Download or read book Battle of the Spheres written by Melita Tessy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you disappear into the earth’s Core to find a new civilization? A civilization with plans to use you, to annihilate humanity? What if it was too late to realize that you were taking bullets for the one behind the trigger? Would you sacrifice what you must-who you must? How will you choose between what you know, and what you feel? “I can’t live a lie. I can’t run from my life.” Jacelyn and the Cruman Prince and the Mantlanian Princess choose to stand and fight. To change what must be changed, save what must be saved...and destroy what must be destroyed in the Earth. Will they remain like stars that never saw the sky? Or will they become legends whose names will never die?
Download or read book War of the Spheres written by James D Millington and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We're locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us-or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage. A warship crewed by military people and scientists beta-test an engine designed to pass through the barrier. Chief Gray, a security officer from Control, is assigned to help. His mission is critical: Earth must escape her bonds at all costs, even if it means war with our hostile neighbors.War of the Spheres is a new novel by James Millington and B. V. Larson, a bestselling SF author with over three million copies sold.
Download or read book The Dream Spheres written by Elaine Cunningham and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the City of Splendors—where even dreams can be bought and sold for the right price—in this Song & Swords series finale The famed city of Waterdeep brims with magic and mystery, and everything imaginable is for sale. In this melting pot of human wizards, elves, dwarves, and more, even dreams can be purchased if one is willing to pay the price—and many are unable to resist the temptation, no matter the danger. So when the sale of dream spheres threatens the life of his newfound half sister, Danilo Thann joins forces with Airlyn Moonblade to uncover the source of this deadly trade. Their search leads them into the dark heart of Waterdeep, and to personal secrets that could destroy them both.
Download or read book Elementals written by Jared Files and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, much of the globe wages war against the virtaiyu: a high-tech alien race ? and humanity?s greatest threat. Drafted alongside all other seventeen-year-old males, Kaiba Cassidy prepares for the battlefront and struggles with leaving behind everything he has ever known. Simultaneously, Nassira Arujo works desperately in the Brazilian rainforest to keep her family?s refugee camp safe, and Emily Sursten tries to convince herself that the bliss of Australia can last. Kaiba, Nassira and Emily have no idea that their fates are intertwined until each discovers an Elemental Sphere: a mysterious orb that fuses to their bodies and bestows the capability to control an element of nature. But the trio finds that their new powers come with unexpected consequences, and if they are to keep themselves and their loved ones safe, they will have to fight to prevent the elements from falling into the wrong hands while maintaining their humanity in the process?
Download or read book Winning the Battle for the Minds of Men written by Dennis Peacocke and published by Destiny Image Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity once turned the world upside down, but today it is considered irrelevant. In this book Dennis Peacocke provides us with the answers. He exposes the lies that are crippling the church and reveals how we can recapture the Church's original vision and power for discipling all nations.
Download or read book The Kriseel Xenophobes written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kriseel Xenophobes is the 18th book in the PIT series. The survivors of a harrowing experience in an Imperian facility rush to aid the Pact Nexus, which has come under attack.
Download or read book Spirit Rapping Unveiled written by Hiram Mattison and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way of Kings written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series
Download or read book The Wilderness Campaign written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee first met in battle. The Wilderness campaign of May 5-6 initiated an epic confrontation between these two Civil War commanders--one that would finally end, eleven months later, with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The eight essays here assembled explore aspects of the background, conduct, and repercussions of the fighting in the Wilderness. Through an often-revisionist lens, contributors to this volume focus on topics such as civilian expectations for the campaign, morale in the two armies, and the generalship of Lee, Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, Richard S. Ewell, A. P. Hill, James Longstreet, and Lewis A. Grant. Taken together, these essays revise and enhance existing work on the battle, highlighting ways in which the military and nonmilitary spheres of war intersected in the Wilderness. The contributors: --Peter S. Carmichael, 'Escaping the Shadow of Gettysburg: Richard S. Ewell and Ambrose Powell Hill at the Wilderness' --Gary W. Gallagher, 'Our Hearts Are Full of Hope: The Army of Northern Virginia in the Spring of 1864' --John J. Hennessy, 'I Dread the Spring: The Army of the Potomac Prepares for the Overland Campaign' --Robert E. L. Krick, 'Like a Duck on a June Bug: James Longstreet's Flank Attack, May 6, 1864' --Robert K. Krick, ''Lee to the Rear,' the Texans Cried' --Carol Reardon, 'The Other Grant: Lewis A. Grant and the Vermont Brigade in the Battle of the Wilderness' --Gordon C. Rhea, 'Union Cavalry in the Wilderness: The Education of Philip H. Sheridan and James H. Wilson' --Brooks D. Simpson, 'Great Expectations: Ulysses S. Grant, the Northern Press, and the Opening of the Wilderness Campaign'
Download or read book Like a Brazen Wall written by Ewan Carmichael and published by Reason to Revolution. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing both the strategic context and tactical detail of the Battle of Minden, Like a Brazen Wallgives a fresh and more balanced perspective.
Download or read book God s Zeal written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam are shaping our world more than ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of the faiths today. Following the polytheism of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians, Jewish monotheism was born as a theology of protest, as a religion of triumph within defeat. While the religion of the Jews remained limited to their own people, Christianity unfolded its message with proclamations of universal truth. Islam raised this universalism to a new level through a military and political mode of expansion. Sloterdijk examines the forms of conflict that arise between the three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism. These possibilities were augmented by internal rifts: a defining influence within Judaism was a separatism with defensive aspects, in Christianity the project of expansion through mission, and in Islam the Holy War.
Download or read book Burning Midnight written by Will McIntosh and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh pits four underprivileged teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime. No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement—and the more expensive the sphere. Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t pay much—Alex Holliday’s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers—but it helps him and his mom make the rent. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold—a color no one has ever seen. There’s no question the Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they’re here. PRAISE: “Burning Midnight is for (1) adrenaline junkies and gamers, (2) obsessive collectors, and (3) people who can’t get enough of crazy endings. I’m all of these things, and I loved it.” —Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling author of Black Widow: Forever Red and coauthor of the internationally bestselling Beautiful Creatures series
Download or read book The Social Labs Revolution written by Zaid Hassan and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response. Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders—not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience—as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology—to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide.
Download or read book The Copyright Wars written by Peter Baldwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries—and their history is essential to understanding today’s battles. The Copyright Wars—the first major trans-Atlantic history of copyright from its origins to today—tells this important story. Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? The Copyright Wars describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. The book also tells the widely forgotten story of how America went from being a leading copyright opponent and pirate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become the world’s intellectual property policeman in the late twentieth. As it became a net cultural exporter and its content industries saw their advantage in the Continental ideology of strong authors’ rights, the United States reversed position on copyright, weakening its commitment to the ideal of universal enlightenment—a history that reveals that today’s open-access advocates are heirs of a venerable American tradition. Compelling and wide-ranging, The Copyright Wars is indispensable for understanding a crucial economic, cultural, and political conflict that has reignited in our own time.
Download or read book Spheres of Power written by Adam Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternate magic system for the Pathfinder Roll Playing Game
Download or read book Greeks Romans and Barbarians written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Rejecting the separation into two distinct disciplines for the study of the Mediterranean world and the barbarian communities of northern Europe, this book looks at the systems at work in society – economic strategies, the nature of exchange and trade, the relationships between a civilised core and its periphery – and, more importantly, by the changing trajectories of the socio-economic systems. It also examines how much the physical nature of Western Europe affected these systems, as contacts and trade moved through some regions but were obstructed in others.
Download or read book The Butter Battle Book Read Listen Edition written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss's classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity brews between the two groups because they prefer to enjoy the tasty treat differently. The timeless and topical rhyming text is an ideal way to teach young children about the issues of tolerance and respect. Whether in the home or in the classroom, The Butter Battle Book is a must-have for readers of all ages. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
