Sparks will fly in a mother’s electrifying journey to pick up the pieces of worldwide devastation. A dormant gene awakens… And so does a rising world government. A young mother, the key. Does she save her family? Or humanity? A dormant gene awakens in a quarter of the world’s population, changing everything overnight. Cars lose power, phones no longer function, and planes fall from the sky. Valerie Russell finds herself stranded far from home and her two-year-old son. Nearly one-of-a-kind as a result of The Awakening, Valerie Russell is more than just a witness to the frantic changed individuals. She is also a key, making her invaluable to new government hell-bent on unlocking a worldwide genocide of those who were not affected by The Event. For Good or Evil, Valerie must trek the distance with a questionable assembly of ex-military friends of the family to find her son. Valerie is faced with a moral choice: risk failure and attempt to save the masses from the regime’s deadly plot or run and preserve only the lives of her family. Find out which she chooses in this debut science fiction trilogy!
English physics student, Samuel Harrington, was picked on his whole life for being "Fat Sam". But when his DiaZem gene awakens, no one dares insult him. Sam vows to end the rising world government for good by traveling to America under the guise the Reactance, and kidnap the child from rebel leader, Valerie Russell.
Time is a difficult thing, a constant, yet one that we can bend and manipulate as easily as rolling the clocks forward or backwards each year for daylight savings. It ticks away each day, the minutes and hours passing unnoticed and unrecorded until yet another sunset brings the night. This passage, that's the scary part - the lost opportunities, the forgotten memories and the spectacular moments that you're unlikely to experience ever again. Colp's first collection contains thirteen stories from thirteen different authors, each of which explores in its own way the idea that time, no matter how we approach it, will continue to pass and that sometimes there may just be a little something that we can do about it.
Sparks will fly in a mother’s electrifying journey to pick up the pieces of worldwide devastation. A dormant gene awakens… And so does a rising world government. A young mother, the key. Does she save her family? Or humanity? A dormant gene awakens in a quarter of the world’s population, changing everything overnight. Cars lose power, phones no longer function, and planes fall from the sky. Valerie Russell finds herself stranded far from home and her two-year-old son. Nearly one-of-a-kind as a result of The Awakening, Valerie Russell is more than just a witness to the frantic changed individuals. She is also a key, making her invaluable to new government hell-bent on unlocking a worldwide genocide of those who were not affected by The Event. For Good or Evil, Valerie must trek the distance with a questionable assembly of ex-military friends of the family to find her son. Valerie is faced with a moral choice: risk failure and attempt to save the masses from the regime’s deadly plot or run and preserve only the lives of her family. Find out which she chooses in this debut science fiction trilogy!
This book explores the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict reconstruction, whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation. The research was driven by two main goals: to understand the post-conflict reconstruction process and to identify how this process evolves in the medium term and the impact it has on society. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and its subsequent phases of reconstruction provides the primary material for this exploration. In pursuit of the first goal, the book centers on the material practices and rhetorical strategies developed around cultural heritage in post-civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime's reconstruction. The analysis captures a discursively complex set of practices that made up the reconstruction and in which a variety of Spanish heritage sites were claimed, rebuilt or restored, and represented - as signs of historical narratives, political legitimacy, and group identity. The reconstruction of the town of Gernika is a particularly emblematic instance of destruction and a significant symbol within the Basque regions of Spain, as well as internationally. By examining Gernika, it is possible to identify some of the trends common to the reconstruction as a whole, along with those aspects that pertain to its singular symbolic resonance. In order to achieve the second goal, the book examines the processes of selection, value change, and exclusionary dynamics of reconstruction. Exploring the possible impact of post-civil war reconstruction in the medium term is conducted in two time frames: the period of political transition that followed General Franco's death in 1975, and the 2004-2008 period when Rodriguez Zapatero's government undertook initiatives to 'recover the historic memory' of the war and dictatorship. Finally, the observations made of the Spanish reconstruction are analyzed in terms of how they might reveal general trends in post-conflict reconstruction processes in relation to cultural heritage. These insights are pertinent to the situations in Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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