![]() ![]() In effect, media now begs to be redefined. ![]() There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. ![]()
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7/7/2023 0 Comments The colour rose tremain review![]() ![]() Material has been culled from a wide variety of sources to make a definitive record and practically every page yields the bones of a fascinating plotline for a historical fiction.īut I’m not sure that Eldred-Grigg himself has managed always to dress those bones with sufficient narrative flesh to make them come to life. Whatever else may be said about it, this book, in part produced under one of the generous CLL Writers’ Awards, seems unlikely to be eclipsed as a historical compendium. Well, if writers of imaginative fiction have been held back because they lacked a single, compact, authoritative source of historical detail, they no longer have that excuse. Noting “skilful” exceptions, from Elsie Locke’s The Runaway Settlers in the 1960s to Rose Tremain’s The Colour in 2003, Eldred-Grigg remarks that Stevens’ words are “true to this day”. ![]() ![]() In the closing pages of this comprehensive, even magisterial, historical survey, the author quotes the observation by Joan Stevens in The New Zealand Novel (1966) that novelists had “not yet made fine literature out of the diggings”. Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx![]() The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to approach his work analytically, this fascinating study draws unique connections between Groucho’s comedy and his life, concentrating primarily on the brothers’ classic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. The author uncovers the roots of the performer’s outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in Groucho’s early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Emma o donoghue books![]() It narrates the story of Ma, a 26-year-old woman who has been imprisoned for seven years in an eleven-by-eleven-foot soundproof garden shed in an unnamed place in America with her son, Jack, born out of sexual abuse and raised in this room up to the age of five. The Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue describes Room, 1 her seventh novel, as “a universal story of parenthood and childhood” (Donoghue in Prospero 2010). Judith Butler’s Theory of Vulnerability helps us understand how Emma Donoghue resorts to the notion of vulnerability in resistance to shape Room characters’ subjectivity, Julia Kristeva’s Theory of the Abject lets us explain why Ma and Jack fall into the category of socially disturbing elements in a patriarchal symbolic order and Boris Cyrulnik’s Theory of Resilience is paramount to examine the process that the protagonists must undergo to overcome trauma. ![]() ![]() This present chapter deals with the abusive conditions of oppression and confinement that Ma and Jack must face both in captivity and after escape, the impact that these conditions have on their body, psyche and social life, the different practices of resistance that mother and child enact to cope with them and the transforming process they must undergo to bounce back from them. ![]() ![]() Emma Donoghue’s novel Room narrates the story of Ma, a 26-year-old woman who has been imprisoned for seven years in an eleven-by-eleven-foot soundproof garden shed in an unnamed place in America with her 5-year-old boy, Jack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a list of some of basic terms and definitions to help clarify any confusion. When reading through your first LitRPG, you may become a bit confused with some of the acronyms or terminologies used. Either you love the audiobooks or you hate em. The inclusion of stat tables can make LitRPG audiobooks rather polarizing. ![]() After receiving these stat boosts, you find that the main character will be able to utilize more techniques, skills, or magic in order to progress through the storyline. And that includes stat boosts for character development, weapons, and armor being incorporated into the writing.įor instance, you may see stat tables in the page layout describing + or - boosts in LVL (Level), EXP (Experience), STR (Strength), DEX (Dexterity), WIS (Wisdom), INT (Intelligence), etc. While within the game world, the protagonist or main character goes through the motions of gaining experience and leveling up. And more often than not, the setting actually takes place between "reality" and a game world. So the book layout is like that of an RPG whether it's a video game based (like World of Warcrat, EverQuest, Diablo, etc.) or a tabletop game (i.e. LitRPG stands for Literature Role Playing Game. LitRPG is one of the more unique subgenres of the Sci Fi/Fantasy genres-and that says a lot. