![]() ![]() Textile, the Uneasy Media / by Ganaele Langlois Sidewalks of Concrete and Code / by Shannon MatternĤ. Transporting Blackness: Black Materialist Media Theory / by Armond TownsĢ. Introduction: A Feminist Media is the Message / by Sarah Sharma with Rianka Singhġ. Preface: The Centre on the Margins / by Sarah Sharma The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for radical purposes. Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan’s discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan’s concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and decolonial practice. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. They argue that while McLuhan’s theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of race, gender, class, and sexuality. The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends. ![]() Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the second half, it reveals the true villain behind the government’s evil actions. Instead, it takes time to develop its main characters. ![]() THE DARKEST MINDS isn’t filled with constant action, though it has plenty of that to keep moviegoers entertained. They set out to find a refuge for children like them, which is led by an older teenager who supposedly knows how to help the children control their powers. Liam has the power to move objects, Zu has the power to control electricity, and Charles is Liam’s brainy childhood friend. Liam protects Zu like his younger sister. Ruby joins two teenage boys, Liam and Charles, traveling with a young girl named Zu. Ruby, a 16-year-old girl with mind control, escapes from a government concentration camp of psychic children. THE DARKEST MINDS is based on the first book in a trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then you'll check the published date and see that it was written in 1984. Passages about Cyberspace to be a pretty accurate description of where we are now, and where we're heading in the near future. If you read Neuromancer for example, you'll find his They are closer to near future foretelling. ![]() They are more than the usual science fiction "what if"s. Gibson has a knack for coming up with these "ideas". I love William Gibson.Īnd there are moments in this book where his nearly prophetic imagination shines through. It isn't that tight braid where each thread is essential that i would have expected from Gibson. When the three stories do finally converge, it feels more like that magical tangle of knots that even carefully coiled electrical cords devolve into over time. ![]() And if an author is going to take it on, it needs to be tight, it needs to be a convergence that the reader cares about, and preferably there is some new twist that hasn't been done before. That's not a new literary device by any stretch. You know that they are going to somehow influence each other, or come crashing together at Spook country takes three different story lines and works them separately. Those are shining examples of what Gibson is capable of. ![]() If you haven't read any other William Gibson novels, stay the hell away from this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Did Mireille truly adore her stepchild as Ed claims, or did she pit father against daughter for personal gain? As a state of unrest descends Lucy is thrown into a full-scale investigation. Many believe Ed's young, new wife, Mireille, divided the family. While police blame her death on an accidental overdose, Lucy can't understand what could have led the privileged woman to her watery ruin. ![]() No one knows much about Alison, except that she was the daughter of wealthy investor, Ed Franklin, and struggled quietly with drug addiction. Language eng Summary Besides the annual Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day, Lucy expects the approaching holiday to be a relatively uneventful one, until she finds Alison Franklin dead in Blueberry Pond. Stone, Lucy, (Fictitious character) - Fiction ISBN: 9781496710321 (electronic bk) Summary: New York Times -Bestselling Author: A daughter of. ![]() Label Turkey trot murder Title Turkey trot murder Statement of responsibility Leslie Meier Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He seems uninvolved in Foundation affairs, but privately he allies himself with Barr. Undaunted, he encircles Foundation territory with carefully placed garrisons. Riose requests reinforcements, which the emperor denies. Its leaders realize that this is a crisis predicted by Hari Seldon. Riose probes the Foundation for weaknesses. Along with a sister organization at the far end of the galaxy, the two Foundations are meant to stitch civilization back together, preserving high technology and shortening the barbarism to a mere thousand years. The amazing device was brought to Siwenna decades earlier by a mysterious trader.