Author: Linda Bosniak Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400827515 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary and exclusionary dimensions of citizenship dramatically collide within the territory of the nation-state, creating multiple contradictions when it comes to the class of people the law calls aliens--transnational migrants with a status short of full citizenship. Examining alienage and alienage law in all of its complexities, The Citizen and the Alien explores the dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion inherent in the practices and institutions of citizenship in liberal democratic societies, especially the United States. In doing so, it offers an important new perspective on the changing meaning of citizenship in a world of highly porous borders and increasing transmigration. As a particular form of noncitizenship, alienage represents a powerful lens through which to examine the meaning of citizenship itself, argues Linda Bosniak. She uses alienage to examine the promises and limits of the "equal citizenship" ideal that animates many constitutional democracies. In the process, she shows how core features of globalization serve to shape the structure of legal and social relationships at the very heart of national societies.
Author: David Halperin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110147565X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
A sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain. Against the backdrop of the troubled 1960s, this coming-of-age novel weaves together a compelling psychological drama and vivid outer-space fantasy. Danny Shapiro is an isolated teenager, living with a dying mother and a hostile father and without friends. To cope with these circumstances, Danny forges a reality of his own, which includes the sinister "Three Men in Black", mysterious lake creatures with insectlike carapaces, a beautiful young seductress and thief with whom Danny falls in love, and an alien/human love child who-if only Danny can keep her alive-will redeem the planet. Danny's fictional world blends so seamlessly with his day-to-day life that profound questions about what is real and what is not, what is possible and what is imagined begin to arise. As the hero in his alien landscape, he finds the strength to deal with his own life and to stand up to demons both real and imagined. Told with heart and intellect, Journal of a UFO Investigator will remind readers of the works of Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem.
Author: H. R. Giger Publisher: Patrick Frey Edition ISBN: 9783905929454 Category : Languages : en Pages : 660
Book Description
HR Giger worked in the Shepperton Studios near London from February to November 1978, creating the figures and sets for the film Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. The film became an international success, earning Giger an Oscar. In the transcribed Alien Diaries, published here for the first time as a facsimile, HR Giger describes his work in the studios. He writes, sketches, and takes photographs with his Polaroid SX70. With brutal honesty, sarcasm and occasional despair, Giger describes what it is like working for the film industry and how he struggles against all odds be it the stinginess of producers or the sluggishness of his staff to see his designs become reality. The Alien Diaries (in German transcription with an English translation) show a little-known personal side of the artist HR Giger and offer an unusual, detailed glimpse into the making of a movie classic through the eyes of a Swiss artist. The book contains almost completely unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids showing the monster coming to life, and several still shots from the plentiful film material that Giger took in Shepperton.
Author: Roasting Pumpkins Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781095823835 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
The Alien Journal Notebook Journal is a 6x9 College Ruled BLANK notebook style book that can be used as a journal or field notes or short stories or novels about aliens and UFOs. Just like a regular notebook the pages can also be used as a sketch book and for sketching scenes that you experienced or dreamed about or imagined. Keep this as a journal of your alien or UFO encounters. Or, if you're not into that sort of thing and know someone that is, this makes a great gift for them or even a gag gift for fun. Finally, it contains 120 pages of college ruled paper for your writing, planning, drawing or whatever you want.
Author: Lost Creek Publishing Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781070817026 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Have fun while journaling or taking notes with this Project Blue Book Notebook. If you a conspiracy theory, there could be no better notebook to keep track of those alien abductions, moon landing hoaxes, or secret one-world government meetings thank the Project Blue Book Notebook. Contains 150 pages of lined notebook style paper and a uniques cover designed to resemble a top secret report. A perfect gift for: Father's Day Gag gifts Stocking Stuffers Birthday gifts And more!
Author: Lee Balan Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0578032368 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
An extraterrestrial is trapped on Earth where the future collides with the past and nothing is as it seems. The alien must find his "split half" in order to escape. The reader is taken on a quest of discovery, a journey through hell to reach self fulfillment.
Author: Roasting Pumpkins Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781095820582 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
I Saw a UFO Notebook is a 6x9 College Ruled BLANK notebook style book that can be used as a journal or field notes or short stories or novels about aliens and UFOs. Just like a regular notebook the pages can also be used as a sketch book and for sketching scenes that you experienced or dreamed about or imagined. Keep this as a journal of your alien or UFO encounters. Or, if you're not into that sort of thing and know someone that is, this makes a great gift for them or even a gag gift for fun. Finally, it contains 120 pages of college ruled paper for your writing, planning, drawing or whatever you want.
Author: Daniel K. L. Chua Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1942130538 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft contains world music and sounds of the Earth with which humanity represents itself to any extraterrestrial civilizations. This book asks the big questions that the Golden Record raises. Can music live up to its reputation as the universal language in communications with the unknown? How do we fit all of human culture into a time capsule that will barrel through space for tens of thousands of years?"--
Author: Linda Bosniak
Author: David Halperin
Author: H. R. Giger
Author: Roasting Pumpkins
Author: Lost Creek Publishing
Author: Lee Balan
Author: Journal Life
Author: Roasting Pumpkins
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Author: Daniel K. L. Chua