Tenses of Imagination. Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia, Paperback - ***

Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, British Sar...

Reducere. DescriptionA homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri--echoed in the title--this book is devoted to the radical...

Reducere. The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale soc...

A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Cather...

Reducere. DescriptionBrutality, infrastructure collapse, daily threats of war: 45 writers of speculative fiction share their visions of what's to come. Fight...

DescriptionHenry Morris is watching his wife slip away from him. In an ageist society, where euthanasia is encouraged as a patriotic act, dementia ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968 John B. Calhoun, American behavioral ecologist, introduced eight mice into a technologically designed walled enclosure that fulf...

A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams's seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who Speaks for Wa...

A compelling thriller, The Volunteers is also an engrossing reminder of the conflict between moral choice and political loyalty. Through his obsess...

Presents the second volume in the "Library of Wales" series. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lectur...

Reducere. Improve your grammar skills with 161 focused exercises. The English Tenses Exercise Book drills a solid understanding of the past, present and futu...

This book discusses changes that have taken place in diplomatic institutions and conventions over thousands of years. It analyses these changes in ...

Reducere. From the back cover: 12 Lectures On The Creative Power of Imagination From The World's Greatest MysticFrom beginning to end, the Bible speaks only ...

Reducere. Quickly discover the many uses of the English tenses. How do English speakers use two tenses to mean the same thing? Why do the rules not always ap...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Peter Y. PaikNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Public-relations extraordinaire Blake Hamner (the n is silent) put off his honeymoon for his big break: joining a major political campaign for pres...

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosop...

Reducere. A noted biblical scholar's concise responses to a wide range of the questions most frequently posed to him about the Bible.

After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a batte...

The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as "masterly"...

Reducere. Most literary works have one primary voice, a discourse that expresses an author's dominant culture and ideology. The whole Bible, however, should ...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert WilliamsArtist: Robert WilliamsThis is a comprehensive, career-spanning, collection of the iconic painter's fine art...

RAYMOND WILLIAMS was the most influentialsocialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, making full use of Williams's private and unpublish...

Volume 5--A Modern Utopia & In the Days of the CometFor those who know anything of the most outstanding British authors of the late 19th and early ...

A Modern Utopia is a classic philosophical novel by H. G. Wells.H. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy. In it Wells' ex...

Reducere. Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in ...

Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and ...

Reducere. DescriptionJerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). The...

Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global conscious...

Reducere. DescriptionTravel through the Imagination Station to meet Pauli Murray, a courageous civil-rights leader, advocate for social justice, Doctor of La...

A novel based on the hugely popular all-action METAL GEAR SOLID video games.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Raymond BensonNumber of p...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdIllustration(s): 209 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 252 x 33Cover ty...

Reducere. In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. An Ambush of Shadows is the fifth book in the classic series of postapocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar. Despite the tentative peace esta...