Download or read book Fallen Worlds Future Guardian written by Niambi Usiku and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgiving planet of Mkono Mungu sets the stage for this gripping tale. Here, war engulfs city-sized structures, space stations are under the control of violent gangs, and the desert is home to roving bands of orphaned children. Kaya Ajaratu, once a ruthless soldier, defects to help an abandoned child escape the brutality of war. She develops a powerful connection with him and the other children she encounters. Kaya soon realizes that powerful foes lurking in the shadows want to turn these special children into lethal weapons. Caught between an uncaring government and violent gangs, Kaya must decide between returning to the battlefield to save her planet or protecting vulnerable children and forging a path to a brighter future. Future Guardian is a love letter to the disparate forms of motherhood and how it triumphs in the face of a volatile society that abhors parenting but despises children even more. About the Author Niambi Usiku, the Night Song, is a Baltimore native and resident of Park Heights. After growing up in one of America’s most formidable cities, Niambi spent a decade as a professional journalist and writer. Discouraged by the mainstream narratives about the city and its citizens, Niambi focused on the untold stories of neglected children and the people working to protect, nurture, and guide them.
Download or read book THE LAST SURVIVORS CHRONICLES OF A FALLEN WORLD SERIES 2 written by Dr IME BEN and published by IME BEN. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Title: The Last Survivors: Chronicles of a Fallen World Author: Ime Ben In The Last Survivors: Chronicles of a Fallen World, Ime Ben weaves a powerful narrative of resilience, survival, and hope in a post-apocalyptic world. Set in the aftermath of a global catastrophe, this gripping novel follows a group of survivors navigating the challenges of a shattered world, fighting to rebuild their lives and communities from the ashes. As the survivors struggle to restore order in a world ravaged by disaster, they confront the physical hardships of a collapsed society and the ethical dilemmas and moral choices that arise in the face of desperation. The story explores the complexities of human nature, the importance of community, and the delicate balance between survival and humanity. The Last Survivors delves into cooperation, adaptability, and the need for sustainable living through richly drawn characters and a compelling plot. The survivors learn hard lessons about trust, leadership, and the cost of rebuilding, ultimately discovering that the key to a renewed world lies in physical reconstruction and the strength of the human spirit. Ime Ben’s background in environmental technology and sustainability management brings a unique perspective to this novel, grounding the fictional world in real-world issues and offering readers a thought-provoking exploration of the future we are building today. The Last Survivors: Chronicles of a Fallen World is a story of hope in the face of adversity, a call to action for a more sustainable and just future, and a reminder that, even in the darkest times, a better tomorrow is within our reach.
Download or read book Loving God through the Truth Second Edition written by Mark Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word theology is often construed by many as referring to a very dry and academic discipline only reserved for the professional clergy and seminary professors. Many lay Christians in the church are intimidated by the subject and feel it to be a tedious intellectual exercise that is of no use for their spiritual growth and mission of the church. In an attempt to address this concern, Mark Kim presents here an introductory systematic theology that deals with the core doctrinal topics of Christianity that is accessible for the average layperson. The work will engage heavily with Scripture and the voices of the past and present who have contributed to the total theological voice of the church at large. In this second edition of the work, there is included an extra chapter on the doctrine of the Christian life. As pointed out in the first edition of the work, theology should foremost be practical in its results and application. The author addresses this concern by including a new chapter discussing the nature of the Christian life and how Christians should live in the world.
Download or read book Pacific written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley. Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed us—tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis—but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan’s sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made. In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor. Winchester’s personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
Download or read book Queens of a Fallen World written by Kate Cooper and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life and thought were influenced by women. Queens of a Fallen World tells a story of betrayal, love, and ambition in the ancient world as seen through a woman's eyes. Historian Kate Cooper introduces us to four women whose hopes and plans collided in Augustine's early adulthood: his mother, Monnica of Thagaste; his lover; his fiancée; and Justina, the troubled empress of ancient Rome. Drawing upon their depictions in the Confessions, Cooper skilfully reconstructs their lives against the backdrop of their fourth-century society. Though they came from different walks of life, each found her own way of prevailing in a world ruled by men. A refreshingly complex and compelling portrait of Augustine, Queens of a Fallen World is the riveting story of four remarkable women who set him on course to change history.
