Download or read book The Ivory Hourglass written by Davide Cassia and published by Babelcube Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refined nobleman, a charming Don Juan, a young imperial soldier. And an alchemist. An ancient journal, an arcanum buried through the centuries, an object for which everyone yearns. And a game of chess. From a Paris that has just survived Terror to baroque Venice and Egypt, between a nowadays Bologna and a Rome contended by both the Vatican and Napoleon, over four centuries for the very same search: that of the ivory hourglass.

Download or read book Timepiece An Hourglass Novel written by Myra McEntire and published by Egmont USA. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaleb Ballard was never supposed to be able to see ripples—cracks in time. Are Kaleb’s powers expanding, or is something very wrong? Before Kaleb can find out, Jonathan Landers, the man who tried to murder his father, reappears. Why is he back, and what, or whom, does he want? In the wake of Landers’s return, the Hourglass organization is offered an ultimatum by a mysterious man. Either they find Landers and the research he has stolen on people who might carry the time gene, or time will be altered—with devastating results for the people Kaleb loves most. Now Kaleb, Emerson, Michael, and the other Hourglass recruits have no choice but to use their extraordinary powers to find Landers. But where do they even start? And when? Even if they succeed, just finding him may not be enough. . . . The follow-up to Hourglass, Timepiece blends the paranormal, science-fiction, mystery, and suspense genres into a nonstop thrill ride where every second counts.

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Download or read book At The Next Spring written by Timothy Nils and published by Timothy Nils. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard, a first-year student studying Renaissance literature, is persuaded to include the secretive art-history 'B' module in his university studies, unaware that he has joined a long-running conspiracy that plans to change the world through the manipulation of time and space. in a conflict forcing Richard to confront past and present, myth and reality, he must decide whether to save the life of his best friend and thereby destroy the existing world, or spare a world he knows and trusts but sacrifice his friend ... before MI5 and the CIA make the decision for him. Set in London, At The Next Spring is a mystery thriller with a historical dimension, and a closely-guarded date that promises its discoverers the key to a new Golden Age ... or a rapid descent to hell.

Download or read book Cyber Planet written by Brett Herrmann and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the mysterious disappearance of her parents, eight-year-old Hadley Meadows was left behind in a building the world didnt know about. However, this building had groundbreaking technology within that gave Hadley a chance to do almost anything. Hadley would inherit the DimensionCast, a revolutionary pod shaped supercomputer that puts her in a sleep like state, then with the aid of her brain, constructs a virtual world she can inhabit and manipulate at her own will. This virtual reality, called the Pseudoplex, became her digital cosmos that housed all of the content she would go on to create. Hadley spent so much time in the Pseudoplex that she no longer identified with the outside world. Using her ever refining creative abilities, she constructed a virtual body for herself to manifest. She called it her avatar, and used it to substitute her own identity within the Pseudoplex. She named her avatar Animi, leaving behind her birth name for the real world. Hadley was an isolated daughter of missing parents, but when she laid in her DimensionCast and entered the Pseudoplex as Animi, she became a creator. She built cities, mountain ranges, forests, and towns in her Pseudoplex, and eventually filled those places with artificial intelligence that resembled other people. Animi called these people NPCs, and their artificial intelligence became more advanced, further immersing Animi into the world that she had built. Years later, Animi and her NPCs had put together an entire planet within the Pseudoplex that they could coexist on. This virtual planet was named Swisaril, and it would develop an economy, politics, laws, cultures, and celebrities. Now, Hadley is twenty-six, and she still feels like something is missing. She could still sense the twinge of loneliness in her head, even though she was the creator of an entire cyber planet. She desired something new and exciting that was random; an unknown variable to bring a new perspective to Swisaril. With plenty of research, she found a twenty-four-year-old potential filled but talent squandered man by the name of Milo Hodge. Hadley saw Milos capacity to do great things, but knew he would never reach that capability under his current circumstances. So, she used her resources to track Milo down and bring him into her digital world. It didnt take long for Milo to hop into the Pseudoplex once Hadley introduced him to his very own DimensionCast. Milo was assigned an avatar, which he named Creo, and just like Hadley, took that as his identity as long as he was in the Pseudoplex. Animi makes it clear that she wants Creo to become a creator just like her, and use his potential to build off her already great creation. As Creo grows alongside Animi, he will learn about her past as the answers slowly trickle into view. With this planet full of values, civilizations, and surprises, there are many lessons that both Animi and Creo must learn together. The Pseudoplex is where minds and machines merge, where evolution is digital, and where imagination becomes reality. Step inside and synchronize.

