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Wicked Problems
Max Gladstone
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Last Exit (Paperback)
Max Gladstone
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At this moment millions of American males are publicly
"underdressing" in femine lingerie. And no, they are not gay Join
me in the disarmingly honest engrossing journey of one.
Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy
has resurrected gods, pulled down monsters, averted wars, and saved
a city, twice. She thought she'd left her dusty little hometown
forever. But that was before her father died. As she makes her way
home to bury him, she finds a girl, as powerful and vulnerable and
lost as she once was. Saving her from raiders twisted by the God
Wars, Tara changes the course of the world. Dead Country is the
first book in the Craft Wars Series, a tight sequence of novels
that will bring the sprawling saga of the Craft to its end, and the
perfect entry point to this incomparable world.
This book is about working with other people. It s about making
that experience a positive one. It s about how a happy, engaged and
motivated team becomes an unstoppable force. In Do Team,
entrepreneur Charlie Gladstone draws on three decades of experience
as an employer of over 100 people and father of six, to share
practical, honest and insightful advice on such matters as:
Choosing the right people; Getting through tough times; Team
building for introverts; The power of (very) small teams; Why good
manners and kindness matter most. With easy-to-follow entries on
hiring, gentle leadership, emotional intelligence and retaining a
sense of humour, Do Team will help you get the best from everyone
so that you, your team and your business can thrive.
WINNER OF The Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella, the Reddit
Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction
Association Award for Best Novella SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 Theodore
Sturgeon Memorial Award The Ray Bradbury Prize Kitschies Red
Tentacle Award Kitschies Inky Tentacle Brave New Words Award 'A
fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline
Miller, author of Circe Co-written by two award-winning writers,
This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning
time and space. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the
Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus
begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent
on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.
Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into
something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that
could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their
bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going
on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war
works. Right? 'An intimate and lyrical tour of time, myth and
history' John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man's War 'Lyrical
and vivid and bittersweet' Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning author of
Ancillary Justice 'Rich and strange, a romantic tour through all of
time and the multiverse' Martha Wells, Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries
Focusing on transculturality, this edited volume explores how the
role of translation and the idea of (un)translatability in the
transformative complementation of different civilizations
facilitates the transcultural connection between Chinese and other
cultures in the modern era. Bringing together established
international scholars and emerging new voices, this collection
explores the linguistic, social, and cultural implications of
translation and transculturality. The 13 chapters not only discuss
the translation of literature, but also break new ground by
addressing the translation of cinema, performance, and the visual
arts, which are active bearers of modern and contemporary culture
that are often neglected by academics. Through an engagement with
these diverse fields, the title aims not only to reflect on how
translation has reproduced values, concepts, and cultural forms,
but also to stimulate the emergence of new possibilities in the
dynamic transcultural interplay between China and the diverse
national, cultural-linguistic, and contexts of Europe, the
Americas, and Asia. It shows how cultures have been appropriated,
misunderstood, transformed, and reconstructed through processes of
linguistic mediation, as well as how knowledge, understanding, and
connections have been generated through transculturality. The book
will be a must read for scholars and students of translation
studies, transcultural studies, and Chinese studies.
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Last Exit (Paperback)
Max Gladstone
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R265
R209
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From the co-author of the bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time
War. Gaiman's American Gods meets King's The Dark Tower in this
electric, captivating road trip across America and alternate
realities to stop the apocalypse, from a Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning author. Imagine that the American highway system is a
vast magical network binding city to city. By soaking up magic from
intentionally directionless travel, initiates can slip into
alternate realities. Stray too far from our America, though, and
things get weird. And dangerous. And terrifying. When visionary
mathematician Zelda Qiang was in college, she learned how to travel
from one alternate reality to another. Her response was to take her
friends on a road trip to strange new worlds. Six of them set out.
Only five returned. Zelda's lover, Sal, betrayed them: she walked
into the jags sharp cutting shadows like cracks in space and didn't
come back. Now Zelda still walks the road alone, a wandering magus
keeping the jags from breaking through. But now Sal is coming back
with Dark Things in tow.
Encouraged to share his memories of Michael Faraday (1791 1867),
John Hall Gladstone (1827 1902) published in 1872 this short work
about his late friend's life and career. Faraday's successor as
Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution,
Gladstone discusses how Faraday approached science, and the value
of his discoveries. Offering informed insights into Faraday's
character, Gladstone includes a number of extracts from personal
letters. The work also includes a translation of part of the eulogy
given by Jean-Baptiste Dumas at the Academie des Sciences, as well
as an anonymous poem honouring Faraday and published in Punch
shortly after his death. An appendix lists the numerous learned
societies to which Faraday belonged. Also reissued in this series
are The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870), compiled by Henry Bence
Jones, and John Tyndall's Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)."
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk,
Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making,
and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she's
trying to outrun those who are trying to steal her success. In the
chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan
into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted
through space and time to a far future where she confronts a
destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine. The
end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or
blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally
impossible to consider - until Vivian arrives. Trapped between the
Pride, a ravening horde of sentient machines, and a fanatical sect
of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must
rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a
way back to the world and life she left behind. A magnificent work
of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of
Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star
Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks
and William Gibson.
William Morris had a lifelong fascination with illuminated books.
He collected thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscripts and
became one of the foremost experts on the art of bookmaking and
calligraphy. Aiming to resurrect a tradition that had fallen into
abeyance with the invention of printing, he made eighteen
illuminated books, using a variety of texts, during the course of
his life. One of these, now held in the Bodleian Library, is a
handmade edition of the Odes of Horace. The pages of this book,
reproduced here in high-quality facsimile, are among the most
intricate and ambitious that Morris ever created. Using a
Renaissance italic style of calligraphy, he illuminated letters
with delicate shades of gold and silver, and adorned them with
floral decoration and miniature faces and figures. The openings to
each of the four books of the Odes are stunning display pages on
which Morris collaborated with the artists Edward Burne-Jones and
Charles Fairfax Murray. The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BCE) wrote four
books of lyric poetry in Latin which have subsequently been
translated many times and have had an ongoing influence on Western
literature. He combined descriptions of the everyday with the
poetry of politics, patriotism, love and friendship, producing
lines of beauty and wisdom which were very popular in Morris's day
and continue to appeal in the twenty-first century. This facsimile
edition is presented in a blind embossed slipcase featuring a
detail from one of Burne-Jones' paintings in the book with a
companion volume containing an introduction to William Morris's
manuscript and an English translation of the Odes.
When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast
expanses of the Third World today, they typically think of pampered
westerners, filling up the luxury hotels and imposing their
Orientalist gazes on the teeming masses. As David Gladstone shows
us in this fascinating and provocative book, such preconceptions
are wrong. Coupling incisive and colorful ethnographic accounts of
tourism in India and Mexico with sharp analysis, Gladstone
demonstrates the amazing complexity of this industry, which now
comprises close to ten percent of the world economy. As he also
shows, the vast majority of tourists in the Third World are
indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to
religious shrines.
From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original
account that stands tourism studies on its head and proves that
this industry is far more complicated than it initially appears.
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Mauresque (Paperback)
Anthony Gladstone-Thompson
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R482
Discovery Miles 4 820
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Recently graduated from Oxford University, idealistic and
headstrong Jeremy Ashland obtains a job teaching English at a
language school in the Casablanca of the 1960s. Determined to be
accepted as an enlightened foreigner at a time when Moroccan
society is emerging from the trauma of colonialism, he plunges
dangerously into local and expatriate circles. 'Mauresque' is also
the story of Jeremy's forbidden love for an upper-class Moroccan
girl with revolutionary aspirations - a relationship that mirrors
the tensions between Moroccans themselves in their search for a new
nationhood. Evocative, stylistic and wide-ranging, Mauresque
immerses the reader in a world of clandestine relationships,
political intrigue, drug smuggling, murder and sorcery.
Peu d'etudes se sont attardees sur la dimension materialiste de la
pensee de J-J. Rousseau. si ce n'est que pour s'en tenir largement
a l'analyse de Marcel Raymond qui voyait dans le philosophe
genevois un continuateur de l'empirisme lockien. Or, l'oeuvre de
Rousseau, en particulier dans sa forme autobiographique et
theorique, s'appuie continuellement sur le materialisme ambiant de
son epoque. La materialisme rousseauiste constitue meme la cle
permettant d'eclairer la relation complexe que le citoyen de Geneve
entretient avec ses contemporains philosophes, oscillant entre un
attachement certain au passe et un regard profondement visionnaire
sur l'homme et la societe. A travers "le materialisme du sage",
cette formule tiree des Confessions qui illumine si bien sa pensee,
Rousseau accommode tout le poids de la tradition - histoire,
religion, politique - avec le renouveau philosophique des Lumieres.
