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Author: GJ Neumann Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1512746282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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This historic novel traces the life of Genius Christopher Storm, from his troubled 1951 birth in New England, to his mysterious 1980 disappearance from a farm in Cambodia. Author GJ Neumann tells the story mostly in the present tense to draw you, the reader, into the action. You will experience every passion and peril of the main characters. In horror, you watch as the bullet from Martins revolver misses the intended target and kills an innocent bystander. You will be in the audience of thousands, who applaud the inspiring message of the passionate 7-year old prodigy. Christophers exciting travel itinerary throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia becomes your itinerary. When Chris weeps over the tortures and killings during the Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979, you will weep. You rejoice with him when he rescues abused victims of human trafficking crimes in Cambodia and Thailand. You will share the desperation of the search party in Cambodia, to find Chris and his wife, Heather. After chapter 36, you will be a step ahead of the FBI, as they try to identify the Thai caller who demands money in exchange for an American infant.
Author: GJ Neumann Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1512746282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
This historic novel traces the life of Genius Christopher Storm, from his troubled 1951 birth in New England, to his mysterious 1980 disappearance from a farm in Cambodia. Author GJ Neumann tells the story mostly in the present tense to draw you, the reader, into the action. You will experience every passion and peril of the main characters. In horror, you watch as the bullet from Martins revolver misses the intended target and kills an innocent bystander. You will be in the audience of thousands, who applaud the inspiring message of the passionate 7-year old prodigy. Christophers exciting travel itinerary throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia becomes your itinerary. When Chris weeps over the tortures and killings during the Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979, you will weep. You rejoice with him when he rescues abused victims of human trafficking crimes in Cambodia and Thailand. You will share the desperation of the search party in Cambodia, to find Chris and his wife, Heather. After chapter 36, you will be a step ahead of the FBI, as they try to identify the Thai caller who demands money in exchange for an American infant.
Author: Daniel Bullen Publisher: Levellers Press ISBN: 1937146081 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 129
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Ralph Waldo Emerson never tried to reinvent the institution of marriage, but his close friend, the writer Margaret Fuller, was freer to follow the dictates of self-reliance, and choose how she would make her commitments Born in 1810, Fuller received a boy's first-class education, and by the time she was in her twenties, she was so well-read that she had given up any hope of a normal woman's role, in marriage or in society. Still unmarried at thirty, Fuller pressed Emerson for an intimacy deeper than their friendship. Emerson would not betray his marriage, but in their journals, both writers questioned the value of monogamous marriage for men and women of genius. When she realized that Emerson was not as radical as his writing suggested, Fuller went to Europe, where she married an Italian Count. Giovanni Ossoli was barely literate, but Fuller thought that she could still fulfill other sides of herself in other relationships. Fuller never got to live out her experiment in marriage: she and her husband died in a shipwreck on returning to America in 1850. But the questions Fuller's life had raised-about how to reconcile marriage and self-reliance-are still echoing now, in our discomfort with marriage-and with any of the alternatives. An enlightening and emotionally charged narrative, The Dangers of Passion recounts the passionate friendship in which Emerson and Fuller: First learned to trust themselves and their hearts before any other authority; Discovered the delightful freedom of shared intellectual passion; Worked together to advance a philosophy of Transcendental self-reliance; Quarreled over Emerson's inability to give Fuller deeper fulfillment; Questioned the value of marriage for men and women of genius; Consoled themselves in marriages that lacked the intellectual and philosophical passion of their friendship.
Author: Jude Morgan Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312343682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 554
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Passion, intrigue, and tragedy combine when four women, Mary Shelley, Lady Caroline Lamb, Fanny Brawne, and Augusta Leigh, decide to flout the conventions of English Regency society for love of the famous and infamous poets, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Author: Craig Kobayashi Publisher: ISBN: 9781710989786 Category : Languages : en Pages : 430
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I'll bet you've never read anything like the final boss at the end of this 24 hour LitRPG apocalypse.Garath was a gamer that spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard. He was exploring one of those very worlds when the planet that he actually inhabited became suddenly, and drastically more interesting.The ability to shapeshift into a house cat or summon a demon to serve him were things that were only possible in video games and epic fantasy novels, until they weren't. He may not have had the luxury of a controller or mouse to explore his new abilities, but Garath's dream came true when Earth was fundamentally altered. More akin now to the RPG games that he loved so much than the 9-5 grind he'd woken up to that morning. He's a quick study though, and learns quickly that this new Earth isn't just fun and games.The tutorial kills everybody.Well not everybody. Almost everybody. Garath and a motley crew of friends and neighbors band together to survive. They are forced to work together using their new abilities to hold off the increasingly deadly waves of monsters.The Peril's Prodigy series features 30 unique Classes, a Human racial Ability to shapeshift, character leveling, some things you really just can't un-read, and a look into the future of this new Earth. It will make you laugh. It will make you cringe. And if you're anything like Garath, it'll make you wonder where in the hell, on this new video game Earth, were all the god damn hot elves ***Full disclosure: this is not a harem novel. There are no hot elves.
Author: Roland Huntford Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0826423388 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 456
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Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival. That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of the globe bears testament to its elemental appeal. In polar exploration, it has changed the course of history. Elsewhere, in war and peace, it has done so too. The origins of skiing are bound up in with the emergence of modern man and the world we live in today.
Author: Peter F. Ostwald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 252
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"Few subjects have been more intriguing and more puzzling than that of genius, a very rare but very powerful human phenomenon: From time immemorial people have suddenly come on the scene who have incredibly superior mental capacities and the ability to see things in a totally new way, to contribute useful and original things and ideas, and to change the course of history. To be such a person, endowed with highly unusual gifts and so noticeably different from ordinary or normal people, imposes great responsibility as well as stress not only on these individuals themselves but also on those who are close to them, interested in them, or affected by them: their parents, siblings, friends, teachers, co-workers, spouses, and children. Although geniuses may have serious psychiatric problems, little has been done to study them psychologically." "An interdisciplinary conference was the foundation of this work. There was a desire to explore some of the advantages and disadvantages of being a genius, and to bring things to a more concrete level by focusing on one particular genius, viz. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was a highly successful child prodigy, and was encouraged, taught, and controlled by his musician-father. Despite his amazing capacities as a boy, he ran into serious difficulty as an adult, partly because of his complicated and rather ambivalent relationship with his father, partly because of his unlucky marriage, and partly because of changing socioeconomic circumstances in eighteenth-century Vienna." "Contributions are from psychologists, physicians, historians, musicologists, psychiatrists, and musicians and range from fairly extensive surveys (e.g.. the special characteristic of geniuses: the genius-madness controversy) to some quite specific problems (e.g. the limitations of medical practice in Vienna at Mozart's time: the psychodynamics of his family). In addition to the issues mentioned here, the volume also features a panel of outstanding performing artists who talk about their own childhood and professional experience as highly gifted and somewhat exploited people." "This collection will appeal to parents, teachers, psycho-therapists, artists, musicians, scholars, and others who are curious about what it means to be a genius and what it was like to be Mozart. The book may also stimulate some thinking about how to help people who have the qualities of genius and run into subsequent difficulties as a consequence."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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