Author: H.G. Lee
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359849563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Fright: a creature who lives in the stones of buildings they have recorded everything that has happened since dark metropolis was built. Dark Metropolis is centuries old. Buildings on top of buildings tell the story of Dark Metropolis and the people who have lived and died building it. Their ghost are locked into the stones and at night they are set free to tell the living what has happened to them and give them a warning about how they are building their own tombs if they keep trying to control the forces of nature. Urban Legends is the second story in the Dark Metropolis Trilogy

Author: H. G. Lee
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035953726X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Dark Metropolis: Planetsong is the story about the planet Celesta. She is dying and she sings to her sister planets to save her children. One of her sisters, Gaia takes one of Celesta's children called Cha'Lan to help her fight a war between her children "The Olympians" and the "Ancient Old Ones" in a city called Dark Metropolis.

Author: T.A Rainford
Publisher: T.A Rainford
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Shadowflare plunges you into the heart of a city on the brink of collapse. Dark forces are stirring, and something sinister is growing in the shadows. At the center of it all is Lila Crowe, a reluctant warrior with secrets of her own. She never wanted to be involved, but as the chaos unfolds, she finds herself in a fight she cannot avoid. Joined by an unlikely team of misfits, Lila must navigate a world where danger lurks around every corner and trust is hard to come by. As they uncover hidden truths and face unimaginable threats, Lila is forced to confront the darkness within herself. With every step, the mystery deepens, and the stakes grow higher. Shadowflare is a story of survival, courage, and the fine line between light and darkness. In the end, Lila will have to decide: will she rise to meet her fate, or be consumed by the shadows?

Author: Claudia Schaefer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise of material goods to the profusion of despair, from devastating tragedy to exaggerated rapture, a dizzying array of images assaults the eye. Drawing on recent films from Mexico and Spain, Bored to Distraction navigates this visual terrain, from melodrama to horror, looking for what, if anything, might be excessive enough to rouse us from our comfortable everyday routines.

Author: Gary Westfahl
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440866171
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

Author: Marcus Anthony Hunter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199948135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century. Hunter's analysis demonstrates that black Philadelphians were by not mere victims of large scale socio-economic and political change, but active participants influencing the direction of urban policy and change.

Author: Gary Bridge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405189835
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Author: Charles L. Crow
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.

Author: Leslie M. Harris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars explore the many ways that urban Black people across the United States built their own communities; crafted their own strategies for self-determination; and shaped the larger economy, culture, and politics of the urban environment and of their cities, regions, and nation. This volume not only highlights long-running changes over time and space, from preindustrial to emerging postindustrial cities, but also underscores the processes by which one era influences the emergence of the next moment in Black urban history.

Author: David W. Smith
Publisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1783684984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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More than half the people in the world live in cities, including a growing number of megacities with populations exceeding ten million people. This trend means that an understanding of urbanization must be an urgent priority for Christian theology and mission across the globe. This updated edition of Seeking a City with Foundations, with an additional chapter, explores Christian responses to the city, ranging from rejecting the urban as evil, to embracing it as being central to God’s redemptive purposes. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including history, social science, urban planning, and the history of art, readers are given a detailed text which confronts the challenges that contemporary urbanization presents to world Christianity. Looking at urbanism as a theme throughout Scripture, culminating with the great vision of the New Jerusalem, David Smith explains that God’s own future is revealed as urban, highlighting the need to identify modern-day idols as we share the gospel in cities and acknowledge the impact of global economic forces. The book also explores the causes of what has been called the divided city and traces the urban theme through the Bible to present an alternative vision of the urban future – a future in which the injustices in ever-growing slums and a crisis of meaning among the privileged might be overcome through the power of the reconciling message of the cross. This timely book proposes a way forward for urban mission, highlighting that transformation of our cities must be the focal point of Christian mission and hope.