Bøger af Warren Roberts

Artificial Intelligent Entities scramble for control and survival in a world that is spinning towards an apocalypse. Can an Enhanced Human save the earth?In the very near future, at a time when most of the countries on earth have multiple supercomputers, there is an inevitable battle for supremacy! Gyreland's Quantum-Photon-Matrix, known as Ravindra, is the most advanced Artificial Intelligent Entity in the world and Brent Brodie is the only one who can control her.When Supercomputers command the militaries, nuclear arsenals, power grids, water, and food supplies, everyone is at their mercy. No country is safe from hacking, false information, and data manipulation. Personal privacy is a thing of the past. Drones and street cameras track your every move and judge your actions. There's no place to hide!Climate and Nuclear Fallout Refugees run for their lives when the tectonic plates become more active, spawning more earthquakes and volcanoes around the globe. As the oceans of the world rise to new levels, the moon's gravitational pull grows stronger and more destructive. Is anywhere on earth safe? Don't count on it!

In the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the accelerated impacts of Global Climate Change have expanded the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to epic proportions. Brent Brodie was an oil and gas engineer until he suffered catastrophic mental and physical injuries during an oil rig explosion. After years of recovery, he focuses his unique skills to lead the development of a floating, plastic recycling plant which grows into a star-shaped, two-mile wide, rotating island. Utilizing the gyre's powerful ocean currents, Plasticity Island generates massive amounts of hydroelectricity which powers the Recycling, Fabrication and Desalination Plants. In the very near future, as most of the world runs out of fresh drinking water, Plasticity Island's Water Tanker Drones come under attack from Chinese Pirates and Mexican Drug Cartels. With his back against the wall, Brent and his team go on the offensive to protect their people and freshwater supplies. In a world of Supercomputers, Drones and Humanoid Robots, high-tech and low-tech collide to change the face of our planet forever.

The moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to take shape, one erotic and libertine, the other highly moralistic. Both represented a revolt against the formalism of the seventeenth century. The roman erotique was rooted in a hedonistic philosophy whose objective was to enlarge the scope of freedom, translated in sexual terms, while the moralistic literature, also influenced by philosophical hedonism, was sentimental, romantic, and defended the Christian idea of love and marriage. Roberts discards some of the common presuppositions of historical and literary criticism, for example, that the literature of sensibility was the reaction of the bourgeoisie against the degenerate aristocracy, and that the libertine literature was created by and accurately portrayed the aristocracy. Such explanations have never been supported by valid evidence. Roberts shows that the bourgeoisie, even when most critical of the aristocracy, was emulating the aristocratic way of life, and that the aristocracy, even at its most degenerate, was susceptible to the moral influences revealed in contemporary art. 'Once the dikes of traditional morality broke,' Roberts explains, 'two responses took place. First, authors reacted against the severity of the seventeenth century, which led to a literature of libertinism and eventually of pornography. Secondly, an attempt was made to retain the loftiness of seventeenth-century morality, but to place that morality on new foundations, the result being sentimentalism, and later, classicism.' And out of this dialectical process came a third, dualistic current of literature and art combining hedonism, and sometimes perversity and pornography, with a condemnation of the social order, a call for moral regeneration, and a utopian vision of the future. This is a highly original study of social morality in pre-Revolutionary French and of its reflection in literature and art.

Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution

Argues that Jane Austen was aware of the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, of the Revolution's impact on British society, and of England's long and bitter military struggle with France; and that she addressed these issues in her work, revealing her own attitude to key issues.

Long been established as the pre-eminent research tool for students and scholars of Lawrence, and an indispensable reference guide for entusiasts worldwide, this third edition, initially prepared by Warren Roberts before his death in 1998, was extensively revised, updated and expanded by Paul Poplawski for publication in 2001.