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Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South
by Elizabeth LeaneThis comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
Antarctica: Escape from Disaster (Antarctica Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Peter LerangisTrapped in Antarctic ice, Jack Winslow and his sons fight to get homeIt has been nearly a year since Jack Winslow and his two sons, Colin and Andrew, set out to conquer Antarctica. While Colin and most of the crew stayed behind on the ship, Andrew made a dash for the South Pole, nearly dying in the process. When he returns to the Mystery, frostbitten and frail, the ship has become wedged between two ice floes. As the crew hacks at the ice with pick-axes, trying desperately to free the ship, the ice shifts, shattering the hull and giving the Winslows and their team just enough time to gather provisions before the Mystery plummets into the frigid water. Hundreds of miles of ice and sea stand between the Winslows and safety. As food becomes scarce, the crew begins grumbling of mutiny. Colin and Andrew are tired, hungry, and freezing cold—but their struggle for survival has only just begun. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Lerangis including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Antarctica: Journey to the Pole
by Peter LerangisA father and his sons embark on a perilous trek to the ends of the earthIt is May 1909, and the race to the South Pole is on. For years, Jack Winslow has dreamed of conquering the frozen wasteland, but just before he sets sail, his wife dies suddenly. Rather than cancel the voyage, he brings his two grief-stricken sons, Colin and Andrew, on the adventure of a lifetime. Although the teenagers have read widely of the Antarctic and the icy, unforgiving sea that surrounds it, no book could prepare them for the journey ahead. Killer whales, temperatures as low as –100°F, and deadly crushing ice floes are only the beginning of their troubles. To survive this trip, the Winslows will have to set aside their grief and come together as a family. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Lerangis including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Antares Dawn
by Michael MccollumAfter the star Antares exploded,destroying the foldpoints that permitted travel to the stars, the Altan System was cut off from Human Space for more than a century. Then, in 2637 a huge spacegoing battleship ' flashed into the system. When the Altan Space Navy finally caught up with the behemoth, it found only a battered hulk and a few dead Earthmen. Something had clearly beaten the awesome Terran spacecraft in a battle to the death. And that was disturbing news indeed. For the dead battleship could easily have defeated the entire Altan system by itself. If it could blunder into the system, so could whatever had demolished it. / Something would have to be done...
Antares Dawn: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #1)
by Michael McCollumWhen the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century.When a powerful warship materializes in the system without warning, the commanders of the Altan Space Navy are alarmed. They dispatch one of Alta’s most powerful ships to investigate, only to discover the unknown behemoth is battered and helmed by a dead crew.This is disturbing news for the Altans as the defeated battleship would have easily defeated the whole of the Altan navy on it’s own. And if that ship was able to stumble into the Altan system, so too could the force responsible for its destruction. Something must be done.
Antares Passage
by Michael MccollumFROM THE BACK COVER: Project Helldiver. After more than a century of isolation, the people of Alta were once again in contact with the rest of human space. But that reunion, led by Captain Richard Drake, spelled the end of civilization on Alta. For the people of the nearest star system were under siege by an alien race called the Ryall, whose only goal in life seemed to be the utter destruction of all Mankind. And it liked as if they might succeed. The only hope for these worlds lay with the greater military forces of Earth itself. But to reach Earth, they would have to take the one path not held by the Ryall, and that way passed through the Antares system, which was awash with the deadly radiation of a supernova. It was a risk they would have to take, and Richard Drake would lead the way into hell. This is the second in the Antares trilogy.
Antares Passage: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #2)
by Michael McCollumAfter more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. And yet, the opening of the foldlines has not been the pure blessing the Altans had supposed.The reestablishment of interstellar travel has brought with it news of the encroaching Ryall, an alien race whose goal is the extermination of humanity. If they are to avoid defeat at the hands of the alien forces, Alta must seek out the military might of Earth. The only suitable path, however, requires a journey into the heart of a supernova...
Antares Victory
by Michael MccollumFROM THE BACK COVER: After a century of warfare, humanity has finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica Alpha Virginis, is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all enemy starships must pass, and if humanity can only capture and hold it, they will strangle the war machine of their foes and forever end the Ryall threat. It all seemed so simple in the computer simulations: Advance by stealth, attack without warning, strike swiftly with overwhelming power. Unfortunately, conquering Spica proves the easy part. With the key to victory in hand, Richard and Bethany Drake discover that they must also conquer human nature if they are to bring down the alien foe.
