Dangerous Reality


Book Description

So your mum's this brilliant scientist. She's just invented the most awesome Artificial Intelligence system. Its virtual world is the perfect place to forget about real life. Which is exactly what you want. But then a bug corrupts the system. It's violent and unpredictable. This is no ordinary glitch - someone's trying to sabotage it. You need to figure out who, and why. And fast! What if your life was about to be game over? Dangerous Reality is a nail-biting thriller from the author of the bestselling Noughts and Crosses sequence.




Reality TV


Book Description

This book is a study of the 'Reality TV' format which, in less than a decade, has transformed network programming schedules, branded satellite and digital stations, become a favourite target for anti-television campaigners, and turned viewers into savvy r




The Reality Bubble


Book Description

What are we not seeing? Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, and the animals that can see in infrared or ultraviolet or with 360-degree vision. In The Reality Bubble, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity’s biggest blind spots. What she reveals is not on the things we didn’t evolve to see but, more dangerously, the blindness of modern society. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, this vitally important book gives voice to the sense we’ve all had – that there is more to the world than meets the eye.




Symbols in Structure and Function- Volume 3


Book Description

This is the third unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SYMBOLS AND THE GROWTH OF SOCIETY Ch-2 UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS Ch-3 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SYMBOLS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MYTHOLOGY The Life and Death of a Myth Ch-4 SYMBOLIC MORALISM Ch-5 THE INFLUENCE OF MYTH ON THE NATURE OF SYMBOLIC FORMS IN MANIFEST DREAMS Ch-6 THE POWER IN THE SYMBOL Ch-7 THOUGHT DISORDER, SYMBOLS, AND ART De Chirico, Dadd, Tasso, Joyce Ch-8 FEELINGS WORDS AND VISIONS: Symbols and Personality in the Paintings of Thomas Cole




THE RACIST CANNOT FIGHT AGAINST RACISM


Book Description

The racist cannot fight against racism, because he believes that this is the natural order of things, in his head, of course. But racism is the greatest backwardness and underdevelopment of Western societies, as it is a mental underdevelopment. There are things that are good and fair and there are things that are not; there are totally absolute truths and there are lies that resemble the truth. That is why racism is a great lie, which seems like the truth to those who practice it. But in reality it is self-loathing and unconscious frustration that is always discharged on innocent people. A guilty person cannot be innocent, it does not matter if he is a judge, a priest or a president. And a racist is a person guilty of all the evils that will be cited here and that are certainly not enough to deal with in a single book, and therefore this series of books on Racism. It is good that the racist realizes what he is and what he does, so that many stop acting like sleepwalkers following meaningless ideologies without worrying about the most important thing, whatever it is for their lives, but being a racist cannot be a plus, but rather a deficiency and lack. Envy? It may be, Africa is an immensely rich continent, not only on the surface, especially in the subsoil. It is not a place full of rocks and coal, and to develop a civilization and achieve and sustain technological and industrial evolution, you need resources, and in Africa there have always been. That is why the impoverishment of Africa (and Latin America) began by denying Africans their divine right to exist, to be people, to be human beings, to justify the most heinous crimes that Europeans now seek to hide and not remember. and their institutions, for those crimes have apparently made their nations and societies prosper. To justify the greatest rapes, massacres, murders of children, women, men and the elderly for more than a thousand years, racism and not Nazism, has been the general Western practical philosophy in everything related to Africa, Africans and the Afro-descendants. It is not my personal opinion that Spain invented racism, although later other European countries perfected it and graduated and have obtained a Master in racist practices while in the United States of America history has shown that they have deserved the PHD in racist practices and institutionalized racism. Malabo, 20.06.2021 Javier Clemente Engonga,




Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90


Book Description

This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.




Reading the Bible Around the World


Book Description

Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by an expert team of crosscultural scholars, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the influence of their own social location, building up self-awareness, other-awareness, and true dialogue in the process. Grow in your biblical wisdom as you read Scripture alongside the global Christian community.




In Her Own Time


Book Description

Challenging much in contemporary developmental theory, this book sheds new light on developmental themes, passages, and issues in the lives of women from the perspective of pastoral care. In Her Own Time provides a much-needed framework for the pastoral care of women.




OUTSIDERS: Vol. III


Book Description

How did she come here, to this place in her life? A once shy girl, without an athletic bone in her body, overweight, a little antisocial. A gamer, more comfortable in front of her computer monitor than under sunlight. How could it be she, now, with a gun, going into a foreign land to find another programmer, a brilliant but troubled mind, and share his discoveries with what remains of the world? The world has all but fallen, and Melody is beginning to realize there is no happy ending. Too much has already been lost. Too many have already surrendered to evil. Now she must look inside herself. Why does she keep going? For what does she fight, if not victory? What is her life worth? The enemy’s objective will be discovered, on the far side of the planet and buried deep, and the remaining free people of the world will try to take it from the enemy’s clutches. This will be their last, desperate play for any advantage, any leverage that might let them preserve a spark of liberty in the coming night of worldwide totalitarian dominion. Melody will be there, along with those of her allies who are not already dead. She knows already that she will hold nothing back. She has only her life left to give, and she will give it. The only question left, now, is what the world will look like when the dust settles.




Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown


Book Description

Contemporary culture is rediscovering the importance of beauty for both social transformation and personal happiness. Theologians have sought, in their varied ways, to demonstrate how God's beauty is associated with notions of truth and goodness. This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both secular and religious understandings, in particular the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve the one ultimately reliable form of beauty because its embodied components are able to reflect the disturbing beauty of the One to whom worship is always offered. Such components rely on understanding the aesthetic dynamics upon which liturgy relies. This book draws from a broad range of disciplines concerned with understanding beauty and self-transformation and concludes that while secular utopian forms have much to contribute to ethical transformation, they ultimately fail since they lack the Christological and eschatological framework needed, which liturgy alone provides.