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Author : Kevin McClure
Release : 1996
Genre : Bible
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fortean Times Book of the Millennium by : Kevin McClure
Download or read book The Fortean Times Book of the Millennium written by Kevin McClure. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1997
Genre : Curiosities and wonders
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Download or read book Fortean Times written by . This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of strange phenomena.
Author : Lee Quinby
Release : 2018-09-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Millennial Seduction by : Lee Quinby
Download or read book Millennial Seduction written by Lee Quinby. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Niño to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fueling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world. Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace, and the Christian masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia, and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality, and technology. It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought—not an impending apocalypse—that poses the more serious threat to our society, Quinby maintains. Millennial Seduction advocates a form of skepticism that challenges absolutism and encourages democratic participation.
Author : Wendy M. Grossman
Release : 2017-09-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 525/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Statues Weep by : Wendy M. Grossman
Download or read book Why Statues Weep written by Wendy M. Grossman. This book was released on 2017-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2016. Why do statues weep? Did Nostradamus really predict 9/11? Is it true that we only use 10% of our brain power? Does quantum theory explain the mystery of consciousness? For 21 years, questions like these have been posed, and answered, in the pages of The Skeptic magazine, Britain's foremost and longest-running sceptical magazine, dedicated to the examination of science, scepticism, psychology, secularism, critical thinking, and claims of the paranormal – in short, the pursuit of truth through reason and evidence. This collection brings together the best articles from the magazine's archive in one myth-busting volume. It covers a wide range of topics such as psychic fraudsters, claims of psychic healing and alien abduction, near-death experiences, false memories, and much more. Contributors include Susan Blackmore, Richard Wiseman, John Diamond, Edzard Ernst, plus interviews with Paul Daniels and Stephen Fry. With a foreword by Simon Hoggart, this collection will simultaneously provide you with food for thought and keep you entertained.
Author : Stephen Keane
Release : 2006
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Disaster Movies by : Stephen Keane
Download or read book Disaster Movies written by Stephen Keane. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow, this book looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. Featuring new material on cinematic representations of disaster in the wake of 9/11 and how we might regard disaster movies in light of recent natural disasters, the volume explores the continual reworking of this previously undervalued genre.
