Dead Lies Dreaming

Dead Lies Dreaming
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250267013

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

To Myself

To Myself
Author: Odilon Redon
Publisher: George Braziller
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986
Genre: Artists' writings
ISBN: 9780807611463

To Myself is the autobiography of the late nineteenth century French artist Odilon Redon. Composed of his personal notes and journals, which he kept for over sixty years, it is a poignant testament of a self-effacing artist whose life was totally devoted to his self-imposed task. His writings consist of his reflections on being an artist, the creative act, and the struggle to achieve the lofty goals to which the truly committed artist aspires.

American Warsaw

American Warsaw
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 022681534X

Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.

The Complete Photographer

The Complete Photographer
Author: Tom Ang
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781465447579

Create the perfect image across 10 key photographic genres with digital photography expert Tom Ang, in this updated and newly repackaged paperback edition. Tom Ang's The Complete Photographer is your ultimate guide to every style and subject of digital photography, from portraits to wildlife to architecture. Organized by genre and updated to include all the latest technological developments and creative trends, this guide is packed with practical and tailored tutorials, assignments, and advice for each of the 10 categories covered so that you can achieve the results you want -- every time. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the detail that goes into the planning, setting up, and shooting beautiful photos, and learn how an idea progresses from concept to final image with interviews of 20 influential photographers. DK's richly illustrative design and Ang's clear writing and direction blend together in this second edition of The Complete Photographer to dissect the elements of 10 photographic genres and make stunning results achievable.

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization
Author: Sharae Deckard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135224021

In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.

The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture

The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture
Author: Marcus Harmes
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030360598

The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with ‘seeing inside’ prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of incarceration, from high-minded and worthy to voyeuristic and unrealistic. In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from ‘inside’, prisons as a source of entertainment, the real worlds of prison, and issues of race and gender. The handbook will inform students and lecturers of media, film, popular culture, gender, and cultural studies, as well as scholars of criminology and justice.

Lost Science

Lost Science
Author: Gerry Vassilatos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Discoveries in science
ISBN: 9780932813756

Rediscover the legendary names of a suppressed scientific revolution -- remarkable lives, astounding discoveries, and incredible inventions which would have produced a world of wonder. Each chapter is a biographic treasure. Ours is a world living hundreds of years behind its intended stage of development. Complete knowledge of this loss is the key to recapturing this wonder technology. -- From publisher's description.

Expressionist Utopias

Expressionist Utopias
Author: Timothy O. Benson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520230033

Conveys the dreams and disappointments of German artists, architects, and intellectuals from World War I through the social and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic.

Earth Abides

Earth Abides
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1993-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0899683703

Girl Without a World

Girl Without a World
Author: Sean McKeever
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: America, Captain (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780785144199

Captain America's sidekick Rikki Barnes is transported to another dimension where Captain America is dead and she has never existed, and she must reconnect with her brother and return to crimefighting as the superhero Nomad.