Synners

Author: Pat Cadigan
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575119551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. To be a Synner is to join the online hardcore, an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines - all it costs you is your freedom, and your humanity. Synners shows us a world perilously close to our own. A constant stream of new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets, and the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Equal parts thrill-ride and cautionary tale, this classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1992

The English Rite

Author: Frank Edward Brightman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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The English Rite

Author: F. E. Brightman
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Dark Horizons

Author: Tom Moylan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317793552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements.

The Book of Common Prayer

Author: Brian Cummings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191617113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 896

Book Description
'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hides a violent and controversial history. When it was first produced the Book of Common Prayer provoked riots and rebellion, and it was banned before being translated into a host of global languages and adopted as the basis for worship in the USA and elsewhere to the present day. This edition presents the work in three different states: the first edition of 1549, which brought the Reformation into people's homes; the Elizabethan prayer book of 1559, familiar to Shakespeare and Milton; and the edition of 1662, which embodies the religious temper of the nation down to modern times. 'magnificent edition' Diarmaid MacCulloch,London Review of Books 'superb edition...excellent notes and introduction' Rowan Williams, Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Book of Common Prayer

Author: Church of England
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199207178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 896

Book Description
This unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer includes the texts of three different versions, 1549, 1559, and 1662, to provide a panorama of the history of ritual in England from the Reformation to the present day. The first edition for the common reader, with full notes and introduction, this is one of the seminal texts of human experience.

The First and Second Prayer-books of King Edward the Sixth

Author: Church of England
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms

Author: The Feminist Review Collective
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113471887X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms.

The New Testament

Author: William Tyndale
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055754727X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by William Tyndale. Reproduction of the original edition, 1526.

The Self Wired

Author: Lisa Yaszek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136716092
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. This title discusses the intense controversy about how to best understand and represent human subjectivity in a technology-intensive era. Yaszek provides an overview by linking specific modes of identity and agency to engagement with specific manifestations of technology itself.