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**Book 2 of 3 in the Planet of Riches Trilogy** The plan to get rid of Meredith went to hell quickly, resulting her escape and disappearance. Any and all efforts to find her had been for naught, increasing the frustration I'd already been feeling. If that weren't bad enough, my endless search for the Planet of Riches has led to a dead end, leaving me only one alternative: find another database to continue my search. With a little digging, I found the Mega Database, which was firmly in the possession of the Planet Mafia, a huge mob I happened to have connections to. All I had to do was come up with a plan that would convince the Planet Mafia into giving me access and I'd be home free. What could possibly go wrong? **This is Book 2 of 3 in the Planet of Riches Trilogy** Book in the Trilogy: Planet Secrets (Book 1) Planet Mafia (Book 2) Planet of Riches (Book 3)
The Politics of Star Trek by George A. Gonzalez Pdf
The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, arguing that Star Trek offers an indispensable contribution to our understanding of politics in the modern era.
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism by George A. Gonzalez Pdf
Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described as the measurable effects of the normative values of the absolute and the laws of physics (also ostensibly a product of the absolute). Humans are special insofar as they access the higher aspects of the Absolute – altruism, compassion, love, humor, science, engineering, etc. The Absolute also contains what can be considered the less attractive values or impulses: greed, lust for power, hate, self-centeredness, conceit, etc. Predicating society on what I deem the lower (spirits) aspects of the absolute (most prominently, greed) results in personal, social dysfunction and ultimately the end of civilization. Conversely, a society based on justice is stable and vibrant. Justice is a classless society, free of gender and ethnic biases. My argument is based on popular culture – especially the Star Trek franchise. One implication of my thesis is that capitalist values generate psychological neurosis and societal instability – even catastrophe. Additionally, the political values that dominate the current neoliberalist world system (and especially the American government) are the other, the will to power – resulting in war, and global political instability. Popular culture is germane to philosophy and contemporary politics because television/movie creators frequently try to attract viewers by conveying authentic philosophical and political motifs. Conversely, viewers seek out authentic movies and television shows. This is in contrast to opinion surveys (for instance), as the formation of the data begins with the surveyor seeking to directly solicit an opinion – however impromptu or shallow
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time. In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy -- the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of the globe, The Honored Society is a journalistic tour de force.
Migration - Networks - Skills by Astrid Wonneberger,Mijal Gandelsman-Trier,Hauke Dorsch Pdf
Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation.
Author : Jimmy Soni Publisher : Simon and Schuster Page : 484 pages File Size : 47,7 Mb Release : 2022-02-22 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 9781501197253
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022” A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST “A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible” (The Wall Street Journal)—including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they’re as controversial as they are admired. Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold. Before igniting the commercial space race or jumpstarting social media’s rise, they were the unknown creators of a scrappy online payments start-up called PayPal. In building what became one of the world’s foremost companies, they faced bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s. Their success was anything but certain. In The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today—fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer—were planted two decades ago. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal’s success. Described as “an intensely magnetic chronicle” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (Business Insider), The Founders is a story of iteration and inventiveness—the products of which have cast a long and powerful shadow over modern life. This narrative illustrates how this rare assemblage of talent came to work together and how their collaboration changed our world forever.
In a Vedic Astrology Horoscope, the positions and effect of 9 heavenly bodies are carefully examined. These are the seven planets - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn along with two nodes - Rahu and Ketu. Each planet has a long list of significations which are further divided into the direction, metals, age, nature, elements, body part / body system, colors, rulership of zodiac signs and the host of other attributes which a good Astrologer has to keep in mind at the time of making the calculations and giving the forecast. While all planets are given equal attention but it is Mars which is given special attention to check for suddenness in giving bad results - if it is a malefic. At the time of matching the Horoscopes for marriage purposes, it is the presence or absence of Manglik feature which is checked before anything else. So let us go a little deeper into the nature, functioning, and mode of operation of Mars in a Horoscope. Is it always to be feared or does it have the power to give also? Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is called Mangal in Hindi, Kujja in Sanskrit. West has named it after the Roman God of War. Mars is also referred to as the Red Planet because of its reddish appearance as seen from Earth. Similarly all the planets are divided into 4 elements of nature - Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Mars is supposed to be a fiery planet. As the story goes in the Vedic system, Mars is the commander-in-chief of the celestial army. It is therefore, quite natural to associate Mars with action & raw energy, after all it is fiery, hot red and fast (compared to Jupiter and Saturn it is a much faster planet orbiting the Sun).
