Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1550924710
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Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1550924710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe survival list for the thrivalist
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0865716811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides information on ways to create a sustainable lifestyle in the suburbs, covering such topics as growing food, keeping livestock, electricity, waste disposal, health care, entertainment, education, and networking.
Author: Robert Joustra
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1467445290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.
Author: Liam O'Leary
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1477124233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhouls. The Living Dead. Zombies. They’re everywhere: In our movies, our books, our video games, our comics, and now, our television series. Everywhere you look, there are zombies. They can be fast, slow, dead, and sometimes even alive, sometimes they’re downright terrifying, other times, they’re downright hilarious. Regardless, they’re out there and they’re coming for you.
Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 145296159X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Author: Matthew Landis
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0735228035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDerrick is sure that doomsday is coming, and he's prepping to survive--whether his friends believe him or not--in this middle grade novel for readers of Gary Schmidt, Gordon Korman, and Jack Gantos Ever since his mother was killed in the line of duty in Iraq, Derrick has been absolutely certain that the apocalypse is coming. And he's prepared: he's got plenty of canned goods, he's fully outfitted with HAZMAT suits, and he's building himself a sturdy fallout shelter. When his neighbor Misty insists on helping with the shelter, Derrick doesn't think it's such a good idea. Misty's just had a kidney transplant, and her reaction to her brush with death is the opposite of Derrick's: where Derrick wants to hide, Misty wants to see and do everything. But as confident as Misty is, Derrick's doomsday fears just keep getting worse. And Derrick's promised apocalypse day begins with a very strange disaster, Derrick and Misty have to figure out a way to survive--especially when the end of the world as they know it looks nothing like they expected.
Author: Brett Josef Grubisic
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1771120568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and the work of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson (to name a few), this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of NAFTA (1994) and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (2011). As the texts illustrate, awareness of and deep concern about perceived vulnerabilities—ends of water, oil, food, capitalism, empires, stable climates, ways of life, non-human species, and entire human civilizations—have become central to public discourseover the same period. By asking questions such as “What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?” and “What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality.
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0865717508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMud clams, knotweed, and plants that bite back – one family’s adventures in suburban foraging
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0152061541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.
Author: GJ Stevens
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published:
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1799185982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou have ten minutes. Now go! The phone has rung. The emergency message pinged on your mobile. The radio comes alive and the rolling TV news has only one story. It's happened, come true, the end of civilisation. Natural disaster. World War III. Alien invasion. A fast spreading equine influenza jumping the species boundary, or just a plain old zombie apocalypse. If you're lucky it'll be only one. Either way, you've got to evacuate. You have ten minutes. Now go! Survivor is your guide to creating a Bug Out Bag for an emergency situation forcing you from your home and features survival guides, short fiction and chapters from In The End, GJ Stevens’ spine-chilling novel.