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During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the POWs developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, their captors singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam’s own “dirty dozen,” and banished them to an isolated jail that would become known as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed; one would never return.
As these eleven men suffered in Hanoi, their wives at home launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the nationwide POW/MIA movement. The members of these military families banded together and showed the courage not only to endure years of doubt about the fate of their husbands and fathers, but to bravely fight for their safe return. When the survivors of Alcatraz finally came home, one veteran would go on to receive the Medal of Honor, another would become a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in the U.S. Congress.
A powerful story of survival and triumph, Alvin Townley’s will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations.
One week ago I thought I knew exactly how I was going to spend the rest of my life: looking at the gray walls of a prison cell. Figuring out how to survive the apocalypse wasn’t something I’d planned for.
Yet here I was, getting a second chance at the end of the world.
Un veterano della guerra civile americana che non invecchia mai, una casa con finestre indistruttibili, una tomba che porta inciso sulla pietra il segno dell’infinito: ce n’è abbastanza perché la CIA cominci ad avere dei sospetti e perché Clifford Simak cominci a tessere una delle sue trame più belle e suggestive. Dai boschi del Wisconsin alle frontiere della galassia, dai più umili e quotidiani personaggi ai più stupefacenti visitatori spaziali, tutto si carica di quel «senso del meraviglioso» di cui l’autorè di Mondi senza fine è uno dei pochi a conoscere il segreto.
Cities have become the most dangerous places on Earth, infested with thousands of Bane, and people must now survive in the mountains and wilderness. But ammunition and medicine are essential to survival and they don’t grow on trees. Eve, as an elite defender of Eden, must go on a raid with a small team into the city for supplies that will keep their people alive. But this dangerous world is evolving and the rules that once kept them safe are changing.
Mayhem is on the rise at the Witt’s End Resort, especially Cabin 14, where no guest ever leaves alive.
Okay, is that a great hook or what? And the book is about-a death coach. Who solves murders.
To add to it, the reason the guests never leave Cabin 14 is not that they're murdered. It's that-well, that would give it away.
But let me just ask: have you ever heard a strange noise-when you know there's nothing there? A kitchen cabinet is open-and you now you didn't open it? A voice seems to whisper to you…but you know you're alone?
Or are you? (Cue scary music.)
Beth Solheim does not seem someone who believes in…well, whatever. Let her tell it.
This book was first published in 1970 and was a call to take heed of the looming "Future Shock" or backlash of humanities biggest, unresolved dilemmas such as: the widening disparity between rich and poor, ie, the wealth of the world being monopolized by smaller and smaller percentage of the world human population, while the growing number of poor or outright poverty stricken are growing by leaps and bounds; burgeoning human population pressures with it's ever-increasing demands on limited resources; pollution of the food chains; technology with it's blessings and baggage of intrusive, dehumanizing side-effects; world health crisis, etc.
While humanity is currently preferring to live in a state of denial about the impending backlash of the mostly human-caused problems facing our present and immediate future, there is a growing accumulation of data never historically available to us before on how to deal with our problems. Will we put this knowledge to use in time?
So what exactly is "Future Shock"? Toffler explains: "We may define future shock as the distress, both physical and psychological, that arises from an overload of the human organism's physical adaptive systems and it's decision-making processes. Put more simply, future shock is the human response to over-stimulation". Overload breakdown! The socio-political, economic and environmental bills are coming due and they WILL be paid, shocking or not!
Toffler sees that our time consuming, stressed-out, hyper-industrial, compulsive consuming society is leaving parents no time for proper child rearing– as if they were qualified for the task in the first place. Un-guided, un-taught, un-disciplined children set themselves and society up for another of the many aspects of future shock with their aberrant behavior expanding as they get older.
"We don't let just anyone perform brain surgery or for that matter, sell stocks and bonds. Even the lowest ranking civil servant is required to pass tests proving competence. Yet we allow virtually anyone, almost without regard for mental or moral qualifications to try his or her hand at raising young human beings, so long as these humans are biological off-spring. Despite the increasing complexity of the task, parenthood remains the *greatest single preserve of the amateur*."
Toffler suggests that society should "professionalize" child rearing and parents should be educated by mandate of society. That along with every other level of society for a literate, more successful society. Guidelines for instituting "appropriate technology" vs. irresponsible, runaway technology are covered. "Utopian" models for society should always be considered as guidelines for future adjustments and upgrades to consider– and think-tanks for that very purpose should be established. This along with "sanctuaries for social imagination"– sounds like ancient Greece, eh?
