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السيرة غير المعروفة لميلان كونديرا
يجسد هذا الكتاب سيرة ثرية لحياة كاتب لطالما اندهش قراؤه من عوالمه الروائية المتقنة. كما تكمن أهميته في أنه (ميلان كونديرا 90 عاما) للتو استعاد جنسيته التشيكية، إضافة إلى اعتذار رسمي عن حملات الهجوم والمطاردة اللذين تعرض لهما من النظام السابق تشيكوسلوفاكيا، هو الذي جرد منها عام 1979، وهو خارج وطنه، فعاش من لحظتها سنوات منفاه العديدة كاتبا ومدرسا للأدب، مستمتعا بقدر كبير من الحرية في التعبير، دون أن يتخلى عن حذره الستمر من أجهزة النظام.
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Apocalypse and Golden Age
Apocalypse and Golden Age enriches our understanding of apocalyptic thought.
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The Seven Wonders of the ancient world : an extraordinary new journey through history's greatest treasures
\"For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising, revelatory history. Guiding us through it is historian Bettany Hughes, who has traveled to each of the sites to uncover the latest archaeological discoveries and bring these monuments and the distinct cultures that built them back to breathtaking life. Spellbinding, richly illustrated, and full of insight, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a journey into the indomitable ambition and creativity of the human spirit\"-- Provided by publisher.
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William Blake
William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake’s imagination – often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive – offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change.
A hybrid of text and image, Blake’s writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake’s unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake’s output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.
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Going Viral
Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From28 Days Laterto24toThe Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world?InGoing Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions.Looking at everything fromI Am LegendtoThe X FilestoWorld War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others.Going Viralthus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it.Supplemental Study Materials for \"Going Viral\":https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/going-viral-dahlia-schweitzerDahlia Schweitzer- Going Viral:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xF0V7WL9ow
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Taking the risk : adventures in travel & publishing
For over six decades, Hilary Bradt has travelled the world as only she knows how, driven by infectious curiosity and enthusiasm. Barely into her twenties, she thumbed lifts around the Middle East for three months. Between 1973 and 1976 she explored South America and Afria with her then husband George, often journeying through little-known territory in their quest to find new hiking routes, along the way discovering an ancient trail to Machu Picchu and accidentally starting a guidebook company.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The riveting firsthand account of the historic voyage that led to the theory of evolution
When the HMS Beagle set sail in 1831, the science of biology was not far removed from the Dark Ages. When the ship returned to England nearly five years later, Charles Darwin had the makings of a theory that would revolutionize our understanding of the natural world.
From volcanoes in the Galapagos to the coral reefs of Australia, The Voyage of the Beagle documents the young naturalist's encounters with some of the earth's most stunning features. Darwin's observations of the people, places, and events he experienced make for compelling reading and offer a fascinating window into the intellectual development of his ideas about natural selection.
A brilliant travelogue and a revealing glimpse into the Victorian mindset, The Voyage of the Beagle is an indispensable companion volume to On the Origin of Species.
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Apocalyptic Projections
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. Theories abounded in an attempt to prepare for calamity and plan for the future. Worldwide concern regarding a twenty-first century apocalypse, related to the 2012 Mayan Apocalyptic prediction, sparked renewed interest. Even though the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope. The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections were p.
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