Download or read book Fallen in Love written by Lauren Kate and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four love stories featuring Shelby, Miles, and other characters from the Fallen series.
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Download or read book The Order of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Download or read book Purpose and Power written by Donald Stoker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of grand strategy critical to understanding how America has used its power in both peace and war.
Download or read book The Body Artist written by Don DeLillo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating exposé of 'who we are when we are not rehearsing who we are'; and a rarefied study of trauma and creativity, absence and presence, isolation and communion.
Download or read book Gardens of the Moon written by Steven Erikson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series from Steven Erikson. The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand... Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book An Exploration of Space 1999 Through the Lens of Video Games Payne 1999 written by John K. Balor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains transcripts from Online Alpha discussions where the video game PAYNE 1999, game theory and game-study theories are used for analysing and commenting on problems of conflict and cooperation in SPACE 1999. The discussions build on more than a decade of conversations and debate about PAYNE 1999, and the aim of the book is to put the various threads together while also developing new ideas and providing direction for further investigations. The book has been developed on an idealistic basis, and it is sold at the lowest price the publisher was willing to accept. A free e-book version can be downloaded at www.lulu.com.
Download or read book Hospitality in a Time of Terror written by Lindsay Anne Balfour and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate offers a reading of hospitality that suggests the encounter with strangers is at the core of cultural production and culture itself in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It documents the significance of hospitality after the terrorist attacks, particularly as such an ethics is so provocatively raised or disavowed by a predominantly visual and cultural archive that has been and continues to be consumed by millions of people around the world. This book utilizes works of cultural memory, film, art and literature that show the breadth of hospitality’s influence but that offer a depth of insight, historical specificity, and theoretical intensity that only a product created in the aftermath of 9/11 allows. The September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, for example, is best understood as an institution defined by the question of hospitality, particularly as hospitality is engaged or disavowed through an experience with loss. This bookalso considers how hospitality might function in consideration of the violence perpetuated against bodies marked by discourses of race, gender, and sexuality, as is the case in the 2011 film, Zero Dark Thirty, and separately explores how alternative modes of hospitality are enabled by the fluid and dynamic space of the street and the urban art found there. The final chapter examines Don DeLillo's 2007 novel Falling Man, and argues that the novel demonstrates a sustained engagement with hospitality through the figure of organic shrapnel, a metaphor that suggests the possibility of being literally and figuratively embedded by another. The purpose of this book is to point out the diverse and even devastating ways that hospitality appears in ways that remind us that, if hospitality as we understand it is failing, it matters more than ever how we deploy it.
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Download or read book Representations of Technoculture in Don DeLillo s Novels written by Laila Sougri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore technoculture in all of Don DeLillo’s novels. From Americana (1971) to The Silence (2020), the American author anatomizes the constantly changing relationship between culture and technology in overt and layered aspects of the characters’ experiences. Through a tendency to discover and rediscover technocultural modes of appearance, DeLillo emphasizes settings wherein technological progress is implicated in cultural imperatives. This study brings forth representations of such implication/interaction through various themes, particularly perception, history, reality, space/architecture, information, and the posthuman. The chapters are based on a thematic structure that weaves DeLillo’s novels with the rich literary criticism produced on the author, and with the various theoretical frameworks of technoculture. This leads to the formulation and elaboration on numerous objects of research extracted from DeLillo's novels, namely: the theorization of DeLillo’s "radiance in dailiness," the investigation of various uses of technology as an extension, the role of image technologies in redefining history, the reconceptualization of the ethical and behavioral aspects of reality, the development of tele-visual and embodied perceptions in various technocultural spaces, and the involvement of information technologies in reconstructing the beliefs, behaviors, and activities of the posthuman. One of the main aims of the study is to show how DeLillo’s novels bring to light the constant transformation of technocultural everydayness. It is argued that though such transformation is confusing or resisted at times, it points to a transitional mode of being. This transitional state does not dehumanize DeLillo’s characters; it reveals their humanity in a continually changing world.
