Product Description: We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future...read more

Product Description: In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean―and especially Haitian―history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end...read more

Product Description: What did the ancient Jewish and Christian seers imagine when they considered the end of the world? What do ancient apocalyptic texts really tell us about the nature of good and evil? The End of the World examines the social, historical, and theological nature of ancient apocalypses?such as 1 Enoch, the Apocalypse of John, and Daniel?and compares their vision of the apocalyptic end to that found in modern film and television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Surveys the principles and procedures of working in batik and tie-dye and illustrates examples of art and fashion