Ten years after this book was published, Marilyn Ferguson came out with her block-buster book, "The Aquarian Conspiracy". She somewhat took-up where Toffler left off and created a blueprint of where we are and where we should be heading to stave-off the trauma of future shock. She expertly delineates the "Paradigm Shift" or changes needed in our collective thinking and proffers an abundance of guidelines and resources for that objective.
The following year (1981), Duane Elgin comes out with his "Voluntary Simplicity", more guidelines for transitioning to a more harmonious existence. Elgin follows this with another similar book to "Future Shock" and "The Aquarian Conspiracy" with "Awakening Earth" (1993), then followed by "Promise Ahead"– a continuation of the paradigm shift of collective consciousness needed for survival into the future.
To all of these fine books, one should add Theodore Roszak's "The Voice of the Earth" and we then have a small, but potent collection of some of the most instructive and helpful books ever published for the immediate betterment of our existence on Earth. Excellent "How-to" manuals on global change in human perception of reality.
Imagine a future world where death is not exactly the end. You can record everything about you that ever made you a distinct human being and then be implanted in the mind of someone living.
Paul Kaufmann had been the richest and most powerful man on Earth. Imagine having his knowledge and insights integrated with your own persona. The tycoon's mind becomes the prize in a deadly game for those still living who want more out of life than they could ever achieve on their own. The great man's "soul" is stored in the Scheffing Institute, waiting for the time when someone hungry enough gives him back his appetite.
En el quinto centenario de la primera publicación del Quijote una obra en torno a la universal novela de Cervantes ha ganado el premio de la Fundación José Manuel Lara, un galardón que entregan las once editoriales españolas más importantes. `Al morir Don Quijote`, de Andrés Trapiello, recrea la vida de los personajes del libro tras la muerte del hidalgo Alonso Quijano.
Trapiello (gran conocedor de la obra de Cervantes) recibió el premio de mano de la ministra de Cultura, Carmen Calvo, y de José Manuel Lara, presidente de la editorial Planeta, que afirma que este galardón apuesta por la literatura de calidad.
Hace cuatrocientos años empezó una historia que no ha terminado aún. Es la que cuenta en este libro. La de los personajes que Miguel de Cervantes dejó sin novela y que quedaron eclipsados por la fantástica peripecia del hidalgo caballero pero que, a pesar de su condición de secundarios, fueron protagonistas de su propia vida, de su propia novela.
Amigos, ama, sobrina, enemigos y escudero son algunos de los personajes que permanecieron a la muerte de don Quijote y con los que Andrés Trapiello construye una apasionante novela que conjuga intriga, ironía y peripecia literaria y consigue una narración ágil y deslumbrante.
Al morir don Quijote es una novela amena y fascinante que toma como punto de partida el mayor clásico español de todos los tiempos y que está llamada a ser un hito de la literatura contemporánea.
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly effective. So Judson Daniel Elliott played by the book. Then he met a lusty Greek in Byzantium who showed him how rules were made to be broken!
L’Uomo vuole raggiungere le Stelle, ma non con mezzi tecnici comuni o strabilianti astronavi, bensì mediante una forma superiore di telecinetica, capace di proiettare la mente e quindi il corpo negli spazi infiniti. Il lettore compirà con la fantasia un viaggio che contempla mete raggiungibili soltanto dopo centinaia o migliaia di anni-luce, addentrandosinei misteri della più straordinaria categoria di mutanti, superando i pericoli più insidiosi dell’incomprensione e dell’odio.
W lesie, z dala od ludzi, pod mądrą opieką czarownic dorasta złotowłosa dziewczynka. Choć pochłania magiczne księgi, uczy się czytać w myślach i rozmawiać z gwiazdami, nie przypuszcza nawet, jaki cel ma jej nauka i pełna niebezpieczeństw wędrówka po czterech stronach Wielkiego Królestwa. Przed wiekami jej kraj najechali okrutni barbarzyńcy.
Według słów tajemniczej Pieśni, teraz po siedmiuset siedemdziesięciu latach zbliża się koniec ich panowania. Czy na tronie zasiądzie wreszcie sprawiedliwy władca. Czy Luelle dorośnie, by spełnić przeznaczenie?
