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 Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985 by Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 1629638838 | 224 pages | EPUB | 62 Mb Much has been written about the "long Sixties," the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on speculation, alternate worlds and the future, science fiction became an ideal vessel for this upsurge of radical protest.  DK Eyewitness, "DK Eyewitness Russia" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1465441336, 0241209706 | PDF | pages: 338 | 81.8 mb DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Russia will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse country has to offer.  Cutting-Edge Table Saw Tips & Tricks By Kenneth Burton 2003 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1558706887 | EPUB | 24 MB Get more out of your table saw!The table saw is the most versatile power tool in your shop. Unfortunately, many woodworkers don't realize it! Cutting-Edge Table Saw Tips & Tricks will make woodworking a lot easier no matter what your skill level.Kenneth Burton illustrates how important and efficient your table saw can be with dozens of tricks, techniques and jigs that cover everything from crafting precision joinery to accurately cutting and fitting angles. Each technique is easy, safe and certain to save you time and money.Get started today with any of the three bonus projects inside. You'll also find dozens of practical solutions to complex and "impossible" woodworking situations - helpful hints that make every minute in your woodshop more effective and fun.  Cuckolds in Chastity Collection: Five Femdom Humiliation Series! by Anna Devereux English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQCKHG1C | 532 pages | EPUB | 0.39 Mb Five steaming hot erotic series to titillate and excite.  Crochet Sock: Super Easy Crochet Sock Patterns for Your Coziest Winter by Dina Moritz English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096YLPNFM | 85 pages | EPUB | 7.90 Mb Crochet Socks : The Easier Crochet Sock Patterns for Your Coziest Winter  Jonathan Anomaly, "Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement" English | ISBN: 0367203103 | 2020 | 110 pages | EPUB | 354 KB Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and raises the central moral questions with colorful language and a brisk style. Jonathan Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have, and the limits of public policy in regulating what could soon be a global market for reproductive technology. He argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives parents face. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects, and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly navigates difficult ethical issues with vivid language and scientifically informed speculation about how genetic engineering will transform humanity.  Crafting Category Romance: The Art of Fiction Haiku By Amy Lane 2020 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1644058073 | EPUB | 1 MB Category romance is a precise art. With such a small word count, writing the perfect category romance is a little like writing a haiku. But how do you write a book in seventeen syllables? How can you cram compelling conflict, satisfying character development, and toe-curling romantic tension into less than sixty thousand words? In Crafting Category Romance, two-time RITA™-nominated author of nearly one hundred books Amy Lane describes the rules of engagement, traps to watch out for, and how to leverage common tropes to create conflict, craft a character, develop a Description, and leave readers with a happy ever after that's different every time--all in a tidy package. With practical exercises in Description, conflict, and character development, Crafting Category Romance will teach you how to use the rigid rules and expectations of the genre to your advantage and win a loyal readership following for life.  Conversations With Carl Sagan (Literary Conversations Series) By Tom Head, Carl Sagan 2006 | 167 Pages | ISBN: 1578067359 | PDF | 7 MB Carl Sagan's profound philosophical humility mixed with personal exuberance come through in this collection of interviews and profiles that show how Sagan, a lifelong skeptic, refined his views and expressed amazement that Earth encompasses everything about which he cared. Simultaneous.  Cara Cilano, "Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State" English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415682762 | PDF | pages: 278 | 1.8 mb Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia years, and post-9/11 Pakistan, as well as pervasive themes, including ethnonationalist tensions, the zamindari system, and conspiracy thinking.
 Mark Olssen, "Constructing Foucault's ethics: A poststructuralist moral theory for the twenty-first century" English | ISBN: 1526156601 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Taking the late 'ethical turn' in the philosopher's thought as its starting point, this ambitious study seeks to construct an ethics beyond anything Foucault ever attempted while remaining consistent with his core postulates. In doing so it advances the concept of 'life continuance', which expresses a normative orientation to the future in terms of the quest for survival and well-being, giving rise to irreducible normative values as part of the discursive order of events. This approach is explored in contrast with a range of other, established systems, from the Kantian to the Marxist to contract ethics and utilitarianism. |
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