The Venus Disc The magic of the ancient Maya comes to life in a modern world. Consider the consequences! The ancestor spirits of the Maya underworld, Xibalba, crafted a golden disc to honor Venus, their goddess of death. As powerful as it is mysterious, the disc with its golden chain, not only cures sickness throughout the village, but heals injury and prevents aging in its lord. Manipulating the disc triggers transference to Xibalba, and thus, a vanishing: invisibility in the earthly worl...

Backstory:In 20018AD, Global Warming led to a sudden environmental holocaust. Those responsible, the world's political and social élite, built themselves two-mile-wide utopian biosphere's called Shells. Meanwhile, outside the Shells, in a world increasingly gripped by famine and disease, billions of abandoned people were plunged into a new Dark Age. Some became Trodes; a growing techno-cult of 'wireheads' who believed software narcotics would help them to escape Earth through 'Asce...

It's new: Natalie Wood! This book is your ultimate resource for Natalie Wood. Here you will find the most up-to-date 157 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Natalie Wood's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series (Drama) - 1970s, Christopher Walken - 1980s, Raymond Burr - Family ...

QSpirit Top 24 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2024A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potentialThe relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?Despite Baldwin’s disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of...

When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam's notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads missing from maps.Hunt left the United States expecting to explore the 1,700-kilometer highway that was once the supply route for the North Vietnamese Army. He soon found himself roaming the Vietnamese countryside in need of help and direction. In the process...

The Heffleys trade snow boots for flip-flops—but their tropical escape goes hilariously wrong.Book twelve of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series delivers sunburns, stomach bugs, and creepy critters that threaten to turn their dream vacation into a disaster.Perfect for readers ages 8-12 who love family travel tales with a twist.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of a Wimpy...

Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (A Spider Webb Novel)You'll be shocked and surprised to learn what lies at the end of time!Relish the conundrums of time travel in this story of a man attempting to both solve a mystery and come to terms with his life."K. A. Bedford delivers by focusing less on the "wow" factor (and more) on the social-implications factor." —The Harrow"This is a gotta-read, with some thoughtful concepts to p...

Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity...

A comedy set in David Brin's Uplift Universe. In the distant future, chimpanzees and dolphins have been uplifted to starfaring status -- and are helping humans choose the next species for uplift, when powerful alien starships arrive to wipe out all life on Earth.

The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives.Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of ...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune, a sci-fi fantasy about government control of media and information.Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge—esoterica of all types, history, science, politics—gathered by teams of "pack rats" who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and knowledge can be a weapon. As powerful dictator...

In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His efforts point to a transnational pattern he terms ...