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Religion, Power, and Illusion
A Genealogy of Religious Belief
2022
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According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down in communities. By the time of the ancient Egyptians, religion had reached a significant level of development. The spirits of the seeds and the weather had evolved into gods. In the end, the gods numbered more than a thousand; every god required a temple, and every temple needed a priest, or several of th...
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- Sara Dobie BauerMichael CebulaCarolyn CharronJames DorrTim FoleySteven Thor GunninKate HeartfieldDavid M. HoenigLiam HoganPatrick J. HurleyMichelle Ann KingClaude LalumièreGerri LeenK.A. MielkeAlexandra RenwickFred SeneseDonald Jacob UitvlugtDean H. WildNemma Wollenfang
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- Gothic Fantasy
2016
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Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with hard-boiled detectives, monsters, psychopaths and a high body count. Tales of death and destruction from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting contemporary hardcore crime writers.New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Sara Dobie Bauer, Mic...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
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- Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
2016
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This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, and agriculture), we explore how changing landscapes are planned and designed not to be urban, ...
2019
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PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side?The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take that first step.In this anthology you will find sixteen stories of portals to exotic destinations, whether it’s a doorway in the desert that appears out of thin air, a fairy ring of mushrooms in t...
Cultural Sustainabilities
Music, Media, Language, Advocacy
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- Aaron S. AllenMichael B. BakanRobert BaronDaniel CavicchiTimothy J CooleyMark F. DeWittBarry DornfeldThomas FauxBurt FeintuchNancy GuyMary HuffordSusan Hurley-GlowaPatrick HutchinsonMichelle KisliukPauleena M. MacDougallMargarita MazoDotan NitzbergJennifer C. PostTom RankinRoshan SamtaniJeffrey A. SummitJeff Todd TitonJoshua TuckerRory TurnerDenise Von GlahnThomas Walker
2019
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Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a s...
2021
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AESTHETIC: A Dark Academia Anthology is full of Young Adult and New Adult fiction set in academic settings! The included genres span Murder Mysteries, Thrillers, Dark Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, and Sci-Fi all written by 25+ authors from around the globe.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with
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- Wayfarers
2015
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' GuardianThe beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity#SmallAngryPlanetWhen Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call...
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Wayfarers 4
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- Wayfarers
2021
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*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES*****The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.When a freak technological failure halts traffic to and from the planet Gora, three strangers are thrown together unexpectedly, with seemingly nothing to do but wait.Pei is a cargo...
A Closed and Common Orbit
Wayfarers 2
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- Wayfarers
2016
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'NEVER LESS THAN DEEPLY INVOLVING' DAILY MAIL'SO MUCH FUN' HEAT'WARM, ENGAGING' GUARDIANA warm, comforting, big-hearted stand-alone set in the same world as the award-winning The Long way to Small Angry Planet.Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to...
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Wayfarers 3
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- Wayfarers
2018
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'The best speculative fiction currently being written' John Connolly.*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES*****From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope.The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.#SpacebornFewCenturies af...
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Monk and Robot Book
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- Monk & Robot
2021
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Winner of the Hugo Award!In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future.It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.One day, the life of a tea monk is upend...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
fiercely beautiful sci-fi novella from the bestselling author of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
2019
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From the bestselling author of the Wayfarer Series comes the futuristic story where instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves.'Extraordinary . . . A future masterwork' JOANNE HARRIS'Becky Chambers takes space opera in a whole new and unexpected direction' BEN AARONOVITCH**'**A short but fierce ode to humanity and all our reaches and flaws. Unputdownable'