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Undead and Unfinished

Author	: MaryJanice Davidson
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2010-07-06
ISBN 10	: 9781101188545
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (885 users)

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Download or read book Undead and Unfinished written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire queen Betsy Taylor makes a deal with the devil in order to discover the secrets of the Book of the Dead. Just one catch: she and her sister must go to hell to do it. Just long enough to make nice with her mother, aka Lucifer, and take a detour through time...

Undead and Unstable

Author	: MaryJanice Davidson
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2012-07-05
ISBN 10	: 9781405511599
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (115 users)

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Download or read book Undead and Unstable written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betsy Taylor is determined to change the future for herself and her loved ones, but her actions could have life-shattering repercussions. That's to be expected when a friend returns from the dead, when your dear sister just happens to be the Antichrist, and when your mother is the devil. Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk

Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture

Author	: S. T. Joshi
Publisher	: Greenwood
Release Date	: 2010-11-04
ISBN 10	: 9780313378348
Pages	: 453 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (783 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture written by S. T. Joshi and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive work covering the full range of topics relating to vampires, including literature, film and television, and folklore. • Nearly 240 A–Z entries on all aspects of vampirism • Photographs and illustrations of vampire films, television shows, and other matters relating to vampires • Brief bibliographies referring the reader to secondary sources on individual entries • A general bibliography of scholarship on vampires

Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 6

Author	: Debra J. Housel
Publisher	: Teacher Created Materials
Release Date	: 2010-05-30
ISBN 10	: 1425807291
Pages	: 158 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 6 written by Debra J. Housel and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students need high-quality, purposeful practice to improve reading comprehension. Developed for students in grade 6, Read and Succeed Comprehension features high-interest fiction and nonfiction passages that capture their interest, and focused standards-based activities that provide targeted practice opportunities. This effective full-color resource includes 65 passages, skill practice pages, answer key, and a whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD. 152pp.

Digital Zombies, Undead Stories

Author	: Lawrence May
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2021-01-14
ISBN 10	: 9781501363528
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (635 users)

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Download or read book Digital Zombies, Undead Stories written by Lawrence May and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of three case study videogames – Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft – and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms. Narrative emergence is addressed as a powerful form of player experience in multiplayer games, one which makes individual games' boundaries and meanings fluid and negotiable by players. The phenomenon is also shown to be recursive in nature, shaping individual and collective understandings of videogame texts over time. Digital Zombies, Undead Stories focuses on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the videogame zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. This book argues that in the zombie genre, emergent experiences are at the heart of narrative experiences for players, and more broadly demonstrates the potential for the phenomenon to be understood as a fundamental part of everyday play experiences across genres.

The Book of the Undead A Zombie Film Guide

Author	: Terry Rowan
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9781312439474
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (394 users)

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The Playful Undead and Video Games

Author	: Stephen J. Webley
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-07-17
ISBN 10	: 9781351716512
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (165 users)

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Download or read book The Playful Undead and Video Games written by Stephen J. Webley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal – that they embody an aesthetic that combines horror with a mindless target; that lower age ratings for zombie games widen the market; or that Artificial Intelligence routines for zombies are easier to develop – the book provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive look at this cultural phenomenon. Drawing on detailed case studies from across the genre, contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer insights into how the study of zombies in the context of video games informs an analysis of their impact on contemporary popular culture. Issues such as gender, politics, intellectual property law, queer theory, narrative storytelling and worldbuilding, videogame techniques and technology, and man’s relation to monsters are closely examined in their relation to zombie video games. Breaking new ground in the study of video games and popular culture, this volume will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including media, popular culture, video games, and media psychology.

Economics of the Undead

Author	: Glen Whitman
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2014-07-17
ISBN 10	: 9781442235038
Pages	: 310 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book Economics of the Undead written by Glen Whitman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether preparing us for economic recovery after the zombie apocalypse, analyzing vampire investment strategies, or illuminating the market forces that affect vampire-human romances, Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science gives both seasoned economists and layman readers something to sink their teeth into. Undead characters have terrified popular audiences for centuries, but when analyzed closely, their behaviors and stories—however farfetched—mirror our own in surprising ways. The essays collected in this book are as humorous as they are thoughtful, as culturally relevant as they are economically sound, and provide an accessible link between a popular culture phenomenon and the key concepts necessary to building one’s understanding of economic systems big and small. It is the first book to apply and combine economics and our society’s fascination with the undead, and is an invaluable resource for those looking to learn economic fundamentals in a fun and innovative way. Contributions by: Kyle William Bishop, Eleanor Brown, Ian Chadd, Darwynn Deyo, Steven Horwitz, Daniel Farhat, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Brian Hollar, Sebastien Lecou, Joseph Mandarino, Alain Marciano, Fabien Medvecky, David T. Mitchell, Michael O’Hara, M. Christine Phillips, A. Lynn Phillips, G. Michael Phillips, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Robert Prga, Hollis Robbins, Sarah Skwire, Ilya Somin, David Tufte, Mary Jo Tufte, and Charlotte Weil

