Age Past: The Incian Sphere
Title | Age Past: The Incian Sphere PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Mechlinski |
Publisher | Strangelet Machine Games |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1628902906 |
Age Past is a fantasy RPG that incorporates a novel character creation and dice rolling mechanic. Age Past: The Incian Sphere was written to provide you a completely customized gaming experience. Characters are built using an archetype system that is only limited by your imagination. Cast from over 150 spells without restriction and select from over 140 powers. Most powers can be taken 4 times as your character levels so no two characters will ever be the same. The system encourages player balance so your character will be successful regarding her purpose and all characters will be equally important. The game's world is unique and open enough for a GM to tailor his own adventure yet has guidelines to keep expectations in check. Age Past also has many optional rules that allow you to further customize your gaming experience. Choose to use pulp gaming rules or high lethality... or both! Build your perfect hero and conquer the world. Incia awaits!
Aging in the Past
Title | Aging in the Past PDF eBook |
Author | David I. Kertzer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520084667 |
Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of aging. Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the problems of the aged. Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of aging. Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the problems of the aged.
Friending the Past
Title | Friending the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Liu |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022645195X |
Can today’s society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic—and how do our current digital networks disrupt these same balances? Can our social media, with its fleeting nature, even be considered social at all? In Friending the Past, Alan Liu proposes fresh answers to these innovative questions of connection. He explores how we can learn from the relationship between past societies whose media forms fostered a communal and self-aware sense of history—such as prehistorical oral societies with robust storytelling cultures, or the great print works of nineteenth-century historicism—and our own instantaneous present. He concludes with a surprising look at how the sense of history exemplified in today’s JavaScript timelines compares to the temporality found in Romantic poetry. Interlaced among these inquiries, Liu shows how extensive “network archaeologies” can be constructed as novel ways of thinking about our affiliations with time and with each other. These conceptual architectures of period and age are also always media structures, scaffolded with the outlines of what we mean by history. Thinking about our own time, Liu wonders if the digital, networked future can sustain a similar sense of history.
Giants from the Past
Title | Giants from the Past PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | Animals, Fossil |
ISBN | 9780870444296 |
A description of the first animals, like the mastodon, & how they evolved during the Ice Age.
Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher
Title | Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony P. Pennino |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2018-08-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3319966863 |
This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.
Ned Allen; Or The Past Age
Title | Ned Allen; Or The Past Age PDF eBook |
Author | David Hannay (of Carlingwark.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1849 |
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Ned Allen; or, The past age
Title | Ned Allen; or, The past age PDF eBook |
Author | David Hannay (novelist.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1849 |
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