I am Maru, 

Автор: Head,Bessie
Название: When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru B
ISBN: 1844086224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844086221
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: In two powerful novels of belonging, one of Africa`s most important writers explores village life and the traditions of Botswana.

Автор: HERDING, MARUTA
Название: Inventing the Muslim Cool: Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe
ISBN: 3837625117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837625110
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: In the current environment of a growing Muslim presence in Europe, young Muslims have started to develop a subculture of their own. The manifestations reach from religious rap and street wear with Islamic slogans to morally impeccable comedy. This form of religiously permissible fun and of youth-compatible worship is actively engaged in shaping the future of Islam in Europe and of Muslim/non-Muslims relations. Based on a vast collection of youth cultural artefacts, participant observations and in-depth interviews in France, Britain and Germany, this book provides a vivid description of Islamic youth culture and explores the reasons why young people develop such a culture.

Автор: Gaasenbeek Maruscha
Название: 130 Iris Folded Cards to Make
ISBN: 1844486109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844486106
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Make colourful greetings cards based on iris-folded designs for all occasions.

Автор: Marusek David
Название: Counting Heads
ISBN: 0765312670 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765312679
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 24150 T
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Автор: Marusek David
Название: Mind Over Ship
ISBN: 0765317559 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765317551
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 23220 T
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Описание: "David Marusek is one of the best-kept secrets of science fiction, a wild talent with a Gibson-grade imagination and marvelous prose, and a keen sense of human drama that makes it all go"
--Cory Doctorow, author of "Little Brother
"The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother's financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.
Welcome to "Mind Over Ship," the sequel to Marusek's stunning debut novel, "Counting Heads," which "Publishers Weekly" called "ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny."

Автор: Marusek David
Название: Counting Heads
ISBN: 0765317540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765317544
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 23220 T
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"Counting Heads" is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.

Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen, the heir to her mother's financial empire, is capable of saving Earth from complete domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, that is if she survives. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's enemies. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue Ellen's head, all for their own purposes.

"Counting Heads" arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

Автор: David Marusek
Название: Getting to know you
ISBN: 0345504283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345504289
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Not since William Gibson and Bruce Sterling galvanized science fiction in the 1980s has the emergence of a new writer been heralded with such acclaim as that attending David Marusek, whose brilliant first novel, Counting Heads, appeared to rave reviews in 2005. But Marusek did not come out of nowhere. Aficionados of the genre had already taken note of his groundbreaking short fiction: masterfully written, profoundly thought-out examinations of futures so real they seemed virtually inevitable.

Now, in this collection of ten short stories, Marusek's fierce imagination and dazzling extrapolative gifts are on full display. Five of the stories, including the Sturgeon Award-winning "The Wedding Album," a shattering look at the unintended human consequences of advanced technology, are set in the same future as Counting Heads. All ten showcase Marusek's talent for literate, provocative science fiction of the very highest order.

Автор: Siniawer Eiko Maruko
Название: Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860 1960
ISBN: 0801456827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801456824
Издательство: Cornell University Press
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Описание: Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese politics from the very inception of the country's experiment with democracy.As soon as the parliament opened its doors in 1890, brawls, fistfights, vandalism, threats, and intimidation quickly became a fixture in Japanese politics, from campaigns and elections to legislative debates. Most of this physical force was wielded by what Siniawer calls "violence specialists": ruffians and yakuza. Their systemic and enduring political violence-in the streets, in the halls of parliament, during popular protests, and amid labor strife-ultimately compromised party politics in Japan and contributed to the rise of militarism in the 1930s.For the post-World War II years, Siniawer illustrates how the Japanese developed a preference for money over violence as a political tool of choice. This change in tactics signaled a political shift, but not necessarily an evolution, as corruption and bribery were in some ways more insidious, exclusionary, and undemocratic than violence. Siniawer demonstrates that the practice of politics in Japan has been dangerous, chaotic, and far more violent than previously thought. Additionally, crime has been more political.Throughout the book, Siniawer makes clear that certain yakuza groups were ideological in nature, contrary to the common understanding of organized crime as nonideological. Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists is essential reading for anyone wanting to comprehend the role of violence in the formation of modern nation-states and its place in both democratic and fascist movements.

Автор: Svasek Maruska
Название: Creativity in Transition
ISBN: 1785331833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785331831
Издательство: Eurospan
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Описание: In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with 'innovation' in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.