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There are planets not meant to be colonized by humans. For three decades they will sleep, while their great colonial starship transports them to what is believed to be the perfect world. Their ship is state-of-the-art and totally automatic, allowing the passengers to remain in suspended animation for most of the journey. When they wake, they expect to find a virgin planet, unspoiled by the hands of man - a world where they can pursue happiness in a safe and free environment. The naive colonists from Earth have a different reality to face. Readers Favorites AL CLARK (Book One) Literary Review ★★★★★ by Paul F. Johnson Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer grabs the readers attention from the...
It appeared to be the perfect planet for colonization. Avalon, a world untouched by man, with clean air and pristine landscapes that begged to be tamed. After a long and difficult journey, the settlers will be required to fight for their lives, and discover there is a price to pay if they want to live in paradise.
Finding a replacement for Earth is hard. Long distances and time separate anyone hoping to find a more suitable world than Earth. Book three in the Al Clark series has our hero far from our beautiful blue marble, and trying to do exactly that. With the help of friends and alien technology, he must find a safe home for more than a thousand desperate colonists-and he is running out of time.
Christopher Morris is on his way to a new world when his stasis chamber malfunctions and shuts down. He finds himself trapped and alone in the Habitat Ring of a massive starship without access to the rest of the vessel. What would you do if you had all the time in the world and nothing to do? This short story is a prequel to the highly rated Al Clark Series, and introduces you to two characters you can't help but like. It is an illustrated journal that serves as a prequel to the Al Clark Series, and can be read before, during, or after the Series.
Jim Thompson is broke, homeless, and alone. One year ago he lived a comfortable life, with twenty-five years married to a woman he loved, twenty-three years at a good job, and a country home he built for retirement. He is now fifty-four years old, lives in his truck, showers occasionally at a cheap gym, and eats the bargain meals at fast food places-if he is lucky. Unknown to him, his luck is about to change drastically. Jim is being watched and evaluated for participation in a crucial mission; an assignment originating on someone else's world - with the capability of destroying ours.
After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instance...
Travel to a new world - and a different time. Daniel Shaw is transported to another world by accident. One second he is safe at home, and the next he is sitting on an overgrown path in a dark, alien jungle. What concerns him the most? He does not know how to get back. In the morning his mother found the imprint of his body on the bed, with an empty wooden box and a delicate silver pedestal on his nightstand. Her son, and the contents of the box, are nowhere to be found. Daniel's trusty Labrador was the only witness - and he isn't talking.
Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the drama...
Clinicians recognize that monitoring psychotropic levels provides invaluable information to optimize therapy and track treatment adherence, but they lack formal training specifically focused on the use of plasma antipsychotic levels for these purposes. As new technologies emerge to rapidly provide these results, the opportunity to integrate this information into clinical care will grow. This practical handbook clarifies confusing concepts in the literature on use of antipsychotic levels, providing clear explanations for the logic underlying clinically relevant concepts such as the therapeutic threshold and the point of futility, and how these apply to individual antipsychotics. It offers accessible information on the expected correlation between dosages and trough levels, and also provides a clear explanation of how to use antipsychotic levels for monitoring oral antipsychotic adherence, and methods to help clinicians differentiate between poor adherence and variations in drug metabolism. An essential resource for psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and mental health professionals worldwide.