John Davies
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"Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continue to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger's reach, the amount the Soviet government knew about your family's city, street, and even your home would...
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The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence. Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent...
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* Having picked up the sword of the Crusader in my last novel A PINT-SIZED WHISPERER exposing the scandalous pressure applied to pregnant women to terminate their foetus after being told their unborn babies were likely to be suffering with the dreaded Downs Syndrome, I now lighten up. Although A PINT-SIZED WHISPERER was commercially received successfully and questions raised in the House of Commons which rebuked certain sections of the NHS, I now...
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"It is 1953, and I am ten years old and about to set off on a train journey of a lifetime." This is the start of John's adventures which include travelling across Wales by six different modes that few can match. Stowing away on a freight train in Ireland, unexpectedly attending the 'piping off' of Scotland's first-ever Nationalist MP at Stornoway, scaling Norfolk's highest point by its north face, and Britain's highest, Ben Nevis!
John travels to...
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"all that is outsidehim torrents in himbut he singsI am a porous manheads I wintails I win""Allow only joy" is the author's unflinching answer to the questions raised in this startling collection of poems - tender, ironic, compassionate, and inspirational in their openness to the thrilling possibilities of life. This revised edition contains 12 poems not previously included.From 2003 to 2006 John Ellison Davies was Poet Laureate of the International...
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This book issues a provocative challenge to the notion, prevalent in Christian circles, that people (or their "souls") go to heaven when they die. Though deeply entrenched in Christian and Western culture, there is little or no biblical warrant for such a belief. John Davies presents a biblical theology of heaven, informed by mainstream biblical scholarship, and in the process sweeps away popular misconceptions. Be prepared to have your understanding...
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Every life contains a private joke. What's yours? Friendship, fetishism, romance and resurrection are only some of the themes explored in this intriguing collection of eight short stories from a contemporary master of the form. The title story appears in the current issue of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature Vol. 27 No. 2 Dec. 2013.
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"Fascinating and illuminating – this book takes you on a trip to the seaside and back into the depths of the Ice Age, walking in the steps of our distant ancestors." - Professor Alice Roberts
Norfolk's Deep History Coast is a place of unique archaeological discoveries of international significance. Spectacular finds have transformed our understanding of the first human occupation of northern Europe. Fossilised human footprints show people were...
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Vengeance. Redemption. Murder. This epic Biblical movie brings to life one of early Christianity's most notable figures Saul of Tarsus. As a dedicated leader, Saul fights to defend his faith and traditions - his fanatical behavior reaching its climax when he organizes a brutal scheme to rid Judea of anyone who follows Christ, earning him the title Butcher of Tarsus. While on a mission, Saul is blinded, forced to re-evaluate his beliefs and transformed...
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Dutch Resistance fighter Hans Poley in World War II, found refuge at Corrie ten Boom's house. Hans defies the new Nazi commandant and escapes with his life. He takes refuge in Corrie ten Boom's house, which is crowded with Jewish refugees and becomes part of her teen age army. Hans gets a false identity and joins the Dutch Resistance. As the Nazis commit atrocity after atrocity, the danger for Hans and his new compatriots increases tenfold.
13) Concrete Blondes
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A wild, party-night out leads three twenty-something women to stumble on a suitcase with 3 million dollars in cash.
16) Bad Cupid
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An unhinged Cupid takes a heartbroken guy, his kooky cousin and his kidnapped rival on a deadly crazy comic adventure.
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When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of Pompeii.
18) Sharkbait
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One fish must find his destiny to save his home and the love of his life from a bullying shark.