Axel Rhodes and the Golden Scarab
Axel Rhodes and the Golden Scarab

Author: S W Lothian

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-03-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Praise for AXEL RHODES and the GOLDEN SCARAB"This tale is a great adventure ... I was enthralled ..." - READERS' FAVORITE"This story is unique, action-packed and exciting ... I was totally hooked ..." - THIS KID REVIEWS BOOKS Adventure dwells quietly like a shadow in all of us, waiting to launch us into something spectacular. We all dream of incredible places. We all dream of incredible heroes. We all dream of incredible lives. Sometimes, those dreams become real. Axel Rhodes has that same yearning. To break free from the norm ... to be the best he can be ... to save the world ... to be a hero. Enter, the Museum of Grandovia, home to a million incredible secrets. Axel has a curious encounter amid a trove of ancient treasures. Someone is calling him. Someone needs him. It's time for a new hero to rise. A long-time feud between two powerful brothers, Seth and Horus, threatens the fragile peace in ancient Egypt. Axel and his best friend, Linc, must transcend time to save the day. Joined by new ally, Rani, they embark on a perilous race through scorching deserts and temples full of hidden chambers primed with deadly traps. All the while, an army of deadly statues (Uberdiles) are determined to stop them. It's up to Axel and his friends to find the mysterious Golden Scarab, defeat the threat of evil, and save history. If they fail, the impact on the future will be a disaster. Once you've caught your breath, continue to ride the incredible AXEL RHODES series: AXEL RHODES and the CURSED NILE (Book 2) - Due later in 2020"...absolutely wonderful - even better than the first." - MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK REVIEWS AXEL RHODES and the FALLEN PHARAOH (Book 3) - Due later in 2020"Wow! This third book is absolutely awesome." - GOODREADS AXEL RHODES and the MISSING LINK (Book 4) - Due later in 2020 Note: The original edition of this book was known as The Golden Scarab.

Axel Rhodes and the Fallen Pharaoh
Axel Rhodes and the Fallen Pharaoh

Author: S W Lothian

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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You know you're addicted to adventure when you can't think of anything else. It's all you want do ... it's all you want to feel ... it's all you want to be. Imagine your life if all of your dreams of adventure came true. For some, that's exactly what happens. It can happen to you ... nothing is impossible ... as long as you let yourself imagine.Below ancient Egypt's peaceful surface lurks a danger ready to pounce. It silently waits for the moment it will end the reign of the Pharaonic blood-line, and take control forever.The very thing that legend says keeps the Pharaoh safe is in danger of falling into the wrong hands, and time to defeat the evil threat is running out fast. Axel, Linc, and Rani must face their most dangerous challenges so far. The danger in this deadly new mission has been turned up a notch ... or ten. This incredible fast-paced adventure weaves its thrills and mystery through the very crossroads of time. From ancient Egypt ... to the center of time ... to modern Paris, it's a ride that only the brave can survive. Who is the enemy? Only time will tell.Praise for AXEL RHODES and the FALLEN PHARAOH"Wow! This third book is absolutely awesome." - GOODREADSOnce you've caught your breath, continue to ride the amazing Axel Rhodes Adventures series: AXEL RHODES and the GOLDEN SCARAB (Book 1)Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist"This tale is a great adventure ... I was enthralled ..." - READERS' FAVORITEAXEL RHODES and the CURSED NILE (Book 2)"...absolutely wonderful - even better than the first." - MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK REVIEWSAXEL RHODES and the MISSING LINK (Book 4 - due in 2021)

Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector
Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector

Author: Coad, L.

Publisher: CIFOR

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 602387083X

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The meat of wild species, referred to in this report as ‘wild meat’, is an essential source of protein and a generator of income for millions of forest-living communities in tropical and subtropical regions. However, unsustainable harvest rates currently

Exhaustion
Exhaustion

Author: Anna K. Schaffner

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0231538855

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Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.

Cultural Techniques
Cultural Techniques

Author: Bernhard Siegert

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0823263770

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In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.

Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Author: Eric Enno Tamm

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1995-08-22

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780306806490

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Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this book—featuring a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliography—will long remain provocative and definitive.

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Richard Primack

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1783747536

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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

Forest Hydrology
Forest Hydrology

Author: Devendra Amatya

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1780646607

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Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes.

The Many Faces of the Goddess
The Many Faces of the Goddess

Author: Izak Cornelius

Publisher: Saint-Paul

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9783727814853

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There are a multitude of female figures represented in the art of the ancient Near East and it has often been proved difficult to differentiate them. This study presents a collection of visual source material on godesses from Egypt, Ugarit, Syria and Palestine from c,1500 to 1000 BC. An introduction to the subject and previous research precedes a discussion of iconographic types (armed, seated, standing, equestrian and named women holding objects) and media (including reliefs, seals and amulets, bronze figurines, ivories and ostraca). Cornelius devises a typology of attributes for the goddess Anat, Astarte, Qedeshet and Asherah in order to define their individual qualities and provide a means by which these goddesses can be differentiated. Includes a large descriptive catalogue.

The Smoke of the Gods
The Smoke of the Gods

Author: Eric Burns

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2006-10-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781592134823

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From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.