Author: Don Viecelli
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Alien Times – Book 2, Confrontation continues the efforts by Special Investigative Agent Sam Holden and Washington Post Senior Staff Reporter Julie Peterson to uncover the truth about alien coverup efforts by the Extraterrestrial Counter Threat Group (ECTG) and identify its leaders. Events spiral out of control as anti-alien protesters and militia supporters blame the world’s environmental crises on alien interference in human affairs. The final confrontation occurs on the grounds of the Washinton Monument in historic fashion before the real truth about alien involvement becomes evident. Alien Times – Book 2 begins with agent Sam Holden attempting to bring ECTG leader General Frank Roberts and his men to justice for the murder of Washington Post investigative reporter Joe Bingham and the kidnapping of Julie Peterson after her rescue at Area 51. Julie is working on her next story regarding anti-alien groups spreading conspiracy theories about aliens and planning a major demonstration at the UN General Assembly in New York City. Tarid’s hostility toward Idin and humans increases as U.S. Navy Fleets continue to operate near his underwater sea base in the Pacific Ocean. Tarid threatens Idin and chases him away from Earth. He then attacks the Navy Pacific Fleet with a high energy electromagnetic microwave weapon causing serious health issues to all crew members on board. Tarid warns the fleet to stay two hundred miles from their underwater base or he will attack again. A final rally takes place in front of the Washington Monument on the National Mall. Anti-alien demonstrators learn the terrible secret of alien interference on our planet. It causes a mass riot that forces President Zora Madison to take extreme security measures to protect herself and others during this historic event. The truth about what happened is hard to accept, but it only serves as a warning that more effort is needed to save the planet and humans from extinction.
Alien Times – Book 2, Confrontation
Author: Don Viecelli
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Alien Times – Book 2, Confrontation continues the efforts by Special Investigative Agent Sam Holden and Washington Post Senior Staff Reporter Julie Peterson to uncover the truth about alien coverup efforts by the Extraterrestrial Counter Threat Group (ECTG) and identify its leaders. Events spiral out of control as anti-alien protesters and militia supporters blame the world’s environmental crises on alien interference in human affairs. The final confrontation occurs on the grounds of the Washinton Monument in historic fashion before the real truth about alien involvement becomes evident. Alien Times – Book 2 begins with agent Sam Holden attempting to bring ECTG leader General Frank Roberts and his men to justice for the murder of Washington Post investigative reporter Joe Bingham and the kidnapping of Julie Peterson after her rescue at Area 51. Julie is working on her next story regarding anti-alien groups spreading conspiracy theories about aliens and planning a major demonstration at the UN General Assembly in New York City. Tarid’s hostility toward Idin and humans increases as U.S. Navy Fleets continue to operate near his underwater sea base in the Pacific Ocean. Tarid threatens Idin and chases him away from Earth. He then attacks the Navy Pacific Fleet with a high energy electromagnetic microwave weapon causing serious health issues to all crew members on board. Tarid warns the fleet to stay two hundred miles from their underwater base or he will attack again. A final rally takes place in front of the Washington Monument on the National Mall. Anti-alien demonstrators learn the terrible secret of alien interference on our planet. It causes a mass riot that forces President Zora Madison to take extreme security measures to protect herself and others during this historic event. The truth about what happened is hard to accept, but it only serves as a warning that more effort is needed to save the planet and humans from extinction.
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Alien Times – Book 2, Confrontation continues the efforts by Special Investigative Agent Sam Holden and Washington Post Senior Staff Reporter Julie Peterson to uncover the truth about alien coverup efforts by the Extraterrestrial Counter Threat Group (ECTG) and identify its leaders. Events spiral out of control as anti-alien protesters and militia supporters blame the world’s environmental crises on alien interference in human affairs. The final confrontation occurs on the grounds of the Washinton Monument in historic fashion before the real truth about alien involvement becomes evident. Alien Times – Book 2 begins with agent Sam Holden attempting to bring ECTG leader General Frank Roberts and his men to justice for the murder of Washington Post investigative reporter Joe Bingham and the kidnapping of Julie Peterson after her rescue at Area 51. Julie is working on her next story regarding anti-alien groups spreading conspiracy theories about aliens and planning a major demonstration at the UN General Assembly in New York City. Tarid’s hostility toward Idin and humans increases as U.S. Navy Fleets continue to operate near his underwater sea base in the Pacific Ocean. Tarid threatens Idin and chases him away from Earth. He then attacks the Navy Pacific Fleet with a high energy electromagnetic microwave weapon causing serious health issues to all crew members on board. Tarid warns the fleet to stay two hundred miles from their underwater base or he will attack again. A final rally takes place in front of the Washington Monument on the National Mall. Anti-alien demonstrators learn the terrible secret of alien interference on our planet. It causes a mass riot that forces President Zora Madison to take extreme security measures to protect herself and others during this historic event. The truth about what happened is hard to accept, but it only serves as a warning that more effort is needed to save the planet and humans from extinction.
Alien Times - Book 1, Revelation
Author: Don Viecelli
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Top-Secret U.S. special black operations group has been covering up alien visitations and secret alien UFO research projects for decades. This time, they went too far. They are holding a real live alien captive at Area 51 and will do anything to prevent this alien from meeting with the President and going public, finally proving once and for all that extraterrestrials do exist. This Top-Secret organization is called Extraterrestrial Counter Threat Group (ECTG). It is run by a high-ranking Pentagon Chief of Staff Space Force general who heads a secret team of scientists tasked with reverse engineering advanced UFO spacecraft held at Area 4, which is part of the highly restrictive Area 51 military base in Nevada. The ECTG will do anything to prevent this alien from meeting with the President of the United States, including murdering a Washington Post investigative reporter in the name of National Security. With help from a woman staff reporter for the Washington Post and a special agent for the Airborne Object Identification Group (AOIG), the alien finally escapes captivity and meets with the President of the U.S. at Camp David. The alien has an important message and offer of help for the President and the people on this planet. The question becomes, will people listen to the message or ignore the peril the world is facing in this time of extreme environmental crises?
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Top-Secret U.S. special black operations group has been covering up alien visitations and secret alien UFO research projects for decades. This time, they went too far. They are holding a real live alien captive at Area 51 and will do anything to prevent this alien from meeting with the President and going public, finally proving once and for all that extraterrestrials do exist. This Top-Secret organization is called Extraterrestrial Counter Threat Group (ECTG). It is run by a high-ranking Pentagon Chief of Staff Space Force general who heads a secret team of scientists tasked with reverse engineering advanced UFO spacecraft held at Area 4, which is part of the highly restrictive Area 51 military base in Nevada. The ECTG will do anything to prevent this alien from meeting with the President of the United States, including murdering a Washington Post investigative reporter in the name of National Security. With help from a woman staff reporter for the Washington Post and a special agent for the Airborne Object Identification Group (AOIG), the alien finally escapes captivity and meets with the President of the U.S. at Camp David. The alien has an important message and offer of help for the President and the people on this planet. The question becomes, will people listen to the message or ignore the peril the world is facing in this time of extreme environmental crises?
