2015 Notable Indie Book – Shelf Unbound Magazine.Book one of the Percipience series 2022, revolves around a world-wide threat made by an eco-terrorist organization and the efforts to stop them while at the same time setting up a large scale experiment for sustainable living. The book combines murder, espionage, and revenge into the fictional story while exploring global issues2015 Notable Indie Book – Shelf Unbound Magazine.If you are comfy with just recycling your soda cans and want to continue to believe that your children and grandchildren will have roughly the same experience with this planet as you have had, then the Percipience series is not for you. Through this fast paced eco-fiction series, the author lightly touches on key points of our relationship with the planet and the growing urgency for each of us to take action to avoid a much darker future for our children.The first book in the Percipience series 2022, revolves around a world-wide threat made by an eco-terrorist organization and the efforts to stop them while at the same time setting up a large scale experiment for sustainable living. The book combines murder, espionage, romance and revenge into the fictional story while exploring the urgency of global issues we face in real life.This book, along with the others in the Percipience series are not just meant to entertain and to raise awareness of important issues. They also aim to act as a catalyst to get the reader to think and motivate them to take individual actions to help with these worldwide problems.From the back cover of 2022…Using an uncanny ability to harvest information to predict the future, philanthropist Richard foresees a dark future for the human race. This future is exacerbated by the return of cold-war-like tensions, sophisticated terrorist organizations, and new controls on information flow. He believes he knows what needs to be done to reverse the trend, but can it be achieved in time, even with the resources at his disposal? Should he turn to terrorism to make it work? And if he’s wrong, and his plan backfires, will it mean the end of most, or all, of the human race? Views: 217
Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, attempting to solve the riddle of the creation of the universe.
Richard Preston's name became a household word with The Hot Zone, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in hardcover, was on The New York Times's bestseller list for 42 weeks, and was the subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles. Preston has become a sought-after commentator on popular science subjects.
For this hardcover reprint of what has been called "the best popular account of astronomy in action," (Kirkus Reviews) he has revised the text and written a new introduction. Views: 215
This is the story of Jarl’s alien adventure, his story of death, life, loss and love. It is the story of the beginning of an end and the end which is necessary for a beginning. But is also the story made up of the tales of Dia Thorpe, Michael, Gheid and Leyla, without whom Jarl’s journey would have ended at the beginning. This is a collection of short stories making up 17,500 words.This is the story of Jarl’s alien adventure, his story of death, life, loss and love. It is the story of the beginning of an end and the end which is necessary for a beginning. But is also the story made up of the tales of Dia Thorpe, Michael, Gheid and Leyla, without whom Jarl’s journey would have ended at the beginning. This is a collection of short stories from my “Origins” series, all packaged into one giant short story with chapters (Making up less than 18,000 words in all). It was never intended to be within one book and there have been no alterations to ensure it fits correctly in such a format. Therefore, I implore you to read with due care. Views: 215
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Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.
My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.
Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time—one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.
Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos. Views: 214
An archaeologist working in modern Egypt, near Luxor, wonders if she is an incarnation from the time of the Pharaohs. Perhaps she had once been a stately Queen who died while in youthful beauty. On a solitary walk towards the Valley of The Tombs of The Queens she does bridge time – and she gains insight.The great span of Egyptian history stimulates a Canadian archaeologist working in the Theban hills near the modern city of Luxor. Her original interest in archaeology had come from romantic notions of getting closer to the people of the past – of bridging time by treading the same ground, by touching the same stones as those people. In the Canadian Plains of her childhood a building was considered ancient if it had been built last century, and such antiquity was not usually considered at all desirable. Perhaps she herself was a reincarnation from the time of the Pharaohs. Perhaps she had once been a stately Queen. One who had died while in youthful beauty and had been buried in the Royal Tombs nearby. On a solitary walk towards the Valley of The Tombs of The Queens she does bridge time – and she gains insight. Views: 214
This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that were part of the original work itself, or introduced during digitization. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library at www.hathitrust.org. Views: 213
Set in 1778 in old Vincennes on the Wabash, during the Revolutionary peroid. Views: 212
George Gibbs was an American writer best known for writing action and adventure novels, as well as spy thrillers in foreign lands. Views: 209
Burnout is a science fiction mystery about a Space Shuttle disaster that turns out to be no accident. As the true scope of the disaster is gradually uncovered by the principal investigators, "Crash" Murphy and Dr. Mike Anders, they find themselves running for their lives, as lovers, friends and coworkers involved in the investigation perish around them. What happened to the Shuttle? Who is responsible and why? Why is the government calling it an accident? Why is someone willing to kill to keep it a secret? And how big is the conspiracy? Views: 208
Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with Power Failure, another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers in this near future science fiction novel. Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross. In the Power trilogy, Bova's vision of a future powered by solar satellite transmission is tantalizingly within reach.Jake Ross Series#1 Power Play#2 Power Surge#3 Power FailureAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights... Views: 208
The world of yoga is astonishingly rich in its array of schools and practices. Yet, as diverse as they seem, they share a common aim: the discovery of the essence of existence that can be found at the core of our being, and the liberation that comes from that discovery. With this worthy goal in mind, Richard Freeman presents an enlightening overview of the many teachings, practices, and scriptures that serve as the basis for all the schools of yoga—hatha, bhakti, jnana, karma, tantra, and others. He shows how the myriad forms are ultimately related, and can even be perceived to make up a vast, interpenetrating matrix, symbolizing the unity, profundity, and beauty of the ancient tradition.Richard's wide-ranging discussion includes the Upanisads and Samkhya philosophies... Views: 207
The Unisayan are not sacred, worshipped or protected... They are hunted.Araman Raliena uses her healing powers to save the life of General Kassen, who is to murder a creature she fights to protect, interrupting a dangerous man's plans to stop an alliance between two kingdoms. Dergen will use the Rite of the Sinner to enslave an Armon's sacred power and not even Raliena's will can oppose him...The mysterious Unisayan are not sacred, worshipped or protected... They are hunted. Despite vowing never to complete her duty as Araman and lure a Unisayan to a Knight’s sword, Raliena uses her healing powers to save the life of Kassen; a General who is to murder a creature Raliena fights to protect. This act of kindness unwittingly interrupts a dangerous man’s ploy to stop an impending alliance between two tremulous kingdoms, but Raliena is mistaken when she thinks it is the throne he wishes to claim. A shadowy past rouses a new future for Fardonmeria and with a dusky past of his own, Dergen will use the Rite of the Sinner to gain what is his by force. Using the ancient slavery of an Armon’s sacred power, he will become Master Sinner and not even Raliena’s will can oppose him. Views: 205
