Inanna is a dying planet, ravaged by a clone war, pollution, and overpopulation. Its people have one last chance to survive: the Star Born Explorers space program, or Star-born-e for short. The program aims to send six spaceships into space, each with a mission of colonising a new world. But the launches face many difficulties, and only four spaceships manage to escape the planet’s atmosphere. And only three of them make it to their destination.The Star-born-e Descendants tells the...

This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.

A solar flare destroys all life on two habitable planets in the HD110067 solar system. The Solar flare leaves the six planets in its solar system with a high level of background radiation.A spaceship lands on one of the two previously habitable planets known as RauthianThe astronauts, from an advanced race, decide to seed the ocean with multi-organism genetic material so that life can develop along a similar path to their own planet’s evolution.The background radiat...

In the vast tapestry of The Universe, a malevolent force is rising. A race of robotic beings has evolved from the ashes of their near destruction. They will now protect themselves from all other races by subjugating everyone else to defend themselves. This growing threat to the cosmic balance has not gone unnoticed by the Aevum, a race of ancient, unseen, and celestial beings bound by laws older than time itself. An agent has been dispatched to see what intervention is required to protect ...

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the significant role it played in Britain as a ...

A crash in 4000 BC changed humanity forever.When alien astronauts crash on Earth, four shape the rise of the Sumerian civilisation, seeding humanity with advanced knowledge and a legacy hidden for 6,000 years. One of their descendants became a secret power, guiding wars, invasions, and history itself.The fifth astronaut never took part.Locked in suspended animation, she awakens in the modern world—just as a planet-killing meteor races toward Earth. ...

Inanna is a dying planet, ravaged by a clone war, pollution, and overpopulation. Its people have one last chance to survive: the Star Born Explorers space program, or Star-born-e for short. The program aims to send six spaceships into space, each with a mission of colonising a new world. But the launches face many difficulties, and only four spaceships manage to escape the planet’s atmosphere. And only three of them make it to their destination.The Star-born-e Descendants tells the...

′There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture′- Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles′In this important book, Keith Negus and Michael Pickering challenge commonplace assumptions about creativity and casual invocations of genius. They give comfort...

Hidden in plain sight, she has lived as one of us for years, since the day the world nearly ended when she had prevented an extinction event.When melting ice in Earth’s polar regions unleashes ancient alien creatures she again intervenesFinally using advanced technology, she helps others save Earth from annihilation. The world is spared, but her anonymity is destroyed.Now hunted by clandestine Earth authorities who see her not as a saviour but as an asset, she must ...

When a spaceship from a distant galaxy crash-lands on Earth in 4000 BC, it changes the course of human history forever. Four of the five surviving astronauts use their advanced technology and knowledge to shape the rise of the Sumerian civilisation, leaving behind a legacy of secrets and mysteries.Their descendants play a crucial role in the invasion of Mesopotamia, spreading their influence across the region. But the fifth astronaut has a different fate. She is left in a state of ...

Hidden in plain sight, she has lived among us for years, since the day the world nearly ended, when she prevented an extinction event.When melting ice in Earth’s polar regions unleashes ancient alien creatures, she again intervenesFinally, using advanced technology, she helps others save Earth from annihilation. The world is spared, but her anonymity is destroyed.Now hunted by clandestine Earth authorities who see her not as a saviour but as an asset, she must navig...

She fled a dying alien world in search of a new home among the stars—but her journey ended in disaster.Her colony ship crashed on Earth, leaving only five survivors. Gravely injured, she was placed into stasis, sleeping through 6,000 years of human history, unaware of how the other survivors shaped the fate of the planet.When she awakens in the modern world, Earth feels both alien and familiar. Humanity has advanced, fractured, and survived countless conflicts. Forced to hi...