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Fights, Flights and the Chosen Ones: First-Second Samuel (Z Graphic Novels / Manga Bible)
Book Three focuses on the lives of Samuel, Saul, and David as depicted in 1 and 2 Samuel. It begins with the birth of Samuel, the last judge of Israel, who was called by God as a youth. As he grows older, the people call upon him to find a king for Israel, and the Lord directs him to Saul, whom he anoints as king. As Saul disobeys the Lord, Samuel is redirected to anoint a young David to be the new King of Israel. David serves the lord faithfully, though his reign over Israel is not without trouble or circumstance, as he must deal with enemies both outside and insides his borders … not to mention his greatest battle—himself..
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Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon’s novels as representative artifacts of the postwar period, Stefan Mattessich analyzes this temporal transformation in relation not only to Pynchon’s work but also to its literary, cultural, and theoretical contexts. Mattessich theorizes a new kind of time—subjective displacement—dramatized in the parody, satire, and farce deployed through Pynchon’s oeuvre. In particular, he is interested in showing how this sense of time relates to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Examining this movement as an instance of flight or escape and exposing the beliefs behind it, Mattessich argues that the counterculture’s rejection of the dominant culture ultimately became an act of self-cancellation, a rebellion in which the counterculture found itself defined by the very order it sought to escape. He points to parallels in Pynchon’s attempts to dramatize and enact a similar experience of time in the doubling-back, crisscrossing, and erasure of his writing. Mattessich lays out a theory of cultural production centered on the ethical necessity of grasping one’s own susceptibility to discursive forms of determination. .
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Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she’s foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair. Danger, excitement and love--this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing adventure. Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the second Phryne Fisher mystery, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective flies even higher, handling a murder, a kidnapping and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consummate ease--and all before it's time to adjourn to the Queenscliff Hotel for breakfast. Whether she's flying planes, clearing a friend of homicide charges or saving a child from kidnapping, she handles everything with the same dash and elan with which she drives her red Hispano-Suiza..
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Forgotten Eagle: Wiley Post, America's Heroic Aviation Pioneer
Wiley Post set aviation records. In the summer of 1931 he flew his single-engine airplane around the globe in a record-breaking 8 days. Two years later he shaved 21 hours off his own record. The country went wild; in Wiley Post a nation in the grip of the Great Depression found a hero. History, though, has not been kind to Post, especially since his ill-designed floatplane crashed in Alaska and killed Post & the much beloved American humorist Will Rogers. Unlike his contemporaries, Post has virtually disappeared from the popular lore that grew out of America aviation in the earlier decades of the 20th century. This story of a genuine American hero uncovers little-known details that illuminate the enigmatic Wiley Post's life. B&W photos..
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Miles to Go Before I Sleep: My Grateful Journey Back from the Hijacking of Egyptair Flight 648
For anyone who has survived a trauma, the question has always been how to move beyond the experience How does one stop being a victim? Pflug, who was one of three Americans on a plane from Athens to Cairo when it was highjacked by terrorists, answers that question and shares her story, in an inspiring book she hopes will serve as a springboard for personal growth and development. Photos..
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Flight of the Romanovs
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The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga
A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty, the Romanovs, from the youth of the future tsar Alexander III in the 1860s until the death in 1960 of his daughter, Olga Alexandrovna, the last grand duchess.John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov use a wealth of previously untapped sources, including unpublished diaries of many of the principal characters, interviews with people who knew them well, and never before published photographs to create a history of a family and a time. Along the way we learn of the relationships between Alexander III and his children, the conspiracy against Rasputin, Duke Dimitrie’s affair with Coco Chanel, the hostile behavior of the House of Windsor toward the Romanovs, and the war between the Romanovs and the secret police.Concluding with a discussion of the imperial restoration movement in Russia today, The Flight of the Romanovs is a must-read for anyone interested in the Romanov family, Russian history, and the history of European royalty. .
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Aftershocks of Stress, Crisis and Trauma
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