Download or read book Ardent Alternate Universe written by Cathleen Ryan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardent Alternate Universe is an alternate storyline picking up where Ardent Rising leaves off. During our lives, we have choices to make and directions to choose. A precept of string theory is that there are alternate universes where anything that could possibly happen does as individuals choose differently in each universe. Follow Nikki Ardent as she chooses a different path than the one she took in Ardent Lost. Heading forward in a different direction brings with it a separate reality with outcomes that impact the lives of everyone close to her.
Download or read book Ardent Rising Ardent Alternate Universe written by Cathleen Ryan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardent Alternate Universe takes Nikki Ardent in a different direction at the end of Ardent Rising. Nikki chooses a different path to follow that takes her and everyone around her on a road that leads to a different storyline and ending than in the Ardent Trilogy. The lives of the characters take dramatic turns, as does Nikki's, as she makes a choice in this alternate storyline that leads her into her own personal Hell. She tries to escape and make her way back home but finds it isn't as easy as she thought it would be. The man she thought she loved, and loved her, shows his true colors. She finds she must use all of her resourcefulness and strength to make it safely back to who and where she truly belongs.
Download or read book Parallel Universe written by Sonya Davies and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia in adolescence are insidious diseases, they steal hope perspective and time sadly the medical profession has a huge divergence of opinion on the illness the causes and the cure there just seems to be no definitive answers. The despair that this causes is deep and searing. This book is about one woman's fight to restore her daughter to health when diagnosed with these diseases. It charts the many professionals that the family saw to try to find a cure for their daughter. Many of the health professionals dismissed the illness believing it to be a disease of malingerers. This lack of understanding of this illness and its origins is one of the defining reasons for writing this book. Sufferers need to understand that they are not alone and that there is hope and that this illness is serious and is a real illness, it is not psychosomatic, it is not psychiatric it is a physical illness that has real symptoms and there is hope that you can put together some treatment options that may help them. Claudia was 13 years old when her body just seemed to run out of energy. It had been a gradual process but with the start of high school and all of the changes that happened at that time the key triggers of this horrific illness where masked. It wasn't until she passed out that the extent of the problem really became very very obvious. Sonya Davies is the author and she lives in Melbourne Victoria with her husband of 20 years Mark and her 4 children. A professional woman who has worked in Marketing for 35 years, she had a varied and interesting career, full of travel and many diverse and interesting experiences she always felt that she was very fortunate. She was not prepared when her 13 year old daughter Claudia passed out in her walk in ward robe and started to suffer seizures. Claudia spiralled very quickly over a period of 5 months into being seriously unwell, being unable to walk, wheel chair bound, using a toilet and shower stool and needing to be carried everywhere. She was 5 foot 5 and weighed 40 kilos. Sonya was beside herself, her life as she had known it stopped, she could not work, she could not leave her daughter alone. She was desperate to get help. She thought she could get some answers from Doctors or a specialist and they would tell her what to do. Imagine her shock when every test that they did came back normal while her daughter kept getting more and more unwell. That was when the family entered the parallel universe, this universe operates next to but separate from the real universe, this universe is inhabited by the chronically ill, looking for treatments for health issues for which medical professionals have no answers. She had never felt such despair or realised that such despair was possible for her. She is a positive, can do woman, every adversity has an answer you just have to connect the dots, her daughter was sick, she could not believe that she could not find a person to fix her. But every corner I turned, every doctor or health professional I took her to could not help, I got nowhere, I hit brick wall, after brick wall. My daughter was spiralling into very poor physical condition and suffering deep despair as she was constantly being told that she was hysterical and that this condition was psychosomatic. She is a very intelligent girl and does not have a hysterical bone in her body. So telling her it was all in her head, her body had turned on pain signals and would not turn them off just made her feel more and more inadequate, obviously she had done something to make this happen. The family saw over 50 health professionals all offering other similarly unhelpful suggestions. Well not suggestions, pronouncements, they all pronounced something and sent them home in agony with no help and no idea where to get help. Their daughter was unable to sleep, had muscles that got harder and tighter in her arms and
Download or read book Ecstasy Ritual and Alternate Reality written by Felicitas D. Goodman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Timeless Reality written by Victor J. Stenger and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of physics and astronomy studies a theory that time is reversible, and explains how physicists have generally been reluctant to accept the reversibility of time because of the implied causal paradoxes. Illustrations.
