Aliens Beyond Paradise
Author: Christopher Rey Peréz
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ISBN-13: 9781732708662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack Clayton Swearengen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1597528420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Technology is shaping our culture and controlling our lives -- for better or for worse. Often, technology's benefits far outweigh its negative impacts, and technological advances can seem boundless. But the scientificÐtechnological worldview tends to override other value systems. Indeed, this technological way of thinking has influenced many contemporary ideas, beliefs, values, habits, and ways of communicating. Furthermore, in addition to technology's well-known environmental impacts, social, aesthetic, and spiritual consequences are now emerging. How can we balance positive physical effects of technology with other ambiguous or negative impacts? Some of the decisions we face have no precedent from which to draw wisdom. For this reason, the resources of Scripture and the Christian tradition must be brought to bear on technological questions: How is technology used and abused today? Does technological progress lead to human progress? How can Scripture help us, both individually and collectively, to manage technology's impact in proactive ways? Swearengen uncovers a comprehensive scriptural mandate for managing technology. On his way to a theology of technology, he evaluates which advances are moving society in directions consistent with God's purposes. 'Beyond Paradise: Technology and the Kingdom of God' aims to provide practical means for assessing technology's influence and for steering technology and its effects toward biblical ends.
Author: André Soares
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-04-19
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1604734582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramon Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM's biggest box office attractions, starring in now-classic films, including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the original version of Ben-Hur. He shared the screen with the era's top leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, and he became Rudolph Valentino's main rival in the “Latin Lover” category. Yet, despite his considerable professional accomplishments, Novarro's enduring hold on fame stems from his tragic death—his bloodied corpse was found in his house on Halloween 1968 in what has become one of Hollywood's most infamous scandals. A lifelong bachelor, Novarro carefully cultivated his image as a man deeply devoted to his family and to Catholicism. His murder shattered that persona. News reports revealed that the dashing screen hero had not only been gay, but he was dead at the hands of two young, male hustlers. Since then, details of his murder have achieved near mythic proportions, obscuring Novarro's professional legacy. Beyond Paradise presents a full picture of the man who made motion picture history. Including original interviews with Novarro's surviving friends, family, coworkers, and the two men convicted of his murder, this biography provides unique insights into an early Hollywood star—a man whose heart was forever in conflict with his image and whose myth continues to fascinate today.
Author: Rick Bennette
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781482663013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When scientists from another planet intercept signals form our 1950's TV shows, they send two astronauts to Earth to observe the behavior of human life. When they land in Jupiter, Florida after learning our language from television shows, they believe we all live like the characters on those old shows. A light hearted sci-fi adventure for kids and adults of all ages.
Author: Jane Hertenstein
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.
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Publisher: Black Cat Publishing of Key West
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780739203453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: T.J. Brandow
Publisher: MM Books
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Total Pages: 173
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Maggie Wallace was tired of her life, and her two-timing boyfriend Fred. But although she'd been thinking about an upgrade, the last person she'd expected to find was a really hot starship captain who was just visiting Earth on a vacation; and she sure hadn't planned on plowing right into the guy with her semi truck. Lobo refused to go to a hospital, and consequently Maggie was forced to patch the guy up on her own. And as fate would have it, she just happened to mix some of his blood with her own, forming a bond that left the pair so hot and bothered they just had to seal the deal. Will Maggie leaving the planet with Lobo be the change she was looking for?
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Gathers mystical poetry by the thirteenth century Sufi saint, and offers brief background notes on the poet and his work."--Amazon.com viewed April 1, 2022.
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0765332612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Cassie [Iverson], eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014--but it's not our United States and it's not our 2014. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades--back to the dawn of radio communications--human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity"--
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2002-02-20
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sardar (postcolonial studies, City U., UK) and Cubitt (screen and media, U. of Waikato, New Zealand) present nine pieces of cultural criticism that explore the meanings projected and assimilated by science fiction movies and television in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. Concerned with the construction of the "other" in the broadest philosophical sense (comprising political, cultural, ethnic, and gendered "others", as well as the "other" of the natural world), the essays explore meaning in Delicatessen, Star Trek, Japanimation, Space: Above and Beyond, The Matrix, and Independence Day, among others. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR