Angel’s earthly scriptures regard the earth from personal, secular perspectives. Like the Christian Bible, its canon admits a surprising variety of forms and lengths: There are Stories: a fateful lapse of weather-ethics; the confl ict between private and public property, the latter including humans drafted into the military. Essays: the endless multiplicity of windows (not to be found in the non-physical, mystical unity of heaven); the problematic relationship between two species (humans and dogs); proprioception (the unappreciated, vital sensation of dueling with gravity); a children’s book as an example earthly art, even to its media. A raffi sh Travelogue, intermittent, confi rms the world’s shape as a sphere. Its counterpoint, also an intermittent series, is a Treasury about the Wellses’ retirement “Estate”on a ridge of the Blue Ridge—arboretum, cloudatorium, weather- observation-post, lookout vista, and habitat for plants and creatures that include visiting grandson. A concluding Fantasy —like a two-person play except that one character can fl y with the help of protective eyewear—explores the relationship between human and the supposedly divine.
San Pedro, California becomes the nexus for IRA gun running, Croatian organized crime, corruption, attempted murder and a ‘long running secret’. Thrown headlong into a perplexing and disturbing series of uncertainties, Greco and Bruen, researching their amazing family histories find themselves unraveling the ‘Matulich’ case of twenty years earlier! What is the reason for so many coincidences and connections? Is everything in history interconnected and played out to order according to a mystical relationship between numbers and living things or is life simply a random and chaotic universe, where the individual has no influence on events in their life. Will Greco and Bruen live long enough to find the answers?
The new edition of Religion in American Life, written by three of the country's most eminent historians of religion, offers a superb overview that spans four centuries, illuminating the rich spiritual heritage central to nearly every event in our nation's history.
A journalist’s story of corruption in the LAPD and hip-hop’s most infamous murders—“the most thorough examination of these much-publicized events” (Renée Graham, The Boston Globe). Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who, in 1997, was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to realize that a growing cadre of outlaw officers were allied not only with Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the Los Angeles media, the release of LAbyrinth helped to prompt two lawsuits against the LAPD (one brought by the widow and mother of Notorious B.I.G., the other brought by Poole himself) that may finally bring this story completely out of the shadows.
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle in U.S. history, a battle that cost the United States 20,000 lives and stopped the last German offensive of World War II. The authors, both residents of Helena, Montana, studied the history of this battle and walked the critical sectors of the battlefield, examining examples of American heroism and looking for evidence of involvement by Montanans. Their objective was to better understand this significant battle and how our soldiers managed to stop an enemy steamroller, overcoming their fears while outnumbered more than three-to-one. This book examines the eleven critical junctures of the battle and includes personal stories of Montana veterans.
Delivered at Princeton University in 1951 and 1952, Jarrell's lectures reflect a passionate appreciation of Auden's work, a witty attack from an informed opponent, and an important document of a major poet's reception."--Jacket.
Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime. By 1965, the Vegas racing game moved from makeshift facilities to Stardust International Raceway, constructed with real grandstands, sanitary facilities and air-conditioned timing towers. Stardust would host the biggest racing names of the era--Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, John Surtees, Mark Donohue, Bobby Unser, Dan Gurney and Don Garlits among them. Established by a notorious racketeer, the track stood at the confluence of shadowy elements--wiretaps, casino skimming, Howard Hughes, and the beginnings of Watergate. The author traces the Stardust's colorful history through the auto racing monthlies, national newspapers, extensive interviews and the files of the FBI.
This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.
Angel’s earthly scriptures regard the earth from personal, secular perspectives. Like the Christian Bible, its canon admits a surprising variety of forms and lengths: There are Stories: a fateful lapse of weather-ethics; the confl ict between private and public property, the latter including humans drafted into the military. Essays: the endless multiplicity of windows (not to be found in the non-physical, mystical unity of heaven); the problematic relationship between two species (humans and dogs); proprioception (the unappreciated, vital sensation of dueling with gravity); a children’s book as an example earthly art, even to its media. A raffi sh Travelogue, intermittent, confi rms the world’s shape as a sphere. Its counterpoint, also an intermittent series, is a Treasury about the Wellses’ retirement “Estate”on a ridge of the Blue Ridge—arboretum, cloudatorium, weather- observation-post, lookout vista, and habitat for plants and creatures that include visiting grandson. A concluding Fantasy —like a two-person play except that one character can fl y with the help of protective eyewear—explores the relationship between human and the supposedly divine.
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