The Science of Lost Futures
Title | The Science of Lost Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan Habermeyer |
Publisher | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1942683618 |
The Science of Lost Futures is a prize-winning collection full of quirky humor and intelligent absurdity. Ryan Habermeyer is a yarn spinner of the first order. Drawing on urban legends, internet hoaxes, and ancient medical folklore, these stories go beyond science fiction and magical realism to create a captivating collection of fabulist stories that revel in the alien and the absurd.
In Search of Lost Futures
Title | In Search of Lost Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2021-02-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 303063003X |
In Search of Lost Futures asks how imaginations might be activated through practices of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity—each of which has the power to break down methodological silos, cultivate novel research sensibilities, and inspire researchers to question what is known about ethnographic process, representation, reflexivity, audience, and intervention within and beyond the academy. By blurring the boundaries between the past, present, and future; between absence and presence; between the possible and the impossible; and between fantasy and reality, In Search of Lost Futures pushes the boundaries of ethnographic engagement. It reveals how researchers on the cutting edge of the discipline are studying absence and grief and employing street performance, museum exhibit, anticipation, or simulated reality to research and intervene in the possible, the impossible, and the uncertain.
Lost Futures
Title | Lost Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Grossfeld |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Depict the plight of children around the world, including victims of war, disease, and abuse.
Ghosts of My Life
Title | Ghosts of My Life PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Fisher |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2014-05-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 178279624X |
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.
Breath
Title | Breath PDF eBook |
Author | James Nestor |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2020-05-26 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0735213631 |
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures
Title | The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Resnick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN | 9781596064355 |
A collection of short fiction that explores a range of the human experience in a science fiction world.
Future Lost
Title | Future Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Briggs |
Publisher | Albert Whitman & Company |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0807526886 |
It's been a year since Elena Martinez and her boyfriend Adam first got involved with Aether Corporation, and they’re trying to move on with their lives. But when Adam goes missing, Elena realizes that he’s done the unthinkable: he went to Aether for help developing his cure for cancer. Adam betrayed her trust and has traveled into the future, but he didn’t come back when he was supposed to. Desperate to find him, Elena decides to risk future shock, and time travels one more time. This future is nothing like they’ve seen before. Someone has weaponized Adam’s cure and created a dangerous pandemic, leading to the destruction of civilization. If Elena can’t find Adam and stop this, everyone is at risk. And someone will do anything to keep her from succeeding.