![]() ![]() “Like the work of Carmen Maria Machado and Aoko Matsuda, Chung’s stories are so wonderfully, blisteringly strange and powerful that it's almost impossible to put Cursed Bunny down.” ―Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In TroubleĪ stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature-surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) biteįrom an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. "Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror-just the way I like it!" - Ed Park, author of Personal Days SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT ![]()
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![]() ![]() Feist's genius was inventing another sword and sorcercy realm based more closely on eastern models, the Empire of Tsuranuanni, as vast as Ancient China, as formalised and devoted to the arts of war as a samurai Japan. Midkemia is a Tolkienian realm, a European-Medieval series of kingdoms in which magic is prominent, and where men share the earth with dwarves and elves. His "concept" was to bring together two (and later, more) whole, intricately realised Fantasy worlds. ![]() ![]() When Raymond Feist's enormous novel was published, critics called it "the best new fantasy concept in years", and Feist has refined and explored that concept over a dozen novels. A Darkness at Sethanon: The Triumphant Finale to the Riftwar SagaĪ Darkness at Sethanon completes the "Riftworld saga" which started with Feist's Magician. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was released on with total page 383 pages. Full book Predictably Irrational Revised and Expanded Edition. Read and Download Dan Ariely book Predictably Irrational Revised and Expanded Edition in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions Behavioral economist Daniel Ariely has concluded that real-world people not only exhibit an array of decision-making frailties and biases, they are "predictably irrational," a position now shared by so many behavioral economists, psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary biologists that a defense of the core rationality premise of modedrn economics is demanded. Indeed, Thaler and other behavioral economists and psychology have documented a variety of ways in which real-world people fall far short of mainstream economists' idealized economic actor, perfectly rational homo economicus. ![]() ![]() Book excerpt: Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi," suggesting that such a view of real world modern homo sapiens is simply wrongheaded. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. McKenzie book Predictably Rational in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.īut before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends.until the night when his best friends try to kill him. ![]() ![]() At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. ![]() ![]() Clamence compares Amsterdam’s layout of concentric rings to the rings of hell in Dante’s Inferno. ![]() He thinks the bartender is an “ape” and that Amsterdam is full of “silhouettes.” Clamence considers both of them better than the bartender due to being French and bourgeois. Clamence orders a drink for his friend, and then monologues to him about his views on humanity and the bartender. The protagonist and narrator, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, strikes up a conversation with an unnamed fellow Frenchman, often called monsieur (sir) and cher ami(dear friend). The Fall begins in a bar named Mexico City in an impoverished part of Amsterdam. ![]() ![]() This guide refers to each of the book’s six different sections as chapters.Ĭontent Warning: The Fall contains mentions of suicide, abuse, and alcoholism as well as discussions of slavery and genocide. This guide uses an eBook version of the 1956 Vintage Books edition, translated by Justin O’Brien. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a few unexpected turns happen, it leads Willow to some very odd circumstances with different people. Everything seems different for her now with no one out there to guide her or give her love and comfort. That leaves a shocking and hurt Willow all by herself in the world. But when Willow comes home after school one day, she finds out that the two people she has ever been able to connect with (her parents) had died in a car crash. One of Willow’s particular concept is that she favors the number seven, seeing it almost anywhere in her life. ![]() She has an exceptionally intent curiosity with diagnosing medical conditions and studying nature. Willow Chance is a 12-year-old girl who leads a perfectly normal life. Rating: 4/5 (Checked Out Through A Digital Copy) ![]() ![]() ![]() film art is generously illustrated with more than 1,000 frame enlargements taken directly from completed films, providing concrete illustrations of key concepts. In-depth examples deepen students' appreciation for how creative choices by filmmakers affect what viewers experience and how they respond. ![]() Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. ![]() Since 1979, david bordwell, kristin thompson and now, co-author, jeff smith's film art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. ![]() ![]() Bâ's grandparents did not plan to educate her beyond primary school. During the colonial revolution period and later, girls faced numerous obstacles when they wanted to have a higher education. īâ was a prominent law student at school. ![]() She received her early education in French, while at the same time attending Koranic school. After her mother's death, Bâ was largely raised in the traditional manner by her maternal grandparents. He was the Minister of Health in 1956 while her grandfather was an interpreter in the French occupation regime. ![]() Her father was a career civil servant who became one of the first ministers of state. This short book was awarded the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980.īâ was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1929, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu ethnicity. ![]() In this semi-autobiographical epistolary work, Bâ depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. Her frustration with the fate of African women is expressed in her first novel, Une si longue lettre (1979 translated into English as So Long a Letter). Mariama Bâ (Ap– August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() The One State exists within a post-apocalyptic landscape, when most of the world’s population was destroyed. One thousand years after the revolution that brought the One State into being world-wide, each person is assigned only a number, which operates as that person’s name. Widely seen as a direct criticism of the Soviet socialist utopia, Zamyatin also intended to indict all governments who act to preserve stability at the cost of human freedom, in any form, and he reportedly based his One State society on a visit to England. However, We spawned some of the most famous dystopian future fiction writing in English, including George Orwell’s 1984, Ayn Rand’s Anthem, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. We was the first novel banned by the Soviets’ censorship bureau consequently, it was not published in Russia until 1988. in 1924, this novel is considered the originator of the dystopian future fiction genre. We, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, is a science-fiction novel set in a dystopian future totalitarian society. ![]() ![]() Irmina’s life in Nazi Germany means she has little choice but to adapt to the terrifying events unfolding is powerfully, sensitively written and beautifully drawn by Yelin. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina that prosperity will only be possible through the betrayal of her ideals”. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler’s Germany, is forced to return home. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. “In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. ![]() ![]() The book is now being released by SelfMadeHero in paperback to tie in with Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January 2023. Originally published in German by Reprodukt in 2015, and in English as a hardback by SelfMadeHero in 2016, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina has been feted with praise and awards for its complex, intelligent, and moving portrayal of life before, during, and after WWII, exploring the choice, conscious or otherwise, to look away when the most terrible events were unfolding. ![]() |