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Download or read book Global Archaeological Theory written by Pedro Paulo Funari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past or a narrative of the past. Post-processual theory also incorporates a conscious and explicit political interest on the past of the scholar and the subject. This includes fields and topics such as gender issues, ethnicity, class, landscapes, and consumption. This reflects a conscious attempt to also decentralize the discipline, from an imperialist point of view to an empowering one. Method and theory also means being politically aware and engaged to incorporate diverse critical approaches to improve understanding of the past and the present. This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the very rich plurality of the post-processual approach to archaeology. The book is divided into four sections: Issues in Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Theory and Method in Action, Space and Power in Material Culture, and Images as Material Discourse.

Download or read book Researching National Security Intelligence written by Stephen Coulthart and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing authors to Researching National Security Intelligence survey the state of the field and demonstrate how incorporating multiple disciplines helps to generate high-quality, policy-relevant research. Following this approach, the volume provides a conceptual, empirical, and methodological toolkit for scholars and students informed by many disciplines: history, political science, public administration, psychology, communications, and journalism. This collection of essays written by an international group of scholars and practitioners propels intelligence studies forward by demonstrating its growing depth, by suggesting new pathways to the creation of knowledge, and by identifying how scholarship can enhance practice and accountability.

Download or read book Time Gifts written by Zoran Zivkovic and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts is a meditation on the nature of time and, especially, on the nature of those at its mercy.

Download or read book You ve Got a Point written by Anna Dineen and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing Quilts with Triangles Just about every quilter has made their share of half-square triangles. But in her first quilting book, up-and-coming designer Anna Dineen introduces you to triangle-in-a-square units that can elevate quilt designs from pretty to pretty spectacular. Anna shows you how to make these units using two different types of ruler sets (Bloc-Loc and Tri Recs), as well as how to paper piece them. If you've never tried sewing triangle-in-a-square units, don't worry--with the photo tutorials in this book at your fingertips, you'll master them in no time! In addition to how-to photos and instructions, you'll find 10 creative quilt patterns. Whether you're looking for a fun and breezy summery quilt, a cozy throw, or a stunning Christmas design, you'll be adding these patterns to the top of your must-make list.

Download or read book Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Architecture and Sculpture and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Queen of Raz written by Ruth Nordin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Ann's Quest To Be Queen, Ann is called upon to save her home planet, Earth. Two years after becoming Queen of Raz, Ann discovers that her dead enemy Omin, from planet Pale, left a clone of himself. At the right moment, the clone, Omin-2, wakes up and goes to Earth to destroy Ann before she can become Queen of Raz. Along with Ann, Hathor and William are thrown back six years into the past. Although Hathor and William remember those six years, Ann has no memory of it. The Palers and Olympians struggle to find and rescue the Queen while Hathor and William fight for the right to claim her heart. Ultimately, the struggle will come against Omin-2 whose desire to rule the entire Earth convinces him to make a slave race of the entire world. Now it is up to Ann and her allies to save Earth before it's too late.

Download or read book Antique Kilims of Anatolia written by Peter Davies and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fleece, yarn, and dyeing to looms and weaves, the visual language, tribal weavers, and meaning, origins, and aesthetics of the kilim, this book provides an ideal and up-to-date summary of the subject.

Download or read book Mistletoe Magic written by Virginia Brown and published by ImaJinn Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas will change everything! Sinfully handsome, wrongfully accused, he is offered money and respectability in exchange for his freedom . . . Nicholas Hawkely, second son of a duke, newly resigned Captain of HMS Renown, finds his recent betrothal to the spinster daughter of a wealthy banker most inconvenient. After ten years of fighting Napoléon, he has dreams of traveling the world on new adventures, not marrying a woman chosen by his father. Jilted spinster, reluctant heiress, she wants only a quiet life with no complications . . . Charlotte St. John prefers quiet pleasures such as riding through the park and birdwatching rather than dances, soirées, or an arranged marriage. Horrified that her father has chosen the disgraced son of a duke to be her husband, she escapes the city for a peaceful Christmas at the Sussex country home of a friend. But in fleeing their fates, they run right into them when, days later, they both find themselves at the same country estate, trapped by a blizzard, celebrating the yuletide season. And they quickly learn not to underestimate the power of mistletoe . . . and Christmas miracles. Since her first romance novel came out in 1984, Virginia Brown has written over 50 novels. Many of her books have been nominated for Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice, Career Achievement Award for Love and Laughter, Career Achievement Award for Adventure, EPIC eBook nomination for Historical Romance, and she received the RT Career Achievement Award for Historical Adventure, as well as the EPIC eBook Award for Mainstream Fiction. Her works have regularly appeared on national bestseller lists. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Virginia spent much of her childhood traveling with her parents as a "military brat," living all over the US and in Japan. This influenced her love of travel and adventure, which she indulges with research trips to England and Scotland as often as possible. While Ms. Brown spent her formative years in Jackson, Mississippi, she now lives near her children in North Mississippi, surrounded by a menagerie of beloved dogs and cats while she writes.