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They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes,
cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh.
For more than a century, movies and television shows have
speculated about the form and motives of alien life forms. Movies
first dipped their toe into the genre in the 1940s with Superman
cartoons and the big screen's first story of alien invasion (1945's
The Purple Monster Strikes). More aliens landed in the 1950s
science fiction movie boom, followed by more television appearances
(The Invaders, My Favorite Martian) in the 1960s. Extraterrestrials
have been on-screen mainstays ever since. This book examines
various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a
liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter
spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative
analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they
have evolved over time. Highlighted subjects include The Eternals,
War of the Worlds, The X-Files, John Carpenter's The Thing and
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time
travel - stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by
centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future.
This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in
science fiction and fantasy. Plot synopses and credits are listed
for TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as
for films from around the world. Tropes and plot elements are
highlighted. The author discusses philosophical questions about
time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to
keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every
mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still
guilty of it?).
L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz, has spawned 39 official
sequels, over 100 unofficial sequels, well nearly 40 films, several
TV series, music videos, commercials, computer games, radio shows
and more. It has received a number of different interpretations: an
African-American slant, a Turkish low-budget fantasy, Japanese
anime, and American pornography, among others. This book provides
synopses and basic bibliographical information for the forty Oz
books in the original series and a number of related books by the
Royal Historians of Oz; synopses and credits for live performances
(videos and made-for-television performances are included here)
based on the Oz books and on Baum's non-Oz fantasies; comic book
and comic strip adaptations of Oz; synopses and credits for radio
shows and dramatic performances on audiobook or vinyl records;
synopses and credits for theatrical films and shorts; documentaries
and educational films; synopses and credits for television series
and episodes based on Oz; video and computer games; useful
websites; and short scenes on television or in movies that have an
Oz element.
American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by
the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American
way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the
movies--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party
subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction
threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers
and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by
World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the
McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others,
played out on screen.
This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of
political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of
autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive
justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The
theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and
pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual
tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional
conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of
one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a new one,
according to which liberty is of equal value to all persons,
regardless of economic position. The middle chapters present an
original theory of socio-economic justice, arguing that a society
in which every citizen enjoys an equal share of liberty should be
the distributive goal of the State. It is argued that this goal is
incompatible with the existence of large disparities in wealth and
economic power, and that (contra conservative and libertarian
economic arguments) such disparities are harmful to the overall
health of national and global economies. The final chapters provide
an original argument that the State has both a moral duty and a
moral right to pursue this program of socio-economic justice
(contra conservative and libertarian moral arguments), and that
only the measures necessary to implement this program lie within
the morally justifiable limits on the State's authority. Though
primarily a political work, it spans most areas of practical
philosophy-including ethical, social, and legal theory; and
meta-ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. And though
fundamentally a philosophical work, it incorporates research from a
number of fields-including decision theory, economics, political
science, and jurisprudence; primatology, neuroscience, and
psychology; and history, anthropology, sociology, and ecology-and
is sure to be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.
This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of
political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of
autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive
justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The
theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and
pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual
tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional
conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of
one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a new one,
according to which liberty is of equal value to all persons,
regardless of economic position. The middle chapters present an
original theory of socio-economic justice, arguing that a society
in which every citizen enjoys an equal share of liberty should be
the distributive goal of the State. It is argued that this goal is
incompatible with the existence of large disparities in wealth and
economic power, and that (contra conservative and libertarian
economic arguments) such disparities are harmful to the overall
health of national and global economies. The final chapters provide
an original argument that the State has both a moral duty and a
moral right to pursue this program of socio-economic justice
(contra conservative and libertarian moral arguments), and that
only the measures necessary to implement this program lie within
the morally justifiable limits on the State's authority. Though
primarily a political work, it spans most areas of practical
philosophy-including ethical, social, and legal theory; and
meta-ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. And though
fundamentally a philosophical work, it incorporates research from a
number of fields-including decision theory, economics, political
science, and jurisprudence; primatology, neuroscience, and
psychology; and history, anthropology, sociology, and ecology-and
is sure to be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.
This book fills a lacuna in the intellectual history of the
seventeenth century by investigating the role that skepticism plays
in the declining prestige of memory. It argues that Shakespeare and
Donne revolutionize the art of memory, thanks to their skepticism,
and thereby transform literary strategies like mimesis,
exemplarity, and pastoral.
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The Children's Bible
Charles Foster Kent, Henry A. Sherman
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R1,108
Discovery Miles 11 080
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition. Together With A
Historic Sketch Of The So-Called Revival Of Freemasonry In 1717.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
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