Cartea speculatiilor

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen MoyerProviding theoretical and practical insight, Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors pr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Virginia (Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Babson College, USA) Newhall Radem...

Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants co...

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and ...

This collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include p...

Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant ...

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel S. CordascoIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 316Publication da...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Dr. Glyn (University of Liverpool, UK) MorganNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full o...

This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have...

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour...

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the hu...

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism sets the record straight on one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the unforgettable story of the life of Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street's greatest ever stock speculators. ...

By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrat...

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the ...

DescriptionHow can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today--MOOCs especially--focus on tra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Aaron (Brock University, Canada) MauroIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Collection: Bl...

Reducere. In Black Utopias Jayna Brown looks to utopia as a way of exploring new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown uses the lives...

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and ...

Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book ...

This collection of twenty-four essential essays written by Brian Massumi over the past thirty years is both a primer for those new to his work and ...

Reducere. Cosmic Underground Northside operates as a seminal collection consisting of works from cross-generations and pan-national Black creatives and cultu...

DescriptionThe captivating possibilities of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, based on current scientific knowledge of existing worlds and forms...

DescriptionSpeculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy. It has been discussed widely amongst the...

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose...

When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African Amer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sheree R. ThomasThis volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations o...

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human?...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Petra KuppersIllustration(s): 27 black & whilte illustrations, 16 color platesNumber of pages: 2...

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Reducere. The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned s...

Contributor(s): Author: Harry Turtledove*io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This FallFrom the modern master of altern...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jacob BreslowNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 18Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Speculative fiction--encompassing both science fiction and fantasy--has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing...

Reducere. Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer ClappAuthor: S. Ryan IsaksonIn Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship betwe...

Reducere. DescriptionThe stories in this year's selection are sometimes grim, sometimes cheerful, sometimes quirky--but always full of emotion. Editor Tak cs...

My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS "Ender, Katniss, and now...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Steven ShaviroNumber of pages: 192Collection: PosthumanitiesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 21...

Reducere. In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmi...

DescriptionThe Bubble Economy tells the story of the greatest failure of Japanese economic management since 1945. In the second half of the 1980s J...

Looking mainly at Derrida's early work - the three texts published in 1967: Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomenon and Writing and Difference - Deb...

Reducere. "An outstanding showcase of contemporary Latinx authors exploring identity through the conventions of sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism. Themes ...

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinso...

Contributor(s): Author: Sami SchalkIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding o...

Reducere. Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which h...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great...

Reducere. Inside this book lies a multi-future time machine, and by the time you finish reading it, you'll be plucking inventions from many possible futures-...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Doug CaseyAuthor: John Hunt"Halfway between Frederick Forsyth's Dogs of War and Ayn Rand's Fountainhead. The gold mine in t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tess MartinIn a dystopian future, the government is overthrown and the new order protects animal rights with a heavy handed...

Reducere. Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fictionThis volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigm...

Reducere. 784 ab urbe condita--31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying mach...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harry Turtledove" Harry Turtledove] handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate t...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher TomlinsIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus. 2 tables.Number of pages: 376Publication date: 20...

Reducere. There are many ways to be a heroine. Princess and swordswoman, lawyer and motorcyclist, scholar and barbarian: there are many ways to be a heroine....

Reducere. 786 ab urbe condita--33 AD. Time is running out for Yeshua Ben Yusuf, on trial for capital crimes after rioting against the moneychangers in the te...

DescriptionThis anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come fr...

Against Continuity' is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze s philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible,...

Reducere. Award NameGold Pen AwardsAward categoryAnthologyDescriptionThis volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers t...

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Reducere. The third book of our well-received Speculative Japan series, this volume brings more outstanding authors from the Japanese archipelago to English,...

Reducere. A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very dif...

Speculative Grammarian is the premier schol­arly journal featuring research in the oft ne­glected field of satirical linguistics-and it is now avai...

Reducere. Common Bonds is an anthology of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters. At the heart of this collection are the bonds ...

Reducere. Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis anthology of speculative fiction stories on the themes of colonialism and cultural imperialism focuses on the viewpoints of the col...