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Berserk vol 1 kentaro miura![]() ![]() And now the badass champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in an oversized 7" x 10" deluxe hardcover edition, nearly 700 pages amassing the first three Berserk volumes, with following volumes to come to serve up the entire series in handsome bookshelf collections. ![]() Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games. ![]() ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments My past and future assassin![]() Like a coin toss that keeps coming up heads, iterated titles suggest an occult lucky streak bound to break. For this latest collection, he made one big choice at the outset: all the sonnets share the same title, “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin.” This repetition is superstitious, a tribute paid to the imagined assassin, as if the poems can buy back time in fourteen-line reprieves. In his five books, he has perfected a sort of poem where wild jams carom inside arbitrary formal boundaries. ![]() ![]() Hayes, who is forty-six, won the 2010 National Book Award and is a professor at N.Y.U. He freelances inside a form he calls “part music box, part meat grinder,” fashioning a diary of survival during a period when black men are in constant danger. A former college basketball star, he treats poetry like a timed game, a theatre for dramatic last-minute outcomes. ![]() The day after the 2016 Presidential election, Terrance Hayes wrote the first of the seventy sonnets collected in his new book, “ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.” Time had been altered in some baleful and uncertain way the sonnet offered an alternative unit of measurement, at once ancient, its basic features unchanged for centuries, and urgent, its fourteen lines passing at a brutal clip. ![]() ![]() ![]() Logan Mitchell ? a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants. ![]() The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. ![]() He?s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago. Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tate?s mind. He lives by one motto?if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try? Men and women alike fall into his bed?after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Try ? verb: to make an attempt or effort to do something or in this case?someone. Note from the Author: This book has been two years in the making, and it's my pleasure to bring you Logan & Tate in TRY. ![]() A GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION - COLLECTOR'S EDITIONīlack & white interior illustrations with a beautiful hardback cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll find: Buttermilk by Debbie Moose Pecans by Kathleen Purvis Peaches by Kelly Alexander Tomatoes by Miriam Rubin Biscuits by Belinda Ellis Bourbon by Kathleen Purvis Okra by Virginia Willis Pickles and Preserves by Andrea Weigl Sweet Potatoes by April McGreger Southern Holidays by Debbie Moose Included are almost 500 recipes for these uniquely Southern ingredients. This Omnibus E-Book brings together for the first time the first 10 books published in the series. Written by well-known cooks and food lovers, the books brim with personality, the informative and often surprising culinary and natural history of southern foodways, and a treasure of some fifty recipes each-from delicious southern classics to sparkling international renditions that open up worlds of taste for cooks everywhere. From buttermilk to bourbon, pecans to peaches, one by one SAVOR THE SOUTH® cookbooks will stock a kitchen shelf with the flavors and culinary wisdom of this popular American regional cuisine. Each little cookbook in our SAVOR THE SOUTH® collection is a big celebration of a beloved food or tradition of the American South. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Tales of the cthulhu mythos![]() Of particular note is the story " The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by Martin S. Indeed, one of our tales hints at the ultimate event of the Mythos without ever referring to the traditional names. They contain few erudite occultists, decaying towns, or stylistic pastiches. The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. in this anthology I have tended to favor less familiar treatments or uses of the Mythos. Incarcerated in a sanatorium, you must convince the staff that you are sane by telling the story of the terrifying events that led you there. N recent years the Mythos at times has seemed in danger of becoming conventionalized," despite the fact that "Lovecraft's intention and achievement was precisely to avoid the predictability and resultant lack of terror which beset the conventional macabre fiction of his day. Cthulhu Tales is a storytelling card game for people who enjoy the weird tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, love games and have a sense of humour with a touch of darkness to it. In his introduction to the collection, Campbell states: ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by British horror writer Ramsey Campbell, the book was first published by Arkham House in 1980. Through Monday, June 5 we present the Arc Dream Mythos Bundle featuring Cthulhu Mythos supplements and magazines from Arc Dream Publishing. Print New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos is an anthology of previously unpublished Cthulhu Mythos short stories. ![]() |