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Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020

Brooks, Terry,

[2020]

First edition.

"Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Terry Brooks short story collection, featuring both new and fan-favorite stories

Regular print

9780525619963

Regular print

Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020

Short stories. Selections

The fey of Cloudmoor -- Aftermath -- Imaginary friends -- The weapons master's choice -- An unfortunate influx of Fillipians -- Allanon's quest -- Indomitable -- Don't tell dad -- The black irix -- Last ride -- Warrior.

Brooks, Terry, author.

Terry Brooks.

2020

Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Strand, Ginger Gail.

℗2015.

Unabridged.

Strand chronicles the intersection of brothers Kurt and Bernard Vonnegut at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold

HighBridge ; [Distributed by] Recorded Books,

9781622319169

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Strand, Ginger Gail.

Runnette, Sean

HighBridge Audio (Firm)

Recorded Books, LLC.

Ginger Strand.

2015

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Strand, Ginger Gail,

2015.

First edition.

"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a

Book

9780374117016

Book

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Strand, Ginger Gail, author.

Ginger Strand.

2015

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Multiculturalism and magic realism in Zadie Smith's novel White teeth : between fiction and reality

Hadjetian, Sylvia.

[2015]

Electronic resource

9783954897421

Electronic resource

Multiculturalism and magic realism in Zadie Smith's novel White teeth : between fiction and reality

White teeth.

Hadjetian, Sylvia.

Sylvia Hadjetian.

2015

Multiculturalism and magic realism in Zadie Smith's novel White teeth : between fiction and reality

The Importance of Language

[2019]

Revised Edition.

In this collection of essays, Max Black has brought together discussions on the language of politics, religion, poetry, law, and even magic. The

Electronic resource

9781501741319

Electronic resource

The Importance of Language

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Words and Their Meanings / Thought and Language / Bluspels and Flalansferes / Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction / The Language of Magic / U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics / The Resources of Language / Essentially Contested Concepts / The Theory of Meaning / ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Black, Max, editor.

Huxley, Aldous -- Butler, Samuel -- Lewis, C. S. -- Barfield, Owen -- Malinowski, Bronislaw -- Ross, Alan S. C. -- Waismann, Friedrich -- Gallie, W. B. -- Ryle, Gilbert --

Max Black.

2019

The Importance of Language

Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling

Sterling, Bruce.

2007.

1st ed.

Book

Subterranean Press,

9781596061132

Book

Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling

The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm -- Spider Rose -- Cicada queen -- Sunken gardens -- Twenty evocations -- Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei -- Dinner in Audoghast -- The compassionate, the digital -- Flowers of Edo -- The little magic shop -- Our neural Chernobyl -- We see things differently -- Dori Bangs -- The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin -- Are you for 86? -- The littlest jackal -- The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy -- Bicycle repairman -- Taklamakan -- Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles -- Maneki Neko -- In paradise -- The blemmye's strategem -- Kiosk.

Sterling, Bruce.

Strahan, Jonathan.

Fowler, Karen Joy.

by Karen Joy Fowler -- by Bruce Sterling --

[edited by Jonathan Strahan ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler ; foreword by Bruce Sterling].

2007

Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling

The best American spiritual writing 2006

c2006.

Best American series, 1555-7820

Book

Houghton Mifflin,

9780618586448

9780618586455

Book

The best American spiritual writing 2006

Best American series,

fitting desire / Renewing husbandry / big tent / On making the Martyrdom of Saint Polycarp: writing the true icon / After strange gods / Pipistrelle / Eddy / manna for all seasons / cellular church / Moral fiction / tragic fate of John Ruskin / Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius / This soul has six wings / glue is gone / Music's missing magic / Waking / Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles / Into the wonder / kosher conversion / Our near-death experience / After 9/11 / secret of the self / Our American Babylon / Are you there, God? / Seven penitential psalms / lost Buddhas of Bamiyan / Ishi / Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought / Just power / Angel bones / church's way of speaking / Marina / East Boston, 1996 / 20, 40, 60, 80,

Zaleski, Philip.

