Author: Edgar Rodriguez
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059539292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
What if you were a loner? What if allies were forced upon you? What if your decisions determined the fate of a town? It was a quarter of an hour before the pale man stopped at the fountain in the village square. He looked about as he touched one of the stones. "Come." Silas recognized the voice from his earlier venture upon the rooftops near the healer woman's house. A few minutes later, the soft clicking warned of the giant fenri's approach. Six terrible lupine forms trotted from the southern end of the town, their heavy muscles causing their black fur to ripple with each bounce. The creatures came before the pale man and sat on their haunches obediently. The pale man moved toward the fountain and placed his hand upon an oblong stone. A grating sound announced a passageway opening. He began his descent and then stopped. Stillness filled the night. There were no sounds from nature, not even the chirp of a cricket. The man turned to the fenri, and they shrank back. Silas heard an ethereal voice. "Kill the watcher," and the fenri bounded in Silas' direction as the pale man disappeared within the fountain.
Chaos: Order Unseen
Author: Edgar Rodriguez
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059539292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
What if you were a loner? What if allies were forced upon you? What if your decisions determined the fate of a town? It was a quarter of an hour before the pale man stopped at the fountain in the village square. He looked about as he touched one of the stones. "Come." Silas recognized the voice from his earlier venture upon the rooftops near the healer woman's house. A few minutes later, the soft clicking warned of the giant fenri's approach. Six terrible lupine forms trotted from the southern end of the town, their heavy muscles causing their black fur to ripple with each bounce. The creatures came before the pale man and sat on their haunches obediently. The pale man moved toward the fountain and placed his hand upon an oblong stone. A grating sound announced a passageway opening. He began his descent and then stopped. Stillness filled the night. There were no sounds from nature, not even the chirp of a cricket. The man turned to the fenri, and they shrank back. Silas heard an ethereal voice. "Kill the watcher," and the fenri bounded in Silas' direction as the pale man disappeared within the fountain.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059539292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
What if you were a loner? What if allies were forced upon you? What if your decisions determined the fate of a town? It was a quarter of an hour before the pale man stopped at the fountain in the village square. He looked about as he touched one of the stones. "Come." Silas recognized the voice from his earlier venture upon the rooftops near the healer woman's house. A few minutes later, the soft clicking warned of the giant fenri's approach. Six terrible lupine forms trotted from the southern end of the town, their heavy muscles causing their black fur to ripple with each bounce. The creatures came before the pale man and sat on their haunches obediently. The pale man moved toward the fountain and placed his hand upon an oblong stone. A grating sound announced a passageway opening. He began his descent and then stopped. Stillness filled the night. There were no sounds from nature, not even the chirp of a cricket. The man turned to the fenri, and they shrank back. Silas heard an ethereal voice. "Kill the watcher," and the fenri bounded in Silas' direction as the pale man disappeared within the fountain.
Chaos: Order Unseen
Author: Edgar Rodriguez
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595836857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595836857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
From Chaos Comes Order
Author: Jimi Rodriguez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781729305003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Surviving in a school of magic and murder is not easy! Jacob Titus is a forgotten boy from Eslor Island. With an absent father and a mother who battles Alzheimer's disease, Jacob has long learned to care for himself. When he is discovered by a magical talent hunter, Jacob makes the difficult choice to leave his home and enter the Valcrest School for the Promised. As his school years go by, Jacob has to spend as much time trying to stay alive as he does finding a cure for his mother. As violence and blood lust at the school escalate, Jacob must learn to figure out who he can trust. All he wanted was to save his mother. Now he must save himself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781729305003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Surviving in a school of magic and murder is not easy! Jacob Titus is a forgotten boy from Eslor Island. With an absent father and a mother who battles Alzheimer's disease, Jacob has long learned to care for himself. When he is discovered by a magical talent hunter, Jacob makes the difficult choice to leave his home and enter the Valcrest School for the Promised. As his school years go by, Jacob has to spend as much time trying to stay alive as he does finding a cure for his mother. As violence and blood lust at the school escalate, Jacob must learn to figure out who he can trust. All he wanted was to save his mother. Now he must save himself.
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts
Author: Dirk Wiemann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501399519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bolaño, Mitchell, Powers). The verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501399519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bolaño, Mitchell, Powers). The verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.
Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty
Author: Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486151611
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Fractals and chaos theory lead to startling graphics in this book by a renowned scientist, inventor, and artist, who coordinates information from disparate fields. Over 275 illustrations, 29 in color.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486151611
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Fractals and chaos theory lead to startling graphics in this book by a renowned scientist, inventor, and artist, who coordinates information from disparate fields. Over 275 illustrations, 29 in color.
Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113597134X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113597134X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mediating Order and Chaos
Author: Rodney Farnsworth
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called “Greens” and “Reds,” naturalists and humanists. Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity – thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called “Greens” and “Reds,” naturalists and humanists. Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity – thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough.
Leadership and the New Science
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145877760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives; Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our timesWe live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists ''for free.'' It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145877760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives; Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our timesWe live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists ''for free.'' It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape.
Dreaming Realities
Author: John Overdurf
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845905970
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This refreshing approach to the act of dreaming allows you to explore your full potential through the control of your dreams. It aches the reader how to construct dreams that will improve reality, and demonstrates how such dreams directly affect our lives.
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845905970
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This refreshing approach to the act of dreaming allows you to explore your full potential through the control of your dreams. It aches the reader how to construct dreams that will improve reality, and demonstrates how such dreams directly affect our lives.
The Secret Chapter
Author: Genevieve Cogman
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 0593197844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Irene and Kai have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist--or risk the wrath of the dangerous villain with a secret island lair"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 0593197844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Irene and Kai have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist--or risk the wrath of the dangerous villain with a secret island lair"--Provided by publisher.