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Author: Gary Wolf Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440174245 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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This is the revised second edition of Gary Wolf's first novel, originally published in 2003. Imagine a society without gender roles, and even without gender itself. This is the emerging reality in the world of the early 2040s. Harris, a talented but despondent software engineer, spends his free time chasing the latest rage in consciousness-expansion. His mundane life takes an unexpected turn when he lands a high position at the BrainHost company, located at the pinnacle of world culture, the CityTech urban agglomeration. Harris discovers that in CityTech, romance is being replaced by the "coital matrix," where every stage of the process is preplanned and engineered. Meanwhile, BrainHost and others are experimenting with the implantation of male and female sexual organs inside the body of a single person, while eliminating all external traces of gender. This self-contained human, the Embracer, is seen by its creators as the panacea of humanity. Alternately repelled and enticed by the new order, Harris is drawn into the maelstrom. He eventually becomes a leading advocate. But then he must confront a beautiful young woman who aims to sabotage the mighty CityTech...
Author: Gary Wolf Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440174245 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
This is the revised second edition of Gary Wolf's first novel, originally published in 2003. Imagine a society without gender roles, and even without gender itself. This is the emerging reality in the world of the early 2040s. Harris, a talented but despondent software engineer, spends his free time chasing the latest rage in consciousness-expansion. His mundane life takes an unexpected turn when he lands a high position at the BrainHost company, located at the pinnacle of world culture, the CityTech urban agglomeration. Harris discovers that in CityTech, romance is being replaced by the "coital matrix," where every stage of the process is preplanned and engineered. Meanwhile, BrainHost and others are experimenting with the implantation of male and female sexual organs inside the body of a single person, while eliminating all external traces of gender. This self-contained human, the Embracer, is seen by its creators as the panacea of humanity. Alternately repelled and enticed by the new order, Harris is drawn into the maelstrom. He eventually becomes a leading advocate. But then he must confront a beautiful young woman who aims to sabotage the mighty CityTech...
Author: Catherine J. Nash Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811368767 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices. Modern life is increasingly characterised by our integrated engagement in digital/material landscapes activities and our intimate life online can no longer be conceptualised as discrete from ‘real life.’ Our digital lives are experienced as a material embeddedness in the spaces of everyday life marking the complex integration of real and digital geographies. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in the ways that our social and sexual practices such as dating or casual sex are bound up online and online geographies and in many cases constitute specific sexuality-based communities crossing the digital/material divide. The aim of this collection is to explore the complexities of these newly constituted and interwoven sexual and gender landscapes through empirical, theoretical and conceptual engagements through wide-ranging, innovative and original research in a new and quickly moving field.
Author: Dick Cross Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351861565 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 190
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The growth engine of the global economy is no longer through mega-production and huge conglomerates, but rather through the proliferation of smaller enterprises. In America alone, tens of thousands of businesses crop up each year. Unfortunately, few will succeed, though not due to a lack of ingenuity, initiative, or even capital. Why, then? Because, according to Dick Cross, author of Just Run It!, most business owners lack not just the fundamentals, the nuts and bolts of operating a business effectively day to day, but the bigger picture of how to achieve business success. After taking dozens of companies from underperforming to high performancing, Cross observed a pattern, out of which he devised a formula for success. Using his Just Run It! formula--which includes the Vision-Strategy-Execution analysis--he is now teaching business owners how to understand their business on "the back of an envelope" and make it exceptional.
Author: Stephen M. Whitehead Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1789821894 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 173
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Humankind is at the tipping point in its greatest-ever revolution - a revolution in gender relationships, gender identities and gender power. Women are confidently on the rise while men and their behaviours are under scrutiny like never before. At the core of this historic shift lies 'toxic masculinity'. You'll have heard the term, but do you know what it means? Where does TM come from? Who has it? How does one catch the TM virus? What does it look like? What does it mean for women, love and relationships? Is it the only masculinity out there? And, most importantly, how can we get rid of it? This fascinating, insightful and engaging book provides all the answers while exploring the most pressing issue of the 21st century. Informed by the author's 30 years of research into men and masculinities and the latest global studies, this book is the definitive examination of modern man and a must read for anyone concerned with the future of men, gender and sexual relationships.
Author: Charles L. Briggs Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195087763 Category : Conflict management Languages : en Pages : 261
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This volume contains eight essays that are at the intersection of two important areas within linguistics: conversational analysis, and the use of narrative in the creation, mediation and resolution of conflict. The contributors explore these issues in a variety of cultures and languages.
Author: Aryan Srivastava Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1644296012 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 510
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IT’S NOT JUST A WAR!! IT’S A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR!! 2020: The world is plunged into chaos. Major superpowers of the Earth have aligned against each other and declared a nuclear war. The human race is witnessing the most terrible global nuclear catastrophe ever. Rumors have it that “The Brothers of Kronos,” a rogue terrorist organization is the covert mastermind at play, who initiated the war with the help of a clandestine World War Two Nazi weapon, known only as “B.R.A.I.N.S”. Lt. Diego Robin Logan (UN Intelligence-GS9-A), a man of unmatched valour, aptitude and combat expertise, is chosen to lead the anti-war crusade. The only way to stop this war is to slip into the past and reshape the future. With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, Diego must traverse back in time and assemble a team of the finest agents to fight the toughest battle of all times. With unexpected perils bustling at their heels, can Diego and his team face the unfathomable skirmish and defy the odds to unravel the secret of the B.R.A.I.N.S? Hurry up Diego, 'coz it's raining…… IT'S RAINING BLOOD!!
Author: Alex Wayman Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe ISBN: 9788120807310 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 166
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The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala, or Sri-mala-sutra, became the Mahayana scripture preeminent for teaching that all sentient beings have the potentiality of Buddhahood. It was an inspiration for both the Lankavatara-sutra and the Chinese classic Awakening of Faith. The translators present evidence that it was composed in the Andhra region of South India in the third century A.D. Thereafter it had remarkable success in China, and through Korea entered into the beginnings of Buddhism in Japan, where it has been important up to the present time. This, the first complete rendering of the scripture into a western language, utilizes all the known Sanskrit fragments, the Tibetan, the two Chinese versions and the Japanese renditions, Chinese and japanese commentaries, and various studies in japanese. Contents Foreword, Preface, Translator's Note, Introduction, I. Sri-Mala as a Text, II. Classification of Persons, III. Doctrine of Sri-Mala, Prologue, 1. Eliminating all Doubts, 2. Deciding the Cause, 3. Clarifying the Final Meaning, 4. Entering the one vehicle path, Epilogue, Appendix I. The Chinese Section Titles of Sri-Mala and Appendix II. Works Cited in Chi-tsang's Commentary, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.
Author: Gary Wolf
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