Author: Leda Palmer Publisher: Cosmic Lovers ISBN: 9781960073037 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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A woman with secrets. An alien on a mission. When their spaceships collide, explosive passions ignite.What genius thought disguising a spaceship like an asteroid was a smart idea? Of course, lucky me crash landed while trying to mine it. Now my crew needs to find a real asteroid fast, or my ship will be repossessed.And me? I'm stuck on the alien vessel until I repair my busted shuttle.It doesn't help that my new shipmate rubs me the wrong way. Lux is annoyingly handsome, unflinchingly arrogant, and loves ordering me around.Plus, he's convinced the crash was no mistake. How will I coexist with an infuriating alien who thinks I'm the enemy?Worse, what if I can't keep my strange obsession hidden while I'm trapped all alone with him?But then Lux's touch makes me see stars, and I'm left questioning everything¿Bloodlust Voyage is book 1 in the Cosmic Lovers series by Leda Palmer. This interconnected standalone is packed with steamy sci-fi romance, enemies turned lovers, laugh-out-loud humor, cute alien pets, fast-paced space adventure, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Author: George Seldes Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307775607 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 577
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Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part of his extraordinary lifetime compiling the thoughts that rule the world, casting his net widely and wisely through the essential works of philosophy, poetry, psychology, economics, politics, memoirs, and letters from the ancient Greeks to the modern Americans. Now Seldes's splendid and important work has been revised and updated to include the great thoughts that have changed our world in the decade since the book's first appearance. Quotations from leaders as varied as Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Yitzak Rabin, Newt Gingrich, and Jesse Jackson reflect the radical shifts in the world political scene. Toni Morrison and Cornel West speak out on the enduring vitality of African-American culture. Alvin Toffler and Arthur C. Clarke give us a glimpse into the future. Gloria Steinem and Monique Wittig define the motives and the goals of late twentieth-century feminism. Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and Wallace Stegner ponder the meaning of wilderness in an increasingly populated and industrialized world. These and scores of other thinkers in all major disciplines have added their voices to this new edition of The Great Thoughts. USA Today praised the first edition of The Great Thoughts as "a browser's delight." The work of a lifetime, brought up-to-date to reflect the global upheaval of the past decade, The Great Thoughts stands alone as an enduring achievement and an invaluable resource.
Author: Steve T. Alford Publisher: Steve T Alford ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 344
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When Rajko (Rye-ko) becomes captain of the Mako, he decides to leave piracy behind and instead hunt for treasure. After winning a treasure map in a card game, he gathers a crew to set sail for Rangavar, an island that is said to hide the treasure of one of the great pirate kings of legend, Captain Twayblade. Setting sail for the haul of a lifetime, Rajko and his new crew will find themselves up against everything from the Royal Navy to wild storms set on sinking them, all while there’s a traitor onboard. Old rivals. Sword fights. Romance. Betrayal. And most importantly, treasure. Will Rajko’s maiden voyage as captain of the Mako be a success, or will his past come back to send him to a watery grave?
Author: Dylan Trigg Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1782790764 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 151
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What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg’s The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology gives expression to the alien materiality at the limit of experience. By fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways in which an unhuman phenomenology positions the body out of time. At once a challenge to traditional notions of phenomenology, The Thing is also a timely rejoinder to contemporary philosophies of realism. The result is nothing less than a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined through the lens of horror.
Author: Robert Burroughs Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136953442 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Looking at travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography and more, Burroughs examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Burroughs articulates, as well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives importantly contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author: Michael G. Hall Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476691215 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see splashed across news and social media: Disney, Miami, alligators, heat, retirees and weird people. As a result, very few people try to dig any deeper. This book explores the darkest parts of Florida's past. These stories, told out in sequential order and broken down by theme, contain everything that has come to make up the Sunshine State: from the surprising, to the weird, to the horrifying, and, in some cases, inspiring. Topics covered include Florida in the Age of Exploration, pirates, Spanish colonialism, the Seminole Wars, slavery and race relations during the Civil War, Prohibition, segregation, disco and drugs, serial killers, economic ruin, urbanism, and Florida in the age of DeSantis.
Author: Everest Media, Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: 1669365506 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 36
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The myths about Native Americans come from the ways experts in the social sciences talk about history, the society we live in, and how modern countries are formed. The narratives are used to construct a sense of national identity. #2 The myth of the vanishing Indian, which was used to justify the removal of Indians from their lands, was also used by politicians to gain support for their policies. #3 The myth of the vanishing Native has been prevalent in history books, but there has been a shift in the way history is being told thanks to the increasing scholarship of Native peoples and their allies. #4 The theory of settler colonialism states that the singular goal of the settler state is to eliminate the Native in order to gain access to land. This is done through a variety of practices that chip away at the very concept of Native in order to eliminate it as a category of racial and political identity.
Author: Gaius Valerius Flaccus Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the Christian era, but he died before completing it. With The Voyage of the "Argo," the acclaimed poet and translator David Slavitt recovers for modern readers the only surviving work of this little-known writer. The result is an engaging rendition of Jason's adventures, of particular interest when compared to the Greek version of the story. While Apollonius' tale offers a subtle psychological study of Medea, Valerius Flaccus' achievement is to present Jason as a more complete and compelling heroic figure. Slavitt, for one, enjoyed the rediscovery immensely—and he invites his readers to do the same. "I am content to let my rendition into English speak for Valerius, but for those whom I imagine standing in an aisle of a library or bookstore, trying to decide, I can offer some reassurance. This piece is playful, unpredictable, oddly contrarian, sometimes almost mannerist. Valerius' description in book 8 of Medea's putting the serpent to sleep so Jason can filch the fleece involves a gesture no other Latin poet I know would have thought to try—a brief moment in Medea's head when she allows herself to feel sorry for the snake . . . It is this kind of droll surprise that drew me to undertake the translation of a work that is not, I freely confess, well known."—David Slavitt
Author: Patrick Prior Publisher: ISBN: 9781623750220 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
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There are vampires on the Titanic! Mina Harker, one the undead, returns to haunt the gas-lit alleys of Edwardian London. From a brooding house by the Thames she hunts and feeds. Beautiful, voluptuous, merciless, her overwhelming and irresistible sexual allure brings willing victims. In the east-end the death toll rises and a trail of scarlet is left on the mean streets. As life in the great city goes on, millions are unaware of the unseen yet deadly war that rages on for the soul of the metropolis. But there are those who know the old ways, those who have the knowledge to end her reign of terror. Hunted, the vampire looks across the Atlantic to the vigorous New World as a place of eternal safety. At Southampton, the Titanic, the mightiest ship in history, waits to sail...
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