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M. D. Jackson

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Operatives of the Agency

THE OPERATIVES OF THE AGENCY ARE A CUT ABOVEThe Agency – otherwise known as the Department of Covert Operations – is a sophisticated galaxy-wide organization made up of unsophisticated operatives. Take John Steel, for instance. Or is it Abner Jenkins? Is he actually an operative of the Agency, or is he carrying out a personal vendetta?Consider John Steel's ship, The Darling Buds of May, a sleek stealth fighter whose avatar is a fashion conscious black woman with a predilect...

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M Jackson

Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide.Seeking to understand the wild diversity and complexity that exists between people and ice, Jackson lived for a year on the south-eastern coast of Iceland, chronicling in The Secret Lives of Glaciers the cultural and societal impacts of glacier change on local communities. Ja...

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M. B. Jackson

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Sigils

The majority of westernised people live in material ignorance of the spiritual truths of our occult heritage but, when asked about the origins of magic symbols, the uninitiated will reply that they are probably derived from drawings of the stars - as in the signs of the Zodiac. This answer, although not technically correct, is a reminder of the archaic resonance of such signs. By psychologically embedded themselves within mankind's prehistoric subconscious, they have enabled modern humans ...

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M Jackson

While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a family and a planet change. M Jackson, a noted scientist and National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply intertwined, and how the deterioration of her parents' health was as devastating as the inexorable changing of Earth's climate. Jackson poses a stark question: if losing one's parents is so devastating, how can we survive the destruction of the planet that sustai...

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M Jackson

A haunting tale of secrets buried in the Oregon wilderness. When a young girl vanishes in the Three Sisters Wilderness, the remote community is shaken to its core. Leonie Kane, the girl's mother, embarks on a desperate search, unearthing a chilling history of violence and environmental fragility. As the days turn into weeks, four women find their lives intertwined, each grappling with personal traumas and the looming threat of the past.The Ice Sings Back e...

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M. B. Jackson

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Sigils

Sigils are symbols designed for a specific magical purpose. They are symbolic icons that are condensed representations of more complex ideas or information. The Sigil has been reinvented as a Monogram of Thought, a graphic symbol created with the sole purpose of fulfilling the magicians desired outcome as symbols of intent.They were part of our ancestor's pictorial language in an age of symbolic literacy.

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M. B. Jackson

Fully illustrated guide to the non-Christian Symbols of Western Occultism, from prehistoric images to the modern Earth-centered movement.Much of Western occultism is focused on the Judeo-Christian mysticism practised in Medieval and Renaissance Europe with its emphasis on the conjuration of spirits by the magician. From the seventeenth century onwards, the knowledge derived from scientific experimentation eroded the spiritual influence of the church. Sigils are symbol used in magic...

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Eric M. Jackson

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the rest of the “PayPal Mafia” are now household names who’ve reshaped technology, automobiles, space travel, and politics. But two decades ago, they were unsung entrepreneurs attempting to launch a Silicon Valley startup against overwhelming odds.That improbable journey started in the shadow of Stanford University, when Thiel met Max Levchin, a Ukrainian engineer who recently moved to California. Years before anyone had heard of Bitcoin...

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K.M. Jackson

**"A rollicking rom-com full of fun, complex characters, laugh-out-loud one liners and delicious banter," perfect for pop culture fans (NPR).Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot. What?! How could the world's perfect boyfriend and forever bachelor, Keanu not realize that making a move like this could potentially be devastating to the equilibrium of...well...everything! Not to mention, he's never come...

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M. B. Jackson

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Sigils

Sigils, seals and pentacles are occult devices used in ceremonial magic as part of the invocation and evocation of angels, demons and other spirits. They were developed out of ritual magic—a mixture of Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism, Arabic Astrology and Jewish Cabala—in the 10th century Medieval Europe. These forms of magic practice were raised to the level of a science and studied as such during the Renaissance. Magicians recorded their designs in magical training books called grimoires, suc...

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James M. Jackson

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Guppy Anthology

Prepare for twists, reversals, and surprises in the eighth anthology from the 1,100-member Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime. The fun starts with the play-on-words subtitle, "Crime Takes a Holiday," Crime doesn't enjoy a bit of time off from skulduggery. Oh no. In these twenty-three stories, Crime Steals, Disrupts, Upends, Wrecks, Destroys and/or Shatters a Holiday.Join the characters as they travel to pristine northern waters and festering southern bayous, rent a creepy house in M...

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M. B. Jackson

The majority of westernised people live in material ignorance of the spiritual truths of our occult heritage but, when asked about the origins of magic symbols, the uninitiated will reply that they are probably derived from drawings of the stars - as in the signs of the Zodiac. This answer, although not technically correct, is a reminder of the archaic resonance of such signs. By psychologically embedded themselves within mankind's prehistoric subconscious, they have enabled modern humans ...