Apocalypse How

Author : Oliver Letwin
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786496887

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Apocalypse How? by Oliver Letwin Pdf

As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying. Whether it's a hostile state striking the national grid (like Russia did with Ukraine in 2016) or a freak solar storm, our systems have become so interlinked that if one part goes down the rest topple like dominoes. In this groundbreaking book, former government minister Oliver Letwin looks ten years into the future and imagines a UK in which the national grid has collapsed. Reliant on the internet, automated electric cars, voice-over IP, GPS, and the internet of things, law and order would disintegrate. Taking us from high-level government meetings to elderly citizens waiting in vain for their carers, this book is a wake up call for why we should question our unshakeable faith in technology. But it's much more than that: Letwin uses his vast experience in government to outline how businesses and government should respond to catastrophic black swan events that seem distant and implausible - until they occur.

Author : Rob Kutner
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0762432330

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Apocalypse How by Rob Kutner Pdf

People have been predicting the end of the world since...well, the beginning of it. Oh, the form it takes may vary-firestorm, earthquake, plague, new ice age, alien invasion, nuclear cloud, or the rise of our machines-but everyone who survives will be starting over at Square One. Your needs won't be that different from today's: food, shelter, work, finances, relationships, 24-hour cable.... But you'll have more raw materials to deal with. Apocalypse How is the humorous how-to-guide to living your best life possible (after the Apocalypse renders your current quality of life null and void.) Organized like a travel or lifestyle guide, the book tells you all you need to know in order to fend off zombies, forge for non-radioactive food, and make the most of your new dwelling (while ignoring the ash outline of its previous occupants on the far wall.)This handy volume includes such essential sections as: What to Expect When We're Exploding Before We Blow: Your Essential To-Hoard List Should You Stay or Should You Flee? Questionnaire Sex, Love, and Dating: What if You Are the Last Man on Earth? The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Petty Tyrants The Apocalyptic Aptitude Test Apocalypse How is guaranteed to be of use in the world to come. It also makes a handy defense weapon if thrown, and firestarter if needed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Igor Kryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359394364

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Singularity Apocalypse by Igor Kryan Pdf

The last human invention will change not only our environment but the very essence of what it means to be a human. The process has started and this book will likely catch you in your transition from human to non-human. Read how you are forging the coming apocalypse with you own hands and how the following aftermath devastates everything you know and hold dear. By 2020 you have found yourself inside a digital prison. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest - they all are invisible iron bars of your digital prison. And it's not evil Nasdaq CEOs who invited you to this digital jail with open arms but something much bigger and scarier became self aware and took control over your life. Humans are transformed from social to antisocial digital species in the blink of an eye. Now you shall learn when and how it shatters into the billions of pieces along with your life, in all its glory and all its horror.

Author : Melis Mulazimoglu Erkal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883406

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Apocalypse Revisited: A Critical Study on End Times by Melis Mulazimoglu Erkal Pdf

Apocalypse, Revisited: A Critical Study on End Times explores why and how Apocalypse has been revisited in myriad contexts from literature to history, religion to social life and media to popular culture.

Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Tao Wong
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177538098X

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World Unbound by Tao Wong Pdf

Four years ago, the Erethran Honor Guard arrived and threw John Lee into a Portal to another world. Since then, Earth has received no word of the intrepid adventurer. Until now.Finding his way back to Earth through a Portal, John returns to a very changed world. The shackles of Galactic control have bound Earth and humanity ever tighter to the System. Now, John has to find a way to free Earth from Galactic control while battling stronger, more powerful enemies. And worst of all, he will need to indulge in politics.Good thing he's got a new Class and new allies.World's Unbound is book six of the System Apocalypse, a LitRPG / GameLit series of post-apocalypse troubles, scifi & fantasy elements, all in a world filled with game mechanics. This series contains elements of games like level ups, experience, enchanted materials, a sarcastic spirit, mecha, a beguiling dark elf, monsters, minotaurs, a fiery red head and a semi-realistic view on violence and its effects. Does not include harems.

Author : Loren L. Johns
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625646972

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The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John by Loren L. Johns Pdf

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 1998.

Author : Joseph A. Seiss
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825493609

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The Apocalypse by Joseph A. Seiss Pdf

This work affirms the centrality of Jesus and His coming work of retribution and reward as the keys to understanding Revelation.

Author : Anne Rehill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313354397

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The Apocalypse Is Everywhere by Anne Rehill Pdf

This wide-ranging exploration of the apocalypse in Western culture seeks to understand how we have come to be so preoccupied with spectacular visions of our own annihilation—offering abundant examples of the changing nature of our imagined destruction, and predisposing readers to discover many more all around them. The Apocalypse Is Everywhere: A Popular History of America's Favorite Nightmare explores why apocalyptic thinking exists, how it has been manifested in Western culture through the ages, and how it has woven itself so thoroughly into our popular culture today. Beginning with contemporary apocalyptic expressions, the book demonstrates how surprisingly widespread they are. It then discusses how we inherited them and where they arose. Author Annie Rehill surveys the ancient belief systems from which Christianity evolved, including ancient Judaism and other faiths. She explores the vision outlined in the Book of Revelation and traces the apocalyptic thread through the Middle Ages, across the Reformation and Enlightenment, and to the Americas. Finally, to prove that the Apocalypse is indeed everywhere, Rehill returns to the present to consider the idea of apocalypse as it occurs in movies, books, comics and graphic novels, games, music, and art, as well asin televangelism and even presidential speeches. Her fascinating scholarship will surely have readers looking about them with new eyes.

Author : Jeff Colvin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803411996

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Avoiding Apocalypse by Jeff Colvin Pdf

Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.

Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : Dan Martin
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781427651853

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Apocalypse by Dan Martin Pdf

Will the world, as we know it, end in our time? It's the intention of this book to teach you what you'll need to know IF it does. Spiritual/scientific predictions, asteroid impacts, pandemics, economical/governmental collapse, solar flares, electrical grid failure, climate change, epic floods, WW3, Planet-X, peak oil, super tsunamis, alien invasions, how the government's preparing; this book has it all, and teaches how you and your family can survive it all. A complete self-help guide not only for the end times, but any global crises, of which we seem to be having plenty of lately. Written by a retired Boeing Aerospace Technician who lived six years 100% self-sufficient and cut-off from society; Dan Martin presents eye-opening views of humanity; and his insights into possible future events are breath-taking, to say the least. The book makes you wonder, is the end closer than we think? Are any of us really prepared?

Author : Ronald Herms
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 3110193124

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An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World by Ronald Herms Pdf

This monograph examines the problem of universally inclusive language in the book of Revelation and the resulting narrative tension created by narrowly exclusive language. Analysis is conducted by placing relevant texts within their literary-narrative context and through consideration of how the author understood and appropriated biblical traditions. A key feature of this study is its examination of four early Jewish documents with significant similarities to the problem being examined in Revelation. From these documents (Tobit; Similitudes of Enoch [1 Enoch 37-71]; 4 Ezra; and, Animal Apocalypse [1 Enoch 85-90]) a contextual picture emerges which allows a fuller understanding of Revelation's distinctive approach toward the problem of the fate of the nations. This study contends that the interpretive strategies applied to biblical traditions in Revelation have their roots in the wider early Jewish milieu. From this comparative analysis, identifiable patterns with regard to the role of 'universal terminology' in the communicative strategy of John's Apocalypse emerge.

Author : Bryan Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350083646

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An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse by Bryan Hall Pdf

When your base camp is overrun by zombies, whom do you save if you cannot save everyone? Is it permissible to sacrifice one survivor to an undead horde in order to save a greater number of the living? Do you have obligations to loved ones who have turned? These are some of the troubling ethical questions you might face in a zombie apocalypse. Bryan Hall uses situations like these to creatively introduce the foundational theories of moral philosophy. Covering major thinkers such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, this is an introduction to Ethics like no other: a practical guidebook for surviving a zombie outbreak with your humanity intact. It shows you why moral reasoning matters as long as you still walk among the living. The book is written entirely from the perspective of someone struggling to survive in a world overrun by the undead. Each chapter begins with graphic art and a “field exercise” that uses a story from this world to illustrate an ethical problem. By considering moral controversies through the unfamiliar context of a zombie apocalypse, the morally irrelevant factors that get in the way of resolving these controversies are removed and you can better answer questions such as: · Do we have a moral obligation to help those less fortunate than ourselves? · Is it ever morally permissible to intentionally kill an innocent person? · Are non-rational but sentient beings morally considerable? Equipped with further reading sections and overviews of the theories that you would usually cover in an introductory Ethics course, this one-of-a-kind primer critically evaluates different procedures for moral action that you can use not only to survive but flourish in an undead world.

Author : Brian Doyle
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042908882

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The Apocalypse of Isaiah Metaphorically Speaking by Brian Doyle Pdf

The analysis of metaphors constitutes an ideal point of entry into the exegesis of Biblical Hebrew poetic texts because it forces the exegete to examine the said text from a variety of perspectives. How can one discern the presence of metaphorical speech? What are the various types of metaphorical speech available to and employed by the biblical poet? How does the structure of a piece of Hebrew poetry carry its metaphorical dimensions? How did the biblical poet make use of the various types of metaphor and to what end? Can we ultimately gain access to the poet's meaning? The present study endeavours to provide at least a partial answer to these questions. In maintaining focus on the biblical text, moreover, the author hopes to anchor some of the abstractions of metaphorical theory with chosen examples taken from the so-called 'Apocalypse of Isaiah'. The Hebrew prophets constitute fertile ground in their use of metaphorical language for speaking the unspeakable, especially concerning the relationship between the people and God.

Author : William Henry Scott (M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Judgment Day
ISBN : UIUC:30112000749348

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The Interpretation of the Apocalypse & the Chief Prophetical Scriptures Connected with it by William Henry Scott (M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.) Pdf