Download or read book Sabotage in Paradise written by Dennis S. Carroll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when perfection isnt good enough? A witty question gets a witty answer in the science fiction novel Sabotage in Paradise that sets the clock ahead one thousand years. On Eidolon, a scientific paradise, geneticists have delivered everyones most cherished fantasies, including health, brains, longevity, and beauty, plus an everlasting carnival of lovemaking with the most desirable partners modeled on celebrities. Driven almost mad by apathy after several hundred years of living with perfection, one of the deftest saboteurs imaginable betrays the islands worship of the double helix. This genetic genius unfolds the novels central and surprising premise in a gene-based confrontation spanning centuries. The story features such unusual items as the genome iconizer tracing future faces from the genes themselvesenhanced by beautiful as well as comic pictures in the text. Beyond the wit and fun, the tale explores the consequences of genetic determinism. The increasing legibility of the genome will inspire an all-but-irresistible homage to the double helix lurking in our future. Genes will be our Moses leading to a paradoxical Promised Land thats more fantasticand familiar!than we have imagined. Sabotage in Paradise combines philosophy with a light touch and polished style. It challenges the tyranny of standards that control us in the present and may shape us in the future after further breakthroughs in genetics. It defends diversity with a crystal ball as clever as it is original. Sabotage in Paradise creates a memorable experience by emphasizing fun amid profundity.
Download or read book Crystallizing Chaos written by D. S. Carroll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystallizing Chaos is a wryly comic tale of balancing academia with action and replacing footnotes with a sense of fun. A high-brow college student, Daniel Coventry, hopes to be a writer. He encounters the forgotten but immensely gifted pulp novelist Stephen Chidley, who wrote action-oriented novels by the dozens in a month apiece while living his adventures. He is also inspired by the novelists granddaughter Dora, who resides in Stephens home near Daniels dorm. Through Daniel, they become entangled with his best professor, Cynthia Schuler, an outspoken feminist and scholar. Cynthia also wrangles with her chauvinist, unfaithful husband and has fallen for her favorite student after many rounds of lovemaking in her office. Each of them confronts the fear of failure. Daniel is afraid of flunking if he cant complete a novel for his graduation. Stephen is afraid thathe abused his fabulous storytelling talents as a pulp writer who came close to greatness only in a single memorable novel. Dora is afraid of any loss of independence. Cynthia is afraid of failing Daniel and of losing him to Dora. Step by comic misstep, they confront their differences and the chasm that divides the ivory tower from popular culture. With a month remaining, they decide that only one solution will enable Daniel to begin his book and race to finish it in time forgraduation: Let him crystallize the chaos of their year-long battle in a way that blends the best of academia and action!
Download or read book Loving Sabotage written by Amélie Nothomb and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven year old daughter of diplomats posted to Peking "concocts a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak," and on one of her rounds, she meets a young Italian girl, Elena, who is "beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. Our heroine is instantly infatuated, and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her energies is shattering Elena's indifference."--Jacket.
Download or read book Three Plots for Poe written by D.S. Carroll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary mystery, and an avant-garde mystery are presented in Three Plots for Poe. This sequence is a tribute to the Gothic genius of Poe who shaped the mystery genre. At the same time, these tales explore three phases of the genres progress and at last escape its Gothic limits altogether. An old-fashioned mystery, Death Calls the Shots invokes the golden age of pulp mysteries in a way that led Jacques Barzun, one of the ultimate authorities on this era, to express his admiration of the story for its mood, plot, pace, and structure. A contemporary mystery,Love in the Modern Landscape offers an unusual blend of evil and intelligence endangering a pair of lovers who appear unequal to the threat. An avantgarde mystery, Still No Ice at the Fish Market opens with a pair of bangsa bomb exploding in the midst of lovemakingand ends up as one of the most unusual literary experiments in many years. Two alternating narrators in this story capture the extremes of classic clarity and Gothic chaos, wit and weirdness, as they hand the story to each other from one chapter to the next until the final chapter blends their separate styles. In all three novels, passionate love affairs become more powerful than evil in competing for the center of the story. As the genius who rules these Gothic games, the ghost of Poe is exorcised at last.
Download or read book The Heat and the Fury written by Peter Schwartzstein and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schwartzstein's vignettes of each troubled region are vibrantly narrated as he encounters indignant locals and has run-ins with menacing state security officials attempting to block his investigations into what they invariably consider a 'sensitive' subject. It's a riveting journey through a world running hot." --Publishers Weekly, starred As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the conflict simmering in our warming world. A new dam that has brought Egypt and Ethiopia to the brink of war over water. ISIS recruiters who exploit drought to pad their ranks. Farmers-turned-pirates who can no longer make a living off the land and instead make it off bloody ransoms. In The Heat and the Fury, Schwartzstein not only puts readers on the frontlines of these conflicts but gives us the context to make sense of seemingly senseless acts. His incisive analysis of geopolitics, unparalleled on-the-ground reporting, and keen sense of human nature offer the clearest picture to date of the violence that threatens us all.
Download or read book Guarded Hearts Genesis Sabotage written by James Bèyor and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis Sabotage is the first journal in the Guarded Hearts trilogy. Mankind is suffering. No one will deny that, but why? The human mind is in a precarious state of confusion, the result of a biological event that man perpetrated upon men centuries ago. We are each the deliberate victim of an inherited sensory sabotage. This journal introduces the reader to 320 definitive statements that will awaken your consciousness in preparation for the restoration of your genesis being. Mr. Beyor encourages us to return to, or rather discover for the first time, our own internal, individual, central voice clarity, defining your own living truth and exposing the lies you have been taught through forced cooperation. This must be done if humanity is to survive. IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH YOU!
Download or read book Dark Matter written by Tony Watkins and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses a Christian perspective to interpret the popular trilogy, offering a look Pullman's life, an overview of the major dimensions of each book, and a critical evaluation of such major themes as sin and the death of God.
Download or read book Circles of Resistance written by John M. Cox and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany analyzes resistance networks of young German Jews and other young dissidents during the Nazi dictatorship. Young German-Jewish radicals created an intellectually and politically vibrant subculture in Berlin, the geographical focus of this study. The youths analyzed here were reacting not only to Nazi oppression: they were also driven to develop new modes of action and politics by their estrangement not only from German society, but also from the traditional left parties and their post-1933 underground organizations, and even from large segments of Berlin's Jewish community, where radical activism was often regarded as counter-productive and needlessly provocative. At the center of this study are the Herbert Baum groups, led by members of Germany's Communist Party (KPD). While the Baum groups were the largest, they were but one of several resistance operations that were situated partially within the milieu created by Communists, Socialists, Trotskyists, and radical Jewish youths. Based on archival research in Germany, Paris, Amsterdam, and Jerusalem, and interviews with veterans of the anti-Nazi resistance, Circles of Resistance analyzes the overlap of these diverse social and political dimensions among dissident circles and offers a reconsideration of traditional thinking on leftist and Jewish resistance and youth subcultures of the Third Reich. Circles of Resistance will be useful for undergraduate as well as graduate courses on Jewish history, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, as well as courses devoted to the history of European socialism.
Download or read book Sabotaged written by James Pratt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier’s self-appointed disciple Victor Considerant led the establishment of La Réunion in 1855, organized under a Paris stock company. James Pratt weaves together the dramatic story of this utopia: the complex tale of a diverse group of Europeans who sought a new society but were forced to face the realities of life in nineteenth-century Texas. Considerant’s followers endured a long ocean voyage with Spanish gunboats following in their Caribbean wake. They brushed blooming magnolias through Buffalo Bayou between Galveston Bay and Houston—so narrow a channel that two ships could not pass simultaneously. They walked for three weeks across barren country, came into conflict with the Texas legislature over land, and had to buy their stolen horses back from Chief Ned, a famous Delaware Indian living in Texas. They were buffeted in the rising political winds of abolition, and droughts ruined their crops. In the end, however, it was their flamboyant leader Victor Considerant who sabotaged their dream.
