BETH AND MEGHAN PETERSEN WEREN'T INTERESTED IN CAIN. HUNTING SERIAL KILLERS WAS FOR THE NYPD. BUT HE CAME FOR THEM. AND THEN HE DIED. BUT THE KILLINGS HAD JUST BEGUN New York should have breathed a sigh of relief when the deadly serial killer is found dead on a street. However, a new spate of killings raises questions. Who else is terrorising the city? Who killed Cain? Why did he have Meghan's photograph on him? The search for answers leads the Petersen sisters to a terrifying conspiracy aimed to destroy them and their city. The only way out for them is to fight back. The sisters have fought terrorists in Syria, criminals in Somalia. In all those places they had a team to cover them. In the concrete jungle of New York, they only have each other. Every one else is a potential enemy. Packed with breakneck action at pedal-to-metal pace, Defending Cain is a thriller you can't miss. If you're a fan of Eve Dallas, Livia Lone and Hayley Chill, you'll loveTy Patterson's pedal-to-metal pace and no holding back approach to storytelling
Defending Cain is a modern retelling of the parable of Cain and Abel as a courtroom drama, sympathetic to Cain's point of view.The allegory begins as Larry Cohen, reeling from a romantic break-up, is placed on leave from the district attorney's office after a career-endangering court outburst. Larry hopes to relax and regain his equilibrium, and his job. But his best friend is diagnosed with cancer, and terrifying nightmares of a surreal trial make Larry bolt awake every morning at 4:16 a.m. Desperate for relief, Larry enlists Dr. Silverberger, who interprets the dreams psychologically and helps Larry begin healing from old traumas. A fatherly rabbi, however, suggests the dreams are a heaven-sent spiritual challenge that Larry should embrace. Larry doesn't know what to believe, but as the case continues to unfold in his dreams each night, he feels compelled to prove his client's innocence. In daylight hours he struggles to assemble a legal strategy, even while doubting his sanity. Because in this nightmarish court, he is defending the biblical Cain, and even a child knows Cain is guilty of murdering his brother, Abel.Larry's imaginative defense of Cain symbolically mirrors his own journey through therapy, spiritual exploration and the unexpected twists and turns of the nighttime court proceedings. Defending Cain culminates in a nuanced resolution, allowing the reader to ponder whether the dreams were a manifestation of Larry's subconscious conflicts or a challenge from a heavenly realm.
I Rise to Defend: HIS HOLINESS OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU is THE CHRIST This unprecedented book is written by a renowned and reputable Prophet of THE ALMIGHTY GOD and seasoned Spiritual Scientist and Consultant on Issues Related to Nature and the Universe, His Grace Archbishop Bassey Effiong Orok, who has authored several first-time Books that attract global attention. This Book begins its journey with in-depth explanation about the existence of THE ALMIGHTY GOD and CREATOR of the Universe as the No-Beginning Being; to the origin of the Universe, with the creations of other worlds and their various contents and different roles, their various orientations, as well as their different climates. The reason the Earth was created is also given attention in this first-time Book. The Potential blessings of the Earth, its Compress Region, Primary, Secondary and Joint Positions of ALMIGHTY GOD, along with His Universal Symbol are among the contents of this All Important Book. The Heavenly and Earthly Arrangements, which affects every creations; and went ahead to unveil the First and Ever Physical Manifestation of THE ALMIGHTY GOD in human form in The Person of LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, together with His Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. The Book explains the Secret Meaning, Origin of The word "CHRIST", His Seven Cardinal Meanings, His 34 Life Evidence, as well as His Universal Existence; on how CHRIST was first introduced in Heaven to the hosts of Heaven and its subsequence opposition by former Archangel Lucifer and their immediate extradition to the Earth. One of the most important and shocking unveilings in this Holy Book, but profitable to humankind, is the Authentic Date LORD JESUS was born and not the much cerebrated yearly 25 December. The Holy Book, which is packed with first-time unveiling mysteries on CHRIST, gives detailed information about His First, Second and Third (Final) Physical Manifestations in Human Form respectively as ADAM, LORD JESUS and now; HIS HOLINESS OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Beginning from His Heavenly Existence as THE WORD OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD to His Three Times Physical Manifestations; it explained broadly the events that took place before, during and after the fall, death and burial of ADAM. Also, during and after the death of LORD JESUS, as well as the key events that took place subsequently before, during and after His Ascension into Heaven. The different attempts made by Satan the Devil in all His manifestations to discredit and stop CHRIST from obtaining the glory that was kept for Him by Our FATHER GOD before the foundation of this world was laid, are not left out of these unveiling mysteries. Different warnings to the entire humanity as recorded herein show that unless we do away completely with all sinfulness and wicked ways of life, man was heading towards more dangerous and devastating hard times. What every human should expect in no distant time is unveiled, including in-depth information regarding the unavoidable 72 hours of global darkness is herein exposed, as it deepened in revealing how THE CHRIST will be seen in the sky across the Earth, which will be the nal signal to His pending Judgment over the entire creations, including humans and angels. More than 4,000 mysteries about CHRIST are unveiled in a comprehensive manner; and as such, this Book is not limited to any religion, nation, organization, government, group, tribe or tongue; as such, all should avail themselves the opportunity of having this Holy Book. Other Books written by the same Author includes: Holy Book of Revelations; Everlasting Arts and Sciences volumes 1 and 2; Salt of the Earth; Eternal Mysteries of Nations volumes 1,2 and 3; The Final World Government among others.
