Firefight

Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0449818403
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller and sequel to Steelheart from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy, presents the second book in the Reckoners series: Firefight. And don’t miss Calamity, the exciting conclusion to the Reckoners series! Newcago is free. They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart--invincible, immortal, unconquerable--is dead. And he died by David's hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And no one in Newcago can give him answers. Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic Regalia, Babylon Restored is flooded and miserable, but David is sure it's the path that will lead him to what he needs to find. Entering a city oppressed by a High Epic despot is risky, but David's willing to take the gamble. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic--Firefight. And now he will go on a quest darker and even more dangerous than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers. Praise for the Reckoners Series: #1 New York Times Bestselling Series “Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind “Action-packed.” —EW.com “Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club

Calamity Theory

Author: Joshua Schuster
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966583
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman advocacy that would aim to supersede almost all extinction scenarios. The proponents of existential risk thinking, led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, have seen their work gain immense popularity, attracting endorsement from Bill Gates and Elon Musk, millions of dollars, and millions of views. Calamity Theory is the first book to examine the rise of this thinking and its failures to acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk than others and what it implies about human extinction. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Author: Marisha Pessl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101218800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description
The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the Year Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit. At the center of the novel is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with visual aids drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.

Calamities

Author: Renee Gladman
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Book Description
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.

Calamity

Author: Karen R. Jones
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.

Man and Society in Calamity

Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412843863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.

Coping with Calamity

Author: Jiayan Zhang
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774825987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain’s volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.

When in the Dark

Author: Jacob Wayne
Publisher: Time of Calamity
ISBN: 9781643900834
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
When in the dark ... you falter. Tyce seems like a normal teenager living in a military-occupied city. Living with his adopted mother, during the day he attends high school with his best friends, Dylan and Samantha. But things aren't always as they seem. Once the sun sets, Tyce turns vigilante fighting the secretive, authoritarian government that rules over the city. The government might be Tyce's enemy #1, but he soon finds out that the government isn't the only evil lurking in the shadows. Tyce must do everything he can to stop a new evil mastermind, even if that means he has to break his only rule: no killing. He soon finds he must fight an evil way beyond him.

In Calamity's Wake

Author: Natalee Caple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620401851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
To fufill her adoptive father's dying wish, Miette sets out to meet her mother, the notorious Calamity Jane, and crosses the badlands of the North American West in her quest to find the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.

Calamity's Heir

Author: Timothy J. R. Rains
Publisher: Timothy J. R. Rains
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
In an age of violence, when berserkers prowl the seas of Scandinavia, a new terror cleaves a path through the north ... After escaping my grandfather and a gruesome death-sentence, I need be on the first ship out of Hålogaland. If I can find a crew who hasn't heard I've got blood on my hands. The problem is up here in the Lofoten Isles everyone knows everyone. And I've got a reputation for trouble. The last thing any man wants at sea. But fear can a powerful motivator. And nothing seems to invoke fear like mentioning my father. My real father. I get a warning though, from a skipper that takes me on. I'm not to mention my father where we're going. It'll invoke fear alright. The kind that will get us killed. The thing is, I've grown proud of who my father was. I'm becoming more his daughter with every swing of my sword. I'm becoming like him. I can feel it. A destroyer. A savage. Like I said, I've got a reputation for trouble. And lately, everything I touch goes up in smoke.