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This collection of Felix Guattari's essays, lectures, and interviews traces the militant anti-psychiatrist and theorist's thought and activity throughout the 1980s ("the winter years"). Concepts such as "micropolitics," "schizoanalysis," and "becoming-woman" open up new horizons for political and creative resistance in the "postmedia era."
Guattari's energetic analyses of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations introduce a radically inventive thought process engaged in liberating subjectivity from the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism.
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- Not as good as Legend, but still Good...
- Second in the Drenai Series
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The King Beyond the Gate (Drenai Tales, Book 2)
David Gemmell
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The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 6)
ASIN: 0345379055
Release Date: 1994-12-28 |
Book Description
Once the mighty fortress had stood strong, defended by the mightiest of all Drenai heroes, Druss, the Legend. But now a tyrannical, mad emperor had seized control of the fortress, and his twisted will was carried throughout the land by the Joinings --- abominations that were half-man, half-beast. Tenaka Khan was a half-breed himself, hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry. But he alone had a plan to destroy the emperor. The last heroes of the Drenai joined with him in a desperate gamble to bring down the emperor -- even at the cost of their own destruction.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-26
An old man has a prophecy of Gold, Ice and Shadow, the men who will oppose the Dark Magic.
It is a century after Druss held Dros Delnoch, and the Drenai emperor is insane, and using old technology/chaos magic to make armies of half men/half beasts. He has disbanded The Dragon, his elite force.
A few of the leaders of this unit remain, however, and they have had enough. Resistance is also starting to form in Skoda, but is likely to be crushed.
Tenaka Khan, the half Nadir descendant of both Ulric and the Earl of Bronze will lead, as he is the Prince of Shadows. Ananais is the Golden One. Decado, the Ice-Killer, the best swordsman in the world has give up violence and become a priest.
To his shock, he learns the temple he is serving in is a Temple of the Thirty. Although he has no magical powers himself, he will lead the White Priests in battle against the Dark Templar parodies that server Ceska the mad.
Along with the farm woman Rayvan and her rebellion, they will oppose the perversions, but to win, the unthinkable has to happen. Dros Delnoch must fall, and at the hands of the Earl of Bronze.
Not as good as Legend, but that would be pretty hard. Gemmell has the same sort of ability for th creation of races and political structures that Robert E. Howard possessed, even if his world appears to be set thousands of years in the future, rather than in the past, given the ice age and ancient technology references.
A Jewell in the Empire.......2007-08-15
This is a special book among many great works from an acknowledged master of the genre. But what makes this book stand out from the crowd? In my mind, it is the classic heroic fantasy storyline. It has all the seeds necessary for easy adaption to film. You can almost picture the actors striding along epic sets, fighting for lost ideals like honour, love and family against horrific opposition and evil...
The books starts in a lonely, abandoned barracks. It is a reminder of lost days, when things were right and true within the empire. A reminder of the faded dreams of youth. And the first hero we meet, he is tired, jaded and without hope or dreams. He lives only for an empty chance to kill a monster he failed to oppose in the past.
He is Tenaka Khan, the Prince of Shadows. A man whose whole being shouts "destiny", but whose destiny was never reached. A man who is an outsider wherever he goes.
Enter an old man, haunted by his unwitting aid of an evil empire. With him is the only good thing that he has left. His legacy. Her name is Renya. The meeting of Tenaka and Renya is one of four crucial moments that might change history.
The second is when a mysterious, gigantic warrior called Darkmask comes hunting for Tenaka Khan. You will have to read the book to find out the other two moments!
The themes of this novel differ a little from other Gemmell books. Many Gemmell books focus on redemption as a theme, and of course, that is a theme of this novel as well.
However, I would argue that the main theme of this book is the meaning and value that is placed upon friendship. Do our characters place the lives of their friends above their own? Is their friendship strong enough to withstand temptation and great pressure? How much do you trust your friends?
These are the themes running through the novel. Seeing the iron regard that the main characters have for each other (and the doubt that others have), their love and honour, you begin to feel the stirrings of hope that they may succeed. But the odds are so great, that you know that success is still a very remote possibility. Out of reach...
This book has elements of high fantasy, heroic fantasy, classic adventure and horror thrown in for good measure. It is an excellent read, and has a fantastic ending. Do yourself a favour, if you haven't already, and get this book!
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Fantastic book.......2007-01-09
A great book and series. Well worth the read if your a fan of fantasy or just starting.
Not as good as Legend, but still Good..........2006-11-28
Ok, there was no Druss the Deathwalker, which is never a good start for a fantasy novel. However, Tenaka Khan is a pretty good substitute in a pinch, which is what is happening to the Drenai in this novel. Many of the same themes occur as they did in Legend, where one man makes the difference, and shows the farmers and the recruits how to fight. However, as a twist, Tenaka Khan is half Nadir, and therefore not to be trusted.
Plenty of action, and plenty of bodies in a good old fashioned adventure story. I would suggest reading this if you enjoyed legend, if only so you can continue with the Drenai tales until book 6 - the Legend of Deathwalker, which is one of the greatest books ever written. Seriously.
