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Book Synopsis Paradox of The Thief Preview by : Nigel Plant
Download or read book Paradox of The Thief Preview written by Nigel Plant and published by Unearthed Quill . This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the first five chapters for free of Paradox of The Thief, where a discovery of an ancient scroll leads to a gripping battle of the classes as two factions pursue buried treasure. Reed Hascombe and his friends embark on a thrilling race to find hidden artefacts against the back-drop of the rugged landscape of the Peak District using ancient maps. Exploring long-forgotten caves, where age-old symbols are etched into the walls amid whispers of folklore. The chase plays out with a healthy dose of gritty realism laced with twists and turns. Reed faces the ultimate decision as he struggles with the paradox of being a thief. Will his choice be based on morals or money? Paradox of The Thief is the first book in a new gripping archaeological thriller series. If you enjoy J.F. Penn, Luke Richardson, and Ernest Dempsey, then you will love this adventure.
Book Synopsis Paradox of The Thief by : Nigel Plant
Download or read book Paradox of The Thief written by Nigel Plant and published by Unearthed Quill . This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of an ancient scroll leads to a gripping battle of the classes as two factions pursue buried treasure. Reed Hascombe and his friends embark on a thrilling race to find hidden artefacts against the back-drop of the rugged landscape of the Peak District using ancient maps. Exploring long-forgotten caves, where age-old symbols are etched into the walls amid whispers of folklore. The chase plays out with a healthy dose of gritty realism laced with twists and turns. Reed faces the ultimate decision as he struggles with the paradox of being a thief. Will his choice be based on morals or money? Paradox of The Thief is the first book in a new gripping archaeological thriller series. If you enjoy J.F. Penn, Luke Richardson, and Ernest Dempsey, then you will love this adventure.
Download or read book The Map Thief written by Michael Blanding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.
Download or read book Paradoxes written by Piotr Łukowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, provides a critical approach to all major logical paradoxes: from ancient to contemporary ones. There are four key aims of the book: 1. Providing systematic and historical survey of different approaches – solutions of the most prominent paradoxes discussed in the logical and philosophical literature. 2. Introducing original solutions of major paradoxes like: Liar paradox, Protagoras paradox, an unexpected examination paradox, stone paradox, crocodile, Newcomb paradox. 3. Explaining the far-reaching significance of paradoxes of vagueness and change for philosophy and ontology. 4. Proposing a novel, well justified and, as it seems, natural classification of paradoxes.
Book Synopsis The Paradox Men by : Charles L. Harness
Download or read book The Paradox Men written by Charles L. Harness and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downfall written by Nigel Plant and published by Unearthed Quill . This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reed Hascombe's first adventure in the Peak District with several twists and turns - a gripping archaeological short story set three years before Paradox of The Thief - if you enjoy down-to-earth thrillers, then this could be your next read - if you enjoy this then try the free five chapter preview of Paradox of The Thief and then the full novel
Book Synopsis André Bazin's Film Theory by : Angela Dalle Vacche
Download or read book André Bazin's Film Theory written by Angela Dalle Vacche and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, Andre Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human? For the famous French film critic, a human is simultaneously a rational animal and an irrational being. Bazin's idea of the cinema is amind-machine where the ethical implications have priority over aesthetic issues. And in its ability to function as an art form for the masses, cinema is the only medium that can address an audience at the individual and community levels simultaneously - the audience sees the same film, but eachindividual relates to the narrative in a different way. In principle, cinema can unsettle our routines in productive ways and expand our sense of belonging to a much larger picture.By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that Andre Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of biological evolution and modern technology inside our consciousness. Through the projection of recorded traces of the worldonto a brain-like screen, the cinema can open viewers up to self-interrogation and empathy towards Otherness. Bazin was neither a spiritualist nor an animist or a pantheist, yet his film theory leads also to ideas of a more cosmological persuasion: through editing and camera movement, cinemaexplores our belonging to a vast universe that extends from the microbes of the microscope to the stars of the telescope. Such ideas of connectedness, coupled with Bazin's well-known emphasis of realism, form the foundation for his film theory's embrace of Italian neorealism. Choosing to avoid aquantitative naturalism based on accumulation of details, Bazin's theory instead promotes the kind of cinema that celebrates perceptual displacement, the objectification of human behavior, and one's own critical self-awareness.
Book Synopsis The Paradox Men by : Charles L. Harness
Download or read book The Paradox Men written by Charles L. Harness and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set after the Third Great War, North and South America are united into one country: Imperial America. A slave state run by a small noble elite who flaunt their wealth by using, and abusing, the one commodity that only the rich can have: human labour. But working underground, persecuted by the police, is an organization dedicated to the overthrow of government and the existing way of life and the establishment of freedom. The Society of Thieves was the only organization that flouted authority in America Imperial: they robbed the rich to buy freedom for the slaves. They were well equipped and trained for their job and had friends and informers in high places ready to reveal where the wealth of the nobles was hidden. And Alar was the best Thief of them all - for he had senses not found in ordinary men, senses that accurately warned him when danger was near. But Alar had amnesia and did not know his true identity though sometimes he sensed that there was a purpose in his actions that was not entirely his own volition. When Keiris, wife of the Imperial Chancellor saw him, she sensed that he was something special and helped him to elude pursuit even though it put her own life in danger. And in trips to the Moon and even the Sun itself, Alar begins to see what part he is destined to play in the struggle for men's freedom.
