Download or read book Atlantis Rising written by T. A. Barron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From T.A. Barron, the New York Times bestselling author of the Merlin Saga, comes a new fantasy world about the origins of Atlantis, perfect for fans of The Lord of the Rings, Eragon, The Beyonders and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In a magical land called Ellegandia, a young boy named Promi scrapes by, stealing pies, cakes and sweets to survive. But little does he know that his country is a pawn in an ages-old war between good and evil, battled both in the spirit realm and in the human world. Harboring secrets of his own, Promi teams up with a courageous girl named Atlanta and the two vow to save their land—and each other—no matter the cost. But their vow has greater repercussions than they ever could imagine—in fact, it may just bring about the creation of Atlantis, an island cut off from the rest of the world, where magic reigns supreme. With his trademark action, adventure, and poignancy,master of fantasy, T.A. Barron explores a new mythology—the origin of the legendary isle of Atlantis. This book is perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, Brandon Mull, Christopher Paolini and, of course, T. A. Barron’s Merlin Saga. Praise for T. A. Barron’s novels: “Brilliant, significant, and illuminating . . . an intense and profoundly spiritual adventure.”—Lloyd Alexander “A crescendo of miracles.”—Madeleine L’Engle “Interesting and august . . . compelling.”—The New York Times “In the best tradition . . . classic.”—Parents Magazine

Download or read book Atlantis Rising written by Patricia Cori and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Sirian Revelations Trilogy explores the wisdom ancient Atlantis can offer contemporary seekers. The lost continent of Atlantis has existed in the collective consciousness of humankind for eons—contemplated as early as 355 BC by Plato and echoing in the modern mind. In this controversial book, author Patricia Cori provides compelling, often startling insights into this lost culture and the lessons it holds for us as both a high civilization and a metaphor for our current world situation, earth changes, growing extraterrestrial phenomena, and government conspiracy theories. Only by embracing and recognizing what Atlantis can teach us, says Cori, can we expect to heal and uplift our own increasingly threatened civilization.

Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine 133 January February 2019 written by J. Douglas Kenyon and published by Atlantis Rising LLC. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ebook edition: THE TEOTIHUACAN REVELATIONS Astonishing New Evidence for Advanced Ancient Civilization in Mexico BY JONATHON PERRIN WAS COLUMBUS ON A SECRET MISSION? To Prove the Earth Was Round... or Something Else? BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER ALTERNATIVE HISTORY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN TENNESSEE? Cracking the Mystery of the Melungeon People BY STEVEN SORA SECRET SCIENCE INVISIBLE WARFARE Did the Allied Powers of WWII Get Help from Other Dimensions? BY MARCIA DIEHL ALTERNATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY RELICS FROM THE ICE AGE? Are Malta‘s Temples Thousands of Years Older than Conventional Archaeologists Acknowledge? BY ROBERT SCHOCH, Ph.D. LOST HISTORY FIGHTING BROTHERS American vs. English Freemasons BY STEPHEN V. O‘ROURKE ANCIENT MYSTERIES MEGALITHIC TECH Understanding the Standing Stones & Circles of a Lost Science BY CHARLES SHAHAR ANCIENT SCIENCE THE LOST ROBOTS Uncovering the Forgotten Achievements of Ancient Inventors BY FRANK JOSEPH ANCIENT MYSTERIES MA‘MUN‘S PASSAGE Did the Caliph Know Something about the Great Pyramid that Egyptologists Still Don‘t? BY RALPH ELLIS & MARK FOSTER HOLISTIC HEALTH CAN MIND HEAL MATTER? Surprisingly, the Evidence Is Clear BY MITCH HOROWITZ THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST THE MOULIN QUIGNON MYSTERY DEEPENS BY MICHAEL A. CREMO ASTROLOGY NABTA PLAYA Is This the Ancient Source of Egyptian Cosmology? BY JULIE LOAR PUBLISHER‘S LETTER COULD BIG SCIENCE BE ON TRIAL? BY J. DOUGLAS KENYON

Download or read book Storm Surge written by William Sargent and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling tale of a natural disaster and its effects on a small New England community, now back in print

Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Download or read book Black Cloud Rising written by David Wright Falade and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a one-armed, impassioned Abolitionist—set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish the threat. From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

Download or read book The 9 9 Percent written by Matthew Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves. In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system. They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession even as swaths of the population lose healthcare and grow sicker. They have created an unprecedented demand for admission to elite schools and helped to fuel the dramatic cost of higher education. They channel their political energy into symbolic conflicts over identity in order to avoid acknowledging the economic roots of their privilege. And they have created an ethos of “merit” to justify their advantages. They are all around us. In fact, they are us—or what we are supposed to want to be. In this “captivating account” (Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone), Matthew Stewart argues that a new aristocracy is emerging in American society and it is repeating the mistakes of history. It is entrenching inequality, warping our culture, eroding democracy, and transforming an abundant economy into a source of misery. He calls for a regrounding of American culture and politics on a foundation closer to the original promise of America.

Download or read book The Rise of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa 1300 1589 written by Toby Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.

Download or read book Raising Atlantis written by Thomas Greanias and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the first “outrageous adventure with a wild dose of the supernatural” (Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author) in the New York Times bestselling Atlantis trilogy, following archeologist Conrad Yeats, his father, and linguist Serena Serghetti as they search for the lost city of Atlantis. During a top secret dig in Antarctica, the United States government discovers a stunning and ancient secret: the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Dr. Conrad Yeats, the foremost authority on megalithic architecture, is brought in along with his estranged father, General Griffin Yeats, and his former lover, the linguist Serena Serghetti, to explore this astonishing civilization hidden beneath the ice. But their investigation uncovers something shocking that threatens the very existence of humanity and together, they are thrust into a deadly race against the apocalypse. “Raising Atlantis grabs hold of you from the first page and pulls you into an astonishing world of scientific fact and fiction, suspense, and good old-fashioned adventure” (Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author). Visit the official Raising Atlantis website at RaisingAtlantis.com to unlock lost chapters and download free ebooks featuring Conrad Yeats and Serena Serghetti.

Download or read book The Atlantic Realists written by Matthew Specter and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major features emerged from a century-long dialogue between American and German intellectuals beginning in the late nineteenth century. Specter uncovers an "Atlantic realist" tradition of reflection on the prerogatives of empire and the nature of power politics conditioned by fin de siècle imperial competition, two world wars, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Focusing on key figures in the evolution of realist thought, including Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and Wilhelm Grewe, this book traces the development of the realist worldview over a century, dismantling myths about the national interest, Realpolitik, and the "art" of statesmanship.

Download or read book The Rise of the Atlantic Economies written by Ralph Davis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of the Atlantic Economies surveys the economic history of Spain, the Netherlands, France, and England and of the colonies they established, or had dealings with, in North and South America from the beginnings of Portuguese exploration in the fifteenth century to the American Revolution.

Download or read book Fourteen written by Stephen Zanichkowsky and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares his haunting story of growing up in a family of 14 children, of which he was a boy who couldn't find any room to breathe until he left his 13 siblings behind and withdrew to the world inside his head--only to emerge 40 years later, still alone.

Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine Issue 131 SECRETS OF TIWANAKU written by atlantisrising.com and published by Atlantis Rising magazine. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This 88-page edition: ANCIENT MYSTERIES SECRETS OF TIWANAKU Lost Artifacts and Hidden Rooms? BY HUGH NEWMAN MORE SECRETS OF TIWANAKU Prediluvian Tunnels and the Atlantis Connection BY ADRIANO FORGIONE LOST ORIGINS THE LAST OF THE DENISOVANS Did Their Story End With the Ice Age? BY ANDREW COLLINS LOST HISTORY THE MEN & THE WOMAN WHO PUT SHAKESPEARE TOGETHER The Authorship Controversy Has Not Gone Away BY STEVEN SORA THE UNEXPLAINED PHOTOGRAPHING THE INVISIBLE Certainly There Has Been Deception, but Maybe There‘s More to the Story BY MICHAEL TYMN TECHNOLOGIES OF THE GODS WHERE ARE THE LOST MACHINES? We Have Seen the Results, but What Happened to the Construction Equipment? BY WILLIAM B. STOECKER ANCIENT MYSTERIES THE CHARIOTS OF THE SUN Were Secret Pagan Symbols in Solomon‘s Temple? BY JONATHON PERRIN ANCIENT MYSTERIES LOST REALMS–FOLLOWING THE MYTHIC TRAIL Ancient Clues Point to a Missing History BY FRANK JOSEPH CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND THE BRAIN Could Mind and Consciousness Exist Independently? BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. POPULAR CULTURE IS TIME SPEEDING UP? The Future Is Ahead of Schedule BY SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, Ph.D. THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST THE BROWNSVILLE SKULL: CASE NOT CLOSED BY MICHAEL A. CREMO ASTROLOGY ANCIENT STAR MAPS Could Astrology and the Zodiac Be Much Older than Has Been Thought? BY JULIE LOAR PUBLISHER‘S LETTER RED PYRAMID REDUX BY J. DOUGLAS KENYON

Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Download or read book Zone One written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. • "One of the best books of the year." —Esquire After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong… At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Download or read book On Death written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller, a book about facing the death of loved ones, as well as our own inevitable death Significant events such as birth, marriage, and death are milestones in our lives in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand how to approach and experience these occasions with grace, endurance, and joy. In a culture that does its best to deny death, Timothy Keller--theologian and bestselling author--teaches us about facing death with the resources of faith from the Bible. With wisdom and compassion, Keller finds in the Bible an alternative to both despair or denial. A short, powerful book, On Death gives us the tools to understand the meaning of death within God's vision of life.

Download or read book Red Storm Rising written by Tom Clancy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1993 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVENTURE / THRILLER. The Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petro-chemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III. Desperately short of oil, the Kremlin hawks see only one way of solving their problem: seize supplies in the Persian Gulf. To do that, they must first neutralize NATO\'9291s forces and eliminate their response?nd so they develop Red Storm, a dazzling master plan of diplomatic subterfuge and intense re-armament. The battle lines are drawn and Armageddon beckons.