False Dialogue: Dan Icor Trilogy

False Dialogue: Dan Icor Trilogy
Author: Travis Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483456684

Seventeen-year-old Betsy Lane is a hardworking high school senior who waits tables at a small eatery in a picturesque town. Cheerful and honest, she is happily going about another day at work-until notorious hoodlum Duane Washington and his two friends sit in her section. As Betsy bravely attempts to rebuff Duane's unwanted advances, she has no idea that Dan Icor, a business leader with secret abilities, is watching from a distance. When Dan and Sheriff Jack West are forced to intercede in an attempt to save Betsy's innocence, their actions trigger a series of catastrophic events that include a brutal attack, an abduction, a dramatic rescue, and a killing. But just when Dan thinks the crisis has ended, he is led down a new path where he must utilize his gifted warrior talents amid a chaotic political environment where nothing is certain. False Dialogue continues the gripping tale of one man's journey as he learns to rely on his special abilities to battle hoodlums and rescue those in need.

Deception: Dan Icor TrilogyÑBook 3

Deception: Dan Icor TrilogyÑBook 3
Author: Travis Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2016-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483457125

Dan Icor is a small-town banker with special abilities who is used to controversy. Now someone is attempting to destroy him, his family, and friends. While Dan is subjected to physical, psychological, and regulatory attacks, he believes secrets with the potential to affect the outcome of the upcoming presidential election are hidden within his town. The stakes are high. The political handlers of one candidate, who they believe will transform the country into their version of Utopia, want Dan and his inner circle eliminated for the greater good-even if the entire town is annihilated in the process. Dan realizes that his only salvation is to find and reveal the secrets to a skeptical public before his ruthless adversaries carry out their plan. Despite his determination and resourcefulness, the odds are against him. Deception shares the exciting conclusion of one man's lengthy journey from bank executive to hero as he valiantly risks everything to transform the future of his country.

The Last Defender: A Novel

The Last Defender: A Novel
Author: Travis Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483465853

Soon after a population desperate for change elects a charismatic yet radical government leader, people begin vanishing without media coverage or bodies to recover. As the new socialist leader rules without compassion, steals the wealth of the country, and controls every aspect of the citizens' lives, one man decides to take action. Brent Stevens, a brilliant researcher intent on unlocking the power of the mind, lived a perfect middle-class existence before the new government robbed him of everything and attacked his only friend. Determined to help humankind, he launches a revolt against the all-powerful government. But when he is stonewalled by a powerful bureaucracy determined to institute their brutal agenda, Brent must become the country's last defender. As he bravely challenges a dark destiny, the clock ticks away as he wonders if he can save his country-and its people-from a bleak future.

Destiny Unfulfilled

Destiny Unfulfilled
Author: Jim Adam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780984352517

"Destiny Unfulfilled" is fundamentally critical of the Potter series, examining such issues as the role of a protagonist, the writer's contract with her readers, characterization, and shaggy dog resolutions.

The Cinema of Tarkovsky

The Cinema of Tarkovsky
Author: Nariman Skakov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0857721194

The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means - that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes, rather he presents it and the viewer experiences the argument. This book explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema - from Ivan's Childhood (1962) to Sacrifice (1986). Dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries and delusions are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns; they disrupt the linear progression of events and create narrative discontinuity. Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion of one of Tarkovsky's seven feature films and in each, one of these phenomena functions as a refrain. Skakov discusses the influence of the flow of and lapses in space and time on the viewer's perception of the Tarkovskian cinematic universe. He opens and closes his original and fascinating book on Tarkovsky's cinema by focusing on the phenomenon of time that is discussed extensively by the filmmaker in his main theoretical treatise Sculpting in Time, as well as in a number of interviews and public lectures.

Routledge Dictionary of Economics

Routledge Dictionary of Economics
Author: Donald Rutherford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136240241

The Routledge Dictionary of Economics, now in its third edition, provides the clearest, most authoritative definition of economic and financial terms available. The book is perfect for students and professionals interested in a broad range of disciplines including Business, Economics, Finance, and Accountancy and all additional subjects where a knowledge of these fields of essential. The dictionary has been updated to reflect the economic changes of the new Millennium including the emergence of experimental and behavioural economics, new political economy, the importance of institutions, globalization, environmental economics, financial crises and the economic emergence of China and India. It’s an international dictionary that includes succinctly explained A to Z entries and definitive explanations of the key terms, accompanied by a short bibliography and comprising supplementary online definitions. In a world where the reader is met with a barrage of conflicting and competing information, this book continues to provide a definitive guide to economics.

The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis

The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis
Author: Ilaria Ramelli
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2013-08-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004245707

The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical foundation in numerous Christian thinkers, including Syriac, and analyses its origins, meaning, and development over eight centuries, from the New Testament to Eriugena, the last patristic philosopher. Surprises await readers of this book, which results from fifteen years of research. For instance, they will discover that even Augustine, in his anti-Manichaean phase, supported the theory of universal restoration.

A Strategy for Development

A Strategy for Development
Author: Nicholas Stern
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821349809

This book contains eight speeches/lectures by Nicholas Stern during his first year as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank (2000-2001). Case studies of India, Indonesia, Pakistan and China are included. The final chapter examines the links between the investment climate for investment and growth, and poverty reduction.