Why do you believe in God? Answering that question might seem hard, but it’s important. And this book can help. This introduction to apologetics offers one hundred devotions that will give you real tools and real answers for why you believe in God and why you trust the Bible. You’ll dig in the dirt to uncover archaeological evidence. You’ll be inspired by stories of real-life defenders of the faith, and you’ll see God’s fingerprints all over creation. So ask the hard questions. Find the answers. And be empowered to defend your faith.
Certain works of Romantic drama&—Prometheus Unbound, Cain, The Cenci&—have received a good deal of critical attention, by as a whole the genre has been misunderstood and only slightly considered. Alan Richardson redresses a tradition of critical neglect by considering the works of Romantic drama not as failed stage-plays (&"closet drama&") but as constituting a new, distinctively Romantic genre. In turning from the contemporary stage&—which was marked by spectacle, rant, and melodrama&—the Romantic poets developed an altogether new kind of drama, one which they hoped could recapture the intensity of Shakespearean tragedy that Neoclassical writers had scarcely approached. Richardson calls this genre (after Byron) &"mental theater,&" both because its works are concerned with portraying the development of self-consciousness and because it fuses the subjectivity of lyric with the interaction of dramatic poetry. Moreover, these works are addressed directly to the mind of the reader, bypassing the medium of stage representation. This study places Romantic self-consciousness in a fundamentally new light. Far from uncritically pursuing an egoistic stance, the Romantics criticize through their poetic drama the attempt to attain psychic autonomy. The protagonists of Romantic drama are seduced by their antagonists into entering such a condition only to find in it a hollow, deathly isolation. They find in self-consciousness not their promised liberation, but a tormented fate modeled after that of their betrayers. Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley delineate the limitations of &"Romantic&" self-consciousness in their works of mental theater; Shelley alone envisions their transcendence through his radical transformation of consciousness in the conclusion to Prometheus Unbound. This interpretation of mental theater will lead to a new evaluation of the Romantics as dramatic poets. It brings back to critical attention neglected but challenging works such as Byron's Heaven and Earth and Beddoes's Death's Jest-Book, and provides vital new perspectives on undervalued texts like Wordsworth's The Borderers and Byron's Manfred and Cain. It qualifies decades of critical speculation on &"Romantic individualism&" and &"Romantic consciousness,&" and helps return the ideal of imaginative sympathy to the central position held in the critical writings of the Romantics themselves. Finally, in emphasizing the dramatic quality of mental theater, it challenges the still-prevalent view that Romantic poetry in inherently lyrical in character. Scholars concerned with English Romantic drama, Romantic literature, and the Romantic period as well as English drama will find this work to be an important contribution to their understanding.
Bird song, traditionally regarded as primarily a male trait, is in fact widespread among female songbirds and was probably present in the ancestor of modern songbirds (Odom et al 2014 Nature Communications). These recent findings challenge the view that sexual dimorphism in the expression and complexity of song is largely the outcome of sexual selection on males. It is now clear that understanding the evolution of bird song requires explaining variation within and among species in the expression and complexity of female song. To do this, we need a better understanding of the nature of variation in female song in different contexts and systems, as well as the fitness costs and benefits of variation in the expression and complexity of female song. This Research Topic draws together current research on female song with the goal of understanding the fitness costs and benefits of the diversity of female singing behaviour apparent among songbirds. It includes articles ranging from single-species studies investigating how female song varies with context and contrasts with male song, to comparative analyses exploring relationships between female song and ecological, social, and other factors, as well as opinion pieces.
