Author: Derek Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781530961450
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
What if I told you you'd be dead in a year? That a food corporation would experiment with genetic modification, and nearly destroy the human race. Would you believe me? Sounds crazy, right? Because nobody can see the future. Nobody but me. And what I see isn't pretty. A dystopian wasteland. Bodies rotting to nothing in the streets. Humans on the brink of survival. The wilderness eating away at what used to be my hometown. A shadow organization rounding up children. Bands of warring tribes. And let's not forget the modifieds - the zombie-like remains of what used to be the human race. Civilization is destroyed. There is no chance to undo the damage. No one can save the world... except me. Because for me, it hasn't even happened yet. For me, it might never happen. The only thing is, the more time I spend in the future, the less I want to erase it. Stopping the future might break me... I'd be erasing a face, a smile, that I never want to forget. This is Part One of Prescient, a dystopian time-travel based on the Oracle of Delphi.
Prescient
Author: Derek Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781530961450
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
What if I told you you'd be dead in a year? That a food corporation would experiment with genetic modification, and nearly destroy the human race. Would you believe me? Sounds crazy, right? Because nobody can see the future. Nobody but me. And what I see isn't pretty. A dystopian wasteland. Bodies rotting to nothing in the streets. Humans on the brink of survival. The wilderness eating away at what used to be my hometown. A shadow organization rounding up children. Bands of warring tribes. And let's not forget the modifieds - the zombie-like remains of what used to be the human race. Civilization is destroyed. There is no chance to undo the damage. No one can save the world... except me. Because for me, it hasn't even happened yet. For me, it might never happen. The only thing is, the more time I spend in the future, the less I want to erase it. Stopping the future might break me... I'd be erasing a face, a smile, that I never want to forget. This is Part One of Prescient, a dystopian time-travel based on the Oracle of Delphi.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781530961450
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
What if I told you you'd be dead in a year? That a food corporation would experiment with genetic modification, and nearly destroy the human race. Would you believe me? Sounds crazy, right? Because nobody can see the future. Nobody but me. And what I see isn't pretty. A dystopian wasteland. Bodies rotting to nothing in the streets. Humans on the brink of survival. The wilderness eating away at what used to be my hometown. A shadow organization rounding up children. Bands of warring tribes. And let's not forget the modifieds - the zombie-like remains of what used to be the human race. Civilization is destroyed. There is no chance to undo the damage. No one can save the world... except me. Because for me, it hasn't even happened yet. For me, it might never happen. The only thing is, the more time I spend in the future, the less I want to erase it. Stopping the future might break me... I'd be erasing a face, a smile, that I never want to forget. This is Part One of Prescient, a dystopian time-travel based on the Oracle of Delphi.
Animals Looking Into the Future
Author: William Allison Kepner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Secrecy
Author: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Traces the development of secrecy as a government policy over the twentieth century and its adverse effects on Cold War policy making
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Traces the development of secrecy as a government policy over the twentieth century and its adverse effects on Cold War policy making
Pride and Prescience
Author: Carrie Bebris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765305089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Just after their wedding, the newlywed hero and heroine of Pride & Prejudice become involved in a bizarre mystery involving wedding guest Caroline Bingley, who has become engaged to wed a wealthy, charismatic American.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765305089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Just after their wedding, the newlywed hero and heroine of Pride & Prejudice become involved in a bizarre mystery involving wedding guest Caroline Bingley, who has become engaged to wed a wealthy, charismatic American.
Prescient Visions
Author: Eric Pepin
Publisher: Higher Balance Pub.
