Download or read book The Godsons written by Carl Palmieri and published by carl (tuchy) palmieri. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GODSONS traces 37 years in the life of one powerful Sicilian-American organized crime family and how their strategic alliances create the greatest power shift in our nation's history.

Download or read book Starborn and Godsons written by Larry Niven and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named grendels were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth's Solar System. This is a novel of first contact—between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world . . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About prequel The Legacy of Heorot: "Page-turning action and suspense, good characterization and convincing setting . . . may be the best thing any of those authors has written.”—The Denver Post “Outstanding! …The best ever, by the best in the field . . . the ultimate combination of imagination and realism.”—Tom Clancy “Well written, action-packed, and tension filled … makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film."—The Washington Post “Spine-tingling ecological tale of terror.”—Locus About prequel Beowulf's Children: "Few writers have a finer pedigree than those here . . . As one might suspect, Beowulf's Children is seamless . . . absorbing, substantial . . . masterful novel."—Los Angeles Times "Panoramic SF adventure at its best."—Library Journal

Download or read book Godsons written by Paul Gait and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started so well with the lovely Christening in the ancient church, but then things started going downhill.Someone was spying on the christening party as they left the church.Then it got worse. A disputed will has triggered kidnap, ransom, arson and murderWho's behind the blood lust? Surely the chief suspect is dead?Ben carrying a knife is strictly a no-no, so how does it become a life saver?Can Nadine survive her nightmare visit to the UK challenging Geoffery Foster's will?An overstretched police force is being led a merry dance as suspicions fall on 'THAT WOMAN.'

Download or read book Godsons Retribution written by Paul Gait and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzette couldn't have imagined the implications of her innocent DNA search. For as she unravelled family secrets, she soon came to rue the day as suddenly her ordered world tumbled down around her. Then, lured into committing criminal acts in order to mistakenly seek justice for her dead sister, she falls foul of the law. Meanwhile, accused of a conspiracy about the circumstances of the death, the Godsons family close ranks, but the stress on Ben is immense. His anxiety is not helped by his mother's infatuation with her former partner. But nothing is going to stand in Suzette's way as she goes all out for Retribution.

Download or read book Godchildren written by Nicholas Coleridge and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling epic of love, money, power and revenge. On a luxurious Balinese island, the charismatic tycoon Marcus Brand entertains his six godchildren. By the end of the weekend, secrets will be revealed that will change everybody's life, a climax to the web of lies and betrayals spun over the course of thirty years. The godchildren are Charlie - the aristocratic Old Etonian, who's fascinated and enthralled by Marcus's wealth and who devotes his life to securing an inheritance; Mary - the daughter of one of Marcus's business colleagues, her life is blighted by tragedy; Jamie - feckless but utterly charming, he drifts from one job to another, crossing Marcus's path just once too often for comfort; Saffron - delicate and sensitive as well as stunningly beautiful, she is unaware of her power over men ... and of Marcus's power over her; Abigail - insecure and gauche, she blames Marcus for the disaster of her life; and Stuart - the working-class son of Marcus's dead chauffeur, he is torn between admiration and hatred for his supremely successful, capitalist godfather...

Download or read book Double Pole Heaven Dao written by Hun GuiBaiZhan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a genius who has been tormented by beauty since young? Please, no matter if it's the Ice Snow Huang Rong, or Li Mosou who has been emotionless since ancient times, with Ruo Ling's card, they are all my character cards. Do you have any masterwork weapons made by the ancient dwarves? F * * k, I don't need these things, because whether it's the golden saint robe or the Bio Boosting armour, they're just my items card; how can a Saint realm expert's battle qi mantra defeat my Dao-heart type demon, the War God's Atlas, the Lone Nine Swords, or the Six Passages Divine Sword? What! You still have magic? Sigh, I don't even dare to release the skill card that I came from the Immortal World. I'm afraid that you all will say that I am anti-human ...

Download or read book Mistake of Gods Warning against experiments with human genome written by Valeriy Zhiglov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a science education book that discloses the age and the origins of the human civilization. It reveals the most mysterious and the most unknowable – aliens, visiting the ancient Earth, and their amazing genetic experiments, which they carried out here. Based on multiple evidences, the author describes the significant difference between Celestials and ordinary Earth humans in every detail, and possible reasons to have the humans destroyed with the Flood are also listed.

Download or read book Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England written by Will Coster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of the subject to contemporaries, this is the first monograph to look at the institution of godparenthood in early modern English society. Utilising a wealth of hitherto largely neglected primary source data, this work explores godparenthood, using it as a framework to illuminate wider issues of spiritual kinship and theological change. It has become increasingly common for general studies of family and religious life in pre-industrial England to make reference to the spiritual kinship evident in the institution of godparenthood. However, although there have been a number of important studies of the impact of the institution in other periods, this is the first detailed monograph devoted to the subject in early modern England. This study is possible due to the survival, contrary to many expectations, of relatively large numbers of parish registers that recorded the identities of godparents in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By utilising this hitherto largely neglected data, in conjunction with evidence gleaned from over 20,000 Wills and numerous other biographical, legal and theological sources, Coster has been able to explore fully the institution of godparenthood and the role it played in society. This book takes the opportunity to study an institution which interacted with a range of social and cultural factors, and to assess the nature of these elements within early modern English society. It also allows the findings of such an investigation to be compared with the assumptions that have been made about the fortunes of the institution in the context of a changing European society. The recent historiography of religion in this period has focused attention on popular elements of religious practice, and stressed the conservatism of a society faced with dramatic theological and ritual change. In this context a study of godparenthood can make a contribution to understanding how religious change occurred and the ways in which popular religious practice was affected.

Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times written by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Europe as a Cultural Area written by Jean Cuisenier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Block Party 666 written by Al-Saadiq Banks and published by True 2 Life Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as he brings some of his old clients together to teach them how to elevate their game and clean their dirty money. In the midst of contemplating retirement, three of the biggest cases in Tony Austin's legal career fall into his lap. These new cases can solidify him as the (undisputed) greatest attorney of the century - IF he can pull them off. If he fails, not only will his career be ended, but possibly his life! With his legendary flair, a courageous Tony rises to the challenge and puts it all on the line to cement his legacy.Skelter, Black Manson’s prized soldier, pulls off the biggest score of her long criminal career. Unfortunately, unknown to her, she has just stolen from one of the biggest cartels in the Western hemisphere. The Cartel turns up the heat (and the body count) on Skelter and her crew, wreaking havoc on the whole city to find her. By the time Skelter realizes her mistake, it’s already too late as she’s both feet in, ten toes down, in the biggest, bloodiest war she’s ever had to fight. This war doesn’t only affect her and her crew. Her entire city is turned into a battlefield. The Infamous Black Manson and Smith engaged in a bloody street war with no clear winner in sight. Their street war now spills into prison when Baby Manson, Black Manson’s son, is shipped to the same yard that Smith rules with an iron fist. Will the change of turf finally give Smith the upper hand, or will Baby Manson hold on to his "G" status, and live up to his father’s name?Block Party 666 is money, murder, mayhem, and Government Conspiracies all wrapped into one fast-paced True 2 Life tale that continues to capture the tone of the streets like only Mr. Banks can. In the end, we learn all money is legal as we bear witness to the Mark of the Beast!

Download or read book Society and Culture in Early Modern England written by David Cressy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method, from quantitative applications using statistics to qualitative telling of tales. Seven essays under the heading 'Opportunities' explore problems of education, literacy and cultural attainment within the gendered and hierarchically ordered society of Elizabeth and Stuart England. Eight more under the heading 'Passages' examine social and cultural interactions, kinship, migration, community celebrations, and rituals in the life-cycle. The collection brings together a coherent body of research that is much cited in current scholarship and continues to shape the agenda for the social and cultural history of early modern England.

Download or read book Gurney Leafmould written by Paul Gait and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in a traffic jam or delayed at an airport and never found out the cause? Then you might have been a victim of the 'Ministry of Disruption'. Gurney Leafmould has been banned from undertaking anymore DIY and tries his hand at journalism instead. As an investigative journalist, he stumbles on to a state secret and soon finds that a vast secretive organisation manipulates a significant part of our daily lives. But dare he expose his findings to get a scoop? Gurney's quest starts off well before eventually his cloud of chaos soon overtakes him. This is the second humorous Gurney Leafmould adventure.

Download or read book Crime And Politics in India written by Dr. V.V.L.N. Sastry and published by Idea Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminalization of politics is one of the major problems facing India. There has been an increase in the number of politicians with criminal backgrounds who have been elected as legislative representatives in the past few decades. This raises the question as to why Indians elect criminal politicians. The causes of crime in India are classified into social, economic, political, geographic, mental and psychological, and biological. Criminalization of politics in India takes many forms, and include electoral fraud, political candidates with criminal backgrounds contesting elections, use of muscle power in mobilizing voters, political scams, bureaucratic scams, and politicians protecting criminal gangs. Some of the causes of criminalization of politics in India include political control of the police, state money, corruption, weak laws and abuse of discretion, lack of intraparty democracy transparency, lack of ethics or values, vote bank politics, and loopholes in the functioning of the Election Commission. Ignorance due to illiteracy is prevalent as approximately 25% of the population are illiterate. Ethnic identity is the most important factor in Indian politics. Ethnic identity includes caste, religion, and language. Competition over local dominance among various social groups is one of the major factors that makes Indian voters elect politicians with a criminal history. Most of the media houses have their political affiliations, and they continue to indulge in perception mapping of public. Indian voters elect criminals due to the perceived benefits they would receive from them since the politicians would have huge discretionary powers over the implementation of policies that facilitate the distribution of benefits to the public. Indian voters also vote for politicians with a criminal record due to being coerced. Candidates with criminal links provide the electorate with a form of social insurance. The ability of candidates with criminal links to provide platforms that facilitate dispute resolutions is also one of the factors that make Indian voters choose politicians with criminal links. Having a weak rule of law in India is the major factor that has led to the thriving of the alternative forms of dispute resolution. The election of candidates with a criminal record has several impacts. It leads to an increase in the level of political control of the police. The criminal politicians can use the police to achieve their personal goals. The governance delivered by the criminal politicians may contradict the prevailing principles of good governance in a democratic system. For instance, they may engage in practices that favor certain groups within the society to the detriment of other groups. Politicians with a criminal background create negative economic impacts. These politicians can use their discretionary powers in the allocation of public resources to the state-controlled corporations to engage in corrupt activities that enrich them or their benefactors. Therefore, they may embezzle public resources or allocate the public resources to private parties for their refinement or development, which would have a negative impact on the welfare of the residents of the region. Criminal politicians can also treat public resources as their personal assets and use them to engage in various criminal activities. It would lead to the breakdown of the rule of law since the politicians would support criminal activities conducted by their cronies. This may lead to the proliferation of criminal organization, which would be a threat to peace and security and also lead to the loss of public faith in the credibility of the judiciary. The situation is alarming and needs to be controlled before it goes out of hand and threatens the future social economic development of the country. These are the major issues that are discussed in this book.

Download or read book The New South Wales Law Reports written by New South Wales. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three series: 1. Cases at law -- 2. Cases in equity -- 3. Matrimonial cases.

Download or read book The New South Wales Law Reports 1880 1900 written by New South Wales. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of New South Wales written by Harold Murray Cockshott and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: