Author: Sandi Tan Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1641292563 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.
Author: David a. Riley Publisher: ISBN: 9780953903290 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books in 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories. This story was chosen for inclusion in The Century's Best Horror Fiction in 2012. Over the years he has had numerous stories published in Britain and the United States plus translations into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. His fiction has appeared in World of Horror, Fear, Whispers, Fantasy Tales, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries and Lovecraft e-Zine. His first collection, His Own Mad Demons was published by Hazardous Press in 2012. The Return, a Lovecraftian horror novel was published by Blood Bound Books in 2013. This second collection brings together under one cover seventeen of the author's best blood-curdling stories.
Author: Charles Butler Publisher: Usborne Books ISBN: 9780746070659 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
I have been trying not to think about it - trying not to draw attention to myself, but I have to face the facts - Today, while I still know what the facts are - In a few days I may pick up this notebook and not recognise a word I've written - The LURKERS can do that, you know - I've seen it happen.
Author: Renee Barnes Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319702351 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 141
Book Description
In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly literature from media and cultural studies, psychology and sociology, Uncovering Commenting Culture charts this commenting territory and outlines why we behave in these ways online. In this timely book, Renee Barnes provides a participatory model for understanding commenting culture that is based on the premise that our behaviours online–including those that cause us most the concern–are not so much an internet problem as a social problem. By looking at a wide variety of online commenting habitats, from the comment threads following news stories, through to specialist forums and social media platforms, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of online commenting in society and provides suggestions for how we might mitigate bad behaviours.
Author: Pete Esso Haynes Publisher: Head-Hunter Books ISBN: 9781906085049 Category : Punk rock music Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Pete Haynes was the drummer and founder of the cult punk band The Lurkers. Here, he charts their rise from playing in West London pubs and clubs to appearing on Top of the Pops. Then they came down with a crash. This tell-all insider's look at the 70s [unk scene mixes brutal humour with a sharp critique of the human condition from the point of view of a working class man. Haynes share his experience with The Sex Pistols, The Clash and many more classic bands and writes about what punk was really about.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft Publisher: Running Press ISBN: 9780786711888 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into his family's sinister past eventually lead to the unspeakable revelations of The Great Old Ones who wait on the boundaries of space and time for someone to summon them to earth. Acclaimed cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's notes and outlines for this tale of uncanny terror were completed by August Derleth, his friend and future publisher. Of the many Lovecraft-Derleth "posthumous collaborations," The Lurker at the Threshold remains the most popular, having sold 50,000 copies in its previous edition alone.
Author: Yasmin B. Kafai Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1135605033 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 688
Book Description
More than a decade has passed since the First International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) was held at Northwestern University in 1991. The conference has now become an established place for researchers to gather. The 2004 meeting is the first under the official sponsorship of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). The theme of this conference is "Embracing Diversity in the Learning Sciences." As a field, the learning sciences have always drawn from a diverse set of disciplines to study learning in an array of settings. Psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, and artificial intelligence have all contributed to the development of methodologies to study learning in schools, museums, and organizations. As the field grows, however, it increasingly recognizes the challenges to studying and changing learning environments across levels in complex social systems. This demands attention to new kinds of diversity in who, what, and how we study; and to the issues raised to develop coherent accounts of how learning occurs. Ranging from schools to families, and across all levels of formal schooling from pre-school through higher education, this ideology can be supported in a multitude of social contexts. The papers in these conference proceedings respond to the call.
Author: Christopher Lueg Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1447100573 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 269
Book Description
Beginning with a brief outline of Usenet's general structure and development over the past few years, the book addresses the problems of exploring virtual communities and distributed information systems in general, and of finding information in electronic information environments. It covers traditional approaches such as information filtering, collaborative filtering and information retrieval, outlining their successes and failures, and discusses the prospects of novel approaches such as visualisations of social processes and social navigation.
Author: Featherpin Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1664156364 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
Thaddeus Sands endures various confrontations with Sandman, heartless betrayals, the murder of a close colleague, broken romantic relationships, deals with the queen of hell Lilith, and battling the Bogeyman to the death while saving the world! An orphan who rose out of Transylvania when he was just a baby, Thaddeus Sands is an antique business collector in New York, New York. He’s very ambitious, intelligent, adventurous, and extremely a lady’s man as well. Blessed with these skills along with millions in his bank accounts, Thaddeus gives back to his community, mainly visiting ill kids in the hospital. But no matter how much good Thaddeus does, his nemesis, the sandman or something dark, alas seems to linger from his past. When Thaddeus ventures off to Moscow, Russia, in search of the murderer of a close colleague of his, he encounters mythical lore creatures such as the Bogeyman, Lilith, along with others who are on a crusade on killing all humans and taking over the world! Meanwhile, with the world literally in Thaddeus’ hands, he also must confront a nemesis who’s the only one who can aid him on this gigantic task: Sandman!
Author: Sandi Tan
Author: David a. Riley
Author: Charles Butler
Author: Steve Niles
Author: Renee Barnes
Author: Pete Esso Haynes
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Author: Yasmin B. Kafai
Author: Christopher Lueg
Author: Featherpin