![]() ![]() One of Jean Kluge's ST:TNG drawings was used as the cover for the book. ![]() It features chapters about fanac (fan activities) like fanfic, fan art, vidding, and filk. However it remains a sympathetic and insightful book about media fans and our creative community. ![]() The book was published before commercial Internet service providers allowed mass access, and to some fans now, appears dated in its focus on old-school slash fandom. In Jenkins' words, the book "documents a group insistent on making meaning from materials others have characterized as trivial and worthless." The book's focus is on media fans as an "interpretive community" that "poaches" media texts in order to subvert their intended meaning and reclaim ownership of popular culture from massive corporate interests. The book was unusual for its time in that it celebrated fandom instead of pathologizing it. It was massively influential in the development of fan studies and coincidentally introduced many new fans to media fandom. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture is a non-fiction book written by aca-fan Henry Jenkins and originally published in 1992.
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![]() ![]() Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship, The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work from the great storyteller of Russian history: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful. In The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes brings into sharp relief the vibrant characters that comprise Russia’s rich history, and whose stories remain so important in making sense of the world’s largest nation today from the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral, to Catherine the Great, riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last days of the Romanovs. Orlando Figes The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study' Hardcover 29 November 2022 by Orlando Figes (Author) 367 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.85 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 33.10 11 New from 33.10 Paperback 17.93 1 New from 17.93 Audio CD 49.99 1 New from 49. To understand what Russia’s future holds to grasp what Putin s regime means for Russia and the world we need to unravel the ideas and meanings of that history. ![]() ![]() How the Russians came to tell their story, and to reinvent it as they went along, is a vital aspect of their history, their culture and beliefs. Spanning the medieval myths of Russias holy mission, the popular belief in a paternal tsar and the notion of the Russian soul, Orlando Figes explores the. No other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia. From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past and how they can inform its present. ![]() ![]() ![]() Children are more constrained in their explorations, and at what cost to their adult selves? Getting lost has many rewards and unexpected pleasures, and is a worthy goal of itself. It’s harder, these days, to get lost, writes Solnit-and she was writing in the early 2000s, before smartphones were quite as ubiquitous as they are today. In anecdote, after fact, after pondering, after question, Solnit produces something far greater than the sum of the parts she puts together. Solnit launches the collection with an initial essay that includes a quote that has stuck in her mind: "How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is unknown to you?"Īs only an assured essayist such as she can do, she then bounces across a variety of subjects, with the common thread being the idea of getting lost at times the thread is so thin it would feel tenuous in less competent hands, but Solnit weaves it all into something fragile and wonderful. Though not directly related to travel in Southeast Asia, these essays make an ideal companion to any trip as they explore ideas of distance, dislocation and discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills. Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. ![]() In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. ![]() Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. Informed by a teacher that he had a comic book style of writing, (a comment meant more as an insult), Tony decided that one day he would write for comics. A New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist, Tony Lee was born in West London, UK in 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Clark says her ideal plan for the show would be more modest and controlled. Showrunner Eliza Clark ( Animal Kingdom), tapped to manage the show after a series of false starts and crew changes, could potentially spin that story into a never-ending series, with Yorick wandering the world, while the freshly expanded and updated cast around him tells their own complicated stories about women vying for power or security. And it has plenty of material for a long-running series as well: The comics version of the story ran for 60 issues, eventually sprawling across decades and continents. It has an immediately grabby hook: What happens when every man in the world except one suddenly falls over dead? It has plenty of drama: As that last surviving man, Yorick, travels around the world, he meets an endless series of women who want to murder him, exploit him, or have sex with him. