Author: Mark Marinaccio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578764955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Being the son of an ambassador is never easy but being from a race of alien-human hybrids, known as Travelers, makes life for Kellan and his girlfriend, Tendra, even more difficult. All they want is to be like everyone else on Earth, but when they come face to face with a group of anti-Trav humans, their lives are changed forever.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly-formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe - specifically human-alien hybrid children. When terrorists threaten Kate's ability to protect Sabrina, a Traveler child, Kate draws on strengths that she never knew she had, becoming entangled with the aliens, her own government, and a conspiracy that turns her world upside down.Alien-human hybrids who have no memory of their past are headed to Earth!Children with mysterious superpowers are being abducted! Deep seeded Government secrets threaten the stability of the planet and?A desperate federal agent searches for the daughter that she never knew she had!The first book in the HUMANS, GODS, and HYBRIDS series challenges everything you thought you knew about first contact with an alien race.
Humans, Gods, and Hybrids
Author: Mark Marinaccio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578764955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Being the son of an ambassador is never easy but being from a race of alien-human hybrids, known as Travelers, makes life for Kellan and his girlfriend, Tendra, even more difficult. All they want is to be like everyone else on Earth, but when they come face to face with a group of anti-Trav humans, their lives are changed forever.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly-formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe - specifically human-alien hybrid children. When terrorists threaten Kate's ability to protect Sabrina, a Traveler child, Kate draws on strengths that she never knew she had, becoming entangled with the aliens, her own government, and a conspiracy that turns her world upside down.Alien-human hybrids who have no memory of their past are headed to Earth!Children with mysterious superpowers are being abducted! Deep seeded Government secrets threaten the stability of the planet and?A desperate federal agent searches for the daughter that she never knew she had!The first book in the HUMANS, GODS, and HYBRIDS series challenges everything you thought you knew about first contact with an alien race.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578764955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Being the son of an ambassador is never easy but being from a race of alien-human hybrids, known as Travelers, makes life for Kellan and his girlfriend, Tendra, even more difficult. All they want is to be like everyone else on Earth, but when they come face to face with a group of anti-Trav humans, their lives are changed forever.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly-formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe - specifically human-alien hybrid children. When terrorists threaten Kate's ability to protect Sabrina, a Traveler child, Kate draws on strengths that she never knew she had, becoming entangled with the aliens, her own government, and a conspiracy that turns her world upside down.Alien-human hybrids who have no memory of their past are headed to Earth!Children with mysterious superpowers are being abducted! Deep seeded Government secrets threaten the stability of the planet and?A desperate federal agent searches for the daughter that she never knew she had!The first book in the HUMANS, GODS, and HYBRIDS series challenges everything you thought you knew about first contact with an alien race.
Reproduction
Author: Nick Hopwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108626084
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1387
Book Description
From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108626084
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1387
Book Description
From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Author: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525562710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525562710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Gods and Robots
Author: Adrienne Mayor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Author: Brigitte Faugère
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607329956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands, Latin American, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the Precolumbian communities of the Mexican highlands. Reading these anthropomorphic representations from an ontological perspective, the contributors demonstrate the rich potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body, and the relationship of human beings to other entities, nature, and the cosmos. Using case studies covering a broad span of highlands prehistory—Classic Teotihuacan divine iconography, ceramic figures in Late Formative West Mexico, Epiclassic Puebla-Tlaxcala costumed figurines, earth sculptures in Prehispanic Oaxaca, Early Postclassic Tula symbolic burials, Late Postclassic representations of Aztec Kings, and more—contributors examine both Mesoamerican representations of the body in changing social, political, and economic conditions and the multivalent emic meanings of these representations. They explore the technology of artifact production, the body’s place in social structures and rituals, the language of the body as expressed in postures and gestures, hybrid and transformative combinations of human and animal bodies, bodily representations of social categories, body modification, and the significance of portable and fixed representations. Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands provides a wide range of insights into Mesoamerican concepts of personhood and identity, the constitution of the human body, and human relationships with gods and ancestors. It will be of great value to students and scholars of the archaeology and art history of Mexico. Contributors: Claire Billard, Danièle Dehouve, Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Melissa Logan, Sylvie Peperstraete, Patricia Plunket, Mari Carmen Serra Puche, Juliette Testard, Andrew Turner, Gabriela Uruñuela, Marcus Winter
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607329956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands, Latin American, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the Precolumbian communities of the Mexican highlands. Reading these anthropomorphic representations from an ontological perspective, the contributors demonstrate the rich potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body, and the relationship of human beings to other entities, nature, and the cosmos. Using case studies covering a broad span of highlands prehistory—Classic Teotihuacan divine iconography, ceramic figures in Late Formative West Mexico, Epiclassic Puebla-Tlaxcala costumed figurines, earth sculptures in Prehispanic Oaxaca, Early Postclassic Tula symbolic burials, Late Postclassic representations of Aztec Kings, and more—contributors examine both Mesoamerican representations of the body in changing social, political, and economic conditions and the multivalent emic meanings of these representations. They explore the technology of artifact production, the body’s place in social structures and rituals, the language of the body as expressed in postures and gestures, hybrid and transformative combinations of human and animal bodies, bodily representations of social categories, body modification, and the significance of portable and fixed representations. Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands provides a wide range of insights into Mesoamerican concepts of personhood and identity, the constitution of the human body, and human relationships with gods and ancestors. It will be of great value to students and scholars of the archaeology and art history of Mexico. Contributors: Claire Billard, Danièle Dehouve, Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Melissa Logan, Sylvie Peperstraete, Patricia Plunket, Mari Carmen Serra Puche, Juliette Testard, Andrew Turner, Gabriela Uruñuela, Marcus Winter
Hybrids
Author: Whitley Strieber
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Imagines a world where victims of alien abductions have been used in the creation of human-alien hybrids capable of pursuing alien agendas while walking freely as undetected human beings.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Imagines a world where victims of alien abductions have been used in the creation of human-alien hybrids capable of pursuing alien agendas while walking freely as undetected human beings.
Sōtēria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity
Author: David du Toit
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
In Sōtēria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity, an international team of scholars assembles to honour the distinguished academic career of New Testament scholar Cilliers Breytenbach. Colleagues and friends consider in which manner concepts of salvation were constructed in early Christianity and its Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts. Studies on aspects of soteriology in the New Testament writings, such as in the narratives on Jesus’ life and work, and theological interpretations of his life and death in the epistolary literature, are supplemented by studies on salvation in the Apostolic Fathers, Marcion, early Christian inscriptions and Antiochian theology. The volume starts with some exemplary studies on salvation in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Septuagint, and popular Graeco-Roman literature and philosophy. Furthermore, some contributions shed light on the ancient cultural background of early Christian soteriological concepts.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
In Sōtēria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity, an international team of scholars assembles to honour the distinguished academic career of New Testament scholar Cilliers Breytenbach. Colleagues and friends consider in which manner concepts of salvation were constructed in early Christianity and its Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts. Studies on aspects of soteriology in the New Testament writings, such as in the narratives on Jesus’ life and work, and theological interpretations of his life and death in the epistolary literature, are supplemented by studies on salvation in the Apostolic Fathers, Marcion, early Christian inscriptions and Antiochian theology. The volume starts with some exemplary studies on salvation in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Septuagint, and popular Graeco-Roman literature and philosophy. Furthermore, some contributions shed light on the ancient cultural background of early Christian soteriological concepts.
Denisovan Origins
Author: Andrew Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591432642
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world • Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago • Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture • Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architecture Ice-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia. Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls. Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591432642
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world • Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago • Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture • Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architecture Ice-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia. Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls. Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.
A Tale of a Human Dragon Hybrid
Author: Ryan Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
At first he was an outsider, now the hybrid has risen to the top ofeverything and rules Shimabellia under his hands. Three years heruled over the island and rid the last loyal followers of his fallenpredecessor.Now, he continues his journey to find the last armor artifact in hopesto regain what power that's been lost to him and use to have a finalconfrontation against his last remaining foe: the Shadow KingLusìvar. But soon finds a great catastrophe befalling upon the island.Soon, they travel to the neighboring island of Isla Maeli and travelswith his loyal White Knights to retrieve the final armor artifact. Butin doing so will result in the worst tragedy the hybrid will make thefeel the worst feeling of despair he has never felt before.Will he end up falling from grace and does become a monster? Willhe be able to overcome the tragedy he suffers and still move forwardon his path? Will he finally face off against Lusìvar and bring aneverlasting peace to the two islands? Or will the Shadow Kingforever rule the realm of the mortals? All the answers lie ahead in thefinal tale of the human dragon hybrid...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
At first he was an outsider, now the hybrid has risen to the top ofeverything and rules Shimabellia under his hands. Three years heruled over the island and rid the last loyal followers of his fallenpredecessor.Now, he continues his journey to find the last armor artifact in hopesto regain what power that's been lost to him and use to have a finalconfrontation against his last remaining foe: the Shadow KingLusìvar. But soon finds a great catastrophe befalling upon the island.Soon, they travel to the neighboring island of Isla Maeli and travelswith his loyal White Knights to retrieve the final armor artifact. Butin doing so will result in the worst tragedy the hybrid will make thefeel the worst feeling of despair he has never felt before.Will he end up falling from grace and does become a monster? Willhe be able to overcome the tragedy he suffers and still move forwardon his path? Will he finally face off against Lusìvar and bring aneverlasting peace to the two islands? Or will the Shadow Kingforever rule the realm of the mortals? All the answers lie ahead in thefinal tale of the human dragon hybrid...
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.