Pandemonium

Author : Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143181392

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Our health and habitat are being threatened by biological invaders moving at unprecedented speed. Avian flu and its potential to cause a human pandemic is only one example of a worldwide menace unwittingly unleashed by the forces of globalization. The combination of unfettered free trade in living organisms, increased mobility, and urban crowding has created an increasingly volatile environment for the world’s 6.5 billion people. Nikiforuk argues that it shouldn’t take a pandemic to make us rethink the deadly pace of globalization and biological traffic. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Pandemonium is a clear-eyed guide to instability, unpredictability, and the hidden biological terrorist on our doorstep.

Author : Chris Wooding
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545252218

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Seifer Tombchewer, a peasant boy living in the macabre Darkling Realm, proves his worth when he is forced to impersonate the missing Prince Talon Pandemonium as diplomat, warrior, and Lord Defender of the Realm.

Author : Paul Kennedy Mueller
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434942654

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The Pandemonium Bar & Grill (and Other Stories) by Paul Kennedy Mueller Pdf

Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647003890

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A compendium celebrating the art of hell and its minions Pandemonium: The Illustrated History of Demonology presents—for the first time—Satan’s family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout the book, there are short entries on individual demons, but Pandemonium is more than just a visual encyclopedia. It also focuses on the influence of figures like Beelzebub, Azazel, Lilith, and Moloch on Western religion, literature, and art. Ranging from the earliest scriptural references to demons through the contemporary era, when the devils took on a subtler form, Pandemonium functions as a compendium of Lucifer’s subjects, from Dante’s The Divine Comedy to John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and all the points in between. Containing rarely seen illustrations of very old treatises on demonology, as well as more well-known works by the great masters of Western painting, this book celebrates the art of hell like never before.

Author : Gibson Burrell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803977778

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"A truly bizarre and sometimes filthy historical canter through abatoirs, satyriasis and Noel Edmonds' House Party, among other things, towards a theory of organisation' - The Times 'The author pursues a vigorous polemic on organisational development' - Financial Times "In this irreverent and inventive book, Gibson Burrell seeks to circumvent the established frameworks which have defined our understanding of organization and organizations. He brings us tales from under the edge which enmire us in the nether side of modernist organization. By looking backwards deep into the history of Western societies, and sideways across the broad domain of social and cult

Author : Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bioterrorism
ISBN : 0702236187

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This is a clear-eyed guide to the hidden biological terrorists on our doorstep. Every Australian knows a story or two about biological bombs, European invaders, rampaging microbes to name a few. It's all part and parcel of the continent's vivid history, and a reflection of our truly human penchant for juggling explosive species.

Author : Lauren Oliver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062101990

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The second book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In this electrifying follow-up to Delirium, Lena is on a dangerous course that takes her through the unregulated Wilds and into the heart of a growing resistance movement. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.

Author : Robert S. Lyons
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1566399912

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Palestra Pandemonium by Robert S. Lyons Pdf

The most famous basketball tournament in the history of college basketball is the Big Five. And the Big Five was played in the most hallowed halls of college play: the Palestra. Now, for the first time, a complete story of this Philadelphia rivalry is revealed. Robert Lyons offers the story of the Big Five from its very beginnings in 1955. At that time, many of the Big Five schools—La Salle University, University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph's University, Temple University and Villanova University—weren't even talking to each other, and everyone predicted the tournament would end before it began. Conducting interviews with coaches and players—including famed Temple coach Harry Litwack's last interview before his death—Lyons offers the play-by-play on the how the Big Five became an institution, and how it was ultimately undone by college basketball's own success. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of players, teams, coaches, and the Palestra itself,Palestra Pandemoniumis an immediate classic, offering a chronicle of the most monumental college basketball tournament. Anywhere. Author note: For over thirty years,Robert S. Lyonshas covered professional and college sports for the Associated Press. The former director of the La Salle University News Bureau, editor ofLa Salle, the university's alumni magazine, and instructor of journalism, advertising, and public relations at La Salle, he is now president of RSL Communications. He lives in the Philadelphia area.

