The safety of objects / Renaissance Films and Vulcan Productions present an Infilm/Killer Films production ; producers, Dorothy Berwin, Christine Vachon ; written & directed by Rose Troche.

Piero di Cosimo : painter of faith and fable / edited by Dennis Geronimus, Michael W. Kwakkelstein.

Table of Contents: “…The 'Fantasia' of the cricket in Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus /…”
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Biographical Memoirs : V.76. by Secretary, Office of the Home

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Beliefs and leadership in world politics : methods and applications of operational code analysis / edited by Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker.

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- The eyes of Kesteven : how the worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet influenced British foreign policy / Scott Crichlow -- George W. Bush and the Vulcans : leader-advisor relations and America's response to the 9/11 attacks / Sam Robison -- Reagan and Gorbachev : altercasting at the end of the Cold War / Akan Malici -- Crisis deferred : an operational code analysis of Chinese leaders across the strait / Huiyun Feng -- Links among beliefs and personality traits : the distinctive language of terrorists / Elena Lazarevska, Jayne M. …”
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The philosophy of science fiction : Henri Bergson and the fabulations of Philip K. Dick / James Burton. by Burton, James

Table of Contents: “…Dick studies -- Note on terminology -- 1 Fabulation: Counteracting Reality -- Mechanization and the war-instinct -- The biological origins of society -- Countering the intellect -- The morality of violence -- Open morality and the misdirection of mechanism -- True mysticism: Immanent salvation -- An incomplete soteriology -- Fabulation for the open -- Conclusion -- 2 Fabulating Salvation in Four Early Novels -- Solar Lottery (1972 [1955]) -- The World Jones Made (1993b [1956]) -- Vulcan's Hammer (1976c [1960]) -- Time Out of Joint (2003c [1959]) -- Conclusion: Super-everyman to solar shoe salesman -- 3 The Empire that Never Ended -- A matter of life or (life under the sign of) death -- The open and the universal -- The life-death chiasmus -- The fictitious event -- The messianic tension -- The remnant and messianic time -- The magic of language -- Sci-fi: The genre of 'as not' -- Conclusion: Gnostic politics -- 4 Objects of Salvation: The Man in the High Castle -- The fabulation of history -- Mechanization and paralysis -- Worldly remains -- Openings between worlds -- The tyranny of the concrete -- Objects of salvation -- Conclusion: Reality fields -- 5 How We Became Post-Android -- The mechanization of pot-healing -- The alien god -- The saviour in need -- Robot theology -- Humans: The cosmic bourgeoisie -- Android and theoid -- Creative destruction -- Conclusion -- 6 The Reality of Valis -- Salvator salvandus -- The believer and the sceptic -- The pharmakonic god -- Reduplicative paramnesia (time becomes space) -- The fabulative cure.…”
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