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"The Balance of The Heart, Soul & Mind" reflects the humanness of us all, and the Divine Redemption, which frees us from ourselves.
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"The Stone Men are coming "The people of Lystmar learn to fear these words as their lands are invaded by brutal creatures. The Stone Men rampage across the countryside, leaving death and broken lives behind them. As the Kingdom fights for its survival, one young man finds himself thrust into a quest to find and destroy the source of this blood thirsty evil.
Canceled: The Story of America's Least Wanted
Michael D. Britton
Intelligent Life Books
2011
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What will reality TV do next? Kaylie Adams is about to find out, as she joins FBC's new hit reality TV show: Canceled. A sort of "Abortion Idol," the American viewing audience votes weekly: keep the baby, or terminate. When FBC studio executive Jake Granville learns he's the father - and realizes he wants to be a dad - TV's hottest new show suddenly gets very personal. But a contract is a contract.In a nation obsessed with turning the deeply private into a public freak show, opportunistic network executives push Kaylie and Jake - and America's nerve - to the limit.America may choose the fate of Kaylie's unborn baby, but only you can decide if you have the audacity to read this groundbreaking novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "Bitingly clever ... darkly brilliant."
John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: How the Sci-Fi Classic Flopped at the Box Office But Continues to Inspire Fans and Filmmakers
Michael D. Sellers
Universal Media
2012
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The Unravelling is a gripping historical fiction set in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the late 1970s and early 1980s, portraying the military, political, and tribal upheavals that led to the country's collapse as its disenfranchised black population fought to break free from colonial rule.At its heart are two young men, Nick and Sipho, who share a deep love for their homeland and its endangered elephant and rhino herds. Both served with distinction in the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) during the Bush War and became steadfast brothers-in-arms. After demobilisation, Nick goes to the UK to study, where he falls in love with Rachel Dixon, the daughter of a contentious English businessman. Meanwhile, Sipho, a proud Ndebele patriot, joins the new Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA). Despite serving with honour, he faces shameful tribal discrimination.Johannes du Toit, a ruthless deserter from the Rhodesian Light Infantry, flees in 1978 when his poaching activities are exposed but returns to Zimbabwe in 1981 to resume his crimes.The lives of these four characters converge at Mhuka Ranch in 1981. A deadly encounter leaves three people dead. While the truth of that day remains hidden from the public, it is revealed to the reader in this powerful and suspenseful tale of loyalty, betrayal, and survival.
Experience the dramatic shift from Ian Smith's Rhodesia to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe in this gripping sequel to The Unravelling. Set between 1980 and 1986, A Moment of Madness delves into the profound impact of Mugabe's consolidation of power, focusing on the devastating Gukurahundi campaign and the rise of a brutal one-party dictatorship.The novel continues the story of Nick and Rachel, familiar characters from the first book. Living in the UK, engaged in September 1982, and married in 1984, their love story unfolds amidst political chaos. As they return to Zimbabwe for their honeymoon, they face personal challenges and the broader implications of Mugabe's ruthless regime.In the UK, Nick witnesses the cold-blooded tactics of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) when Jonathan Khumalo, a young lawyer with alleged royal Ndebele ties, is eliminated as a perceived threat to Mugabe's ambitions. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, Sipho Pukelo, Nick's comrade-in-arms, faces similar violence when a 5th Brigade assault squad, led by Major Tawanda Nyati, raids his village, killing his parents. Later, Nyati himself becomes a liability and is murdered by the CIO.Back in the UK, Nick joins Rare Quest Imports Pty Ltd (RQI), owned by his father-in-law. His expertise proves crucial in covert arms deals with South Africa, aimed at countering guerrilla movements and communist factions, providing him with deeper insights into the complex world of Cold War geopolitics.As Nick uncovers disheartening revelations about the British government's stance on Zimbabwe, he faces a profound personal dilemma. With Rachel's pregnancy adding new dimensions to his life, Nick must balance his commitment to his family in the UK with his desire to help Zimbabwe amidst increasing repression.A Moment of Madness vividly portrays the Gukurahundi campaign and Mugabe's quest for absolute power, offering a powerful exploration of this tumultuous period in Zimbabwe's history. Dive into a tale of love, conflict, and political intrigue with lasting impact.
