The Golden Chrysalis

The Golden Chrysalis
Author: Stan McMurtry
Publisher: Pressman House Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1915657121

Eddie Wheatley is a self-described ‘meek and mild’ man in his late thirties, who lives in the East End with his overbearing wife, Miriam and his dog, Rufus. He works in a dead-end job for Miriam’s tyrannical father and his marriage is on the rocks. The only time Eddie feels alive is when he takes Rufus for walks in the early morning hours, his only chance to escape from Miriam and the suffocating atmosphere at home. But on one such walk, Eddie Wheatley stumbles across something that will change his life for ever. He sees some men secretively unloading a truck in an alleyway where he has taken cover against the rain. Little does Eddie know that what he witnessed there will turn his life upside down; it will put him and those he cares for in mortal danger and will make him question his very existence and what he believes to be right.

Golden Chrysalis

Golden Chrysalis
Author: Mary Stewart Anthony
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780996885829

Mary Stewart Anthony, author of Love Songof a Flower Child, a memoir that received a fivestar review from San Francisco Book Review,presents her first collection of poetry writtenover a period of some twenty-five years. Herpoems showcase the landscape of a mysticalodyssey in which she connects penetratingobservations of the natural world with portentsof the spiritual realm. She digs deep to findthe greater purpose and meaning of humanexistence and champions the preservationof the individual soul against the shallowmechanisms of Modernity.

Battle God Emperor

Battle God Emperor
Author: Feng ShiSanLang
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636663419

The invincible Heaven Fighting Saint was betrayed by his celestial wife and brothers. He was reborn in his youth and swore to become the War God Emperor in this world. He would crush all strong enemies and peerless beauties and beat them up! A hot-blooded battle with no end in sight! In the vast and boundless Pangu Continent, large and small sects, ancient sacred lands, ancient aristocratic clans, and ten thousand different dynasties competed against each other; in the many secular dynasties, the imperial power was supreme, ruling over ten thousand miles. Was it to become an ant or an ordinary spirit, or to condense battle qi to become a warrior, to awaken the three types of battle spirits, to experience hundreds of battles to comprehend the four types of battle force, to become a peerless expert, to become a Holy Land of War, to shatter the void, and to compete with the Heavens! This was a world of warriors, cultivating battle qi, transforming the soul of war, condensing battle force, and rising above all worlds!

Golden Cocoon

Golden Cocoon
Author: Virginia K. Lindstrom
Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An autobiographical experience of two elderly people who firmly believed that a Continuing Care Retirement Community was the answer to growing old with dignity.

How Insects Work

How Insects Work
Author: Marianne Taylor
Publisher: The Experiment
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1615196498

The extraordinary inner-workings of the world’s amazing, adaptable insects A tiny textbook to learn on your own How Insects Work goes beyond the typical field guide to show us not only what insects look like but why. Arguably the most successful land animals—still going strong after five mass extinctions—insects have evolved a spectacular array of real-life superpowers to help them thrive in virtually every environment: Bumblebees’ wingbeats leave a faint electrical signal at each flower they visit to show that the nectar’s already been taken (see page 57), and houseflies defy gravity with tiny leg hairs that stick to the smoothest wall or ceiling (see page 69). In this in-depth, photo-filled handbook, discover the ways insects are even more astounding than you know—inside and out: Evolution Exoskeleton and Body Segments Senses Circulation Digestion Respiration Reproduction Metamorphosis Movement And much, much more!

Gestation

Gestation
Author: John Gold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789925562053

To face Death itself, to hide from deadly guards, to conduct dark rituals and to use forbidden death magic? Being sent to Hell is definitely not what 12-year-old Anji would have ever expected from a government orphanage program.

Riverlands of the Anthropocene

Riverlands of the Anthropocene
Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351171100

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global connections with environments everywhere. The book considers human becomings with urban waterways to address some of the major conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene, through stories of trauma and healing, environmental activism, and encounters with the living beings that inhabit waterways. Its unique contribution is to bring together Australian Aboriginal knowledges with contemporary western, new materialist, posthuman and Deleuzean philosophies, foregrounding how visual, creative and artistic forms can assist us in thinking beyond the constraints of western thought to enable other modes of being and knowing the world for an unpredictable future. Riverlands of the Anthropocene will be of particular interest to those studying the Anthropocene through the lenses of environmental humanities, environmental education, philosophy, ecofeminism and cultural studies.