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Book Synopsis Mirages and Speculations by : Lyn Worthen
Download or read book Mirages and Speculations written by Lyn Worthen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the glimmer on the horizon a lake, shimmering under the hot desert sun - or a flying saucer visiting from a distant planet? Are those swirling clouds dust devils or djinn? In Mirages and Speculations seventeen authors of science fiction and fantasy take you on journeys to high mountain deserts, scorching sands, and wind-swept plateaus. Their stories will make you laugh and make you cry, as you visit worlds both futuristic and fantastic, the products of imaginations baked under desert skies until only Mirages and Speculations remain.
Book Synopsis From Miracle to Mirage by : Myungji Yang
Download or read book From Miracle to Mirage written by Myungji Yang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myungji Yang’s From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang’s book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emergence, reproduction, and fragmentation of the Korean middle class, From Miracle to Mirage traces the historical process through which the seemingly successful state project of building a middle-class society resulted in a mirage. Yang argues that profitable speculation in skyrocketing prices for Seoul real estate led to mobility and material comforts for the new middle class. She also shows that the fragility inherent in such developments was embedded in the very formation of that socioeconomic group. Taking exception to conventional views, Yang emphasizes the role of the state in producing patterns of class structure and social inequality. She demonstrates the speculative and exclusionary ways in which the middle class was formed. Domestic politics and state policies, she argues, have shaped the lived experiences and identities of the Korean middle class. From Miracle to Mirage gives us a new interpretation of the reality behind the myth. Yang’s analysis provides evidence of how in cultural and objective terms the country’s rapid, compressed program of economic development created a deeply distorted distribution of wealth.
Download or read book The Mirage written by Matt Ruff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . . Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage—in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party. The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems. Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, The Mirage probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears.
Download or read book Mirage Men written by Mark Pilkington and published by Constable. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the truth about UFOs in America, Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg uncover a 60 year-old story stranger than any conspiracy thriller. Through the fascinating account of their quest Mark Pilkington reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare and advanced military technology. Along the way he discovers that the truth about flying saucers is stranger and more complex than either the ufologists or debunkers would have us believe. As he crossed the US meeting intelligence agents, disinformation specialists and UFO hunters Pilkington was confronted with a dizzying array of ever more outrageous claims and counter claims. As a result he began to suspect that, instead of covering up stories of crashed flying saucers, alien contacts and secret underground bases, the US intelligence agencies had actually been promoting them all along. Meanwhile he has to deal with his own uncertainties, the suspicions of the UFO community and a partner who is starting to believe that conspiracy theorists might be right after all. With a fresh, funny and objective approach, Pilkington is the ideal guide to steer us through these strange territories, where nothing is quite as it seems and reality is just a matter of managing perceptions.
Book Synopsis Mirages of the Selfe by : Timothy J. Reiss
Download or read book Mirages of the Selfe written by Timothy J. Reiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers quite new interpretations of what it was to be a personto experience who-nessin other times and places, involving new understandings of knowing, willing, and acting, as well as of political and material life, the play of public and private, passions and emotions. The trajectory the author reveals reaches from the ancient sense of personhood as set in a totality of surroundings inseparable from the person, to an increasing sense of impermeability to the world, in which anger has replaced love in affirming a sense of self. The author develops his analysis through an impressive range of authors, languages, and texts: from Cicero, Seneca, and Galen; through Avicenna, Hildegard of Bingen, and Heloise and Abelard; to Petrarch, Montaigne, and Descartes.
Book Synopsis Inside The Mirage by : Thomas Lippman
Download or read book Inside The Mirage written by Thomas Lippman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has always been a marriage of convenience, not affection. In a bargain cemented by President Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's founding king in 1945, Americans gained access to Saudi oil, and the Saudis sent the dollars back with purchases of American planes, American weapons, American construction projects and American know-how that brought them modernization, education and security. The marriage has suited both sides. But how long can it last? In Inside the Mirage , veteran Middle East journalist Thomas W. Lippman shows that behind the official proclamations of friendship and alliance lies a complex relationship that has often been strained by the mutual aversion of two very different societies. Today the U.S.-Saudi partnership faces its greatest challenge as younger Saudis less enamored of America rise to prominence and Americans, scorched by Saudi-based terrorism, question the value of their ties to the desert kingdom. With so much at stake for the entire, ever-volatile Middle East, this compelling and absolutely necessary account brings the light of new research onto the relationship between these two countries and the future of their partnership.
Download or read book Above World written by Jenn Reese and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony’s survival is at risk. The Kampii’s breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna’s fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku’s tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt — growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains — here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.
