Parable of the Talents

Author	: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2014-03-27
ISBN 10	: 9781472214799
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (722 users)

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Download or read book Parable of the Talents written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM --- In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny. PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ 'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O

Parable of the Talents

Author	: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher	: Seven Stories Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 1888363819
Pages	: 374 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (638 users)

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Download or read book Parable of the Talents written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter&...from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life&...with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet.

Love and Electronic Affection

Author	: Lindsay D. Grace
Publisher	: CRC Press
Release Date	: 2020-04-30
ISBN 10	: 9780429771378
Pages	: 248 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (297 users)

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Download or read book Love and Electronic Affection written by Lindsay D. Grace and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and possible future of affection play in games. The authors apply a combination of game analysis and design experience in affection play for both digital and analog games. The research and recommendations are intersectional in nature, considering how love and affection in games is a product of both player and designer age, race, class, gender, and more. The book combines game studies with game design to offer a foundation for incorporating affection into playable experiences. The text is organized into two sections. The first section covers the patterns and practice of love and affection in games, explaining the patterns and practice. The second section offers case studies from which designers can learn through example. Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer is a resource for exploring how digital relationships are offered and how to convey emotion and depth in a variety of virtual worlds. This book provides: • A catalog of existing digital and analog games for which love and affection are a primary or secondary focus. • A catalog of the uses of affection in games, to add depth and investment in both human-computer and player-to-player engagement. • Perspective on affection game analyses and design, using case studies that consider the relationship of culture and affection as portrayed in games from large scale studios to single author independent games. • Analysis and design recommendations for incorporating affection in games beyond romance, toward parental love, affection between friends, and other relationships. • Analysis of the moral and philosophical considerations for historical and planned development of love and affection in human–computer interaction. • An intersectionality informed set of scholarly perspectives from the Americas, Eurasia, and Oceania. Editor Bio: Lindsay D. Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay is author of Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design and more than fifty peer-reviewed papers on games and related research. He has given talks at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and many other industry events. He was the founding director of the American University Game Lab and Studio and the designer-developer behind several award winning games, including two affection games. He served as Vice President and on the board of directors for the Global Game JamTM non-profit between 2014 and 2019. From 2009 to 2013 he was the Armstrong Professor at Miami University’s School of Art. Lindsay also served on the board for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) between 2013 and 2015.

Earthseed

Author	: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2017-05-16
ISBN 10	: 9781504045469
Pages	: 870 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Earthseed written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner’s powerful saga of survival and destiny in a near-future dystopian America. One of the world’s most respected authors of science fiction imagines an apocalyptic near-future Earth where a remarkable young woman discovers that her destiny calls her to try and change the world around her. Octavia E. Butler’s brilliant two-volume Earthseed saga offers a startling vision of an all-too-possible tomorrow, in which walls offer no protection from a civilization gone mad. Parable of the Sower: In the aftermath of worldwide ecological and economic apocalypse, minister’s daughter Lauren Oya Olamina escapes the slaughter that claims the lives of her family and nearly every other member of their gated California community. Heading north with two young companions through an American wasteland, the courageous young woman faces dangers at every turn while spreading the word of a remarkable new religion that embraces survival and change. Parable of the Talents: Called to the new, hard truth of Earthseed, the small community of the dispossessed that now surrounds Lauren Olamina looks to her—their leader—for guidance. But when the evil that has grown out of the ashes of human society destroys all she has built, the prophet is forced to choose between preserving her faith or her family. The Earthseed novels cement Butler’s reputation as “one of the finest voices in fiction—period” (TheWashington Post Book World). Stunningly prescient and breathtakingly relevant to our times, this dark vision of a future America is a masterwork of powerful speculation that ushers us into a broken, dangerously divided world of bigotry, social inequality, mob violence, and ultimately hope.

The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative Promoting Positive Change

Author	: Corinna Assmann
Publisher	: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date	: 2023-01-16
ISBN 10	: 9783823395737
Pages	: 289 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (233 users)

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Download or read book The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative Promoting Positive Change written by Corinna Assmann and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges in the 21st century. The present volume aims to actualize and further substantiate the case for literature and narrative, taking inspiration from Vera Nünning's eminent scholarship over the past decades. Engaging with her formative interdisciplinary work, the volume seeks to explore potentials of change through the transformative power of literature and narrative - to be harnessed by individuals and groups as agents of positive change in today's world. The book is located at the intersection of cognitive and cultural narratology and is concerned with the way literature affects individuals, how it works at an intersubjective level, enabling communication and community, and how it furthers social and cultural change.

Obsidian III

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: UVA:X030294803
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.X/5 (3 users)

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Godless Paganism Voices of Non theistic Pagans

Author	: John Halstead
Publisher	: Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date	: 2016-04-05
ISBN 10	: 9781329988491
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book Godless Paganism Voices of Non theistic Pagans written by John Halstead and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in pagan antiquity, there were those who, while participating in the community’s religious life, did not believe in literal gods. In the centuries that followed the Christian domination of the West, the epithet “godless pagan” was leveled at a wide variety of people. In the 1960s, there emerged a community of people who sought to reclaim the name “pagan” from its history of opprobrium. These Neo-Pagans were interested in nature spirituality and polytheism, and identified with the misunderstood and persecuted pagans of antiquity. While many Pagans today believe in literal gods, there are a growing number of Pagans who are “godless.” Today, the diverse assemblage of spiritual paths known as Paganism includes atheist Pagans or Atheopagans, Humanistic and Naturalistic Pagans, Buddho-Pagans, animists, pantheists, Gaians, and other non-theistic Pagans. Here, their voices are gathered together to share what it means to be Pagan and godless.

