Author: Alan Jackson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411642783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Do you like your fiction short and snappy? This collection is a melange of flash fiction and more conventional length stories. A collection of 18 short stories by Alan Jackson, ranging in scope from Regency Erotica to conversations with the Devil. Includes the stories Sometimes I feel like I don't have a problem and Hellhounds on my trail.
Armageddon to Zen
Author: Alan Jackson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411642783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Do you like your fiction short and snappy? This collection is a melange of flash fiction and more conventional length stories. A collection of 18 short stories by Alan Jackson, ranging in scope from Regency Erotica to conversations with the Devil. Includes the stories Sometimes I feel like I don't have a problem and Hellhounds on my trail.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411642783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Do you like your fiction short and snappy? This collection is a melange of flash fiction and more conventional length stories. A collection of 18 short stories by Alan Jackson, ranging in scope from Regency Erotica to conversations with the Devil. Includes the stories Sometimes I feel like I don't have a problem and Hellhounds on my trail.
Armageddon
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Zen at War
Author: Brian Daizen Victoria
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461647479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461647479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Bow First, Ask Questions Later
Author: Gesshin Claire Greenwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614294119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
What happens when a liberal, free-spirited, modern American girl goes on a spiritual quest into structured, disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life? Gesshin Claire Greenwood was a liberal, free-spirited American girl who found meaning and freedom in disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life. However, she came to question not only contemporary American values but also traditional monastic ones. This book is about becoming an adult—about sexuality, religion, work, ethics, and individuality—but it is also about being a human being trying to be happy. Questioning is a theme that runs throughout the book: how can I be happy? What is true? What is authentic? The reader is invited along a journey that is difficult, inspiring, sad, funny, and sincere.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614294119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
What happens when a liberal, free-spirited, modern American girl goes on a spiritual quest into structured, disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life? Gesshin Claire Greenwood was a liberal, free-spirited American girl who found meaning and freedom in disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life. However, she came to question not only contemporary American values but also traditional monastic ones. This book is about becoming an adult—about sexuality, religion, work, ethics, and individuality—but it is also about being a human being trying to be happy. Questioning is a theme that runs throughout the book: how can I be happy? What is true? What is authentic? The reader is invited along a journey that is difficult, inspiring, sad, funny, and sincere.
Avoiding Armageddon
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441123873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War. Black links the two World Wars, between the overcoming of trench warfare in the campaigns of 1918 and the fall of France in 1940. This was a period when militaries, governments and publics digested the lessons of the Great War and prepared for another major struggle. Black also locates the period in terms of long-term questions in military history, including the relationship between symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare, the tensions surrounding innovation, the pressures and possibilities created by technological change and the impact of ideology on the causes and conduct of war. Avoiding Armageddon devotes particular attention to the Far East as part of Black's worldwide coverage. He also assesses the role of the military in internal politics and establishes the importance of civil wars.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441123873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War. Black links the two World Wars, between the overcoming of trench warfare in the campaigns of 1918 and the fall of France in 1940. This was a period when militaries, governments and publics digested the lessons of the Great War and prepared for another major struggle. Black also locates the period in terms of long-term questions in military history, including the relationship between symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare, the tensions surrounding innovation, the pressures and possibilities created by technological change and the impact of ideology on the causes and conduct of war. Avoiding Armageddon devotes particular attention to the Far East as part of Black's worldwide coverage. He also assesses the role of the military in internal politics and establishes the importance of civil wars.
The Five Keys to the Kingdom of the Apocalypse
Author: Duncan Alexander McKenzie
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105727483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Thermonuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Mankind now has the power to harness the fires of Hell. Terrorism may strike at any time, and in any place. A billionaire industrialist has tasked himself with the destruction of the human race. This is to allow the unfettered supremacy of artificial intelligence. A computer science student from Scotland is drawn into his cult, and then frees himself from its grasp when he discovers their true agenda. Human vivisection, spontaneous human combustion and entombment while alive are some of the themes of this story. From the paradise of bisexual orgies to the fires of Hell. It's an amazing tale. But the most frightening thing is that it presents a credible scenario. It will answer the question, 'Are human beings now obsolete and will Homo sapiens be superseded by machines?' The battle has begun for the fate of the Earth. Would you sacrifice yourself to the terrors and the fires of Hell to save your loved ones and the planet? One day you may be asked to. Be ready.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105727483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Thermonuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Mankind now has the power to harness the fires of Hell. Terrorism may strike at any time, and in any place. A billionaire industrialist has tasked himself with the destruction of the human race. This is to allow the unfettered supremacy of artificial intelligence. A computer science student from Scotland is drawn into his cult, and then frees himself from its grasp when he discovers their true agenda. Human vivisection, spontaneous human combustion and entombment while alive are some of the themes of this story. From the paradise of bisexual orgies to the fires of Hell. It's an amazing tale. But the most frightening thing is that it presents a credible scenario. It will answer the question, 'Are human beings now obsolete and will Homo sapiens be superseded by machines?' The battle has begun for the fate of the Earth. Would you sacrifice yourself to the terrors and the fires of Hell to save your loved ones and the planet? One day you may be asked to. Be ready.
Armageddon
Author: Dale Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The sixth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland - a top-secret USAF weapons research centre. Whilst relaxing on the beach in Brunei as guest of the Sultan, Dreamland's Breanna and Zen are shot at by unknown assailants. Then suddenly Brunei is under attack from terrorists.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The sixth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland - a top-secret USAF weapons research centre. Whilst relaxing on the beach in Brunei as guest of the Sultan, Dreamland's Breanna and Zen are shot at by unknown assailants. Then suddenly Brunei is under attack from terrorists.
Armageddon's Arrow
Author: Dayton Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
When the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien vessel that is actually a weapon capable of destroying entire worlds, her crew is plunged into the middle of a conflict in which both sides will do anything to possess the weapon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
When the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien vessel that is actually a weapon capable of destroying entire worlds, her crew is plunged into the middle of a conflict in which both sides will do anything to possess the weapon.
Expecting Armageddon
Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135210365
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135210365
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.
Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code
Author: Jay Bonansinga
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250776821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code, the world-famous architect of the Marvel Universe, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Jay Bonansinga to unleash a bold new superhero series on the world. A five-person special ops unit, composed of a diverse assortment of former Navy SEALS from all walks of life, are responding to a terrorist threat deep in the Caucasus Mountains when their mission goes south in a big way. Facing certain death and torture, they’re unexpectedly offered a Faustian bargain by the Devil himself, who grants them unearthly powers in order to send evildoers to Hell on his fiendish behalf. But “The Devil’s Quintet” do things their own way, fighting to protect America and the world, while trying their best not to let their hellish new abilities corrupt them beyond redemption . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250776821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code, the world-famous architect of the Marvel Universe, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Jay Bonansinga to unleash a bold new superhero series on the world. A five-person special ops unit, composed of a diverse assortment of former Navy SEALS from all walks of life, are responding to a terrorist threat deep in the Caucasus Mountains when their mission goes south in a big way. Facing certain death and torture, they’re unexpectedly offered a Faustian bargain by the Devil himself, who grants them unearthly powers in order to send evildoers to Hell on his fiendish behalf. But “The Devil’s Quintet” do things their own way, fighting to protect America and the world, while trying their best not to let their hellish new abilities corrupt them beyond redemption . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.