Author: Mark Budz
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In a world where image is everything, where the past is more real than the present, the rich can reprogram everything—and cast themselves in the starring roles. Everyone else is nothing but an extra. . . . As part of the supporting cast, Pelayo survives as a test subject for the latest electronic skin and philm technology, which brings past trends and famous people to vivid life on his body. His cousin Marta works at a cinematique offering cheap skincense, image grafts, and nanimatronics. That’s where she meets Nadice, an indentured worker smuggling illegal ware to escape an exclusive resort specializing in kitschy environs. But Nadice is hiding something far more contraband: a forbidden pregnancy she can’t explain but is determined to protect. When Marta tries to help, both women disappear. While Pelayo searches for his cousin, homicide detective Kasuo van Dijk investigates a mysterious death that may involve a new kind of e-skin–mass-mediated ware that will lead him to Marta, Nadice, her employer—and a diabolical plan to deliver humanity kicking and screaming into a frightening new age of information. . . .
Idolon
Author: Mark Budz
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In a world where image is everything, where the past is more real than the present, the rich can reprogram everything—and cast themselves in the starring roles. Everyone else is nothing but an extra. . . . As part of the supporting cast, Pelayo survives as a test subject for the latest electronic skin and philm technology, which brings past trends and famous people to vivid life on his body. His cousin Marta works at a cinematique offering cheap skincense, image grafts, and nanimatronics. That’s where she meets Nadice, an indentured worker smuggling illegal ware to escape an exclusive resort specializing in kitschy environs. But Nadice is hiding something far more contraband: a forbidden pregnancy she can’t explain but is determined to protect. When Marta tries to help, both women disappear. While Pelayo searches for his cousin, homicide detective Kasuo van Dijk investigates a mysterious death that may involve a new kind of e-skin–mass-mediated ware that will lead him to Marta, Nadice, her employer—and a diabolical plan to deliver humanity kicking and screaming into a frightening new age of information. . . .
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In a world where image is everything, where the past is more real than the present, the rich can reprogram everything—and cast themselves in the starring roles. Everyone else is nothing but an extra. . . . As part of the supporting cast, Pelayo survives as a test subject for the latest electronic skin and philm technology, which brings past trends and famous people to vivid life on his body. His cousin Marta works at a cinematique offering cheap skincense, image grafts, and nanimatronics. That’s where she meets Nadice, an indentured worker smuggling illegal ware to escape an exclusive resort specializing in kitschy environs. But Nadice is hiding something far more contraband: a forbidden pregnancy she can’t explain but is determined to protect. When Marta tries to help, both women disappear. While Pelayo searches for his cousin, homicide detective Kasuo van Dijk investigates a mysterious death that may involve a new kind of e-skin–mass-mediated ware that will lead him to Marta, Nadice, her employer—and a diabolical plan to deliver humanity kicking and screaming into a frightening new age of information. . . .
Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories, Practices
Author: Steven Hunt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350161403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners' to advanced levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best choices for their students' needs and for their own personal preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: 'Access, Diversity and Inclusion' investigates how the subject community is meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today's schools; and 'The Future' offers some thoughts on lessons that have been learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350161403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners' to advanced levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best choices for their students' needs and for their own personal preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: 'Access, Diversity and Inclusion' investigates how the subject community is meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today's schools; and 'The Future' offers some thoughts on lessons that have been learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Author: Mark Budz
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553903918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In such groundbreaking novels as Crache and Idolon, Mark Budz established his reputation as one of science fiction’s most exciting and innovative writers. Now he surprises us again with an ambitious new thriller set in three realities at once, where three different lives hang in the balance. . . . What if your world were rapidly running out of tomorrows? And what if the only way to save the future was to relive the past? But which past holds the key to survival? That’s the life-and-death question faced by three desperate people separated by the past, present, and future but who share a single terrifying reality. A tortured soul, brain-damaged in a motorcycle accident, issues a pirate broadcast out of a van in near-future California. In Depression-era San Francisco an architect with an inoperable brain tumor seeks a mystical cure. A post-human space traveler caught in a cosmic accident searches for a way to reconstruct himself and the future. In Mark Budz’s spellbinding narrative, their lives–and deaths–are drawn together by a force even more powerful than destiny.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553903918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In such groundbreaking novels as Crache and Idolon, Mark Budz established his reputation as one of science fiction’s most exciting and innovative writers. Now he surprises us again with an ambitious new thriller set in three realities at once, where three different lives hang in the balance. . . . What if your world were rapidly running out of tomorrows? And what if the only way to save the future was to relive the past? But which past holds the key to survival? That’s the life-and-death question faced by three desperate people separated by the past, present, and future but who share a single terrifying reality. A tortured soul, brain-damaged in a motorcycle accident, issues a pirate broadcast out of a van in near-future California. In Depression-era San Francisco an architect with an inoperable brain tumor seeks a mystical cure. A post-human space traveler caught in a cosmic accident searches for a way to reconstruct himself and the future. In Mark Budz’s spellbinding narrative, their lives–and deaths–are drawn together by a force even more powerful than destiny.
The World of Kong
Author: Weta Workshop
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505199
Category : Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson brings his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster. Lavishly illustrated, this book reproduces the amazing artwork, design sketches, and digital models that helped bring Kong to life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505199
Category : Characters and characteristics in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson brings his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster. Lavishly illustrated, this book reproduces the amazing artwork, design sketches, and digital models that helped bring Kong to life.
The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book
Author: Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Imagining Joyce and Derrida
Author: Peter Mahon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
How is meaning in one text shaped by another? Does intertextuality consist of more than simple references by one text to another? This work explores these questions through a comparative study of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and the deconstructive texts of Jacques Derrida, with a particular emphasis on "Glas".
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
How is meaning in one text shaped by another? Does intertextuality consist of more than simple references by one text to another? This work explores these questions through a comparative study of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and the deconstructive texts of Jacques Derrida, with a particular emphasis on "Glas".
The Builder
Architects of Destruction
Author: Nathan Skaggs
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748716052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
45 years after escaping from an alien zoo, former captives dream their worlds are on the verge of destruction. Hours after their nightmares, unexplained events of dire consequences occur on numerous planets accross the galaxy. No place is safe. No one can hide from what is yet to come. As societies collapse, some of the former alien captives must make alliances once again and use their exceptional abilities to prevent extinction level events on multiple worlds. Whoever wins, the effects will be long lasting and far reaching.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748716052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
45 years after escaping from an alien zoo, former captives dream their worlds are on the verge of destruction. Hours after their nightmares, unexplained events of dire consequences occur on numerous planets accross the galaxy. No place is safe. No one can hide from what is yet to come. As societies collapse, some of the former alien captives must make alliances once again and use their exceptional abilities to prevent extinction level events on multiple worlds. Whoever wins, the effects will be long lasting and far reaching.
Dark Star Territory
Author: Nathan Skaggs
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730950428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Simulacrum Government forces intend to enslave the surrounding alien worlds while Naso, a brilliant scientist, secretly launches an expedition to an unknown star. Simulacrum's efforts are complicated when a powerful alien race emerges from the shadows. On an uncharted planet, Naso learns of an ancient connection between his planet and the newly discovered alien race. Naso's return to Simulacrum is blocked by warships due to hysteria following the alien arrival.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730950428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Simulacrum Government forces intend to enslave the surrounding alien worlds while Naso, a brilliant scientist, secretly launches an expedition to an unknown star. Simulacrum's efforts are complicated when a powerful alien race emerges from the shadows. On an uncharted planet, Naso learns of an ancient connection between his planet and the newly discovered alien race. Naso's return to Simulacrum is blocked by warships due to hysteria following the alien arrival.
Philosophy, Theory, and Method in Contemporary Political Thought
Author: Michael A. Weinstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description