Book Synopsis The Celestial Thief by : James P. Bednarz
Download or read book The Celestial Thief written by James P. Bednarz and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels by : David Pringle
Download or read book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels written by David Pringle and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard, unearth less prominent talents such as Ian Watson, Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ, and highlight breakthrough novels by William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. An essential guide to science fiction literature.
Book Synopsis Midnight Thief by : Livia Blackburne
Download or read book Midnight Thief written by Livia Blackburne and published by Lion's Quill Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional thief… Kyra specializes in nighttime raids, using her sharp senses and uncanny agility to plunder Forge’s wealthiest homes. Then she meets James, the deadly but intriguing Head of the Assassin’s Guild. He has a job for Kyra: infiltrate the impenetrable Palace compound. The pay is good, and the challenge appealing. But as Kyra establishes herself in the Guild, things start to unravel. Her assignments become increasingly violent, demanding more than Kyra is willing to give. And as she grows closer to the darkly attractive James, she can’t shake the feeling that his plans run deeper than he claims. A knight sworn to vengeance… When Tristam’s best friend is killed by Demon Riders—barbarians riding vicious wildcats—he vows to defeat them. The young knight throws himself into his quest, only to find his efforts thwarted by a mysterious and very talented thief. When a twist of fate throws Kyra and Tristam together, they realize that Forge faces greater dangers than either of them had imagined. They must make a choice: continue to fight each other, or work together to unravel the truth. Then, as sinister forces close in, Kyra and Tristam discover a shocking secret that will change their lives forever.
Book Synopsis How We Became Human by : Julio Moreno
Download or read book How We Became Human written by Julio Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How We Became Human: A Challenge to Psychoanalysis tackles the question of what distinguishes human beings from other animals. By interweaving psychoanalysis, biology, physics, anthropology, and philosophy, Julio Moreno advances a novel thesis: human beings are faulty animals in their understanding of the world around them. This quality renders humans capable of connecting with inconsistencies, those events or phenomena that their logic cannot understand. The ability to go beyond consistency is humans’ distinctive trait. It is the source of their creativity and of their ability to modify the environment they inhabit. On the basis of this connective-associative interplay, Moreno proposes a new approach to the links human beings create amongst themselves and with the world around them. This theory focuses on a key question: What is the difference between human beings and the other animals? From this perspective, Moreno seeks to reformulate many of the classic psychoanalytic, psychological, and anthropological postulates on childhood, links, and psychic change.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxical Brain by : Narinder Kapur
Download or read book The Paradoxical Brain written by Narinder Kapur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: • Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss • Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions • Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development • Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease • Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will lead to a better understanding of brain function and to the introduction of new therapeutic strategies. The book will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
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Book Synopsis The Abingdon African American Preaching Library by : Kirk Byron Jones
Download or read book The Abingdon African American Preaching Library written by Kirk Byron Jones and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s people need to hear “a word from the Lord,” to know their God is with them, and to transcend this world and be taken to the very feet of Jesus. The preacher is charged with assisting in this mission. While there may be different theological perspectives and different methods of sermon preparation and delivery, one thing remains constant—the need for quality preaching resources. Drawing upon the rich and powerful tradition of the black church, The Abingdon African American Preaching Library offers a wealth of thoughtful, biblically grounded preaching aids, including special days in the Black Church tradition. To read the Introduction to the book click here
Book Synopsis Translating "Clergie" by : Claire M. Waters
Download or read book Translating "Clergie" written by Claire M. Waters and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Translating "Clergie," Claire M. Waters explores medieval texts in French verse and prose from England and the Continent that perform and represent the process of teaching as a shared lay and clerical endeavor.
Book Synopsis Hell's Destruction by : Catherine Ella Laufer
Download or read book Hell's Destruction written by Catherine Ella Laufer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The credal affirmation, 'he descended to the dead', has attracted a plethora of views over the centuries and many Christians today struggle to explain the meaning of these words. This book explores various interpretations of the doctrine of Christ's descent to the dead, both within particular historical contexts and within contemporary theology. Laufer argues that the descensus clause, Christ's descent, is integral to Christian faith, specifically to the doctrine of the incarnation. If we are to affirm that, in Christ, God became truly human then that affirmation must include his sharing in the state of being dead that is the ultimate consequence of being human. Laufer concludes that, since the Son has experienced genuine human death and the separation from God which is the essence of hell, there is no longer any human condition from which God is absent, either in this life or in eternity. Christ's descent means that he is truly 'hell's destruction'. Drawing on a treasure trove of writings from the western theological tradition, including Luther, Calvin, Maurice, Balthasar, Moltmann and others, and attending to historical, theological, exegetical, philosophical and pastoral issues, this book explores an often-ignored doctrine which lies at the core of Christian life, death and faith.