Book Synopsis The Mirage of International Criminal Law by : Farhad Malekian
Download or read book The Mirage of International Criminal Law written by Farhad Malekian and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, from various perspectives, Kant’s codex of the categorical imperative and the supreme principle of morality in juxtaposition with the monopolisation of the rules of international criminal law. Kant’s reference to the term ‘propensity to evil in human nature’ is a much more serious iniquity universally in the nature of the Security Council than the concepts of a mens rea and actus reus in criminal law. His decisive warning foreshadows that the inclinations towards self-interest, self-love, and intent in collective mens rea within the resolutions of the Security Council prevent states from striving towards the supreme maxim of a genuine international moral worth. The idea of international criminal law is, thus, viewed as a ‘mirage’. Essentially, certain rules of the United Nations Charter, the system of international criminal justice, human rights law, and humanitarian law, like a fata morgana, are crucial if unattainable. The permanent members of the Security Council are deceiving the world by propagating a variety of excuses with the core objective of economic gain. This book will be of interest to anyone enthusiastic about positive law, the nature of criminal justice, classical moral philosophy, politics, and economics.
Book Synopsis Mirror Reflections --- Mirages by : Alex Saliba
Download or read book Mirror Reflections --- Mirages written by Alex Saliba and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new concept of preemptive wars has generated much debate, and controversy, on each side of the divide. What impact could it have in aggravating world instability? Is it acceptable? Is it even moral or legal? Many reports and statements are presented and discussed, as to why the war on Iraq was launched, the occupation of that country, and the quagmire of post-war in Iraq that we hear about almost daily! America's good will amongst our friends has been squandered, and its foreign policy, according to many outsiders, has been uneven and capricious. Thus, in recent debates it has been suggested by some, that this indeed has caused civil unrest in many parts of the world, and may have actually increased terrorism. Many knowledgeable persons have argued that trumpeting democracy at the point of a gun, through violence, has not worked well in the past; and the US is doing more of the same. This is tragic! We have not learned much from the lessons of history -- some of the social experiences are presented both for the developed nations, and those less fortunate: the overall economy, education, health care, poverty and discrimination, pollution, injustices and civil rights, the enormous expenditures on the military and on weapons of destruction, the precarious state of democracy etc., as well as proposals to strengthen the UN. The sources for these collected data include, politicians, newscasters, writers, guest speakers, lecturers, and other personalities, in newspapers, magazines on television, and on the Internet. The search continues for that elusive peace in our world today, and especially in the Middle East. The role of America in the general scheme of things needs to be better defined; as many have stated that we have been following the wrong path.
Download or read book Mirage written by Douglas Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn le sait, son mari Paul est loin d'être parfait. Artiste fantasque, insouciant, dépensier, ce jouisseur invétéré a du mal avec les limites du quotidien. Le couple s'aime encore mais la crise couve. Sans compter la question des enfants. Robyn en veut un, Paul est d'accord. Mais le temps presse, et rien ne se passe... Pourquoi pas un voyage au Maroc ? Changer d'air, prendre le temps de vivre, se redécouvrir, et faire enfin cet enfant qui leur manque tant. Sur place, la magie opère : Paul se remet à peindre et Robyn à espérer. C'est alors qu'une nouvelle tombe, un secret révélé, si lourd, si explosif qu'il dévaste tout. Et Paul disparaît. Folle de douleur, terrifiée à l'idée de perdre celui qu'elle ne peut s'empêcher d'aimer, Robyn va se lancer à sa recherche. Une quête qui la conduira au bout d'elle-même...
Download or read book The Mirage Man written by David Willman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Willman tells the whole gripping story of the hunt for the anthrax killer who terrorized the country in the dark days that followed the September 11th attacks. Letters sent surreptitiously from a mailbox in New Jersey to media and political figures in New York, Florida, and Washington D.C. killed five people and infected seventeen others. For years, the case remained officially unsolved—and it consumed the FBI and became a rallying point for launching the Iraq War. Far from Baghdad, at Fort Detrick, Maryland, stood Bruce Ivins: an accomplished microbiologist at work on patenting a next-generation anthrax vaccine. Ivins, it turned out, also was a man the FBI consulted frequently to learn the science behind the attacks. The Mirage Man reveals how this seemingly harmless if eccentric scientist hid a sinister secret life from his closest associates and family, and how the trail of genetic and circumstantial evidence led inexorably to him. Along the way, Willman exposes the faulty investigative work that led to the public smearing of the wrong man, Steven Hatfill, a scientist specializing in biowarfare preparedness whose life was upended by media stakeouts and op-ed-page witch hunts. Engrossing and unsparing, The Mirage Man is a portrait of a deeply troubled scientist who for more than twenty years had unlimited access to the U.S. Army’s stocks of deadly anthrax. It is also the story of a struggle for control within the FBI investigation, the missteps of an overzealous press, and how a cadre of government officials disregarded scientific data while spinning the letter attacks into a basis for war. As The Mirage Man makes clear, America must, at last, come to terms with the lessons to be learned from what Bruce Ivins wrought. The nation’s security depends on it. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Mirage written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dwellers in the Mirage by : Abraham Merritt
Download or read book Dwellers in the Mirage written by Abraham Merritt and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Leif Langdon who discovers an amazing warm valley in Alaska! Two races inhabit the valley, the Little People and a branch of an ancient Mongolian race and they worship the Kraken named Khalk'ru which they summon from another dimension to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants believe Langdon to be the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu...
