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Imagine a world devoid of the racial bigotries of today's main religions. Imagine a world run by total social acceptance under one universal religion. One could find it hard to argue that it would be the ideal place to live. That is exactly what Josef Zane--scientist, inventor and atheist--plans to do with the world when he invents a time machine and travels back to the days of Jesus to disprove his doctrines, only to replace them with ones of his very own. Returning to the present day, he finds his Universal Religion accepted by half the world's population. Also, he discovers he is no longer a scientist, but a governor of a state. Various circumstances propel him to the highest political office--The President of the United States. And while giving his Inaugural Address, the Rapture takes place, ushering in the pages of Revelation. Now Josef has to govern a world of religious unrest amidst plagues and war. From the four horsemen to the seven bowls of wrath, Josef has to decide if God is indeed real or if these life-changing worldly events are merely coincidental. And worse still, Josef has to decide if he is the prophesied Anti-Christ.
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In the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten in the balmy spring of April 2008, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a normal suburban home. On 28 August 1984, seemingly respectable family man Josef Fritzl had lured Elisabeth, the youngest of his seven children, into the cellar of their family home, where he then drugged and handcuffed her in a windowless dungeon he'd spent years constructing. For the next 24 years Josef held his daughter captive in unimaginable conditions and repeatedly raped her, fathering seven children. When the eldest captive child, Kerstin, was admitted to hospital, Josef's sickening web of incest and abuse was uncovered by the authorities. This is the full and utterly disturbing true story of what happened in those underground chambers of horror.
A fearless detective. A stolen child. And a killer just getting started. From USA TODAY bestselling author Pamela Crane comes a terrifying tale of small-town secrets and murder. Ari Wilburn’s life ended long ago—the day she watched her little sister die in a tragic accident and did nothing to stop it. Crippled with self-blame and resented by her parents, she stumbles through life ... and onto an unexpected clue that casts doubt on whether the death was accidental. Now a psychological wreck, Ari joins a suicide support group where she meets Tina, a sex-enslaved escapee whose daughter is missing and her long-lost father dead. Suicide, police ruled it. But Tina suspects foul play. As a bond...
Pyotr Yuzwenko is a man haunted by his past. Driven from his home by political unrest in Ukraine, orphaned at sea and sold into indentured labor in the Ottawa Valley, Pyotr becomes a man in the woods of northern Ontario. He finds love and family in Toronto, only to have it all torn from him as he is arrested and imprisoned as an “enemy alien.” Having escaped the brutality of the forced labor camp, Pyotr has built a new life in the coal town of Beverly, Alberta. The depression is making life difficult for him and his growing family but Pyotr is unable to part with the one thing that could bring in enough money to see them through; his fathers’ watch. He knows he must stay clear of the authorities, lest his past is discovered but, when he is cheated out of the watch, Pyotr risks everything to get it back.
This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing populism and extremism in Europe. It explores the individual and collective reactions and the strategies people develop in order to come to terms with socio-economic change. It raises the question of whether, and to what extent, changes in the employment system and in working life contribute to making people receptive to xenophobia, nationalism and racism. Based on an eight country study using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this volume makes a significant contribution to the deeper understanding of the subjective reactions to socio-economic change and its political reverberations.
The sprawling story of a Czech-American family's determined struggle and unforgettable odyssey - from the hunger and hardship of Eastern Europe, across the cold and gray Atlantic in steerage, and on into America's growing cities and isolated farms. The Novaks survive and grow through love and loss, peace and war, epidemic and Depression, in a strange and wondrous new land far from home - a young and raw America immersed in the restless throes of change. JOURNEY is a great, new family saga of turmoil, heartbreak, and humor - with characters as vivid and colorful as the rich American landscape of the last hundred years.
Over a century is the period of time described for a galitzian family's itinerant life in Europe and in the american continent. World War I and the destruction of the ancient kingdom of Galitzia is shown here. Life and migrations of the family members to South and North America occupy significant sections of the book. A moving homage to Maria Toporowska, Josef Slobodrian, their relatives and galitzianer brothers is implicit in the true tale told in this book. Suffering was bestowed by great powers on these people over the century. Their fate was paraphrasing Erasmus of Rotterdam: Galitzian dolens, semper dolens !!
This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home. Three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.
In der 1958 gegründeten Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Zeitungsforschung erscheinen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu den Kernthemen des Instituts, der Entwicklung der Printmedien und des Journalismus. Die Beiträge greifen historische und aktuelle medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Themen und Fragestellungen auf. Die Reihe umfasst Monographien und Sammelbände sowie Nachschlagewerke, Biografien und Textdokumentationen.