Author : Christine Rogers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2016-04-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781530844500
A series of short stories following Jesus's final week on Earth, from the raising of Lazarus to the empty tomb.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101667346
Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture—live from the suburb of Golgotha—the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land—Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family—Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.
Author : Dave Stone
Publisher : Black Flame
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844162376
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books About Propaganda, Books About Public Opinion, Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media, the Theory of Moral Sentiments, the Social Construction of Reality, Diffusion of Innovations, the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii, the Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, How to Read Donald Duck, the Calculus of Consent, Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact
Author : Rick Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2016-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781534651876
While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, she learns that she is not alone. Deep behind the Vatican walls a secret order dispatches a clandestine op group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: bring the pope back alive. As Cohen and the Knights work in tandem they uncover a White House conspiracy involving high-ranking members on Capitol Hill. When she begins to get too close to the truth about the pope's kidnapping, she becomes the target of indigenous forces trying to keep the conspiracy safe. However, in order to get to her they must go through the Vatican Knights.
Author : Matt Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534303201
"How would you like to leave everything behind and start over on a new world? Make that mental leap and resolve to accept that everyone you knew on Earth would be dead by the time you arrived? You're excited for this new chance and the opportunity to help shape the new world. After eighty-eight years in cryosleep, you arrive to discover that faster transit was engineered a year after you left and an entire colony has already existed for thirty years--and they have no need or want for you. And the grandson you never knew runs the colony and hates you. This is Michael Lawton's story"--Back cover.
Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351474219
This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz). Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers-and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.
Author : David Annandale
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9781849704120
Author : Andrew C. Skinner
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570089626
Author : R. S. Belcher
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250246849
R.S. Belcher’s weird west world series is set in the damned and unnatural frontier town of Golgotha, a Nevada cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. This Golgotha series discounted ebundle includes: The Six-Gun Tarot, The Shotgun Arcana, The Queen of Swords “Wild, gritty, insanely inventive and a hell of a lot of fun!” --Jonathan Maberry, on The Six-Gun Tarot The Six-Gun Tarot The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker’s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone’s business, may know more about the town’s true origins than he’s letting on. Some think the worst has come and gone, but the nightmarish trials of Golgotha have only just begun. The Shotgun Arcana Golgotha in 1870 is a haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes. The town has come through many nightmarish trials. Now an army of 32 outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Party . . . and the dawn of humanity. The Queen of Swords Maude Stapleton, late of Golgotha, Nevada, is a respectable widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know that Maude belongs to an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and is as well the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Anne Bonney, the legendary female pirate. Leaving Golgotha in search of her daughter Constance, who has been taken from her, Maude travels to Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself caught in the middle of a secret war between the Daughters of Lilith and their ancestral enemies, the monstrous Sons of Typhon Tor books by R. S. Belcher Nightwise The Brotherhood of the Wheel The Night Dahlia King of the Road At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455526924
Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced omnibus edition of the "Diogenes Trilogy": Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead--featuring Pendergast's mysterious brother--by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child. BRIMSTONE: A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? DANCE OF DEATH: Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can. BOOK OF THE DEAD: A talented FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori.