Rahu and Ketu in Predictive Astrology: North and South Nodes of the Moon by Dr Prem Kumar Sharma,Manisha Koushik Pdf
It is a well-established fact that since Vedic astrology has its basis in Vedic knowledge, it is as old as human creation and has been used from time immemorial to dispel the unfounded horrors and prejudices of the human mind. Rahu and Ketu, the two nodal points of the Moon, constitute the core of Vedic astrology. Ancient Indian seers visualised the north and the south nodes of the Moon as the most interesting and mysterious planetary influences. However, Rahu and Ketu have either been ignored or misunderstood in studies of Vedic astrology. This book is an attempt to dispel the darkness that surrounds Rahu and Ketu so that they can be better understood and their importance in Vedic astrology appreciated. By no means the final word on Rahu and Ketu, this book attempts to provide readers with a practical understanding of these two nodes so that they can be placed in perspective. The book also provides other insights into Vedic astrology. The use of horoscopes of some prominent persons makes an understanding of Rahu and Ketu easier both for astrology enthusiasts and for other readers.
For a long time, it was assumed that a genetic disposition such as trisomy 21 enables predictions to be made about overall personality development. But, who could have ever imagined that people with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) would also be capable of earning a university degree? We studied 1,294 people with trisomy 21. The results showed that people with trisomy 21 benefit more from abstract learning than their neurotypical counterparts. Two-year-olds with the syndrome first learn to read and only then to speak and will understand algebra better than arithmetic. Ignorance of neurodiversity inevitably leads to learning difficulties when these people are forced to learn at the same pace as others. This applies to autism and trisomy 21 to the same extent. That is why this book advocates the recognition of trisomy 21 as a variant in the spectrum of human neurodiversity.
Adventures In A Midwest Purgatory by Michael Oellig Pdf
A group of four disenchanted cynics navigate a desperate world of rapidly declining taste in entertainment and opinion, armed only with a love for alcohol and socially unacceptable behavior as a means to lash out against a culture that is increasingly leaving them in the minority. Throughout the course of their adventures, they grapple with overrated pop idols, disgraced movie stars and washed up child actors in a twisted world where nothing is sacred and all bets are off. So crack open a forty of your favorite malt liquor, kick back, and let the chips fall where they may. Keep track of them, though. That's all we've got to eat until payday.
Be in a dark room meditating; touch yourself and think, what are you touching? If what you are touching is real, then what is it and what is it for? Are persons, roads, automobiles, valleys, mountains, and anything that you see real? And what about the things that think about, are they real? How do you see and why you see what you see and for what reason? Is your being, seeing, and thinking an illusion? I believe that In reality, nothing exists other than your thinking. But What is your thinking? Who is thinking? Is it you or whom? If it is you, Who are you and from where do you and all those thoughts and things around you come from? I do not know about everyone else, but those thoughts have puzzled me ever since I can remember. Philosophers, scientists, and theologians have different ways of interpreting what is commonly known as life and Man: Why does man exist who created him and why? In my opinion: Man is the association of Mind and Body in search of happiness. Almost everyone on planet Earth believes that the answer to any unexplainable question is that God knows I am not god and not just me, but others wish to know what God knows. If not all men, then almost every man is in pursuit of eternal happiness that he wishes to find on the course of its life. In this book, my mind is rationally traveling and searching for The Future of Man in Search of Happiness. PS: I read a lot of publications in any and all subjects other than fiction. What I learned in my school days are over half a century old. I can’t always remember correctly what I studied and read. No one is perfect; everyone makes mistakes. Please forgive me if in this book I report something incorrectly. Also by the author Aldo Gelso, Xlibris publisher, read: Mafia Capitalism and Democracy (followed by the attached introduction to learn about mafia) Events in Sicily
Ideas for authors in "Writer's Quarry" are wide ranging, and may be developed into many genres. The Sci Fi writer will be interested in the aliens temporarily nullifying Earth's gravity, before invading, in the chaos of human's no-gravity "floating" confusion. Writers of social and political conflicts may pursue the idea of a Palestinian, needing a heart transplant, but can only get the heart of a recently deceased Israeli Jew.