Download or read book 2050 Gods of Little Earth written by J. Zornado and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2050: Gods of Little Earth opens two thousand years after the fall of civilization, when a wanderer named Vilb sets out on a pilgrimage and discovers that he may be little more than a pawn of mysterious gods-remnants of ancient beings who have been waiting for this very moment to fulfill their destiny. Vilb's story explores in a post-apocalyptic Antarctica, which, though habitable, has fallen into perpetual drought. The lack of water and food has set this new "Little Earth" on a course for crisis, and Vilb holds- though he hardly knows it-both its cause and its resolution. Vilb is on a journey for information and for self-discovery. Understanding his own past is critical if his crisis is to be understood. Now he learns about the history of Little Earth at the critical year from which it emerged: 2050 a.d. Epic in scope, speculative in theme, and character-driven, 2050: Gods of Little Earth, A Future History, Volume 1 is an engaging and thoughtful read.Volumes 2 and 3 to appear in 2015!
Download or read book 2050 A Future History Volume I written by J. Zornado and published by Idp. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2050: A Future History begins two thousand years after the fall of civilization, when a wanderer named Vilb sets out on a pilgrimage, only to discover that he may be little more than a pawn of "the gods," a remnant of ancient beings who have been waiting for this very moment to fulfill their destiny, not his. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Antarctica, which though habitable has fallen into perpetual drought; the lack of water and food has set this new "Little Earth" on a course for crisis, and Vilb holds-- though he hardly knows it--both its cause and its resolution. Vilb is on a journey for information and for self-discovery. Understanding his own past is critical if his crisis is to be understood. And so he learns about the history of Little Earth at the critical year from which it emerged: 2050 a.d. The book is epic in scope, speculative in theme, and character-driven. This is the Revised Trilogy Edition. Volumes II and III will be published in 2012 and 2013.
Download or read book 2050 written by J. Zornado and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What power rules the world? Two thousand years after the fall of civilization, Vilb continues his epic journey, desperately in search of his humanity in a post-human world. With explorations of both Earth of 2050 and the new world he lives in millenia later, Vilb Solenthay and a memorable cast of characters continue to unravel the mysteries of Little Earth. Keys found in the past could unlock knowledge of the present, and reveal the secrets to future.
Download or read book The lost DNA 2050 written by Kava Kamz and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix of Indian Mythology and Science We, the Homo sapiens, are uninformed of the mysterious history which our early ancestors lived through for millions of years. The characters of this novel, including an investigative journalist, anthropologist, brain and neurology professor, physical research head, space scientist, archaeologist, cancer specialist and siddha scientists, will lead you along the unimaginable hidden secrets of our world which are set to happen in the near future. More than half of this novel is set in 2050, where you will be astonished by the modern technology and the evolution of life. The love, friendship, trust, hate, betrayal and greed of the characters depict the reality of human nature. So get ready for a fascinating science fiction story! Welcome to the future!
Download or read book 2050 When Immortals Reign A Future History written by J. Zornado and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the final volume of Vilb's epic journey, he confronts Levinthal as his prisoner in the Seven Towers. What will power become when it rules absolutely? What will the future bring for the remnants of humanity trapped in the Fifth Realm? What of the Gods of Little Earth and the Seventh Realm? And what of Simon? All this and more Vilb Solenthay discovers in Volume III: When Immortals Reign, the epic conclusion of 2050: A Future History.
Download or read book The Earth The Gods and The Soul A History of Pagan Philosophy written by Brendan Myers and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy was invented by pagans. Yet this fact is almost always ignored by those who write the history of ideas. This book tells the history of the pagan philosophers, and the various places where their ideas appeared, from ancient times to the 21st century. The Pagan philosophers are a surprisingly diverse group: from kings of great empires to exiled lonely wanderers, from devout religious teachers to con artists, drug addicts, and social radicals. Three traditions of thought emerge from their work: Pantheism, NeoPlatonism, and Humanism, corresponding to the immensities of the Earth, the Gods, and the Soul. From ancient schools like the Stoics and the Druids, to modern feminists and deep ecologists, the pagan philosophers examined these three immensities with systematic critical reason, and sometimes with poetry and mystical vision. This book tells their story for the first time in one volume, and invites you to examine the immensities with them. And as a special feature, the book includes summaries of the ideas of leading modern pagan intellectuals, in their own words: Emma Restall Orr, Michael York, John Michael Greer, Vivianne Crowley, and more ,
Download or read book And Man Created God written by George Carl Mynchenberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And MAN CREATED GOD presents the Agnostic view point using science, history and logic while denying all religious belief and faith in revelations from a Creator or God. Reviews And MAN CREATED GOD is vigorous and clearly written. Readers should have no doubt about the position you take, the positions you challenge, and why you find religious beliefs doubtful. It articulates very well what you call the agnostic position. Charles F. Kielkopf, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University
Download or read book Homage to Political Philosophy written by James R. Flynn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems. These include ethical truth, free will, the common good, whether God exists, whether America could become a Hobbesian world sovereign, appeals to nature, free speech, the nature of rights, how one can argue with Nietzsche, whether history is predictable, whether the market can be humanized, and assumed genetic differences between races and genders. When a thinker poses a problem not resolvable at that time, (such as racial equality) modern social science and economics are used to provide answers. There are two persistent themes in this book: namely, that a futile search for ethical truth has drained the original image of the good society (Plato and Aristotle) of its rich content, and that the market has replaced justice as the ordering principle of human society leaving philosophers helpless unless they learn economics.
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Download or read book Firmament 2050 Ad written by Michael Gabriel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denver Jenkins is a fifteen-year-old computer-hacking Californian. Big Louis, Turnip, and Dandelion are three accidental-prone aliens who have managed to end up at the wrong end of the galaxy. When Denver encounters the aliens, he discovers that an impending cosmic catastrophe threatens all life on Earth and that the future can only be saved with the help of the aliens superior science and the hidden mysterious powers of a bunch of young earthlings.
Download or read book Children of God written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.
Download or read book The Early History of Heaven written by J. Edward Wright Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism University of Arizona and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-12-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Download or read book World Civilization written by Robin W. Winks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin W. Winks placed particular emphasis on those developments that most directly explain the nature of the modern world: social diffusion, group and national consciousness, technological change, religious identities-those aspects of intellectual history that have contributed most to our current dilemmas. In turn this means that there is more in World Civilization: A Brief History about nationalism, imperialism, or ethnic identities than there is about monarchies, feudalism, or diplomacy. The result of the strategic and intellectual decisions made with respect to this textbook is that its proportions are not the customary ones. Particular emphasis is placed on the early origins of civilizations, on Greece and Rome, and on the period of the so-called barbarian invasions, because it is by studying these periods that students may best learn how societies are formed. Particular emphasis is also placed on the period from the French Revolution on, for it is the events of the last two hundred years that have most closely shaped our present condition. This book can be read, straight through and in its entirety, as an interpretive statement about Western history written by a person who knew a good bit about non-Western history and who could thus throw into perspective the unusual, the commonplace, and the comparable in that sector of history conventionally labeled 'Western'. The text draws on over thirty-five years of discovering, in the classroom, what students themselves wish to ask about the past rather than what a body of scholars may have concluded they should wish to ask. Though this book is largely about Western civilization, it is also about world civilizations, for from the eighteenth century forward--and in many aspects of life, much earlier-the non-West has interacted with the West in such a way as to make it virtually impossible to separate one from the other when dealing at this level of generalization. As a teacher of the history of exploration and discovery, of imperialism and decolonizati
Download or read book A Dictionary of Poetical Illustrations specially selected with a view to the needs of the pulpit and platform written by Robert Aitkin Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Uninhabitable Earth written by David Wallace-Wells and published by Tim Duggan Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Download or read book The Early History of Heaven written by J. Edward Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Download or read book Chariots of the Gods written by Erich von Däniken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1980 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author attempts to explain such perplexing archaeological discoveries as the stone figures on Easter Island and various temple and cave drawings