The All Consuming World
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The All Consuming World
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Author : Cassandra Khaw
language : en
Publisher: Erewhon Books
Release Date : 2021-09-07
The All Consuming World written by Cassandra Khaw and has been published by Erewhon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Fiction categories.
In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw’s first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe’s highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. In space, everything hungers. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during her dangerous career with the Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade . . . but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from regaining control. As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs’ vast conspiracy, this band of violent women—half-clone and half-machine—must battle both sapient ageships and their own traumas, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.
The All Consuming Nation
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Author : Mark H. Lytle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
The All Consuming Nation written by Mark H. Lytle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
"In some ways, The All Consuming Nation is an autobiography of the babyboom generation since it highlights the consumer culture and rising environmental consciousness that has been central to that generation's lived experience. That should appeal to a wide audience of regular readers. Those who are sensitive to such current issues as wealth inequality, climate change, and the environmental consequences of mass consumerism will also find the book as a way to see how we reached our contemporary crisis points and possible ways to curb current excesses. The book alternates chapters on the evolving consumer economy with chapters on environmental critiques of mass consumerism. It considers the technologies that have fuelled consumption, strategies such as planned obsolescence that sustain consumption, and the shift in retailing from brick and mortar to on-line shopping. Environmental critics have viewed every shift in patterns of increasing consumption as ultimately unsustainable. Finally, the book should serve as text for post World War II surveys in American History, Environmental History, as well as business and marketing courses"--
An All Consuming Century
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Author : Gary Cross
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-14
An All Consuming Century written by Gary Cross and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-14 with History categories.
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism triumphed, there isn't even an "ism" left to challenge it. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over that remarkable hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism. By 1930 a distinct consumer society had emerged in the United States in which the taste, speed, control, and comfort of goods offered new meanings of freedom, thus laying the groundwork for a full-scale ideology of consumer's democracy after World War II. From the introduction of Henry Ford's Model T ("so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one") and the innovations in selling that arrived with the department store (window displays, self service, the installment plan) to the development of new arenas for spending (amusement parks, penny arcades, baseball parks, and dance halls), Americans embraced the new culture of commercialism—with reservations. However, Gary Cross shows that even the Depression, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the inflation of the 1970s made Americans more materialistic, opening new channels of desire and offering opportunities for more innovative and aggressive marketing. The conservative upsurge of the 1980s and '90s indulged in its own brand of self-aggrandizement by promoting unrestricted markets. The consumerism of today, thriving and largely unchecked, no longer brings families and communities together; instead, it increasingly divides and isolates Americans. Consumer culture has provided affluent societies with peaceful alternatives to tribalism and class war, Cross writes, and it has fueled extraordinary economic growth. The challenge for the future is to find ways to revive the still valid portion of the culture of constraint and control the overpowering success of the all-consuming twentieth century.
The Know It All
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Author : A J Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-31
The Know It All written by A J Jacobs and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.
All Consuming Images
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Author : Stuart Ewen
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1999
All Consuming Images written by Stuart Ewen and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the power of images dominates every aspect of our lives.
Affluenza The All Consuming Epidemic
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Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2019
Affluenza The All Consuming Epidemic written by Perfection Learning Corporation and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The Consuming Fire
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Author : John Scalzi
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Consuming Fire written by John Scalzi and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Fiction categories.
New York Times Best Seller USA Today Best Seller io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall Kirkus' SF/F Books to Watch Out for in 2018 Popular Mechanics Best Books of 2018 (So Far) Goodreads' Most Anticipated Fantasy and Science Fiction Books The Consuming Fire—the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning The Collapsing Empire—an epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from the Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi The Interdependency—humanity’s interstellar empire—is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded. Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth—or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power. While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are prepare for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, as are her enemies. Nothing about this will be easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire. The Interdependency Series 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Consuming Fire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
An All Consuming Desire To Succeed
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Author : John Paul Carinci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-02
An All Consuming Desire To Succeed written by John Paul Carinci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-02 with categories.
You are the greatest living miracle in the world!We are each born into this world destined for greatness. Isn t it time that you achieved the level of success you deserve? Why are so many people stuck in their self-imposed world of mediocrity?In John Paul Carinci s new book "An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed", he shows us that we can succeed greatly, and it is only our thinking that impedes our progress to success.We each search for a better life, more inspiration, and a way to be more productive and fulfilled. This highly motivating book will change your life.With "An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed", you will learn: * The principles that can catapult you to success.* How to control and eliminate worry and fear.* How to get enthusiasm back in your life.* Developing and maintaining mental blinders to negativity.* Understanding and forming good habits.* Maintaining that all-important self-belief for life.* Using life-changing Positive Affirmations. * Maximizing your subconscious mind.* How to formulate and achieve your special goals.Maximize your life! Be different! Make your mark now!Transform your life today!Read more
When We Cease To Understand The World
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Author : Benjamín Labatut
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2020-09-03
When We Cease To Understand The World written by Benjamín Labatut and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Fiction categories.
SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman 'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William Boyd Sometimes discovery brings destruction When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled lives we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
All Consuming
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Author : Jaci Burton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-03-02
All Consuming written by Jaci Burton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Fiction categories.
A sizzling new romance about a firefighter who reunites with an old flame and tries to rekindle the passion they once felt. When firefighter Kal Donovan transfers to the Tactical Rescue Team, he's determined to succeed by giving work one hundred percent of his attention. This proves more difficult at his ten-year high school reunion when he runs into Hannah Clark, his first love. She's still the smart, funny, beautiful girl he loved in high school, but everything has changed. She's divorced, has a son, and has zero interest in exploring an old romance. Hannah has moved back home after a disastrous end to a marriage that never should have been. Now her only focus is getting her hair salon up and running, and making sure her son is happy. She doesn't have time for love—especially not with Kal. She intends to look forward, not backward, and Kal is most definitely part of her past. However as Hannah and Kal start spending time together, Hannah realizes that what she's feeling for him isn't nostalgia, but red-hot attraction. Kal's intent on showing her what it's like to be cared for, romanced, and consumed with passion—and Hannah loves it. But she wonders if she has the courage to risk her heart again, even as Kal vows not to lose her a second time.