They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh. For more than a century, movies and television shows have speculated about the form and motives of alien life forms. Movies first dipped their toe into the genre in the 1940s with Superman cartoons and the big screen's first story of alien invasion (1945's The Purple Monster Strikes). More aliens landed in the 1950s science fiction movie boom, followed by more television appearances (The Invaders, My Favorite Martian) in the 1960s. Extraterrestrials have been on-screen mainstays ever since. This book examines various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they have evolved over time. Highlighted subjects include The Eternals, War of the Worlds, The X-Files, John Carpenter's The Thing and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.

The New Revelation, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - The (dis)connection between psychological (or scientific) and psychic mind is a subject that has baffled man for centuries. The phenomenon captured the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a very particular way, a man in whom the analytic and artistic struggled for dominance. Originally published in 1918, the New Revelation deals not only with the issue of physical versus metaphysical, but also considers the problem of death (and afterlife) and the question of communication with the spirit world. Conan Doyle's captivating prose and pragmatic, yet human, voice makes for an enlightening exploration of some eternally relevant questions and possible answers. Scottish surgeon and political activist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War, 1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892).

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe. Many traditional areas of scientific study, including astronomy, chemistry and planetary science, contribute to Astrobiology, but the study of the record of life on planet Earth is critical in guiding investigations in the rest of the cosmos. In this varied book, expert scientists from 15 countries present peer-reviewed, stimulating reviews of paleontological and astrobiological studies. The overviews of established and emerging techniques for studying modern and ancient microorganisms on Earth and beyond, will be valuable guides to evaluating biosignatures which could be found in the extraterrestrial surface or subsurface within the Solar System and beyond. This volume also provides discussion on the controversial reports of "nanobacteria" in the Martian meteorite ALH84001. It is a unique volume among Astrobiology monographs in focusing on fossil evidence from the geological record and will be valuable to students and researchers alike.

The American Southwest is home to dozens of ghost towns with fascinating histories and active spirits. This book shares the captivating spirit communications conducted by Dan Baldwin and Dwight and Rhonda Hull, who use pendulums and psychic abilities to help ghosts pass to the other side. Discover the secret spirits of the Courtland Jail in Cochise County, Arizona. Learn about the tragic fate of the miners in the Santa Rita Mountains. Feel the thrill of the investigators conversation with the ghost of Mattie Earp, the common-law wife of the famous Tombstone lawman. Speaking with the Spirits of the Old Southwest is filled with spine-tingling stories and fascinating historical insights into one of the most spiritually active regions of the world.

Aliens are here with us, so now it's time to have more of your questions answered through Barry Strohm and his spirit board connections that dwell outside of our sphere of existence. In this follow-up to Aliens among Us: Exploring Past and Present, learn how extraterrestrials are able to travel the vast expanses of the galaxy in short periods of time, and examine the wide variety of space vehicles-one of which is the size of the United States. Read about various types of extraterrestrials, how they interact with humans, and the way in which they are governed and controlled in their visits to our planet. Discover information never before disclosed as you examine universal mysteries such as black holes, dark energy, how the universe was formed, reincarnation, and spirituality on other planets. Take an out-of-this-world journey to understand the secret knowledge of our not-so-distant neighbors.

Australia has a dark side embedded in the landscape, deserts, convict-built gaols, museums, public houses, and civic buildings. It has a harsh history of brutality and cruelty based on a convict past, so there is little wonder it is haunted. Find here over 150 ghostly locations covering the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and external territories. Meet a young girl, found dead under a cattle grid who is seen lying on her back, her pitiful eyes staring up at startled witnesses or a soldier who was locked in a closet, entombed there as everyone left for an extended break. From hotel spirit hostages, ghostly phone calls, haunted mansions and houses to ghosts with dripping head wounds, and more, Australia has a full range of hauntings across its wide, brown land.

AFTER THE DEATH OF DIANA'S HUSBAND BRAD, THERE HAVE BEEN STRANGE OCCURRENCES IN HER HOME. APPARITIONS, ORBS AND SPIRITS HAVE CONTINUED TO COME INTO HER HOME SINCE THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND IN 2005. THESE OCCURRENCES HAVE COMPELLED DIANA TO WRITE THIS BOOK AND CONVEY TO EVERYONE THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH AND THAT LOVE CONTINUES EVEN AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH.

On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, a fire equipment salesman was flying his private plane on a business trip when his eye caught a flash in the morning sky. He turned to see a chain-like formation of bright, disc-shaped objects that were rapidly approaching Mt. Rainier. Arnold was an experienced and respected pilot, so it was difficult to doubt his word. Not surprisingly, no one was able to provide any.

