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The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

Posted By: First1
Date: 15 May 2024 04:47:41
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species by Michael Bérubé
English | May 28th, 2024 | ISBN: 0231215053 | 312 pages | True EPUB | 1.80 MB

Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow us to imagine?
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Posted By: First1
Date: 14 May 2024 05:01:31
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin
English | May 14th, 2024 | ISBN: 1668034905 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 4.73 MB

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.
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The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth

Posted By: First1
Date: 5 May 2024 04:39:34
The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth

The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: the Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More (World Mythology and Folklore) by Thersa Matsuura
English | April 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1507221916 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 77.52 MB

Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.
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Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

Posted By: First1
Date: 27 Apr 2024 03:46:22
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England by Anna K. Sagal
English | August 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0813946964 | 294 pages | True EPUB | 4.81 MB

To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how women's active participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social and cultural conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors. By taking advantage of the intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists studied here laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly.
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Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America

Posted By: First1
Date: 24 Apr 2024 02:17:30
Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America

Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America by Andrew Burstein
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1421448300 | 392 pages | True EPUB | 6.13 MB

Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination

Posted By: First1
Date: 19 Apr 2024 06:00:29
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination by Eileen M. Hunt
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 0812254023 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 19.94 MB

Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's Creature—Mary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanity—if not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the "last man" into the globally familiar filmic images of the "invisible man" and the "final girl."
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Posted By: First1
Date: 11 Apr 2024 03:36:02
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 152909593X | 512 pages | True EPUB | 3.75 MB

A riveting and brilliantly original exploration of our fantasies of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, by the Baillie Gifford and Orwell prize-shortlisted writer and co-host of the podcast 'Origin Story'.
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Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism Ed 2

Posted By: roxul
Date: 6 Apr 2024 05:47:56
Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism Ed 2

Paul de Man, "Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1138172820 | 2016 | 340 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
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Practicing Food Studies

Posted By: First1
Date: 27 Mar 2024 04:26:27
Practicing Food Studies

Practicing Food Studies by Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, Krishnendu Ray
English | March 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 1479828092 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 2.01 MB

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies
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Delphi Complete Works of the Earl of Chesterfield Illustrated

Posted By: First1
Date: 27 Mar 2024 04:22:22
Delphi Complete Works of the Earl of Chesterfield Illustrated

Delphi Complete Works of the Earl of Chesterfield Illustrated by Earl of Chesterfield
English | February 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 9781801701624 | 2560 pages | True EPUB | 10.83 MB

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a statesman, diplomat, man of letters and acclaimed wit of the eighteenth century. His winning manners and urbanity were praised by many, including Alexander Pope, John Gay and Voltaire. Although an accomplished essayist and epigrammatist, Chesterfield's literary reputation today derives from 'Letters to His Son', as well as 'Letters to His Godson', which are in fact works of private correspondence and paternal and avuncular advice, never intended for publication.
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Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism

Posted By: roxul
Date: 22 Mar 2024 05:17:39
Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism

Rafe McGregor, "Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism"
English | ISBN: 1529219671 | 2021 | 144 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 15 Mar 2024 01:42:55
Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism

Nie Zhenzhao, "Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism "
English | ISBN: 103214002X | 2023 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 977 KB + 4 MB
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Reading Genesis

Posted By: First1
Date: 12 Mar 2024 04:32:23
Reading Genesis

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
English | March 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 0374299404 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 0.67 MB

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.
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Theurgy: Theory and Practice: the Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine

Posted By: First1
Date: 21 Feb 2024 05:42:55
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: the Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine

Theurgy: Theory and Practice: the Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine by P. D. Newman
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 164411836X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 1.49 MB

Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer
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The Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature

Posted By: Jeembo
Date: 13 Feb 2024 19:52:23
The Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature

The Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature by Biman Basu
English | 2012 | ISBN: 073916743X | 206 Pages | EPUB | 1.6 MB

Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on.
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