Where the Past meets the Future
Where the Past meets the Future

Author: Leah Cheung Ah Li

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2018-09

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3643908873

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Xi'an, the former Chang'an - home to the terracotta army and capital to 13 dynasties of Chinese emperors - experienced World Heritage fame in 1987 when the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was listed. In 2014, five more heritage sites in Xi'an were listed as part of the Silk Roads World Heritage nomination. The ancient capital represents glorious moments of Chinese history and local citizens are proud of Xi'an's archaeological and historical status. However, the modern cityscape is as much shaped by high rises as by historical buildings and heritage policies intersect with demands for urbanization, modernization, and economic growth. This book seeks to understand how modernity, history, and heritage are reconciled in this city where the past meets the future.

Past Meets Future
Past Meets Future

Author: Antoinette J. Lee

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1995-07-19

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9780471144120

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Emanating from a special National Preservation Conference, leading experts present 33 essays on future trends in the historic preservation field. Topics range from cultural diversity to the future of American communities. This book will guide preservations and anyone concerned about our built environment into the next quarter century.

When Past Meets Future
When Past Meets Future

Author: Ashley Thompson

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781520428796

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Far into the future, two siblings are found alive on Earth a thousand years after it was abandoned. Frozen until now they are on track for a futuristic adventure into space.Sabriel and Nathaniel are twin wereleopards who are put into cryo--sleep during the genocide of all supernatural beings worldwide. A thousand years have passed and the captain and crew of the UNS Grisedale discover the beacon signaling the whereabouts of Sabriel and Nathaniel's cryo-pods. Once rescued, they are taken onto the ship where they meet the charming captain, Marius Orenstein. From there they head out into the far reaches of space, travelling to the planet Nama in the Grand Design Spiral Galaxy we know as BX442. They are bound for love, devastation, hope, and reunions.

The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too
The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too

Author: Christine Ross

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1441147748

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The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field of contemporary art: films, video installations, sculpture and performance works. Ross first provides an interdisciplinary overview of contemporary studies on time, focusing on findings in philosophy, psychology, sociology, communications, history, postcolonial studies, and ecology. She then illustrates how contemporary artistic practices play around with what we consider linear time. Engaging the work of artists such as Guido van der Werve, Melik Ohanian, Harun Farocki, and Stan Douglas, allows investigation though the art, as opposed to having art taking an ancillary role. The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too forces the reader to understand the complexities of the significance of temporal development in new artistic practices.

A Brief History of the Future
A Brief History of the Future

Author: Jacques Attali

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1628721332

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What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unraveling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever the ties linking free enterprise to democracy. World tensions will be primed for horrific warfare for resources and dominance. The ultimate question is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better, or in this nuclear world bequeath to them a planet that will be a living hell? Either way, he warns, the time to act is now.

When the Past Meets the Present. . .
When the Past Meets the Present. . .

Author: John Orizon

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-01-28

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0595143059

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He wanted to create. He wanted his creation to look like him. But he, he didn't still know who and what he was, who and what he wanted to copy Financed by the government, the greatest biotechnological attempt in the century, far away from cameras and publicity, a giant venture buried in the Amazon jungle that was meant to develop into danger that mankind has ever faced! Alive war machines with free will that were inherited with the best characteristics of every life form, the first perfect species that ever breathed on our planet! It took human intelligence, swiftness, lethal arms, and rapid reproduction rate to finally build an organism that would attempt to replace its own creator! The careless thoughts were to blame for that, the dreams of a man that played god but didn't manage to control his creations! The only thing sure was that no mind that originated in human intelligence would remain constrained in the narrow space of a prison. It was only a matter of time when they would escape, so that a day when 1.000.000 dead would sound few and would bring tears of happiness to the eyes of those who managed to survive would come!

The Dusty Attic
The Dusty Attic

Author: Susan Elaine Pfeiffer

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-07-25

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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They say that time waits for no man. Sometimes I wonder about that. Can two lonely, desperate hearts cry out and be heard hundreds of years apart? Can someone from the future who is used to all the modern conveniences and luxuries live in the past when the frontier of Tennessee was wild and untamed? This is the question that Sara Mathews and Nathan Chambers must answer when Sara wanders into an old dusty attic in an abandoned house and the unimaginable happens.

Where the Past Meets the Future
Where the Past Meets the Future

Author: Robert Mazurek

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9781494866303

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For the first time in centuries, since the human race began to colonize planets in different solar systems, they come across a hostile alien life form determined to annihilate them. War and combat was something humanity hadn't experienced for centuries. Unable to defend itself against the aliens, the human race has only one chance of survival and that is going back in time to retrieve a former general who was once considered the greatest military mind in the world's history. In doing this, humanity risks everything. If the mission fails, the human race is lost. Even if the retrieval of the General is successful, there is no assurance that he could or would help defeat the aliens.

Between Past and Future
Between Past and Future

Author: Hannah Arendt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-09-26

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1101662654

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From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.

A History of the Future
A History of the Future

Author: Peter J. Bowler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-02

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107148731

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A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.