Nature Prose

Author	: Dominic Head
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2022-08-15
ISBN 10	: 9780192698445
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (926 users)

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Download or read book Nature Prose written by Dominic Head and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.

Rites of Passage Liminality and Community in Octavia E Butler s Science Fiction Novels

Author	: Lin Knutson
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2023
ISBN 10	: 9781666903119
Pages	: 111 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (669 users)

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Download or read book Rites of Passage Liminality and Community in Octavia E Butler s Science Fiction Novels written by Lin Knutson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.

Popular Contemporary Writers

Author	: Michael D. Sharp
Publisher	: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date	: 2005-10
ISBN 10	: 0761476016
Pages	: 136 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book Popular Contemporary Writers written by Michael D. Sharp and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-six alphabetically arranged author profiles include biographical information, critical commentary, and illustrations.

Ecosublime

Author	: Lee Rozelle
Publisher	: University of Alabama Press
Release Date	: 2006-02-12
ISBN 10	: 9780817314927
Pages	: 145 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (173 users)

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Download or read book Ecosublime written by Lee Rozelle and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-02-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. Lee Rozelle examines the natural environment's place in American literature and culture through the lens of what he calls the “ecosublime,” an aesthetic moment that in its awe and terror provokes a cognitive and spiritual re-conception of place. Focusing on a variety of literary works and cultural artifacts, Ecosublime explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America. In the 19th century, Rozelle argues, Isabella Bird and Edgar Allan Poe represent the western wilderness as culturally constructed and idealized landscapes--gardens, forests, and frontiers--conceptual frameworks that either misrepresent or uphold ecological space. Modernists like Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams, on the other hand, portray urban space as either wastelands or mythical urban gardens. A chapter on Charles W. Chesnutt and Rebecca Harding Davis analyzes a new breed of literary eco-advocate, educating and shocking mainstream readers through depictions of ecological disaster. A later chapter probes the writings of Edward Abbey and the Unabomber Manifesto to delve into the sublime dimensions of environmental activism, monkey-wrenching, and eco-terrorism. In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime--nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear--profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world, America's increasingly anti-ecological trajectory, and the ascendance of a post-natural landscape.

Spirituality in the 21st Century Journeys beyond Entrenched Boundaries

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Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2020-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9781848882577
Pages	: 217 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (488 users)

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Angry Planet

Author	: Anne Stewart
Publisher	: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date	: 2023-01-17
ISBN 10	: 9781452968643
Pages	: 343 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (529 users)

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Download or read book Angry Planet written by Anne Stewart and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet How might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a form of protest—in short, the Earth as an angry planet? Many novels from the end of the millennium did just that, centering around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. In Angry Planet, Anne Stewart uses this literature to develop a theoretical framework for reading with and through planetary motion. Typified by authors like Colson Whitehead, Octavia Butler, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work anticipates contemporary critical concepts of entanglement, withdrawal, delinking, and resurgence, angry planet fiction coalesced in the 1990s and delineated the contours of a decolonial ontology. Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the 1990s from the perspective of the American Third World, construing it as the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles. By synthesizing these major intersections of thought production in the final decades of the twentieth century, Stewart offers a recent history of dissent to the young movements of the twenty-first century. As she reveals, this knowledge is crucial to incipient struggles of our contemporary era, as our political imaginaries grapple with the major challenges of white nationalism and climate change denial.

Ecocriticism

Author	: Greg Garrard
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2023-03-29
ISBN 10	: 9781000841268
Pages	: 206 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism written by Greg Garrard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and explores its key concepts, including: • pollution • pastoral • wilderness • apocalypse • animals • Indigeneity • the Earth. Thoroughly revised to reflect the breadth and diversity of twenty-first-century environmental writing and criticism, this edition addresses climate change and justice throughout, and features a new chapter on Indigeneity. It also presents a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading. Concise, clear and authoritative, Ecocriticism offers the ideal introduction to this crucial subject for students of literary and cultural studies.

Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond

Author	: Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-04-30
ISBN 10	: 9781000376357
Pages	: 198 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity’s greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind’s current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

New Testament Basics

Author	: Stefan Alkier
Publisher	: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Release Date	: 2022-09-13
ISBN 10	: 9781506483375
Pages	: 441 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (64 users)

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Download or read book New Testament Basics written by Stefan Alkier and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Testament Basics is a primer that encourages and empowers students to competently read and interpret the New Testament for themselves. The book identifies what the New Testament is (and is not) while helping students develop biblical literacy, as well as literary, canonical, historical, hermeneutical, and theological sensibilities.

Visions of the Third Millennium

Author	: Sandra M. Grayson
Publisher	: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106019252623
Pages	: 132 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

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Download or read book Visions of the Third Millennium written by Sandra M. Grayson and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: