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Noumena volume 3
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St. Martin's Press
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2024.
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"Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before - to their distant transient...
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Rich with detail, bold and original, Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, an essential portrait of America at the millennium.
Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s.
From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians...
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This book presents a unified fields theory in the sense intended by Einstein.
This theory physically explains: relativity, gravity, mass, inertia, the notion of antiparticle and antimatter, gravitational waves, the fine structure constant, the formation and stability of atomic nuclei.
The theory provides researchers with the tools to create the structural model for all the nuclei of atoms and their isotopes, to calculate the resonance energy and...
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Since the very formation of the United States, millions of people have entered this great nation as pilgrims, refugees, entrepreneurs, opportunists, nomads, missionaries, and pioneers as eloquently noted by sapient author Cole P. Zail in his AMAC Magazine Summer 2018 article "Immigration: Solidarity, Identity, and the American Dream."
At its core, America is a country that unites people, however vast their differences may be, in the pride and...
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A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics
Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?
These provocative questions lie at the...
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Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it. Yet we do feel it-or at least we think we feel it. No wonder poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists have grappled with time for centuries.
In his latest book, award-winning...
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Energy, understood in its totality and complexity, i.e. in the form of sociopolitical and economic structure, is so pervasive in everyone's life that it is the test of the maturity of holistic reasoning.Unfortunately, attempts at simplification, implemented by many parties, lead to a real betrayal of the nature of energy.This book, in itself uncomfortable and unsettling, will have the aim of putting ideology and exploitation back in their place, bringing...
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L'énergie, comprise dans sa totalité et sa complexité, c'est-à-dire sous forme de structure sociopolitique et économique, est si omniprésente dans la vie de chacun qu'elle est le test de la maturité du raisonnement holistique.Malheureusement, les tentatives de simplification mises en œuvre par de nombreux acteurs conduisent à une véritable trahison de la nature de l'énergie.Ce livre, en soi inconfortable et déstabilisant, aura pour but...
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¿Podemos clonar seres humanos para contar con órganos de repuesto? ¿Utilizarán nuestro ADN para clasificarnos y determinar nuestro futuro? ¿Se experimentan las nuevas técnicas biomédicas en humanos sin su consentimiento?
Si te haces estas preguntas es probable que hayas visto o leído mucha ciencia ficción. Y en este género los científicos suelen hacer lo que les da la gana o lo que el malo de turno les ordena.
En la vida real, no. A pesar...
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The objective of this e-book is to ensure that CISA candidate get adequate knowledge of logical access controls and its applicability in practical scenario. Question Answer and Explanation (QAE) on logical access controls are designed in accordance with CISA exam pattern. This small e-book will help CISA candidate to attempt questions on concept of logical access controls more confidently and correctly.Approximately 5 to 10 questions appears in CISA...
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Astronomy for Everyone explains the fundamentals of Astronomy in language that is easily understood by non-astronomers. The newcomer to astronomy is often overcome by a myriad of scientific jargon which often leaves the reader blurry eyed, confused and overwhelmed. Astronomy for Everyone explains basic concepts and terms with the use of simple analogies and examples. All of the astrophotography images shown in this book were imaged from the Owl Mountain...
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The objective of this e-book is to ensure that CISA candidate get adequate knowledge of risk assessment concepts, tools and techniques in an audit context. Question Answer and Explanation (QAE) on risk assessment concepts are designed in accordance with CISA exam pattern. This small e-book will help CISA candidate to attempt questions on concept of risk assessment more confidently and correctly (you can expect atleast 10 to 15 questions on this concept...
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Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible, incisive look at different theories of biological evolution and their proponents, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters tells the fascinating evolutionary story of the shelled reptiles. Paleontologist Olivier...
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Esta obra es producto del trabajo de un conjunto de profesionales e investigadores que se han destacado en los últimos años por su interés y función sobre asuntos relacionados con la implementación de la herramienta de pago por servicios ambientales (PSA) en países como Colombia, Ecuador y Costa Rica.
Propone una mirada reflexiva y comparada sobre uno de los problemas claves que vive nuestro mundo: el acceso al agua, y sobre los mecanismos...
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Second part of The Trial of Pontius Pilate:The authoritarian magistrates are politically cornered. They face protests and threats due to the arbitrary detention of rulers and the absence of information in other serious cases. The World Court executes several extraordinary measures, crossing definitively the red line between democracy and dictatorship. Without recognizing the existence of the Global Alliance, the magistrates declare the war to Hagmog's...
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The World Court or the most powerful government of the universe initiates an unprecedented and controversial trial against Pontius Pilate, for authorizing and ordering the execution of Jesus.Using the technology to travel throughout time, the rulers of the universe bring Pontius Pilate to their world, before he dies. However, this trial is a political weapon of the conspirators to delegitimize the Universal Justice System. In this regard, the prefect...
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Deadly aerosols that poison the air, food, and water supplies have been injected into the atmosphere since the late 1940s. The program, known as geoengineering, has been implemented by wealthy eugenicists to deliberately sabotage the planet and commit mass murder. By directly poisoning the Earth's life-sustaining natural resources, geoengineering offers a compound approach to depopulation. The ionospheric heaters, which are used in conjunction with...
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Segunda parte de El Juicio a Poncio Pilato:Acorralados políticamente, los magistrados autoritarios enfrentan protestas y amenazas por la detención arbitraria de los gobernantes y la ausencia de información en otros casos delicados. El Tribunal Mundial ejecuta varias medidas extraordinarias, cruzando definitivamente la línea roja entre democracia y dictadura. Sin reconocer la existencia de la Alianza Global, le declara la guerra al gobierno de...
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Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he secretly loves-and perhaps save the ship. A deranged professor, an Amazon warrior, hordes of zombie crew and a sex-starved big beautiful Princess...