Download or read book The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century written by Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage rooted in the Medieval period and increasingly active today, has attracted a growing amount of both scholarly and popular attention. With its multiple points of departure in Spain and other European countries, its simultaneously secular and religious nature, and its international and transhistorical population of pilgrims, this particular pilgrimage naturally invites a wide range of intellectual inquiry and scholarly perspectives. This volume fills a gap in current pilgrimage studies, focusing on contemporary representations of the Camino de Santiago. Complementing existing studies of the Camino’s medieval origins, it situates the Camino as a modern experience and engages interdisciplinary perspectives to present a theoretical framework for exploring the most central issues that concern scholars of pilgrimage studies today. Contributors explore the contemporary meaning of the Camino through an interdisciplinary lens that reflects the increasing permeability between academic disciplines and fields, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives (cultural studies, literary studies, globalization studies, memory studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geographies, photography, and material culture). Chapters touch on a variety of genres (blogs, film, graphic novels, historical novels, objects, and travel guides), and transnational perspectives (Australia, the Arab world, England, Spain, and the United States).
Download or read book In the Shadows written by Justin Thorne and published by Sigel Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shadows is a collection of previously published short stories and brand new tales from an emerging voice in genre fiction. The anthology includes fantasy, horror, science fiction, crime, mystery and an exclusive preview of the forthcoming fantasy novel, Footsteps.
Download or read book Tepatasi Le Au alum written by Elle A. Laga’aia and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity took root in the Pacific, nowhere more so than in Samoa. As World War I raged in Europe, the Great Influenza pandemic landed in Samoa in the winter of 1918. Facing tragic losses in their adopted village, a group of outsiders stayed behind to help. Living on the fringes of society, these women were unexpectedly thrust into the epicenter of the world’s most virulent pandemic. They found purpose as healers among strangers when it was needed most.
Download or read book Bangtan Remixed written by Patty Ahn and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives. From tracing BTS’s hip hop genealogy to analyzing how the band’s mid-2020 album reflects the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrating how Baroque art history influences BTS’s music videos, the contributors investigate BTS’s aesthetic heritage. They also explore the political and technological dimensions of BTS’s popularity with essays on K-Pop and BTS’s fan culture as frontiers of digital technology, the complex relationship between BTS and Blackness, the impact of anti-Asian racism on BTS’s fandom, and the challenges BTS poses to conservative norms of gender and sexuality. Bangtan Remixed shows how one band can inspire millions of fans and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life. Contributors. Andrea Acosta, Patty Ahn, Carolina Alves, Inez Amihan Anderson, Allison Anne Gray Atis, Kaina “Kai” Bernal, Mutlu Binark, Jheanelle Brown, Sophia Cai, Michelle Cho, Mariam Elba, Ameena Fareeda, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rosanna Hall, Dal Yong Jin, JIN Youngsun, Despina Kakoudaki, Yuni Kartika, Alptekin Keskin, Rachel Kuo, Marci Kwon, Courtney Lazore, Regina Yung Lee, S. Heijin Lee, Wonseok Lee, Amanda Lovely, Melody Lynch-Kimery, Maria Mison, Noel Sajid I. Murad, Sara Murphy, UyenThi Tran Myhre, Rani Neutill, Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Karlina Octaviany, Nykeah Parham, Stefania Piccialli, Raymond San Diego, Hannah Ruth L. Sison, Prerna Subramanian, Havannah Tran, Andrew Ty, Gracelynne West, Yutian Wong, Jaclyn Zhou
Download or read book Exiles in the Garden written by Ward S. Just and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settling in Georgetown after rejecting his family's life in politics, newspaper photographer Alec witnesses the émigré gatherings at the home of his next-door neighbors and watches the disintegration of his marriage upon his refusal of an assignment inVietnam.
Download or read book The Securitarian Personality written by John R. Hibbing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique analysis that looks at the true motivation of Trump supporters. The Authoritarian Personality, which was published by Theordor Adorno and a set of colleagues in the 1950s, was the first broad-based empirical attempt to explain why certain individuals are attracted to the authoritarian, even fascist, leaders that dominated the political scene in the 1930s and 1940s. Today, the concept has been applied to leaders ranging from Trump to Viktor Orban to Rodrigo Duterte. But is it really accurate to label Trump supporters as authoritarians? In The Securitarian Personality, John R. Hibbing argues that an intense desire for authority is not central to those constituting Trump's base. Drawing from participant observation, focus groups, and especially an original, nationwide survey of the American public that included over 1,000 ardent Trump supporters, Hibbing demonstrates that what Trump's base really craves is actually a specific form of security. Trump supporters do not strive for security in the face of all threats, such as climate change, Covid-19, and economic inequality, but rather only from those threats they perceive to be emanating from human outsiders, defined broadly to include welfare cheats, unpatriotic athletes, norm violators, non-English speakers, religious and racial minorities, and certainly people from other countries. The central objective of these "securitarians" is to strive for protection for themselves, their families, and their dominant cultural group from these embodied outsider threats. A radical reinterpretation of the support for Trumpism, The Securitarian Personality not only provides insight into a political movement that many find baffling and frustrating, but offers a compelling thesis that all observers of American political behavior will have to contend with, even if they disagree with it.
