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This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring family,
ghosts and local gods - from Hugo Award winning novelist Zen Cho.
Her grandmother may be dead, but she's not done with life . . . yet.
As Jessamyn packs for Malaysia, it’s not a good time to start hearing a
bossy voice in her head. Broke, jobless and just graduated, she’s
abandoning America to return ‘home’. But she last saw Malaysia as a
toddler – and is completely unprepared for its ghosts, gods and her
eccentric family’s shenanigans.
Jess soon learns her ‘voice’ belongs to Ah Ma, her late grandmother.
She worshipped the Black Water Sister, a local deity. And when a
business magnate dared to offend her goddess, Ah Ma swore revenge. Now
she’s decided Jess will help, whether she wants to or not.
As Ah Ma blackmails Jess into compliance, Jess fights to retain
control. But her irrepressible relative isn’t going to let a little
thing like death stop her, when she can simply borrow Jess’s body to
make mischief. As Jess is drawn ever deeper into a world of peril and
family secrets, getting a job becomes the least of her worries.
Taking us from the mundane to the magical, this award-winning
collection will entertain and delight. Drawing inspiration from
Asian myth and folklore, Zen Cho guides the reader through
enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible
grandmothers. These nineteen sparkling stories are full of joy,
humour and tenderness. We’ll meet an elderly ex-member of
parliament, who recalls her youthful romance with an orang bunian.
This was forbidden. Not because her lover was an invisible jungle
spirit, but because she was Muslim and he was not. Then a teenage
vampire struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love .
. . and eating people. A mischievous matriarch returns from the
dead to disrupt her own funeral rites, pitting granddaughter
against granddaughter. An earth spirit becomes entangled in
protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord. And Chang E, the
Chinese moon goddess, spins off into outer space – the ultimate
metaphor for diaspora. Enjoy this journey into magical new worlds
of the imagination.
This book provides an unique view of Astronomy in Culture,
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy involving ancient civilizations
in Latin America, emphasizing scientific and cultural knowledge
combined with historical, cognitive, archaeological and
anthropological aspects. Topics covered in the book include
different associations of ancient civilizations with the stars and
planets, whether in farming, architecture, social organization,
beliefs, myths, religion, metric systems, calendar construction,
shrines, and variations in astronomical research methods based on
the types of material evidence available. Special attention is paid
to the war cycles associated with observed celestial events,
day-counting calendars, including movements in the sky and written
evidences from codices, and in particular the Andean and Inca
traditions of astronomically associated shrines, caves and
celestial alignments of monuments and temples.
Taking us from the mundane to the magical, this award-winning
collection will entertain and delight. Drawing inspiration from
Asian myth and folklore, Zen Cho guides the reader through
enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible
grandmothers. These nineteen sparkling stories are full of joy,
humour and tenderness. We’ll meet an elderly ex-member of
parliament, who recalls her youthful romance with an orang bunian.
This was forbidden. Not because her lover was an invisible jungle
spirit, but because she was Muslim and he was not. Then a teenage
vampire struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love .
. . and eating people. A mischievous matriarch returns from the
dead to disrupt her own funeral rites, pitting granddaughter
against granddaughter. An earth spirit becomes entangled in
protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord. And Chang E, the
Chinese moon goddess, spins off into outer space – the ultimate
metaphor for diaspora. Enjoy this journey into magical new worlds
of the imagination.
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The Chimpansneeze
Aaron Zenz; Illustrated by Aaron Zenz
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A chimp’s big sneeze wreaks hilarious havoc in this delightful
companion book to the Amazon bestseller The Hiccupotamus. A
chimpanzee and a kinkajou took a walk one day through the wild. The
kinkajou spotted buttercups, so he plucked them up and smiled. But
when the chimp takes a big sniff of those buttercups…Ahhh-CHOO!