Set in the year 2375, the novel follows Tom Rice, a young archaeologist attached to a two-year dig on the planet of Highby V. He is searching for artifacts belonging to a long-lost and ancient race known simply as The High Ones. Throughout known space, details of this billion-year old civilization have been uncovered on many planets. What seems like a fairly straightforward expedition becomes a galactic odyssey when an artifact never seen before is uncovered. This device hints that perhaps the High Ones are not extinct at all. But, if they are not, then where are they? And will this lead to the culmination of Mankind’s greatest challenge or greatest disaster?
"Ono" – jedna z bardziej zaskakujących powieści ostatnich lat, książka inna od tych, które Terakowska kierowała dotychczas do młodzieży, inna też od adresowanej do starszych czytelników "Poczwarki", choć, podobnie jak ta ostatnia, przeznaczona jest dla dojrzałych odbiorców. Po raz pierwszy Dorota Terakowska przedstawia świat tak dotkliwie realistyczny, choć nie pozbawiony magii i niezwykłości. Umieszcza w nim na pozór nie wyróżniającą się żadnymi szczególnymi cechami osobowości czy zdolnościami bohaterkę, w której każdy może odnaleźć mniej lub bardziej sobie znajomą "dziewczynę z sąsiedztwa". Dziewiętnastoletnia Ewa, mieszkanka małego polskiego miasteczka, pozbawiona zainteresowań i jakichkolwiek większych ambicji, staje nagle przed bardzo poważnym problemem życiowym. To, co jej się przytrafia, nie jest niestety czymś niespotykanym, zaskakująca jest natomiast jej reakcja na ów problem – postawa niewiele mająca wspólnego z wyborem, jakiego moglibyśmy się po "takiej dziewczynie" spodziewać. Powieść jest zadziwiająca, wielowymiarowa i pełna napięcia, autorka po mistrzowsku wykorzystała w niej wypróbowaną w prozie realistycznej ideę ukazania wewnętrznego rozwoju młodego bohatera na tle jego środowiska. Mamy tu do czynienia z realizacją nie tylko udaną, ale i pod wieloma względami nowatorską. Misterna, przemyślana w każdym szczególe konstrukcja oraz znakomicie nakreślone, wyraziste postaci sprawiają, że powieść czyta się jednym tchem.
"Ono", oprócz typowego dla Terakowskiej klimatu i symboliki, jest powieścią przejmująco realistyczną. Nie pozwala na obojętność, porusza, sięga do najgłębszych emocji każdego czytelnika. Dotyka problemów bliskich nam wszystkim i zmusza do głębokich refleksji. Po tę książkę powinien sięgnąć każdy, bo dla wszystkich ta literacka rzeczywistość jest światem, w którym żyjemy. "Ono" zmusi do odpowiedzi na pytanie: "jakie jest nasze w tym świecie miejsce?" i w każdym z nas pozostawi ślad na bardzo długo.
Durante los primeros años de incertidumbre del proceso de paz en Irlanda del Norte, tres ataques terroristas simultáneos en Belfast, Dublin y Londes rompen la esperanza de que el baño de sangre por fin se haya acabado. Los responsables son un nuevo grupo terrorista denominado la Brigada por la Libertad del Ulster. Y tienen un único objetivo: destruir el proceso de paz. Michael Osbourne, el héroe de La Marca del Asesino, ha abandonado la CIA, amargado y desilusionado. Pero cuando el Presidente de los EEUU escoge a su suegro para ser el próximo embajador en Gran Bretaña, Osbourne es arrastrado a la batalla contra algunos de los más implacables y violentos terroristas.
Piękna, nowoczesna baśń rozgrywająca się w czasach średniowiecza i współczesności. Rzecz dzieje się w świecie budowanym z motywów mitologii słowiańskiej i tradycji chrześcijańskiej, elementów rzeczywistości baśniowej i wizji historiograficznej, w którym nowy bóg zajmuje miejsce starych i okrutnych bóstw plemiennych. Przesłaniem autorki jest uświadomienie nie tylko młodemu odbiorcy, konieczności wzajemnej tolerancji między ludźmi żyjącymi w różnych światach, tradycjach i kulturach. Powieść odznaczona Nagrodą Poznańskiego Przeglądu Nowości Wydawniczych WIOSNA 98 oraz Nagrodą IBBY 98.
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