Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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When Lyle Taney took leave from her teaching job to live high in the mountains, researching the ways of eagles, she was just planning to write her next book. Lasater was an unscrupulous, skilled operative who thought he could maneuver her as he pleased. He believed women were incapable of making ethical or moral decisions--and he was wrong. When the obscure government agent from an anonymous department tried to force Lyle to spy on her mysterious neighbors, she resisted. But, the first step had already been taken, involving her in a life-and-death struggle.
Author: Gloria N. Cassum
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595469280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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After the ravages of the Great Civil War in heaven, God replaces both the dead and Fallen to fill the vacancies their duties demand. These replacements are slightly modified to ensure revolution would not occur again. Viziel is the first reborn, suspected by many to be a close replica of Lucifer himself, and thus a horrific danger to all of heaven. His assigned duties are withheld from him until he bow before the very throne of God, an allowance granted only to the most honorable of God's servants or most vicious of traitors. Before God's throne he is named the Angel of Chaos. Unfortunately, because chaos naturally opposes God's providential order, God has no choice but to command Viziel's betrayal. If Viziel refuses the order he is treacherous, if he obeys, a traitor nonetheless. The commandment is a paradox, which cannot be defied. Due to his unavoidable transgression, Viziel is sentenced to execution so as not to feed Lucifer with new recruits. In his imprisonment, before a formal facade of a trial, a superior informs Viziel that his execution is meant as a symbolic victory to God as overcoming his chaotic forces. Viziel's execution does not end in death, but reincarnation, where he will again be reformed, assigned as Angel of Chaos, and executed for his natural defiance once more. This damned reincarnation is eternal. God imposes this perpetual punishment to reinforce his never ending control over chaos and secure the safety of his providential design as well as all the beings within it, especially His most prized - humanity. Viziel, as Angel of Chaos, however, has a unique power to invoke discord. As a result, his execution goes horribly wrong. Chaos is unleashed to fulfill his own agenda. This is the story of the beginning of his revenge."
Author: Claire Farrell
Publisher: Claire Farrell
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 955
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The first three books in the Chaos series. Soul Cara Kelly’s life is going nowhere when she’s lured to a faery festival. There she sees darkness and magic, madness and lust, and she comes out the other side with new eyes and an addiction to the fae. When the faery who saved her life returns to her, Cara knows there’s something wrong. Two souls exist in one body, and both need her, but to help one, she’ll end the life of the other. At first, her mind is made up, but both souls know how to charm her. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the faeries need a leader, and Cara finds herself sucked into a world where morals don’t exist. The truth of her past is hidden in the magic, but all Cara needs to do is survive the king’s coronation, then the fae will let her go forever. But that’s not what she wants anymore, and it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a king and a half-blooded solitary fae. Cara’s losing her way, and her heart, to the fae, but there’s still her life, and her humanity, left to lose. Fade Cara Kelly should have left the faery realm now that it has a king to rule all, but nothing is that simple. The real king is trapped in the Fade, and Cara’s journey is just beginning. Guilt-ridden by the fact Brendan’s soul was sacrificed for hers, she’s determined not to desert him after his one pure act of goodness. Time is running out; even if she makes it past all of the dangers of the Darkside, a shade might await her in the Fade. Running from enemy and friends alike, she sets out on a path that will lead headfirst into danger. Even if Cara makes it to the Fade, even if a goddess watches over her, she doesn’t trust all of her companions, she still has to find a way home, and freeing Brendan could cause a war between the faeries she cares about. And all the while, Chaos grows unchecked. Queen Three kings. Two queens. One heir. Chaos will rule...
Author: Maija Luomala
Publisher: Maijamedia Oy
ISBN: 9526831853
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Every thought you have, has an emotion attached to it. Everything’s made of energy and it’s vibrating in your subconscious mind with a certain frequency. What we can do to help ourselves to calm our mind, to be more focused and concentrate better, is to remove the emotion that’s attached to the thought. When we actively use a tool that’s especially created for a certain purpose, we tend to move the thoughts and emotions from our unconscious to our conscious mind and release emotions that have been attached to the thought or matter. This stress management book help you to calm your mind down with easy tips and tricks. The Book of Chaos and Harmony will help you to make your dreams come true and to organize your projects. Secret weapon for better concentration ♥ Are you striving for balance in your life? Do you want to forget constant tiredness and stress? People with entrepreneur spirit are often overbooked with numerous ideas and thoughts making their lives hectic and uncontrollable. The book aids you to concentrate on important things instead of stress and hurry. You will also notice the right angles of matters and go to them much faster. This stress eliminating book is a marvelous tool for life and stress management. You cannot totally avoid stress but a right kind of life management will help you towards lightness and peace of mind. A more peaceful mind allows you to be more present at this moment. The book will lead you where you have always wanted to go, where you can be free of responsibilities and conflicts of creativity. Who is this book for? The answer to the question is quite a cliché – it’s for everybody. The Book of Chaos and Harmony helps the young and old, you and me. The book is meant to enhance ideas and absolutely anyone can use its benefits. Cannot concentrate? The book helps you to focus. It’s a tool for an imaginative but stressed person as well as an enterprising and creative person who’s always in a hurry, who’s got all kinds of things going on and don’t have enough time for much anything. The book is recommended for apathy, depression or when you need that certain spark to your life. Or if you just want to enjoy being organized. It helps to get rid of anxiety, unnecessary hastiness and insomnia. The book also is said to improve self-knowledge and being therapeutic. This book is the right choice when you want to advance in your personal life, get stress reduced and clear the ongoing chaotic