Books by "Daniel T. Jennings"
10 books found
Two lives torn apart. Two broken worlds collide. One mission that will change the fate of humanity. In the wake of a global war, a hardened Marine finds himself thrust into a mission beyond comprehension: exploring a newly discovered portal to another world. On the other side is a land of both beauty and peril, where familiar landscapes are twisted and the very fabric of reality seems to fray at the edges. As Aarav delves deeper into this torn planet, he uncovers ancient secrets, encounters strange creatures, and grapples with the mysteries of the Veil: a force that threatens to consume everything. Amidst the chaos, Aarav must confront not only external threats but also his inner demons as he navigates a world where the past and the present collide. "The Veil" is a mesmerizing blend of military science fiction, metaphysical exploration, and delicate socio-political issues: perfect for readers who enjoy intricate world-building and thought-provoking themes that hold aspects of society up to scrutiny. Rather than leave this world behind, step into "The Veil" and explore the age-old question of who we truly are in the cosmos.
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to Luton's in our mongrel DNA. Moments in the histories of his teams come together to form football's narrative, starting with Sheffield pioneers and ending with fan ownership at Chester, and Gray shows how the modern game unifies an England in flux and dominates the places in which it is played. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is a wry and affectionate ramble through the wonderful towns and teams that make the country and capture its very essence. It is part-football book, part-travelogue and part-love letter to the bits of England that often get forgotten, celebrated here in all their blessed eccentricity.
Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy. This book explores this neglected history through the work of Pierre Gourou, one of the century’s foremost purveyors of what anti-colonial writer Aimé Césaire dubbed tropicalité. It explores how Gourou’s interpretations of ‘the nature’ of the tropical world, and its innate difference from the temperate world, were built on the shifting sands of twentieth-century history – empire and freedom, modernity and disenchantment, war and revolution, culture and civilisation, and race and development. The book addresses key questions about the location and power of knowledge by focusing on Gourou’s cultivation of the tropics as a romanticised, networked and affective domain. The book probes what Césaire described as Gourou’s ‘impure and worldly geography’ as a way of opening up interdisciplinary questions of geography, ontology, epistemology, experience and materiality. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students within historical geography, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and international relations.