ISBN: 9781939410177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
Prescience is more than seeing the future. It's a state of limitless awareness not restricted by time or space. It is to have presence in all time, in all places, all at once. Imagine having access to the entire collection of human experience. You see all, feel all. Your visions span from extraordinary future worlds to ancient civilizations. You are a seer of time. Through the backdoor of your mind's eye, you choose your destination, fixate your gaze and all that was hidden no longer remains in question. Prescient Visions picks up where Guild of PSI left off . In this book you will: Explore the process of conscious weather manipulation - From dissolving clouds in the sky, to calming the wind, to bringing forth a storm. There will no longer be any doubt that you are capable of changing reality. See the unseen - Use remote viewing to access dimensional doorways, experience otherworldly beings from aliens to entities and more. Receive the three most crucial ingredients to successful power manifestations and gracefully deter the backlash commonly experienced with programming reality. The Controversial Truth Of Sexuality - The common thread that binds enlightened masters of past and present and what this means for your own Awakening. The reality behind the Darkside, and the ongoing battle between life and anti-matter that is taking place all around you. How a dying flower blooming back to life holds the key to dramatically accelerate healing. A new era is upon us - one where spiritual people are no longer bound to metaphorical caves but are empowered to experience realities and phenomena beyond their wildest dreams. Join us on a journey through Prescient Visions. Eric Pepin, the #1 Amazon bestselling author, leads the way with unique teaching methods and an immeasurable understanding of the Universe to deliver profoundly satisfying answers and experiences."
Publisher: Higher Balance Pub.
ISBN: 9781939410177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
Prescience is more than seeing the future. It's a state of limitless awareness not restricted by time or space. It is to have presence in all time, in all places, all at once. Imagine having access to the entire collection of human experience. You see all, feel all. Your visions span from extraordinary future worlds to ancient civilizations. You are a seer of time. Through the backdoor of your mind's eye, you choose your destination, fixate your gaze and all that was hidden no longer remains in question. Prescient Visions picks up where Guild of PSI left off . In this book you will: Explore the process of conscious weather manipulation - From dissolving clouds in the sky, to calming the wind, to bringing forth a storm. There will no longer be any doubt that you are capable of changing reality. See the unseen - Use remote viewing to access dimensional doorways, experience otherworldly beings from aliens to entities and more. Receive the three most crucial ingredients to successful power manifestations and gracefully deter the backlash commonly experienced with programming reality. The Controversial Truth Of Sexuality - The common thread that binds enlightened masters of past and present and what this means for your own Awakening. The reality behind the Darkside, and the ongoing battle between life and anti-matter that is taking place all around you. How a dying flower blooming back to life holds the key to dramatically accelerate healing. A new era is upon us - one where spiritual people are no longer bound to metaphorical caves but are empowered to experience realities and phenomena beyond their wildest dreams. Join us on a journey through Prescient Visions. Eric Pepin, the #1 Amazon bestselling author, leads the way with unique teaching methods and an immeasurable understanding of the Universe to deliver profoundly satisfying answers and experiences."
The Quick and the Dead
Author: Joy Williams
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776382X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776382X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."
Public Negotiations
Author: Ariana E. Vigil
Publisher: Global Latin/O Americas
ISBN: 9780814255575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere and representations of gender are negotiated through mass media in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
Publisher: Global Latin/O Americas
ISBN: 9780814255575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere and representations of gender are negotiated through mass media in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
After Disaster
Author: Thomas A. Birkland
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878406531
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878406531
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--P. [4] of cover.
The Cambridge Companion to Boethius
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828150
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued theological treatises, all of which were enormously influential on medieval thought. But Boethius was more than a writer who passed on important ancient ideas to the Middle Ages. The essays here by leading specialists, which cover all the main aspects of his writing and its influence, show that he was a distinctive thinker, whose arguments repay careful analysis and who used his literary talents in conjunction with his philosophical abilities to present a complex view of the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828150
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued theological treatises, all of which were enormously influential on medieval thought. But Boethius was more than a writer who passed on important ancient ideas to the Middle Ages. The essays here by leading specialists, which cover all the main aspects of his writing and its influence, show that he was a distinctive thinker, whose arguments repay careful analysis and who used his literary talents in conjunction with his philosophical abilities to present a complex view of the world.
The End of October
Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.