Download or read book Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics written by Keith Moser and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank written by Ece Gurler and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamt of an alternate world? A world full of second chances and lost dreams, found again. Just like the one Frank has stumbled upon. Frank, an eleven-year-old science nerd, fashions a hiding place in his closet with his favorite things. He calls it the Aurora Shell, where he retreats whenever he feels upset or scared. The day he learns that he was adopted, he discovers an empty space behind his Big Bang Theory poster, in the Aurora Shell: A secret tunnel which leads to another universe! There, he meets an incredibly cheerful kid, Andy, who becomes his first true friend. Frustrated that he was unwanted by his biological parents in his own world, Frank decides to take his chance in this new universe to gain acceptance. Maybe this time his parents would welcome him and love him? Grabbing their backpacks, the two friends set out on a journey to find Frank's birth parents in Andy's universe. But this adventure will hold dangers they never could have imagined. Will they be able to survive the grave challenges and find Frank's family in the end? Frank is a quintessential middle-grade contemporary science-fiction book for boys and girls who are 7-12 years old. Frank's story will awaken any child's interest in science, especially middle school science subjects. At the end of this heartwarming adventure, the young reader will greatly value the meaning of friendship and family.
Download or read book Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine written by M. Abraham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons.
Download or read book Real Black written by John L. Jackson Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to "keep it real" and restaurants like Sylvia's famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of "authentic" black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. But in Real Black, John L. Jackson Jr. proposes a new model for thinking about these issues--racial sincerity. Jackson argues that authenticity caricatures identity as something imposed on people, imprisoning them within stereotypes--turning them into racial objects and inanimate things, instead of living, breathing human beings. Contending that such assumptions deny people agency--not to mention humanity--in their search for identity, Jackson counterposes sincerity, an internal and more productive analytical model for thinking about race. Moving in and around Harlem and Brooklyn, Jackson offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world--including tales of name-changing hip-hop emcees, book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and high-school gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost. Enlisting "Anthroman," his cape-crusading critical alter ego, Jackson records and retells these interconnected sagas in virtuosic detail and, in the process, shows us how race is defined and debated, imposed and confounded every single day.
Download or read book Lost in the Grooves written by Kim Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's The Magical World Of The Strands, John Trubee's The Communists Are Coming to Kill Us, John Phillips's Wolf King of L.A., and Michel Magne's Moshe Mouse Crucifiction? You will when you read Lost in the Grooves, a fascinating guide to the back alleys off the pop music superhighway. Pop music history is full of little-known musicians, whose work stands defiantly alone, too quirky, distinctive, or demented to appeal to a mass audience. This book explores the nooks and crannies of the pop music world, unearthing lost gems from should-have-been major artists (Sugarpie DeSanto, Judee Sill), revisiting lesser known works by established icons (Marvin Gaye's post-divorce kissoff album, Here My Dear; The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle), and spotlighting musicians who simply don't fit into neat categories (k. mccarty, Exuma). The book's encyclopedic alphabetical structure throws off strange sparks as disparate genres and eras rub against each other: folk-psych iconoclasts face louche pop crooners; outsider artists set their odd masterpieces down next to obscurities from the stars; lo-fi garage rock cuddles up with the French avant-garde; and roots rock weirdoes trip over bubblegum. This book will delight any jukebox junkie or pop culture fan.
Download or read book Sir Terry Wogan A Life in Laughter 1938 2016 written by Emily Herbert and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday, 31 January 2016 a nation used to waking ‘up to Wogan’ on his Radio 2 breakfast show instead awoke to the shocking news that Sir Terry Wogan had passed away at the age of seventy-seven. One of Britain’s most-loved broadcasters, Terry Wogan had been a fixture on the airwaves for over five decades with his dry, laconic wit and commentary making him instantly recognisable to his legions of fans. Hosting a number of radio shows for the BBC over the years, including Weekend Wogan right up until November 2015, Wogan broadcast to a record-breaking 8 million listeners at his peak, winning numerous popularity polls over the course of his career. Not content with ruling the airwaves, his long-running talk show Wogan is now the stuff of TV legend, as are his sardonic observations on the Eurovision Song Contest which made him the face of Eurovision to many, even today. But perhaps his most important contribution to British society, and the one of which he was most proud, was his work with Pudsey the Bear to raise an astounding ?600 million for Children in Need since he presented the very first show in 1980. Author Emily Herbert draws on the reminiscences of many famous friends and colleagues to create an authoritative and entertaining tribute to one of the funniest, most lovable and prolific broadcasters of all time.
