5/13/2023 0 Comments Manhunt gretchen review![]() ![]() ![]() Felker-Martin’s horror chops are top-notch, with gut-churning prose zoomed in on the strangeness of human bodies and on the characters’ squeamish relationships with the physical realm, and her exploration of mental illness, trauma, and dysphoria excellently complement the grimy atmosphere. The two meet up with Robbie, a gunslinging trans man bearing his own trauma, and together the three seek safety, facing waves of feral men, heavily armed TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) hell-bent on bringing about the extinction of trans women, and the labyrinthine dynamics of their own relationships as they process their brutal histories. Felker-Martin’s daring debut imagines a world in which a plague turns men into violent cannibals and those left alive must do whatever they can do survive, including-in the case of trans women like Beth and Fran-harvesting men’s genitals to keep the disease at bay themselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savoured and collected. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation.Ī Little History of the Worldpresents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. ![]() In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers – his Little History of the World. ![]() ![]() Unlike modern occultists, the author does not shy away from exposing the great influence of Freemasonry and other secret societies on the world today. In this monumental work, Hall covers topics such as Alchemy, Cryptology, Freemasonry, Gemology, Kabbalah, Mystic Christianity, Nicholas Flammel, Pythagorean Philosophy, Rosicrucianism and other Secret Societies, Tarot, the Hiramic legend, the pyramids, the Qabbalah, the Tree of the Sephiroth, the Zodiac, the identity of William Shakespeare, the teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus, among others. ![]() As Hall explores secret societies from past to present, ancient symbols suddenly make sense, folk legends take on a new dimension, and historical mysteries begin to reveal their secrets. Through his meticulous exploration of occult schools through the ages, the author highlights the common esoteric philosophy that has been handed down from civilization to civilization since antiquity. Students of arcane practices, hidden wisdom and ancient symbols treasure Hall’s magnum opus above all other works. ![]() Hall’s legendary The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a codex to the esoteric traditions and ancient occult. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Everneath series![]() But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally - but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him - and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon - or die. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself. ![]() Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The ambergris trilogy![]() Under the shadow of the eldrich tower the occupiers are raising above the city, Finch is about to come face-to-face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever. Enough to put Finch in the crosshairs of every spy, rebel, informer, and traitor in town. With no ID for the victims, no clues, no leads, and precious little hope, Finch’s fate hangs in the balance.īut there is more to this case than meets the eye. Detective John Finch has just one week to solve it or be sent to the camps. From New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer comes the one-volume reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy: City of Saints and Madmen, Finch. But its new masters want this case closed, urgently. The city of Ambergris is half ruined, rotten, its population controlled by narcotics, internment camps, and acts of terror. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. ![]() In a deserted tenement in an occupied city, two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor as if they have fallen out of the air. From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Finch. ![]() ![]() Books, authors, movies, magazines,-all are covered. This is not a book to be read, but it is an invaluable source of information on science fiction. This is the indispensable reference work not only for every reader who loves, uses and wishes to know more about science fiction, but for every reader of imaginative fiction at the end of this century. ![]() It now contains well over 4,300 entries - a staggering 1,500 more than the original - and, at 1.2 million words, it is over half a million words longer than the first edition. Accordingly, the book has expanded dramatically in order to cope with the complexities and changes. ![]() The advent of game worlds, shared worlds, graphic novels, film and tv spin-offs, technothrillers, survivalist fiction, of horror novels and fantasy novels with of centres has necessitated a radical revision, and this has allowed the inclusion of related subjects, such as magic realism. The world of science fiction in the 1990s is much more complex than it was back in the late 1970s. ![]() This new edition has taken years to prepare and is much more than a simple updating. Frank Herbert described it as 'the most valuable science fiction source book ever written' and Isaac Asimov said 'It will become the Bible for all science fiction fans.'. When the first edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction was published in 1979, it was immediately hailed as a classic work of reference. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dopo mille esitazioni - perché proprio lei? sarà all'altezza delle aspettative di una delle più grandi scrittrici viventi? - la giovane parte alla volta dell'isolata magione dell'anziana autrice. È questo l'invito con cui Vida Winter, sfuggente e carismatica scrittrice alla fine dei suoi giorni, informa Margaret della sua investitura a propria biografa ufficiale. Manderò una macchina a prenderla alla stazione di Harrogate. Venga lunedì con il treno delle quattro e mezzo. La sua prevedibile esistenza viene sconvolta un giorno da una lettera tanto enigmatica quanto perentoria: "L'ora è giunta. Margaret Lea è una giovane libraia antiquaria che negli anni trascorsi con il padre tra pagine immortali e volumi sepolti dall'oblio, ha coltivato una quieta passione per le biografie letterarie in cui di tanto in tanto si cimenta. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Out novel natsuo kirino![]() ![]() It tears the lid off Japanese society, exposing the mistreatment of the underclass and the misogyny woven into the fabric of everyday life. One of the things that I liked the most about Out is the fact that it’s not just your run-of-the-mill thriller it’s also a social commentary. I’m not much of a thriller reader, but I kept finding myself the object of the cover model’s cold stare whenever I was scrolling through bookstagram or looking at Goodreads, so I decided to give it a go. To sum it up in a single sentence, it’s dark and it’s bleak, and it’s stomach-churningly graphic in places. ![]() Let me preface this review by saying that Natsuo Kirino’s Out is not a book for the fainthearted. A review for this book without any spoilers would be about two sentences long ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Handmaiden sarah waters![]() ![]() Because it’s not part of the source material,” says Park. Perhaps inevitably, given it’s a Park film, grisly vengeance plays a part too. ![]() There is, in a nod to Oldboy’s cephalopod-chomping dinner scene, an octopus – a leviathan hulk (too huge to eat) that splurges from a fish tank in the antagonist’s chambers. There is betrayal and devotion and lots of explicit lesbian sex. A romance told from both sides, in which neither can ever fully be trusted. Maybe revenge is a part of me … Because it’s not part of the source materialĭivided, like the book, into three parts, it is a strange and sumptuous film. Park’s version, transferred to 1930s Korea, maps out the same basic plot (maid meets lady, maid and lady fall for each other, double-cross each other, then reunite). It’s based on Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, the Man Booker prize-nominated novel about a female Victorian street urchin who is tasked with winning the trust of a lady and, eventually, displacing her. Park is busy examining his gender fluidity because of his new film, The Handmaiden, which premiered at the Cannes film festival last week. ![]() ![]() We present the design of a novel framework for the visual integration, comparison, and exploration of correlations in spatial and non-spatial geriatric research data. To understand this hybrid domain, we introduce some preliminary research explorations that covers both the industrial design and InfoVis, along with our education practices, including our assessment framework, research outcomes, education approaches, and student design projects. We also argue that there could be a harmonious combination of industrial design and InfoVis that integrate the benefi ts from both. Appling the 3D form of industrial design to InfoVis can bring it to the physical world and enhance the information qualify in our lives. Extending InfoVis into a product design can fi ll up the small screen on the product and make the product more user friendly. This paper aims to explore and discuss the idea exchange between the traditional domain of industrial design and the novel fi eld of InfoVis. Integrating InfoVis into people's daily lives can help them to access, explore, understand, and utilize the vast variance of data. Our daily activities now heavily rely on data, and sometimes are even controlled by them. ![]() |