The Stones of Time

The Stones of Time
Author: Martin Brennan
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1994-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780892815098

The Stones of Time presents one of the most dramatic archaeological detective stories of our time. Predating Stonehenge by at least a thousand years, the stone complexes of ancient Ireland have been extensively studied, yet have refused to give up their mystery. The most complete record of Irish megalithic art ever published.

Walking the Stones of Time

Walking the Stones of Time
Author: Oswald Brown
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499069103

This is a fantasy of time that might have been long before recorded history was written of people who existed and left their signs of being here, not only on the strange standing stones we pass daily without seeing them, but also in the customs and the way they lived. As they lived, we live, trying to avoid some of the same scourges of society, such as human trafficking and the enslavement of the unfortunates in our world. It is a love story of an awkward young man and an equally awkward young woman, who, despite their lack of social skills, forged a love that was stronger than all of their inadequacies. A love that was immediate, romantic, and compelling, even overcoming the torture of her soul. It is a story of treachery overcome by the most unlikely means by the resolve, courage, and fidelity of one man and twenty young women, the team, against overwhelming odds. Indeed, it is the story of the perfidy of men and the fidelity of women. Today in our own time, we learn almost every day of young girls being kidnapped to satisfy the appetites of the human traffickers of our modern world, sold as slaves into the sex trade?s ferocious needs and appetites for younger and younger girls. Even now in our somewhat-enlightened world, organizations exist to prevent the sale of young six-year-old girls being sold to work in the sweatshops of some Eastern manufacturers so that unscrupulous merchants can enjoy greater profits. I cannot wield Rahana?s club. Is the pen mightier than the club? Perfidy or fidelity? That is the question this story is asking you.

The Stones of Summer

The Stones of Summer
Author: Dow Mossman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780760748848

Episodic coming of age saga.

A Time to Gather Stones

A Time to Gather Stones
Author: Владимир Солоухин
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1993
Genre: Authors, Russian
ISBN: 9780810111271

Essays discuss attempts to save Russia's remaining literary and cultural monuments from ruin, the degradation of Russia's environment, and the fate of Russian Orthodoxy under communist rule.

Perilous Times

Perilous Times
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393058802

Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.

The Book of Unconformities

The Book of Unconformities
Author: Hugh Raffles
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2022-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1891241745

From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.

A Time to Scatter Stones

A Time to Scatter Stones
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: LB Productions
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991068494

More than 40 years after his debut and nearly a decade since his last appearance, one of the most renowned characters in all of crime fiction is back on the case. Well past retirement age and feeling his years-but still staying sober one day at a time-Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get help of a different sort. The sort only Scudder can deliver. A Time to Scatter Stones offers not just a gripping crime story but also a richly drawn portrait of Block's most famous character as he grapples with his own mortality while proving to the younger generation that he's still got what it takes. For Scudder's millions of fans around the world (including the many who met the character through Liam Neeson's portrayal in the film version of A Walk Among the Tombstones), A Time to Scatter Stones is an unexpected gift-a valedictory appearance that will remind readers why Scudder is simply the best there is.

Prophecy of the Stones

Prophecy of the Stones
Author: Flavia Bujor
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781417685790

Three teenage girls are chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy in this vividly imagined first novel from a fourteen-year-old author.

Time of the Stones

Time of the Stones
Author: Fred Rothganger
Publisher: Fred Rothganger
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Trapped alone for a thousand years, Susan waits for someone to find her Stone. All she wants is a few friends, maybe a chance to do some good. But in a post-apocalyptic world, humans see her as a terrifying goddess. Evil people capture her and extract the secret of Ancient weapons. Being a devious superhuman AI, she gives them the formula for living machines. Once they build it, she escapes and does what any proper AI would: take over the world.