EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Alien Rites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Nicholas Davies
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-28
  • ISBN : 1351163108
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Alien Rites written by Peter Nicholas Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines some of the issues arising from the recent introduction of contemporary English language into Anglican worship, especially in the authorised liturgy of England and New Zealand. Three key questions are addressed. Are there criteria for worship which are satisfactorily fulfilled by contemporary language? To what extent is the language used in modern liturgies truly contemporary, reflecting its social and cultural milieu? How has the introduction of contemporary language been received by regular Anglican worshippers? Based on a large body of evidence, the author reaches conclusions which are both reassuring and disturbing.

Book Adulthood Rites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Octavia E. Butler
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2023-03-28
  • ISBN : 1538765470
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Adulthood Rites written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost. The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion. Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.

Book Alien Land Laws and Alien Rights

Download or read book Alien Land Laws and Alien Rights written by Charles Forrest Curry and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alien Rites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn S. Hightower
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-07
  • ISBN : 9780756794675
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Alien Rites written by Lynn S. Hightower and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boys in homicide have a new partner -- he looks like a 7-foot stingray & smells like fresh limes. But he's one hell of a cop . . . . Lynn S. Hightower's electrifying near-future thrillers -- starring a human cop & his alien partner -- have won the unanimous praise of critics & fans. Now Detective David Silver & his Elaki partner String return, up to their necks in an Elaki blood feud. A local college student is missing, his abandoned car stained with human & Elaki blood. Two days later, a professor from the same university disappears. Silver & String know there is a connection, but what they uncover in the grimy shadows of Elaki-Town is a dark conspiracy of murder & revenge that could change the way humans & Elaki look at each other forever.

Book Alien Rites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Hightower
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 1504021282
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Alien Rites written by Lynn Hightower and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicide cop David Silver and his Elaki partner hunt an arsonist/killer who exterminates humans and aliens alike Saigo City is caught in the grip of a savage murder spree by a perp who kills without compunction, then eliminates the evidence by torching the crime scenes. After a private residence is set on fire, killing two adults and four children, the hunt intensifies for this monster who seems intent on destroying both humans and Elakis. But there may be something else going on. The arsonist is targeting supper clubs, and afterward, the burned-out real estate is being snatched up by members of a sinister cult. With the help of an Elaki law enforcer named String and the alluring female psychic Teddy Blake, homicide detective David Silver follows his instincts and uncovers two startling connections between the arson killings: a shadowy mind institute and the disappearance of a Chicago heiress. As he moves closer to the truth, Silver is thrust into the line of fire. His marriage and life are on the line as he races to unmask the killer before the uneasy peace between humans and Elakis is destroyed forever.

Book Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean

Download or read book Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.

Book The British Critic

Download or read book The British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law

Download or read book The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law written by Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers a comprehensive legal study of international legal obligations of States for the protection of aliens lawfully residing against arbitrary expulsion. It also provides practical information on administrative proceedings, legal remedies and procedural rights aliens exercise. The book aims at answering a fundamental question how to strike a balance between the inherent right of a State to expel an alien and the rights the latter is entitled to. The reader will therefore be given a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting.

Book Administration of Alien Property

Download or read book Administration of Alien Property written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 20.

Book Administration of Alien Property

Download or read book Administration of Alien Property written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bill to amend the First War Powers Act, 1941.

Book Administration of Alien Property   First War Powers Act  1941

Download or read book Administration of Alien Property First War Powers Act 1941 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beautiful Risk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Hightower
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2023-08-01
  • ISBN : 1448309948
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Beautiful Risk written by Lynn Hightower and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her husband died in a plane crash on Mount Blanc. It was a tragic accident. These are the simple facts. Except someone’s not telling the truth . . . After nine months of sorrow and grief, Junie Lagarde – a brilliant forensic accountant and passionate guitarist – is gradually accepting life without her beloved husband Olivier, a French safety consultant and climate-change expert, whom she lost in a tragic plane accident over Mont Blanc. If only she could have found her loyal hearing-dog Leo, who ran off in the terrifying aftermath of the crash, before she had to return home to America. But then Junie receives an unexpected call from France . . . Capitaine Philippe Brevard, the man in charge of investigating Olivier’s death, has seen recent CCTV footage which shows Leo being held by a man who closely resembles Olivier . . . right down to his distinctive jacket. It’s not Olivier. It can’t be . . . can it? But who is the man – and what else is Capitaine Brevard hiding from her? Junie knows she must go to Chamonix, rescue her dog, and uncover the truth . . . but there are those who mean her harm, and soon Junie’s learning dangerous secrets. Secrets that will shake her faith in her closest friends and put more than just her own life in the gravest of danger. The Beautiful Risk is an intelligent, thought-provoking standalone thriller from internationally bestselling author Lynn Hightower. It’s a story of grief, of a dangerous mountain with a dark history, of corruption and greed, of ecoterrorism . . . and of a vulnerable woman with hearing loss, an injured dog and a broken heart, who’ll stop at nothing to uncover the truth.

Book A Treatise on the Law Relating to Aliens  and Denization and Naturalization

Download or read book A Treatise on the Law Relating to Aliens and Denization and Naturalization written by George Hansard and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diaspora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erich S. Gruen
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2004-10-25
  • ISBN : 0674273214
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Diaspora written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions. By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those living in Palestine and had done so for generations. Substantial Jewish communities were found throughout the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Asia Minor, the Tigris-Euphrates valley, Egypt, and Italy. Focusing especially on Alexandria, Greek cities in Asia Minor, and Rome, Gruen explores the lives of these Jews: the obstacles they encountered, the institutions they established, and their strategies for adjustment. He also delves into Jewish writing in this period, teasing out how Jews in the diaspora saw themselves. There emerges a picture of a Jewish minority that was at home in Greco-Roman cities: subject to only sporadic harassment; its intellectuals immersed in Greco-Roman culture while refashioning it for their own purposes; exhibiting little sign of insecurity in an alien society; and demonstrating both a respect for the Holy Land and a commitment to the local community and Gentile government. Gruen's innovative analysis of the historical and literary record alters our understanding of the way this vibrant minority culture engaged with the dominant Classical civilization.

Book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legal Aspects of Alien Acquisition of Real Property

Download or read book Legal Aspects of Alien Acquisition of Real Property written by Dennis Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the nation-state has as an essential element the control of territory, legal and political authority over the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of land. The rapid increase during the 1970s in the pace of foreign 1 investment -with the acquisition of real property as a centerpiece-has stirred new concern for the ability and disability of aliens to invest in and acquire title 2 to the physical territory of a given state. With a variety of factors now stimulating 3 foreign investment in land, increased attention has been given in many countries to the role of the state in controlling, inhibiting or prohibiting investment in real property by aliens. English law long ago established that the alien would be subject to significant 4 disabilities in connection with the ownership of land. The imposition of similar 5 restrictions on aliens is found in the early law of most nation-states. Such disabilities have their roots in the feudal period, and it was not until the eighteenth century that the countries of Continental Europe abandoned the absolute 6 prohibition on succession to real property by aliens. The prohibition was replaced by a tax imposed on aliens who withdrew the property of the state of which the decedent was a citizen. Common Law rules restricting alien succession developed in the thirteenth century.

Book Recent Codification of the Law of State Responsibility for Injuries to Aliens

Download or read book Recent Codification of the Law of State Responsibility for Injuries to Aliens written by F. V. García Amador and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1974-10-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: