The Seventh Age

Author : Rick Heinz
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941758908

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The Seventh Age: Dawn by Rick Heinz Pdf

Mike Auburn dangles above the city of Chicago from the beams of a half-built skyscraper. He is seconds from plummeting towards the circuit board of buildings and streetlights below, but oblivion is not what he seeks—it’s the dead. Obsessed with discovering evidence of the afterlife, Mike’s death-defying stunts have brought him closer than ever to lifting the veil of reality, always just out of reach. However, his ventures to the edge have not gone unnoticed, and a mysterious organization by the name “O’Neill” seeks to recruit him to their own cause: preparing the city for impending Ragnarok, the end of the world as they know it. Before long, a world ruled by scientific method and rational thinking is challenged by the supernatural—luring the dead, the damned, and the demons that have long awaited the return of magic, and they will stop at nothing to bring it back for good. Suddenly, Mike is at the center of a battle between the forces of reason, of good, of evil...and everything in between.

Author : Rick Heinz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952825229

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Dystopia by Rick Heinz Pdf

Magic has exploded back into the world-vampires, demons, ghosts, and other creatures of legend crawled out of the shadows, finally escaping their prisons-and the power previously only in the hands of secretive societies like Skull & Bones and the fascist Thule Society has been laid bare for the entire world to see.After the initial shock, businesses did the expected: found a way to turn magic into profit. The occult "gold rush" at the forefront of magically imbued politics built a world of wealth inequality, greed, and innovation.Bartender Jane Auburn was an early adopter of a new drug sponsored by Pelican Pharmaceuticals that allows her to move at the speed of vampires and match the strength of demons.Soon, she discovers the price for such powers may be more than she can pay: her life. Thrust into the front lines of toxic magic and occult corporate warfare, she will need to uncover what other skeletons these new companies are hiding. Preferably before she clocks out from an overdose or has to bite her tongue and endure her mandated corporate exploitation!At least she was not the only one in Austin, Texas to sign up for magic in a pill. After all, as it says in all their commercials, "Pelican Pharmaceuticals: they keep you going even when you're dead!" And how bad can the side effects possibly be?

Author : Muriel Cassel-Piccot,Geneviève Lheureux
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527526815

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The Seventh Age of Man by Muriel Cassel-Piccot,Geneviève Lheureux Pdf

The Seventh Age of Man: Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes is a collection of academic essays on Old Age. The contributors come from a wide range of fields of expertise, which accounts for the originality of the book. Depending on their respective disciplines, the authors resort to various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, and from historical and political theories to media criticism, but they often address similar questions – when are people to be considered as old, what does it mean to be old, how do we deal with ageing – and reach similar conclusions about the paradoxical representations of the elderly, whether in Renaissance Europe or in contemporary China. Although men and women are sometimes treated differently, in most societies, the older generation is alternately perceived as a threat and a burden, or as financial and moral support. If they are often criticized or ridiculed, especially when they try to retain their youthful looks long after their prime, the elderly also trigger a feeling of nostalgia as representatives of a past usually seen as more desirable than the present. Their resilience and independence are regularly emphasized, as well as their wisdom, as a result of their long experience, which helps them to contemplate their ends more serenely and which might turn them into models for their contemporaries.

Author : Eva Figes
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345351991

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The Seven Ages by Eva Figes Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Life cycle, Human
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019996607

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The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Jason Montgomery
Publisher : Verse Five Publishing
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996317313

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The Seventh Age by Jason Montgomery Pdf

Winning the ultimate battle of survival does not require staying alive… The planet awakes, unleashing a hidden fury. Caught at the epicenter of the first earthquake in centuries, Dabaz Huavossa soon finds it was only the harbinger of a vast misery to follow. And though his utopian world is suddenly disintegrating around him, Dabaz craves more than mere survival. Unwittingly binding himself to an unexpected mentor—the highest leader of his land, a member of the strange race of people called the Immortals— Dabaz is forced to confront life’s deepest questions, while increasingly mistrusting this one who claims to hold the answers. Dabaz fights a growing dread: all life is pointless when trapped in a rush to the grave. His scrabbling for a life worth living pits him against all he holds dear and blinds him to the fact that he is equipping his increasingly savage society for the ultimate battle—the battle with no neutral ground—the battle in which choosing whom to trust is choosing whether to live or die—the battle that determines not just Dabaz’s fate, but the ultimate fate of mankind. A story that defies easy categorization, The Seventh Age deftly combines many subsets of speculative fiction: it is a scientific/metaphysical, utopian/dystopian, mythical/historical, distorted hero’s journey interwoven with philosophical rumination. The reader will be engrossed, will certainly be called upon to think, and will perhaps come away profoundly changed.