Anyhow, I am sad as I write this - as Gemmell has recently joined the ranks of Druss the Deathwalker in that castle in the sky. Gemmell was a giant of the high-fantasy genre, and he has certainly earned his place with The King Beyond the Gate.
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Second in the Drenai Series.......2006-11-23
Sadly David Gemmell died a short while ago and I find it difficult to review a book that I first read when David was very much alive and only just beginning his trade as a writer of fantasy novels. Admittedly his first offering were acceptable but not great, but he honed his skills and grew to be one of the greatest fantasy writers ever. If you have not read any of his books then now is the time to start, I am sure you will not be disappointed. The only sad thing is that David will not be around to write new books that would bring even more pleasure to his multitude of fans.
A hundred years have past since the defeat of Dros Delnoch. An heroic defeat, but a defeat nonetheless. Now the people of Drenai face a new enemy, an emperor, kept in power by the Joinings, beasts of awesome strength and power, plus the Dark Templars, warriors who are virtually unstoppable. Only one man can save the Drenai and defeat and destroy Tenaka Khan, the prince of Shadows.
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The King Beyond the Gate
Manufacturer: Century Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000DCOKVA |
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Super Reader.......2007-08-01
There is a lot of Gregg Hartmann in this book, as he is the man Hannah turns to for help, with the evidence that she has discovered about the Card Shark conspiracy.
Events happen in many countries, but a couple of our favorite aces, The Sleeper and Black Shadow, decide to get a little proactive. The Jumper threat is also finally ended.
Hartmann also learns about the Wild Card virus from a personal point of view, in a way he never expected.
Wild Cards 14 : 01 The Color of His Skin 1 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 02 Two of a Kind - Walton Simons
Wild Cards 14 : 03 The Color of His Skin 2 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 04 My Sweet Lord - Victor Milan
Wild Cards 14 : 05 The Color of His Skin 3 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 06 Paths of Silence and of Night - Leanne C. Harper
Wild Cards 14 : 07 The Color of His Skin 4 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 08 Feeding Frenzy 1 - Walter Jon Williams
Wild Cards 14 : 09 The Color of His Skin 5 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 10 Feeding Frenzy 2 - Walter Jon Williams
Wild Cards 14 : 11 The Color of His Skin 6 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 12 A Breath of Life - Sage Walker
Wild Cards 14 : 13 The Color of His Skin 7 - Stephen Leigh
Wild Cards 14 : 14 A Dose of Reality - Laura J. Mixon and Melinda M. Snodgrass
Wild Cards 14 : 15 The Color of His Skin 8 - Stephen Leigh
Hannah is still on the case, as Rudo tries to snow Hartmann on the Sharks, and Puppetman is stirring.
3.5 out of 5
Jerry and Jay, detective duo find some bad (and dead) men.
4 out of 5
Media and legal antics vs the Sharks.
3.5 out of 5
Mark Meadows is not the canniest leader, Moonchild or not.
4 out of 5
Media downplays Hartmann's info try.
3 out of 5
Bagabond and McCoy in Guatemala, vs the Sharks.
3.5 out of 5
Puppetman handles Hannah, revels in Joker tension.
3 out of 5
The Sleeper shakes Shad loose.
4 out of 5
A few Jumpers still, with the Sharks.
3 out of 5
Shadow and Sleeper. Team-up!
4 out of 5
Hartmann has to bail as a Joker.
3 out of 5
Zoe looking for Jokertown travel agent.
3 out of 5
Hartmann's identity problems.
3 out of 5
Black Trump science as Clara's Sharkishness wavers.
4 out of 5
Hartmann has to convince Hannah who he is, in Battle's joker body.
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More excellent continuations of the Wild Cards.......1998-06-26
This continues the world and focuses on the conspiracy that was uncovered in the last novel. It touches on many of the effects to individuals when Gregg Hartmann goes public with the information. It is very enjoyable and thought provoking. It's amazing that so much happens in a little more than 400 pages. I also liked how we were able to see the effects of a course of action, meaning that Hartmann would go to the newspapers and the story following that would follow from the events sparked by the newspapers. Pretty nicely done. Favorite parts included finding out more about Bagabond, now Suzanne Menotti; the reappearance, although short, of the jumpers; and the changes to Dr. Finn's live. Plus the entire Feeding Frenzy chapter is awesome!!
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Out of date? I think not.......2001-05-22
This is a wonderful book. Garcia took the time to explain many of the scams that are used from friendly household games to those that have fooled the casinos. Even though the book is old, it still covers many of the same things that are covered in more modern books. He has many pictures and tells you what to look for to protect yourself. If you gamble at all and think you may be the victim of a "mechanic" read this book.
