![]() ![]() ![]() Killing The Killers moves from Afghanistan to Iraq, Iran to Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and elsewhere, as the United States fought Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as individually targeting the most notorious leaders of these groups. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world, and who eventually destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. "In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What are the hidden meanings behind the symbols on the American dollar?.Why do Hindus use coloured rice powder to draw elaborate symbols in front of their homes, only to have these patterns destroyed every day by footprints?.Why do Masonic Temples have a black and white chequered floor covering?.Why is the eye believed to be a powerful symbol of protection by fishermen?.The latest in the popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias', this is the largest, most definitive guide to the secret and ancient knowledge of signs and symbols, some of which has been lost over thousands of years. Unlock the lost and hidden meanings of the world's ancient and modern signs and symbols with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. ![]() The biggest A-Z reference book on symbolic objects you'll ever find. ![]() ![]() ![]() The publisher’s claim of FC or full colour is not accurate: The Keep is a black and white work with gray shadowing and red blood. I’m a fan of Matt Smith and it was his name that was the deciding factor in my purchase. Horror isn’t my usual read but this felt more of a suspense thriller. ![]() Characters develop well, dialogue working what we can’t get from the graphics. It’s a great story that keeps you guessing. Since every darkness has a counterpoint of light they’re brought into the eternal conflict of good versus evil. Once there we’re introduced to an evil that wants to be free. ![]() Bad things happen and a researcher and his daughter are brought in to explain. It’s World War Two and the German Army takes up residence in a keep that has no history. The overall story, pacing, character development are all well done: not being a regular “comic” writer had no ill effect on Wilson’s work. He wrote the novel and came back to the material to write this comic adaptation. Paul Wilson slams it in his introduction. Luckily I didn’t remember anything about the movie since F. Paul Wilson adapts his own story in this 2011 edition with a new cover by Matthew Dow Smith! Now you can re-live the tale as it was meant to be told (we didn’t mention the 1980s movie directly, but…) as author F. But on the eve of WWII, German soldiers move in and awaken something - something hungry - something as merciless as the SS einsatzkommandos accompanying them. The keep had stood empty in the Transylvanian Alps for 500 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kress has a gift for focusing on the familiar and the personal, even in the most alien settings. Kress’s strongest work focuses on the razor-sharp edges of science ethics and family dynamics, as in “Pathways,” “Dancing on Air,” “Margin of Error,” and the phenomenal “Beggars in Spain,” still powerful and visionary nearly 25 years after its original publication. Religious belief drives the spiritual crisis of the far-future “My Mother, Dancing” and questions a creator’s motives in “Unto the Daughters.” Obsession sharpens the conflicts of “End Game,” “Someone to Watch over Me,” and the odd romantic triangle that arises during a research mission to the center of the galaxy in “Shiva in Shadow.” “The Flowers of Aulit Prison” and “The Kindness of Strangers” highlight provocative alien perspectives. In “And Wild for to Hold,” for example, a time travel experiment spirals out of control when scientists from the future grab a determined Anne Boleyn. Kress, a self-professed “science groupie,” takes standard SF ideas in unique directions. The much-lauded talents of SF and fantasy writer Kress ( Yesterday’s Kin) are finely showcased in this sparkling and thoughtful collection of 21 short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.Ĭasting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. ![]() From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”-Los Angeles Times A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis has a unique understanding of myth, which affects the way that he writes Till We Have Faces. As a consequence of her desire to be god, Orual seeks to dominate and possess the people in her life. Orual must face the reality of who she truly is before she can understand the gods because she is projecting her own character onto them. In Till We Have Faces, Orual’s struggle to understand the gods is linked to her struggle against them. Several of the characters in the novel construct different narratives about the nature of humanity, the gods, and the world around them as a result of the mysteriousness of the gods. In his novel, Lewis shifts the focus of the myth to the human struggle to understand the divine by making Cupid’s palace invisible to Orual and the other mortals. Lewis retells Apuleius’s myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Orual, Psyche’s older sister, who narrates the story. Lewis uses myth to illuminate the struggle to comprehend the divine and the universal human desire to be god. ![]() Nevertheless, myths can be obscure or confusing because the truths they express transcend human reason. In “Till We Have Faces,” myth’s ability to convey truth is invaluable because of the human inability to comprehend the divine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, this slow-burning and gripping story is told from the perspective of Nathan Bright, a 42-year-old divorcee and the eldest of three sons who works the land in outback Queensland. This novel does not feature policeman Aaron Falk, the investigator from Harper’s two previous books. And then, at last, the stockman finally had company, as the earth turned and the shadow moved on alone, and the man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. ![]() The circle in the dust fell just short of one full revolution. The temperature the past few days had hit forty-five degrees at the afternoon peak. A work shirt, unbuttoned and partially removed. It was the flash of blue material against the red ground that would catch his eye. The ending is also a satisfying one, similar to a gift tied up with a neat little bow. You get the sense that she is like an astute calligrapher because all the “I’s” are dotted and the “T’s” crossed. In her third novel, The Lost Man, Harper continues her masterful storytelling. Jane Harper created a literary storm with the release of her debut thriller, The Dry. ![]() ![]() I don't quite feel the intimacy between Jenny and her group of friends, and not one character really sticks out to me other than our main characters Jenny and the shopkeeper Julian. In comparison to The Secret Circle trilogy and The Vampire Diaries, I feel Forbidden Game lacks the strong rapport between characters usually prevalent in Smith's novels. ![]() Smith can enfold you into a completely make-believe world and your imagination buys every minute of it. The Forbidden Game trilogy encompasses what every other novel by Smith has in terms of irresistable teenage romance, intrigue, and a touch of horror. ![]() Later that night when Jenny and her friends play the creepy board game, all of them are transported into an alternate world where everybody's worst nightmares will come true. When she ventures into a magical and mysterious game shop to purchase a board game for her boyfriend's birthday party, she is unexplainably attracted to Julian, the shopkeeper. Jenny is a beautiful, blond, blue-eyed teenager who always manages to see the good in people. The Hunter is the first book in the Forbidden Game trilogy, following with The Chase and ending with The Kill. ![]() ![]() Smith 's fourth series originally released in 1994 but recently re-packaged, as Smith's other series have massively increased in popularity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this study two scholars with considerable experience of teaching classical drama in performance consider this problem of the acting-area in close relation to major scenes from two Greek tragedies, and suggest some general conclusions. For some years past there has been a welcome change of emphasis towards the consideration of staging in books published on Greek tragedy and yet with that change also a curious failure to be explicit about the central problem connected with all stagecraft, namely that of the acting-area. ![]() ![]() Edward eventually became president of Mountain View Bible College and recently established a coalition of colleges that became Rocky Mountain Bible College.ĭuring her earliest years, Janette sensed the desire to write. After graduating from Mountain View Bible College in Canada where she met her husband, Edward, they pastored churches in Canada and the U.S., and they raised their family of four children, including twin boys, in both countries. Janette was born during the depression years to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife, and she remembers her childhood as full of love and laughter and family love. ![]() She also writes engaging children's stories and inspiring gift books that warm the heart. With over 23 million in sales, her historical novels portray the lives of early North American settlers from many walks of life and geographical settings. Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best-real life, honest love, and lasting values. ![]() |