Antares Victory: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #3)
by Michael McCollumAfter a century of warfare, humanity finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica – Alpha Virginis – is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all Ryall starships must pass, and if Alta and their allies can just capture and hold it, they will strangle the Ryall war machine and end its threat to humankind forever.It all seemed so simple in the computer simulations: Advance by stealth, attack without warning, strike swiftly with overwhelming power. Unfortunately, the logistics prove to be the easy part. With the key to victory in hand, Richard and Bethany Drake must temper the volatile role of human nature if they are to bring down the alien foe…
Ante Up (Dreamspun Beyond #8)
by Kim FieldingLove is a high-stakes game. A century and a half ago, Ante Novak died on a Croatian battlefield—and rose three days later as a vampire. Now he haunts Las Vegas, stealing blood and money from drunken gamblers and staying on the fringe of the powerful vampire organization known as the Shadows. His existence feels empty and meaningless until he meets beautiful Peter Gehrardi, who can influence others with his thoughts. An attraction flares instantly, bringing a semblance of life to Ante’s dead heart. But the Shadows want Peter too, and they’re willing to kill to get him. As Ante and Peter flee, they learn more about themselves and each other, and they discover that the world is a stranger place than either of them imagined. With enemies at their heels and old mistakes coming back to exact a price, how can Ante and Peter find sanctuary?
Ante el dolor de los demás
by Susan SontagUn lúcido ensayo sobre la representación documental e iconográfica del dolor. Veinticinco años después de Sobre la fotografía, Susan Sontag regresó al estudio de la representación visual de la guerra y la violencia. ¿Cómo nos afecta el espectáculo del sufrimiento ajeno? ¿Nos hemos acostumbrado a la crueldad? Para ello, la autora examina la serie de Goya Los desastres de la guerra, las fotografías de la guerra civil estadounidense y de los campos de concentración nazis, y las horribles imágenes contemporáneas de Bosnia, Sierra Leona, Ruanda, Israel y Palestina, así como de la ciudad de Nueva York el 11 de septiembre de 2001. En Ante el dolor de los demás, Susan Sontag aporta una interesante reflexión sobre cómo la guerra se lleva a cabo (y se entiende) en nuestros días. Reseña:«Una penetrante meditación sobre la guerra, la mutilación física y el efecto de las fotografías de guerra.»John Berger
Ante la ley. Escritos publicados en vida
by Franz KafkaEste libro recoge los sugestivos y esclarecedores escritos de Kafka. Ante la ley reúne los sugestivos escritos de Kafka, publicados en vida del autor, tanto los libros de prosas y narraciones -a excepción de La transformación-, como escritos de otra factura publicados solo en revistas y periódicos. Contemplación (1913), La colonia penitenciaria (1919) o Un artista del hambre (1924) muestran, tanto o más si cabe que sus novelas, el universo personal del autor y esa manera de narrar por la que ha sido considerado unánimemente como el autor más emblemático del siglo XX. Reseña:«Es el escritor alemán más grande de nuestro tiempo. A su lado, poetas como Rilke o novelistas como Thomas Mann son enanos o santos de escayola.»Vladimir Nabokov
Ante la manifestación de la existencia
by Miquel RicartUna aventura íntima en busca de la verdad de la existencia. Ante la manifestación de la existencia preconiza la libertad del pensamiento en su mayor expresión: es un repudio de todos los dogmatismos y una defensa a ultranza de la dignidad humana. En las páginas de Ricart, el ser humano, lejos de ser un sujeto teórico o idealizado, es un ser tangible, concreto y profundamente subjetivo. Se trata de "la realidad del ser corpóreamente manifestada". La Primera parte del libro, Prosa, recoge viajes imaginarios, aproximaciones a la mitología, percepciones, deseos vitales y remembranzas. La Segunda Parte, Ensayo, consiste en un conjunto de aforismos y textos breves sobre el ser, la verdad, la duda, el absurdo y la muerte, entre otros temas. Poesía, la Tercera parte, reúne la mayoría de los poemas escritos por el autor hasta la fecha.
