Download or read book Valhalla Underground written by R.W. Garcia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd like you to meet my friend Xavier Basch. He hates cops, authority, government; you know, anything that restrains him. Xavier seeks the kind of unattainable freedom that only an anarchical nihilist could dream. The irony is, that his relentless search to realize his own destiny lands him in prison. Now granted, killing a cop would seem to be the most counter-productive attempt to liberate one's self, but Xavier can be a little irrational at times. You see, Xavier's heart is laden with heaviness of his dark past. He represses these memories to such a strong degree, that he passes out frequently. It's like he can control his own amnesia! Inside his lucid dreams, he finds familiar sights and sounds. A dream world too subtle and boring to be fantasy. In fact, Xavier's dreams are so lifelike that he sometimes confuses the waking world with the dream world. Which poses very intriguing questions. Is his life in prison reality, or are his boring dreams? Is Xavier a heavily confused mental case, or is he the only one who knows the truth? Perhaps the most frightening question is: Is Xavier really Xavier? If I am I And you are you Then, who is X?

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Download or read book Looking for the Hidden Folk written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature—and their idea that elves live among us—Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it. Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline can be defined, in the Icelandic perception, by its own sort of elf. Illuminated by her own encounters with Iceland’s Otherworld—in ancient lava fields, on a holy mountain, beside a glacier or an erupting volcano, crossing the cold desert at the island’s heart on horseback—Looking for the Hidden Folk offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature. It reveals how the words we use and the stories we tell shape the world we see. It argues that our beliefs about the Earth will preserve—or destroy it. Scientists name our time the Anthropocene: the Human Age. Climate change will lead to the mass extinction of numerous animal species unless we humans change our course. Iceland suggests a different way of thinking about the Earth, one that offers hope. Icelanders believe in elves— and you should, too.

Download or read book Hidden Nature written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future. As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova. Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.

Download or read book The Wolf Mile written by C.F. Barrington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squid Game meets The Hunger Games in this thriller where modern-day recruits compete with ancient weapons in a deadly game across the streets of Edinburgh. Welcome to the Pantheon Games. Let the streets of Edinburgh run with blood... The Games are the biggest underground event in the world, followed by millions online. New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons – and their wits. Tyler Maitland and Lana Cameron have their own reasons for signing their lives away. Now they must risk everything and join the ranks of seven warrior teams that inhabit this illicit world. Their journey will be more extraordinary and horrifying than anything they could have dreamed, testing them to breaking point. Will they find what they seek? Or will they succumb to the nature of the Pantheon? Let the Season begin. Discover The Pantheon, perfect for dystopian fiction fans who loved The Hunger Games and Chain-Gang All-Stars. 'The Wolf Mile is a thrilling ride and a heck of a debut. C.F. Barrington knocks it out of the park.' Matthew Harffy 'The moment you ask yourself if it could just be true, the story has you.' Anthony Riches 'Gripping and original – a terrific read!' Joe Heap 'So gripping that I sometimes find myself holding my breath while I'm reading!' Ruth Hogan 'A brilliant eccentric concept which hits you like a fever dream.' Giles Kristian

Download or read book The Prophecy written by Lane Robson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asgard is a subterranean kingdom populated by the descendants of Viking colonists whose vessels are blown off course and who are eventually stranded in the Canadian arctic. The subterranean kingdom also includes various aboriginal peoples from North America (Anasazi, Haida, Siksika, Inuit), Central America (Maya), and South America (Inca), and intelligent bears. There is an ancient prophecy that on the millennium anniversary of the arrival of the original Vikings, a blonde surface woman of Icelandic heritage will wed the current prince and usher in an age of untold prosperity. The blonde woman was foretold to appear at a hot spring (one of the natural entrances to the subterranean world) during a full moon when the lights were dancing in the northern sky. Princess Malicious, daughter of the King, covets the throne of Asgard. Her treacherous plans threaten the peace and survival of the kingdom. Viking, Mayan, Inca, Haida, Anasazi, Siksika, and other aboriginal myths and history are woven into the story. Descriptions of the cavern world (stalactites, stalagmites, crystals) are realistic. Seeing is an important theme-seeing in dreams, seeing in wakeful visions, vision quests, drug-induced visions. Faith and conservation are other important themes

Download or read book Valhalla written by Joseph Murphy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry and Joe Murphy would meet again in Pensacola Florida. Terry would go on to earn his Navy wings while Joe would go back to The Basic School, the training ground for Marine Officers, and become an Infantry Platoon Commander. Each one would be introduced to new acquaintances in their assignments, including future Medal of Honor winners. This story is packed with a lot of emotional impact; like the first two books of this trilogy. It takes the reader through the high intrigue days of the Missiles of October, the nuclear standoff between Russia and the United States, and into the skies over Vietnam. Every Chapter crackles with adventure fueled by the individual personalities and the women they are involved with. One feels the authors love for his beloved Corps and the brotherhood he shares with his inner circle of friends.

Download or read book Underground written by Suelette Dreyfus and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

Download or read book Valhalla Rising written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices smoke and races to the rescue. He's too late to save the engineer behind the ship's new technology, but helps the man's daughter, Kelly Egan, escape with her father's work in a leather briefcase. While Ms. Egan strives to uncover the hidden value in her father's inventions, Pitt is hired on by maritime insurers to investigate the wreckage. Neither are prepared for the mechanical marvels they'll soon be forced to confront. The machines could only be the stuff of legend, described in the tales of Viking explorers or the accounts of Jules Verne. And they may be Pitt and Egan's only hope when an oil tycoon with a plan of his own appears on the scene. Before journey's end, Pitt will take on a power-mad millionaire, tread upon territory previously known only to Verne's illustrious Captain Nemo, and make shocking discoveries about his own past.

