Tag: Unseen

The Crossroads of Crime Writing Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces


Free Download Meghan P. Nolan, "The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces"
English | ISBN: 1839991178 | 2024 | 244 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage―of both time and place―is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.

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Seen Yet Unseen A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity [Audiobook]


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English | May 14, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLW71CVZ | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 33m | 212 MB
Author and Narrator: Bärí A. Williams
Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes listeners behind the scenes of some of the world’s biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.
Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have become indispensable to our lives. They impact the way we socialize, make purchases, and even our medical decisions. But what happens when a major segment of the population-in this case Black women-isn’t included in these companies?

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The Light Eaters How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth [Audiobook]


Free Download The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJWQ6X99 | 2024 | 10 hours and 56 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Zoë Schlanger
Narrator: Zoë Schlanger

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us. It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.

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Seen and Unseen (2024)


Free Download Elizabeth Partridge, "Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1452165106 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 112.9 mb
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers-Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams-along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.

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The Modern Scholar Unseen Diversity The World of Bacteria [Audiobook]


Free Download Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer (Author, Narrator), "The Modern Scholar: Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria"
English | ASIN: B001K56OZE | 2008 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:13:00 | 240 MB
Bacteria are the most overlooked organisms on your nature walk. You see birds, trees, and wildflowers. You may even examine fungi, rock formations, mosses, lichens, nests, tracks, and insects. However, it is likely that you are not seeing bacteria even though you may know they are there in countless numbers, far outnumbering the other organisms, and that their influence on the environment is vast and profound.Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer of Wheaton College examines the role of bacteria as major players in Earth’s biodiversity. In the course of these fascinating lectures, Professor Dyer delves into the history of microbiology, the four billion year history of bacteria and archaea as the dominant organisms on Earth, and the place of pathogens in the greater context of the bacterial world. This course serves as both a field guide for curious naturalists and a friendly introduction to the world of bacteria and archaea.

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Women Film Editors Unseen Artists of American Cinema


Free Download David Meuel, "Women Film Editors: Unseen Artists of American Cinema"
English | 2016 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 1476662940 | EPUB | 5,7 mb
When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women-who had been essential to the industry’s early development-were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and directors virtually disappeared for decades, a number of female film editors remained and rose to the top of their profession, sometimes wielding great power and influence.

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Unseen Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives


Free Download Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, "Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives"
English | 2017 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0316552968 | EPUB | 292,1 mb
Hundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate the stories behind them in this remarkable collection.

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