The Io Betrayal

Author : Justin Petrillo
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595279147
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Io Betrayal written by Justin Petrillo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lunar landing of 1969 was a fake. This falsehood was kept secret until after the Global Religious Conflict of the 21st century. The Moon became New Earth, a planet from where scientists could visit the most powerful planet in the galaxy, Jupiter. But its visit was not taken well. Jupiter and its ruler, the Galaxy-Master, uses New Earth's curiosity to create the ultimate betrayal of its own small moon, Io, when its own paranoia and terror culminate in a apocalyptic story of Love, War and Science.

Author : JJ Anders
Publisher : Grayton Press
ISBN 13 : 1945100451
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Betrayed written by JJ Anders and published by Grayton Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the treacherous waters of adventure and love After a horrible attack on the royal family, princess Caylee is left alone to rule Genoa. Seeking any explanation of where her family has disappeared to, Caylee finds help from her family’s trusted friends. When wizard Col discovers the possibility which might find some answers, Caylee embarks on the quest and plunges headfirst into the exhilarating travels on Genoa’s vast ocean. However, she soon realizes that traveling on a ship is far more treacherous than she believed, and captain Rouen’s ship might damage more than her ego, it might just take her heart as well. Captain Bryce Rouen had always lived life to the fullest, yet he maintained a strict code of honor. A code he now is finding hard to follow. Never touch the merchandise. Faced with the royal quest, one filled with dragons, wizards and a princess, he now doubts his pathway. Discovering the mystery behind the quest is only one of his goals, the other, to seek the secrets which hide behind the witching green eyes of the royal princess.

Author : Bob Herbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429900482
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises Betrayed written by Bob Herbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning New York Times op-ed columnist probes the widening gap between American ideals and American realities, and urges us to do something about it Bob Herbert is the conscience of the op-ed page of The New York Times, and his work is characterized by a strong moral vision and a deep understanding of the human costs of political decisions. From partisan politics to popular culture, from race relations to criminal justice, few journalists bring to life so movingly the stories of ordinary people caught between the American dream and American realities. Whether it is the inherent injustice of the death penalty or the demagoguery of the war on terrorism, Herbert questions whether we are truly upholding our ideals or merely giving them lip service. In Promises Betrayed, Herbert makes the case that in recent years America has too often failed to live up to its creed of fairness and justice in the lives of working people, racial minorities, children, and others not among the powerful. He introduces us to real people facing real problems and trying to maintain their dignity along the way, and he blows the whistle on imperious public officials who think the rules of common decency do not apply to them. Herbert's tenacious reporting has resulted in the overturning of many wrongful convictions and the release of dozens of innocent people from prison. In these and so many other ways, Herbert keeps us all honest and lives up to the journalist's credo: to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Author : Paul Ortiz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520940390
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emancipation Betrayed written by Paul Ortiz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations—secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches—to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day.

Author : Claude Goldsmid Montefiore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Synoptic Gospels written by Claude Goldsmid Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Palairet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888494
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macedonia written by Michael Palairet and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 picks up the story of Macedonia from the triumph of Ottoman rule in Macedonia, and the consequent insertion of Islam into the Balkans. This led not only to protracted rivalry between Islam and Christianity, but also to the introduction of both variants of Islam, Sunni and Shia. As elsewhere, this gave rise to periodic upheavals when Shia factions tried to challenge the authority of the Sunni Ottoman State. Sunni – Shia tensions have never quite disappeared in Macedonia. Later topics include the violent but incompetent Macedonian struggle against Ottoman rule between 1878 and 1909, Macedonian involvement in the Balkan Wars and World War I, the demographic upheavals of the period, and the renewed Bulgarian insurgency against Yugoslavia between the World Wars. Macedonia’s half-hearted involvement in World War II, and the Communist insurgency in Greece in 1944–49 left a lingering legacy of fear and distrust that even today colours the attitudes of the Greeks towards their Macedonian neighbours. The book also reviews the less-than-admirable history of Mount Athos in its decadence during the modern and contemporary periods. Communist rule between 1944 and 1990, much neglected in research on Macedonia, is treated in its own chapter, which explains the imposition of Communism and its eventual abandonment in response to its utter developmental failure. The collapse of Communism also led to the fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia – a protracted and murderous affair, from which the Macedonians were lucky to escape lightly. The final chapter is devoted to the travails of the insecure new Macedonian Republic. Though the Republic traces its (alleged) origin to the ancient Macedonian kingdom, it only achieved statehood in 1991 by a historical accident. It was immediately embroiled with Greece over the question of its identity and of its very existence. Both volumes throw light on this piece of unfinished political business, and the ways in which Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria have sought to misuse their historical experience to justify their conflicting claims on the territory.

Author : Roberto Calasso
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804151342
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony written by Roberto Calasso and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.

Author : Susan Spann
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633882772
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betrayal at Iga written by Susan Spann and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro’s ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer in time to prevent a war between the ninja clans. With every suspect a trained assassin, and the evidence incriminating not only Hiro’s commander, the infamous ninja Hattori Hanzo, but also Hiro’s mother and his former lover, the detectives must struggle to find the truth in a village where deceit is a cultivated art. As tensions rise, the killer strikes again, and Hiro finds himself forced to choose between his family and his honor.

Author : Mike Magner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822571
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trust Betrayed written by Mike Magner and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Builds the case against the U.S. military looking the other way for two decades amidst allegations of mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune, which is believed to have caused illness and death among Marine families stationed there. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Tony Juniper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743475501
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spix's Macaw written by Tony Juniper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Juniper's heart-stopping inside account of the race to save a rare blue parrot, the last of its species, is a priceless addition to nature literature -- and a timely portrait of Earth's endangered wildlife. In 1897, the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that "there are so many calls on a parson's purse, that he cannot always treat himself to expensive parrots." He was hoping to purchase a Spix's Macaw, a rare parrot found in a remote area of Brazil. Today, Dutton's search would be in vain. By the turn of the century only one survivor, a lone male, existed in the wild. Spix's Macaw tells the fascinating story of a unique band of brilliant blue birds -- who talk, fall in love, and grieve -- struggling against extinction. By the second half of the twentieth century the birds had become more valuable than heroin, worth thousands of dollars on the black market. In 1990, only one was found to be living in the wild and an emergency international rescue operation was launched, calling on private collectors to come forward with their birds to mate with the last wild Spix's. In a breathtaking display of stoicism and endurance, the loneliest bird in the world had lived without a mate for fourteen years, outwitting predators and poachers. Would he take to a new companion? Like humans, Spix's Macaws can't be forced to love, but the stakes were as high as they could be: the survival of one of the world's most beautiful birds. Combining a thrilling detective story and a rich natural history book, "Spix's Macaw" tells the dramatic story of the rescue operation, and of the humans whose selfishness and greed brought a beautiful species to the brink of extinction. Tony Juniper, aleading British environmentalist, has written both a love story and an environmental parable for our times.