Author: Kaye Mitchell File Type: pdf A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques and covered a number of important contemporary themes. This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide range of current critical perspectives on Waters work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in Waters fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. hr **Review Waters is one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful novelists today, and the collection offers a variety of critical perspectives on her work [] this volume will undoubtedly be a helpful resource for undergraduate students and a useful starting point for readers coming to Waterss fictions anew. Clare OCallaghan, Contemporary Womens Writing About the Author Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of A. L Kennedy (Palgrave 2007) and Intention and Text (Continuum, 2008).

Author: Nathan Poell File Type: epub A collection of undelivered letters chronicles the intersecting stories of the survivors of a mysterious event that sends the world back to a technologically pre-industrial age. With its first letter set years into a new era, Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office chronologically works its way back to the abrupt, unexpected end of the modern world. Through the letters of the survivors, readers pick up clues into how that mysterious end came about and piece together how society broke down and began to reinvent itself. An epistolary mosaic emerges of a world in which distances have grown vastly greater, but the human need to communicate remains just as urgent as before. In this world, although most advanced technology is now useless or has been radically repurposed, many of humankinds most bedrock institutions and practices have not only survived, but - for good or ill - are stronger than ever the public library, the cooperative farm, participatory democracy, out-group scapegoating, organized crime. Situated at the convergence of the experimental, epistolary and speculative genres, Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office is an inventive and disturbing yet ultimately hopeful vision of humanitys resilience in the aftermath of disaster. See more handwritten letters at httpp-adlo.com Nathan Poell is a librarian living in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife and two cats. This is his first novel.About the AuthorNathan Poell grew up in St. Marys, Kansas and received his undergraduate degree from Benedictine College. After that he spent four years in Colorado Springs jumping out of helicopters. He moved to Lawrence in 2001, earned two graduate degrees - one from the University of Kansas, one from Emporia State University - and is now a librarian at Baker University. He has written non-fiction articles for nationally distributed magazines - Mother Earth News and Brew Your Own - and two poems for Kiosk, an arts journal. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and two cats. Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office is his first novel.

Author: Richard Foley File Type: epub A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isnt knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology determining what knowledge requires in addition to true belief.In this provocative book, Richard Foley finds a new solution to the problem in the observation that whenever someone has a true belief but not knowledge, there is some significant aspect of the situation about which she lacks true beliefs--something important that she doesnt quite get. This may seem a modest point but, as Foley shows, it has the potential to reorient the theory of knowledge. Whether a true belief counts as knowledge depends on the importance of the information one does or doesnt have. This means that questions of knowledge cannot be separated from questions about human concerns and values. It also means that, contrary to what is often thought, there is no privileged way of coming to know. Knowledge is a mutt. Proper pedigree is not required. What matters is that one doesnt lack important nearby information.Challenging some of the central assumptions of contemporary epistemology, this is an original and important account of knowledge.**

Author: Ted Koppel File Type: epub In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on Americas power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. It isnt just a scenario. A well-designed attack on just one of the nations three electric power grids could cripple much of our infrastructureand in the age of cyberwarfare, a laptop has become the only necessary weapon. Several nations hostile to the United States could launch such an assault at any time. In fact, as a former chief scientist of the NSA reveals, China and Russia have already penetrated the grid. And a cybersecurity advisor to President Obama believes that independent actorsfrom hacktivists to terroristshave the capability as well. Its not a question of if, says Centcom Commander General Lloyd Austin, its a question of when. And yet, as Koppel makes clear, the federal government, while well prepared for natural disasters, has no plan for the aftermath of an attack on the power grid. The current Secretary of Homeland Security suggests keeping a battery-powered radio. In the absence of a government plan, some individuals and communities have taken matters into their own hands. Among the nations estimated three million preppers, we meet one whose doomsday retreat includes a newly excavated three-acre lake, stocked with fish, and a Wyoming homesteader so self-sufficient that he crafted the thousands of adobe bricks in his house by hand. We also see the unrivaled disaster preparedness of the Mormon church, with its enormous storehouses, high-tech dairies, orchards, and proprietary trucking company the fruits of a long tradition of anticipating the worst. But how, Koppel asks, will ordinary civilians survive? With urgency and authority, one of our most renowned journalists examines a threat unique to our time and evaluates potential ways to prepare for a catastrophe that is all but inevitable. From the Hardcover edition. **Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of November 2015 Investigative reporting that reads like fiction - or maybe I just wish it was fiction. In Lights Out, Ted Koppel flashes his journalism chops to introduce us to a frightening scenario, where hackers have tapped into and destroyed the United States power grids, leaving Americans crippled. Koppel outlines the many ways our government and response teams are far from prepared for an un-natural disaster that wont just last days or weeks - but months - and also shows us how a growing number of individuals have taken it upon themselves to prepare. Whether you pick up this book to escape into a good story, or for a potentially potent look into the future, you will not be disappointed. * Penny Mann* Review [Koppels] suggestion that the United States look back to the era of mass civil defense as a model for how we might start to make preparations is provocative and sobering at the same time. -The New York Times Book Review Ted Koppel has set off a firestorm with his explosive new book.A devastating cyberattack on our powergrid [is]the risk Koppel has brought to the attention of the American public. -The Energy Times Lights Outis a timely warning about the vulnerability of America to a massive cyberattack that would cripple all we take for granted electricity, communication, transportation. This is not science fiction. Hats off to Ted Koppel for putting us all on alert. **TOM BROKAW Without a single bullet, bomb, or missile, a foreign enemy can now launch a devastating attack on the United States. Koppel explores how cyberwarfare threatens all of us, assesses the risks, criticizes the lack of government action, and finds praise for the Mormon way of disaster preparedness. I hope hes wrong about the danger but fear hes right on the mark. ERIC SCHLOSSER, author of Command and Controland Fast Food Nation Ted Koppels unparalleled reporting skills are on full display in Lights Out. A fascinating and frightening look at just how vulnerable we are to a cyberattack. ****ANDERSON COOPER *As readers would expect from Ted Koppel, Lights Out* is dramatic but not hyped, tied to todays news of shaky infrastructure and cyber attacks but also forward looking. This is an engrossing and significant book. JAMES FALLOWS, national correspondent, The Atlantic author of China Airborne In Lights Out, Ted Koppel uses his profound journalistic talents to raise pressing questions about our nations aging electrical grid. Through interview after interview with leading experts, Koppel paints a compelling picture of the impact cyberattacks may have on the grid. The book reveals the vulnerability of perhaps the most critical of all the infrastructures of our modern society the electricity that keeps our modern society humming along. MARC GOODMAN, author of Future Crimes Ted Koppel has written an important wake-up call for America on the threat of a crippling cyberattack. The danger we face right now is great, but so is the failure to acknowledge that the threat exists at all. LEON PANETTA, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Lights Outilluminates one of the greatest vulnerabilities to our nation a cyberattack on our power grid. It is a wake-up call for all of us. We are the nation that created the internet we should be the first to secure it. This powerful book could be the catalyst for just such a change. GENERAL (RET.) KEITH ALEXANDER, former director of the National Security Agency Try to imagine what a malevolent government, armed with the latest computer sophistication, could do to another nations complex and entirely digital-dependent economy and social infrastructure. Fortunately, Ted Koppel has imagined it for us. We have been warned. **GEORGE F. WILL When the lights go out after the cyberattack, this is the book everyone will read. RICHARD A. CLARKE, author of Cyber War and former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism A bold enumeration of the challenges posed by the digital age an appeal to safeguard new instruments of human flourishing by studying the ways in which they could be exploited. HENRY A. KISSINGER From the Hardcover edition.