You've probably heard of The Secret. Now it's time to make The Choice. There is a great shift coming in the near future. We can all feel it. But what does it truly herald for the planet we inhabit? Is there reason for concern about the apocalyptic prophecies of the Mayan calendar, and is there an underlying physics driving these changes? How do planetary alignments and astronomical events such as the ones predicted for 2012 affect your consciousness? And most importantly, what can each of us do to influence this coming shift in both consciousness and physical reality? New York Times best-selling author Mike Bara examines all these questions and many more in The Choice, which also includes: How to use your own inner light—the power of your mind and spirit—to influence the physical world How governments the world over are preparing for the coming decade of change How to determine your place in the Next Age If we can truly can make this world into anything we want, which path will we choose?
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition. Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.
The world is divided by five dragon flights, each headed by a powerful and ancient dragon. People are born, live, and die to the land that each dragon rules. Then, a small band of adventurers, venture into a foreign dragon's land to rescue an arcane elven wizard from slavery. Rescuing her was the easy part. Getting her spell book, the main source of her arcane knowledge, takes going through monsters, hostile and paranoid beings, and the undead, but that is only half the problem. Their unlikely guide, an ill-tempered, ice-inflicted kobold is their best chance to get through without the dragons discovering them. But everyone knows, kobolds are the dragons most loyal servants. Or are they?
This book is probably the most important source of evidence published up to now on the consolidation of democracy in Eastern Europe. It provides estimates of party positions, voter preferences and government policy from election programmes collected systematically for 51 countries from 1990 onwards. Time-series are presented in the text. This also reports party life histories (essential to over time analyses) and provides updated and newly validated vote statistics. All this information and much more is available on the devoted website described in the book. The final chapter gives instructions on how to access the data on your own computer. For comparative purposes, similar estimates of policy and preferences are given for CEE, OECD and EU countries. These estimates update the prize-winning data set covered in Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998 - also published by OUP. A must-buy for all commentators, students and analysts of democracy, in Eastern Europe and the world.
In a world throttling toward its darkest hour... Ranger, Prince of Blue, befriends Ariela, a young maiden, not realizing that she is the daughter of his archenemy. When Ariela discovers her father Radagon's secret imperial ambitions, she is forced to flee for her life to the "Islands in Time." Rescued from her evil father by Ranger and Lam, his archeologist friend, Ariela is taken to the underground refuge city of Ha-Miqtal where she discovers a secret that will change her world and the future of Planet Blue. By virtue of the power of the River flowing through their lives, they unwittingly set in motion a series of events that moves them one step closer to the liberation of their planet. A missionary, pastor, presbyter, church-planter, teacher, author, and most recently an administrator for a Christian satellite TV channel, after twenty-two years on the mission field, Michael and his family answered the call to return to America to stand for truth in their own country. They bought land, built a cabin, and have begun a new journey toward an agrarian lifestyle.
Amelia Moorland recounts the events surrounding a tragedy that occurred in Nantucket in the early 20th century and how it effected her extraordinary life.
For most people, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility, yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie and has concealed the truth about its occult origins. Mystical organisations dominate NASA and carry out their own agendas behind the scenes. Why is the Bush administration hell-bent on returning to the moon? Why is there a new space race' with Russia, China and even India? Dark Mission provides clues why, including information about surpressed lunar discoveries.
In the midst of Prohibition, Jimmy Quinn joins forces with screen siren Fay Wray to take on a King Kong–size case of extortion. It’s March 2, 1933. King Kong is premiering at Radio City Music Hall, and Fay Wray is about to become the most famous actress on earth. So what's she doing hanging around a rundown Manhattan speakeasy? This Hollywood scream queen has come to see Jimmy Quinn, a limping tough guy who knows every gangster in New York—and does his best to steer clear of them all. A blackmailer has pictures of a Fay Wray lookalike engaged in conduct that would make King Kong blush, and Fay's movie studio—with the cooperation of a slightly corrupt NYPD detective—wants the threat eliminated. Jimmy tries to settle the matter quietly, but stopping the extortion will cut just as deeply as Fay's famous scream, ringing from Broadway all the way to Chinatown. Jimmy and Fay is the 3rd book in the Jimmy Quinn Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly evolving age left behind the "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the nineteenth century to give rise to new "types" of women based on a single feature--a type of hair, skin, dress, or prop--including the Gibson Girl, the sob sister, the stunt girl, the hoochy-coochy dancer, and the bearded lady. Exploring both high and low culture, from the circus and film to newspapers and magazines, this work examines depictions of women at the dawn of "mass media," depictions that would remain influential throughout the twentieth century.
Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the modern age, and defined a model of stardom that is still with us today.
Michael Kesterton, fact collector extraordinaire - a man said to spend his days on the Internet and his nights in labyrinthine archives, thumbing through mildewed newsprint and thick manila folders - submits for your reading pleasure and possible edification his second eclectic collection of Sense and Silliness, chosen from his daily column, Social Studies, which appears on the back page of the Globe and Mail. Appropriately titled The Twelve Best Months of the Year, this modestly priced yet invaluable volume is guaranteed to bring, each and every month of the year, the sparkle of intellectual amusement to what might otherwise be a dreary, mind-numbing life. Dip into these pages and see Nellie Bly, intrepid female journalist, rise to the New York World's 1889 challenge to go around the world in 80 days. She did it in a breakneck 72 days and six hours. Flip a few pages and learn why there's no point in chasing a leprechaun. (He won't have a pot of gold, just a purse containing a shilling or two.) Enhance your party small talk a thousandfold with such tidbits as the fact that the Belgian comedian Georges Le Gloupier, who throws custard pies at prominent people he considers pompous, has hit philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy five times. Go ahead, treat yourself to a year's worth of such indispensable brain snacks and feel the thrill of absurdity and the sweet shiver of innocent inquisitiveness.
Liverpool 1818. It was time for Liverpool's leading newspaper The Mercury to recruit a 'young investigative journalist' who it would it train and steep in its reformist outlook. Fighting for social and economic justice in England's 'port of empire.' On his way to interview, Edwin Kearney had taken a shortcut through storm-battered Old Dock. What occurred that morning would shape his life and affect those of all about him. In the aftermath, he would encounter dark forces feverishly at work in this hectic, tumultuous place. Across its quays and warehouses. On its streets and in its shadows. Forces and their instruments, locals and their out-of-town allies, devoted to unrelenting crime, privation and misery. The lives and circumstances of its people little more than a commodity to be weighed, bartered and discarded. The brutal physical removal of one community and to enable the imposition of another. Civic dispossession and the pre-emption of rights. An assault on the undefended by the indefensible. In their way, stood the town's fearless newspaper The Mercury, its remarkable owner and the young man who had unwittingly crossed into Liverpool's netherworld and now found himself at the very heart of The Mercury's proposition that 'the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.' Lives and communities were at stake, the forces against them -native and imported - vicious and formidable- led by one of London's most ingenious and elusive criminals and bolstered locally by his feared Liverpool counterpart. The very existence of Liverpool's crusading newspaper in jeopardy, until a remarkable group of friends and allies also emerged from the shadows.
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