Download or read book Music Subcultures and Migration written by Elke Weesjes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framework, the collection traces how music and subcultures travel through, to and from democracies, autocracies and anocracies. The chosen approach is multidisciplinary and deliberately diverse. Using both archival sources and oral testimony from a wide variety of musicians, promoters, critics and members of the audience, contributors from a range of academic disciplines explore music and subcultural forms in countries across Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa. They investigate how far the meaning of music and associated subcultures change as they move from one context to another and consider whether they transcend or blur parameters of class, race, gender and sexuality.

Download or read book Offline Matters written by Jess Henderson and published by Bis Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offline Matters is a handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work. When did creative work become so boring? How did 'digital-first' come to dominate everything? ...and why is nobody talking about it? Part insider expose, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative seeking help on: navigating the possibility of offline alternatives, countering overwork culture, exploitation, and dulled-down ideas, recovering what you loved about your creative calling...away from the confines of our screens. We are dreaming of offline. Not as a romanticised past, a punishment, a quick detox, or a WiFi-free cafe. Offline is not a lifestyle. It's a space of opportunity. By the end of Offline Matters, you'll have a new perspective on the dry digitality that defines creative work today - and a set of strategies for going beyond it.

Download or read book Bakana Flare written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth emotional installment, our heroes encounter the delightful cameo appearances of The Rostical Users! After discovering the creature's new transformation, the guild is thrown into a fight of their lives! Fortunately, with the power of light, our heroes survive at a significant cost.. With the world continuing its decay, Arcadia forces Ginger Susanoo, the master of four elements and her trusty shurikens to join the guild in their adventures. Clues start to fall into place as we find out what is happening with this yellow eyed disease, the corrupted Neurons and the planet's Aurorions. But with everything set in motion, it may be too late for the guild to act on it. Rachael, Nathan, Karol, Luna, Ginger, Champion, Lezard and Blake, slowly start to find out that their little adventure is much greater than they originally expected. Find out how their actions determine the planet's survival!

Download or read book The Revolution Wasn t Televised written by Lynn Spigel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Download or read book The Rostical Users Sceldrant s Comet written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written like it's a script from a video game, a manga and RPG inspired story follows unlikely 'heroes' to stop the Consultant's wicked plans!Our heroes explore uncharted sanctums known as the Unknown Territories, each with an ancient glyph at the end.The Consultants have been activating these glyphs, one by one. The secret behind the glyphs are currently unknown.Help our heroes discover the meaning behind the glyphs and its secrets!Writer: "The Rostical Users is about several teenagers who all work in the Fast Food industry, they have plain ordinary lives until the arrival of 'Sceldrant's Comet'."Reader: "Sceldrant's Comet?"Writer: "After a strange reaction to a crystal Lance picked up, they suddenly found themselves in a strange world."Reader: "Sounds boring!"Writer: "After encountering frightening Scoldrants and enemies with magical powers, they set off to try and find a way home. Little did they know the Consultants won't let them."

Download or read book Healing Monarchs written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth heartbreaking installment, the guild part ways and complete their individual stories, ranging from infiltrating the Consultant's facility to underwater sanctions to an epic chase scene involving a dragon and a phoenix made of unforgiving flames. With two new guild members, The Rostical Guild draws closer to being the most recognised force across the two continents!

Download or read book Tales Of written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final and epic installment, our guild members transition from heroes to saviours and end the world's calamity and disease. As our heroes' tale reaches its conclusion, what will happen to the yellow-eyed disease? What will happen to the racism, sexism and discrimination? From rebuilding cities, hilarious plays, a singing performance, heartwarming confessions, powers that transcend our dimension and awfully bad puns, The Rostical Guild has everything one could ask for in the final season of the series! The entire guild hopes you have enjoyed over thirty hours of projected game time and if you laughed and cried with them! Thank you for saving the world with us!

Download or read book The Seventh Science Fiction MEGAPACK written by Robert Silverberg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack" presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great reading! Included are: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, by Mike Resnick A BRIEF DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, by Michael Kurland GRANDPA?, by Edward M. Lerner TO ERR IS INHUMAN, by Marion Zimmer Bradley SARGASSO OF LOST STARSHIPS, by Poul Anderson THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Geoffrey Cobbe MOON DOG, by Arthur C. Clarke WHY I LEFT HARRY’S ALL-NIGHT HAMBURGERS, by Lawrence Watt-Evans GALACTIC CHEST, by Clifford D. Simak PROTOTYPE, by John Gregory Betancourt THE DOORSTOP, by Reginald Bretnor THE TIME DISSOLVER, by Jerry Sohl DO UNTO OTHERS, by Damien Broderick KEEP OUT, by Fredric Brown THE CHAPTER ENDS, by Poul Anderson DO UNTO OTHERS, by Mark Clifton THE SERVANT PROBLEM, by Robert F. Young THE SLIZZERS, by Jerome Bixby AND THEN THE TOWN TOOK OFF, by Richard Wilson SPACE OPERA, by Michael R. Collings I AM TOMORROW, by Lester del Rey RIPENESS IS ALL, by Jesse Roarke DAWSON DID IT, by C.J. Henderson STARMAN'S QUEST, by Robert Silverberg THROUGH TIME & SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (94), by Grendel Briarton And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see the 100+ entries in this series, covering everything from science fiction and fantasy to mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, author collections--and much, much more! (Sort by publication date to see the most recent entries.)