Armageddon and Further Unpleasantries


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Penny Lane is having one heck of a time in the afterlife. Ever since her murder, shes had one crazy, chaotic, and grueling adventure after another. Whats a dead girl to do but just carry on and go along for the ride? Between her work in melting and ghost retrieval, her studies at the Apollo Academy, and a mission on the alien afterlife, shes barely had a moments rest! For Penny, the afterlife is a nonstop dash. When she ?nally gets the opportunity to settle down, catch her breath, and pool her talents in ghost counseling and mortal mapping, she gets a pleasant surprise: shes back in her own medieval cottage again. There, she happily juggles work and play, making the time to hang out with her best friends, the groovy archangel Eric and her secret desire, the enigmatic Avery. Penny also has to contend with the departure of someone close and if thats not enough excitement, an old sixteenth-century ?ame has renewed his interest in her. Of course, she hasnt even sipped her morning cappuccino before even bigger events threaten to fracture the serenity. Together with a band of angels and the deceased elite, Penny and her pals return to Earth in a wild ride of destruction and delight that will change their worlds forever.




Shakespeare and the Afterlife


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The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.




Retreat from Doomsday


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Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920


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The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.




Vlad


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Vlad: The Last Confession is a novel about the real man behind the Bram Stoker myth. It tells of the Prince, the warrior, the lover, the torturer, the survivor and, ultimately, the hero. Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man...and a contradiction. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved...and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade... and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as The Impaler. This is the story of the man behind the legend ... as it has never been told before. "Trust nothing that you've heard." Winter 1431, a son is born to the Prince of Transylvania. His father christened him "Vlad." His people knew him as "The Dragon's Son." His enemies reviled him as "Tepes"—The Impaler. He became the hero of a nation. We know him as Dracula.




Wandering Significance


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"Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. He combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability."--Publisher's description.




The End of Man


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Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes Where the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere, Joanna Zylinska has a different take. The End of Man rethinks the prophecy of the end of humans, interrogating the rise in populism around the world and offering an ethical vision of a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which challenges many of the masculinist and technicist solutions to our planetary crises. The book is accompanied by a short photo-film, Exit Man, which ultimately asks: If unbridled progress is no longer an option, what kinds of coexistences and collaborations do we create in its aftermath? Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.




The Lipstick Mystic's Guide to Time Traveling, Healing the Time Body, and Finding the Best Possible Timeline (while Others Do the Apocalypso Dance)


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Jennifer Shepherd, the Lipstick Mystic, reveals the fascinating secrets she learned as a professional "time traveler" in her psychic counseling practice. Her humorous, passionate account of her adventures with time includes stories about her experiments with "time slicing," retrocognition and examining future timelines. Each of these future timelines is different, reflecting numerous potential outcomes for humanity. She shows you how time's very nature is in the process of changing, prompting humanity to start living on shamanic time (or synchronistic time) instead of artificial, man-made time. And she describes the teachings she has received from the time angels, those mysterious multi-dimensional beings who are the guardians of time. She also outlines the various forces that are conspiring to manipulate humanity down the worst possible timeline. These forces range from doomsday religions to the broader "bad news" media culture to shadowy government factions that aggressively repress solutions and silence progressive voices. Mainstream New Age thinking is another influence that can poison people spiritually, teaching people to embrace "ascension in the light body," which is really just death and oblivion. You'll learn how Mother Earth adores humanity and discover how much healing energy she is always radiating. And along the way, you'll learn a powerful healing technique to repair your time body, which is one of the many subtle energy bodies that surrounds the physical body. As your time body heals, you become "allergic" to negative realities and situations and start moving along the best possible timeline. Isn't it time to banish doom and gloom "End Times" programming and start living life with power, passion, and a sense of fun? Let's get going! But be warned: Jennifer likes to rant, so you will find some sass and the occasional four letter word in this book. But really, out of some 500 pages, the naughty words don't take up too much space! From the Back Cover: Are you allergic to doom and gloom prophecies? Do predictions about the Rapture, Armageddon, and the "End of Everything" give you an itchy rash? Do you fervently wish that those ET channelers who are preparing to leave this dimension and ascend in their light bodies would just get on with it and leave you in peace? Congratulations! You're refusing to be affected by religious mind control or mass New Age /sewage hypnosis, and you're reclaiming your spiritual sovereignty. I invite you to meet me in a far better reality. Join me for a tasty Cosmic Cosmopolitan (or a nice cup of herbal tea), some home-cooked rants (complete with spicy four letter words) and my detailed guidance about how you can avoid that contagious gloom stuff. I'll also teach you my sneaky techniques for healing your time body, teach you how to live on shaman time (instead of artificial man-made time) and give you tips on how to choose a truly happy and prosperous timeline. Come along! Let's have some fun.




Air Force Magazine


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Perspectives on Place


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Perspectives on Place provides an inspiring insight into the territory of landscape photography. Using a range of historic and contemporary examples, Alexander explores the rich and diverse history of landscape photography and the many ways in which contemporary photographers engage with the landscape and their surroundings.Bridging theory and practice, this book demonstrates how mastering a variety of different photographic techniques can help you communicate ideas, explore themes, and develop more abstract concepts. With practical guidance on everything from effective composition, to managing challenging lighting conditions and working with different lenses and formats, you’ll be able to build your own varied and creative portfolio.Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and an assignment, encouraging you to explore key concepts and apply different photographic techniques to your own practice. Richly illustrated with images from some of the world’s most influential photographers, Perspectives on Place will help you to explore the visual qualities of your images and represent your surroundings more meaningfully.