Author: Lilah Gran Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing ISBN: 9356454663 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
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Twice a year, the Guardian Spread occurs, where humans are recruited and must travel through dreams to the world of Xatyr, bound by Guardians who protect the society. And the only way to go back is to fail the Spiritual Awakening, designed to test the soul, not the brain, where either passing or failing is not a choice. Elisia Abel is not your ordinary person, she remembers all of her dreams, and she keeps log of those dreams through her paintings - admired by many, but understood by nobody. One day, as she turned eighteen, she woke up in a dream told real but not really, to a world they call Xatyr. Guided by Kavaa'r, her Guardian, she must decide whether she wants to stay in the surreal world and figure out why everyone else there calls her special, or go back to the human world to where her only family is - her Dad. Will she fail the test she's bound to pass, or will she pass the test she wanted to fail?
Author: Amaranta Wright Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9780091900847 Category : Consumption (Economics) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Amaranta Wright was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin America. Her brief was to befriend teenagers and report back with every aspect of their lives- their hopes, fears, dreams and aspirations. At first, she saw the job as a means to travel around a continent she loved. But as time passed, the more sinister and divisive aspects of what she was being asked to do became apparent, her attempts to understand the dispossessed of these countries constantly frustrated by the mechanics of corporate globalisation - its unspoken aim to reduce individuals to bullet points.This is a compellingly humane portrait of a continent in crisis - riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and brutality. It is a book about the arrogance with which we in the West refer to 'developing' continents, the developed world's overarching desire to turn people into consumers, and the often insidious methods employed to this end. It is about what happens when indigenous voices are silenced by corporate vision.An evocative, startling and politically-incisive book.
Author: Pritam Tigga Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 88
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"Astro Vision" explores the future of science through imaginative stories where technological advancements reshape human life. From immortality in "Immortal" to alien technology in "Galaxian," each tale presents innovative concepts, blending science with cinematic storytelling. Aimed at children, students, and science enthusiasts, the book sparks creativity and curiosity, making complex ideas accessible. Future volumes like "Astro Vision 2.0" will expand on these themes, offering deeper insights into cutting-edge technology and the characters who harness it. "Astro Vision" aspires to ignite the imagination and engage readers with the possibilities of science.
Author: Richard Gilbert Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 1628950137 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 451
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Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven’t been homogenized. But their excitement over the region’s beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they try to put down roots far from their busy professional jobs in town. They struggle to rebuild a farmhouse, and Gilbert gets conned buying equipment and sheep—a ewe with an “outie” belly button turns out to be a neutered male, and mysterious illnesses plague the flock. Haunted by his father’s loss of his boyhood farm, Gilbert likewise struggles to earn money in agriculture. Finally an unlikely teacher shows him how to raise hardy sheep—a remarkable ewe named Freckles whose mothering ability epitomizes her species’ hidden beauty. Discovering as much about himself as he does these gentle animals, Gilbert becomes a seasoned agrarian and a respected livestock breeder. He makes peace with his romantic dream, his father, and himself. Shepherd, a story both personal and emblematic, captures the mythic pull and the practical difficulty of family scale sustainable farming.
Author: Sheila Rowbotham Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1788734815 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 366
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Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham, best known for A Century of Women, Threads Through Time and Hidden From History, turns her hand here to memoir. The result is a wryly amusing account of her younger self, and a sparkling portrait of the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties.
Author: Peter Campion Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022666340X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 270
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What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry. Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury objectivists, late twentieth-century poets, his contemporaries, and more, Campion unearths an American poetic landscape that is subtler and more varied than most critics have allowed. He discovers commonalities among poets considered opposites, dramatizes how form and history are mutually entailing, and explores how the conventions of poetry, its inheritance, and its inventions sprang from the tensions of ordinary life. At its core, this is a book about poetic making, one that reveals how the best poets not only receive but understand and adapt what comes before them, reinterpreting the history of their art to create work that is, indeed, radical as reality.
Author: Ian Brown Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: 1984858297 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 370
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A powerful, moving collection of 170 portraits of Americans and their handwritten statements about what the American dream means to them. Shot by one photographer over twelve years, fifty states, and eighty thousand miles, American Dreams is a poignant, defining look at people from every walk of life and a remarkable exploration of what it means to be an American. Long fascinated by the idea of the “American Dream,” Canadian photographer Ian Brown set out to document, in photographs and words, what that dream means to Americans of all ages, races, identities, classes, religions, and ideologies. Over the course of twelve years, Brown traveled more than eighty thousand miles in an old truck, visiting all fifty states and connecting with hundreds of Americans. He knocked on people's doors; met them at town halls, diners, and factories; and approached them on main streets in small towns. He shot their portraits and asked them to write down their own American dreams. Their dreams and stories—which range from hopeful, moving, and optimistic to defiant, bitter, and heartbreaking—offer a fascinating, unparalleled perspective of the striking diversity and deep nuance of the American experience.
Author: Jennie Jones Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 161346083X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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A familiar shiver ran a zigzag line over her skin. Pressing the flower to her nose, Arlie breathed in deeply. Before her eyes, she suddenly saw water. Her heart raced at a memory of drowning. She steadied herself against her dresser as she gasped for air. 'Are you from my dream? How did you get in my room?' Arlie has always had the same dream. She dreamed of a magical place filled with the smell of flowers. She sat on a bench, looking over a crystal-blue lake. Ducks glided effortlessly over the lake, and never once did they stick their heads in the water searching for food. A few birds flew above; trees stood here and there, full and thick, and not one leaf lay beneath their mighty branches. Arlie was never alone there. A man sat with her, his hair long and white, like spun silk. He spoke a different language than her, but somehow she understood everything he said. His voice caused the birds and the ducks to stop and listen. Even the trees stopped swaying. How could a man control the animals and the wind? Who was he, and why was Arlie there with him? Arlie felt there was more to the dream, but she just couldn't remember. Now Arlie's Dreams have changed. Something has come back with her. With the help of her two best friends, Rachel and Billy, Arlie discovers a shattering connection to the spirit realm and her dreams. This discovery leads to an epic battle between good and evil, one that leads the trio to a journey somewhere they will never forget: hell. Will good triumph over evil? Can Arlie find out her true identity?
Author: DAN SHELDON Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1387444867 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 120
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A new age of mankind has begun.A fight over ideology holds the fate of humanity in the balance.The only safe-haven is Frontier America.Time is running out, and its up to a reluctant young hero to set things right.His name is Jonny Grimsly, and he's caught in a web of deception spun by his own government.The more he knows, the deeper the conspiracy gets.Will he align himself with his sworn enemies to uncover the truth?The pawns are in place in this wicked game of death.Find out who he can trust as the saga of Frontier America unravels.
Author: Lilah Gran
Author: Amaranta Wright
Author: Pritam Tigga
Author: Susan Mann
Author: Richard Gilbert
Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Author: Peter Campion
Author: Ian Brown
Author: Jennie Jones
Author: DAN SHELDON