Author : Warren Fahy
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 076536946X

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USA Today praised Warren Fahy's debut novel, Fragment, as "a rollicking tale [that] will enthrall readers of Jurassic Park and The Ruins." Now Fahy sets off an even more thrilling stampede of action and suspense, bursting forth from the hellish depths of...Pandemonium. Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, in an underground city carved out by slave labor during the darkest hours of the Cold War, ancient caverns hold exotic and dangerous life-forms that have evolved in isolation for countless millennia. Cut off from the surface world, an entire ecosystem of bizarre subterranean species has survived undetected—until now. Biologists Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger barely survived their last encounter with terrifying, invasive creatures that threatened to engulf the planet. They think the danger is over until a ruthless Russian tycoon lures them to his underground metropolis, where they find themselves confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors from their past—and by entirely new breeds of voracious predators. Now they're rising up from the bowels of the Earth to consume the world as we know it.

Author : J.T. Catalano
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493184347

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Pandemonium by J.T. Catalano Pdf

In a futuristic, lawless society that once was America, a lone soldier struggles with his haunting past while saving people and battling sinister evils.

Author : Ross Fitzgerald,Ian McFadyen
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922768148

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Pandemonium by Ross Fitzgerald,Ian McFadyen Pdf

The bumbling and eternally famished Grafton Everest appointed as the first Australian Secretary-General of the United Nations? A secret game of Australian Rules football skilfully played by Tutsis and Dinkas in a tiny African state? In this novel our hapless hero reaches the culmination of his haphazard career. Despite Grafton’s fervent hope that it will be a purely honorary position, he finds himself forced to actively head an organisation not only made ineffective by its Byzantine organisation, but threatened by a deadly conspiracy within its own ranks. Our woebegone world leader not only endures attempted kidnappings and assassination but finds that a mysterious young woman who has been assigned to write his biography is possibly not who or what she seems. On top of this unwanted intrigue, Grafton discovers that, despite having no desire to save the world, or anything else, he is an essential part of a plan, implemented by a rough-edged Australian diplomat, to avert a looming global disaster – a plan which, strangely, seems to involve Australian Rules football. ‘Pandemonium is a work of comic brilliance, a perfect consummation of the uproarious Grafton Everest series’ – Nigel Marsh, Smart, Stupid Sixty ‘Grafton Everest is a wonderful creation whom I would place without question in the ranks of Phillip Roth’s Portnoy and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim.’ – Barry Humphries

Author : Scott Stine
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532009471

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Pandemonium by Scott Stine Pdf

It is 1984, and Brad Morton is a twenty-three-year-old college student who is still devastated by his brothers suicide. For four years, he has done his best to not think of Byron or his untimely death. All he needs to graduate from Brown University is to complete a thesis on Paradise Lost. But first, he needs to find out why his brother died. After he dies from Rhode Island to Berkeley, California, Brad heads to Byrons former apartment building, where he retrieves a small cardboard box that belonged to his brother. The box contains a journal, several photographs, and a lm reel that send Brad on a determined quest to understand his brothers secret life. As Brads search for answers leads him into a dark gay underworld plagued by a heartbreaking disease, he crosses paths with a flamboyant sculptor, a female detective, a New Age psychic, and Byrons past roommate. But when he realizes his brothers death may not have been intentional, Brad journeys through pandemonium filled with a long list of suspects and possibilities. Will he ever find the answers he so desperately needs to move forward with his own life? Pandemonium shares the compelling and poignant tale of a brothers quest amid 1980s Berkley to learn the truth behind his brothers death.

Author : Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520253629

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Pandemonium and Parade by Michael Dylan Foster Pdf

Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.

Author : James E. Huchingson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608992164

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Pandemonium Tremendum by James E. Huchingson Pdf

James E. Huchingson takes computer and information science seriously in this constructive theology. Central to his reflection is an understanding of the primordial chaos--Pandemonium Tremendum--not as destructive, but as the source out of which God creates, sustains, and empowers creatures to become co-creators.

Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141916644

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Pandemonium at School by Jeremy Strong Pdf

Dullandon Primary School runs strictly by the headmaster's timetable until the day a supply teacher, Miss Pandemonium, arrives. Within a week she has everyone trying to fly in home-made helicopters, making Friendship Cake which is far too friendly, and she even persuades the head, Mr Shrapnell, to cross the swimming pool in a leaky tin tub. Mr Shrapnell thinks it's all too much to put up with but, when the school inspector praises the school for its creative work, he comes round to her way of thinking.