Veracity
Title | Veracity PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Bynum |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2010-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 143915595X |
Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs, a brutal police force known as the Blue Coats, and a device called the slate, a mandatory implant that monitors every word a person speaks. To utter a Red-Listed, forbidden word is to risk physical punishment or even death. But there are those who resist. Guided by the fabled "Book of Noah," they are determined to shake the people from their apathy and ignorance, and are prepared to start a war in the name of freedom. The newest member of this resistance is Harper -- a woman driven by memories of a daughter lost, a daughter whose very name was erased by the Red List. And she possesses a power that could make her the underground warriors' ultimate weapon -- or the instrument of their destruction. In the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Laura Bynum has written an astonishing debut novel about a chilling, all-too-plausible future in which speech is a weapon and security comes at the highest price of all.
Challenging False Logic Puzzles
Title | Challenging False Logic Puzzles PDF eBook |
Author | Norman D. Willis |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780806997209 |
Welcome to the backwards, wrong-way, mixed-up Kingdom of Lidd. It's the magical home of false logic puzzles, and you have to solve them! Just analyze the situation, test the different options, and search for inconsistencies. Choose a level of difficulty, from one-star "challenging" puzzles to three-star "mind-expanding" ones. When you hit a snag, turn to the Hints section-or if you're hopelessly stumped, go to Solutions for the right answer and the logic behind it.
Coming to Mind
Title | Coming to Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Lenn E. Goodman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2014-01-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022606123X |
How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms. Rooted in some of the richest philosophical and intellectual traditions of Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, literature, and the arts and the latest findings of cognitive psychology and brain science—Coming to Mind is a subtle manifesto of a new humanism and an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the human person. Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, Goodman and Caramenico frame a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love.
Photographic Times and American Photographer
Title | Photographic Times and American Photographer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
Color and the Moving Image
Title | Color and the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Brown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2013-10-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1136307885 |
This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the screen, but also the ways in which developments in cinematographic technologies transformed the aesthetics of color and the nature of film archiving and restoration. Color and the Moving Image includes new writing on key directors whose work is already associated with color—such as Hitchcock, Jarman and Sirk—as well as others whose use of color has not yet been explored in such detail—including Eric Rohmer and the Coen Brothers. This volume is an excellent resource for a variety of film studies courses and the global film archiving community at large.
The Republic of Color
Title | The Republic of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rossi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2019-08-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022665172X |
The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform—a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi’s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America—and redefined the way we see the world.
The American Shorthorn Herd Book
Title | The American Shorthorn Herd Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 750 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Cattle |
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