Le materialisme n'implique pas une fatalite; il est plutot un
savoir qu'il entend exploiter afin de trouver un semblant de
stabilite et de bien-etre au sein d'un monde sujet au perpetuel
changement. Toute l'audace de sa pensee est d'avoir fait de la
realite tragique du materialisme la condition de possibilite de
toute liberte reelle, et du bonheur qu'il espere voir l'homme en
tirer. --- Few studies have focused on the materialist dimension of
J-J. Rousseau's thought, except to adhere largely to the analysis
of Marcel Raymond, who saw in the Genevan philosopher a continuator
of Lockian empiricism. However, Rousseau's work, particularly in
its autobiographical and theoretical form, relies heavily on the
ambient materialism of his time. This materialism in Rousseau is
indeed key to understanding the complex relationship that the
citizen of Geneva had with his contemporary philosophers,
alternating between a marked attachment to the past and a deeply
visionary view of man and society. Through "le materialisme du
sage", an expression drawn from the Confessions which illuminates
his thought so well, Rousseau accommodates the full weight of
tradition - history, religion, politics - with the philosophical
renewal of the Enlightenment. Materialism is not an inevitability,
but constitutes a form of knowledge which he intends to harness in
order to find a semblance of stability and well-being in a world
subject to perpetual change. The boldness of his thought is to have
made the tragic reality of materialism the very condition of true
freedom, and of the happiness he hopes mankind can draw from it.
This book aims to serve as a core social policy text on the welfare
state which brings together leading figures to provide a coherent
introductory volume. It puts contemporary experience into
historical context and introduces debates on welfare policies into
the next century. This book is intended for undergraduate courses
on the welfare state within social policy, politics and social
history. It should also have strong appeal for professional
qualifying courses in health, education and social work.
When John Napier published his invention of logarithms in 1614 he
was announcing one of the greatest advances in the history of
mathematics, and log tables were used universally until the mid
1970s. With his Rabdologia, an ingenious calculating tool composed
of numbered rods which came to be known as 'Napier's Bones', he
enabled people in the marketplace to do multiplication sums without
knowing any multiplication tables. Perhaps the most extraordinary
thing about this most extrordinary man was that his great
inventions were made without the stimulus of talking to other
mathematicians in mainstream Europe. Working away in comparative
isolation in a tower house in Scotland, Napier produced methods of
calculation that literally changed lives all over the world. He is
the father of the slide-rule and the grandfather of today's
calculators. Despite his achievements, he remains curiously
uncelebrated, and this absorbing story of his life aims to give
John Napier his true status. This new edition has been redesigned
in a new format and has a new cover.
When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast
expanses of the Third World today, they typically think of pampered
westerners, filling up the luxury hotels and imposing their
Orientalist gazes on the teeming masses. As David Gladstone shows
us in this fascinating and provocative book, such preconceptions
are wrong. Coupling incisive and colorful ethnographic accounts of
tourism in India and Mexico with sharp analysis, Gladstone
demonstrates the amazing complexity of this industry, which now
comprises close to ten percent of the world economy. As he also
shows, the vast majority of tourists in the Third World are
indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to
religious shrines. From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and
entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head
and proves that this industry is far more complicated than it
initially appears.
This edited collection brings together essays that share in a
critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing,
contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and
territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the
outward-facing and internal borders of the People's Republic of
China. Elucidated by the essays collected here for the first time
is a constellation of what might be described as visual culture
wars comprising resistances on numerous fronts not only to the
growing power and expansiveness of the Chinese state but also the
residues of a once pervasively suppressive Western
colonialism/imperialism. The present volume addresses visual
culture related to struggles and conflicts at the borders of Hong
Kong, the South China Sea and Taiwan as well within the PRC with
regard the so-called "Great Firewall of China" and differences in
discursive outlook between China and the West on the significances
of art, technology, gender and sexuality. In doing so, it provides
a vital index of twenty-first century China's diversely conflicted
status as a contemporary nation-state and arguably nascent empire.
When the first edition of this atlas was published in 2005, it was
well received throughout the oculoplastic and ophthalmology
community for its simplicity and clinical focus. Now, a decade
later, surgical techniques have been updated to reflect current
practice models and advances in technology. The field of
oculoplastic surgery has grown and evolved to include all aspects
of facial plastic surgery and the literature must now reflect the
advancements of this field. Oculoplastic Surgery Atlas: Cosmetic
Facial Surgery, 2nd edition combines text and diagrams, plus
surgical videos that enable readers to perform this surgery with
the best possible instruction and preparation. Written for
ophthalmology specialists and residents, this new edition presents
many aspects of facial cosmetic surgery, including blepharoplasty,
endoscopic forehead surgery, rhytidectomy, and soft tissue and lip
augmentation. Review of the previous edition: "The book offers
insight into the possibilities and technology of modern aesthetic
cosmetic surgery in the face region. ... The book can be
recommended for the aesthetic surgeon and for ophthalmologists. ...
The ophthalmologic plastic surgeon will find this book of interest
especially in showing a lot of additional possibilities and
dimensions in this field. The book will be an asset in every
ophthalmic surgeons library." (Karl-Heinz Emmerich, Graefe's Archiv
for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Vol. 245, 2007)
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