Product Description: Advances in science and technology no longer change how we live, they determine it. In the not-too-distant future, techno-scientific developments may make individuals stronger, smarter, healthier and more productive--but to what end? Addressing this question, speculative fiction has created an abundance of transhuman characters, protagonists with extraordinary strength, intelligence or abilities...read more

This book arises out of our experiences and careers in teaching and researching into brewing science and technology. These careers, at the University of California, Davis, USA and the University of Birmingham, UK, to date amount to a joint total of more than 45 years. The approach taken to the subject, the selection of topics and the views expressed are entirely our own and any errors and omissions are solely our responsibility. We are grateful to many brewing scientists and production brewers in various parts of the world who, over the years, have discussed brewing with us and generously provided of their time to show us their brewing operations. We are indebted to our students who, coming to the subject fresh have often provided new insights into brewing. Equally, we are indebted to those experienced practitioners who, in attending short courses, have often illuminated science with practice. In more recent years in courses at the University of California we have had the pleasure to help to instruct newcomers to brewing from less traditional backgrounds. These women and men, highly enthusiastic and dedicated to the concept of developing and running their own microbrewing enterprises in North America, have brought their own demands in search of knowledge of brewing. Their needs have increased our resolve to publish this book.

Product Description: For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times...read more

Product Description: As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders...read more

Product Description: C. S. Lewis, fantasy novelist, literary scholar, and Christian apologist, is one of the most original and well-known literary figures of the twentieth century. As one who stood at the crossroads of Edwardian and modern thinking, he is often read as a sexist or even misogynistic man of his time, but this fresh rereading assesses Lewis as a prescient thinker who transformed typical Western gender paradigms...read more

Product Description: Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934–1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career, the British author wrote with a stamina matched by only a few other great science fiction writers and with a literary quality of even fewer, importing modernist techniques into his novels and stories and probing every major theme of his generation: robotics, racism, drugs, space exploration, technological warfare, and ecology...read more

Product Description: This timely book explores what might be termed 'Gothic science fiction' from 1980 to 2010. This designation may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seem to conflict with the rational foundations of science fiction...read more

Examines different aspects of Orwell's anti-utopian classic, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work.

Product Description: Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology...read more

Product Description: This title offers an in-depth examination of colonialism as presented in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, as well as contemporary perspectives on this issue. Discussions include the use of language to convey status and power, the clash of Igbo and European cultures, the loss of personal identity, and the different faces of neo-colonialism...read more

Product Description: Examines particular themes in the genre and traces the evolution of science fiction from the scientific romances of H.G. Wells to the pulp magazine era and Robert Heinlein.

When it comes to friendship, who cares about skin color? This classic middle grade novel from Judy Blume carries an important message—with a fresh new look.Iggie’s House just wasn’t the same. Iggie was gone, moved to Tokyo. And there was Winnie, cracking her gum on Grove Street, where she’d always lived, with no more best friend and two weeks left of summer. Then the Garber family moved into Iggie’s house—two boys, Glenn and Herbie, and Tina, their little sister. The Garbers were black and Grove Street was white and always had been. Winnie, a welcoming committee of one, set out to make a good impression and be a good neighbor. That’s why the trouble started. Because Glenn and Herbie and Tina didn’t want a “good neighbor.” They wanted a friend.

Product Description: The relationship between economic development and political systems is of major importance in today's rapidly changing world. This is the issue addressed in this volume by an international team of academics drawn from the social sciences...read more

Product Description: This book arises out of our experiences and careers in teaching and researching into brewing science and technology. These careers, at the University of California, Davis, USA and the University of Birmingham, UK, to date amount to a joint total of more than 45 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of eight essays by British and American critics focusing on science fiction's recent past, its contemporary relevance, and its attitudes to the immediate future.

Product Description: 372 pages.