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Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795324979

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In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Leon Keer
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789401470810

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* The wonderful 3D world of Leon Keer * This Dutch street artist conquers the world * Keer explains his working method and allows you a glimpse into his creative mind * With a unique 3D cover Leon Keer is the master of optical illusion. The 'Dutch JR' plays with perspectives and creates a whole new world. One in which Snow White is stuck under a door. Or a world in which you unexpectedly enter a seventies living room. This is his first monograph. He allows the reader an exclusive look into his world and imagination. How does he work? And how does a wild idea develop into a gigantic 3D artwork?

Author : Sharna Olfman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and computer screens replace family time, and those warped by national junk food/fast food habits bringing an explosion of obesity and diabetes among boys and girls, this book takes a harsh look at the results of American social norms. The damage being done by governmental policies is examined, including inadequate parental leave, a minimum wage that is not a living wage, unregulated day care, and a public education system that delivers inferior education to poor children. A call to action, this is a work from some of the best-known child experts nationwide. Every person who has or cares about a child will find this of interest. Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and computer screens replace family time, and those warped by national junk food/fast food habits bringing an explosion of obesity and diabetes among boys and girls, this book takes a harsh look at the results of American social norms. It highlights the damage being done by governmental policies, including inadequate parental leave, a minimum wage that is not a living wage, unregulated day care, and a public education system that delivers inferior education to poor children. A call to action, this is a work from some of the best known child experts nationwide. Every person who has or cares about a child—or the future of U.S. socity— will find this of interest. Most experts writing about childhood address issues from their own particular perspective. This work draws together a team of top scholars from across fields. They connect the dots in engaging and clear essays. Altogether, they demonstrate that the problems facing children today come from an underlying crisis of adult values, and they suggest that individuals must join forces to turn back this crisis.

Author : Jr. Willie Zavala
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 0595346936

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This is a true story of an experience in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. It describes places like Khe Sahn during the siege, demilitarized zone during bombardment, and Hue city with its ornate beauty and people's sadness. It offers a front line view of the pain, agony, and brotherhood that existed then and exists now among Vietnam veterans who have taken their place in America's society. Friends who gave their ultimate sacrifice for this nation inspired Childhood Lost. It is because of unconditional devotion and love for their fellow brothers that I share these thoughts. This story is about the reality of war; pain, anger, screaming, laughter, and death, that sometimes society takes for granted. Childhood Lost envelops loyalty, love and remembrance in a place where death saturated the atmosphere. It reveals a comparison between life as we knew it in childhood and life in time of war.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1504054288

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From Dickens to Wilde—literary criticism and personal reflections by a master “unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights” (The New York Times). Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, “[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory” (The Scotsman). Whether following the obsessions of Henry James, marveling at the “indispensible” Beatrix Potter, or exploring the Manichean world of Oliver Twist, Graham Greene revisits the books and authors of his lifetime. Here is Greene on Fielding, Doyle, Kipling, and Conrad; on The Prisoner of Zenda and the “revolutionary . . . colossal egoism” of Laurence Stern’s epic comic novel, Tristram Shandy; on the adventures of both Allan Quatermain and Moll Flanders; and more. Greene strolls among the musty oddities and folios sold on the cheap at an outdoor book mart, tells of a bizarre literary hoax perpetrated on a hapless printseller in eighteenth-century Pall Mall, and in the titular essay, reveals the book that unlocked his imagination so thoroughly that he decided to write forever. For Greene, “all the other possible futures slid away.” In this prismatic gallery of profound influences and guiltless pleasures, Greene proves himself “so intensely alive that the reader cannot but respond to the dazzling combination of intelligence and strong feeling” (Edward Sackville West).

Author : Marnie Grundman
Publisher : Meraki House Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2016-06-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780995192003

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She Never Even Had a Chance Missing: A True Story of a Childhood Lost is a story of a young girl's survival, a woman's surthrival. It is a story of suffering, of rising up against all odds and discovering an appreciation of life. "I decided that I was going through this hell as a kind of pre-payment for a good life. From a very young age I always knew that better days lay ahead. Now I had an explanation as to why: I was paying up front. I decided that I was destined for greatness and I just had to power through." Follow Marnie through her journey from stolen childhood to empowered woman as she details firsthand the power of the human spirit to heal and love.

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525436464

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NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

Author : Abraham Deng Ater
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493123017

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My Lost Childhood is a memoir describing immeasurable suffering the author went through in his early childhood. In the late 1980s, the Islamic government began to systematically torture and kill Southern Sudanese families, burn their villages, and enslave young boys and girls. As a result, an approximately, as numbers are largely unknown and only an estimate, 27,000 plus boys from Southern tribes were forced to flee from their homes. Traveling naked and barefoot, they sought refuge in neighboring Fugnido, Ethiopia, where a few years later they were forced to flee yet another civil war. Returning to Sudan, the Islamic government forced them to travel for another five months, ultimately arriving in Kakuma, Kenya, after four years of unthinkable hardship and walking over thousands of miles naked, barefoot, and ailing from starvation, dehydration, and diseases. Many boys perished along the way and their numbers shrank into few thousands. Abraham Deng Ater, separated from his family in 1987, is one of approximately 3,800 boys now known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. He left Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after several years of massive suffering and was granted refuge in the U.S. in 2001. Many Lost Boys including Abraham have since become U.S. citizens and have continued to pursue their education. Thousands more have also been granted refuge elsewhere and are scattered around the globe.

Author : Sarah Engel
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781420862904

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This book mainly consists of poems written by the author as therapy for depression and other neuroses.

Author : Nechama Tec
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195035001

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A story of a young Jewish girl's coming-of-age during the tragic years of the Holocaust.