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Millennial Fables
Author: The Millennial Fables
Author: Richard GloffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780738816814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Funny, surreal, provocative, disturbing The Millennial Fables deal with our American culture at the end of the 20th century. Things are different here. So, don't be surprised if children start to float or someone's arguing with Jesus or you come upon a mountain made of millions of discarded men. What's more, don't expect anything that could be called heartwarming or inspirational. If anything, these stories have the bad manners to laugh at all that. These are graffiti on the great, façade of modern, liberal humanism. They are devoutly heretical fantasies. They are meant to unsettle and nag. They are seven short stories that can only cause trouble. It's been said that when reality becomes absurd, satire becomes useless. Then again, things are different here.
Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation: The Lynceus Long View
Author: P. FormicaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137347317
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The potential of storytelling as a research tool for enhancing the understanding of knowledge creation, acquisition and conversion into innovation and innovative business activities is the methodological underpinning of this book's narrative approach. The subtitle comes from Lynceus, one of the Argonauts who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece, who was said to have excellent sight. Among the various interpretations of the meaning of the Fleece, one version highlights the importance of discovery to innovation by voyaging to 'terrae incognitae' (unknown lands). This book is a narrative of a fictional voyage to the 'terra incognita' of Innoland the island of innovation and other mental travels that make sense of events and actions which spur innovation. Stories of Innovation for the Millennial Generation is written for Millennials willing to assimilate and grow dynamic, innovation-driven capabilities which lead to the creation of high-impact startups.
Dragonsong
Author: Russell YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9781885008121
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Once a millenium, the four Imperial Dragons choose a dragon to be Keeper of the Mountain. Little Chiang-An, the youngest dragon, searches for a gift to win the honor of the title.
Fairy Tales for Millennials
Author: Bruno VincentPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241424453
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Welcome to the world of Fairy Tales, Millennial style... Inside you'll find Sleeping Beauty waking up Woke, the Billy Goats Gruff getting trolled, and three little pigs explaining that - realistically - a house of straw is really the only way a first time buyer can get on the housing market. Goldilocks discovers a darling little Porridge pop-up, the Pied Piper shifts his content strategy to attract more followers, and Hansel and Gretel meet a witch whose house is built of Avocado Toast.
Aesop's Fables
Author: AesopPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
The Fabled Life of Aesop
Author: Ian LendlerPublisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1328585522
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor winner Pamela Zagarenski, this is the only picture book not only tells the story of Aesop but includes his most child-friendly fables.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Author: Adrian RoomPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304358731
Category : Allusions in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
"Dr Brewer's classic work of reference, fully revised and updated for the millennium, now available in paperback"
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)
Author: Ana Fernandez-CebrianPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802076417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development. Beyond the narratives about progress, modernity, and consumer satisfaction on a global and national level, the cultural archives of the period offer intellectual findings about the expectations of a social majority who lived in the precariousness and who did not have sufficient income to acquire the consumer goods that were advertised. Through the scrutiny of interdisciplinary archives (literary texts, cinema, newsreels, comics, and journalistic sources, among other cultural artifacts), each chapter offers an analysis of the social imaginaries about the circulation and distribution of capital and resources in the period from 1950, when General Franco’s government began to integrate into international markets and institutions following its agreements with the United States, to 1967, when the implementation of the First Development Plan (1964-1967) was completed.
Millennial Fables
Author: Peter PorterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems address contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a turbulent future. The second part of the book, entitled "Homage to Robert Browning," is a series of monologues and character pieces in which individual voices speak to us from a wide range of occasions and places. An imaginary notebook kept by Bach's first wife Maria, Barbara, and poems called "Aesop's Dressing Gown," and "Berenson Spots a Lotto," all give an idea of Porter's wide-ranging curiosity and knowledge, which he displays wit great generosity and humor.