Ante los ojos de Desirée
by Federico Reyes HerolesTodo hombre anhela a una mujer. Sólo a una: la verdadera, la única, la diosa. Él, periodista latinoamericano de apellido Talbek y Luciano de nombre, dispara con tinta hasta convertirse en actor de la propia escena que pareció haber imaginado. Desirée lo seduce en cátedra, se trasluce por el vino y lo acompaña en una irrefrenada marcha por el dédalo de su ser social. Los documentos corren de ministerio en ministerio; artículo tras artículo se ascienden en espiral que cambia de persona. Talbek es Luciano que habla, que se habla, que nos habla siempre observado por una incrédula que lo mira y que nos mira.
Ante todo, ?mush@ karma?
by Jorge Parra<P>Si Australia tiene a "Priscilla" y Hollywood a "Vida-Boheme", ¿por qué no teníamos una drag ibérica? <P>¡Problema resuelto! Anna Plasmosis ha comenzado su viaje... David tiene una vida maravillosa y feliz junto a su marido Hugo, su hija Paula y su trabajo como Drag-Queen, donde es conocido como Anna Plasmosis. <P>Tras un duro golpe, David toma la decisión de irse, junto a su hija Paula, a su pueblo natal. Sus amigos Freddy y Lorenzo no quieren dejarlos solos en estos momentos difíciles y deciden unirse a la aventura y dejar la cosmopolita Madrid para adentrarse en un mundo totalmente opuesto a lo que conocen. <P>Se encontrarán con personajes muy peculiares que les harán vivir una serie de anécdotas que no te dejarán impasible. Un batido de comedia, drama y musical que disfrutarás de un trago siendo espectador de este gran viaje.
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities (Routledge Studies In Nineteenth Century Literature Ser. #5)
by Susan L. RobersonA study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movement figured in autobiography, spiritual, and political narratives, and domestic novels by women as they constructed their own politics of mobility. These narratives by such women as Margaret Fuller, Susan Warner, and Harriet Beecher Stowe destabilize the male-dominated stories of American travel and nation-building as women claimed the public road as a domain in which they belonged, bringing with them their own ideas about mobility, self, and nation. The many women’s stories of mobility also destabilize a singular view of women’s history and broaden our outlook on geographic movement and its repercussions for other movements. Looking at texts not usually labeled travel writing, like the domestic novel, brings to light social relations enacted on the road and the relation between story, location, and mobility.
Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by Cristin EllisFrom the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.
Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
by Jason BergerIn the antebellum years, the Western world&’s symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth century negotiated its own tenuous progress by portraying how a wide range of maritime stories lays bare disturbing experiences of the new. Berger draws on Slavoj Žižek&’s Lacanian notion of fantasy in order to reconsider the complex way maritime accounts operated in the political landscape of antebellum America, examining topics such as the function of maritime labor know-how within a transformation of scientific knowledge, anxiety produced by conflict between gender-specific and culture-specific forms of enjoyment, and how legal practices illuminate troubling juridical paradoxes at the heart of Polk-era political life.Addressing the ideas of the antebellum age from unexpected and revealing perspectives, Berger calls on the conception of fantasy to consider how antebellum maritime literature disputes conventional views of American history, literature, and national identity.
Antebellum: A Novel
by R. Kayeen ThomasA thought-provoking novel about African American culture seen through the eyes of a famous rapper who is transported to the days of slavery and forced to experience it firsthand.When Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in current time, Da Nigga must confront the reality of the African American experience as slavery challenges everything he holds dear from his fellow rappers and their lyrics, to the executives and their motives. Antebellum is the hard-hitting, gritty story of Da Nigga. From rap superstar to broken slave and back, Antebellum will have readers on the edge of their seats and keep them talking long after they put it down.
Antelope Woman: A Novel
by Louise ErdrichThis updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author--a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures. "Audacious and surprising... One of America's most distinctive fictional voices."--Boston GlobeWhen Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another. In this remarkable updated edition of her acclaimed novel, Louise Erdrich weaves an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption that seems at once modern and eternal.
