action plan was written with wildlife biologists, ecologists, administrators, educators and local conservation officials in mind and is aimed at those countries with tapir populations. It provides a brief natural history of each species and its objective is to aid in their conservation by catalyzing conservation action. In addition, it is hoped that the contents of the plan will stimulate further research into this fascinating group of animals.
| Author | : P. Adams Sitney |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 773 |
| Release | : 2002-10-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0199882037 |
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.
| Author | : K. Bayertz |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401592454 |
Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age. Until now, the geologists familiar with this landscape - ethicists and moral theorists - have taken it for granted, have circumnavigated it! in any case, they have been incapable of moving it. In the present volume, scientists from diverse disciplines discuss and examine the concept of solidarity, its history, its scope and its limits.