The giant ChimpanSNEEZE sends the kinkajou flying, causing a chain
of disasters for all their animal buddies. Can the kinkajou find
his way back to his chimpanzee friend? Author-illustrator Aaron
Zenz has done it again with this zany, rhyming read-aloud that’s
perfect for family story time. Revised edition: This edition of The
Chimpansneeze includes editorial revisions.
This discerning book examines the challenges, opportunities and
solutions for courts adjudicating on environmental cases. It offers
a critical analysis of the practice and judgments of courts from
various representative and influential jurisdictions. Through the
analysis and comparison of court practices and case law across
global domestic courts as varied as the National Green Tribunal in
India, the Land and Environment Court in Australia, and the
District Court of The Hague in the Netherlands, the expert
contributors bring together a wealth of knowledge in order to
enhance mutual learning and understanding towards an environmental
rule of law. In doing so, they illustrate that courts play a vital
role in the formation and crystallization of rulings and decisions
to protect and conserve the environment. Ultimately, they prove
that there are many lessons to be learnt from other legal systems
in seeking to maintain and enhance the environmental rule of law.
Contemporary and global in scope, Courts and the Environment is
essential reading for scholars and students of environmental law,
as well as judges, legal practitioners and policymakers interested
in understanding the legal challenges to and the legal basis for
protecting environmental values in courts. Contributors: A.
Bengtsson, L. Butterly, O. Chornous, T. Daya-Winterbottom, Y.K.
Dewi, G.E.K. Dzah, H.S. Ferreira, R. Guidone, D. Hodas, A. Jayadi,
S. Jolly, H. Jonas, A. Kennedy, N. Kichigin, E. Lamprea, M.A. Leon
Moreta, B Liu, Z. Makuch, P. Martin, R.L.M. Mendes, N.H.T. Nam,
A.M. Paez, R. Pepper, B. Preston, N. Robinson, D.A. Serraglio, O.
Spijkers, C. Voigt, Z. Zhang
Recent discoveries in astronomy and relativistic astrophysics as
well as experiments on particle and nuclear physics have blurred
the traditional boundaries of physics. It is believed that at the
birth of the Universe, a whirlwind of matter and antimatter, of
quarks and exotic leptons, briefly appeared and merged into a sea
of energy. The new phenomena and new states of matter in the
Universe revealed the deep connection between quarks and the
Cosmos. Motivated by these themes, this book discusses different
topics: gravitational waves, dark matter, dark energy, exotic
contents of compact stars, high-energy and gamma-ray astrophysics,
heavy ion collisions and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in
the early Universe. The book presents some of the latest researches
on these fascinating themes and is useful for experts and students
in the field.
There are reasons to believe the 21st century will be the best ever
for astrophysics: the James Webb Space Telescope will extend nearly
twenty times the present observational limit of visible light;
neutrino massiveness opens a new window for exploration on dark
energy and dark matter physics and is expected to provide insights
into the fate of the Universe; the Higgs boson may allow for an
understanding of the weakness of gravity; gravitational waves
produced at the birth of the Universe and by compact stellar
objects (supermassive black holes, black hole/neutron star mergers,
gamma-ray bursts, white dwarf inspirals) have unveiled a new area
of astronomy. Against this background, compact stars, the theme of
this volume, present unique astrophysical laboratories for probing
the fabric of space-time and the building blocks of matter and
their interactions at physical regimes not attainable in
terrestrial laboratories.
The most important aspect and the reason why I decided to compile
this book of infancy Gospels and early childhood narratives about
the life of the Virgin Mary and Yahushua Christ, our King and Lord;
was to provide the audience interested in learning more about who
our Savior Messiah is and how He was brought up in this world. As
believers in Christ as part of the holy Trinity which manifest all
things, one would think that His followers would be interested in
learning as much as they could about Him. And yet for the most part
the stories of his infancy, childhood, and early years are excluded
from the canonical materials. How He was raised, how He came up,
what influenced His life, and how He prophetically fulfilled the
many scriptural passages which foreshadowed His first and soon
coming second advent.