Author : Rick Heinz
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941758892

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The Seventh Age: Dawn by Rick Heinz Pdf

"Mike Auburn dangles above the city of Chicago from the beams of a half-built skyscraper. He is seconds from plummeting towards the circuit board of buildings and streetlights below, but oblivion is not what he seeks it s the dead. Obsessed with discovering evidence of the afterlife, Mike s death-defying stunts have brought him closer than ever to lifting the veil of reality, always just out of reach. However, his ventures to the edge have not gone unnoticed, and a tenebrous organization led by O'Neil seeks to recruit him to their own cause: preparing the city for impending Ragnarok, the end of the world as they know it. Before long, a world ruled by scientific method and rational thinking is challenged by the supernatural luring the dead, the damned, and the demons that have long awaited the return of magic, and they will stop at nothing to bring it back for good. Suddenly, Mike is at the center of a battle between the forces of reason, of good, of evil and everything in between."

Author : Alistair Horne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804151696

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Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne Pdf

In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned Paris for Versailles); Napoleon’s rise and fall; Baron Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris (at the cost of much of the medieval city); the Belle Epoque and the Great War that brought it to an end; the Nazi Occupation, the Liberation, and the postwar period dominated by de Gaulle--Horne brings the city’s highs and lows, savagery and sophistication, and heroes and villains splendidly to life. With a keen eye for the telling anecdote and pivotal moment, he portrays an array of vivid incidents to show us how Paris endures through each age, is altered but always emerges more brilliant and beautiful than ever. The Seven Ages of Paris is a great historian’s tribute to a city he loves and has spent a lifetime learning to know. "Knowledgeable and colorful, written with gusto and love.... [An] ambitious and skillful narrative that covers the history of Paris with considerable brio and fervor." —LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Author : Lani Forbes
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781982546632

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The Seventh Sun by Lani Forbes Pdf

Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he’s now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all Ahkin’s efforts, the sun is fading—and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor’s death may mean that she is next. Prince Ahkin must be married before he can ascend the throne, and Mayana is one of six noble daughters presented to him as a possible wife. Those who are not chosen will be sacrificed to the gods. Only one girl can become Ahkin’s bride. Mayana and Ahkin feel an immediate connection, but the gods themselves may be against them. Both recognize that the ancient rites of blood that keep the gods appeased may be harming the Chicome more than they help. As a bloodred comet and the fading sun bring a growing sense of dread, only two young people may hope to change their world. Rich in imagination and romance, and based on the legends and history of the Aztec and Maya people, The Seventh Sun brings to vivid life a world on the edge of apocalyptic disaster.

Author : Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316285049

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The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award "The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master--a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing--and what the victors of this age already know.

Author : James Innes-Smith
Publisher : Constable
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472129962

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The Seven Ages of Man by James Innes-Smith Pdf

What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, the last century and a half has been a particularly turbulent time to be a man. Increasing numbers of men are finding themselves anchorless, uprooted from the conventions and certainties of their forefathers. Today masculinity itself has come under attack, relentlessly maligned in the media. Now, more than ever, the long and perilous journey from infant to old age is fraught with strange complexities, moral dichotomies and maddening contradictions. Incisive and solution-driven, The Seven Ages of Man offers men of all ages, and the women who love them, a clear roadmap to a more meaningful life and a better future for all. Part practical guide and part call to arms, it encourages a return to decency, compassion, humility, understanding and forgiveness., ,

Author : Seven ages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590897653

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The seven ages of human life. Old age by Seven ages Pdf

Author : Louise Gluck
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780063117624

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The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle’s metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück’s ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in doing do, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible—an act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the reader’s spine.

Author : Rosemary Leonard
Publisher : Bantam Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Girls
ISBN : 0593068394

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The Seven Ages of Woman by Rosemary Leonard Pdf

This is an important guide for women of all ages to the very latest information they need to make informed choices about health and wellbeing at every stage of life from childhood through to active retirement.

Author : Lani Forbes
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781982546731

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The Jade Bones by Lani Forbes Pdf

Four young people risk their lives to save the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating sequel to The Seventh Sun. Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately, they are not unequipped. Mayana’s royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself. Ometeotl, the Mother goddess, provides them with other gifts—and an ominous warning that one of them may not survive. But can the goddess be trusted? Back in the lands above, Mayana’s best friend, Yemania, has survived the empress selection ritual—but her next challenge may be more than she can bear. The new empress of the Chicome Empire demands she become High Healer. Yemania has no interest in serving in the palace; she wants to use her healing ability to help the common people. More than that, her heart is no longer her own. She has met an enchanting stranger—Ochix, one of the feared Miquitz people who are ancient enemies of the Chicome. As Mayana and Ahkin move ever closer to confronting the lords of the dead, Yemania and Ochix must hide their forbidden romance or face the wrath of both their empires. Meanwhile, the new empress has made a dangerous alliance that might destroy everything they hold dear. Based on ancient Mesoamerican legends and mythology, The Jade Bones is a compelling and romantic adventure that builds to a heart-stopping climax.