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Unlock the mysteries of science fiction with this guide to the key concepts and definitions. From warp technology and lasers to starships and energy shields, this book provides a clear and accessible reference to the field of science fiction. Written for beginners, it is the perfect resource for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of this rapidly evolving field. With clear explanations, this book is your go-to reference for all things SF....
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The full scripts of award-winning Downton Abbey, season two including previously unseen commentary from Julian Fellowes
Opening in 1916, as the First World War rages across Europe, Season Two is the next dramatic installment of the much-loved, award-winning drama. The Crawley family and their servants play their parts on the front line and back at home as their lives are intensified by the strains of war.
The shooting scripts give a fascinating...
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In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative "laboratory" where theoretical questions about storytelling-and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity-are presented in story form.
Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, Wittenberg links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in...
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Windy la Fée du Temps est toujours en mouvement, apportant des brises fraîches et des rafales puissantes pour garder l'air frais et en circulation. Suivez Windy alors qu'elle vole à travers le ciel, répandant sa douceur.Tranche d'âge : 4-7 ansApprentissage : Les enfants apprendront le pouvoir du vent et son rle dans la dispersion des graines, la pollinisation des plantes et la formation des paysages, ainsi que la manière dont le vent aide à...
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How snakes, reanimated corpses, trolls, giants, and other beings-both friends and foes-jumped from the pages to the screen in the Wizarding World.
The Harry Potter films are packed with creatures by turns fascinating and fearsome, from the goblins of Gringotts to the Dementors of Azkaban. With detailed profiles of each creature that include concept art and behind-the-scenes photography, this volume gives fans an in-depth look at Dark creatures, such...
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Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and other forms of migrant labor...
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A Templar Knight finds himself transported to a dangerous realm known as the Beastlands. With sinister entities known as The Masters hunting him down, all he has is his sword and a weird, goblin-like creature named Grimbel to guide him through this strange new world.
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After a drunk driving clip of Cason goes viral, his life is in shambles. He seeks refuge in the Bahamas until things die down. Once he gets to the Bahamas, he meets a family who introduces him to creative writing. At first, Cason thought writing would simply be a hobby. Over time, he learns the transformative effects of writing and how he could use words to create his reality. Cason goes on to create a revolutionary character known as Augusto who...
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The New England Horror Filmmakers is a collection of stories from various creators around the states that make up New England. Their trials tribulations hard ships and courage in completing their art. Its been done with a labour of love for the independent film market to show anyone can make a movie with effort and dedication.
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"Don't be alone, Doctor," Amy Pond tells the Eleventh Doctor in "The Angels Take Manhattan," and of course the irony is that in one sense the Doctor is always alone--a Gallifreyan whose regenerative powers mean he will outlast nearly everyone near and dear to him -- while at the same time he is rarely without one or more trusted companion by his side. This is a book about those companions--those fortunate few who accompany him on his journeys through...
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This remarkable volume celebrates and explores the complex stories, relationships, and world building in HBO's Emmy Award—winning Game of Thrones series, from Season One through Season Eight. The book follows the story of Essos and southern Westeros, with fire-breathing dragons and clashing noble houses, and the story of northern Westeros, where the Night King leads his army of the dead across the icy landscape. Mapping bloodlines and battle lines,...
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An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism-through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective.
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LEXX Unauthorized - The story of Kai (Michael McManus), an undead assassin, Zev (Eva Habermann), a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head (Jeff Hirschfield), careening through space together in the LEXX, a planet destroying biological warship shaped like a dragonfly, stolen from the malevolent Divine Order. This first volume of the four part history of the television...
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The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott's transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's 2007 "Final Cut" confirmed the international film cognoscenti's judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers...
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In Ex Marginalia, 20 authors of speculative fiction explore what it means to create at the intersections of their multiple marginalities. A gay man pens a letter to his departed muse, an African woman ruminates on the end of a marriage, a Filipino writer defends romantic villains.These essays chart identities and perspectives systematically excluded by a field that has failed to deliver on its promise of progress. But these voices cannot-will not-remain...
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For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the...
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The multiverse is a set of coexisting and independent universes. It is a speculative scientific hypothesis elaborated in several cosmological theories that hypothesize the existence of other universes (multiverse) besides the one observed by man. It is aIt is a speculative field of study, based exclusively on unverifiable hypotheses, on the border between science and philosophy.It is often regarded as a border science or as a pseudoscience in a worse...
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"Harry Potter - Les nuances de l'univers magique" explore les différences entre les livres et les films de la saga Harry Potter. Il commence par une introduction sur la magie dans les deux médias, puis analyse les différences dans les personnages, les décors, l'intrigue, les relations et les thèmes. Le livre examine également comment les éléments magiques et les effets visuels ont été adaptés à l'écran, l'importance de la musique et de...
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From the masterminds behind YouTube's Comicstorian: "Tremendous insight and unique perspectives that any comic fan, new or old, will enjoy." -Rob Jefferson of Comics Explained
It's the Golden Age of comic book movies, with blockbuster after blockbuster starring larger-than-life characters-Thor, Superman, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and of course, baddies like Loki, The Joker, and Lex Luthor. When it comes to superheroes of the silver...
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A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic 1986 fantasy action-adventure film, featuring insights from the cast and crew.
The story of an immortal Scottish warrior battling evil down through the centuries, Highlander fused a high-concept idea with the kinetic energy of a pop promo pioneer and Queen's explosive soundtrack to become a cult classic.
When two American producers took a chance on a college student's script, they set in motion...
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