UTOPIAS - Book 1
Author: Don Viecelli
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Utopias is a megacity and the capital of the United Americas Continent. The year is 2199. The effects of climate change have brought human beings to the point of extinction. With the help of sentient androids created to fix the environment, humans, called Primes, have been sleeping in cryonic sleep chambers for 100 years waiting to wake up. That time has finally arrived with unexpected consequences. Utopias is the name of the great megacity that stretches from St. Louis to Chicago to Milwaukee and is the Capital of the United Americas Continent (UAC). There are only nineteen of these large megalopolises left in the UAC, which is comprised of the former countries of Canada, United States, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Outside these megacities lie the Wilderness Areas where nature has finally been restored from global environmental disaster that nearly caused human extinction. It was not easy and it took thousands of sentient androids like Citizen Steven and Citizen Kendra to accomplish it. The year is 2199. It has been one hundred years since the remaining billion or so humans in the world have seen the light of day. They survived near extinction from the effects of climate change with the help of androids they created. The humans, called Primes, are still sleeping in millions of cryonic sleep chambers hidden in deep underground bunkers around the world waiting for the time when the world is healed enough to let them wake up. That time has arrived. During this time, the androids have become more human-like than even their creators had imagined. The androids live and work peacefully in the megacities and things are running smoothly until the militant humans that survived the Dark Years and live in the Wilderness Areas decide it’s time to take back control of the megacities and the country for themselves. Soon, the fighting with human militants in the Wilderness Areas escalates out of control and the whole country is at War. What looked so promising to the Primes upon waking up after one hundred years of cryosleep becomes a near nightmare as President Carlos tries to stop the war with the androids in the megacities and prepare for even bigger problems with the Primes now waking up across the seas in Eurasia. It seems creating the androids to fix the world’s environment to prevent human extinction is now the least of the Primes’ new problems.
Publisher: Don Viecelli
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Utopias is a megacity and the capital of the United Americas Continent. The year is 2199. The effects of climate change have brought human beings to the point of extinction. With the help of sentient androids created to fix the environment, humans, called Primes, have been sleeping in cryonic sleep chambers for 100 years waiting to wake up. That time has finally arrived with unexpected consequences. Utopias is the name of the great megacity that stretches from St. Louis to Chicago to Milwaukee and is the Capital of the United Americas Continent (UAC). There are only nineteen of these large megalopolises left in the UAC, which is comprised of the former countries of Canada, United States, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Outside these megacities lie the Wilderness Areas where nature has finally been restored from global environmental disaster that nearly caused human extinction. It was not easy and it took thousands of sentient androids like Citizen Steven and Citizen Kendra to accomplish it. The year is 2199. It has been one hundred years since the remaining billion or so humans in the world have seen the light of day. They survived near extinction from the effects of climate change with the help of androids they created. The humans, called Primes, are still sleeping in millions of cryonic sleep chambers hidden in deep underground bunkers around the world waiting for the time when the world is healed enough to let them wake up. That time has arrived. During this time, the androids have become more human-like than even their creators had imagined. The androids live and work peacefully in the megacities and things are running smoothly until the militant humans that survived the Dark Years and live in the Wilderness Areas decide it’s time to take back control of the megacities and the country for themselves. Soon, the fighting with human militants in the Wilderness Areas escalates out of control and the whole country is at War. What looked so promising to the Primes upon waking up after one hundred years of cryosleep becomes a near nightmare as President Carlos tries to stop the war with the androids in the megacities and prepare for even bigger problems with the Primes now waking up across the seas in Eurasia. It seems creating the androids to fix the world’s environment to prevent human extinction is now the least of the Primes’ new problems.
Confrontations
Author: Jacques Vallee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938398414
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
ASCIENTIFICDETECTIVESTORY In Confrontations, the second volume of his Alien Contact Trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee personally investigates forty astonishing UFO cases from around the world. He finds it shocking that professional scientists have never seriously examined this material. This book is about the hopes, experiences, and the frustrations of a scientist who has gone into the field to investigate a bizarre, seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon reported by many witnesses as a contact with an alien form of intelligence. Dr. Jacques Vallee was born in France, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne and a Master of Science in astrophysics from the University of Lille. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee arrived in the U.S. in 1962, worked in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, and wrote two highly respected scientific examinations arguing for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) of UFO origins. In 1967, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book. Eventually concluding that the ETH was too narrow to encompass the burgeoning UFO data, he conducted his own extensive global research, resulting in the "Alien Contact Trilogy." Dr. Vallee is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938398414
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
ASCIENTIFICDETECTIVESTORY In Confrontations, the second volume of his Alien Contact Trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee personally investigates forty astonishing UFO cases from around the world. He finds it shocking that professional scientists have never seriously examined this material. This book is about the hopes, experiences, and the frustrations of a scientist who has gone into the field to investigate a bizarre, seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon reported by many witnesses as a contact with an alien form of intelligence. Dr. Jacques Vallee was born in France, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne and a Master of Science in astrophysics from the University of Lille. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee arrived in the U.S. in 1962, worked in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, and wrote two highly respected scientific examinations arguing for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) of UFO origins. In 1967, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book. Eventually concluding that the ETH was too narrow to encompass the burgeoning UFO data, he conducted his own extensive global research, resulting in the "Alien Contact Trilogy." Dr. Vallee is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com."