Undead and Unwary

Author	: MaryJanice Davidson
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2014-10-07
ISBN 10	: 9781101600139
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book Undead and Unwary written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you out-devil the devil? For Vampire queen Betsy Taylor, the answer is relative—literally—as MaryJanice Davidson’s “sexy, steamy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Booklist) New York Times bestselling series continues…

Decolonizing the Undead

Author	: Stephen Shapiro
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2022-08-25
ISBN 10	: 9781350271135
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (711 users)

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Download or read book Decolonizing the Undead written by Stephen Shapiro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, and Iraq, this book explores how the undead reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. These include embodiment and dismemberment in Haitian revolutionary contexts; resistance and subversion to social realities in the Caribbean and Latin America; symbiosis of cultural, historical traditions with Western popular culture; the undead as feminist figures; as an allegory for migrant workers; as a critique to reconfigure socio-ecological relations between humans and nature; and as a means of voicing the plurality of stories from destroyed cities and war-zones. Interspersed with contextual explorations of the zombie narrative in American culture (such as zombie walks and the television series The Santa Clarita Diet) contributors examine such writers as Lowell R. Torres, Diego Velázquez Betancourt, Hemendra Kumar Roy, and Manabendra Pal; works like China Mieville's Covehithe, Reza Negarestani's Cycolonopedia, Julio Ortega's novel Adiós, Ayacucho, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad; and films by Alejandro Brugués, Michael James Rowland, Steve McQueen, and many others. Far from just another zombie project, this is a vital study that teases out the important conversations among numerous cultures and nations embodied in this universally recognized figure of the undead.

Talking Book Topics

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-11
ISBN 10	: UFL:31262091303031
Pages	: 104 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (29 users)

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Undead and Uneasy

Author	: MaryJanice Davidson
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 0425213765
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (65 users)

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Download or read book Undead and Uneasy written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor prepares for her marriage to her fianc, Vampire King Eric Sinclair, she finds herself dealing with complex wedding arrangements, unexpected house guests, and the sudden disappearance of her fianc and most of her friends and loved ones. 100,000 first printing.

Zombie Theory

Author	: Sarah Juliet Lauro
Publisher	: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date	: 2017-10-15
ISBN 10	: 9781452955520
Pages	: 531 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (555 users)

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Download or read book Zombie Theory written by Sarah Juliet Lauro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie’s ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties—ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism—has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship. Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other. Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tayla Nyong’o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.

Not Your Average Zombie

Author	: Chera Kee
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2017-09-05
ISBN 10	: 9781477313305
Pages	: 237 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (133 users)

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Download or read book Not Your Average Zombie written by Chera Kee and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zombie apocalypse hasn't happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don't conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how "extra-ordinary" zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, "extra-ordinary" zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living.

Universal Decay: DragonFire

Author	: Jay Barrell
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2019-08-09
ISBN 10	: 9780988368965
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (689 users)

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Download or read book Universal Decay: DragonFire written by Jay Barrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of DRAGONFIRE, the "Heavy Metal" fantasy expansion for the Universal Decay: Dead Stars Rule Book. A roleplaying sourcebook for hardcore WEIRD characters, usable in anything from typical Tolkien-esque pseudo-Europe games to replicating album covers from your favorite metal bands...no points are awarded for figuring out which way the pre-made campaign setting included in this book went! So make a Gnome with a Spaghetti-Western fetish, a blood-drinking assassin, a Dwarven bardic priest of the Cult of Heavy Metal, or any other bizarre character that you have always wanted to play. That is the "normal" around here!

Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse: Seasons

Author	: Ash Barker
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-09-19
ISBN 10	: 9781472838896
Pages	: 112 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (388 users)

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Download or read book Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse: Seasons written by Ash Barker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse: Seasons brings an all new campaign to the skirmish-scale miniatures game of survival horror, taking players through the changing seasons and the challenges this brings to their Groups of survivors. As well as rival gangs and mindless zombies, your Group will have to deal with hunger, thirst, warmth, and the many other problems that can't be stopped with a well-placed bullet. Featuring a host of new character types, scavenge tables, scenarios, and even rules for using bicycles, motorbikes, and snowmobiles, this expansion is essential for a survivor during the last days.

The Zombie Survival Guide

Author	: Max Brooks
Publisher	: Del Rey
Release Date	: 2003-09-23
ISBN 10	: 9781400050802
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book The Zombie Survival Guide written by Max Brooks and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don’t need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.