The greatest untold story in the history of hip-hop, this is the first-ever complete account of the scene, street-savvy stars, and daring record label that launched West Coast hip-hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the ’80s and ’90s—with previously unseen material, photos, and exclusive interviews.WITH A FOREWORD BY B-REAL OF CYPRESS HILLIn 1987, hip-hop was at a tipping point: coastally, commercially, and...

WITH A FOREWORD BY B-REAL OF CYPRESS HILLIn 1987, hip-hop was at a tipping point: coastally, commercially, and creatively. New York City ruled the culture, while its hottest record label Def Jam was king. Yet out in LA, a new crew was ready to challenge for the crown, and their fresh spin would upend the industry as the decade reached its peak.Two Los Angeles dance club DJs, Matt Dike and Mike Ross, started their own independent label in Matt's cramped apar...

In this fascinating account of the search for the remains of the world's first pope, none other than Peter, the chief apostle of Jesus, Thomas J. Craughwell takes us on one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the twentieth century.In 1448 a team of architects and engineers brought Pope Nicholas V unhappy news: the 1,100-year-old Basilica of St. Peter suffered from so many structural defects that it was beyond repair. The only solution was to pull down the old church--one of...

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar and beautiful texts, things and events, into a cartography of the secret and strange patterns of baroque cultures worldwide. The visual arts are examined across a wide temporal and geographical spa...

*** Mind-blowing Epiphany ***Taylor Pyatt, a renowned paleontologist, is searching for dinosaur fossils in the badlands of Montana. His companion, Jenna Fabra, stumbles upon an unusual find. As the two of them excavate more of the strange looking object, their initial curiosity turns to shock. What they’ve uncovered is neither fossil nor rock. Are their eyes deceiving them? If not, they have a sixty-six-million-year-old earth-shattering enigma on their hands, an ob...

*** Strange Allies ***Note: This is not a standalone novel. It’s book 3—the final novel—of the Future Relics Trilogy.Taylor and Jenna have managed to stay one step ahead of the authorities, intent on locating the third and final alien ship that crashed on the planet during the asteroid’s impact. They are also determined to let the public know about the ancient alien visitation, knowledge the government wants to suppress.To their sur...

Note: This is not a standalone novel. It’s book 2 of the Future Relics Trilogy.*** Dangerous Fallout ***Taylor and Jenna flee for their lives after Whitney’s brother, the NASA scientist they brought in to examine their discovery, betrays them. Josh notifies the authorities that the two paleontologists have found a small sixty-six-million-year-old alien ship embedded in rock.The government is stunned by the revelation, and it immediately declares the...

When a Catholic Priest hangs himself during the pope's inauguration, his friend and ex-priest Alex Harker is dragged into a secret war that has been playing out on the fringes of society since the birth of Christ. The suicide sets into motion a planned timetable of terrifying events that will irrevocably change the world as we know it. The countdown has begun. With the clock ticking and pursued by a murderous assassin, Harker must track down and decipher the pieces of the puzzle laid down ...

Jorn leads an army of degenerate lowlifes to aid the beset Order of the Lost and in the process gets to know both old acquaintances as well as new ones.The Godkiller Chronicles is a fantasy adventure with strong erotic elements of freeuse and breeding – reader discretion is advised.

In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aa...