Targum meaning translation references the various language
transliterations of the original Hebrew Torah, which were
commissioned created by Temple elders. The Aramaic and Palestinian
versions printed here are acknowledged to be the oldest and most
widely used renderings of the ancient language translations of the
original Hebrew Torah. Though they are accepted to date back to at
least the first century CE, I believe them to be half a millennia
older as they first came into being to accommodate the Israelite's
assimilation of Aramaic when exiled to Babylon in 597 BCE. It was
during the 70 years of that diaspora that Aramaic became the
predominant colloquial language and accepted vernacular of use by
the Hebraic peoples. During this 70 years of assimilation, the
Israelite's use of Hebrew as lexicon dwindled from being the
primary dialect of everyday conversation, to being one of mostly
scholastic application utilized intellectually by the priestly
class.
The first book of the Great Contest trilogy. This text expounds
upon the war in heaven and what led to the schism between the
Angels of light and darkness. Most biblical scholars do not realize
that it was YHWH Elohim declaring, "Let There Be Light" that
revealed Christ as the light to the Angels and world. That it was
in that moment that the creation became visible and seeing the wide
expanse of manifest world for the first time since being created
that all the morning-stars shouted for joy. It was also in that
moment that dominion was granted to the Son and Lucifer being
envious of Christ's appointment, conceived in mind the thought of
exalting his throne above the stars and clouds of God. It was in
this moment that iniquity led him to conspire overthrow which was
the origin for the war in heaven.
While researching information for the publication of my 9th book
The Flat Earth As Key To Decrypt The Book Of Enoch, I was led to
understanding that not only does the Bible support premise that the
earth is a flat circular plane but that it is covered by the
firmament as a solid transparent dome like canopy. This led me to
revisit the canonical and extra Biblical texts such as The Book Of
Enoch, The Book Of Jasher, The Book Of Jubilees, and myriad others,
to see if not only did they affirm such idea but if they contained
other little known insight which might expound upon this matter in
some detailed manner. This book is the end result of that search
and compilation of all of those source references. And because I
include in this study much extra Biblical material which few are
familiar with, I doubt one will be able to find a more complete
investigation of the firmament as topic than that which is
presented here. The seeker of lost paradise may seem a fool to
those whom have never sought the other worlds
What do the fallen angels have to do with the powers,
principalities, ancient aliens, and the ?strong delusion?
referenced by Paul in Thessalonians 2:10? The lie that leads to
damnation concerns the current perpetuation of the ancient alien
myth, which claims that the Annunaki and Nephilim are the creators
and benefactors of humanity. Those whom accept this premise will
unwittingly volunteer their allegiance to the fallen angels. Unless
one understands who the fallen angels were, are, and how they were
responsible for the introduction of evil upon the world stage, one
might also be caught up in the lie that causes the hearts of men to
fail, and the most elect to be deceived. In Sons of God, Garcia
seeks to help readers recognize the realities of our ancient past
so that, in remembering the story, they can realize who they are
and why they are they here.
The purpose of this book is to show historically that the
Israelites, going all the way back to Adam and Eve, not only
honored a Triune Godhead which included a feminine Holy Spirit, but
also knew without question that the Son of God as Savior Messiah,
would be born at a certain time and certain place in fulfilling the
prophecies given to their forefather Adam and passed down through
their generations. Also that His first and second coming would
align with and fulfill the Levitical 23 feast days and festivals as
mandated by Yahweh Elohim for observance by the Israelites. The
compilation includes The Gospel of Truth, Testament of Adam, The
Book of Adam, Testament of Abraham, Testament of Isaac, Testament
of Jacob, Ladder of Jacob, Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs,
Joseph and Asenath, Testament of Job, Testament of Solomon, Psalms
of Solomon, Odes of Solomon, Testament of Moses, Revelation of
Moses, Tales of the Patriarchs, and The Ascension of Isaiah.
Agent technologies are believed to be one of the most promising
tools to conduct business via networks and the Web in an
autonomous, intelligent, and efficient way. The ever-expanding
application of business automation necessitates clarification of
the methods and techniques of agent-based electronic business
systems.
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