Anteparaíso
by Raúl ZuritaVersión definitiva de un libro fundamental de Raúl Zurita, una obra una cumbre de la poesía en lengua castellana. Cuando Anteparaíso se publicó originalmente en 1982 supuso el arribo a cimas y el descenso a abismos impensados para la poesía en lengua castellana. Esta edición, que al cabo de cuarenta años el autor presenta en su “versión final”, revela cómo toda su alucinada energía, su violencia y su belleza desgarradas siguen no solo intactas, sino multiplicadas en los paisajes y amores, en los sueños y cielos que pueblan sus páginas.
Anterooms
by Richard WilburPoetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called "a hero to a new generation of critics" by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human condition through reflections on nature and love. Anterooms also features masterly translations from Mallarmé's "The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe," a previously unpublished Verlaine poem, two poems by Joseph Brodsky, and thirty-seven of Symphosius's clever Latin riddles.Whether he is considering a snow shovel and domestic life or playfully considering that "Inside homeowner is the word meow," Wilbur's new collection is sure to delight everyone from longtime devotees to casual poetry readers. Exploring the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted, Anterooms is nothing less than an event in poetic history and a remarkable addition to a master's oeuvre.
Antes de decirte adiós
by Galván, GuillermoCon la perfección de los grandes maestros del género, recuperando las pautas de las mejores novelas policiacas, Guillermo Galván construye una notable obra de suspense. En los últimos días de marzo de 1939 un extraño y clandestino comando integrado por prisioneros de un batallón disciplinario del ejército republicano llega a Madrid con la misión de rescatar un cadáver. Ni siquiera los oficiales al mando terminan de comprender una orden tan absurda en una ciudad sitiada que da sus últimas boqueadas antes de una rendición que se vislumbra inmediata. Veintidós años más tarde comienza la década de los sesenta en una España encerrada en sí misma, que a su pesar no puede mantenerse aislada de la corriente de la historia. Es entonces cuando Dimas Tallón, policía de la Brigada de Extranjería en Madrid e hijo desencantado de un adalid del bando victorioso, se sumerge de lleno en una investigación que le revela el punto de vista de «los otros», los que perdieron, los que fueron silenciados. Reseña:«El pulso de la vida magistralmente vertido en una prosa desnuda y eficaz».Juan Eslava Galán
Antes de dejarte ir
by Alex ToledoLuc aparentemente tiene una vida estable. Sus noches son atormentadas por un sueño recurrente. Su terapeuta, el Dr. Bail, leayudará a resolver el misterio. El día que Luc despierta en el consultorio de su terapeuta, el Dr. Bail, sin recordar cómo llegó ahí, su existencia da un giro radical. Lo que antes eran simples sueños (o complicadas pesadillas), ahora son mensajes cada vez más enigmáticos, que no permiten que Luc se concentre en lo que realmente es importante para él. A pesar de haber probado las mieles del éxito en su vida profesional desde una corta edad, Luc no puede evitar sentirse un extraño y fuera de lugar en su propia vida, y las sesiones con su terapeuta parecen no llegar a ningún lado. Su instinto de periodista le dice que algo está mal, que Bail tal vez no sea quien en verdad dice ser, que la gente que lo rodea no lo ve como debería de verlo, y que las cosas extrañas que le están ocurriendo tienen un porqué. Luc tal vez será uno de los reporteros más importantes de su generación, pero la verdad que debe descubrir es una para la que no cualquiera está listo.
Antes de diciembre (Meses a tu lado #Volumen 1)
by Joana MarcusUna historia de amor y pasión con una cuenta atrás. Todo acabará Antes de diciembre. Una de las historias de amor más adictivas de Wattpad. Para Jenna Brown, su primer año en la Universidad suponía alejarse de su familia y sus amigos y enfrentarse al mundo por primera vez en su vida. Su novio le había dejado claras sus intenciones: a partir de ese momento, tenían una relación a distancia y abierta. Ambos podían hacer lo que quisieran porque sabían que se querían el uno al otro. Así que no pasaba nada si no dejaba de acercarse al mejor amigo del novio de su compañera de habitación, ¿no? De todos modos, ¿qué importaba si estaba con él en ausencia de su novio? Todo volvería a la normalidad en diciembre. ¿Cambiaría algo? Tenía hasta entonces para descubrirlo.