īarr’s research shows that a Foundation was established centuries in the past by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, whose work predicted the collapse of the Empire and a 30,000-year dark age. Barr, who hates the Empire but whose family is under threat from Riose, shows the general a walnut-sized force-field generator. ![]() Imperial general Bel Riose visits scholar Ducem Barr on the distant planet Siwenna, searching for information about the mythical magicians of the equally mythical Foundation. The ebook edition of the 2004 Del Rey/Random House reprint of Foundation and Empire forms the basis for this study guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Forty to fifty years ago though, of evidence of SF either in that present or from earlier decades, there was barely a trace, neither as reprints nor on library shelves. ![]() A tendency towards fantasy and horror in Scottish fiction had always been present – taking in George MacDonald’s Lilith etc and some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s stories (notably of course The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) – as was the tale of the supernatural or, at least, encounters with the devil, whose origins go back even further than Victorian times. And again it leaned towards fantasy, though some of his short stories were more recognisably SF. ![]() Alasdair Gray produced his monumental Lanark in 1981 but that was such a unique novel (or four novels) that it hardly represented a trend or a model practicable to aspire to. Only four names spring to mind as being much in evidence at the time J T McIntosh (who did though manage to publish over 20 SF novels,) Angus McVicar – whose output was aimed at YA readers (such books were called juvenile at the time) – and a reprint in the early 1960s of David Lindsay’s 1920 novel A Voyage to Arcturus, which despite its impeccably Science-Fictional title was arguably more of a fantasy than SF as such. In the mid- to late twentieth century Science Fiction by Scottish authors was all but invisible. ![]() ![]() ![]() But these feelings will not be quelled, leading to an extremely emotional yet enlightening journey towards acceptance. ![]() Brought up by their school, community, and religion to believe their feelings are sinful and unnatural, Hannah and Baker retreat inside themselves, trying to make their love for each other go away and learn to live a “normal” life. They try to deny their feelings, but one night during spring break changes everything. But Hannah begins to realize her love for Baker is more than the love of a friend, and Baker too, seems to be feeling the same way. Along with Hannah’s sister and three male friends, the group, known as “Six-Pack”, is inseparable. The girls know each other so well and do pretty much everything together. ![]() She has a strong network of friends, including her best friend, Baker Hadley. In the spring of 2012, seventeen-year-old Hannah Eaden is in her final months of high school, working to pass her exams and choose the right college. Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen, a YA lesbian romance, is precisely that kind of book, and what makes it even more impressive is it is Quindlen’s first lesbian novel, and she packed it with so many of the real feelings and real agonies that lesbians first coming out to themselves often face. ![]() You know a novel is well-written if you find yourself sucked into the story, feeling every single emotion the characters are feeling, and either moving you to tears or making you smile without realizing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie’s secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness. When he discovers she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather’s death, but she offers few clues - until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie’s past, one more intertwined with the elderly man’s passing than Trevor could ever have anticipated. Claiming to be 19, she works at the local sundries store and keeps to herself. ![]() But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she’s hiding.įurther complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road from his grandfather’s cabin. and yet, from their very first encounter, his connection with Natalie Masterson can’t be ignored. Tending to his grandfather’s beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn’t prepared to fall in love with a local. The Notebook book by Nicholas Sparks on all Childrens Books Romance Books > Romantic Historical Books ISBN: 043935806X ISBN13: 9780439358064 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 in the Harry Potter Series) by Nicholas Sparks See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him-from the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikhal, Avigail, and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like old age. The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. ![]() “A page turner.Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive.in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostĪ rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March. ![]() ![]() The three main characters in this book are Marcel, Nicola and Fergus, three orphans living in an old house next to a wizard's tower. In this book, the characters and the plot are both well-developed and the story relies on the children as much as the adventure does them. In other genres (mostly horror), you find that the characters could be replaced by anyone because the focus is on the evil instead. I really enjoyed the story in this book because of its many twists and turns and how strongly each character was developed and how they fit in the story. ![]() The first book in The Book series by James Moloney, The Book of Lies proves to be an interesting story about three orphans who have had their memories wiped and discover that before they had been tied together in a story much bigger than themselves. ![]() Great light fantasy book for young adults ![]() |