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism
Author: E. Gomel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137367636
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137367636
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.
Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593135229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LORD AND PHIL MILLER From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593135229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LORD AND PHIL MILLER From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
The Protection of Foreign Investment in Times of Armed Conflict
Author: Jure Zrilic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192566059
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Foreign investors often sustain injuries during violent situations, such as riots, revolutions, civil wars, and international armed conflicts. There is a great deal of uncertainty about how effective investment treaty protections are in volatile times, how they relate to other applicable legal frameworks, and how they affect the state security policy and the post-conflict transition to peace. This book explores how foreign investment is protected in times of armed conflict under the investment treaty regime. It does so by combining insights from different areas of international law, including international investment law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, the law of state responsibility, and the law of treaties. While the protections have evolved over time, with the investment treaty regime providing the strongest legal framework for protecting investors yet, there has been an apparent shift in treaty practice towards safeguarding a state's security interests. Jure Zrilic identifies and analyses the flaws in the existent normative framework, but also highlights the potential that investment treaties have for minimising the devastating effects of armed conflict. The book offers an analytical framework for assessing the investment treaty regime in times of armed conflict, distinguishing between different paradigms and different types of conflicts. Crucially, he argues that a new approach is needed to appropriately balance the competing interests of host states and investors when it comes to investment protection in armed conflicts.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192566059
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Foreign investors often sustain injuries during violent situations, such as riots, revolutions, civil wars, and international armed conflicts. There is a great deal of uncertainty about how effective investment treaty protections are in volatile times, how they relate to other applicable legal frameworks, and how they affect the state security policy and the post-conflict transition to peace. This book explores how foreign investment is protected in times of armed conflict under the investment treaty regime. It does so by combining insights from different areas of international law, including international investment law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, the law of state responsibility, and the law of treaties. While the protections have evolved over time, with the investment treaty regime providing the strongest legal framework for protecting investors yet, there has been an apparent shift in treaty practice towards safeguarding a state's security interests. Jure Zrilic identifies and analyses the flaws in the existent normative framework, but also highlights the potential that investment treaties have for minimising the devastating effects of armed conflict. The book offers an analytical framework for assessing the investment treaty regime in times of armed conflict, distinguishing between different paradigms and different types of conflicts. Crucially, he argues that a new approach is needed to appropriately balance the competing interests of host states and investors when it comes to investment protection in armed conflicts.
The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Race And Ethnic Conflict
Author: Fred L Pincus
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429977522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
In the revised and updated second edition of this comprehensive book, the first anthology to integrate social-psychological literature on prejudice with sociological and historical investigations, contributors introduce readers to the key debates and principal writings on racial and ethnic conflict, representing conservative, liberal, and radical p
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429977522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
In the revised and updated second edition of this comprehensive book, the first anthology to integrate social-psychological literature on prejudice with sociological and historical investigations, contributors introduce readers to the key debates and principal writings on racial and ethnic conflict, representing conservative, liberal, and radical p
Loyalties in Conflict
Author: John Herd Thompson
Publisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9780920862223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9780920862223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description