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A fistful of elven gold
\"A bounty-hunting gnome turned private investigator helps track a killer, in this fast-paced fantasy adventure. When someone starts killing his fellow bounty hunters in the port of Fairhaven, Drago Appleroot is happy to help his contacts in the City Watch with their investigation--for a reasonable fee, of course. But posing as an assassin-for-hire to draw out the killer attracts the attention of two separate groups from a far-off Elven kingdom whose private war is being fought on the streets of his home town. Pitched into a maelstrom of treachery and lethal politics, Drago is forced into a long and dangerous journey to the heart of the Sylvan Marches, where one determined gnome might just decide the destiny of a kingdom. If he can survive long enough to decide which side he ought to be on.\"--Amazon website.
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Flooded London: Sensory Lexica in The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
As London is flooded due to unprecedented rainfall that is caused by the negative consequences of climate change in Megan Hunter’s novel
, a journey of joy, loss, sadness, and homecoming begins. Whereas Hunter’s apocalyptic novel about a female Londoner escaping the flooded capital with her newborn baby has been successfully adapted into a film, her novel has, so far, attracted insufficient attention in the field of climate change fiction (cli-fi) studies and ecocriticism. Seeking to overcome the current research gap, this contribution presents a qualitative study whose aim is to shine light onto sensory lexica in Hunter’s novel
. The sensory lexica in the study are defined as lexical items that are involved in the manifestation and interpretation of such categories as hearing, smell, taste, touch, and vision. The study employs a qualitative methodology of identifying and classifying the sensory lexica in
in order to gain insight into the protagonist’s authentic experiences of the flooded London of the not-so-distant utopian future. Arguably, the sensory lexica in
may deepen the readers’ understanding of the protagonist’s feelings, emotions, and perceptions. The results of the qualitative analysis indicate that the sensory lexica in Hunter’s novel are skilfully employed in order to portray the protagonist’s encounters with the negative consequences of climate change in a realistic and, at the same time, relatable manner.
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Fear and Loathing Worldwide
For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled ,Gonzo.- In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. In each chapter, ,Gonzo- emerges as a powerful but unstable signifier, read and practiced with different accents and emphases in the various national, cultural, political, and journalistic contexts in which it has erupted. Whether immersed in the Dutch crack scene, exploring the Polish version of Route 66, following the trail of the 2014 South African General Election, or committing unspeakable acts on the bus to Turku, the writers described in this volume are driven by the same fearless disdain for convention and profound commitment to rattling received opinion with which the ,outlaw journalist- Thompson scorched his way into the American consciousness in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.
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Black mad wheel
The Danes--the band known as the \"Darlings of Detroit\"--are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once again have a number one hit. That is, until an agent from the US Army approaches them. Will they travel to an African desert and track down the source of a mysterious and malevolent sound? Under the guidance of their front man, Philip Tonka, the Danes embark on a harrowing journey through the scorching desert--a trip that takes Tonka into the heart of an ominous and twisted conspiracy. Meanwhile, in a nondescript Midwestern hospital, a nurse named Ellen tends to a patient recovering from a near-fatal accident. The circumstances that led to his injuries are mysterious--and his body heals at a remarkable rate. Ellen will do the impossible for this enigmatic patient, who reveals more about his accident with each passing day. -- Amazon.com.
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Avian preparedness: simulations of bird diseases and reverse scenarios of extinction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
This article describes relations between humans, animals, artefacts, and pathogens in simulations of disasters, taking bird diseases in three Chinese sentinel posts as ethnographic cases. Drawing on distinctions between simulation, ritual, and play, it shows that the engagement of actors in the imaginary of simulations, which they describe as ‘realism’, reflectively reverses the oppositions between humans and nonhumans, active and passive, fiction and reality that shape ordinary life. Borrowing from the anthropology of hunting societies, it argues that simulations of bird diseases, considered as signs of future species extinction, rely on cynegetic techniques of power, in which humans and animals symmetrically shift perspectives, and not only on pastoralist techniques, in which humans are above the population they monitor and sometimes sacrifice. Abstrait Se préparer aux catastrophes avec les oiseaux. Simulations de maladies aviaires et scénarios inverses d'extinction à Hong Kong, Taiwan et Singapour Résumé Cet article décrit les relations entre humains, animaux, artefacts et pathogènes dans les simulations de désastres, en considérant les maladies qui affectent les oiseaux dans trois territoires sentinelles aux frontières de la Chine comme des cas ethnographiques. En s'appuyant sur les distinctions entre la simulation, le ritual et le jeu, il montre que l'engagement des acteurs dans l'imaginaire des simulations, qu'ils décrivent sous le terme de « réalisme », renverse réflexivement les oppositions entre les humains and les non‐humains, l'actif et le passif, la fiction et la réalité qui organisent la vie quotidienne. En empruntant les concepts de l'anthropologie des sociétés de chasseurs, il montre que les simulations de maladies aviaires, lorsqu'elles sont perçues comme des signes d'une potentielle extinction d'espèce, recourent à des techniques de pouvoir cynégétiques, dans lesquelles des humains et des animaux échangent symétriquement leurs perspectives, et pas seulement à des techniques pastoralistes, dans lesquelles les humains sont au‐dessus de la population qu'ils surveillent et parfois sacrifient.
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Dust & decay
In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.
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Lifedorm
The manual was the most useful thing our parents left us. Without it we wouldn't have known how to operate the generators or grow food in the greenhouse, or anything. We wouldn't have known our own bodies. Hunter had started asking questions, saying the manual was out of date and we couldn't trust it, but I thought the opposite. What if the manual contained the secret to crossing the mountains? But yeah, I got where Hunter was coming from. He was bored. We were all so fucking bored. After a while, boredom takes over everything...
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Glorious
\"Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, honed by an impoverished childhood with an alcoholic father on the streets of St. Louis. He eventually builds himself up to become the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. But when tragedy strikes and his life falls apart, his instinct for survival kicks in and he flees St. Louis before Douglass and his enforcer can track him down\"--Page 4 of cover.
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How film genres are a product of biology, evolution and culture-an embodied approach
The article describes how basic cognitive and emotional systems of the embodied brain are products of a long evolutionary history and how this determines the way in which the major film genres are constructed. It synthesizes research from evolutionary psychology and cognitive film studies, as well as moral psychology. It explains how the film experience is embodied: experienced not only cognitively but with the whole body and its interaction with the world. Also discussed is how the biological underpinning of genres are based on three major types of emotions: a group of reptilian emotions central to action and adventure; a group of mammalian emotions related to offspring of care; and separation panic/ grief. A special human development to enhance group living has expanded emotions of care to also underpin emotions linked to group living such as loyalty to tribe, aggression towards out-groups and submission to tribal hierarchy, central in war, sci-fi and fantasy films, and also emotions related to social rituals such as comedy, tragedy and musical. A discussion is also offered of how the historical development from hunter-gatherers via societies based on agriculture to the present post-agrarian society has moulded moral emotions; this is exemplified in relation to crime films. Finally, also considered is how age and gender influence genre preferences.
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