Download or read book Strange Piece of Paradise written by Terri Jentz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, eloquent, and paced like a thriller, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of the author's investigation into her near murder.
Download or read book Sabotage written by Anastasia Nesvetailova and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial malpractice, we're told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. In Sabotage, political scientists Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan blow this fiction apart, showing that sabotage is not an anomaly, but part of the business model of finance - and always has been. Abusive lending practices, misleading investors, manipulating prices, deliberately falsifying figures, cheating, obstruction and taking advantage of 'the dumbest person in the room' - they're actually the main source of profitability in finance, and the surest way to a bonus. If you want to make money in the industry, you need to find ways of sabotaging either your clients, your competitors or the government (or all three), and above all, the market itself. Talking to industry insiders, economists and high net worth customers, examining the history of finance and its workings today, the authors show us how the idea of sabotage not only makes sense of all past economic crises, but must also be at the heart of all future regulations.
Download or read book Cinematic Terror written by Tony Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first history of cinema's treatment of terrorism from the birth of film to today"--
Download or read book The Debasement of Human Rights written by Aaron Rhodes and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of human rights began as a call for individual freedom from tyranny, yet today it is exploited to rationalize oppression and promote collectivism. How did this happen? Aaron Rhodes, recognized as “one of the leading human rights activists in the world” by the University of Chicago, reveals how an emancipatory ideal became so debased. Rhodes identifies the fundamental flaw in the Universal Declaration of Human of Rights, the basis for many international treaties and institutions. It mixes freedom rights rooted in natural law—authentic human rights—with “economic and social rights,” or claims to material support from governments, which are intrinsically political. As a result, the idea of human rights has lost its essential meaning and moral power. The principles of natural rights, first articulated in antiquity, were compromised in a process of accommodation with the Soviet Union after World War II, and under the influence of progressivism in Western democracies. Geopolitical and ideological forces ripped the concept of human rights from its foundations, opening it up to abuse. Dissidents behind the Iron Curtain saw clearly the difference between freedom rights and state-granted entitlements, but the collapse of the USSR allowed demands for an expanding array of economic and social rights to gain legitimacy without the totalitarian stigma. The international community and civil society groups now see human rights as being defined by legislation, not by transcendent principles. Freedoms are traded off for the promise of economic benefits, and the notion of collective rights is used to justify restrictions on basic liberties. We all have a stake in human rights, and few serious observers would deny that the concept has lost clarity. But no one before has provided such a comprehensive analysis of the problem as Rhodes does here, joining philosophy and history with insights from his own extensive work in the field.
Download or read book Simple Sabotage Field Manual written by Office of Strategic Services and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a genuine guide from the Second World War, states that its purpose is to "characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it." Among the other fine pieces of advice in this handy volume, one is encouraged to "switch address labels on enemy baggage", "let cutting tools grow dull", "forget to provide paper in toilets", and "change sign posts at intersections and forks; the enemy will go the wrong way and it may be miles before he discovers his mistakes."
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise New York written by Eileen Pollack and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and moving first novel of nostalgia for Catskills hotel life.
Download or read book Sun Sea Sabotage written by Suz Korb and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe Morgan is fed up with the constant grey skies of England. Also, she's just been fired from her internship. How one gets sacked from an unpaid position, Chloe can't fathom, but it's happened to her. Luckily (or so she thinks) her boyfriend in Hawaii has just proposed! Sort of, it wasn't exactly an incredibly romantic proposal she'd received via text message. Nevertheless, Chloe leaps at the chance to live with the man of her dreams in paradise. She relocates to the land of the hula and just like in her home nation; disaster strikes. She ends up homeless. Will Chloe ever find civilization again? And how long will she be able to survive with a broken heart? Perhaps she'll let the new guy into her life, or maybe not when they find a stash of diamonds hidden in a tiki statue!
