The Pandora Deception

The Pandora Deception
Author: David Bruns
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250200342

With The Pandora Deception, Bruns and Olson return with a captivating portrayal of modern day combat that "compares with the best of the timeless classics by Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, and Stephen Coonts." (Mark Greaney) To effectively combat the rise of global terrorism, the U.S. military must now rely on more than traditional weapons and tactics. Don Riley of the U.S. Cyber Command is given charge of a brand new effort: a new team in the CIA Operations Directorate called Emerging Threats. To establish this team he recruits three talented recent commissioned naval officers—Janet Everett, Michael Goodwin, and Andrea Ramirez—and together they uncover a new terrorist group. The group is going under the name of the Mahdi, a messiah figure of Islamic mythology, and is operating in the geopolitical tinderbox that is the Nile River basin. But the Mahdi is no ordinary terrorist group. Their stock in trade is not the usual suicide bombings and surprise attacks. In fact, the Mahdi has created and is about to release the worst kind of weapon: a hugely destructive bioweapon, known as Pandora, with a devastating fatality rate. And it will take all the resources that the U.S. can bring to bear—intelligence assets, cyber warfare and military assaults—to not only find out who is really behind the Mahdi, but to stop them before they successfully destroy the balance of power in the Middle East.

Omega's Deception

Omega's Deception
Author: Lillian Sable
Publisher: Dark Prism Media
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She never wanted to be Omega. Ianthe keeps her freedom because her dynamic is a carefully guarded secret. Omegas are rare and highly prized, but they have no rights. An Omega is the property of whatever Alpha is strong enough to claim her. Ianthe toils in the slums, pretending to be Beta, so she can hide from a world that wants to make her a pet in a gilded cage. Legion, the Alpha and brutal cartel boss, believes her to be Beta. When he discovers her deception, nothing will stop him from claiming her. Omega's Deception is the first in a series which is now complete, featuring an over the top Alpha hero in a dystopian world. This book is for anyone who likes their romance with power exchange and a splash of darkness, especially fans of Addison Cain, Zoe Blake and Loki Renard.

Omegas of Pandora

Omegas of Pandora
Author: Lillian Sable
Publisher: Dark Prism Media
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She never wanted to be Omega. Ianthe keeps her freedom because her dynamic is a carefully guarded secret. Omegas are rare and highly prized, but they have no rights. An Omega is the property of whatever Alpha is strong enough to claim her. Ianthe toils in the slums, pretending to be Beta, so she can hide from a world that wants to make her a pet in a gilded cage. Legion, the Alpha and brutal cartel boss, believes her to be Beta. When he discovers her deception, nothing will stop him from claiming her. But they will both be put to the test by the corruption that plagues the city of Pandora. Legion wants to keep her in a gilded cage like a favored pet, but Ianthe craves freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. He is the only one who can protect her body, but his obsession threatens to consume her soul. OMEGAS OF PANDORA, VOLUME ONE is a 107,000 word novel featuring an over-the-top Alpha in a dystopian world and enough heat to burn. It has previously been published as a series of novellas, but can be read as a STANDALONE and ends with a happily ever after. Contains the following previously published novellas: Omega's Deception, Omega's Capture and Omega's Binding

Pandora Jones: Deception

Pandora Jones: Deception
Author: Barry Jonsberg
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743435525

It was difficult to know when nightmares ended and the waking world began. Pan is still struggling to distinguish between her dreams and reality. When she wakes in the Infirmary her mind replays the sight of Nate running along the shoreline and the way his body froze and then flopped after he was shot. But her memories hold more questions than answers and she doesn't know who to trust. When she forms an unlikely alliance with Jen to try to make sense of everyone's haunting similar memories and the conflicting information about The School, she finds herself with unexpected enemies. Pan and Jen are determined to seek the truth - no matter what rules they must break or how terrible the danger they face. But can they even trust each other? Intuition. Secrets. Truth. Courage. Action. Survival.

Aristotle on the Matter of Form

Aristotle on the Matter of Form
Author: Adriel M. Trott
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Feminist theory
ISBN: 1474455255

Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle's work on a craft model, which implies that matter has no power of its own. Instead, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques. She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution - and the female - on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.

Pandora Jones: Admission

Pandora Jones: Admission
Author: Barry Jonsberg
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1743435517

Pandora Jones wakes in an infirmary - her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her family has succumbed to a plague pandemic which almost wiped out humanity. Pan is one of the survivors who have been admitted to The School - a quarantined, heavily guarded survival-skills facility - to recover their strength, hone their skills and prepare for whatever comes next. Pandora's skill is intuition, but how useful will it be outside the secure walls of The School? And what if it leads her to question where the truth lies. Plague. Pandemic. Intuition. Secrets. Truth. Courage. Action. Survival.

Pandora's Senses

Pandora's Senses
Author: Vered Lev Kenaan
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0299224139

The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the Earth’s desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, truth and lie. Speaking in multiplicity, Pandora emerges as the first sign of female complexity. In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman. She argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora’s image once we recognize that Pandora embodies the very idea of the ancient literary text. Locating the myth of the first woman right at the heart of feminist interrogation of gender and textuality, Pandora’s Senses moves beyond a feminist critique of masculine hegemony by challenging the reading of Pandora as a one-dimensional embodiment of the misogynist vision of the feminine. Uncovering Pandora as a textual principle operating outside of the feminine, Lev Kenaan shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of such central genres as the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel. Pandora’s Senses innovates our understanding of gender as a critical lens through which to view ancient literature.

Omega's Binding

Omega's Binding
Author: Lillian Sable
Publisher: Dark Prism Media
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She never wanted to be Omega. With her mate arrested, Ianthe faces an uncertain fate. Even though she never wanted to be bonded, it isn't just herself that she has to think about now. She is carrying Legion's child and will take all of her strength to save them all. Omega's Binding is the final chapter of Ianthe and Legion's story. This series features an over the top Alpha hero in a dystopian world. This book is for anyone who likes their romance with power exchange and a splash of darkness, especially fans of Addison Cain, Zoe Blake and Loki Renard.

Omega's Capture

Omega's Capture
Author: Lillian Sable
Publisher: Dark Prism Media
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She never wanted to be Omega. Ianthe is trapped in the clutches of the Alpha who claimed her against her will. She wants to fight him, even as every cell in her body has come to crave his touch. But there is more to Legion than meets the eye and Ianthe will suffer before she learns all of his secrets. Omega's Capture is the second in a series which immediately follows the events of Omega's Deception (Omega's of Pandora, Book One), This series features an over the top Alpha hero in a dystopian world. This book is for anyone who likes their romance with power exchange and a splash of darkness, especially fans of Addison Cain, Zoe Blake and Loki Renard.

Monuments and Maidens

Monuments and Maidens
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520227330

A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.