situation in your life. The relief brought by the book is long-lasting: if you use it regularly, it continues to create balance and peace of mind. A functional workbook and a tool for managing stress + an easy-to-follow guidance. It’s a great gift! When you puzzle over a question “What to buy for a gift?”, this practical book is an appreciated and a delightful present. The Book of Chaos and Harmony is the best possible gift especially to yourself, but also for a friend who’s too busy, a loved one, a relative or anyone that wishes for happiness and balance. No more insomnia! This book will help you to get sleep "What a wonderful book! I was able to calm my nights down almost straight after I started using this book. I keep the book on my bedside table. If I have any trouble getting sleep during the night, I clear my mind by writing down my thoughts in the book. Simply knowing that the book is there, will help. If something bothers me in the night, I just write it down in the book. This way I don’t have to worry all night long or try to remember my thoughts in the morning.I use the book 4-7 times a week, mainly during nights. It has reduced my stress 80% and calmed my sleep a lot, which has also balanced my day time. Likewise, I’m no longer afraid to go to bed and try to fall asleep, because I know the rescue is on my bedside table should I feel stressed or anguished.I’m so excited about this book! It’s unbelievable but I haven’t felt this relaxed for years. The book is my best bedtime pal and a reliable friend I can tell everything to." – Minna, 40 years old About the book This 60-page book is practical and provides plenty of pages for both notes and remarks. The size is a little smaller than A4 so it fits easily in a folder or a bag. - A separate chapter & how to control chaos - A separate chapter & how to organize your thoughts and ideas - 20 pages on the Chaos side for you to fill in - 20 pages on the Harmony side for you to fill in
Author: Bob Hodge
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK
ISBN: 9788763002356
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Summary: Four social scientists from the University of Western Sydney explore management and organizations today, along with their theories and practices, as the 2008 worldwide financial crisis continues, from a perspective that questions much of the intellectual trappings of neo-liberalism. They cover what is wrong with business education, the Larrikin Principle, managerialism, neo-liberalism and its discontents, corruption, power versus goodness at the edge of chaos, soft capital and the informal polity, and culture and organizations in a global world.
Author: Brian Clegg
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539691
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Chaos and complexity explained, with illuminating examples ranging from unpredictable pendulums to London's wobbly Millennium Bridge. The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components—the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market—means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world. In Everyday Chaos, Brian Clegg explains chaos and complexity for the general reader, with an accessible, engaging text and striking full-color illustrations. By chaos, Clegg means a system where complex interactions make predicting long-term outcomes nearly impossible; complexity means complex interacting systems that have new emergent properties that make them more than the sum of their parts. Clegg illustrates these phenomena with discussions of predictable randomness, the power of probability, and the behavior of pendulums. He describes what Newton got wrong about gravity; how feedback kept steam engines from exploding; and why weather produces chaos. He considers the stock market, politics, bestseller lists, big data, and London's wobbling Millennium Bridge as examples of chaotic systems, and he explains how a better understanding of chaos helps scientists predict more accurately the risk of catastrophic Earth-asteroid collisions. We learn that our brains are complex, self-organizing systems; that the structure of snowflakes exemplifies emergence; and that life itself has been shown to be an emergent property of a complex system.
Author: Shimon Levy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802071628
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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An exploration of Samuel Beckett's drama, using the criteria that ensue from the works themselves, with particular attention given to the relationship between the medium and the message. This fully revised second edition includes chapters on the radioplays and film and television scripts.
Author: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587153300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.
Author: Linda Chamberlain
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317714768
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Psychology and the social sciences are in need of a new foundation, one that provides a better model for understanding complex behavior. Chaos theory and its newest permutation, complexity theory, offers an innovative, exciting and potentially revolutionary leap forward in the evolution of scientific thought. In Clinical Chaos, therapists and theoreticians from various areas in the social sciences will explore the relevance and implications for non-linear dynamics in observing, explaining, and understanding human behavior. At last, the scientific search can again encompass surprise, transformation, unpredictability, and pattern. This book is intended to introduce social scientists to chaos through paths that are already familiar. By linking chaos theory with existing psychological theories and established areas of clinical pursuit, Clinical Chaos emphasizes the relevance of this new science in providing a more flexible useful model for complexities of life.
Author: Beth Bratkovic
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452074097
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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This book is about the many different ways that leadership can be integrated into life. When John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader," he did a good job of crystallizing this approach to leadership. Consider the influence you have each and every day with the people in your life - from the people you work with, plan with, eat with, chat with, coach, cajole, or even simply meet on the street. Two things have influenced me throughout life: leadership and rock and roll. Leadership has been my professional life; I've been learning about it, practicing it, and training others to lead for more than twenty years. I've been listening to rock and roll, and getting inspired by it, for a lot longer than twenty years. The concept of this book is born from one fact: there is an opportunity for ineffective leaders to become tolerable, for tolerable leaders to become good, and for good leaders to become great. How are you using your life to become a better leader? This book provides some anecdotes and a framework to help you apply leadership to every aspect of your life.
