Author: Peter Day
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: interface, probing, boundaries, evil, enduring, myths, metaphors, vampires
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2006-02-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9042016698
ISBN-13: 9789042016699
In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of media is often a telling signifier of the fears and expectations of a culture or community and the way that it perceives itself; and others. The volume?s essays offer a fascinating insight into both vampires
Author: J. B. Zirker
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: sun, interior, probing, sunquakes
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-10-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 080187419X
ISBN-13: 9780801874192
One of the most recent and exciting branches of astronomy, helioseismology?like its terrestrial counterpart?studies why the surface of the sun vibrates like a bell. Over the past three decades astronomers have gained spectacular insights into the structure and composition of the sun’s interior, transforming the way we understand stellar matter. In Sunquakes, Jack B. Zirker tells the story of this new science and explains the physics behind these illuminating vibrations. Zirker recounts the discovery of solar oscillations in the early 1960s and international efforts throughout the rest of
Author: Michael Dougherty
Publisher: Island Style Pre
Keywords: history, hawaiian, probing, kingdom, steal
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2010-03-05
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 096334840X
ISBN-13: 9780963348401
History of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1893. Currently in 6th revised printing, 2000. More than 30,000 copies in circulation.
Author: Dennis Pavlich
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: probing, boundaries, interface, justice, environmental, managing
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2010-03-31
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 9042029374
ISBN-13: 9789042029378
Environmental justice is the subtext of this collection of anxieties around the need for a sustainable future on Planet Earth. Thinkers and scholars from a diversity of backgrounds reflect on what it means and how cultures must change to greet this future. From Romania to Mexico, Bosnia to Canada, Sweden to California authors analyze and recount community experiences and expectations leading to justice for land, sea, air and wildlife. The kind of ethical weltanschauung for a society in which this kind of justice is achievable is suggested. The collection points to the myriad of single instance
Author: Marleen S. Barr
Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
Keywords: science, fiction, feminist, probing, space, lost
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0807844217
ISBN-13: 9780807844212
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society. Because feminist science fiction challenges male-centered social imperatives, it has been marginalized and dismissed from the canonthus, lost in space.Moving beyond feminist science fiction itself, Barr goes on to examine other literary genres from the perspective of ’feminist fabulation
Author: Gregory Curti
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: first, artists, world, mysteries, painters, probing, cave
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1400078873
ISBN-13: 9781400078875
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spainthe individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago. He takes us through various theoriesthat the art was part of fertility or hunting rituals, or used for religious purposes, or was clan mythologyexamining the ways interpretations have changed over time. Rich in detail, pers
Author: Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: national, pastime, business, inside, billions, probing, baseball
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-04-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0465006159
ISBN-13: 9780465006151
"A savvy analysis of the game’s financial problems" (Los Angeles Times), now updated throughout and featuring a new chapter on recent controversies and upheavals in the game. Selected as one of the best books of the year by Business Week.
