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Gates of Eden

Author : Ethan Coen

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 25,82 MB

Release : 2008-11-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0061684880

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In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories—from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.



Outside the Gates of Eden

Author : Lewis Shiner

Publisher : Head of Zeus

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,94 MB

Release : 2023-09-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1789541158

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What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. 'Outside the Gates of Eden' follows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole, constantly uprooted in his childhood, finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965. From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to the Woodstock festival in upstate New York, from campus protests to the Soho art scene, from a communal farm in Virginia to the mariachis of Guanajuato, Mexico, the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture - and what came after.



Outside the Gates of Eden

Author : Peter Bacon Hales

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 480 pages

File Size : 46,78 MB

Release : 2014-04-11

Category : History

ISBN : 022612861X

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The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter Bacon Hales explores those decades through a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life. Finding unexpected connections, he traces the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril. From newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests to the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the teen pop music of the Brill Building and the Beach Boys to Bob Dylan’s canny transformations; from the painful failures of communes to the breathtaking utopian potential of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation in transition as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting. Outside the Gates of Eden is the most comprehensive account yet of the baby boomers, their parents, and their children, as seen through the places they built, the music and movies and shows they loved, and the battles they fought to define their nation, their culture, and their place in what remains a fragile and dangerous world.



Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties

Author : Morris Dickstein

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 45,67 MB

Release : 2015-02-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1631490389

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Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking work finally reappears in a new edition. The turbulent 1960s, almost from its outset, produced a dizzying display of cultural images and ideas that were as colorful as the psychedelic T-shirts that became part of its iconography. It was not, however, until Morris Dickstein's landmark Gates of Eden, first published in 1977, that we could fully grasp the impact of this raucous decade in American history as a momentous cultural epoch in its own right, as much as Jazz Age America or Weimar Germany. From Ginsberg and Dylan to Vonnegut and Heller, this lasting work brilliantly re-creates not only the intellectual and political ferment of the decade but also its disillusionment. What results is an inestimable contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century American culture.



The Doors of Eden

Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky

Publisher : Orbit

Page : 490 pages

File Size : 29,60 MB

Release : 2020-08-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0316705780

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From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a page-turning adventure about parallel universes and the monsters that they hide. They thought we were safe. They were wrong. Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Dr Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through. "Tchaikovsky weaves a masterful tale... a suspenseful joyride through the multiverse." (Booklist)



The Gates of Eden

Author : Brian Stableford

Publisher : Borgo Press

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 22,47 MB

Release : 2011-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1434435725

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Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth's space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has the Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there is no alternative but to wait for vessels sent out at sub-light speed decades previously to find somewhere worth going. Unfortunately, when one finally does, it doesn't take long for political conflicts to materialize over the exploitation of the few seemingly-Earthlike world in question. When an entire survey team dies, the problems intensify. Lee Caretta is the man most likely to solve the problem, if his conflict-ridden employers will let him, if he can keep his tendency to suffer unexplained blackouts under control, and if the world really is sufficiently Earthlike not to be deadly to all who investigate. And then the humans begin dying!



Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden

Author : Benedict Macdonald

Publisher : HarperCollins UK

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 16,76 MB

Release : 2020-08-20

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0008333742

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By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of Rebirding Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life.



At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden

Author : Yossi K. Halevi

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 20,72 MB

Release : 2002-06-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0060505826

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A brilliantly observed memoir of an unprecedented and remarkable spiritual journey. While religion has fuelled the often violent conflict plaguing the Holy Land, Yossi Klein Halevi wondered whether it could be a source of unity as well. To find the answer, this religious Israeli Jew began a two–year exploration to discover a common language with his Christian and Muslim neighbours. He followed their holiday cycles, befriended Christian monastics and Islamic mystics, and joined them in prayer in monasteries and mosques in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden traces that remarkable spiritual journey. Halevi candidly reveals how he fought to reconcile his own fears and anger as a Jew to relate to Christians and Muslims as fellow spiritual seekers. He chronicles the difficulty of overcoming multiple obstacles注eological, political, historical, and psychological注at separate believers of the three monotheistic faiths. And he introduces a diverse range of people attempting to reconcile the dichotomous heart of this sacred place柠struggle central to Israel, but which resonates for us all.



Druid's Dance

Author : Theophilus Monroe

Publisher :

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 43,22 MB

Release : 2020-07-06

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"The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children." - The Druid Way Elijah Wadsworth lost his parents and twin sister in what he thought was little more than a tragic accident. But five years later, when Elijah begins manifesting strange abilities--which he neither understands nor can control--he discovers his family has been at the center of a cosmic battle for centuries... and his family's death was likely no accident at all. A mysterious "girl in black" with dark, magical abilities pursues him, hoping to lure him to her cause. After coming into possession of a mystical stone, which transports Elijah into his deceased father's ancient memories, Elijah and his closest friends must discover the source of his power together lest his newfound abilities drain his very soul, and open up our world to the blight of Samhuinn. When a girl he loves, however, is threatened he must make a choice to either save her by joining the sorceress, the "girl in black," or save the world. Druid's Dance is the first book in a coming of age modern fantasy that features a thrilling journey into the world of Celtic mythology, shocking plot twists, compelling characters, and an unlikely hero. With an enthralling magical romance, a compelling fantasy adventure, and a magical journey into the world of Celtic myth (including an encounter with a famous wizard), Monroe's Druid's Dance is an Arthurian modern fantasy that has something for everyone. THIS IS A NEWLY REVISED/EDITED EDITION, Re-Released June 24, 2020. UPCOMING RELEASE IN THIS SERIES: Gates of Eden: The Druid Legacy - THE COMPLETE TRILOGY (September 17, 2020)



The Rod of Iron

Author : Richard Douglas Bouslough

Publisher : Outskirts Press

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 20,28 MB

Release : 2011-09-01

Category :

ISBN : 9781432776763

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When I was a man,I spoke like a man,I thought like a man,I reasoned like a man;When He gave me immortal parentage,I gave up the Childish ways of men.Old things passed away.All things became new.Yet remain these three, faith, hope, and love.But the greatest of these is Love. Favorite verses paraphrased by Doc Forrester"Here he reigns with the rod of iron. Only the collective remnant knew the whole truth, that his love overlaid justice with mercy, responsibility with grace, the scepter of righteousness with the shepherd's staff.It's an imposed peace of delicate balance. Most of mankind who remain mortal believe this authority is only temporary. Yet, even those who fight within their spirits acknowledge his right to Lordship. The time is not yet fulfilled for final accounts to be settled. In the meanwhile, the truths of immortality with him far surpass everything I knew before."