1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794441603321

Autore

Smith Julian Mortimer

Titolo

The World of Dew and Other Stories / / Julian Mortimer Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-253-05681-0

0-253-05682-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Collana

Blue Light Bks.

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Fantasy fiction

Novelle

Science fiction, American

Short stories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Come-from-aways -- The world of dew -- Barb-the-bomb and the yesterday boy -- The fumblers alley risk emporium -- The mugger's hymn -- The washerwoman and the troll -- Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester's time machine -- Joey Lerath's rocket ship -- The visible spectrum -- Headshot -- Anxiety boy and the confidence men -- Hospice -- The monster -- Practice -- Foundation -- Keeping it real -- An oral history of the city beneath -- The surface of the moon.

Sommario/riassunto

The World of Dew and Other Stories, chosen by Michelle Pretorius as the 2020 Blue Light Books Prize winner, invites readers into 18 different universes that have unexpected resonances with our own modern life. While these tales are unabashedly sci-fi and fantasy, Julian Mortimer Smith approaches each at a curious angle. Ghosts are cataloged using a Pokemon Go-like app, a soldier has to get enough upvotes on social media before he is allowed to take a shot, and a golden age of cooperation begins as societies around the world prepare for a looming pandemic of blindness. In addition to featuring stories that have appeared in some of the world's top speculative fiction outlets, The World of Dew and Other Stories also includes five new stories published here for the first time. These tales are sometimes



terrifying, sometimes touching, sometimes provocative, and occasionally very silly. They function both as windows through which readers can glimpse vast universes waiting to be explored and as mirrors reflecting our own reality back at us in a strange and unfamiliar light.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954176403321

Titolo

The politics of Arab integration / / edited by Giacomo Luciani and Ghassan Salame

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-41118-8

1-317-41119-6

1-315-68511-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the Middle East ; ; Volume 17

Altri autori (Persone)

LucianiGiacomo <1948->

SalameGhassane, 1951-

Disciplina

956

Soggetti

Panarabism

Arab countries Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1988 by Croom Helm Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One The Cultural Dimension""; ""1. Speech Diversity and Language Unity: Arabic as an Integrating Factor""; ""2. The Media and Arab Integration""; ""3. The Role of Education in Domestic and Inter-Arab Integration""; ""4. Attitudes to the Nation and the State in Arab Public Opinion Polls""; ""Part Two The Economic and Social Dimension""; ""5. Economic Interdependence and National Sovereignty""

""6. Migration as a Factor Conditioning State Economic Control and Financial Policy Options""""7. Immigrants in the Arab Gulf Countries: 'Sojourners' or 'Settlers'?""; ""8. Migration and Political Integration in the Arab World""; ""Part Three The Political and Institutional Dimensions""; ""9. The Impact of Palestine on Arab Politics""; ""10. Israeli Interference



in Internal Arab Politics: The Case of Lebanon""; ""11. Integration in the Arab World: The Institutional Framework""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Combined Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This volume, first published in 1988, is the result of a major research project, the most important inquiry into the fundamental political structure of the Arab world. It is often argued that Arab states are arbitrary political creations that lack historical or present legitimacy and are unable to relate to each other in a productive way. It is further suggested that the demise of pan-Arabism merely underlines the inability of individual Arab states to integrate either domestically or internationally. This book, Volume Four in the Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World research project carried out by the Istituto Affari Internazionali, sets out to answer the questions of Arab integration, with articles from a wide range of contributors from around the world.