Sspeculative Journeys

Sspeculative Journeys
Author: Irene Radford
Publisher: Bookview Cafe
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161138432X

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In Speculative Journeys, Irene Radford extends her short story collections into science fiction and contemporary fantasy with fourteen tales both old and new. Why is time-travel reserved for wealthy tourists and forbidden to historians? Can a spaceship captain keep secrets from her communication officer who speaks every language in the universe—even ones without words? Is a maze cut into solid granite a portal to a safer world…or something else? These stories and more with an exciting new introduction by speculative fiction superstar Sharon Lee—join the journey today!

Imagined Life

Imagined Life
Author: James Trefil
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1588346730

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The captivating possibilities of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, based on current scientific knowledge of existing worlds and forms of life It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and communicating (and even battling) with bubbles; on super-dense planets, where they would have evolved body types capable of dealing with extreme gravity; on tidally locked planets with one side turned eternally toward a star; and even on "rogue worlds," which have no star at all. Yet this is no fictional flight of fancy: the authors take what we know about exoplanets and life on our own world and use that data to hypothesize about how, where, and which sorts of life might develop. Imagined Life is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn how the realities of our universe may turn out to be far stranger than fiction.

Speculative Journeys

Speculative Journeys
Author: T. m. Crone
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781463654962

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Explore the strange and endless possibilities of the future. How desperate will humans become? Where will exploration, science and politics lead us? Regardless of where you go to seek answers--a distant moon, the back streets of a dystopian society, a grave--the stories within these pages will keep you wandering. Speculative Journeys is an anthology of T. M. Crone's previously published short stories.

Fantastic Journey

Fantastic Journey
Author: Azalea L Dabill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781943034161

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Imaginative fiction invites us to search beyond what we see for truth, to dig deeper for courage. To discern friends and possibilities with our inner eye, to touch and to taste the truths of life in realms near and far.

The Knowledge Web

The Knowledge Web
Author: James Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439128219

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In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history. Displaying mesmerizing flights of fancy, he shows how seemingly unrelated ideas and innovations bounce off one another, spinning a vast, interactive web on which everything is connected to everything else: Carmen leads to the theory of relativity, champagne bottling links to wallpaper design, Joan of Arc connects through vaudeville to Buffalo Bill. Illustrating his open, connective theme in the form of a journey across a web, Burke breaks down complex concepts, offering information in a manner accessible to anybody -- high school graduates and Ph.D. holders alike. The journey touches almost two hundred interlinked points in the history of knowledge, ultimately ending where it begins. At once amusing and instructing, The Knowledge Web heightens our awareness of our interdependence -- with one another and with the past. Only by understanding the interrelated nature of the modern world can we hope to identify complex patterns of change and direct the process of innovation to the common good.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory
Author: Vanessa E. Munro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317043421

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As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.

Fantastic Journey

Fantastic Journey
Author: Azalea Dabill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-09-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781943034130

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The soul of fantasy adventure benefits us on three levels - the spiritual arena, the wide world of ideas, and the sphere we breathe in. 1. What difference does it make? 2. Why does the quest and the hero's journey draw us all? 3. How do we find the best books in the ocean of fantasy?To discover these answers and more, we bring up select jewels from the deep and explore mountain troves to whet our appetite for the riches of imaginative fiction. Our aim is to clear away the creeping muck, the destructive ideas, and the flawed gems that beset every treasure seeker.This is a joint venture. The seventy authors and their inspiring adventures we explore are beacons of extraordinary story. Most of them are lights by contrast, guiding us to enchanting lands of danger in the ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction. With them, we learn how to identify true gems and sell them not. How to know enemies, friends, and endless possibilities with our inner eye - to touch and to taste the truths of life in realms near and far.Our journey, though fantastic, is full of danger. Before we embark upon the perilous realm, read what the wise who have gone before us have written in bold ink of glimmering hue, in opalescent green, pink, and blue ... Will we discover that which is the wealth of souls?

The Ancestor

The Ancestor
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1903
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Contemporary Review

The Contemporary Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1928
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

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Renaissance Mad Voyages

Renaissance Mad Voyages
Author: Anthony Parr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317066456

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A vogue for travel ’stunts’ flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to particular innovations and developments in English culture. This study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the curious phenomenon of ’madde voiages’, as the writer William Rowley called them. Anthony Parr shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and others conceived it) had surprisingly deep and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile custom, and in literary culture. Looking in detail at several of the best-documented exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of such ventures during the period in question; but also reaches back to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents, and considers their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure in later centuries. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together literary and historical enquiry in order to address the implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend. Parr's investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to extensive research on the origins of the wager on travel and its role in the expansion of English tourism and trading activity.