Rick Bass -- Wendell Berry -- Peter J. Boyer -- Scott Cairns -- Michael Chabon -- Mark Doty -- Brian Doyle -- Anthony Esolen -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Mary Gordon -- Rochelle Gurstein -- Sam Hamill -- Jessie Harriman -- Edward Hoagland -- Miles Hoffman -- Linda Hogan -- Charlotte Innes -- Alan Jacobs -- Corby Kummer -- Thomas Lynch -- Charles Martin -- Wilfred M. McClay -- Richard John Neuhaus -- Katherine Paterson -- V. Penelope Pelizzon -- Matthew Power -- Louis Simpson -- George Steiner -- Helen Tworkov -- John Updike -- Robert Louis Wilken -- C.K. Williams -- Franz Wright -- Genie Zeiger.

edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Peter F. Gomes.

2006

The best American spiritual writing 2006

Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives

2011.

Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been award

Electronic resource

Continuum,

9781441159588

9781283129619

9786613129611

9781441152220

9781472542557

9781441161437

Electronic resource

Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Flaneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes's Metroland / Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot / À preference for things Gallic': Julian Barnes and the French Connection / Àn Ordinary Piece of Magic': Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes / Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over / Story of Julian Barnes's The Porcupine: an Epistolary 1/2 Chapter / Julian Barnes's England, England and Englishness / Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes / Àll Letters Quoted Are Authentic': The Past After Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes's Arthur & George

Groes, Sebastian.

Childs, Peter, 1962-

Matthew Taunton -- Ryan Roberts -- Vanessa Guignery -- Andrew Tate -- Merritt Moseley -- Dimitrina Kondeva -- Richard Bradford -- Peter Childs -- Christine Berberich.

edited by Sebastian Groes and Peter Childs.

2011

Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives

Maoist laughter

[2019]

"During the Mao years, laughter in China was serious business. Simultaneously an outlet for frustrations and grievances, a vehicle for socialist

Electronic resource

9789882204508

Electronic resource

Maoist laughter

Introduction : the study of laughter in the Mao era / Laughter, ethnicity, and socialist utopia : Five golden flowers / Revolution plus love in village China : land reform as political romance in Sanliwan Village / Joking after rebellion : performing Tibetan-Han relations in the Chinese military dance "Laundry song" (1964) / Intermedial laughter : Hou Baolin and Xiangsheng Dianying in mid-1950s China / Fantastic laughter in a socialist-realist tradition? : the nuances of "satire" and "extolment" in The secret of the magic gourd and its 1963 film adaptation / Humor, vernacularization, and intermedial laughter in Maoist Pingtan / Propaganda, play, and the pictorial turn : Cartoon (Manhua Yuekan), 1950-1952 / The revolutionary metapragmatics of laughter in Zhao Shuli's fiction / Huajixi, heteroglossia, and Maoist language / Ma Ji's "Ode to friendship" and the failures of revolutionary language

McGrath, Jason, 1966- editor.

Ping, Zhu, editor, contributor.

Wang, Zhuoyi, 1974- editor.

Ping Zhu -- Ban Wang -- Charles A. Laughlin -- Emily Wilcox -- Xiaoning Lu -- Yun Zhu -- Li Guo -- John A. Crespi -- Roy Chan -- Ping Zhu -- Laurence Coderre.

edited by Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath.

2019

Maoist laughter

A view from the stars

Liu, Cixin,

2024.

First U.S. edition.

A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-B

Book

9781250292117

Book

A view from the stars

Time enough for love / Whale song / A journey in search of home : on the inclusion of "The Wandering Earth" in the 30th anniversary of Science fiction world / The messenger / Thirty years of making magic out of ordinariness : celebrating Science fiction world's thirtieth anniversary / Butterfly / One and one hundred thousand Earths / On finishing Death's end, the last book in the Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy / The battle between sci-fi and fantasy ; The "Church" of sci fi : on depictions of the universe in science fiction / End of the microcosmos / Poetic science fiction / Civilization's expansion in reverse / Destiny / The dark forest theory / The world in fifty years / Heard it in the morning / On ball lightning, an interview with Liu Cixin ; We're sci-fi fans

Liu, Cixin, author, interviewee.

Dudak, Andy, translator.

Field, Jesse, translator.

Hanlon, Elizabeth, translator.

Jin, Emily Xueni, translator.

Lanphier, Adam, translator.

Lu, S. Qiouyi, translator.