Book Synopsis The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity by : Niccolò Machiavelli
Download or read book The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 3297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity is an unparalleled anthology that curates the wisdom of some of the most influential minds across centuries and cultures, focusing on the dual aspirations of inner harmony and worldly success. This collection spans a breathtaking array of literary styles and philosophical perspectives, reflecting each author's unique approach to the universal quests for tranquility and abundance. From the strategic rigor of Niccolò Machiavelli to the poetic musings of Kahlil Gibran, and the practical advice of Napoleon Hill, each piece serves as a standalone testament to the power of thought and intention in shaping ones fate. The anthology stands out for its inclusion of both ancient wisdom and modern thought, bridging gaps between eras and ideologies. The contributing authors and editors come from remarkably diverse backgrounds, yet all have made significant contributions to the philosophical, economic, and spiritual dialogues of their time. Collectively, their work represents significant movements such as Transcendentalism, The New Thought movement, and classical philosophy, to name a few. This array of contributors ensures a comprehensive exploration of the anthology's themes, providing readers with a rich tapestry of insights into achieving a balanced and affluent life. The Greatest Guides to Achieaching Peace & Prosperity is recommended for those who seek to navigate the complexities of life with grace and success. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with the thoughts and teachings of some of history's most profound thinkers, making it an invaluable resource for students of philosophy, history, and the human condition. This anthology not only enriches the readers intellectual landscape but also provides practical advice and timeless wisdom for cultivating a life of fulfillment and prosperity. It is a must-read for anyone aspiring to understand the intricate balance between external success and internal peace.
Book Synopsis A Road to Prosperity - Ultimate Collection by : Niccolò Machiavelli
Download or read book A Road to Prosperity - Ultimate Collection written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 2474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Road to Prosperity - Ultimate Collection is a remarkable anthology that brings together the minds of preeminent thinkers, philosophers, and writers on the theme of prosperity and personal development. This collection ranges from the ancient wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and Lao Tzu to the progressive thoughts of Thorstein Veblen and Kahlil Gibran, encompassing a diverse array of literary styles including essays, treatises, and reflective musings. The anthology is uniquely positioned within both historical and contemporary literary contexts, offering readers insights into the evolving perceptions of wealth, success, and personal growth. Standout pieces provide an exploration into the power of positive thinking, the ethics of wealth, and the philosophical underpinnings of prosperity, making this collection an invaluable resource across disciplines. The contributing authors, each a luminary in their right, come from varied backgrounds that span centuries, continents, and cultures, yet they all converge on the theme of prosperity. This amalgamation of views from Niccolò Machiavellis political sagacity to William Walker Atkinsons New Thought philosophy, and from Benjamin Franklins pragmatic wisdom to Florence Scovel Shinns metaphysical approaches, illustrates the multifaceted nature of achieving and understanding prosperity. Their collective contributions provide a fascinating dialogue on the principles of success and fulfillment, resonating with historical movements as diverse as Stoicism, The Renaissance, The Enlightenment, and The New Thought Movement. This anthology invites readers on an extraordinary journey through the minds of some of the most influential figures in self-help and philosophical thought. A Road to Prosperity - Ultimate Collection is not just a compilation of texts; it is an opportunity to engage with the enduring question of how to live a prosperous life. It is recommended for anyone seeking to dive deep into the exploration of personal development, wealth, and the philosophies behind success. The anthology offers a unique educational value, presenting a breadth of insights and fostering a dialogue between the diverse perspectives of its authors. By delving into this collection, readers will uncover the myriad ways in which the concept of prosperity has been interpreted and applied across time, making it an essential addition to any thoughtful readers library.
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Download or read book The Journal of Speculative Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hacking Matter written by Wil McCarthy and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of programmable matter are revealed in an discussion of the next great technological leap forward for humankind.
