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Book The Colony Called Beyond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael L. Anderson
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2024-04-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book The Colony Called Beyond written by Michael L. Anderson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colony Called Beyond tells the tale of thirty scientists were invited and hired to work for a multinational company on earth that owned a colony in the Kuiper Belt. The scientists make the trip to the colony called Beyond and soon find out that their beautiful living quarters and village were more like a prison. They must use their abilities in science and technology to break out of the prison or they will starve. Join their epic search for freedom as they struggle to survive among illegal cloning, inability to communicate with their comrades on Earth, and even a bit of romance. The reader will learn that cycles of life and cycles of the universe shall go on forever. About the Author Michael L. Anderson was born in the great big town of Doniphan, Missouri. He grew up on a farm and learned to work from an early age. He always wanted to be a writer but struggled for many years because of his dyslexia. He graduated from high school and joined the Navy, where he spent time in Vietnam. He then spent a year exploring the Mediterranean islands and countries. When he returned to the states, after being a ship’s photographer for two years, he was finally able to enter the U.S. Navy School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He went on to college, where he double majored in art and biology and minored in both psychology and history. He then taught school in Greenville and Williamsville, married his lovely wife, and moved back to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He enjoys writing stories and had written newspaper articles over the years and now write a newsletter for the Vietnam Veterans of America in Poplar Bluff chapter 1056.

Book The Colony Called Beyond

Download or read book The Colony Called Beyond written by Michael L Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colony Called Beyond tells the tale of thirty scientists were invited and hired to work for a multinational company on earth that owned a colony in the Kuiper Belt. The scientists make the trip to the colony called Beyond and soon find out that their beautiful living quarters and village were more like a prison. They must use their abilities in science and technology to break out of the prison or they will starve. Join their epic search for freedom as they struggle to survive among illegal cloning, inability to communicate with their comrades on Earth, and even a bit of romance. The reader will learn that cycles of life and cycles of the universe shall go on forever. About the Author Michael L. Anderson was born in the great big town of Doniphan, Missouri. He grew up on a farm and learned to work from an early age. He always wanted to be a writer but struggled for many years because of his dyslexia. He graduated from high school and joined the Navy, where he spent time in Vietnam. He then spent a year exploring the Mediterranean islands and countries. When he returned to the states, after being a ship's photographer for two years, he was finally able to enter the U.S. Navy School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He went on to college, where he double majored in art and biology and minored in both psychology and history. He then taught school in Greenville and Williamsville, married his lovely wife, and moved back to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He enjoys writing stories and had written newspaper articles over the years and now write a newsletter for the Vietnam Veterans of America in Poplar Bluff chapter 1056.

Book Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins

Download or read book Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins written by Janalyn Guo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. In OUR COLONY BEYOND THE CITY OF RUINS, an insomniac will do anything for sleep, crones released from a buried heart take over a town, a woman chooses to live her last days in a cave overlooking the sea, earthquake survivors establish a colony in a remote forest. With unwavering imagination and heart, Janalyn Guo delivers a cast of characters who find their own unusual ways to endure. "These stories take the gestures of new wave fabulism and make it newer and even more wavy, by being genuinely international. Here's a book that shivers with possibility and wonder and surprise, where plants grow from people's bodies, where ghosts exist even before someone is dead. Guo isn't afraid to take on even the thoroughly weird in the most delightful way. This is what it's like to see a genre revivified."--Brian Evenson "OUR COLONY BEYOND THE CITY OF RUINS is an absolute delight, a wild collection that unsettles as much as it entertains. Guo shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence--this is a rare book of both strangeness and heart."--Kelly Luce

Book British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas

Download or read book British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas written by Sir Henry Jenkyns and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1902 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Rationalism

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  • Author : Bruce Kapferer
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2003-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780857458551
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Beyond Rationalism written by Bruce Kapferer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.

Book The Last King of America

Download or read book The Last King of America written by Andrew Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.

Book Lost Colony and Hatteras Island  The

Download or read book Lost Colony and Hatteras Island The written by Scott Dawson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 400 years, the mystery of Roanoke's Lost Colony has puzzled historians and spawned conspiracies--until now. New discoveries link the lost colony of Roanoke to Hatteras Island. The legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left Roanoke Island, where did they go? What is the meaning of the mysterious word Croatoan? In the sixteenth century, Croatoan was the name of an island to the south now known as Hatteras. Scholars have long considered the island as one of the colonists' possible destinations, but only recently has anyone set out to prove it. Archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with local residents through the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.

Book Slavery and Beyond

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  • Author : Darién J. Davis
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780842024853
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Slavery and Beyond written by Darién J. Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave market in Seville, while still relatively small, became one of the most active in Europe. Many called the city the 'New Babylon.' Northern and sub-Saharan Africans comprised more than 50 percent of the inhabitants of several of Seville's neighborhoods. The African populations became so socially and politically important that in 1475 the Crown appointed Juan de Valladolid, its royal servant and mayoral, to represent Seville's Afro-Iberian community. Churches and charities catered to its spiritual and material needs.

Book How to Escape from a Leper Colony

Download or read book How to Escape from a Leper Colony written by Tiphanie Yanique and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.

Book The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island

Download or read book The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island written by Scott Dawson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands. Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their fate was the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. For centuries, the legend of the Lost Colony has captivated imaginations. Now, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.

Book Beyond Pan Asianism

Download or read book Beyond Pan Asianism written by Tansen Sen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese-speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages. This volume also attempts to answer the question of how China-India connectedness in the modern period should be narrated. Instead of providing one definite answer, it engages with prevailing and past frameworks—notably 'Pan-Asianism' and 'China/India as Method'—with an aim to provoke further discussions on how histories of China-India and, by extension the non-Western world, can be conceptualized.

Book Castro s Colony

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  • Author : Bobby D. Weaver
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2005-08-19
  • ISBN : 9781585445189
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Castro s Colony written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder.

Book Beyond Papillon

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  • Author : Stephen A. Toth
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0803244495
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Beyond Papillon written by Stephen A. Toth and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilayered social and cultural analysis that focuses upon the will of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the bagne, or penal colony.

Book Beyond Marx

Download or read book Beyond Marx written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism has proven much more resilient than Marx anticipated, and the working class has, until now, hardly lived up to his hopes. The Marxian concept of class rests on exclusion. Only the ‘pure’ doubly-free wage-workers are able to create value; from a strategic perspective, all other parts of the world’s working populations are secondary. But global labour history suggests, that slaves and other unfree workers are an essential component of the capitalist economy. What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? In this volume twenty-two authors offer their thoughts on this question, both from a historical and theoretical perspective. Contributors include: Riccardo Bellofiore, Sergio Bologna, C. George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Niklas Frykman, Ferruccio Gambino, Detlef Hartmann, Max Henninger, Thomas Kuczynski, Marcel van der Linden, Peter Linebaugh, Ahlrich Meyer, Maria Mies, Jean-Louis Prat, Marcus Rediker, Karl Heinz Roth, Devi Sacchetto, Subir Sinha, Massimiliano Tomba, Carlo Vercellone, Peter Way, Steve Wright.

Book Beyond Black and Red

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  • Author : Matthew Restall
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780826324030
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Beyond Black and Red written by Matthew Restall and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.

Book Beyond Bondage

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  • Author : David Barry Gaspar
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 0252091361
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Beyond Bondage written by David Barry Gaspar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.