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11 produkter
In the Hollow of Time
E-bok, 2021
188 kr
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Yori Kashimoto, child of the generational Starship Galatea, is banished from the only known community of rational beings in the cosmos. No one knows what happened to the home planet Ulro, but technology has saved a remnant of humanity that now faces the question of how to turn a life-support system …
Starship Galatea
A Sacred and Profane Time machine
E-bok, 2021
188 kr
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What happens to the once and future creatures who escaped the death of Planet Ulro and embarked on a generational star-ship to find a new home in the galaxy? Ishmael Kahn, historian and a nineth-generation survivor, tells the story of problematic collective life on this sacred and profane time …
History of a Dying Planet
E-bok, 2021
184 kr
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Why did the only planet "known to evolve a species capable of bringing nature-if not itself-under rational control destroy itself? What wasn''t done that might have been done differently? For readers, the problem has two faces: archeological and teleological. In this narrative history, Opeyemi …
Maladies of the Soul
E-bok, 2023
147 kr
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In The Valmont, a posh condo development in New Orleans, once an Ursuline convent, seven residents-a real estate developer, a Russian ballerina, a legal secretary, a TV personality, a US Attorney, a French professor, and a Jesuit priest embody the classical vices. Their intertwined lives pass …
Extreme Beauty
Aesthetics, Politics, Death
Av James Swearingen, Joanne Cutting-Gray
E-bok, 2003
1403 kr
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What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." Extreme Beauty explores art, …
