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Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
"The nerd book of the summer."--Tom Keene, Bloomberg TV "Whether you run an organization or are simply trying to survive modern life, this book is gold."--Chris Anderson, curator …
Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games
[The World of The Hunger Games is an anthology of scholarly but accessible essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy. Spanning multiple disciplines, its contributors probe the …
One Earth, One People
This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this subgenre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of …
Science, Technology and Magic in The Witcher
As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction. …
Magic Words, Magic Worlds
While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary …
Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature
This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy - works which engage the numinous - and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of …
Simple Rules
Armed with a few simple rules, you can tackle even the most complex of problems.Complexity surrounds us. We have too much e-mail, juggle multiple remotes, and hack through thickets …
An Asimov Companion
A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. …
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by …
Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable
While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for his hard science fiction works ""Red Mars"", ""Green Mars"" and ""Blue Mars"", the epic trilogy exploring ecological and …
In Frankenstein's Wake
Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and …
Global Vampire
The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a …