Do UFOs really exist? Noted scientist Frank B. Salisbury, in collaboration with Joseph Junior Hicks, tries to answer this question by examining UFO data in the context of modern science. In the process he interviews countless witnesses who adamantly insist they saw a flying saucer or were abducted by aliens.

Eleven Self Empowerment Protocols is a teaching about becoming whole, complete within oneself. In our world this is all but unimagined. As our civilization advances there are more and more of us that are self-sustaining. Think of people as self-fulfilling, self-generating and self-satisfied, this consciousness and at the same time integrated into family and society, it's the way of the future. The way it is other people have too much weight in our decision making process. Other people's opinions, unsolicited and hurled at us, are really just their opinions of them selves and rarely have anything to do with us. Coming to terms with this new form of awareness is the next step in the conscious growth of humanity. This work reminds you to recognize that you are feeling bad. Then how to plug in a Protocol... Voila, just resume carefree play The book is designed to put your life back in your own hands. The age of co-dependence is coming to a close. Classes, teachers books, yes, now add something else to it, yourself. It's time to put it up on line internally. Welcome yourself to the world of self-sovereignty, a life where you decide and therefore create your reality. "It's no longer about some guru. It's time to see that it is about you."

This book examines the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. It scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution and the likely future of mankind. There is emphasis on the geological conditions and consequences of life's conquest of land as the pre-condition for the emergence of life with our type of technical intelligence.

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from the elements. Although written and performed for early modern audiences, for whom the supernatural, whether sacred, demonic or folkloric, was part of the fabric of everyday life, the supernatural in Shakespeare continues to enthrall audiences and readers, and maintains its power to raise a range of questions in contemporary contexts. This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches, generating new knowledge and presenting hitherto unexplored avenues of enquiry across the Shakespearean canon. -- .

Witches and Warlocks of New York is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Empire State. This will be the second in a series (the first being Massachusetts publishing September 1, 2021). New York has a surprisingly rich history of witches and witchcraft. These stories are known locally in the towns where they occurred but have never been collected into one book before. Included are a history and origins of witchcraft in New York State and historical tales of "witches" across the state including Hulda and the thirteen Witches of the Catskills.

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"Brown argues convincingly that alien abduction stories speak to several key issues in our culture, from environmentalism to changing ideas about reproduction. Extending far beyond textual readings, she instead tells the stories of individual people, treating them with respect, but with a critical lens as well. Her analysis of the role of 'experts' in alien abduction-their power and the misuses of that power-is utterly compelling."
--Melani McAlister, George Washington University

aBrownas brilliant study is so much more than a book about alien abduction--it is a flesh-and-blood inquiry into the nature of belief in a technologically advanced society.a
--Andrew Ross, author of "Fast Boat to China"

Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not with establishing whether aliens actually exist, but with understanding what belief in aliens in America may tell us about our changing understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television. Brown contends that the abduction phenomenon is symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel increasingly divested of the ability to know whatis real or true about themselves and the world in which they live. The alien abduction phenomenon helps us think about how people who feel left out create their own stories and fashion truths that square with their own experience of the world.

Since the publication of The New Science of Astrobiology in the year 2001 the first edition of the present book two significant events have taken place raising the subject from the beginning of the present century to its present maturity. Firstly, in 2001 the Galileo Mission still had two years to complete its task, which turned out to be an outstanding survey of the Jovian system, especially of its intriguing satellite Europa. Secondly, the Cassini Huygens Mission was still on its way to Saturn. Its present success has surpassed all expectations of ESA and NASA. Astrobiologists still did not know that Titan was the fifth body in the Solar System that possibly contained a water ocean (including the Earth and the three Galilean satellites other than Io). For these reasons the book includes overviews of the evolutionary and molecular biology that are necessary. There is a discussion of other sectors of culture that are the natural frontiers of astrobiology, especially the humanities."

God Unplugged is a collection of inspirational writings that approach God and the Christian life from a practical perspective as well as theologically. It merges the truths of the Bible with everyday experiences allowing the reader to relate to and grasp the message being conveyed in a matter of fact way. God Unplugged is not one dimensional, it is well rounded, hence the unplugged concept. Unplugged deals with life behind the scenes, what goes on when the camera is not rolling, what happens when you are "off stage." Unplugged gives you the nitty gritty reality. Far too often an unrealistic picture is painted of God and the Christian experience. God Unplugged gives you a balanced view of both.