Author: Earl Chessher
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300635223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This print edition is also available in downloadable eBook and PDF formats. This is a novel of 95,000 words. Clayton has a story to tell. It's so good he loses track of what's real and what he is creating. As the author gets deeper into his novel, dealing with a deadly woman in a small town that's crazy for good murder gossip, somewhere along the way he crosses over. It's too late when Clayton finally realizes he's Leaving Reality. The good folks he meets along the way may not be enough to keep either of them, the author or his protagonist, alive. Some content is intended for mature adults.
Author: James Wollrab
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491736453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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This is the unusual story of a young lad who grows up in Alaska with his life dominated by dreams of playing hockey in the National Hockey League. His family and friends and home town all lend helping hands, but he has to battle on all levels past a personal adversary who tries to block him with every step. Only in the final chapter can we measure the success or failure of our young hero's life.
Author: Adam Wishart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781841155944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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This is a story of the battle for the control of the Internet. In November 1999, at the height of the e-commerce gold rush, an extraordinary hearing took place in a Los Angeles courtroom. On one side, the billion-dollar darling of Wall Street, eToys.com, the brain child of Toby Lenk. On the other side, etoy.com, a group of cutting-edge European artists, hungry for fame, who used the Internet as their canvas. The ensuing battle sharply focused attention on the conflict at the very heart of the Internet: was it for the joy of the many or the exponential profit of the few? Was cyberspace a revolutionary public space or was the new frontier an extension of the shopping mall?
Author: Ryan Young
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663202915
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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Veritas Mountain is a beacon of light in the coming tsunami of darkness called the “Religion of Self.” It offers a foundation in Truth within the storm of moral relativism. It is a great resource for those who are curious about the basic principles of the Christian Faith, for those in the faith who are learning how the faith applies to the contemporary norms of our day, and for those Catholics who have always gone through the motions of their faith but do not quite know why. Take this leap into faith and discover what it truly means to be a fruitful and faithful Christian in our world and how to live this life through the struggles and triumphs that are to come.
Author: Robert A. Parker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300237961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author Robert A. Parker has compiled here his critique of hundreds of novels he has read. This is the third of six volumes that cover authors alphabetically, in this case from George Gissing to Milan Kundera. More than 85 authors are represented, including Greene, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Hersey, Horgan, James, Joyce, Kazantzakis Kafka, Kennedy, and King. They reflect a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All works are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical and spiritual values of mankind. Here is a unique critical perspective that measures the meaning of literature against the meaning of life.
Author: Gilbert G. Germain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780739133682
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology provocatively argues that technology is best understood as an otherworldly or spiritual force. Under its influence, humans are fast becoming spirit-like creatures, beings who assume their bodies are incidental to what it means to be human and the "real world" an accidental quality of the human condition. Technology authorizes such an understanding and legitimates a manner of action that obscures the centrality of embodiment and its significance. Gil Germain challenges many of the assumptions underpinning the technological worldview through a reading of leading contemporary theorists who have addressed the interconnection between technology and disembodiment. The book both reveals and contests the multifarious ways in which technology's spiritual thrust is manifested in contemporary thought and practice. While respecting technology's hold on modernity and its predisposition toward disembodiment, Germain gives important reasons why this inclination toward spiritizaiion ought to be resisted and what shape this resistance must take if it is to be meaningful. Gil Germain is associate professor of political studies at the University of Prince Edward Book jacket.
Author: Miryam Sas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736497
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings that challenge and break apart clear and bounded conceptions of language, poetry, and meaning.
Author: Tom Phillips
Publisher: Wildfire
ISBN: 1472283392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolutely are). But while it can be fun to indulge in a bit of Deep State banter on the group chat, recent times have shown us that some of these theories have taken on a life of their own - and in our dogged quest for the truth, it appears we might actually be doing it some damage. In Conspiracy, Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge take us on a fascinating, insightful and often hilarious journey through conspiracy theories old and new, to try and answer a vital question for our times: how can we learn to log off the QAnon message boards, and start trusting hard evidence again? Praise for the Brief History series: 'Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing... You should probably read it' Sarah Knight, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck 'Brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant' Jeremy Clarkson 'Very funny' Mark Watson 'Both readable and entertaining' Telegraph
Author: Stephen J. Pope
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608332764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Christopher Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113662497X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas. The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a universal and teleological history; a universal human nature; or an autonomous individual? It addresses whether postmodern theories - concerning the movement of time, what it means to be human, and what it means to be an individual/subject - can be accommodated within a theory of a history that ends in liberal democracy. The author argues that incorporating elements of postmodern thought into Fukuyama’s theory makes it possible to produce a stronger and more compelling account of the theory that liberal democracy is the end of history. The result of this is to underpin Fukuyama’s theory with a more complex understanding of the movement of time, the human and the individual, and to show that postmodern concepts can, paradoxically, be used to strengthen Fukuyama’s theory that the end of history is liberal democracy. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, postmodernism and the work of Francis Fukuyama.