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comics series Y: The Last Man was tapped for TV adaptation. With the radical rise in page-to-screen adaptations over the past decade, it’s no surprise that Brian K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing career Īfter taking a class in writing and illustrating for children, Levine discovered that she enjoyed writing far more than illustrating. She also has an Airedale Terrier named Reggie. ![]() She spent the next 27 years working for the government of the state of New York, mainly as a welfare administrator, helping people find jobs. She majored in philosophy at New York's City College, where she received her B.A. She initially aspired to be an actress and painter, and participated in theater troupes before losing interest in acting. Barrie's Peter Pan, and she also enjoyed the works of Louisa May Alcott and L. Īs a child, Levine read avidly her favorite book was James M. ![]() Her older sister, Rani, her senior by five years, became a painter. Her father, whose childhood in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York provided inspiration for her story Dave at Night, owned a commercial art studio, and her mother was a teacher who wrote plays for her students to perform. She credits her parents David and Sylvia for her creative streak. Levine grew up in New York City, New York. Her second novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998. Gail Carson Levine (born September 17, 1947) is an American author of young adult books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surburban houses boast "lawns that looked like they shaved twice a day". The sardonic metaphors and similes nod to the noir masters of the past. But the trick of writing American private dick fiction this late in the day is to be post-Chandler without being sub-Chandler, and Lehane impressively writes within a tradition while also making it his own. The Kenzie and Gennaro books are narrated by Patrick in a battered and slangy but ultimately moral tone that consciously echoes Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. ![]() In a classic crime device, the plot involves the solution to a riddle: "Five people walked into a room, two died, but four walked out." This is a different kind of disappearance, over which she might have more control, but she is still too young to vanish with impunity, and the explanation of her latest departure painfully confronts Patrick and Angie with the consequences of their earlier decision. In the sequel, Amanda, now 16, goes missing for a second time. Gone, Baby, Gone turned on the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, Amanda McCready, whose case gave the investigators an exquisite moral dilemma typical of this writer's fiction: should Amanda, discovered in the care of a loving but illegal couple, be returned to the custody of her abusive and neglectful natural mother? After an 11-year gap in which he worked on one-off novels, Lehane revisits these characters in Moonlight Mile, and the resumption of the sequence makes thematic use of the interruption. ![]() ![]() ![]() In their design, the trapped ions could be moved around, allowing them to interact if desired. The research involved building a quantum computer based on a chip that produces electric fields that can trap ytterbium ions, which are then used to represent qubits. In this new work, the team have come close by creating a physical simulation of nonabelions in action. But creating, manipulating and doing useful things with them in a quantum computer is challenging. This property makes them potentially useful for creating less error-prone quantum computers. ![]() Prior research has found that nonabelions have a unique and useful property-they remember some of their own history. They are not true particles, but instead exist as vibrations that act like particles-certain groups of them are called nonabelions. In this new effort, the researchers have looked to anyons for help.Īnyons are quasiparticles that exist in two dimensions. As scientists work to design and build a truly useful quantum computer, one of the difficulties is trying to account for errors that creep in. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of Darkness is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers - one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. She published Out of Darkness in 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality. Pérez - who is a comparative literature professor at The Ohio State University in addition to having authored three novels - centers her writing on Latin American narratives, making space for young Latino readers to see themselves in her work. This discussion with Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with - and essays by - authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.Īshley Hope Pérez is the author of the award-winning Out of Darkness, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. Zoey understands that she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint her ex-boyfriend, who is a simple human. She has been chosen as special by the vampire Goddess Nyx. Starting new life is quite difficult, especially when Zoey realizes that all her friends are far away, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. But even there the teen stands apart from the others. Her grandmother, a descendant of the Cherokee, has always provide her emotional support, and it is she who takes the girl to her new school. ![]() Zoey has never fit into the world of humans and has always felt she is destined for something else. And not all the Marked manage to do that. ![]() That is, if she makes it through the Change. To Zoey, being marked is a real blessing, though she's scared at first. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird, a good smart, hardworking, and moral girl, has just been Marked as a young and inexperienced vampire and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampire. The only difference is that here always have lived vampires. ![]() Get into the dark, magical and mystical world of The House of Night, a world that is very similar our own. "Marked" is the first book in the series written by Kristin Cast. ![]() |