Zhang, Henry, translator.

translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by S. Qiouyi Lu -- translated by Henry Zhang -- translated by Andy Dudak -- translated by Henry Zhag -- translated by Elizabeth Hanlon -- translated by Jesse Field -- translated by Henry Zhang -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by S. Qiouyi Lu -- translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by Andy Dudak -- translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by Jesse Field -- translated by Adam Lanphier.

Cixin Liu ; translated by Andy Dudak, Jesse Field, Elizabeth Hanlon, Emily Xueni Jin, Adam Lanphier, S. Qiouyi Lu, Henry Zhang.

2024

A view from the stars

Numbers and nerves : information, emotion, and meaning in a world of data

2015.

"We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information--a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. T

Electronic resource

Oregon State University Press,

9780870717772

Electronic resource

Numbers and nerves : information, emotion, and meaning in a world of data

Social and Psychological Perspectives on Sensitivity and Meaning With an introduction / More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide / Pseudoinefficacy and the Arithmetic of Compassion / Prominence Effect: Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions / Age of Numbing / Epidemic Disease as Structural Violence: An Excerpt from Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights / Narrative, Analytical, and Visual Strategies for Prompting Sensitivity and Meaning With an introduction / Power of One / From One to Too Many / Wreck of Time / Science, Eloquence, and the Asymmetry of Trust: What's at Stake in Climate Change Fiction / Healing Rwanda / When Words Fail: Climate Change Activists Have Chosen a Magic Number / Blood Root of Art / Interviews on the Communication of Numerical Information to the General Public With an introduction / Reacting to Information in a "Personal, Moral Way": An Interview with Homero and Betty Aridjis -- Countering the "Anesthesia of Destruction": An Interview with Vandana Shiva -- Meaning of "One Data Point": An Interview with Sandra Steingraber -- Introspection, Social Transformation, and the Trans-Scalar Imaginary: An Interview with Chris Jordan -- Postscript

Slovic, Paul, 1938- editor.

Slovic, Scott, 1960- editor.

Scott Slovic -- Daniel Vastfjall -- Marcus Mayorga -- Paul Slovic -- Greg Mitchell -- Paul Farmer -- Paul Slovic -- Nicholas D. Kristof -- Kenneth Helphand -- Annie Dillard -- Scott Slovic -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Bill Mckibben -- Rick Bass -- Paul Slovic -- Paul Slovic.

edited by Scott Slovic, Paul Slovic.

2015

Numbers and nerves : information, emotion, and meaning in a world of data

An atlas of lost kingdoms : discover mythical lands, lost cities and vanished islands

Hawkins, Emily,

2022.

"This is no ordinary atlas. This is a guide to the legendary lands once sought by explorers, from the sunken kingdom of Atlantis to the treasure-

Book

9780711262829

Book

An atlas of lost kingdoms : discover mythical lands, lost cities and vanished islands

Atlantis: legendary sunken city -- Camelot: many-towered castle of King Arthur -- Hy-Brasil: phantom island off the Irish coast -- The lost city of Ys: legendary kingdom swallowed by the sea -- Yggdrasil: the nine worlds of Northlands -- Cockaigne: a dreamland of plenty and luxury -- The Fortunate Isles: paradise islands from Greek mythology -- Buyan: vanishing island from Slavic folklore -- Scholomance: underground school of black magic -- Zerzura: the oasis of little birds -- Sheba: kingdom of an ancient queen -- The lost city of Kalahari: fact or fiction? -- Carthage: once-great rival of Rome -- Ile-Ife: sacred homeland of the Yoruba people -- Troy: city of legend -- Themiscyra: capiatl of the Amazons -- The hanging gardens of Babylon: lost wonder of the world -- Iram of the Pillars: the Atlantis of the sands -- Dwarka: legendary home of a Hindu god -- Shi Cheng: real-life sunken city -- Xanadu: capital of an empire -- Ryūgū-jō: underwater palace from Japanese legend -- The Isle of Demons: phantom island off the coast of Canada -- The Hopi underworld: where it all began -- The seven cities of gold: a dream of impossible wealth -- Aztlan: legendary homeland of the Aztec people -- El Dorado: the fabled city of gold -- Ciudad Blanca: the lost city of the monkey god -- Port Royal: sunken pirate haven -- Baralku: island of the dead -- Hawaiki: homeland of the Māori people -- Agartha: imagined kingdom inside the Earth.

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