This important volume focuses on the contribution of excavated material to the interpretation of biblical texts. Here, both practicing archaelogists and biblical scholars who have been active in fieldwork demonstrate that archaeological data and biblical accounts are complementary in the study of ancient Israel, early Judaism, and Christianity. Thus scriptural and archaeological finds are illuminated by consideration of both.
This book describes the constitutional law of foreign affairs, derived from the historical understanding of the Constitution's text. It examines timeless and recurring foreign affairs controversies--such as the role of the president and Congress, the power to enter armed conflict, and the power to make and break treaties--and shows how the words, structure, and context of the Constitution can resolve pivotal court cases and leading modern disputes. The book provides a counterpoint to much conventional discussion of constitutional foreign affairs law, which tends to assume that the Constitution's text and history cannot give much guidance, and which rests many of its arguments upon modern practice and policy considerations. Using a close focus on the text and a wide array of historical sources, Michael Ramsey argues that the Constitution's original design gives the president substantial independent powers in foreign affairs. But, contrary to what many presidents and presidential advisors contend, these powers are balanced by the independent powers given to Congress, the Senate, the states, and the courts. The Constitution, Ramsey concludes, does not make any branch of government the ultimate decision maker in foreign affairs, but rather divides authority among multiple independent power centers.
How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process.In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their church’s own traditions—rather than Enlightenment liberalism—to secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life.Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the pope’s authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church–state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649.The critical role of Catholics in establishing American church–state separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. Church–state separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.
A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) reported its first results two years later with a set of brilliant observations that added focus, detail, and insight to our formerly fuzzy view of the cosmos. For more than a year, the WMAP satellite hovered in the cold of deep space, a million miles from Earth, in an effort to determine whether the science of cosmology--the study of the origin and evolution of the universe--has been on the right track for the past two decades. What WMAP was looking for was a barely perceptible pattern of hot and cold spots in the faint whisper of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang, the event that almost 14 billion years ago gave birth to all of space, time, matter, and energy. The pattern encoded in those microwaves holds the answers to some of the great unanswered questions of cosmology: What is the universe made of? What is its geometry? How much of it consists of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that continue to baffle astronomers? How fast is it expanding? And did it undergo a period of inflationary hyper-expansion at the very beginning? WMAP has now given definitive answers to these mysteries. On February 11, 2003, the team of researchers went public with the results. Just some of their extraordinary findings: The universe is 13.7 billion years old. The first stars--turned on--when the universe was only 200 million years old, five times earlier than anyone had thought. It is now certain that a mysterious dark energy dominates the universe. Michael Lemonick, who had exclusive access to the researchers as WMAP gathered its data, here tells the full story of WMAP and its surprising revelations. This book is both a personal and a scientific tale of discovery. In its pages, readers will come to know the science of cosmology and the people who, seventy-five years after we first learned that the universe is expanding, deciphered some of its deepest mysteries in the patterns of its oldest light.
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb, they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II. Five Days in August explores these and countless other legacies of the atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they have spawned.
Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting. In this important book, Michael Minta demonstrates that minority lawmakers provide qualitatively better representation of black and Latino interests than their white counterparts. They are more likely to intervene in decision making by federal agencies by testifying in support of minority interests at congressional oversight hearings. Minority legislators write more letters urging agency officials to enforce civil rights policies, and spend significant time and effort advocating for solutions to problems that affect all racial and ethnic groups, such as poverty, inadequate health care, fair housing, and community development. In Oversight, Minta argues that minority members of Congress act on behalf of broad minority interests--inside and outside their districts--because of a shared bond of experience and a sense of linked fate. He shows how the presence of black and Latino legislators in the committee room increases the chances that minority perspectives and concerns will be addressed in committee deliberations, and also how minority lawmakers are effective at countering negative stereotypes about minorities in policy debates on issues like affirmative action and affordable housing.