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Impossible Histories


Impossible Histories
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Author : Hal Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Odd Dot
Release Date : 2023-02-07

Impossible Histories written by Hal Johnson and has been published by Odd Dot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with History categories.


Across 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides—what happened and what would have happened had things gone differently. The results are by turns strange, hilarious, tragic...and always fascinating. Imagine a world in which... - Hitler builds a thousand-year Reich - Columbus gets driven from the Americas by mounted knights - Robespierre decapitates Caesar Augustus - The Inca Empire has an air force - Jimmy Carter presses the Button These brave new worlds are merely our own, familiar world—if something small had happened differently. We're all one elephant away from peace in the Middle East, one knife thrust away from nuclear Armageddon. This book examines twenty pivotal moments in history, asks what if?...,and drags the answers kicking and screaming into the light. History--factual and counterfactual has never been so entertaining. A whirlwind ride through history as it never happened--but could have.



Impossible Histories


Impossible Histories
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Author : Dubravka Djurić
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003

Impossible Histories written by Dubravka Djurić and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.


The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.



History Of The Impossible


History Of The Impossible
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Author : Igor Kryan
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-05

History Of The Impossible written by Igor Kryan and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05 with History categories.


Contents: Shiny Arrow. Strange Similarities. Oddballs. Bogus and Real Crystal Skulls. Antarctica Maps. Ancient Technology. Different Continents - Same Stories. Knowledge Transfer. Ancient Nukes. Missing Link. Atlantis - Plato Story. Atlantis - Real Story. Lost Diamonds. Exodus. Troy. Minoan. Evolution. Human Place in History. Mayan Calendar. 2012.



Past Futures


Past Futures
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Author : Ged Martin
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01

Past Futures written by Ged Martin and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.


In Past Futures, Ged Martin advocates examining the decisions that people take, most of which are not the result of a 'process, ' but are reached intuitively.



Impossible


Impossible
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Author : Cole Louison
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2011-07-19

Impossible written by Cole Louison and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-19 with Sports & Recreation categories.


Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does solargely by recounting the careers of the sport’s Yoda—Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks—and its Luke Skywalker—Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport’s spikes, plateaus, and drops—including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else.



The Impossible People


The Impossible People
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Author : Georgess McHargue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

The Impossible People written by Georgess McHargue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.


Examines the origins and evolution of various mythological beings such as giants, faeries, trolls, and mermaids in European and American folklore.



William Blake And The Impossible History Of The 1790s


William Blake And The Impossible History Of The 1790s
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Author : Saree Makdisi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01

William Blake And The Impossible History Of The 1790s written by Saree Makdisi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.



Decolonizing Cultures In The Pacific


Decolonizing Cultures In The Pacific
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Author : Susan Y. Najita
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-22

Decolonizing Cultures In The Pacific written by Susan Y. Najita and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.


In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking and commenting upon the various uses of the histories of colonial resistance, allowing themselves and their readers to imagine new futures by exorcising the past. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of Pacific and Postcolonial Studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural decolonization in Oceania: contemporary writers’ critical engagement with colonialism and indigenous culture, Najita argues, provides a powerful tool for navigating a decolonized future.



Eros Of The Impossible


Eros Of The Impossible
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Author : Alexander Etkind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-13

Eros Of The Impossible written by Alexander Etkind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with History categories.


Marxism was not the only Western idea to influence the course of Russian history. In the early decades of this century, psychoanalysis was one of the most important components of Russian intellectual life. Freud himself, writing in 1912, said that "in Russia, there seems to be a veritable epidemic of psychoanalysis." But until Alexander Etkind's Eros of the Impossible, the hidden history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis has gone largely unnoticed and untold. The early twentieth century was a time when the craving of Russian intellectuals for world culture found a natural outlet in extended sojourns in the West, linking some of the most creative Russian personalities of the day with the best universities, salons, and clinics of Germany, Austria, France, and Switzerland. These ambassadors of the Russian intelligentsia were also Freud's patients, students, and collaborators. They exerted a powerful influence on the formative phase of psychoanalysis throughout Europe, and they carried their ideas back to a receptive Russian culture teeming with new ideas and full of hopes of self-transformation. Fascinated by the potential of psychoanalysis to remake the human personality in the socialist mold, Trotsky and a handful of other Russian leaders sponsored an early form of Soviet psychiatry. But, as the Revolution began to ossify into Stalinism, the early promise of a uniquely Russian approach to psychoanalysis was cut short. An early attempt to merge medicine and politics forms final chapters of Etkind's tale, the telling of which has been made possible by the undoing of the Soviet system. The effervescent Russian contribution to modern psychoanalysis has gone unrecognized too long, but Eros of the Impossible restores this fascinating story to its rightful place in history.



Remembering Mass Violence


Remembering Mass Violence
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Author : Steven High
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-02-05

Remembering Mass Violence written by Steven High and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-05 with History categories.


Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events. This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.