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Freefall
Cam's eager to leave Earth with the rest of the elite 1% until he connects with one of the 99%, Sofie, and joins her in the fight for Lowerworld rights.
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Genre Worlds
Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during
cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation.
This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction,
including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal
tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre
worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of
producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary
developments in the field-the rise of Amazon, self-publishing
platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing
conglomerates-and show how these interact with older practices,
from fan conventions to writers' groups.
Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies,
fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures,
Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is
produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an
innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction's most
compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and
textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not
merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity
involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the
texts.
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Wild Jack
Clive Anderson is falsely accused of questioning the status quo and must escape from a twenty-third century \"retraining school.\"
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Memoirs of an Old Teacher
Students feel that they study too much, teachers feel that they work too many hours, and politicians think that education costs too much money. Variation, flexibility, public management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, computational thinking, digitally aware, AI-friendly, common core, leadership, resilience, self-efficacy, inclusiveness, lift-the-gifted… The latest trend is the smell association theory—the retrieving of knowledge by smelling the same aroma that was present when the knowledge was first learned.
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Grattan and me
\"Grattan Fletcher and Suck Ryle are on the road, risking their dignity and occasionally their lives to renew the civic spirit of Ireland. Grattan is an idealistic, ageing civil servant who has enlisted Ryle, a skeptic prone to violent temper, in a quixotic quest to make a better Irish future for Grattan's granddaughter. Along the way, they encounter politicians, protesters, and power brokers, some of whom are fascinated and others only flummoxed by Grattan's wide sympathies and wild philosophical musings. In sprawling comic fashion, Grattan and Me addresses countless contemporary political, economic and ecological problems, allowing no person or institution to remain safe from ridicule\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Resisting Dialogue
A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be?Resisting Dialogue reassesses our assumptions about dialogue and, in so doing, about what a politically healthy society should look like. Juan Meneses argues that, far from an unalloyed good, dialogue often serves as a subtle tool of domination, perpetuating the underlying inequalities it is intended to address.
Meneses investigates how \"illusory dialogue\" (a particular dialogic encounter designed to secure consensus) is employed as an instrument that forestalls-instead of fostering-articulations of dissent that lead to political change. He does so through close readings of novels from the English-speaking world written in the past hundred years-from E. M. Forster'sA Passage to India and Jeanette Winterson's The Passion to Indra Sinha's Animal's People and more.Resisting Dialogue demonstrates how these novels are rhetorical exercises with real political clout capable of restoring the radical potential of dialogue in today's globalized world. Expanding the boundaries of postpolitical theory, Meneses reveals how these works offer ways to practice disagreement against this regulatory use of dialogue and expose the pitfalls of certain other dialogic interventions in relation to some of the most prominent questions of modern history: cosmopolitanism at the end of empire, the dangers of rewriting the historical record, the affective dimension of neoliberalism, the racial and nationalist underpinnings of the \"war on terror,\" and the visibility of environmental violence in the Anthropocene.
Ultimately, Resisting Dialogue is a complex, provocative critique that, melding political and literary theory, reveals how fiction can help confront the deployment of dialogue to preempt the emergence of dissent and, thus, revitalize the practice of emancipatory politics.
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Memoirs of a midget
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity, a momentary diversion from the game of making ones way up the social ladder. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.
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Afrofuturism Rising
Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an
important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther
and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and
visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated,
literature remains fundamental to understanding its full
dimensions. Isiah Lavender's Afrofuturism Rising explores
afrofuturism as a narrative practice that enables users to
articulate the interconnection between science, technology, and
race across centuries. By engaging with authors as diverse as
Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann
Jacobs, Samuel R. Delany Jr., Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston,
and Richard Wright, Afrofuturism Rising extends existing
scholarly conversations about who creates and what is created via
science fiction. Through a trans-historical rereading of texts by
these authors as science fiction, Lavender highlights the ways
black experience in America has always been an experience of
spatial and temporal dislocation akin to science fiction.
Compelling and ambitious in scope, Afrofuturism Rising
redefines both science fiction and literature as a whole.
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Everyone walks way
\"Frank feels lonely when everyone walks away. Tilly, Paul and Milan are having fun. Frank cries tears into a pan and then adds sugar, and cooks and stirs for hours. Frank has made jam, his very own recipe.He will now invite the others for afternoon tea\"--Publisher's website.
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The social imperative : race, close reading, and contemporary literary criticism
In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema to show that our multiple social contexts affect what we perceive and how we feel when we read. Championing and modeling a kind of close reading that attends to how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, Paula M. L. Moya demonstrates the power of works of literature by writers such as Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and Helena Maria Viramontes to alter perceptions and reshape cultural imaginaries. Insofar as literary fiction is a unique form of engagement with weighty social problems, it matters not only which specific works of literature we read and teach, but also how we read them, and with whom. This is what constitutes the social imperative of literature.
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