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Keith Robertsâ€™S Pavane - A Critical Companion

by Paul Kincaid

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 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature.
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Peter S. Beagle'S Â€Œthe Last Unicornâ€ - A Critical Companion

by Timothy S. Miller

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 In addition, through reference to the film adaptation of The Last Unicorn and also Beagleâ€™s other works, this study highlights the authorâ€™s longevity and the influence that his metafictional and comedic work has had on contemporary fantasy.
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Keith Roberts'S Pavane - A Critical Companion

by Paul Kincaid

~~43,71€~~ 39,34€ 10% OFF

 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature.
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J. G. Ballard'S &Quote;Crash&Quote;

by Paul March-Russell

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 The book vividly reconstructs how Ballard came to write Crash, the cultural landscape in which it was written, the effect of its reception, and the toll it took on its author.
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J. G. Ballard'S "Crash"

by Paul March-Russell

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 The book vividly reconstructs how Ballard came to write Crash, the cultural landscape in which it was written, the effect of its reception, and the toll it took on its author.
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William Gibson'S &Quote;Neuromancer&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by Graham J. Murphy

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 William Gibson’s Neuromancer: A Critical Companion presents Gibson’s rise as an influential figure within and beyond the science fiction field. Gibson’s success with Neuromancer, the first novel to win the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Philip K. Dick Award, is in part a direct result of the rising popularity of cyberpunk in the early- to mid-1980s, although it could just as easily be said cyberpunk’s success was in no small part a direct result of Neuromancer’s explosion onto the science fiction scene.<div>Neuromancer’s ongoing relevance remains undiminished because we are effectively living in a technocultural age that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from Gibson’s novel. As Graham J. Murphy demonstrates in this companion, the novel remains instrumental in thinking through the ongoing explorations of the posthuman:transhumanism, the Utopia/Anti-Utopia dynamic, and capitalist realism, to name a few of themore significant critical vehicles with which to better understand and contextualize our technocultural age and Neuromancer’s role in both shaping it and responding to it. This book provides a critical introduction to Neuromancer and cyberpunk culture.</div>
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Peter S. Beagle'S &Quote;The Last Unicorn&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by Timothy S. Miller

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 This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its growing success in the aftermath of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In addition, through reference to the film adaptation of The Last Unicorn and also Beagle’s other works, this study highlights the author’s longevity and the influence that his metafictional and comedic work has had on contemporary fantasy.
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The Desistance Journey - Into Recovery And Out Of Chaos

by Graham Cambridge, James Windle e Orla Lynch

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 This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork â€" the largest county in the Republic of Ireland. It offers a practice friendly account of the academic work on desistance and a multidisciplinary holistic account of the process of doing desistance.
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Frank Herbert'S "Dune" - A Critical Companion

by Kara Kennedy

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 This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune (1965), the worldâ€™s bestselling science fiction novel.
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Ai Literacy In K-16 Classrooms

by Davy Tsz Kit Ng, Iris Heung Yue Yim, Jac Ka Lok Leung, Maggie Jiahong Su, Maggie Shen Qiao e Samuel Kai Wah Chu

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 Part I, â€œConceptualizing AI literacyâ€, provides a detailed discussion on the development of the concepts and frameworks on AI literacy education, discusses the differences and similarities between AI in education (AIED) and AI literacy education, and illustrates the reasons why K-16 students need to learn AI.
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The Transformation Of Georgia From 2004 To 2012 - State Building, Reforms, Growth And Investments

by Dimitri Gvindadze

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 How can developing countries become high-income nations? What is the nexus between public policies and geopolitical, political, emotional, historical, national governance-related, social and cultural norms, forces and factors which shape the process of the state building?
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Ann Leckieâ€™S "Ancillary Justice" - A Critical Companion

by David M. Higgins

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 This book argues that Ann Leckieâ€™s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era.
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Policy Responses To The Interwar Economic Crisis - Contending Ideas Of The Economy

by Adnan Turegun

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 This book is about national economic policy responses to the Great Depression of the interwar period.
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Alfred Besterâ€™S The Stars My Destination - A Critical Companion

by D. Harlan Wilson

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 Wilsonâ€™s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes.
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Janelle Monaeâ€™S "Dirty Computer"

by Dan Hassler-Forest

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 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle MonÃ¡eâ€™s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or â€œemotion pictureâ€ in spring 2018.
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Ursula K. Le Guin'S &Quote;A Wizard Of Earthsea&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by Timothy S. Miller

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 Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin''s novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication — a momentous time for genre publishing — and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions A Wizard of Earthsea as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author''s career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin''s own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped to shape young adult literature in its contemporary form.
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The Palgrave Handbook Of Popular Culture As Philosophy

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 Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds.
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Ann Leckie'S &Quote;Ancillary Justice&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by David M. Higgins

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 This book argues that Ann Leckieâ€™s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era.
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Bioware'S Mass Effect

by Jerome Winter

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 <div>The videogame series Mass Effect is a remarkable rarity not only for being an original science-fictional franchise of recent vintage that has risen to such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how science fiction as a genre will be experienced and understood in the future. This book analyzes the significance of the game for an understanding of the evolving SF genre and articulates an explanatory framework to limn its landmark reception in videogame history. This book both synthesizes the burgeoning body of scholarship on Mass Effect for a readership unfamiliar with either the game or the critical conversation on its salient importance, while simultaneously, for readers already invested in the science-fiction and videogame scholarship, mounting an extended inquiry as to why Mass Effect has served as such a representative milestone in videogame and genre history. The book should appeal to veteran science-fiction and videogame scholars and students as well as a wide variety of fans, consumers, gamers, and general readers. </div><div> </div>
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J. R. R. Tolkien'S &Quote;The Hobbit&Quote; - Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion

by Robert T. Tally Jr.

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 Drawing on Marxist literary criticism and narrative theory, this book examines the form and content of Tolkienâ€™s work, demonstrating how the heroic romance is simultaneously employed and subverted by Tolkien in his tale of an unlikely hero, â€œquite a little fellow in a wide world,â€ who nonetheless makes history.
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Frank Herbert'S &Quote;Dune&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by Kara Kennedy

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 This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune (1965), the worldâ€™s bestselling science fiction novel.
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Jeff Noon'S &Quote;Vurt&Quote; - A Critical Companion

by Andrew C. Wenaus

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 This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel’s content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt’s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also anoptimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.
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Robert Holdstock'S Mythago Wood - A Critical Companion

by Paul Kincaid

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 This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex
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Robert Holdstockâ€™S Mythago Wood - A Critical Companion

by Paul Kincaid

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 This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex
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