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Marked cards and loaded dice
Frank Garcia
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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Show off your impressive card trick magic to your friends, or put together your own magic show. It's easy! Just follow the instructions and step-by-step photos from the book in your kit. With lots of practice, a sleight of hand, and your sparkling personality, you'll be ready to take center stage. Kit includes a full-color 64 page book, a deck of marked cards, and a deck of tapered cards.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on June 10, 1999. The length of the article is 1683 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Cartas marcadas.(Rusia, política)(TT: Marked cards.)(TA: Russia, politics)
Author: Alexander Serikov
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Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: June 10, 1999
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 45
Issue: 2399
Page: 58
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The NIGERIA-BIAFRA war started in mid 1967 when a tiny region of Nigeria seceded from Nigeria to become Biafra. With the complete support of the British government, Nigeria instituted a very powerful and effective blockade on Biafra. The only communication that Biafra had with the rest of the world was through the RED CROSS and CARITAS relief flights that were flown into Biafra at nights under heavy attacks from Nigerian forces. Some of the planes were shot down. With no powerful nation backing Biafra, coupled with the blockade and the consequent lack of food and medicine, surviving in Biafra became a matter of improvisements for both Biafran forces and citizens. In an area that was replete with diseases like malaria, typhoid and kwashiorkor, this book explains how the Biafran citizens were able to survive for almost three years until Biafra was defeated in January 1970.
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A must-read book on surviving in Biafra.......2007-05-07
Chief Jim Ojiaku has written a fantastic and excellent expose' of the events of the Nigerian civil war from the home perspective. The rendition of his experiences, his free style of writing, enabled him to compress a large volume of facts with eloquence and details, thus, reminding the reader about why 'war is raw'. Chief Ojiaku wrote from the heart--a testament of the originality that would be a point of reference for future writers, hence there were no bibliographical references. The book portrayed how a determined people (Biafrans) courageously persevered over a thirty-month bloody civil war in the face of adversity perpetrated by world super-powers who coerced the international community to look away while they helped the Federal Government of Nigeria in its failed effort to win the war in forty-eight hours, then resorted to blockade and blanket the Biafrans both by sea, air, and land and executed the blood-letting and starvation that led to an eventual surrender to peace in 1970.
Chief Ojiaku indicated that although the battle ended in the war front, the war rages on as people from the Biafran side continue to be marginalized in almost all aspects of Nigerian life--politics, university admissions, road constructions and what have you! This book showed that Chief Jim Ojiaku can successfully make use of good advice. Thanks to his brother in law--Professor Joe Akunna who sincerely advised him to put down his thoughts in black and white.
Surviving the iron curtain exemplified how Biafra was killed in a genocidal civil unrest, but the people refused to die. The planned extermination of the Biafrans from the surface of the earth--how civilians were tortured and starved, the poor state of Biafra, how ill-equipped young people joined the war to save their people, how the Biafrans used improvises to fight valiantly as the Biblical David against Goliath. Chief Uche Jim Ojiaku did not forget the benevolence of the Red Cross and other relief organizations in breaking the iron curtain despite enemy attack. Worst still was the only twenty pounds which Biafrans received from the Nigerian Government who had any bank account in Biafran banks--being the only rehabilitation received since after the war.
Chief Jim Ojiaku deliberately refused to deal with the blame game that characterizes every war. He was right to blame both sides in order to allow the reader to understand his reason for writing the book. Finally Biafra surrendered through the courage and bravery of Colonel Philip Effiong who helped to salvage the human skull that was left of Biafra--in 1970. I strongly recommend this book to all who profess to the Biafran cause-both old and young--a reminder of the indelible scar--that was Biafra.
Surviving the iron curtain by Chief Uche Jim Ojiaku.......2007-04-23
In reading Chief Uche Jim Ojiaku's book I learned a piece of history that needs to be read by everyone and the world needs to remember the horrors of the war between Nigeria and The Republic Of Biafra and a war that tore apart a country.
He tells of one story about his brother Emmanuel who is killed at the front at the young age of 19 and the beautiful touching letter his father writes to his dead son, "An Epitath To Lt. Emmanuel Ojiaku."
This letter is heart breaking and no one would forget reading it. He writes very lovingly about his mother, father, brothers and sisters and especially about his love for his people. He brings forth in his book many beautiful photographs and diagrams on the many foods in his region and explains in great detail on each food and how they're prepared.
This book is a must read. Jim brings forth the great love he has for his people, his family and most of all his great country.
I give Chief Uche Jim Ojiaku five stars ***** for a book well written.
Joseph Frank Baraba
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In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.
In examining the complex social fabric of French Saint-Domingue, which in 1804 became Haiti, Dayan uncovers a silenced, submerged past. Instead of relying on familiar sources to reconstruct Haitian history, she uses a startling diversity of voices that have previously been unheard. Many of the materials recovered here--overlooked or repressed historical texts, legal documents, religious works, secret memoirs, letters, and literary fictions--have never been translated into English. Others, such as Marie Vieux Chauvet's radical novel of vodou, Fonds des Nègres, are seldom used as historical sources.
Dayan also argues provocatively for the consideration of both vodou rituals and narrative fiction as repositories of history. Her scholarship is enriched by the insights she has gleaned from conversations and experiences during her many trips to Haiti over the past twenty years. Taken together, the material presented in Haiti, History, and the Gods not only restores a lost chapter of Haitian history but suggests necessary revisions to the accepted histories of the New World.
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 650 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Haiti, History, and the Gods.(Brief Article)
Author: Erika Bourguignon
Publication:
The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v54
Issue: n3
Page: p362(2)
Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article
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